aim north america. it will be taking aim from the atlantic at the uk. you will see how many isobars thereafter through saturday and sunday. those winds could be and we could also have heavy rain associated. a lot of impacts likely from storm dennis. with wind gusts 60—70 miles per hour and may be more than that. every rain likely to cause flooding across southern and western parts of the country. amber warnings in force for parts of southern and western england into southern wales for heavy rain through saturday and into sunday and the ground is saturated from storm ciara. this is a picture for saturday. not a pretty sight. outbreaks are pretty heavy. persistent rain, strong winds. 70 miles an hour in exposure and close to the irish sea. you will not field

the mild temperature because of the strength of the wind. an amber wanting in force for the south down ‘s but lots of showers further north and west. these will be wintry over the high ground and with widespread gales again. temperatures in the south cooler than in the north. i squeeze into the isobars. storm dennis pushing towards scandinavia. into monday, it stays a street but the wind is not as strong. lots of showers into northern and western areas but also some sunshine as well. but again windy as well, 50 miles per hour is and maybe more in exposure. that is how it is looking through the weekend and into monday.

very stormy and wet. beyond monday, it looks like the low pressure system will skirt the north—west of the country with outbreaks of rain, strong winds, may be gales. throughout next week, it will be offered windy with gales or even severe gales in the north and west and this is where we see most of the snow and showers. but then the sign of it settling down as we come across certain areas as high—pressure bills in. —— builds

hello. this is bbc news. i'm rebecca jones. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first, the headlines: the chancellor sajid javid has resigned, in a shock move during the prime minister's government reshuffle. the former chancellor has said he was left "with no other option" after he was required to replace

all of his political advisers. these are people who have worked incredibly hard on behalf of not just the government but the whole country, they've done a fantastic job. i was unable to accept those conditions. i don't believe any self—respecting minister would accept such conditions and so therefore i felt the best thing to do was to go. out too are theresa villiers, andrea leadsom, esther mcvey, and the northern ireland secretary julian smith, who oversaw the restoration of devolved government at stormont. ministers announce an independent inquiry into maternity services at an nhs trust in east kent after the deaths of a number of babies there. world health leaders say there's no new cause for alarm despite a steep rise in the number of deaths from coronavirus in china. yesterday was the deadliest day of the outbreak so far. more than 80 people quarantined on the wirral are allowed to leave, following 14 days in isolation after flying back from wuhan

in china — the centre of the coronavirus outbreak. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are jack blanchard, editor of the politico london playbook, and anna isaac reporter at the wall streetjournal. great to have you here. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the financial times leads on sajid javid stepping down as chancellor after rejecting borisjohnson‘s order to sack his team of advisers and aides. similarly, the metro also focuses on sajid javid quitting in a row with borisjohnson over his special advisors. he has been replaced by his deputy, rishi sunak. aside from sajid javid, others lost their places in cabinet. that's on the front

page of the guardian. alok sharma has replaced andrea leadsom as business secretary. the daily express dubs borisjohnson as the "iron man" after he ordered saijd javid to fire his closest aides ahead of a cabinet reshuffle. and the daily mail features a story on prince harry and meghan markle. the paper reports they are axing up to 15 of their uk staff and closing their buckingham palace office. well, in spite of that story, really there is only one story on all the front pages, isn't there? that is the departure of sajid javid in the context of the government reshuffle. anna, let's start with you. will the departure of sajid javid the of any interest to readers of the wall street times? the big point of interest here is the power of the chancellor has in trade negotiations with the eu. particularly in terms

of what it means of what it means for financial services and how london will still act as a financial centre for your. it is often called europe's investment banker, london. that relationship really is of huge interest to people interested in financial markets and financial services overall, as many readers of the widespread journal are. so they are very interested in that aspect of it for sure. will it be on the front page? it will be somewhere. we area front page? it will be somewhere. we are a little bit ahead of time. front page? it will be somewhere. we are a little bit ahead of timelj would be interested to know. coming back to our front pages and the metro, thrown under the bus, a picture of sajid javid, a reference to the fact he is a sign of a bus driver. and according to the metro, sajid javid quit after boris forced his hand to sack aids. —— aides. is this boris flexing his muscles?” think it became a stand—off and testing people's redlines here.

boris went into this discussion with sajid javid saying let others tie—up our number ten sajid javid saying let others tie—up our numberten and sajid javid saying let others tie—up our number ten and number 11 seems as one unit and for sajid javid that was clearly interpreted as you are removing my autonomy, diminishing the power of the rosary and the relationship i have with many of my staffers. it came from a history of arguments between dominic cummings, arguments between dominic cummings, a leading adviserfor arguments between dominic cummings, a leading adviser for borisjohnson and his removal of some of sajid javid's staff previously. so there was some context it is but there was a huge flareup today over this issue. you are nodding, jack. it would have been good to be in the room. it would have been great. and it was a long time before javid walked out, and hour and 15 minutes, sometimesjust the two walked out, and hour and 15 minutes, sometimes just the two of them having it out to see if they could

come to an agreement in some way. of course it turned out that there wasn't. people watching the headlines this evening or looking at the headlines tomorrow will be sajid javid, the chancellor has advised over some row over his advisors. it sounds like an archaic, internal thing and people might not understand why this would happen. this is really about power and who is running the country's finances. what borisjohnson is trying to do and will now be able to do is ensure it is his people in the treasury overseeing the next month's budget and the big spending decisions we make. also as anna was saying, the big trade decisions we make going into this new eu trade deal or not trade deal as it goes. and previously the treasury was a very independent force, fiscally conservative, what we are now going to see is number ten unleased to an extent. what does downing street really wa nt extent. what does downing street really want to do with the country?

maybe some people will like that. some people will say we voted for borisjohnson and some people will say we voted for boris johnson and we want some people will say we voted for borisjohnson and we want him to do whatever the heck he likes. but normally checks and balances is how governments work. number ten and 11 may have differed on opinion on the money available for projects. in america they have the congress, but here with an 80 strong government majority, if number ten is running everything and can do what it once in parliament, there aren't many checks at all on how they approach running the country —— what it wants. i think dominic cummings, the pm's wants. i think dominic cummings, the pm's chief adviser has been made in charge of all special advisers and he is very much the prime minister's right—hand man. so the slightly aggressive approach you made say he has taken to running the country, we

willjust be more and more of that, i expect. let's move onto the independent. jackjust mentioning dominic cummings there, javid forced out of number 11 in cummings power grab. i thought it was interesting, anna, there were suspicions that number ten was prepared for sajid javid's move as treasury chief rishi sunak was summoned within minutes to ta ke sunak was summoned within minutes to take his old boss'sjob. sunak was summoned within minutes to take his old boss's job. jack touched on how quick this was. meetings are often frenetic, people going in and out of the building are illogical times. there is not a lot of time to lose, you sort of have a if then, then what? so you have to get them in. i don't think we can read that much into the timing of

him entering the building. i think what is clear while people on both sides, onjavid's side and johnson's sides, onjavid's side and johnson's side may have expected a row. it's plausible that both sides may have expected someone to give some give. so it was a surprise, i think most people were expecting for a fight. rishi sunak is very well liked in downing street was that they put him in his position of sajid javid's deputy, he is frequently sent to tv or radio in sticky situations to hold the line under pressure. he is often the guy they turn to. sol think they have almost been grooming him for thisjob further think they have almost been grooming him for this job further down the line potentially or another big job in government. i don't think it is any surprise when they realised sajid javid wasn't going to do what they wanted, he would be the person they wanted, he would be the person they turn to. i suppose it didn't ta ke they turn to. i suppose it didn't take very long for the decision to

be made. so, sajid javid said no self—respecting minister would agree to this plan. are we meant to believe he doesn't have any self—respect? believe he doesn't have any self-respect? that is why sajid javid was insinuating, wasn't it? i mean, it remains to be seen. he has only been in the job very few hours. he isn't the guy who really has had the opportunity to show what kind of politician he is. he is pro— brexit, extremely intelligent, polite and quite a thoughtful guy but he is young. under40 and quite a thoughtful guy but he is young. under 40 and he quite a thoughtful guy but he is young. under40 and he has never run a department before, it is unusual to run the biggest department of all is your first big job. married to a billionaire, which is an interesting detail. the daughter of a billionaire, that is right. what we haven't seen yet is his own approach to running any big department, let alone the treasury. so i would say two things, really. one is that he

didn't have any advisors to sack. sajid javid had a close knit team he worked with and like a good boss he wanted to stick up for them. i think rishi sunak is coming from another point of view, he says he will need a load of new advisors to do the job. that's it out to find out who they will be. so it will be easier for him. he will also be more difficult to sack, because if you have just lost a chancellor, do you really wa nt have just lost a chancellor, do you really want to lose another one so soon? and is he going to stand up for whatever he believes in? we will find out. yeah. who knows? sajid javid walks out in protest overjohnson power grab which is what we have been discussing. it is interesting the language they use, they talk about the brutal way in

which he has departed, the power struggle and it does raise the question as to whether the budget will actually go ahead and four weeks. it is very difficult now to change the numbers involved with the budget ahead of march 11. if they do that they have to go through checks and balances with the watchdog of the government mass. if they want to change those figures, it is likely this watchdog will stay you are not giving us enough time to crunch the numbers but if they try to move the budget further, the fresh forecast for the economy and therefore how much money will be in the pot is likely to look more dire because we have seen in the economy flatlining in recent months. it is not straightforward decision. they have the spending review coming up which

sets out spending planning for several more yea rs sets out spending planning for several more years and in many ways it isa several more years and in many ways it is a bigger deal than any one particular budget so they may get the budget through with the majority they have now quite stra ig htforwa rdly they have now quite straightforwardly an event look to focus on the spending review and make that the point of concentration. my guess is they literally do not know. they did not make up this morning planning to sack the chancellor. you really believe that? 100%. they were setting out new conditions forjobs and they had four preparations but they were not planning for it. they are ina they were not planning for it. they are in a whole new world, with a whole new chancellor wondering what they are going to do about the budget. it possibly will go ahead but they are not in a position to say so this afternoon. it is very much hand to mouth stop. that makes it all the more dramatic. an

interesting opinion piece under the headline, chaotic exit shows compliant donald trump competence in downing street. in some ways, i wonder if that is more a reference to northern ireland than the departure of sajid javid? there are a couple of ministers who lost their job today who do not really appear to have done anything wrong from a policy point of view. julian smith did an amazingjob policy point of view. julian smith did an amazing job of restarting the power—sharing in a job that seemed impossible and that successive government have failed to do. sajid javid has not put a foot wrong, he has not had a chance to. no big policy differences between him and johnson... the disagreements are with dominic cummins, he was not

that keen on hs2 for example. with dominic cummins, he was not that keen on h52 for example. in any normal well, the fact the northern ireland treasurer has done a fantasticjob, that ireland treasurer has done a fantastic job, that sajid javid agrees in terms of public spending and infrastructure, they would be no reason to lose theirjob except this issue of compliance. are they going to long with whatever number 10 wants to do and in both cases the answer is not always. the telegraph, they are saying it was definitely borisjohnson bringing they are saying it was definitely boris johnson bringing the they are saying it was definitely borisjohnson bringing the treasury to heal. the minister takes total control of government. he is the highest profile casualty but there are others in this reshuffle. and they are significant especially if you look at what treat theresa may over during her tenure. the attorney

general, geoffrey cox, high profiled in the legal community, often public in his disagreements in terms of the direction the government wanted to ta ke direction the government wanted to take being replaced by benjamin who is considered to be very different, less experience, has been very outspoken... not benjamin. she has been critiquing and summing up a view that the judiciary has behaved in recent months. this will spell a different approach to legal opinions that will be very crucial about what is coming in terms of trade talks and other legal positions that the government may take. we need to move onto the daily express. boris the

iron man tightens his grip. this echoes what you are saying at the beginning, actually, about how this whole thing has been about power and whole thing has been about power and who is in charge and i think we know. boris the iron man was in there for over an hour it is chancellor pleading for him not to resign. the teen man. it is true, the prime minister held firm. this is how he wants the government to be run and even in the face of his chancellor threatening to resign but there are two sides to the story and what happened today looked pretty chaotic from most people on the outside. the role of dominic cummings in all of this — the prime minister chief adviser. fantastic rampage from the mirror, what of your politics. bloodbath. a

government filled with spineless stooges. is it now critical for government ministers to thrive and survive and get on with dominic cummings? if you look at the way it has been constructed with a joint economic unit, the business secretary also changed, if you are going to constructed so that you can most directly forced through the key areas of trade negotiations, you would have cause major you had people who are complied with in the treasury and business department so ido treasury and business department so i do not think it is any coincidence we are seeing this particular offices of state given the most focus and if you think about what has driven dominic cummings throughout his time in government it has been to get brexit done in a particular fashion has been to get brexit done in a particularfashion and has been to get brexit done in a particular fashion and so i think that point about how we want to steer his influence is fair. easy scheming puppet master?‘ steer his influence is fair. easy scheming puppet master? a little bit

but his a complicated guy and also a thoughtful, interesting person who thinks a lot outside of the box which probably we need a bit sometimes in government as well. the other thing you have to remember in all of this, most people will not ca re all of this, most people will not care much about exactly how the machinery of government will work. we have just had an election with borisjohnson winning a we have just had an election with boris johnson winning a massive majority and a lot of people out there thinking, good, if you need to make these changes to do the things we have just elected you to do, go and do it. we hear about the treasury being a roadblock and maybe there will be lots of people who think if that roadblock is swept away, that is a good thing. daily mail exclusive, a first bloodbath as harry and meghan alex all uk staff.

-- acts. it largely seems led in terms of people picked out by the press tea m, terms of people picked out by the press team, the press operation that harry and meghan have had in the uk. it is not clear whether it is to do with the financing they have received from the royal family no longer being on offer. or that they will be taking fewer uk appearances so will be taking fewer uk appearances so they will not need people doing that press work. it would seem to suggest they are not probably planning to come back and live here. the inference the mail takes is that they are basically going to live in canada and this is something of a farewell and we will see them from time to time but they are much happier over there. it is not a good day to be an advisor to anybody! not a job he wanted this week. on that note, we will leave it there because it is time to go.

thank you, jack and anna. goodbye. good evening. i'm ben croucher with a round up of the day's news from the bbc sport centre. the catalans dragons head coach steve mcnamara has told the bbc that israel folau deserves a second chance as the australian gears up for his super league debut this weekend. folau was sacked by rugby australia last year after homophobic comments posted on social media. he's been given the opportunity to continue his career in europe, starting against castleford on saturday, and mcnamara says a fresh start is deserved. he isa he is a person completely. as a coach my decision was based on his

leg ability, to be positive in the dressing room, to increase our opportunities of winning and it is based around that and being a good person. i have met him over a number of occasions and i thought he deserved the opportunity. it should not have been a life sentence whatever is given an egg is an opportunity here in the south of france. wigan ran in six tries in a convincing win over toronto wolfpack, without sonny bill williams. the kiwi superstar returned back to new zealand for the birth of his fourth child and how his team—mates missed him on the pitch. man of the match bevan french scored two tries either side of half—time for wigan and liam farrell completed the rout with two of his own in three second half minutes. toronto have lost all three of their opening super league games. world rugby says the health and safety of everyone at their events is the priority after moving the hong kong and singapore sevens to later in the year because of coronavirus.

they're being switched from april to october. organisers of the toyko olympics, meanwhile have insisted they will go ahead as scheduled and that any postponement was not being considered. fallon sherrock nearly pulled off another darting shock as she made history in the premier league. the first woman to take part in the event, she led glen durrant 6—4 in the best of 12 contest in nottingham. she needed one of the final two legs to win but durrant came back to force a 6—6 draw.