you re watching bbc newsroom live. it's ham and these are the main stories this morning: up to 4,500 jobs are at risk at energy firm npower as a restructuring plan is announced. we'll be hearing from the chief executive of its incoming owners e.0n in the next few moments. the row between the conservatives and broadcaster channel 4 intensifies after a block of ice is used in place of borisjohnson during a tv debate on climate change. meanwhile, this morning the prime ministerfaced questions on his social care policy, but couldn't say how much some pledges would cost. what you need to do is... how much would it cost so no—one would have to sell their home? we need to bring together... you don't know, do you? i can't give you that figure now, no. right, so you would issue a promise like this, no—one will ever have

to sell their home again, and you have no idea what it costs. the metropolitan police is to pay the former mp harvey proctor £900,000 in compensation and legal costs — he was wrongly accused of being part of a westminster paedophile ring. a manuscript written by elizabeth i is discovered — a translation of a book praising the monarchy, complete with her distinctive messy handwriting. unai emery is sacked as arsenal manager after 18 months in charge. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the energy firm npower is set to cut up to 4,500 jobs in the uk as it plans to restructure to make itself more profitable. unions have called the move

a "cruel blow" for workers. the company, which is german owned, described the uk market as "particularly challenging". npower has a uk workforce of around 5,700 staff. they announced plans injanuary to cut 900 jobs. npower‘s owners, e.0n said that profit for the first nine months of its financial year fell 27% to two billion pounds. let's get more from our business correspondent theo leggett. this is a very complicated market. there are the six big players, but plenty of others. plenty of the smaller ones have gone bust, the smaller ones have gone bust, the smaller ones have gone bust, the smaller ones are feeling the pinch,

as well. having to cap the rates of their standard variable tariffs they say has had a big effect on them. e.0n is under pressure and says they will normally merge their consumer facing businesses. they will merge their call centres, customer service divisions. it is not entirely clear what is going to happen to the npower brand itself. what we know is that several call centres are likely to shut down. there is a centre just outside sunderland, some 2,000 people work there. there is another office in a whole were 600 people work. another in worcester, with 600 jobs, is under threat. this is a severe blow for npower workers and

comes at a very bad time for them. if you look at the economics of the market, it is not altogether surprising. joining me now is the uk chief executive of npower‘s parent company, e.0n, michael lewis. thank you for coming in. you are talking up to a500 job cuts. can you be more specific? at this stage we have outlined the proposals for restructuring npower. as theo said, the economics of the market in the uk dictate this is what we have to do if we want to create a sustainable business for our employees and customers for the future. at this stage it is an extremely sad day for our employees andi extremely sad day for our employees and i want to reassure them all we are going to make sure we mitigate the negative impacts of this announcement. we will look to ensure that enhanced redundancy payments are maintained and we will look at reskilling. all pensions will be

secured. is the business sustainable? you continue to lose profits, you had tojob sustainable? you continue to lose profits, you had to job losses sustainable? you continue to lose profits, you had tojob losses in january, now this announcement. profits, you had tojob losses in january, now this announcementm npower still fit for purpose? we will migrate all of npower because my customers to e.0n's platform. npower has been making heavy losses for many years. the economics of the uk energy market were made very difficult by the price cap. let me come back to back in the second. will customers keep faith with the company? you have lost aa7,000 customers already this year. customers don't have to do anything. we will notify them when they become an e.0n customer. we are 100% committed to driving our target of

renewable energy only. there are good reasons why we think customers would want is that e.0n wants we com plete would want is that e.0n wants we complete the migration. the most important thing to focus on today is oui’ important thing to focus on today is our employees. i want to reassure them we will do everything we can to mitigate the negative effects of these proposals. the gmb union is calling this a poorly managed company with significant losses in the uk and saying it is always the workers who face the brunt of poor management and regulation, referring to the government price cap. should you do over this? you're presiding over a company that isn't persistent and serious difficulty. we only acquire the company in the last two months. what we have announced in the proposals are so that we can create a sustainable business for the future. we can reduce the losses, get back to a reasonable

rate of return so we compete in the market. we want a sustainable business for our employees and build the workforce of the future to our apprenticeship schemes. we provide a huge number of stable, jobs in the uk, afully huge number of stable, jobs in the uk, a fully unionised labour force and we want to be able to continue doing that. what proportion of the uk workforce does this a500, coupled with the 900 from earlier this year. a500 is three quarters of the workforce. that is massive. it is andi workforce. that is massive. it is and i don't want to downplay the magnitude of this transformation. npower has been using money happily for many years. we have to take this action so we can create a sustainable business for the future. that statement talks about the

workers facing the brunt of it, the statement from the union, they say regulation sense work overseas. 0ur other parts of the company facing the losses that uk workers are facing? it is no surprise that the uk energy market is under severe strain. the energy price cap has not helped. we have seen a huge number of new entrants into the market, many pricing are very, very low levels. the big six competitors are not cutting jobs at this rate, are they? most of our competitors are having to adjust to the reality of this incredibly competitive market. three quarters of the uk workforce? 20 companies have failed in the last two years. 20 companies have failed in the last two yea rs. every 20 companies have failed in the last two years. every time one of those company feels it puts costs on everybody else. we are talking about the big six, aren't we? alll can say is we are doing all we can do.

we only recently acquired npower and we wa nt we only recently acquired npower and we want a sustainable business for the future. that means we have to ta ke the future. that means we have to take radical action to make sure that we have a sustainable business. it is most important to recognise that we are doing everything we can. i want to reassure our workers that we will mitigate the negative effects of this announcement. all the things about retraining, making sure we have these enhanced redundancy payments. up to 4500 people. we are just weeks away from christmas. people are incredibly anxious about this. how manyjobs will go, or were precisely those cuts will fall? at this stage, these proposals. we will go into intensive discussions with trade unions so i can give any more detail this stage. when will that detail come? we are in discussions with the trade

unions. we want to discuss it with their workers before we talk to the media. we want to make sure we are as transparent and open as we can be with their workforce. we have a very good relationship with the trade unions and we want to maintain that. that is why are committed to reclaiming retaining enhanced redundancy payments and we will retrain, and we are committed to making sure that all pensions are held securely. michael lewis, uk ceo of e.0n, thank you for talking to me. the conservatives have complained to the broadcasting regulator about channel four, accusing it of bias and of a political stunt. the broadcaster replaced borisjohnson with an ice sculpture when he declined to take part in a debate about climate change last night. the brexit party's nigel farage also stayed away and was replaced by a sculpture, but five other party leaders took part. here's our political correspondent, jessica parker:

let's get more with our deputy political editor, john pienaar. we are expecting a news conference there very soon. the conservatives are trying to shift discussion on this topic to the actions of channel 4, this topic to the actions of channel a, but it is not stopping people making accusations about boris johnson not wanting to be a scrutiny. all of those questions are very life. we still don't know whether the prime minister is going to ta ke whether the prime minister is going to take part in the series of bbc 0ne to take part in the series of bbc one on one interviews over 30 minutes with andrew neil. that still seems to be up in the air. we have john mcdonnell accusing the prime minister of running scared, in his words. until that question is a nswered words. until that question is answered i think those accusations will continue to be thrown, not only by opponents but by some more sympathetic to boris johnson, by opponents but by some more sympathetic to borisjohnson, too. what is more damaging, to face the kind of questioning or to avoid it?

the conservatives very much trying to mould and control the narrative when it comes to debates and other interviews. of course. i don't know if you can see the slogan on the stage set behind me, it says get brexit done. that is the slogan of the campaign. boris johnson brexit done. that is the slogan of the campaign. borisjohnson is keen to talk about that over and over again. ina to talk about that over and over again. in a few moments the prime minister will be on the stage at michael gove. geisler stewart is a strong euro sceptic and she will be backing the idea of voting conservative for the sake of getting brexit done. michael heseltine, the former tory deputy prime minister, as blue as anyone can possibly be, was saying to vote lib dem to stop brexit. they will be putting the case for doing brexit. we will wait

to see how much detail there is an all of this. can borisjohnson faced detailed questions on that? he hasn't always been quite in command of the detail of the conservative policy offer, as he has been in commands of throwing out the catchy slogans. what you need to do is... how much would it cost so no—one would have to sell their home? we need to bring together... you don't know, do you? i can't give you that figure now, no. right, so you would issue a promise like this, no—one will ever have to sell their home again, and you have no idea what it costs. i think there is a growing national consensus that that is the way forward. we need to take the politics out of this and bring parties together and get on and do it. there will be listeners to this,

thinking how marvellous, mum doesn't have to sell the bungalow, that doesn't have to sell the flat. the prime minister is asked about how much this costs and you don't have a clue. it is trust. the exact details have not yet been thrashed out. how can you promise that if you don't know you can afford it? well, certainly we will. so, that was borisjohnson not putting any real detail on the policy other than the idea that no one would have to sell their homes to pay for social care. in the last election they whence into great detail about a policy that would lead to people selling their homes and there was a huge backlash. they are not stepping into the bear trap again. still big questions on where the subject is going because polls now say that social care is right up

there with housing among the concerns of the british people when it comes to looking at policies on offer in this election more widely. thank you, john. don't forget that tonight's election debate between leaders and senior party figures starts at 7.00pm on bbc one and you can get live fact checking and analysis on bbc.co.uk/news, on the bbc news app and right here on the bbc news channel. arsenal football club has sacked its manager unai emery after 18 months in charge. the club say the decision was taken after recent results were not considered to be "at the level required". let's cross now to gavin ramjaun in the bbc sport centre. it's big news for the club. it's a pretty merciless task being a football manager at the very top. absolutely. unai emery was in charge for 18 months and he has paid the price for a terrible run of form,

seven games without a win, their worst run of form since 1992. the writing had been on the wall for him for quite some time. the fans had turned against the club and is unai emery. there had been a toxic atmosphere at the emirates for the last few weeks. it culminated last night, losing 2—1 at home to frankfurt. the announcement came around ten o'clock this morning that he was sacked. arsenal are now said to be taken over by freddie lindberg, who will take over in the interim until they appoint somebody ona interim until they appoint somebody on a more permanent basis. this has come after a dreadful run of form for arsenal. they are eighth in the league, very much away from the top four at the moment, they are not in with any hope of winning the league this year. the club very much in need of change and that change has

happened. they look to appoint somebody more permanent in the coming weeks. how is this news going down with the fans? the arsenal supporters trust has put out a statement saying that the board needs to take action and do more to safeguard the future. right now, i think a lot of fans will be happy because they have been calling for unai emery to leave for quite some time. the fans have becoming more and more angry at the way the team has been performing. a lot of accusations thrown at him that he was tactically inept, his man management wasn't quite up to speed. unai emery hasn't managed to turn things around. granite shakur was stripped of the captaincy earlier this year. what happens going

forward is the key thing for them now. do they appoint is very important. many names are being thrown into the hat for that. the former conservative mp harvey proctor has reached a settlement with scotland yard over its investigation into false claims of a vip paedophile ring. mr proctor, whose home was raided following claims made by the fantasist carl beech, will receive a payout of around £900,000. tolu adeoye reports. harvey proctor was among several prominent figures targeted by carl beech, falsely accused of being members of a vip paedophile ring in the 70s and 80s. the former conservative mps says he lost his home and hisjob while under suspicion in a much—criticised metropolitan police investigation. i have no money, i have no resources, i cannot plan my future. i'm not sure that i have a future.

mr proctor‘s lawyers have now confirmed he will receive £500,000 in compensation from scotland yard, and nearly £a00,000 in legal costs. the met has previously apologised for its investigation. i am deeply, deeply sorry for the mistakes that were made and for the ongoing pain that these mistakes have cause. carl beech is currently serving an 18—year prison sentence for the lies that so devastated so many. tolu adeoye, bbc news. mr proctor released a statement today.

drone owners in the uk have until the end of today to register their devices or face a £1,000 fine. the new regulations cover any drone heavier than an average smartphone. just under a year since britain's second largest airport was brought to a halt by drones, it's thought tens of thousands of devices are still not registered. here's our transport correspondent, tom burridge. before this weekend, anyone of us could buy almost any type of drone online or from a shop and fly it safely in an open field away from people, buildings and vehicles. as long as you don't lose sight of it, fly it in an airport's exclusion zone, or above a00 feet.

we are going to pull away from that report to go to the conservative party news conference in london. the referendum didn't create division in society, it revealed it. divisions between north and south, rich and poon between north and south, rich and poor, young and old with politicians of all parties feeling to have addressed it for so long. across the country that were overlooked families and undervalued communities who believe the system was not working on their best interests. while some, particularly in london in the south—east, reap the benefits of economic growth, other parts of the country were left behind. rather than bring prosperity to these communities, globalisation seems to hold them out. ageing infrastructure, low—wage jobs, hold them out. ageing infrastructure, low—wagejobs, there are public services, fading high streets. these are common features of many places that voted to leave. the referendum was a chance for their voices to be heard and their

concerns listened to. far from helping these communities, the eu seemed a distant institution, deaf to their concerns. and it came to the free movement of people or the bureaucracy imposed on uk interest rates, the seem to actively work against against their interests. they were right, which is why we campaigned on there perhaps and it is why the three of us are back here today. people voted for change, but three and a half years on that change has still not been delivered. politicians have failed to honour the biggest vote for change ever seenin the biggest vote for change ever seen in this country. that, sadly, will forever be staying on last parliament and it should prod the conscience of the next. people are fed up with the stagnation of the last three years and the grave risk of this election is that there is another hung parliament, meaning more debt there, delay and deadlock. every independent commentator agrees

the conservative party is the only party ca pa ble the conservative party is the only party capable of winning a majority in the selection and as sirjohn curtis has said, it is a pretty binary contest, either boris gets oui’ binary contest, either boris gets our majority and believe the eu on the terms he has negotiated, or we get a hung parliaments. the only way thatjeremy corbyn get a hung parliaments. the only way that jeremy corbyn can get a hung parliaments. the only way thatjeremy corbyn can get to downing street as to form an alliance with nicola sturgeon and she has named the price of her support next year, another referendum on scottish independence in 2020. so, instead of delivering to change the people are crying out for, jeremy corbyn nicola sturgeon alliance with miss twenty20 on two referendums. in brexit, jeremy corbyn won't even tell us how he would eventually vote on his own referendum. he would ask the public to choose between remain and whatever deal he has negotiated well he put his feet up in downing street. if you can't even decide

whether we should remain word leave, how can we possibly trust him to ta ke how can we possibly trust him to take critical decisions on behalf of the country? he would abdicate his duty and run away from his responsibilities. he is totally unfit to run this country. and run away from his responsibilities. he is totally unfit to run this country. in wasting the country? time on referendums he would not deliver the, and that is why a vote for any party that is not the conservatives is a bill for more debt and delay, a vote for our jeremy corbyn nicola sturgeon alliance and for two more referendums this year. a vote for any party other than the conservatives is a vote against change. now i will hand over to geisler to stay a little bit more about why jeremy corbyn geisler to stay a little bit more about whyjeremy corbyn can be trusted to deliver the change that people need. as a labour mp i was chair of the vote leave campaign which brought together not only the three of us but also volunteers and

supporters from nearly all of the political parties. in the referendum campaign, vote leave promised that the vote would see a take back control of our laws, borders money and trade. that was three and a half years ago and all this should have happened by now. but brexit has not happened by now. but brexit has not happened because labour, the lib dems and other have done everything they can the street, delay and overturn the referendum result. labour have voted twice to delay brexit. the labour leadership, the shadow cabinet and boost labour mps don't believe in brexit and labour does '5 proposed brexit deal is so bad that not even jeremy corbyn can bring himself to support it. so that means leave voters have a clear choice at the selection, picked brexit at risk with jeremy corbyn or get brexit done with borisjohnson. we must get brexit done, there is too much at stake. we need to get on with it so we can start to rebalance

out with it so we can start to rebalance our country, so that counties, towns, villages away from london have a greater voice and are no longer ignored. so that we can strengthen and modernise our health service, give our children and grandchildren the education and training they need and get on with building the strong economy we need if we are to meet the urgent challenge of climate change and invest in the renewal of our country needs. i became a labour mp in 1997 in the landslide which saw tony blair become prime minister and i was lucky enough to represent some of the most resilient, generous and fair—minded people in the country and to serve in the labour government as a minister during a time of optimism of what labour could do and bring about. for many, labour represented the hope of a better and fairer britain and one that could thrive economically and restore a sense of that could thrive economically and restore a sense of pride. but that has changed. i am devastated by the rise of anti—racism within the

labour party and their abandonment of the kind of moderate, pragmatic and fair—minded politics which has been the characteristic of labour and all my political life. i still think of myself as labour, i still hold labour values, but whilst my values have not changed, the same can't be said forjeremy corbyn's liberal party. this is no longer the labour party that i am many thousands had joined. the liberal party ofjohn smith, gordon brown and tony blair has gone, at least for now, and they know that for many supporting labour as part of the family tradition. they will feel as ido family tradition. they will feel as i do that they face a difficult choice, they are torn between loyalty to their party and the best interests of their country as a whole. i say to these traditional labour voters, who three and a half years ago voted to leave, that we

can bring the country back together again and we can't unite, but that is not by voting forjeremy corbyn. i started these remarks by saying that vote leave was a cross—party endeavour and i believe that this election, we need to come together again once more. set aside party allegiance to get brexit done and heal the country. in this election i will not food forjeremy corbyn, but ican will not food forjeremy corbyn, but i can put for brexit. this is, after all, the brexit election. a vote for borisjohnson this time all, the brexit election. a vote for boris johnson this time round all, the brexit election. a vote for borisjohnson this time round is all, the brexit election. a vote for boris johnson this time round is a vote to get brexit done. let me be clear, voting for brexit this time does not make me a tory now or in the future. rather it is the best option for all those who, like me, still share labour's traditional

values but we voted to leave and they want certainty, and into stagnation, an enter division and an end to delay. i urge other leave vote rs end to delay. i urge other leave voters across the country to join me in voting for brexit once more, by voting for borisjohnson in voting for brexit once more, by voting for boris johnson on the 12th of december so that we can finish the job we have started, so that we can get brexit done and we can take back control. applause. thank you. as they have said, we came together to campaign to leave the eu because we share the vision for this country and we believe that this is a great country that can achieve so much more if it was freed from the shackles of the eu. we also agreed that too many in our country felt powerless and left behind and wanted more control over

their lives. we agreed that brexit was a chance to change britain for the better and so it has been incredibly frustrating, and frustrating for the 17.a million people who voted leave that change has been delayed, denied. and that is why we had to have this election in order to break the deadlock in parliament, that broken parliament over there. now we have an opportunity to make a decisive break with the diver and indecision of the last three and a half years but only so long as people vote conservative. if there is another hung parliament after this election deadlock will continue. the probability is that jeremy corbyn will be in downing street propped up by nicola

sturgeon. we have powerfully set out what a disastrous prospect that would be. if there is a conservative majority government we can deliver the change people have voted for by unleashing britain's potential. the first move would be to bring the withdrawal agreement bill back before christmas and to leave on the 1st of january. every single conservative candidate at this election has pledged to their prospective constituents that they will back my deal. it is a deal that allows us to take back control of immigration and introduce an australian style points based system, improve our border security. it isa system, improve our border security. it is a deal that stops ongoing

contributions to the eu budget and lets us redirect funding to domestic priorities. it is a deal that means we can get rid of eu rules and regulations that have often held us back and when we get that deal through we can finally move on as a country and realise the opportunities of brexit and today we are setting out some of the specific ways in which we will change eu low so as to enjoy the benefits of brexit without delay. we will back british business by ensuring that the public sector buys british. we will scrap the tampon tax, back british industry by making sure we can intervene when british businesses are struggling and these are some of the benefits which will directly result from leaving the eu. in addition we will also take steps to ensure that the australian style points—based immigration system is in place by the 1st of january 2021

and by lowering the number of unskilled immigrants who have been able to come here with no job lined up able to come here with no job lined up the system will remove a major downward pressure on wages. getting brexit done will enable us to deliver change more widely across the country and we can get on with investing in the nhs, recruiting 50,000 more nurses, 50 million more gp appointments and getting the drugs we need to keep people safe and well. we can invest in schools ending unfairfunding and well. we can invest in schools ending unfair funding differences and well. we can invest in schools ending unfairfunding differences by increasing the amount of funding per pupil to £a000 in primary schools and £5,000 in secondary schools. we will crack down on crime by putting 20,000 more police officers on our streets and introducing tougher sentences for the worst offenders. we will help the high street by

cutting business rates and investing in local places and communities and we can do all this another transformative we can do all this another tra nsformative manifesto without raising income tax, national insurance or vat. no other party can deliver change at this election because every other party would be stuck in that selfsame hung, broken parliament. arguing amongst themselves about brexit, which is why the only way to secure change at this election is with the conservative party. if we do this, we will at last be able to lift ourselves out of the present harass and go forward with confidence. we had a great country and we can be greater still. we will make britain the best place in the world to live, there is a family, to grow up, to see your grandchildren grow up. the best place to start and grow our business. the best place in education, innovation and science.

we will deliver an nhs which looks after us when we are sick and brings us after us when we are sick and brings us back to health, schools which give our children the start they deserve in life, and effective crime strategy, control of our immigration to secure our borders, a clean and green environment that we can hand on to the next generation, a country more united, more confident, with opportunities spread across the whole of the uk, so that we can unleash the potential of the whole of the country, and that is the change that people voted for in 2016, and it's high time that we delivered it. thank you. there is time for some questions and we have representatives from lots of

organisations but i think we will start with the bbc. you said that... would you be personally happy to ta ke would you be personally happy to take responsibility for any harm to the british economy? you say there would be faster innovation outside the european union. does that mean more intervention? you are running scared of the series of interviews with andrew neil. on your last point here i am submitting happily, joyfully, to your interrogation. there can be no more fearsome interviewer than yourself and i am

happy to answer your more substantive points by saying i am very confident that we can get a deal with our friends and partners and a free trade agreement by the end of next year. we got a fantastic deal done in three months when people thought it was impossible. people said we could not reopen the withdrawal agreement and we did and the advantage we have doing that deal as we are in a state of grace with the eu at the moment in the sense that we have complete alignment and so far as regulations 90, alignment and so far as regulations go, zero tide either go to —— zero tariff agreement. the two sides already in that state of harmony. i am full of optimism and confidence and suggest that everybody else should be as well. we will get it done and move on. on state aid, i am

not in favour of distorting competition. i don't want to see unfair practices introduced. i want to see a level playing field, but when i look sometimes at what rules have named four uk companies, i saw exa m ples have named four uk companies, i saw examples the other dnt side of fantastic british business was finding it difficult to develop in wind turbine technology. there are ways in which we will be able to do things differently and better. 0n state aid, you might like to know that the ramifications of eu state aid rules are felt everywhere, and i talk to local companies or schools trying to run the services where they take in some contribution from they take in some contribution from the passengers. what they find is that they fall foul of state aid

rules insofar as they may be deemed therefore to be competing with private hire vehicles or private bus companies of one kind or another, so buses taking kids to school or helping to move disadvantaged people around, are facing real difficulties because of some eu state aid rules. what we will be able to do is be more flexible, be more pragmatic, but also maintain a level playing field. sky news. to be clear, if you don't get a deal by the end of 2020, and you are confident you will, but if you don't are we still leave them with no deal if necessary? a follow up with no deal if necessary? a follow up on the tampon tax. you say you are going to scout this is a benefit

of brexit, that you are backing women, but what about single mums? asa women, but what about single mums? as a younger man you described children of single mums as illegitimate. that is how you have described millions of your own citizens. how can they vote for you if that is what you think of them? there are millions of words i have written and everybody is able to find some that they can cull from the text and twist them and distort them in whatever way they choose. 0n them in whatever way they choose. 0n the substantive point that you raise, of course we have a massive opportunity, and of course we will be doing things to cut vat on sanitary products, quite right, why not? we will do loads of things differently and better. this fabled

no deal that all myjeremy corbyn backs except he doesn't back it what single new freedom of opportunity would it give the uk even if you we re would it give the uk even if you were able to secure it, he would not ta ke were able to secure it, he would not take back control of our lows or ta riffs take back control of our lows or tariffs or vat and would not be taking back control of our immigration policy and yet this is the deal that is supposed to be put to the british people as believe offering in the referendum next year. the whole thing is preposterous. we have a great deal and it allows us to come out on january the 31st and it does what people wanted, it allows us to deliver brexit and we are going to deliver brexit and we are going to deliver it. if you can't get a trade deal done... look at the situation we are in. we are in a fantastic

situation. i have every confidence we will be able to do a great free trade deal notjust with the eu but with countries around the world and we will begin straightaway on january the 31st and we have the advantage not only that we are already in a state of harmony with the eu but also that our friends in the eu but also that our friends in the eu but also that our friends in the eu have a very considerable trade balance surplus with us in goods of £65 billion and they have every incentive to get on with it. itv. since you lasted together on the morning after the referendum you have blamed pretty much everyone for the failure to deliver brexit, mps, the failure to deliver brexit, mps, the eu, everyone except ourselves. is anyone of you willing to take responsibility for the fact you started this project and without a plan? i am willing to take

responsibility for the fact we believe it is a great project for this country and it is a great shame that parliament has impeded it for the last three and a half years. it has corroded trust in democracy. if you want to get brexit done, there is only one way forward and that is to vote conservative. one of the tragedy says that the alternative versions to others leaving are not alternatives. they are variations of remain. ifi alternatives. they are variations of remain. if i look at what the labour party to my regret portrays as being options being offered it is various options being offered it is various options of staying in. we had a referendum. voters were told that it isa referendum. voters were told that it is a once in a generation. they were told whatever you decide i will do by their prime minister. then we had

three and a half years of variations on the theme of how to stop it. now is the one and only chance, this is important, if we don't get this over the hurdle now and get it delivered brexit will not happen. the hurdle now and get it delivered brexit will not happenlj the hurdle now and get it delivered brexit will not happen. i take full responsibility for all of my actions but should mps who said they would deliver brexit and then did everything possible to frustrate it. boris as prime minister and foreign secretary has done everything he can to get us out of the eu but there are people, conservative and labour, who said to the people, you voted to leave, i will honour that vote, they did not. the only way we can get brexit done is by making sure we have a working conservative majority to get parliament working again. we will take a group of questions from

the times, the irish times and the mail on sunday. i have read that 1995 spectator column very carefully several times. have your views changed about single mothers and their children? well state aid rules be devolved? can the scottish government also take the same freedoms to intervene on failing companies that you want to? the irish times, you said you want a level playing field but the measures you have proposed that the opposite of that and the european union has made very clear they will not give you a zero tariff 0/4 trade deal if you a zero tariff 0/4 trade deal if you divert in ways like this. why do you divert in ways like this. why do you believe it is in your country's interested put at risk that level of market access? your government has

begun the process of bringing children back from northern syria. do you fully support this and was at a one—off? was it a decision to open the back door to isis fighters and their brides to come back to the uk? 0n their brides to come back to the uk? on my previous articles i have said a lot about that over the course of the last few weeks and i repeat my point. you can always find bits and pieces that seem to mean one thing and almost invariably the article in question is saying something very different. your point about competition, would it be devolved? no, we believe that to be a national competence and will be retaining that nationally. 0n the good point about how is that going to be compatible with the free trade deal? of course it's compatible and were

there to be any issues arising then in any big deal there is a committee to arbitrate where any unfair subsidy or dispensation has been made. it would be a committee of sovereign equals as i am sure you understand such as exists between the eu and canada or whatever. 0n the eu and canada or whatever. 0n the point about the children from daesh, this is a difficult business because there are difficult security issues that surround this whole question, and there are also difficult questions about finding exactly which children might be eligible or capable of being brought back to this country. it is a very small number rethink that fall into that category and we have done what

we can to help in that small category. it is not a large category but we are doing what we can. do you have any representatives from channel 4? yes! we will take the gentleman from channel 4. i cannot see many female doctored yes, heather from the guardian, and then the ft. channel4 news. thank you for the question. you have said you have every confidence in getting a deal by the end of next but your opponents say the threat of no deal is on the table so yes or no, well you and no deal preparations, will you and no deal preparations, will you and no deal preparations, will you and the vast sums spent on no deal preparations? heather from the

guardian. outside downing street, when you became prime minister, you said we will fix the crisis and social care once and for all and with a clear plan we have prepared to give every older person the dignity and security they deserve. five months later in your manifesto you said you want to discuss the issue with labour which is not an approach you tend to take to other pressing political issues. isn't that extraordinary political cover just about to give city families facing these funding issues and social care? sebastian. on the state aid policies you have announced today that has been talk about creating a kind of thatcherite economy but that sounds more like north korea. what do you think the thatcherite in your cabinet think? and your agreement locks northern

ireland into eu state rail so are you agreeing to have a good border down the irish sea? on the question about no deal preparations, i think they were thoroughly useful in many ways, particularly in getting the deal that we eventually did because it convinced the eu that we were in earnest about leaving and many of those preparations will be extremely valuable as we come out of eu arrangements anyway so i think they are the right thing to have done and to keep. by the end of 20201 am also confident that we will have a great new fta ready to go for the reasons i have set out and of course the preparations will remain. there is no reason to dismantle them. we

are... people are asking me supplementary questions while i am trying to answer the question. as far as trying to answer the question. as faras coming trying to answer the question. as far as coming out of the eu goes it will be necessary to change our arrangements, our relationships, and arrangements, our relationships, and a lot of the preparations we have done, thanks very much to michael, in his role over the last period, will be very valuable. heather asked about the crisis and social care. it isa about the crisis and social care. it is a huge national crisis. we are putting massive amounts more into the nhs. this is the biggest increase in funding in the nhs in modern memory. we are increasing funding of the nhs by about 29% from 2018 to 2023, huge sums going on, but it is the interface between people in hospital, social care,

thatis people in hospital, social care, that is causing real problems, so we have put £1.5 billion immediately since i have come into this government, and we are saying they will put another billion more every year of this parliament into recruiting the staff, carers, that we need, and we are also reaching out across politics to try to take the division out of it because i think there is a growing national consensus about the way forward and it's based on two principles that everybody should have dignity and security in their own age and nobody should pay for the cost of their ca re should pay for the cost of their care about being forced to sell their home and that cannot be repeated too much. the question about our approach to state aid, i wa nt to about our approach to state aid, i want to repeat what i said, this is...i want to repeat what i said, this is... i believe in competition. i believe in a level playing field but

there are distortion sometimes introduced by the undue processes which are extremely bureaucratic and cumbersome. we may be able to speed things up for instance on planning processes which would be a great benefit to the housing industry and many other parts of our economy and i mentioned what may seem to some relatively trivial issue, the issue of school buses, and buses for the disabled, which suddenly seemed to fall file of eu state aid rules, they will be cases where a pragmatic approach that backs british companies, british businesses, british schools, will be the way forward. any colleagues from the scottish media? no. 0k. yes. we will have andy, christopher from the

telegraph and jason from the daily mail. five news. you said you think the institution of the monarchy is beyond reproach. you still think that? christopher. theresa may hid from scrutiny. why are you hiding from scrutiny. why are you hiding from andrew neil? tory members, why do you want to give mps a chance to repeal the fox hunting ban? jason. your press release this morning says on state aid you want to make it faster and easierfor the on state aid you want to make it faster and easier for the government to intervene when the industry is in trouble. can you give us an example ofa

trouble. can you give us an example of a business in the last decade that you would have saved that has gone to the wall? and what has happened to jacob rees—mogg? he seems to have been exiled to a banquette in somerset since making his comments on grenfell. is it all overforjacob? his comments on grenfell. is it all over forjacob? andy, the monarchy, the monarchy is the queen, and that in my view she is beyond reproach. there is a distinction between the monarchy and the royal family and everybody will readily appreciate that. 0bvious definition of distinction. 0n christopher's question... there is going to be no change at all. that is clear from

the manifesto. 0n hunting. we will use this manifesto. we will certainly not be bringing back fox hunting. that is absolutely inconceivable. what we will do is use this manifesto, gives the opportunities of brexit, to champion animal welfare, and we can do things differently. i feel that it is barbaric that in this country people can legally eat shark fin soup made from the friends of sharks who have been deprived of those fins when they are alive and thrown back into they are alive and thrown back into the sea. i think that should be banned. you cannot do that at the moment under eu law no more than you can ban the shipment of live animals

for long periods when they are often in great distress and people have campaigned in this country to have the freedom to do that for decades and we will now have that freedom. i think i invite you to ask the labour party. askjeremy corbyn and the labour party what is their plan here? the deal they propose, none of those freedoms would return to this country. even under the so—called leaf deal that they are advertising, and it is a complete outrage —— leave deal. 0njason's pointed out various members of the cabinet, any further commentary about that would be rightly categorised by people as me being overconfident about the selection and measuring up the curtains. this is going to be a very close fought election and we are

fighting for every vote. jacob rees—mogg and the rest of the cabinet to the best of my knowledge are in very good health and fighting for re—election. are in very good health and fighting for re-election. and an example... i don't want to get into discussion of individual companies. it would not be fairon individual companies. it would not be fair on individual companies to look back retrospectively. 0ur be fair on individual companies to look back retrospectively. our final selection of questions. look back retrospectively. our final selection of questionslj look back retrospectively. our final selection of questions. i want to ask about china and uk investment policy. your manifesto says nothing about tightening up the rules on national security screening for foreign investment and takeovers. your predecessor was very keen on tightening this up and uk allies around the world are tightening up investment screening. are you

content with the regime as it is or will you be making it a priority? we are saying goodbye to viewers on bbc two but continuing to watch this on the bbc news channel. can you reassure motorists they will not see the first rise in a decade? how will you personally spend your £85 next year? and the next question. will you meet donald trump when he comes to the uk next week or are you worried he might blow up your election campaign? you said you have never lied in your political career but were you not sacked for lying about an extramarital affair you had? that about an extramarital affair you had ? that is about an extramarital affair you had? that is not about mps delivering brexit, it is about your personal conduct. can you name one thing you like and respect about jeremy corbyn? a barrel load of

questions. in response to matthew's question, it is the case that within the cabinet office there is a specific unit that looks at potential takeovers and screens them for security reasons and i and the cabinet office minister had undertaken to strengthen their unit and to strengthen protections in the future but he will appreciate given the sensitivity of these cases i cannot say more than that but we do not believe the current provisions are robust enough and i will hand over to the prime minister. sark michael is right. there is a balance to be struck between continuing to be open to investment from china, which i think is very important for this country and to build a trading partnership with china. but clearly we can't do anything that prejudices are

critical national infrastructure, our security, or do anything that would compromise our ability to cooperate with our security partners. those are the parameters. i want to have good relations with china, but there are clear difficulties and clear boundaries that we have to set. everybody in this country, every taxpayer is going to get a tax cut, 31 million people will get a tax cut. we will cut taxes on businesses, we are a tax cut in government. we don't want to raise fuel duty. i have no intentions to raise fuel duty. i must‘ve missed the opportunity to contrast our approach with the

catastrophic sledgehammer that jeremy corbyn and the labour party would take to the economy. it would mean huge tax rises for working people, it would mean everybody paying £2a00 more in tax. his prospectus is economically ruinous. the crucial thing is it is notjust the burden of taxation, it is what would happen to the interest rates that the market charges on this country's debts. they would go up and up with the job the burden of mortgages for everybody in the uk. it is not the right way forward. every time labour leave office to leave the public finances in ruins. that's what they did last time. they a lwa ys that's what they did last time. they always leave unemployment higher than when they came in. the only difference betweenjeremy corbyn and john mcdonnell as they plan to start with an economic crisis rather than end up with one. as for emilio casserly q was my question about

nato, iam casserly q was my question about nato, i am going to be hosting the need to litres meeting and look forward to meeting all the heads of government. on your point about trust, let me just repeat what i've said before. i do not set out to mislead the electorates in my policies, in what i set out to achieve. if you look at my record over the last ten years, when i have set out to do something i have gone at it with as much energy and determination and work as i can. time and time again i have over delivered. that is why i am frustrated with what is happening with brexit in this parliament. the single thing that has undermined and grew to trust in politics has been the failure of the last three and a half years to deliver brexit. we have to get on and do it.|j half years to deliver brexit. we have to get on and do it. ijust wa nt have to get on and do it. ijust want to reiterate that quite a

numberof want to reiterate that quite a number of things have changed in the three and a half years since we last shared a podium, but the one thing that hasn't changed is that we still haven't left the european union. the only way to deliver brexit is by voting for borisjohnson only way to deliver brexit is by voting for boris johnson on the 12th of december, not because he voted leave and is if you are a traditional labour voter that doesn't mean you have suddenly become a tory. what it means if you voted leave and wanted to deliver this, it is the only way to produce a clear majority. do not lose sight of that basic message.” a clear majority. do not lose sight of that basic message. i want to thank you all for coming. the prime minister has been on the platform now for 45 minutes, and has taken more questions than any other leaders in this general election campaign. the prime minister has a message which is clear and it is one that has been underlined by geisler.

her courage as someone who is a lifelong labour party member but he is first and foremost a democrat, her courage in public service is an example to us all. applause. soa applause. so a slight rumbling from the media there when michael gove said that he thought boris johnson had there when michael gove said that he thought borisjohnson had taken more questions at this news conference than any other politician during the course of the general election campaign. there certainly were questions there about him putting himself up for the sorts of interviews that he has been accused by other parties of avoiding, including one by andrew neil of the bbc. that was put to him byjohn pienaar. borisjohnson bbc. that was put to him byjohn pienaar. boris johnson responded bbc. that was put to him byjohn pienaar. borisjohnson responded by saying i am answering your question, but didn't exactly stake whether he would be interviewed by an trivial or not. the question remains

unanswered. making a number of pledges there in that news conference, alongside michael gove and geisler stewart, the former labourmp and chairof and geisler stewart, the former labour mp and chair of vote leave who said that she couldn't food for jeremy corbyn, but she could vote for brexit. she said it doesn't make mea for brexit. she said it doesn't make me a tory, but it was the best option. we will be withjohn pienaar inafew option. we will be withjohn pienaar in a few minutes to get his take on what was said. let's return to the other main story of the day. a,500 jobs could be lost at the energy supplier npower after the company confirmed plans to restructure its uk business. the firm's german owner, e.0n said the proposed cuts, which amount to three—quarters of the its workforce, were in response to the "challenging" uk energy market. the plans have been described by unions as a "cruel blow" for staff in the run—up to christmas. it's thought more than three—quarters of npower‘s 5,700 staff could be affected. npower‘s owners, e.0n, said profit for the first nine months of its financial year fell by more than a quarter

to £2 billion. npower is the smallest of britain's big six energy suppliers. the chief executive of e.0n in the uk said the government's policy of capping energy prices had been damaging for energy firms. clearly, npower is under considerable strain, it has been making heavy losses for many years in the economics of the uk energy market has been made incredibly challenging by a price cap where good quality companies struggle to earn a reasonable rate of return on their investments. will customers keep faith with the company? you have lost aa7,000 customers this year already. absolutely, but there will be ongoing customers going forward. customers don't have to do anything, they will be notified when they become an e.0n customer. npower is focused on delivering carbon free

power. there are good reasons why we think customers would want to stay at e.0n once we complete that migration. the most important thing to focus on today is our employees. i want to reassure them we will do everything we can to mitigate the negative effects of these proposals. the gmb union is calling this a poorly managed company with significant losses in the uk and saying, let me quote them, but it is a lwa ys saying, let me quote them, but it is always the workers who face the brunt of poor management coupled with regulation. do you think you should go as a result of this? you are presiding over a company which seems to be insignificant serious difficulty. we only recently acquired the company in the last two months. what we have announced on the proposals we are making are exactly suit that we can create a sustainable business for the future. we can reduce the losses, get back

toa we can reduce the losses, get back to a reasonable rate of return so we can compete, so we can deliver zero carbon and so we can create a sustainable business for all of our employees going forward and continue to build the workforce of the future through our apprenticeship schemes. bearin through our apprenticeship schemes. bear in mind we provide a huge number of stable, well—paid jobs in the uk, filling unionised labour force and we want to be able to continue to do that. what proportion of the uk workforce does this a500 coupled with a 900 from earlier this year, what does that represent? around three quarters of the uk workforce at npower. that is massive. it is massive and i don't wa nt to massive. it is massive and i don't want to downplay the magnitude of this transformation we are having to make. npower has been losing money heavily for many years and we are having to take this action so we can create a sustainable business for the future.

joining me now is our consumer affairs correspondent kevin peachey. cavan, that is a vast number of jobs, but as we heard in that interview, mr lewis would not be drawn on any more detail about how many of those a700 might actually go. yes, three quarters of the uk workforce. they say they will wait until a finalfigure workforce. they say they will wait until a final figure comes after consultation with the unions. we know that the majority will come from call centres, sue the one near sunderland, hull, worcester, they might be affected. it is a massive blue. especially just might be affected. it is a massive blue. especiallyjust before christmas. it is the smallest of the big six energy companies. the others are big six energy companies. the others a re clearly big six energy companies. the others are clearly being affected, but not as badly as npower is. why is with this pressure on the energy market?

they point to the energy price cap, so that is when your standard variable rate is capped at a level. it was a goldilocks period for the energy firms at the minute, you don't want to be too big or too small, you want to bejust don't want to be too big or too small, you want to be just right. the big six appointed to that energy price cap saying it has really put a strain on their margins. they also have these legacy it systems which is something that is being looked at now. then there are other companies which have gone bust. 16 small energy companies have gone bust since the start of last year and thatis since the start of last year and that is primarily because they grew too fast and were not able to keep up too fast and were not able to keep up with customer service, they have struggled with trying to provide for their new customers. it is the once in the middle who are properly sitting pretty at the moment. a50,000 customers have switched off from npower this year. with this news, mike moore follow? what does

it mean for the consumer who are still with npower? yes, hundreds of thousands moving and that is because they would have seen a price comparison websites better deals. it might change a little bit if we see some of the smaller operators going. with those who are sticking with npower they will see some brand and change, they will go to e.0n, although it will change their tariff immediately. we will see really what happens in the wash. some analysts say there will be a 50—50 split between the big six and the smaller challenger providers in terms of domestic customers in about four yea rs. domestic customers in about four years. cavern, thank you for taking us years. cavern, thank you for taking us through that. the former conservative

mp harvey proctor has reached a settlement with the metropolitan police over its investigation into false claims of a vip paedophile ring. mr proctor, whose home was raided following claims made by the fantasist carl beech, will receive a payout of around £900,00. tolu adeoye reports. harvey proctor was among several prominent figures targeted by carl beech, falsely accused of being members of a vip paedophile ring in the 70s and 80s. the former conservative mps says he lost his home and hisjob while under suspicion in a much—criticised metropolitan police investigation. i have no money, i have no resources, i cannot plan my future. i'm not sure that i have a future. mr proctor‘s lawyers have now confirmed he will receive £500,000 in conversation from scotland yard, and nearly £a00,000 in legal costs. the met has previously apologised for its investigation. i am deeply, deeply sorry for the mistakes that were made and for the ongoing pain that these mistakes have cause. carl beech is currently serving an 18—year prison sentence for the lies that so devastated so many. tolu adeoye, bbc news.

mr proctor released a statement today: a man who shot dead his heavily pregnant ex—wife with a crossbow has been jailed for life. 51—year—old ramanodge

unmathallegadoo will serve a minimum of 33 years for the attack on sana muhammad, which thejudge called "brutal and evil". her unborn son survived. the headlines on bbc news: three—quarters of npower‘s workforce, up to a,500 jobs, are at risk as a restructuring plan is announced. the prime minister defends his decision not to take part in last night's climate debate and turns the conservative campaign back to brexit. unai emery is sacked as arsenal manager after 18 months in charge. arsenal have sacked head coach unai emery this morning after the latest in a run of poor results. they were beaten 2—1 by eintracht frankfurt in the europa league last night. emery‘s assistant freddie ljungberg

has been appointed interim manager. last night's defeat was the gunners' seventh match without a victory and played out in, what looked like, a half empty stadium. some fans held up signs calling for emery to go. it's the longest winless streak for arsenal in more than 25 years. emery had been in the roll for 18 mths. the club are 8th in the premier league. it's seven games without a win and the club of arsenal's size should not go that amount of games without winning a football match. it is freddie lindberg, a favourite from the glory era, he has been asked to ta ke the glory era, he has been asked to take over thejob the glory era, he has been asked to take over the job on a temporary basis. i suppose you have to say that he has first shot at the job because he is not the man in position, he will be the man leading the team on sunday at norwich. the clu b the team on sunday at norwich. the club say they will take time, they wa nt to club say they will take time, they want to make the right decision. for

the moment there is a lot of confidence that freddie lindberg is the right man who can take them forward and get them out of the sticky patch and give them time to make the decision they want to make. rain brought an early end to the first day of the second test between new zealand and england in hamilton. the black caps will begin the second day on 173—3, with tom latham 101 not out. jim lumsden reports. england had plenty to prove after the first test. the tourist decided bowling was the better option. tom latham immediately set about stuart broad with a sign of what was to come, but his team—mates had no time to settle. stuart broad, joe root court and ravel was on his way for just five. not long after, a prized wicket. kane williamson sent packing for 20. this time chris wilkes delivering. latham rode his luck

somewhat. he overturned an lbw decision on a9 and was stopped by ben stokes on 66. ben stokes later limped off after a spell with the ball. ross taylor survived an lbw decision that offered a half—century before becoming jewelry‘s their catch for the day. latham employed on undeterred, striding on towards his 11th century in a7 tests. then came the rain. that was it for the day. england making a decent fist of it with the ball, but will look to see off the troublesome latham first thing. that's all the sport for now. there is news on the bbc sport website on mo farah running the 10,000 metres at the tokyo olympics. i'll have more for you in the next hour.

our deputy political editor john pienaar has been at the conservative party event. you got to ask the first question, john. on the issue of scrutiny and whether mrjohnson would face an interview with andrew neil, he said while he was answering your question, but didn't say beyond that if he would take part in other bbc interviews. there were no guarantees on that at all. he said what he said before on this question of supposedly talking scrutiny, he is facing a lot of scrutiny, he says. he did take a lot of questions at this event. as for facing andrew neil in that series of pretty testing interviews, he kept that option open. we don't know if the prime minister will go with that. i have been told by senior people here that it hasn't yet been decided. you

can see the slogan, get brexit done. borisjohnson offering himself can see the slogan, get brexit done. boris johnson offering himself as the candidate of certainty. he said there was a long list of potential benefits of this country of leaving the eu. but there are still enormous questions over the tory party's brexit offer. here they speak of the ability in future for britain to intervene more quickly, more easily to help out ailing businesses. that implies more state intervention. more state intervention could also be seen as unfair competition by the eu and could get in the way of doing a trade deal. as with that trade deal, maybe a more urgent?, they have until november 2020 to do a deal with the eu. no extension, borisjohnson keeps deal with the eu. no extension, boris johnson keeps on deal with the eu. no extension, borisjohnson keeps on saying. is there a real possibility of leaving with no—deal? there a real possibility of leaving with no-deal? i am very confident

that we can get a deal with her friends and partners, a new free trade agreement by the end of next year. we got a fantastic deal done in three months and people thought was impossible. they said we couldn't reopen the withdrawal agreement but we did. the advantage that we have been doing that deal is that we have been doing that deal is that we have been doing that deal is that we are in a state of grace with the eu at the moment in the sense that we have complete alignment insofar as our regulations go, we have zero tariffs, zero quota arrangements already. there has never been a negotiation between trading partners that began with the two sides already in that state of harmony. i am full of optimism and confidence and suggest that everybody else should be as well. we will get it done and move on. so when borisjohnson will get it done and move on. so when boris johnson is will get it done and move on. so when borisjohnson is asked about the real possibility of having to

leave the eu with no—deal, the a nswer leave the eu with no—deal, the answer is to do a lot more optimism, saying we are so close to the european union now with our regulations and standards that we could do a deal very quickly, why change anything? the reality of course on the ground is that the eu members want to play a tough hand in those negotiations. experts believe it could take much longer than the year provided for at the moment to reach a deal. so i can new deal brexit looms large as a possibility. we need to come together again once more, set aside party allegiance to get brexit done and heal the country. in this election i will not vote forjeremy corbyn, but i can vote forjeremy corbyn, but i can vote forjeremy corbyn, but i can vote for brexit. this is after all the brexit election. and a vote for borisjohnson this time the brexit election. and a vote for boris johnson this time round the brexit election. and a vote for borisjohnson this time round is the brexit election. and a vote for boris johnson this time round is a vote to get brexit done.

that was geisler stewart saying that's for the sake of getting brexit done, be ready to go and vote conservative. she says that doesn't make you joy, you just want to achieve the right thing. michael heseltine just a day or so ago said he thought you should boot lib dems. it isa he thought you should boot lib dems. it is a clear demonstration of how brexit has torn apart the traditional lines of party politics. don't forget that tonight's election debate between leaders and senior party figures starts at 7pm on bbc one — and you can get live fact checking and analysis on the website, on the bbc news app and right here on the bbc news channel. young people across the uk arejoining global climate protests today. with events already under way in australia, students from across the uk will be striking as part of the worldwide movement

against what they say is governmental inaction on climate change. from st albans to st andrews, the strikers will be joining some 3,000 events across 1a9 countries. well, for more on this now we are joined live from keele university by environment and sustainabilty expert dr sharon george. good afternoon to you. the campaigners are not letting go of this. the pace of this is astonishing, isn't it? yes. that does reflect public opinion on this. this is not an issue that is going away. it will get worse and worse and worse until there is something done about this. it is not easy to act on this. there needs to be massive change that happens and it is really important that people do you keep talking about this and keep

the emphasis there. i am not surprised the protests are building weight as we move towards the big action that there is. we need to cut our emissions by half by 2030 and we are not there yet, we need to push further. a generation of young people is becoming politicised, perhaps more than any generation of that age before them, but they absolutely have every reason to be concerned. they can see that this is going to affect their futures. absolutely. this is the generation who will inherit our inaction, so they are going to see the impact. what we do do now is going to have impacts on things like, just to keep with them that 1.5 degrees, with that cut in half of our emissions, still 1a% of the rope was not population are more likely to be exposed to a heat wave every five

yea rs. exposed to a heat wave every five years. that rises to nearly a0% if the temperature rises to just 2 degrees. this is a massive impact that will cause wildfires, we will see the collapse of ecosystems. this is massively affecting them. it is important that the world listens and keeps talking about this really vital issue. we have heard this week the government world need to step up their ambitions to cut carbon emissions many times more than they are doing now if we are not going to see significant rises, we are talking about huge action every year for the next decade to really keep things in check. with no sign, actually, that the sort of action thatis actually, that the sort of action that is needed is being taken. what contribution do you think these protests by young people are making to that? are they being listened to? i think they are. there is a sense, particularly with the general

public, because this is being reflected in policy. in the uk we are seeing climate change being rippled through the policies that the different parties are putting forward and different urgencies. that will come into the way that people vote. the way that this issue is trickling up through our politics and into the way governments will act, we will see that more and more. thank you very much for your time today. a manuscript written by elizabeth i has been discovered for the first time in more than a century at lambeth palace library. a historian from the university of east anglia made the discovery by turning detective to piece together a series of clues. drjohn—mark philo then established the queen herself was responsible for the translation of a book in which the roman historian tacitus wrote of the benefits of monarchical rule. well, for more on this now

we are joined live from oxford by giles mandelbrote, who is a librarian and archivist at lambeth palace. this is causing a huge amount of excitement, isn't it? we understand that doctor filho was looking for translations by tacitus when he came across this documents, that had been carefully archived and preserved at lambeth palace library. take up the story for us from that point. yes, that's right. the manuscript was in our collections, but without any indication on it who had made the translation. because ofjohn mark filho's specialist knowledge of classical translations, he realised that tacitus was one of the authors that tacitus was one of the authors that elizabeth the first had translated. the clinching clue is in the handwriting. there are some corrections in the queen's own hands, rather messy and illegible

hand, when this was being written. so this image was carefully preserved and stored just waiting for the right person to come along and identify it what was. what do you think it tells us, this document, about elizabeth?m you think it tells us, this document, about elizabeth? it tells us document, about elizabeth? it tells us various things. it shows the kinds of recreational activity that she was involved in to take her mind, perhaps, of the turbulent politics of the 15 90s. she was very well educated, it shows us that. also, perhaps, it gives hints as to what elizabeth thought her courtiers should be taking note of. it is a manuscript which describes the roman emperors taking over from the republic and the benefits of strong government. she probably wanted people in her court to take good notice of that. this was much later

in her reign, wasn't it, when she was translating this document are making the alterations? yes, she is translating the latin into english. this is in the 15 90s when england is in quite a difficult political position internationally and at home with the succession crisis and so on, it is really very interesting that she could spend time making translations from the latin in this way, and having them circulated in her court. i'm sure she would have identified as a girly swot quite happily! i wonder what the emergence of this document does in terms of shining a light on the work of people like yourself, as archivists preserving these documents for wonderful discoveries to be made?

exactly. lambeth palace library is full of beautiful books and manuscripts and we encourage the public to come and see them but it ta kes public to come and see them but it takes the right combination of circumstances and specialist knowledge sometimes to piece together the final key part of the jigsaw, as has happened in this case. will there be an opportunity for people to see this if they wa nted for people to see this if they wanted to? yes. the manuscript is digitised and on the lambeth palace library website but we are also going to be moving into a brand—new building in 2021 which will have very good public facilities and we would certainly hope to make this manuscript one of the features of the next exhibition in the future. thank you. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts.

how is that we shaping up? for a change it is looking pretty pleasant. here we are in north wales. lots of sunshine around and lots of dry weather which is a welcome relief for many of those who have suffered from the significant flooding in the last two or three months. we have some flies in the ointment with folk to content with overnight and that will be ongoing. the main issue today is one or two showers in the east coast of england and scotland. it is pretty chilly but the sunshine compensates. cloud still with us across devon and cornwall. it will hold off the frost just about overnight tonight but we are the showers continue it is going to be an icy night. temperatures lower than last night. frost very extensive tonight. a lovely start to the day for northern areas tomorrow but the fog is going to be an issue and it could linger with dense

patches initially and then it will be grey and cold where that lingers so one or 2 degrees above freezing at best and the potential for rain to the south and west but for many it is dry. some sunshine around and not much to complain about.

hello, this is bbc newsroom live. the headlines: three quarters of npower‘s workforce — up to a,500 jobs — are at risk as a restructuring plan is announced. the prime minister defends his decision not to take part in last night's climate debate and turns the conservative campaign back to brexit. unai emery is sacked as arsenal manager after 18 months in charge. the metropolitan police is to pay the former mp harvey proctor £900,000 in compensation and legal costs. he was wrongly accused of being part

of a westminster paedophile ring. and a manuscript written by elizabeth i is discovered — a translation of a book praising the monarchy — complete with her distinctive messy handwriting. the families of those who died in the 1989 hillsborough disaster have reacted angrily, after a jury found the match commander on the day not guilty of gross negligence manslaughter. it had been alleged that david duckenfield had a "personal responsibility" for what happened, as our correspondent judith moritz reports. david duckenfield has been a blame figure for 30 years, in charge at hillsborough when disaster happened. that he failed isn't in dispute but his trial ended with a not guilty verdict, and with tears for the hillsborough families. 96 people have found to have been unlawfully killed to a criminal standard by an inquestjury,

and somebody has got to be held responsible for 96 deaths. the families have struggled to reconcile the two different core processes they have gone through. the crown courtjury did not accept the prosecution case that david duckenfield's failings were so exceptionally bad they were a substantial cause of the disaster. it comes four years after an inquest jury found that the 96 were unlawfully killed. who put the 96 in their graves? who is accountable for 96 unlawfully killed? what a disgrace this has been today. for the last seven years, hundreds of detectives have been gathering evidence into hillsborough. costing £65 million, operation resolve is the longest ever criminal investigation in england. the hillsborough families say, that over 30 years, opportunities have been missed to prosecute the full number of people and institutions

which could have been held responsible for the disaster. with this trial, the jurors only had one man to consider, and they weren't willing to make him solely responsible for the deaths. 96 men, women and children were killed. the youngest aged ten, the oldest a pensioner. # walk on, walk on...# in 2016, the hillsborough families sang to celebrate the unlawful killing finding at the inquests, but the 30—year journey of this disaster has taken many twists and turns, patience and sympathy tested again and again. justice! david duckenfield has been on trial three times, including a private prosecution brought by the families 19 years ago. there's some finality, then, in today's verdict. it means no—one will be jailed for so many lives lost. judith moritz, bbc news. a world —famous free—solo climber has died attempting to descend the side of a cliff

face in mexico. brad gobright, seen here breaking the speed record two years ago on the el capitan summit in yosemite national park, fell 1,000 feet to his death in the renowned rock climbing state of nuevo leon on wednesday. the 31—year—old american was best known for climbing without any safety equipment. arsenal have sacked their manager unai emery after just 18 months in charge. the club is currently enduring its longest stretch without a win since 1992. joining me now is tom ducat—white, a life—long fan and presenter of bruised banana: an arsenal podcast. do you think this is the right move? yes. if anything they waited a little bit too long. it was funny, on the group chat that we had for the podcast we were saying what would have happened if we had won the game last night, would he have

kept hisjob the game last night, would he have kept his job until the weekend? they have finally done the right thing. the writing has been on the wall for a while so we are pretty happy. that is how tenuous the life of a football manager in a premier league clu b football manager in a premier league club can be, it can all follow the fate of one match, the result of one match. in fairness, the performances and results have been poorfor quite and results have been poorfor quite a while now. a seven match run without a win. even stretching back into last season in the run and we saw the results slide. we got to the final of the europa league and then fell to defeat by chelsea. why has that happened ? fell to defeat by chelsea. why has that happened? why has it gone so badly? why has there been a bad run of form? he wasn't able to get the players playing the style of football he wanted to play and i think in his head he wasn't sure about that style of football needed to be. towards the early part of his tenure he was getting us to play out

from the back and there was talk about high press and since then we have seen a myriad of different formations, different styles of play, and now we are very defensive but conceding lots of shots on goal. the club brought him on because of previous successes. yet some might argue that 18 months wasn't long enough for him to develop the team as he wanted to or is that unfair? snow is a very small conservative clu b snow is a very small conservative club and we do not make knee jerk reactions and he was given enough time to have a plan and whatever the plan was it wasn't working. it might feel knee jerk from outside but we have been waiting for a while. do you think he was always going to have a tough job following in the footsteps of arsene wenger, in much the way at manchester united we saw after sir alex ferguson a period of turbulence before things started to settle again? yes, following a

manager that had been there for 22 yea rs, manager that had been there for 22 years, a club legend, who we love very dearly as arsenal fans, even in spite of his feelings towards the end of his tenure, coming in was a lwa ys end of his tenure, coming in was always going to be a big ask and we have no ill will towards him, there area have no ill will towards him, there are a few things we wish he had handled better, but it was the wrong man at the wrong club at the wrong time unfortunately. he might be the right man at this time? there is a list of about nine candidates and i would probably take any one of them at the moment. they all have something to recommend them. the idea we could get pochettino is quite amusing. we are happy for freddie ljundberg to take over in

the interim. i think there is a few different options out there and i think we will trust that the board will do the right thing. no shortage of material to mull over on the podcast. absolutely. thank you. the black sea is the most polluted stretch of water in europe. yesterday we brought you the first of our special reports on maritime polution. for a second investigation, our correspondentjonah fisher has travelled across the region to look at what s being done to turn things around. his report begins in budapest. the front line in efforts to save the black sea is hundreds of kilometres from its shore. so, this is basically a river of human poo? yeah.

this is a water treatment plant in hungary. completed nine years ago, it has helped budapest clean up its rather embarrassing waste disposal problem. before this plant was built, around half of the produced waste water was going directly to the danube. raw sewage? yeah, raw sewage. and after we have built this one, after 2010, almost 95—96% of the whole sewage is treated, biologically treated, and going like this, clean, to the danube. similar plants have been built all along the river, dramatically cleaning up the water that then empties into the black sea. the driving force for change has been membership of the european union. eu provide a framework where the combination of the regulatory framework, the regulation, and the transfer of the money, the financial support to the new member states, was one of the key factors of the improving of the situation in the danube. so, this is a positive story. you are sure that the danube, and by connection the black sea,

are now on their way back? the worst is over? definitely, over the last 15 years, we witnessed improvement. the whole danube river story is a success story, of the country transforming itself in environmental management, and reaching a better handle of the situation. in search of the promised signs of recovery, we headed to the part of the black sea closest to the mouth of the danube. the divers we are with are looking for something very specific, a once—plentiful red seaweed called phyllaphora. it is a key indicator of water quality. translation: it does seem that the sea is getting healthier. compared to previous years, i could see more phyllaphora. but we can't relax, because the entire ecosystem of the sea is still seriously damaged.

there is still a long way to go, but those in charge of monitoring the black sea are now sounding cautiously optimistic. when i would be putting it in one sentence, is that actually the black sea is recovering. for those who despair that our planet is incapable of rising to the scale of the global environmental crisis, the black sea is an example of how, with sustained effort, a seemingly endless tide of destruction can be slowed, and just maybe turned. and there will a full half hour documentary — black sea blues — broadcast on the bbc world news on december 7th. now with all the business news here is susannah streeter. now the business news.

energy firm npower is set to close its three big residential customer service centres in the uk by the end of 2021. a,500 jobs will be lost as part of the restructure. the centres at houghton le spring, just outside sunderland, an office in hull and one in worcester are under threat. unions called the action a "cruel blow" for the compa ny‘s workers in the run—up to christmas. people who bank with hsbc and santander are in line for a refund after a watchdog ordered them to pay compensation for failing to alert customers who went into the red. the competition and market authority said they broke rules by not sending text messages allowing people to avoid unarranged overdraft charges. hsbc said it would refund a total of £8 million to 115,000 customers. santander also said it would comply, but has not worked out the cost yet. and the big black friday retail event has arrived — its estimated we'll be spending £8 billion online by the end of the promotion. so far, according to barclays, there has been an increase

in payment transactions of around 6.5% compared to the same period last year. more on that coming up. it's so called black friday — the annual shopping binge which started in the united states but has now become a global phenomenon. don't expect the frantic scenes on the high street of black fridays past though — it's increasingly being done online. that's where more than three quarters of us are looking for bargains here in the uk — according to pwc. retailers around the world are offering discounts on everything from kitchen appliances to tvs to clothing. but it's also becoming the focus of concerns about the environmental cost of consumerism. although apple black friday deals is the top search on google at the moment, #buynothingday is also trending on twitter. earlier we spoke to rob cameron, chief executive, barclays payments —

he told me how strong sales had been this year so far. we are seeing a strong start to black friday, up 6.5% of the black friday i year ago, so we saw the trend kick—off around monday this week. a lot of the sale started earlier than a year ago and we thought we might see a drop—off but we have stayed up at the same consistent rate, 6.5, 6.7%, so the stores are definitely busy and some of the retailers are up a multiple of the retailers are up a multiple of what you would see on a typical day. there is a shift to shopping earlier in the season and some retailers appreciate the chance to get a better sense of what they read and treble look like around christmas but it has also been such a flat year for retail they look at this as an indicator of what the christmas season will bring and a strong start hopefully shows signs ofa strong start hopefully shows signs of a little more consumer confidence and spending for our retail sector.

there has been a last—minute surge in applications for a help to buy scheme, which is set to close to new savers at midnight tomorrow. the isa was launched in 2015. it's been used in the purchase ofjust under 260,000 homes. under the scheme, the government will boost your savings by 25%, so, for every £200 saved, government adds a bonus of £50. banks and building societies including nationwide and santander have reported a surge in applications before saturday's deadline. joining us now is laura suter, personal finance analyst, aj bell. tell me why you think there has been the surge in applications because people would think this game is ending, is it worth my while, but if you get under the deadline you can keep saving. yes, the scheme only closes to new applicants tomorrow. you still have another ten years after that if you have an account already open to carry on paying it. we saw bits of this effect with the

ppi deadline that you can have an account available for a while but is originally put a deadline you see a surge of people who have been intending to it but haven't get around to doing it. has there been a regional split and the people taking up regional split and the people taking up the scheme? yes, in the north west and yorkshire and humberside it has been the most popular whereas in the south—east it has not been as popular partly because there is a cap on the value of properties you can buy a £a00,000 in london and £250,000 across the uk. people in cambridge or brighton might find they are plat priced out of being able to use the scheme. why is this scheme closing? some people might be disappointed. they might want to get onto the housing ladder and a couple of years. is there an option? it is closing because the government brought out a new product which does

some of the same things, the lifetime isa, which works slightly differently, it has pros and cons, but you can save more money into it ina year but you can save more money into it in a year which means you can get more potential government bonus money from it so the 25% of cash still applies. is it still really just for first—time buyers? still applies. is it still really just for first-time buyers? yes, you can only use the lifetime isa or government bonus for first—time buyers your first property or to a pension but then you would not be able to get your money until age 60, so this is for people who don't own property already or haven't inherited a property and they are looking to get their first step on the ladder. thank you. it s been a positive week on the whole for uk assets, with both the ftse 100 and the pound

on track to post solid gains. the standout performer on the ftse is the ocado group, with shares enjoying a double—digit jump after it was announced that the online supermarket has struck a deal with aeon, a leading grocery firm injapan. this marks ocado s first foray into the asian market and opens up a large and fast—growing sector. black friday has failed to trigger a jump in other retailers‘ shares suggesting investors are not that excited. there is a fear that it will mean overall shoppers will spend early but spend less in the crucial pre—christmas period. that's all the business news. the european council has a new president. the former prime minister of belgium, charles michel, is taking over from donald tusk. mr tusk had been a passionate and vocal opponent of brexit. the eu council brings together

the leaders of the member states in a decision—making body but does not negotiate laws. drone owners in the uk have until the end of today to register their devices — or face a £1,000 fine. the new regulations cover any drone heavier than an average smart phone. just under a year since britain's second largest airport was brought to a halt by drones, it's thought tens of thousands of devices are still not registered. here's our transport correspondent, tom burridge. before this weekend, any one of us could buy almost any type of drone online or from a shop and fly it safely in an open field away from people, buildings and vehicles, as long as you don't lose sight of it, fly it in an airport's exclusion zone, or above a00 feet. but now there are new restrictions. fall foul of the new rules and you could face a £1,000 fine. atjust 80g, this is well under

250g, so it isn't covered by the new regulations. 0k. whereas these two drones are appreciably heavier than 250g. so, the new rules apply? and the new rules therefore apply. let's just take it up to maximum height. talking us through the new rules is drone pilot instructor simon smith. into sport mode. the first big change is that before a beginner like me can take the controls... right and left... ..it‘s off to the classroom. and when must you have insurance for flying your drone or model aircraft? a 20 question, multiple—choice quiz. "which of these is the main reason for not flying above a00 feet?" anyone of any age can still fly a standard—sized drone, but you have to pass this test first. yay! i passed. i just press up. so, now i'm allowed to fly a drone for the first time. there we go. just get the feel for what the controls do. but this is only 0k because the drone belongs to simon, and he's registered. the person responsible for a drone like this one has to register it now. they have to be over 18. the cost of doing so is a mere £9.

for simon, it's a step in the right direction, but... do i think it will make much difference? honestly, no. the people that abide by the rules and regulations will abide by them whether they're registered or not. tens of thousands of drone users still haven't registered, and that empty runway at gatwick and the misery passengers felt for days when drones were apparently spotted last december means airports hope more people will sign up via the civil aviation authority's new system. it is a concern to us that we haven't got everybody on board yet and we want to encourage the caa and government to ensure that they promote this, that they keep the costs to those individuals at reasonable levels so that we encourage more people to use it. simple technology could remotely identify a drone and link it to its owner. but such a system is still not in place, so the new rules won't be easy to police. tom burridge, bbc news, in kent.

chances are, you've ridden a ferris wheel, but have you ever moved a ferris wheel by hand? austrian athlete franz muellner decided the ferris was a feat worth conquering. tied to ropes attached to the wheel, he managed to get it moving by using his full body weight. munich‘s 80—metre mobile ferris wheel has 27 glass gondalas and weighs at least 750 tonnes. he called the task brutal, but his attempt did set a new world record. now it's time for a look at the weather. not many will have failed to notice how chilly it was to start this morning that the payoff is sunny skies. lovely day for a stroll along

the beach. further east we do have a few showers. the weekend will remain cold and dry but with more fog around and that will make it feel grey and cold at times. we have a few showers coming on to some of the beaches and coastal and eastern parts of england and scotland, wintry over the hills, and we have some quite lingering in the south and west, holding temperatures that eight or nine, but for many areas temperatures are markedly lower than yesterday but we have the sunshine to compensate. with clear skies over it will be widely frosty and temperatures well below our further south as well. temperatures a degree or two lower in rural areas overnight. there could be some ice around but more likely is the risk of fog, dense fog patches, which could be hazardous for road users with some disruption at airports as

well with fog expected to be widespread across england and wales with patchy dense fog meaning visibility will be reduced quite drastically in places. even as it easy these that were left into low clouds are some areas could stay grey for most of the day. fewer showers for the east coast of england and eastern scotland and we get showers in the north and the rain approaching from the south and west so relatively mild but for most of us pretty cold and with the low cloud it might be around freezing for most of the day because it will be freezing fog. it will feel quite cold because of cloudiness i found a strong easterly wind. eventually it creeps along the south coast of england. by sunday we have high pressure reaffirming its hold over the uk so more dry weather. there will be some showers for the northern isles into the far north—east of scotland. there will be some cloud first thing and a fog

next ready area of high pressure for northern ireland, southern scotland. there are burnings and they are on the website. —— are warnings.

a,500 jobs to go at the energy firm npower — that's three quarters of the uk workforce. the unions describe it as a cruel blow, coming less than a month before christmas, but npower says the british market is challenging. the energy retail market is hugely challenging. the price cap doesn't help and that means companies cannot, well—run companies like e.0n, cannot secure a fair return on their investment is what we want to see a strong companies that can provide strong and secure employment. it's a terrible blow for families and for the communities that depend on thisjob. we are three and a half weeks out just before christmas and this news will have just dropped on them today, although for many of them they've been expecting it. we'll be analysing the reasons forjob cuts.