hello. it'-‘w.;ur— thunder a this is bbc news. hills. aylan thunder a possibility. -- hail hills. aylan thunder a possibility. —— hailand hills. aylan thunder a possibility. —— hail and thunder. hills. aylan thunder a possibility. —— hailand thunder. it hills. aylan thunder a possibility. —— hail and thunder. it will feel chillier than it did during the day we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — on thursday. the wind is not as first the headlines. strong but blustery never showers. then it is all change for the we are at a time and world leaders weekend. it will become much more settled because we are changing the low pressure which has been in need to make life or death decisions charge of the low pressure for high on climate change now. a warning pressure. the low pressure will get from sir david attenborough. the moment of crisis has come. we can no steered towards the south and longer prevaricate. as i speak, towards the north and an intense south—east australia is on fire. donald] south—east australia is on fire. donald j trump has south—east australia is on fire. donald] trump has abused the powers area of pressure will keep those weather fronts at bay for four or of the presidency. donald trump 's five days. it means we pick up cold nights. saturday starts on a frosty impeachment trial gets under way in note from the north. the north has a the senate. the president denounces it as the senate. the president denounces itasa the senate. the president denounces chilly risk north wind and a few it as a hoax. what went wrong for labour at the last election? one of showers. the exception to that dry rule, plenty of wintry sunshine the leadership candidates says they around. temperatures are struggling need to look back a lot further to to average after that frosty start, find the answers. one in five deaths but obviously the sunshine and around the world are due to the lighter winds will compensate. as we life—threatening condition sepsis. a go through saturday night into sunday, a widespread trust velits under the starry skies. you are new study looks into this.

showers, lighter winds more generally as we go into sunday. a frosty start. in rural areas quite a harsh frost. then we will see some hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. sunshine coming through. a south—westerly wind bringing more with me are sam lister, deputy political editor at the daily express cloud in the far north and west. by and large spells of sunshine. and the economist and member of labour's policy forum, grace blakeley. temperatures around about average for the time of year. sunday night many of tomorrow's front becomes colder as we sit under this pages are already in. area of high pressure. while we are under that we pick up a south—westerly and weak weather the mirrors frontpage claims that fronts. they introduced more prince harry is clashing with the moisture. the likelihood is with the length of high pressure we will start to cup some problems. lots of palace over money and his plans to step down. tomorrow, the financial settled weather but we could have mist and fog problems for the times leads morning rush hours. we will get a little bit of rain on that weather fronts into the north and west of —— tomorrow's financial times leads on uk financial regulators stepping scotland. but not significant rain up warnings to big banks for most of us. it might lift to sever their links with libor temperatures a bit. a mistake cold ahead of the 2021 deadline. tomorrow's metro reports on a plea and frosty start with patchy fog and from psychologists to force social

media giants to pay millions similar weather. it will just start of pounds more in tax to tackle as we push those weather fronts mental health harm allegedly caused by their sites. around our area of high pressure to the guardian has a story about the grenfell tower inquiry introduce more cloud as well. and concerns of bereaved relatives cloudier skies by day and night, over the role of one of its members. the daily express has an appeal temperatures won't fall quite so low. that high pressure maintains from a mother to the nhs to grant her son a wonder the dry spell. the jet stream is pill to save his life. well to the north through next week. the sun leads on the great british bake off‘s presenter sandi toksvig's decision however, it looks set to slip to quit the programme. and the times says the prime southwards. as it does that high minister's plan to raise money pressure will decline further south. for big ben to chime the uncertainty how quickly and how on brexit day has backfired. far south that high pressure will slip. at this stage it looks like a let's kick off with the daily mirror large part of notjust this weekend but next week will be influenced by high pressure and dry weather with and this is harry and palace clash over money deals. this is their attempt by the palace to come up our frost and fog issues, but later in the period we may see more wind with a plan within days the queen and rain returning on low pressure. asked for but it suggests here as so please stay tuned. 00:02:49,871 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 jon sopel, bbc news, washington. many would have expected it will ta ke many would have expected it will take months. it looks like now what they thought perhaps would happen overnight will take a little longer and there will be some issues. they we re and there will be some issues. they were going to attempt to become financially independent so how they

do that, presumably they will need ongoing security detail of some kind which will take up a lot of resources and obviously there is still uncertainty about the relationship they will have with the royal family. the relationship they will have with the royalfamily. the paper relationship they will have with the royal family. the paper suggests that their future plans have stalled in their ability to strike big money deals. this is one of the most highly sought after couples in the entire world so that is surprising. the problem is how you present, how you keep the straight and narrow side of this going. if you are an ex— memberof side of this going. if you are an ex— member of the royalfamily, that is the problem, you can never actually quit. you are always tied to the palace. so how do you square that circle are trying to work above board and everything is clean and nothing dodgy. but also make your owi'i nothing dodgy. but also make your own money? it is a difficult problem. this is day eight of megxit

and it is likely to go on. you do feel for the queen, 93 years old and having to deal with another crisis within her monarchy. also today he was at the palace presenting over a sporting event and there was a certain amount of sadness, you felt, that this could be his last official engagement as a senior royal. one wonders, for him, how he is feeling in all this. he is separated from his wife and son at the moment, where will he go next, literally and metaphorically? you don't have to be massively supportive of the monarchy to sympathise with these people as individuals because, like you said, they are going through a difficult time in the spotlight after what looks like several difficult years for harry and meghan. obviously they have a young child as well and that

makes the situation that much more difficult. so it will be painfulfor everyone. but if they want to do this and that it should be there right and prerogative. and they need to be treated with this sort of respect that they deserve. should they give up their h rh titles? respect that they deserve. should they give up their h rh titles7m would make lives easier. how do you avoid looking like you are cashing in on royal status? it can't be surprised that it will be taking this long but this willjust dominate, it has dominated the papers for eight days and will dominate the papers for six months until it is resolved. one wonders if it will die down if he heads off to canada now that he has performed the suppose that last event. there will always be briefing about negotiations and the problems. it is the new brexit. let's move on to the

independent. the picture here, the trial of a president begins. this is as the 100 lawmakers of the us. senate are sworn in to begin the impeachment trial. a massive day. one wonders if people gets the sense of it because it has been bubbling away for weeks, and they months. the import of it. is that coming across? a lot of political capital in coverage has been devoted to talking about this. i think, obviously, coverage has been devoted to talking about this. ithink, obviously, this is not happened very many times. but i think too many people this must seem at odds with the experience of their lives and the experience of local politics, particularly with donald trump, his whole appeal is trying to reengage ordinary working americans outside of the swamp that is washington. i think this really

re— is washington. i think this really re — ce ntres is washington. i think this really re— centres on all the pomp and circumstance of those institutions. whether or not it will pay for democrats i think is an open question. i think it is a foregone conclusion that it will not be successful. that the numbers will prevent him from being found guilty because there are a majority of republican senators. he will not be found guilty so it is all about how this plays out in the next few months ahead of the general election. the presidential election, sorry. donald trump has been his usual robust cell. he was straight out today calling it a phony hoax, a democrat stunt to try and gain some momentum in the presidential race. the problem for him is that this properly kicks off next week and every day there will be just more drip, drip, drip and that will be embarrassing for him and it will probably continue well into

february. there is no end date set. it will potentially go on for weeks so it will potentially go on for weeks sojust it will potentially go on for weeks so just have it will potentially go on for weeks sojust have a drip of information every day. but ultimately he will not be found guilty because he will not be found guilty because he will not be found guilty because he will not be removed from office. it comes to zero. it isjust the accumulation every day. what really is at question is the number of floating voters. will it impact people enough to swing this election either way with what comes out over the next few weeks. donald trump has a way of betting scandal as it is absolutely nothing. in some cases they even play to his advantage because... he calls it a witch hunt and he calls them liars and people who drain the swamp, the phrase we have heard for yea rs swamp, the phrase we have heard for years now, it is all about the establishment after the normal guy. and this is, in many ways, chickens coming home to roost. it seems very remote for most people lives. so when people look at this going on in

washington i think many of the time they think these people doing? i do not have a job, i literally do not have healthcare. but whenever anything has been televised over the last few weeks eyeballs are on it, people do watch and pay attention. there are many people who are very interested in this stuff. we saw the same thing over brexit here, a number of people who were very involved on either side. but many people as well who just wanted to get it over. i wonder if there are that many floating voters. because he is so divisive you are either for or against he is so divisive you are either for oragainst him. he is so divisive you are either for or against him. there are not many people who do not have a view on trump. i'm not really sure that there are that many people to win over. this evening he tweeted he got impeached for making a perfect phone call. all in capitals, a sheltered tweet. and we will have full coverage here on the bbc. let's talk now about a story in city am. the boss of rya nair who now about a story in city am. the boss of ryanair who was furious over

this deal that fly. be boss of ryanair who was furious over this deal that fly.be have struck over passenger duty. fly.be were in danger of going under and the government has helped them out with passenger tax. fly.be has been having trouble for quite a while and they were bought by virgin atlantic a year ago. and problems have not gone away. they were particularly hit by the falling value of the pound because a lot of their values we re pound because a lot of their values were in dollars and they have a lot of debt along with many other companies, having insolvency problems. many have taken out a lot of debt at low interest rates and that seems to have been a problem for fly. be as well. that seems to have been a problem for fly.be as well. it now looks like, unusually, especially fora conservative government, that a deal has been struck where the government will allow them to defer payment of passenger duty, a tax levied on flights, on passenger flights passenger duty, a tax levied on flights, on passengerflights for short and long haulflights. and

also a loan. and the competitors are saying that if they do not have to pay that tax, where do we have to pay that tax, where do we have to pay it? that is fair enough, isn't it? kind of is. this is a very bizarre decision, i think. it has clear political implications. the desire is to say that i am not like old conservative governments and i will predictjobs. that is his pitch to some of those seeds he won in the most to some of those seeds he won in the m ost rece nt to some of those seeds he won in the most recent election. but a relatively small company. it will ta ke relatively small company. it will take upa relatively small company. it will take up a lot of headlines and really annoying many other businesses in the aviation industry and it will not be very good for the green agenda that the tories claim to be promoting at the moment. so it may come back to haunt him somewhat. legal action is being threatened against the government. legal action is being threatened against the governmentlj legal action is being threatened against the government. i have been talking to various people in westminster about this. it is interesting about how it has been

pitched to me by people involved in it. they did not see this as a bailout, as such, they see this as certain investors in the company having jitters. so what they have doneis having jitters. so what they have done is kind of move things around to reassure the investors so it is a viable company, rather than bailing out a company that is absolutely never going to survive. and, actually, it has been quite interesting because it is the department of transport who has been involved and the business department. uncertain people in westminster are saying that actually the department for transport were a little slow off the blocks, they just expected it to go, but business we re really just expected it to go, but business were really keen to make sure didn't happen. the carbon emissions point is one that environmentalists will make and you can see why that is the case, but this is a small airline that actually links... they cater to areas that other airlines don't. they are servicing the public.

areas that other airlines don't. they are servicing the publicm you are in northern ireland and you need to go to london for business, well, you know, you don't have many options, without having to take the ferry and the train down and spent two days travelling. crosstalk. ina two days travelling. crosstalk. in a tweet they said what has been described as a tax holiday to flybe is available to other businesses who run into trouble. we move on to wegener‘s. according to the i, 40% of meat eaters have cut back. we have been talking a lot about the environment today and david attenborough, telling us to cut back. it is the meat we eat, the intensive army, but it seems more of us are intensive army, but it seems more of us are cutting back. 4096 seems very high. cutting back, obviously not going fully vegan. people being conscious of this. it has a lot to do with the environment, part of it

is health, doing something clean in january has or has been a bit of a trend. but i think, you know, especially younger people, i know a lot of my friends are doing this, they tend to be health—conscious ones, the ones doing marathons and making me feel ashamed. all the talk is about the environment and what to do about it, because itjust feels, i think, to a lot of young people like nothing is being done so we have got to try to do something. this is how we can affect some kind of change within our own diets. let's move onto the guardian. we don't much information on the story, and interviewing g2 with the actress cathy bates. there is a quote here. we will have to extrapolate what we can. "very few beautiful actors are working after 40". we have heard that before from actresses. one wonders why she is reiterating that point. i suppose it has been a long—running issue although i am sure some of our finest actors, such as helen mirren, helena bonham

carter, would dispute this. actually, i suppose, carter, would dispute this. actually, isuppose, i guess carter, would dispute this. actually, i suppose, i guess the point you're trying to make is that actually it is easy to —— easy to get work as a character actor rather than be the beautiful lead. whereas for menu can be the handsome leader well into your 60s —— where as for men you can. women do say more in the acting profession that is slowly a shift, change, things are improving. we have an ageing society, right? there are going to continue to be more and more people who are over the age of 60, that is a market stop and they are better off. so catering to that, having the women seeing people like them on tv is going to be more important. women seeing people like them on tv is going to be more importantlj women seeing people like them on tv is going to be more important. i am sure we will get more detail on that with the full paper. the shock news of the evening. sandy toxid, the host of bake off, is stepping down. iam host of bake off, is stepping down. i am really disappointed to see sandigo. i was hoping for behind—the—scenes gossip. apparently

there have been tensions on set for a long time. she has been desperate to leave for ages. i hope that's not true stop obviously she did not say that. she just said she wants to move on to other things. the point of bake off is it is a very happy family, everybody altogether and looks after each other. and it is sad to think that actually that isn't the case. but fantastic kudos to the sun for this. they had to make a cake reference in there.l classic headline. noel fielding says i feel like tom withoutjerry, i will miss you and the wonderful times we got to play together in the tent. working with you was a pleasure, all my love. so it doesn't feel like there is any tension between those two. but bake off survive the transition from bbc to channel 4. so they will soldier on.

they will find somebody new and we will move on. but she is a fantastic comedic presence on the show and obviously does really give the co ntesta nts obviously does really give the contestants some love and care. do you think she is irreplaceable? no—one is irreplaceable on tv. that is the problem. except ourselves, of course. the question now is you don't know how much notice she has given the team, whether they have been on the hunt for a while, who they are looking for, and whether there are people queueing up now. and they were quite a genius pairing. it was quite inspired. and it defines something like...m pairing. it was quite inspired. and it defines something like... it is the chemistry that makes the difference. whether or not it is a success or not. we will see. sandi toksvig is off, but i'm sure the bake off will continue. lovely to see you both. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers —

and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, sam lister and grace blakeley. goodbye. hello. i'm sarah mulkerrins at the bbc sport centre. saracens are facing relegation from the premiership if they are found to have breached the salary cap again. the defending champions received a 35—point deduction and a £5.3 million fine in november, having broken the cap for the past three seasons. however, there is widespread belief they will once more struggle to get under the £7 million limit this season. here's our rugby union correspondent chris jones. the full extent of saracen breaches over the past few seasons is

starting to emerge, because more and more directors and chief executives are seeing this confidential or, 103 or 104 page report that is locked away in premiership rugby headquarters and it details the fact that the breach, last season especially, is quite significant. and if saracens were suddenly to get rid of five players now, they would have to pay those players compensation and that would count towards the salary cap. so it's easier said than done. ed griffiths, the chief executive, has come out and said they might have to trim the squad. but as of the time of speaking no players have yet left saracens and it has been seven months of this salary season so far. so there are loads and loads of questions. but i think what is clear is there is a determination from the rest of the league not to let saracens stay up in the premiership if they are continuing to bridge the salary cap and, in the process, relegate a side who is playing by the rules —— breach. it was slow going for england on day

one of the third test against south africa. they closed on 224 for four in port elizabeth. our cricket correspondent jonathan agnew was watching. it was an intriguing opening day, i'm a say, and you would take england's position rather than south africa. if england can get to 350 and possibly beyond on the second day they should put them on a strong position on a pitch that is deteriorating really quite quickly. we have seen the ball spin. there we re we have seen the ball spin. there were 30 on the trott. i was impressed with the two openers, they put on 70 together. the first time in england opening to have batted through to lunch on the opening day ofa through to lunch on the opening day of a test match for nine years. it is believe, really, it is extraordinary. they got out. joe root illustrated how difficult this pitch is. that is very little place in it. it will be challenging for england's bowlers tomorrow. i loved the way ollie poked batted, he came out and played lovely shots. breezy under the circumstances. i think 350, donald betts, we will seejoe

donnelly bowling as well, but england will be happy with that position i think. andy murray's comeback from injury has been further delayed and he now won't be returning from injury as scheduled next month. murray says the bruise on his pelvic bone — which first became an issue during november's davis cup finals, and forced him out of the australian open — is taking longer to heal than first thought. manchester united have agreed a deal with inter milan to sell ashley young after eight and a half years at old trafford. the fee for the former england international is around £1.3 million, and includes add—ons should inter win serie this season. he'll have a medical in milan tomorrow. hull kr coach tony smith has confirmed that forward mossy masoy‘s serious spinal injury is "career—ending", he had to undergo emergency surgery after suffering the injury in a preseason game against wakefield on sunday, with smith saying today it'd be a success if the 30—year—old is able to walk again.

team ineos boss sir dave bra ilsford says chris froome is "craving" a fifth tour de france title as he continues his comeback from serious injury. froome suffered multiple broken bones following a crash on a training ride last year but is now back in training. brailsford has also confirmed 2018 winner geraint thomas and defending champion egan bernal will both ride in this year's tour. that's all the sport for now. hello there. after all the rough weather the wet and windy weather we have had to contend with this week, you will probably be pleased to hear things are about to come down. but not just yet. the things are about to come down. but notjust yet. the earlier satellite picture shows this stripe of cloud which has been bringing outbreaks of rain, shower clouds following behind, you may see this book here. pretty brisk winds are still affecting the far north and north—west of scotland. starting friday morning with temperatures generally between four and nine degrees. as we go through the day we will see quite a few showers, some hefty ones across parts of england

and wales. these will contain some hailand and wales. these will contain some hail and thunder at times. in this band of showers pushing out across scotla nd band of showers pushing out across scotland and northern ireland. no mixing in here across the hills, say above 300 metres in scotland. mosher was putting in to the far north—west late in the day. some sunny spells in between. the starting to turn colder from the north—west. in between. the starting to turn colderfrom the north—west. as in between. the starting to turn colder from the north—west. as stays quite windy in the north of scotland. it stays quite windy friday night into the early hours of saturday. we will see some further showers, wintry to fairly low levels at this stage. further south it is dry, there are clear spells, and it will be a cold night with temperatures widely close to freezing, dropping below freezing in a few places. that leaves us into our smell of, weather. drier and brighter weather for the weekend, it will be overnight frost. but look at the prezza chart. areas of low pressure that have been dominant get muscled out of the way by this big area of high pressure, this is strong, powerful area of high pressure which is really going to settle things down through the weekend. it means a lot of dry weather out there was some sunshine

after that cold start on saturday. still some showers blowing in across scotland. it stays fairly windy during the day. doctor temperatures on saturday, down on where they have been, six ninths degrees, bear in mind there will be more sunshine, it won't be as many foremost. it might feel a little more pleasant. saturday night into sunday it will be another cold one, starting off with a frost on sunday morning. again those temperatures at freezing below. some spots in the countryside likely to be at —3 or —4. after the vehicle started as looking like a fine day with long spells of sunshine, perhaps a bit more cloud into the north—west of scotland, some rain may be for the northern isles. still quite breezy. temperatures are six ninths degrees generally. it will be a chilly night for many, particularly in the south on sunday night, and there a greater chance of fog take us into monday morning.

welcome to newsday. the headlines: a moment in history. as donald trump's impeachment trial gets under way in the senate, the president denounces it as a hoax. it's a hoax, it's a hoax. everybody knows that. it's a complete hoax. the world has reached the point of climate change crisis — a stark warning from one of the world's most influential environmentalists. the moment of crisis has come. we can no longer prevaricate. as i speak, south—east australia is on fire.