it is ifi it is ifl am it is if i am correct interesting it is if i am correct the evening standard which was reporting earlier thatjustin trudeau apparently, the canadian premier, has apparently at a personal level or any personal capacity, it couldn't have been in a personal capacity but in an off the record wake let the queen note that the canadian taxpayers might be willing to pick up the security costs of the couple living in canada. that should be quite interesting because i'd have thought that some canadian taxpayers at least might wonder why redoing this? as long as it is on the front of the daily express, complex medicines be resolved after what they called this historical sonic. resolved after what they called this historicalsonic. questions resolved after what they called this historical sonic. questions around the finances. —— historic summit. there are questions around the finances and who is going to subsidise their lifestyle up to the point of which they become self—sufficient if they are able to

become self—sufficient and how they will become self—sufficient. that implies a private income presumably from some sort of commercial activity of their own which may or may not fit in with the way in which the royal family see themselves. and that's where this sort of mexit ghastly headline though it is works because there is this transition period. going back to brexit! this is the withdrawal agreement and that there is a short transition period and when they sort of the future relationship and what would that be? it's notjust relationship and what would that be? it's not just about relationship and what would that be? it's notjust about money, it's about if they will spend half the time in the uk, what are they going to do when they're here, are they still going to fulfil some royal duties? with a behalf in, half out, is ita duties? with a behalf in, half out, is it a soft mexit? enough! as you say, much to be sorted out which a bentley the queen has wanted done in days rather than weeks. let's move

on to the eye and labour in line for the next labour leader. and then there were five. for women, one meant of the search year starmer is the frontrunner at the moment. what you make of the line up for the labour leadership?” you make of the line up for the labour leadership? i think it is definitely interesting because i think there is quite a lot of difference in the way a lot of them are talking about issues that matter to them. i think that lisa 90 for example brings this northern and labour heartland sentiment with her onto the table, keir starmer i would suggest the sort of cosmopolitan figure in very much the remaining camp. jess phillips also somewhere and then you've got the corbynista candidate if you like which i would suggest is rebecca long—bailey, the

continuity corbin candidate how some people have described her. it's interesting to have quite a lot of those different views on the table but i think it is... it will be interesting to see how they then present themselves as what they are bringing which is slightly different to the other people. we can talk a lot about the differences for the outside but i think all of them ultimately are trying to put on a persona where everyone will claim they will bring both sides of the party together be it sort of labour heartlands or cosmopolitan metropolitan slightly newer supporters of labour, remain and leave, all that. it will be interesting to see if the candidates themselves are bold enough to say "this is something different about me for the rest of the candidates and this is how we differentiate myself." and this is how we differentiate myself. " we and this is how we differentiate myself." we should mention emily thornberry squeezed in the last ten minutes sal she squeezed him

because... because clive lewis recognise he was not going to make it. when he pulled out, some of the people who nominated him more than able to nominate emily thornberry andl able to nominate emily thornberry and i took just able to nominate emily thornberry and i tookjust over the life as a buy think she is i training the others at this stage in the campaign at least and maybe she can prove yourself as we go forward. it isn't a bad line certainly if you compare to the last two leadership elections that we've had, these are at least three out of five i would say are first—class candidates who would make very good leaders of the party sought by who are they? keir starmer, lisa nandy, andjust phillips. anyone of those would make a strong leader of the party. —— and jess phillips. is rebecca long—bailey to associated with jeremy corbyn? totally, she is the continuity candidate. and if she becomes a leader of the labour party i fear it would be fatal for the party. i think it would be an absolute disaster. and we thornberry isa

absolute disaster. and we thornberry is a good bit better but not much. —— emily thornberry. my worries about keir starmer is that he has spent the last four years on the front bench and all credit to him trying to bring the party into a present bull position on brek said but he spent so much of its time trying tojuggle the different but he spent so much of its time trying to juggle the different winds of the party and ijust wonder whether he is bold enough to go out there and strike a new direction for there and strike a new direction for the party which i think is absolutely what has to happen. because the labour party has to start talking to the country and not itself and if all the new labour leader is doing is trained to reconcile warring factions within the party and unity within the party is the most important thing rather than reaching out to the country and offering something different, then i think labour stays in the doldrums. i saw his lunch on saturday and actually he had some radical things to say, it will be interesting to see if that's the message that continues over the next few weeks.

keirstarmer continues over the next few weeks. keir starmer understands the electorate he's playing for the moment which is the labour ship —— membership of the labour party, which is wise presenting himself as he is and that seems to be working for him. so maybe if he wins, he is his own man who can break free and we will see the real sir keir starmer stand up. let's turn to the ft and the economy. contracting economy adds to pressure for rate cut. when i read the story it seems one member of the bank of england monetary policy committee is considering recommending a cut in interest rates when the banks committee meets again but further on in the piece it says others aren't. it's a kind of on one hand but then on the other hand. i'm interested to know what are the reasons, why has the economy been contracting? there obviously have been issue around the brexit uncertainty and whether or

not you ask a brexiteer or the remainder, they are site different because the brexiteer might say that if we had taken one way or another, that uncertainty could have been dealt with to an extent anyway. but i wonder if this story is a little bit later in the day in the sense that in the story itself, it is a saying that one of the experts who is quoted here is saying that... the good news is that all these headwinds are showing signs of moderating if not turning into tailwinds as we move into 20/20. so, as we saw with a decisive majority which ever, there will be all sorts of grievances about which way it went from people who did not when of course and people who were supporting the other side. but with some degree of certainty reached, a lot of these uncertainty related economic problems might well be mitigated and we really are standing

ata mitigated and we really are standing at a point where we are starting a new on many things now. what is the approach that the new bank of england governor is going to take once he's been named but i've see he has not been taking office at? what would that mean for the economy? what is happening between china and the us is another thing because these are two huge economies, that will have an impact our performance economically as well. how the eurozone coast with brexit will be another thing that will have an impact ultimately. —— euros on copes with brexit. it's just impact ultimately. —— euros on copes with brexit. it'sjust so impact ultimately. —— euros on copes with brexit. it's just so early on this year with so many things that are suddenly going to change quite substantially for the entire world, not just for substantially for the entire world, notjust for our substantially for the entire world, not just for our country. it will be quite interesting to see where we end up at the end of this year. to your question about why it is happening, some of the detail and this is interesting, almost impossible to strip out the brexit effect, you can't isolate the brexit effect, you can't isolate the brexit effect but there are other reasons it seems that influencing the fact

that manufacturing is struggling. the motor industry within that his dream particularly badly, and it doesn't seem that people are actually making consumer choices and may be away from cars, buying new cars because they're concerned about the climate, purchasing decisions are altering in ways that perhaps the economy is struggling to adjust to. so, ithink the economy is struggling to adjust to. so, i think there's quite a lot of interesting stuff bubbling under in the economy that people have not quite got a grip on on what is all about. they are warning of a risk potentially we could head into recession this year. we have not got much time but i would like to bring in the guardian which does have harry and meghan on its front page but an interesting story lance, record heat in worlds oceans is dire warning on climate crisis and it is pretty dire with this piece is

saying, isn't it? absolutely, and it is looking at... we have seen some he dire warnings about the climate emergency and rightly so and the guardian is taking a strong lead on all of this. they focusing here on temperatures in the oceans which is an easy thing to measure. and it's very significant because the oceans themselves absorb about 90% of the greenhouse gases that have been emitted. so, you can look at the way in which the oceans are heating up and apparently the last five years, the last ten years are the top ten on record for year on year increases in the temperature of the oceans which is having clearly a dramatic effect. 50, it's another serious warning that people need to pay attention to, and it's coming from very respected academics in the united states, so let's hope that's president trump is reading this as

closely as we are. i am told you have ten seconds and i don't think thatis have ten seconds and i don't think that is long enough for us and for you to give your views on the climate crisis for some so, hold those thoughts because that's it for the papers this hour. lance price and dia chakravarty will be back at 2330 for another look at the papers. —— half past 11 indeed when we will have another look at the papers for we'll have the headlines in just a few moments. thank you lance and dia — goodbye for now. good evening to you. storm brendan whiting —— packing quite a punch, westerns, were besought severe gale force winds, 80, 90 monarch gusts. what do some damage and disruption for see why, how deep brendan was

closely set isobars. rain northwards in eastwards slowly clearing away now from east anglia and the south—east. it may take until toward the latter part of the night to eventually clear. watershed was for the north and west, snow over the high ground too. watch out for ice first thing to say, but also northern ireland and into some other parts of northern england as well. storm brendan retreating northwards, looking to the south of the next area of low pressure which will bring wet and windy weather as we move through tuesday. we start off with quite a bit of sunshine around, further showers in the north which could reach the hills, but sunshine in the south macleod thickens, outbreaks of rain and it could be quite heavy at times and turn windy with gales, 40—50 mph gusts into 60 across wales and into the south, may be like that across southwestern parts of england and blustery for the north—west of scotland for some windy wet day for many of us. winter

over the high ground, 10—13 celsius in the south, mild weather because of the wind and rain. that system pushes off into the north, a bit of a hang back across the south—east. wednesday starts off cloudy and went here and eventually that range should clear away. many of us will see sunshine on wednesday, much brighter day, sharpest in the north, wintry on the hills, one or two dotting the western coast of england and wales. you notice the temperature is down on tuesday, 7—9 degrees but at least you have the sunshine to compensate. as we head on into thursday, briefly to a fine weather replaced by yet another area of low pressure. it looks like some western areas will see the strongest of the winds and heaviest of the rain, and stress upright with the sunshine and may stay dry on together across the east and northeastern areas but the rain will become heavy across southern and western areas into the afternoon. temperatures rising a little bit again, io—ii temperatures rising a little bit again, 10—11 degrees, single figure values for the north. that clears

away thursday night, friday into the weekend we see a change, or pressure begins to set in but there will be north northwesterly winds, it will settle down, turned colder and it will be noticeable as you head on into the weekend. that's her latest weather. good night.

this is bbc news. i'm rebecca jones. the headlines at 11pm: the queen issues a statement about harry and meghan's future. she says she'd have preferred them to remain full time members of the royal family, but supports their wish for an independent life. princes charles, william and harry were also at the talks today at sandringham. the queen says the couple made it clear they don't want to be reliant on public funds in their new lives. borisjohnson at stormont, as assembly members return for their first day of work there in three years. and then there were five — the hopefuls who've made it through to the next round of the labour leadership contest. storm brendan sweeps into the uk, battering