"w e "w brief ridge of high pressure builds but again not for long. another area of low pressure sent to moving as you go through the day on friday. starting off dry and bright and at the south—east should stay quiet for the south—east should stay quiet for the end of the working week but there is more wet and windy weather to come and this sets us up as we head into the weekend. i wish i could tell you there is a change on the way but as you can see, one area of low pressure brings in more wind and rain across the country to be replaced by yet another pushing it from the atlantic. as we had was a weekend, unfortunately, it could be the third wet and windy weekend in a rope with a further spells of heavy rain and gales certainly an issue. it looks at the moment as if the heaviest could be the further north and west. so it stays pretty u nsettled. and west. so it stays pretty unsettled. what about further head? u nfortu nately, we unsettled. what about further head? unfortunately, we are really stuck ina unfortunately, we are really stuck in a repeat mode. another area of low pressure missing, a brief ridge

of high pressure builds but not for very long as the next load continues to move into the atlantic. the story remains the same and that means we can get cooler spells replaced by milder at, than cooler air, then milder at, than cooler air, then milderairagain. a milder at, than cooler air, then milder air again. a real rollercoaster. wet and windy weather set to return. take care.

hello. this is bbc news with reeta chakra barti. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines. in the wake of storm dennis, floods have hit towns and villages, and residents have been advised to leave their homes, in parts of worcestershire, shropshire and herefordshire. and in parts of south wales they're dealing with the aftermath of some of the highest water levels for over a0 years. i'm in total shock, disbelief. ijust can't believe how my home, my home has been ravaged in the last couple of hours. two days after the death of caroline flack, itv‘s love island was back on air tonight, with a special tribute. like many of you, right now we're alljust trying to come to terms

with what has happened. i only hope that we can all try and be kinder, always show love and listen to one another. downing street adviser andrew sabisky has announced his resignation amid criticism over controversial comments he made in the past. the bbc sees evidence of what appears to be mass state monitoring by the chinese government of the persecuted uighur muslim community. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sebastian payne — the whitehall correspondent for the ft and the economist and member of labour's policy forum, grace blakeley. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in.

the metro goes with the story that a newly appointed downing street adviser has quit over a row about his past comments — including claims that black people are less intelligent than white people. the guardian says the resignation of andrew sabisky represents a defeat for dominic cummings, the prime minister's most powerful aide, whose approach to government is causing concern among some tories. the financial times goes with a speech by britain's top trade negotiator insisiting the uk would never agree to eu regulatory demands in order to get a trade deal. the telegraph also picks up on that speech from the uk's brexit negotiator, david frost, highlighting what he called the opportunity for economic competition presented by brexit. the times says the prime minister, borisjohnson, is at odds with his senior downing street advisers over plans to scrap the tv licence fee and replace it with a voluntary subscription system. the daily mail asks what is the point in saving as national savings and investments slashes its rates and cut its

premium bonds prizes. and the mirror says: flooding hell spreads — citing a warning from from a top expert that britain could face a national emergency as flooding worsens. let's stay with the mirror there in that story about flooding that web been reporting on all weekend. a national emergency, in some sense that were not really prepared for dealing with this and having to appreciate the gravity of the situation. this comes on the back of severe flooding that happens recently in the election and also last year. and it does seem as though the correct preparations haven't been put in place. the environment agency, we've now seen, has suggested to some homeowners that they should not expect to have their homes protected by the environment agency which suggests that the investment you would need to properly deal with the impacts of

these, what it will be, increasing these, what it will be, increasing the likelihood of it stream weather events as we see global temperatures arise will not be forthcoming. we have obviously had an issue here in that boris johnson have obviously had an issue here in that borisjohnson has not yet travelled to some of the places that have been worst hit and is facing some pressure over that as well. johnson will be obviously under some pressure to acknowledge those national emergencies and visit the places worst hit and to promise enough investments to be able to deal with what will likely be a common event over the next several decades in this country. sebastian, you're saying earlier, it matters if the prime minister or doesn't go.” think it does because in this situation, people looking for leadership and reassurance the environment agency will be working incredibly hard behind the scenes to make sure that everything possible is being done to alleviate the possibility of more flooding and to help those families there. and we

know that the environment secretary has been out and about making visits and talking about more funding for the future, promising £4 million for flood defences. i do think the prime minister eventually will have to go and we have this last year when there was flooding in yorkshire. again, he didn't go and there was huge pressure to go and talk to residents and see those experiences firsthand. i'm not quite sure why he hasn't gone already because this is some of the worst flooding we've ever seen some of the worst flooding we've everseen in britain some of the worst flooding we've ever seen in britain and over the weekend, there were over 600 flood lights and some of them were absolutely critical. hundreds of those still in place. the worst may not yet be over. those circumstances, the prime minister might want to leave its environment secretary but ultimately, people are going to want to hear from him so i think the pressure will build and it keeps on going, then he will have to go. it does feel as though there has been a change of strategy from moving and protecting people from flooding to trying to help them after flooding. this is what the

environment agency is implying that they're not going to have the resources to protect people's homes outright and they've actually said now that homeowners shouldn't expect their houses will be protected by flood defences because of course, as these floods become more severe, it is going to become more and more difficult to actively defend various parts of the country. what minister has said that the government is going to have to move towards an approach of perhaps relocating people or helping them once the floods have hit. of course, this does apply potentially quite severe hardship for those people's homes who are here and insurance premiums, perhaps people whose houses are in the most affected zones will see their house prices fall. the potential onset of this as an annual event could have some quite severe economic implications, as well as obviously the horrific scenes that we have been seeing affecting people up we have been seeing affecting people up and down the country. it is all

very sobering visitor. let's go to the front page of the financial times. sebastian, your paper and your story about brexit. this is david frost, borisjohnson's chief negotiator who has given a speech which is a rare thing for a special advisor. the government is trying to get on the front foot here to its vision of what it wants from the next stage of brexit to secure a trade deal by the end of the year. with only really got between march and october once the negotiations begin to get things done. michelle barney, who is going to be the eu's negotiator, they set up their vision. mr frost has done it this evening in brussels. what's interesting is it is more a broad vision than a detailed plan. he talks about the whole point of exit and the fundamental things an independent country will want to have. this is because the first days of talks is going to be all about the so—called level playing field. the eu wants to lock the uk into its rules and recreation two regulations to ensure it doesn't undermine it

with unfair competition. there is a debate within the eu about how they should work. there are some countries like france who wants to have what is called a dynamic alignment which means when the eu changes its rules, written must changes its rules, written must change its rules and if it doesn't, then we lose access to the market. for a lot of brexiters, including mr frost, they don't want that because it means you can't do anything differently and then what is the point of leaving stop they want to have a nonaggression clause, saying 0k, have a nonaggression clause, saying ok, whatever go below this level but we may go higher or different or what have you. that is the debate. it is going to dominate obligated next stage of talks. the fact that mr frost is going out there explaining this is trying to get around some of the problems in the first stage when he was very and clear and putting up policy papers are what it wants from brexit whether uk government operated in secrecy. mr frost on behalf of mr johnson is trying to the opposite here. interesting thing about this story is the emphasis on france trying to toughen at the demands

imposed on the uk. exodus of level of already between eu member states as to the future direction in regards to negotiations within the uk. france is honestly going to be relatively concerned about the impacts that the uk perhaps, cutting regulations in financial and professional services, might have on its own domestic industry. if we do see... there's obviously been a lots of, well, some progress within the eu about combating things like tax voice in and evasion. if we start to see the uk slipping away from those rules and potentially attract some of the business that perhaps the eu has wanted to curb than that could bea has wanted to curb than that could be a real issue for economies that are more dependent or at least, could be more dependent on those industries if they were to exploit the same loopholes of which france would be one. perhaps that's like germany which are much more dependent on exports of manufactured goods might be less worried about thoseissues

goods might be less worried about those issues around regulatory alignment. it will be very interesting to see the potential splits that emerge between the major power players within the eu over the course of these negotiations. during the first state of the talks, everyone was united on what they wanted and the point is, now they are not. the question for the eu 's gonna hold the line? i fully think they wealth because they were so united in the first stage and it works from the eu's perspective very well because they got the money. they got everything else they wanted from the uk out of that withdrawal agreements. on this, it is really just sort of tweaking about how tough you want to be. of course, it isa tough you want to be. of course, it is a negotiation and the mandate for the eu, is how much room for manoeuvring they have here. also on the uk side, the fact that boris johnson has this 80 seat majority means that they think they can be much tougher with the eu. they don't have to fold in accept demand in a way they had to in the past. those are to mark quite firm positions. when they both clash, i think there is the potential that the talks could collapse quite quickly if both

sides are quite inflexible. there is a danger that we do leave with no deal at the end of this year. we would be trading on basic wto rules which would in tariffs, cheques, and disruption to supply chains. ultimately, i think they will get you a deal because it is in both sides interest but as ever, it is the political shadowboxing that has already begun. it will be playing in the next few months won't. to the front page of the guardian. grace, a story we were running prominently stop the new advisor resigning, a fairly short lived role he had a numberio, fairly short lived role he had a number 10, andrew sabisky. fairly short lived role he had a number10, andrew sabisky. he's been forced out, resigned presumably under a large amount of pressure given what has come to light around his comments and views on the apparent correlation between race and intelligence which, you know, has created a huge problem for the prime minister who has been asked whether he supports these comments which could link him to basically,

eugenics and eugenicists. also, other comments that have been on earth that sabisky has made on various social media websites on reddit and twitter and various other things. i suppose you might have expected this given a dominic cummings long log post about trying to attract misfits and widows into the ranks of the staid conservative party in order to mix things up and ca ta lys e party in order to mix things up and catalyse on a bit more of a transformation in the party. it does... this is another setback for cummings really because when a sajid javid resigned in the reshuffle citing concerns over cummings's overbearing influence stop this is potentially another issue where the forces of conservatism with a small see in the conservative party are pushing back against cummings's more radical agenda. there are so many

questions we still don't know which makes this story so curious because normally special advisers who are brought into government have to go through a vetting progress and are eventually released along with their salaries in the interest they have. with mr sabisky, we don't know when he was hired, who he was working for, whatjob he was doing. we've had it whispers on background that he was working on forecasting, working on the defence review, working on the defence review, working for mr cummings or maybe he wasn't. itjust do not know and press briefing with journalists today, the spokesman was asked i think 32 times whether the pm agrees with his view on the topics and absolutely denied to engage on any questions about mr sabisky. he left briefing as a journalist not actually know whether this person worked in downing street when he was actually doing there. he was a contractor, again, we don't know under what basis on who he was contracted on and what for. to go to the broader point about what this means. dominic cummings came in and

as you said grace, he is not a conservative, big or small see at all. he likes to move fast smash things and break things and believes in creative destruction we that work during the vote leave campaign during the vote leave campaign during the vote leave campaign during the campaign in 2016 and in the election as well. there are limits to how much that works there andl limits to how much that works there and i think you have seen that with these comments that we have had two days of bad press and more stuff in the papers overnight about things he said in the past. some of it would automatically disqualify anyone from any position in public life and i think it's interesting that they decided he has to go now. he has resigned but it may have been he was resigned but it may have been he was resigned before he was pushed in that way. people are saying this is the end of a dominic cummings's power. the prime ministers doing his own thing. i would say on that i—handed as well, you look back at the reshuffle last week and sajid javid had to resign because of a plan by mrcummings javid had to resign because of a plan by mr cummings to merge the special advisor units. power waxes and wanes within downing street

incredibly quickly and factions moved one day and one day out. he still very important, still the prime minister's most influential advisor but it doesn't look like he can win every battle. hold that thought. in the times, and the bbc? it does seem as if cummings has a strategy of throwing molotov cocktails and seeing what lands in public discourse. this is probably something he has demonstrated a willingness to say at least very radical things. this refers to the sunday times story... for licensing to be scrapped. yes, the license fees. whether or not he was doing that with a serious intent, which the article here implies he could not have been because you cannot technically be possible to remove

the license fee without taking bbc offa the license fee without taking bbc off a particular platform. 0r whether it was to shock the conservative establishment into adopting a more radical line on the bbc. if this is the end of the 0verton window, political acceptability of what we think about the bbc, you can and up with a position by the government much maligned to what could be more political intervention into what the bbc does. it does not look like cummings is going to get his way over the bbc license fees but he has caused a storm and does appear to be creating at least some attention with the prime minister with whom he is obviously very close and the wider party more broadly. the conservative party has a split identity about the bbc. free—market

enthusiasts who want to abolish it, make it subscription. we have heard mrcummings would go make it subscription. we have heard mr cummings would go into that category. we have the more culturally small see conservatives who promote the bbc. being the archers, bbc news, they promote what they like. 82,015 election, david cameron said he was going to sort out the bbc again over perceived bad cove rage out the bbc again over perceived bad coverage to the conservative party's policy. they had a review and it did not go anywhere. obviously, we are ina new not go anywhere. obviously, we are in a new era and the media is changing passively. there will be a review and there will be changes but the kind of stuff put on the sunday times, selling of all the radio stations, most of its tv stations, if you look at the polling, 80% of

the public love the bbc, compare that to any politician in parliament, any profession you can imagine, the bbc does very well there. change is coming but from the bbc perspective i think this idea of wholesale scrapping it and getting rid of public service broadcaster, i would be really surprised if boris johnson does that even despite the technical things john witting dale has cited in this article. it comes in the wake of elections, particularly where political system seems more the dish are divided than ever. obviously, this has been a long—standing critic. when you look at the kind of centre of the political spencer, whether the moderate end of the tory party or the more liberal end of the labour

party, there is support. it is in the extremes that they are say the bbc needs to be reformed. a lot of remark in tears wanting the introduction of commercial. this is something that rebecca mull bailey has also talked about. there are growing pressures for reform but it depends how you look at it. fundamentally, when it comes to the question, new director—general process going through at the moment that will impact things in a big way. impartiality, the bbc can be involved in that also. when the person tries for the head of ofcom was chosen, down the street pause for a more political person but ultimately they went with a lifelong

civil servant. you float very radical ideas, whip everybody up into a storm and eventually pulled back and do something which is still change but not quite as radical. we are going to have to leave it there. thank you both very much indeed. 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. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you sebastian payne and grace blakeley. goodbye. hello, i'm chetan pathak and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on the programme: manchester united beat chelsea to move within three points of the champions league places

both teams came together to pay tribute to harry gregg. it has been an emotional day for manchester united with the passing of harry gregg. the players bought black armour is as tribute to a true legend. european terminal at one manchester club, united will feel a champions league spot is realistic. but they can maybe count they lucky var stars they were not down to ten men here. it was not the prettiest of first halves. finally a breakthrough. anthony martial scholars. chelsea's equaliser came from the unlikely source of kurt zouma. but was that a push? var thought so. it got worse ten minutes

later when harry maguire could have seen red. but it was a doubling of the united leg. 0livier giroud thought he pulled one back but var intervened again. a hat—trick of var decisions against chelsea in one match. sometimes it isjust decisions against chelsea in one match. sometimes it is just not your day. as for united, it was a tough day. as for united, it was a tough day of the pitch but this was perhaps the only tribute that harry gregg would really want. tribute to harry gregg. the former goalkeeper who has died at 87. harry gregg went back into the burning wreckage to pull strangers and his teammates to safety after the terrible and plane crash. many have been remembering his talents on the pitch. i have never seen a braver

goalkeeper stop missing clips, i have worked with great goalkeepers but when used seem play for northern ireland, he was unbelievable. coming infor ireland, he was unbelievable. coming in for punches, crosses, he had everything. 0ne in for punches, crosses, he had everything. one of the best i have seen. manchester city will play against either leicester or reading in the quarter—finals. the draw has been made and here are the rest of the fixtures... kim clusters has lost her for match after returning after seven years and four children. she lost anything to buy tennis championship in straight sets. i felt like i was

close to... close to playing good tennis but i was finally able to do it in the second said and although it in the second said and although it isa it in the second said and although it is a loss, i feel the second is that it was a big step forward in at a level that i played in the last few weeks. i will take that with me home and that is what i can build on. that is all the sport for now. i buy. storm dennis has long cleared out of the way but it has left a legacy of flooding with water as far as the eye can see. this is where the picture from worcester. severe flood warnings in force. these are tending to be clustered on stretches of the river wye and the river severn. another two flood warnings elsewhere in the uk and it is likely there

will be a number of days before the flood waters slow slots of shower clouds working on. a more organised band of showers edging in of the atlantic. this is going to be significant for our weather through tuesday. we will see plenty of showers across south—western areas. falling of snow in the hills of scotla nd falling of snow in the hills of scotland and northern england. expect some icy stretches on some of those high—level roots as we started day in the early morning rush hour. choose it will be showering, quite blustery once again but remember the organised band of showers, here it is, working its way eastwards across the country and as it does so, pretty much everyone will get a downpour. the show was very heavy and accompanied by sudden squalls of wind so a very lovely gusty kind of weather. folder for wind so a very lovely gusty kind of weather. folderfor northern ireland, northern england and

scotland. —— colder. a ridge moves infora time scotland. —— colder. a ridge moves in for a time ahead of the next weather system heading away for wednesday. after a bright start to the day with sunshine, cloud and rain on the way again. it looks like the heavier forms of raid across north wales, some uncertainty about how heavy. —— rain. temperatures will be rising through the day and for some of us rising through the night as well as we get into the milder air. by thursday, another area of rain into the country. a squally band of heavy rain clearing eastwards, followed by showers which turn wintry and the cold air across the hills of scotland. that is your latest weather, bye for now.

hello. i'm karashima vaswani in singapore. the headlines: leaked documents seen by the bbc provide new evidence of china's crackdown on uighurmuslims in the western region of xinjiang. apple warns it won't meet its quarterly revenue projections due to the coronavirus outbreak. hello, i'm nuala mcgovern in london. also in the programme: restoring sight — how a new treatment is offering hope for those suffering from a rare eye disorder. and sri lanka's buddhist bhikkhunis, the equivalent of christianity‘s nuns, fight for recognition.