a future was in the on saturday. a future was in the north and west. some lingering cloud in the south—east first thing. the winds will strengthen through the day with heavy and persistent rain moving into the north—west and gales here. later, the train pushes its way south—east overnight. strong winds will become widespread and into the early hours we will see the arrival of storm kira stop so storm kira is going to bring some severe gales widely across the united kingdom, coupled with heavy and persistent rain and the potential for big waves for coastal areas. here is how it looks on sunday. heavy and persistent rain gradually shifting south through the day. following behind the torrential rain, some showers in the north and west, and there will be severe gales, widely we're looking at gusts of around 60—70 miles hour inland, but locally we could see gusts reaching around 80 miles an hour, especially for exposed coastlines and hills. there are various met office weather warnings in place over the next few days. this one is for winds on sunday. we have also

issued an amber weather wanted for strong winds on the sunday for the south—east of england. as we move into next week, storm kira clears towards the east, but it doesn't look like we are out of the woods just yet. you can see that we hold onto many isoba rs just yet. you can see that we hold onto many isobars on the map. it will still be very windy, especially on monday, and it is a cool wind direction. we are family in a cold air mass, that blues family across them up. taking a look at monday, we are looking up sunny spells and showers. those showers are falling snow over the high ground in the north, even to lower levels for parts of scotland. we could see some issue with drifting snow over the high ground in the north, also blizzard conditions when you couple the snow with strong winds and feeling noticeably colder. as we move into tuesday, not a great deal of change, really. you can see that we hold onto some windy conditions and we will continue to see that flow of showers packing in,

especially in the north and west. we could see some quite large accumulations of snow over the hills in the north, and again on tuesday, it looks like it will be a fairly cool day, particularly once you add in that winter. temperatures sitting in the mid to high single figures. moving into wednesday, mid week, it looks like there will be some sunny spells around, but still the potential for a few showers. the potential for a few showers. the potential is fairly similar to the start of the week and then towards the second half of the week we are not going to see a great deal of change. we will continue to see areas of low pressure feeding and off the atlantic ocean, which means we will see spells of wet and windy weather to come. so some stormy weather to come. so some stormy weather is on the way this weekend. certainly worth staying across your local forecast.

hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines: british tourist alan steele, who was on his honeymoon, is one of 61 people now being treated for coronoavirus aboard a quarintined cruiseliner in japan. a gp who committed 90 sexual assaults on female patients has been given three life sentences, with a minimum term of 15 years. calls for more support for children who experience or witness domestic violence or abuse. philip schofield, one of britain's most famous tv presenters, has come out as gay.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the women's editor at the telegraph, claire cohen, and comment and features editor at city am, rachel cunliffe. thank you for both coming back for the second edition of the papers. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. like many of them, the sun's cover features phillip schofield coming out as gay. the mirror's got the reaction of the this morning presenter‘s mum. the guardian reports on a possible link "ivm "i'm shocked but proud, she says". the guardian reports on a possible link between benefit claim problems and suicides. the independent has more fallout over the uk's decision to let huawei use our 56 networks. the telegraph leads on comments from the business secretary andrea leadsom over a cabinet reshuffe.

the daily mail's front page features news that the duke and duchess of sussex attended a jp morgan event in miami. the express says britons are optimistic about the country's future after brexit. and the times claims that number 10 is concerned the boss of nhs england has too much power. those are a flavour of the front pages but let's start with the lead story of today, we'll go with the front of the sun and philip schofield. rachel? there's one word gci’oss schofield. rachel? there's one word across all the papers that have covered this, and the same on social media, and it is" proud", taking pride in him coming out about his sexuality, his identity and the outpouring of support, his collea g u es outpouring of support, his colleagues and the public about this. it is a big deal. when we talk about this, we've got to remember

it's not just stigma about this, we've got to remember it's notjust stigma he is fighting that has historically been there about people... lg bt that has historically been there about people... lgbt people, it's also the stigma of feeling he had to hide it for that long. it's one thing to come out in your teens or your 20s and another to come out when you've lived a whole life hiding. that's why the outpouring of support is so important because it is validating and justifying what he's been through and what he's now doing. such an important day for him. he's been called brave and he is brave. anything you are scared of doing and you make yourself do it anyway, whatever that takes, is incredibly brave, and whether your a celebrity, whether you have the support of your family or colleagues, it is still a huge leap of faith and so he is to be applauded for coming out and being himself. on the front of the mirror he acknowledges the impact on his wife, they were married for 27 years and they've got two grown—up

daughters, and he says he is so sorry to her. we haven't heard anything from her yet. i've heard from a numberof anything from her yet. i've heard from a number of women today in my role as women's editor who have had very conflicted views on this... what have they been saying? very conflicted views on this... what have they been saying ?i very conflicted views on this... what have they been saying? a lot of them, and there is no suggestion this is the case with phillip schofield and his wife at all, but a lot have pointed out where their husbands were being praised for being heroic for coming out, they just felt like their entire marriages had been a lie and they didn't know what was real anymore and what had been real for some for three decades of marriage, which is incredibly sad to hear. one woman said she felt she would never get over it, which is really awful. but equally a lot of them were talking about animosity at the moment of their husband's revealing this about themselves and from what philip schofield is saying, his wife has been incredibly supportive. he was tearing up when he was talking about it on this morning, and his grown—up

daughters who said they gave him a hug when he sat them down and told them. he's clearly got an incredible support network. in terms of the coverage on the tabloids, it's really interesting, rachel is talking about this overwhelmingly positive language around being proud and brave and it has been so different for tv personalities in the past. you only have to go back a couple of decades and look at the coverage couple of decades and look at the cove rage of couple of decades and look at the coverage of people like michael barrymore, while his fans really did acce pt barrymore, while his fans really did accept it, and a lot when that first by it, the tabloids were. we've come oi'i by it, the tabloids were. we've come ona by it, the tabloids were. we've come on a huge amount in the last few decades on that front, even though it is still front—page news. decades on that front, even though it is still front-page news. rachel, what is the biggest and hardest thing about coming out? is it a personal thing? is it that you worry so personal thing? is it that you worry so much about the people around you? we look at the front page of the sun and we're hearing about the family and we're hearing about the family and the fallout. you wonder what ways the heaviest on somebody who is

saying, "i want to be true to myself here". there's lots of young people u nfortu nately here". there's lots of young people unfortunately in situations where they risk rejection and even being kicked out of their houses and there are lgbt charities there to support them, and we know not everyone will be met with support. even if you know your family will love and accept you, the fact is our image of what a normal family life accept you, the fact is our image of what a normalfamily life is has been so set up to look a certain way for so long. you gotta remember he's married for 27 years. 27 years ago the idea a same—sex couple could be married and have a family and a normal life wasn't depicted anywhere. the worry, even if you know you will be loved and accepted, is, "will i be able to have a normal life and the kind of relationships and experiences that everyone else has? " examples like this show you absolutely can. let's turn to the front page of the ft. talking of

marriages and families, there is a photo concerning the coronavirus, but not what you would expect. marriages... literally. a mass wedding in south korea, which still happens, which i find terrifying, but a mass wedding and they are all wearing facemasks to protect themselves from the coronavirus spread. it is striking, the juxtaposition of two things, wedding dresses and medical facemasks that you wouldn't expect to, it is like from a horror film! it is a very visual way of representing how much this has spread to everyday lives and how much the panic of it also is having an impact. i'm surprised it is south korea rather than china but i'm surprised these couples are in this crowded space given there are reports in china that people aren't going outside, there are delivery vans throwing goods and deliveries into houses and gardens because they are worried about being on the

streets and traffic congestion has disappeared because people are scared. we are seeing the impact. it's now been five or six weeks... there are so many unknowns with this virus and that is one of the biggest problems. it is. the latest number of cases is just over 31,000 we think, we have to take that on trust. there is obviously travel bans in place and there is talk of us bans in place and there is talk of us implementing a full travel ban in the coming week. huge divisions over whether that's the right thing to do. some medics say it will give us time to come up with a vaccine, others think it's a real overreaction and something that will enforce more stigma around people who've been travelling there. a huge number of unknowns. deaths in hue both province have gone up by 81 and cases at nearly 30,000. what is she saying? andrea leadsom is writing

for the telegraph joyously, positive news story on the back of the campaign we launched in 2018 to help female entrepreneurs in britain. she is ostensibly addressing the good news that the ftse 100 is ostensibly addressing the good news that the ftse100 has achieved its targets on a third of women on boards ahead of time, so that's a really positive story. of course, that's not all she is hinting at in this story because she's used it to talk about the drawbacks of male dominated workplaces. and to suggest we need to keep up the good progress in having women in positive roles and to remove the glass ceiling altogether and could she just be talking about the reshuffle coming in the next few days, on thursday or friday? and rumours she and five other women are at risk of losing their positions. she's talking about this incredibly positive new story for british business but sending a message to the prime minister that perhaps he doesn't want to look like a dinosaur by getting rid of five or six women from his cabinet. rachel,

is he going to listen? not to andrea leadsom, but he's aware of optics. the noises i've been hearing, obviously they are just rumours, while a lot of women will be fired from cabinet, more are going to be promoted. if you look at some of the names, though, there are people like esther mcvey and liz truss who are, kind of, big hitters on the tory campaign and they are the kind of people who maybe aren't doing the most spectacularjob, you can argue with the policies, but there's so many mediocre men in the cabinet, the bar... you have grant shapps in the bar... you have grant shapps in the cabinet, who was part of the tory youth scandal a few years ago, jacob rees—mogg who made the comments about grenfell jacob rees—mogg who made the comments about gre nfell tower at jacob rees—mogg who made the comments about grenfell tower at the beginning of the election campaign. i feel we get full gender equality when women are allowed to be as mediocre in the workplace as men.

the only woman who is saved in the cabinet is priti patel as home secretary, who shouldn't be there, but i will stop. shall we move on? if we get started on priti patel we will never stop! we will stop there but let's turn to the times. the tories ran their campaign on protecting the nhs and saving the nhs, and now they've realised they actually have to do that. this is a shake up clearly coming from dominic cummings, he wants to change the law to allow the government to interfere more with the health service because he feels it is health service bosses particularly, simon stephens, who is holding back reform. he may be right that a shakeup is necessary. what they're not talking about and what they're not talking about and what they should be talking about is they ask the nhs to do more than we ever done, people are living longer,

wonderful, but they are living longer with more long—term health conditions, which are very expensive, and this is not what the nhs was designed to do and until any government can have an honest conversation with the public about what we want our health service to be and what we are prepared to pay for it, this managerial shuffling of pieces around the board isn't going to fix anything. you mentioned dominic cummings, we were saying earlier the interesting line in the third paragraph is he believes present law gives simon stevens excessive freedom, making it hard for downing street to impose its will, which is slightly ominous, isn't it? the government had now has monthly meetings with him and is demanding tangible reductions in waiting times. this whitehall intervention and micromanaging isn't going to boost... from the bottom of the global cancer survival leagues that we were revealed to be this week and reduce the waiting times... the nhs needs money, doesn't it? that is part of the solution and

pitting staff against each other and bosses against one anotherjust seems like a waste of time. 0k. ok. let's turn to the scottish daily mail. snp mps panic over mackay fallout. i am surprised this is not oi'i fallout. i am surprised this is not on my front pages. “ more —— more marked front pages. hours before giving the budget the finance minister had to resign because he sent messages to a 16—year—old boy. how many messages? 270. the story here is, what did nicola sturgeon know and what was party discipline like? there is context here, nicola sturgeon is already in trouble because in a few weeks we have the beginning of alex salmond's trial for sexual offences. he is charged with a for sexual offences. he is charged witha numberof for sexual offences. he is charged with a number of things on one of them is attempted rape. there are going to be real questions about what she knew about that and how much she and the party machinery cove red much she and the party machinery covered up for him. i think the questions here are, did people know,

and was he allowed to get away with it because he was seen as a rising star? i think this is really damaging. she is being accused in the story of failure of leadership because she allowed him to step down rather than sucking him on wednesday evening, and as far as we are aware, thatis evening, and as far as we are aware, that is when she first became aware of the allegations. —— sacking him. in the first paragraph there allegations his drinking and wild party and were widely known about. he turned up on over to a party conference, et cetera. questions about his conduct stretching much further back wednesday evening. just a reminder, of course, nicola sturgeon has said that she knew nothing about what was going on until the eve of mackay saying, and handing in, his resignation, admitting to what had taken place. let's turn to the independent. the huawei decision, coming from america. they say it puts the us trade deal at risk. we had been

talking about this. well, if we thought we had got away with it, with upsetting trump without repercussions, we didn't. the word used to describe his reaction was" apoplectic". this is about the government's decision to allow highway to build some non—core parts of our 5g network. the us secretary of our 5g network. the us secretary of state at the time, said to be very careful doing this, because it might damage the special relationship. they know the uk is desperate for a us trade deal but there are a number of issues that could eventually derail a us trade deal. one of them is the access of us pharmaceutical firms to the nhs. the other one is feed standards pertaining to chicken. that by going to bea pertaining to chicken. that by going to be a number of issues. the americans don't need to put on the pressure here. it is done now, and it isn't going to change. they have sort of already fired a warning shot when they were lobbying us to come out of their way, thinking, the special relationship could be damaged, intelligence sharing could be damaged. now we are onto the

trade deal, and hopefully it is just sort of fighting talk. obviously boris johnson's brexit sort of fighting talk. obviously borisjohnson‘s brexit plan relies rather heavily on our ambitious free trade deal with the us. do you think we're going to get one? i don't think we're going to get one. we have until december. no, with the us. i think the issues are too big. take one way out of it and i think the american agricultural lobby is huge and will push very hard for their products to be allowed here under the government has said it is going to stand very firm on health standards, and i think they will be a huge amount of backlash if it doesn't. so i don't see it happening. but i have also been wrong about every prediction i have ever made, ever. so maybe it will happen. sure, ok. we will end with the daily mail. the paper says it is one of the first private appearances. you might work out what they are doing, talking to a bank. they are in miami, they have been in

miami ata they are in miami, they have been in miami at ajpmorgan they are in miami, they have been in miami at a jpmorgan conference. that much we know. i suspect this will be the first of many such headlines we see in the coming weeks and months, during the private engagements now but they have stepped away from royal duties. in fact, we were discussing just before, notably, there is no photograph on this front page, which means that it truly was a private appearance. will we ever see any photographs of them in these situations ever again? who knows. we don't know what they got paid, if they got paid at all. so it is all very hush—hush. back on the world stage, ina very hush—hush. back on the world stage, in a dramatically different way. this is the first setting out of that future agenda, i suppose. way. this is the first setting out of that future agenda, i supposem harry and meghan do an event and they don't get photographed, didn't happen? philosophical question. laughter. it was a star—studded audience, wasn't it? just reading who was attending. were you there? no! but obviously there is no

comment that has come from jpmorgan, the spokesperson for the duke and duchess of sussex declined to comment on what they called a private schedule. so, like you said, it isa private schedule. so, like you said, it is a sign of things to come. private schedule. so, like you said, it is a sign of things to comem is real and back control, isn't it? that is what it is about. it is a show of defiance. we will control the picture that comes out on what you can know and what you can't know. we will see how that goes. we are still talking about it. we are still talking about it! still on the front page of the daily mail. thank you very much to rachel and cloud. —— claire. 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. many thanks to claire and rachel forjoining me and thanks so much for watching. see you again soon. goodnight.

good evening. i have your latest sports news. it is a big weekend in the six nations championship. scotla nd the six nations championship. scotland hosting murrayfield in the calcutta cup. both sides lost their matches last weekend. england were beaten by france and scotland lost to ireland. that was partly because ofa to ireland. that was partly because of a dreadful mistake by stuart hod on his debut as captain, he dropped the ball as he was about to touch down for a try. it meant ireland one 19-12. had down for a try. it meant ireland one 19—12. had he touched down and they had converted, they would have drawn level. despite that mistakes, though, he has been speaking positively about the england much and feel scotland can get it right tomorrow. —— match. and feel scotland can get it right tomorrow. -- match. there is a cup tomorrow. -- match. there is a cup to play for and that is all we are concentrating on. we have had a good week. i'm excited to get going tomorrow afternoon. it is a huge occasion for us. some boys are

playing in this game for the first time. they have shown over the last couple of years but they are more than capable of winning. now we are ready. i truly believe that if we nail our detail and attack and defence we can turn over england and i'm very much looking forward to the opportunity. another huge match with wales travelling to dublin to face ireland. wales began their defence of the six nations title with a co mforta ble of the six nations title with a comfortable 42 points to nil win over italy in their first match. but they have not beaten the irish in dublin in this competition for eight yea rs. dublin in this competition for eight years. coach when people access to my‘s game is the biggest test of his coaching career. —— wayne pivac. my‘s game is the biggest test of his coaching career. —— wayne pivacm has been a massive step up. we were fortu nate has been a massive step up. we were fortunate in that we had that barbarians game to iron some things out and then we got into a competition match against italy, and 110w competition match against italy, and now we go up competition match against italy, and now we go up against a much sterner challenge in their backyard. so i think it has built nicely and this will be the real test, so far, to

see where we are at and how much work we got to do to be able to play the game under pressure but we want to be able to play. staying with by to be able to play. staying with rugby union, saracens have escaped being kicked out of the champions cup forfielding being kicked out of the champions cup for fielding an being kicked out of the champions cup forfielding an ineligible player. instead, theyjust received a fine. player. instead, theyjust received afine. on player. instead, theyjust received a fine. on the pitch, they are out of the premiership rugby cup after losing 28—7 to sale sharks in the semi—final. sale scored three quickfire tries in the first time to do the damage. they will play ha rlequins do the damage. they will play harlequins in the final next month. in super league, whole fc won the derby after beating hull kingston rovers 25—16. derby after beating hull kingston rovers 25-16. -- hull fc. derby after beating hull kingston rovers 25-16. -- hull pc. a gallant effort by rovers, but the home side had too much indian, danny halton marking his 350th appearance with a try, and it was also his 29th successive derby. great britain's women have it all to do if they want to qualify for the new fed cup finals in april. they are 2—0 down into five match tie against slovakia in bratislava. harriet star lost to

viktoria kuzmova stop she took the first set on a tie—break, but viktoria kuzmova won the next two data saving five match points. eventually she was beaten in three sets. earlier, heatherwatson lost the first match. she was beaten in straight sets by world number 199 and a catalina. withoutjohanna konta and katie boulter, they face a real battle heading into tomorrow's doubles and reverse singles robbers. bristol city have missed the chance to go third in the championship after losing 3—1 to birmingham city. bristol took the lead afterjust after losing 3—1 to birmingham city. bristol took the lead after just a0 seconds but be a wayside recovered the goals from scott hogan and an own goalfrom the goals from scott hogan and an own goal from andreas hyman and than this, from lucas look a bit in injury time. bristol city had won their previous four league matches without conceding a goal. england's second one day testing in south

africa was abandoned because of rain in durban. there had already been reduced to 26 overs. south africa we re reduced to 26 overs. south africa were 71/2 and the 12th over when the game was called off. england now cannot win the series but they can level it if they win in johannesburg on sunday. and that is all your support for now. a reminder, you can find all of those stories and more, including the buildup to the six nations matches this weekend, on the bbc sport website. from the team and i. bbc sport website. from the team and i, for now, thanks for watching. good night. hello there. we have some very strong winds indeed headed our way this weekend, especially on sunday thanks to storm ciara. there are already weather warnings in force from the met office and these could yet be updated. make sure you stay in touch with the latest warnings through this weekend. as far as storm ciara is concerned, it develops underneath one of the strongest atlantic jet streams i have seen, would be wincing the jet 250 miles an hour. that is what makes this area of low pressure,

which is storm ciara, and which will be arriving across the british isles on sunday. before we get there, over the next few hours, we have got a weakening band of rain pushing its way east, followed by some blustery showers, but because the winds are fairly brisk outside at the moment, it is not particularly cold to begin the day, temperatures a— eight celsius. looking at the weather picture through the rest of saturday. we should see a fair bit of sunshine for england and wales and eastern scotland, for a time. the winds will continue to pick up and through the afternoon, the winds will blow in this band of rain to northern ireland and scotland, with some snow over the scottish hills. as far as wind gusts go, scotland and northern ireland could get us some 70 miles an hour in places. strong enough to bring some localised disruption. from there, into saturday night, this band of heavy rain swings east across the country and it will become a window, blustery, body kind of night right the way across the uk. it will be a mild night on saturday night, mild,

wet and windy. looking at sunday, sundays weather is dominated by the arrival of storm ciara. here it comes. you can see tightly packed isobars which tell you it is going to bea isobars which tell you it is going to be a windy day indeed across all of the country. the strongest winds will come along into packets, if you like. the first of these will arrive on the southern flank of the area of low pressure and this squeeze of strong winds works across scotland, including through scotland's central violence. we could see some impact here, especially through sunday afternoon, whereas further south, the strongest winds will be on and ahead of this quality band of rain, this cold front that is pushing its way south across the country. all of england and wales will get those strong winds. gusts could reach 60-80 strong winds. gusts could reach 60—80 miles an hour in places and the winds will stay very gusty for some 6— nine hours. so transport disruption is expected and we could have power cuts as well.

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