flash thundery. locally, some are flash flooding possibly. the risk tra nsfers for flooding possibly. the risk transfers for the mouth across wales and the midlands and east anglia. by the end of the night, heaviest showers across northern england, and some in wales. a muggy night ahead, but not as hard as recent nights, but not as hard as recent nights, but there of 15 in birmingham and 16 in london. monday, xiao was head for the gnarled, wet weather after a dry weekend. further south, the gnarled, wet weather after a dry weekend. furthersouth, had to the gnarled, wet weather after a dry weekend. further south, had to pick out, the risk of some thunderstorms for england and wales. you are watching bbc news. the headlines... more confusion far after the withdrawing of guidance by quual. thousands of protesters expected together again in belarus today to call for president lukashenko to step down. a two—week

quarantine rule kicks in for british travellers returning from france, the netherlands and other countries. thousands have rushed home to beat the deadline. president trump is my brother has died at the age of 71. the sun is absent, holly hamilton is wearing a bright cheerfuljacket. good morning to you. perhaps i am trying to induce some sun valley cricket. i can't bring manchester city fans any son, a dreadful evening for them. what is that saying again, third time is a charm?

not so for manchester city — the third year in a row they've exited the champions league in the quarterfinals. a goalkeeping error, missing an open goal and even some var controversy thrown in for good measure saw them lose 3—1 to lyon — a side who finished seventh in the french top flight last season. austin halewood was watching the drama unfold. heartbreakfor manchester city, beaten in the quarterfinals once again. according to their manager, these men had a once in a lifetime opportunity to win this competition. the doors might have been closed, yet city's defence was inadvisably open. lyon's maxwel cornet was so surprised to have this chance, he immediately wondered if it was offside. it wasn't, lyon were ahead. city, the overwhelming favourites, needed to loosen up. but just as frustration grew and doubts lurked, kevin de bruyne stepped up. manchester city, breathed again. surely the game was only going one way now. but lyon, seventh in the french league, sprang free once more. moussa dembele squeezing them ahead.

the goal survived the var check for a foul, so city had ten minutes. chances had to be taken and they wouldn't get any bigger or simpler than this for raheem sterling, a miss he'll surely relive because barely had he lifted his chin from the floor then lyon were up the other end, and dembele settled the tie. i'm not able with these guys to break this line, the quarter—finals. what these guys have done, they deserve, you know, to do it again or go through and reach the semi—finals, but we are not able. but life is how you stand up again and next season we're going to try again. so manchester city's wait for the trophy they're missing goes on. austin halewood, bbc news. that sterling mess does not get easier to watch no matter how many times you see it. from the riches of the champions league to worrying times in english non league football. the pandemic means clubs

at the lower levels of the game have struggled with no matchday revenue from ticket sales. now some are calling on the government to allow supporters back in time for the new season or risk teams going out of business. patrick gearey has the details. bradford again. what a goal! deep down beneath the professionals and you'll find english football's muddy soul. this is non—league, the game it is most natural, but vulnerable. the pandemic has made the new season a daunting prospect. fans are set to be kept out until october at the earliest. but it's been six months since anyone stood here to watch a football match here at main road fc in manchester. and with a new season nearly upon us, there's still no date as to when fans will be allowed back in here. with no matchday income, clubs at this level simply don't know how they can restart. it will be very, very difficult because, from our perspective, that crowd gives us the income we need to cover our day matchday expenses. without that, we're digging into a bank account

that isn't very big. it's a problem widely shared. clubs have taken to twitter to lobby the government using the hashtag "let fans in". they say their smaller crowds makes social distancing far easier than other activities which are permitted going to the beach, going to the cricket, going to the speedway, there are lots of things going on in this country. it's like we've know we've been discriminated against. there are plans to allow fans into some sporting events as a pilot. but it's not yet clear whether that will include non—league football. the faa say they're working to get fans back as soon as is feasibly possible. government told us they will only allow the doors to open when it is safe to do so based on guidelines, including social distancing and transport provision. in the meantime, clubs are relying on ingenuity and generosity. bradford park avenue's adam has offered to play for £1

a week in a league where £400 a week wouldn't be unusual. it's been great to me, to be really fortunate. i thought i'd be a great gesture to give something back to broadford as a club. it's like an extended family, supporters, families so that they get back to normality not only financially, adam says most players won't be able to make the same sacrifice, so if non—league doors can't reopen soon, they may remain locked. patrick geary, bbc news. well there are fans in the stands at the crucible — around 300 of them — and they could be in for a treat at snooker‘s world championship final with ronnie 0'sullivan on track to claim a sixth title. he leads kyren wilson who came from 8—2 down but missed this chance to close the gap to just one frame. and 0'sullivan finished off the evening to lead 10—7 heading into the final day. he had critisised having crowds due to saftey concerns.

we have to get the whole country back on theirfeet, we have to get the whole country back on their feet, if we do not get back on their feet, if we do not get back to some sort of normality, it will affect our children and our children's children. it is a game of snooker, let us have the income tax. it is important for the sport that we have the showpiece and it is important for the players as 99.9% understand we are doing an amazing job keeping the livelihoods going and ronnie pat should understand that as well. you may have been watching the weather earlier on, and you may have noticed i mentioned about the lack of sun. it's not looking good for cricket fans or england this morning. they could do with a bit of sunshine in southampton later on day

four of their second test against pakistan. but it looks like we're in store for more of this. bad weather prevented a single ball being bowled yesterday — meaning england's hopes of victory are fading fast. pakistan are currently on 223 for nine in theirfirst innings. victories, defeats and extreme emotions are all part of an elite athlete's career, but for olympic hopeful kimberley woods, there have been nearly as many battles to overcome outside of her career. kimberley has overcome childhood bullying and mental health issues in her ten yearjourney to team gb. bbc 0lympic sports reporter, nick hope, has been to meet her. throughout school i was bullied for as long as i can remember, whether that was for the shoes i wore or how i looked because of being so muscular when i was little, because of doing paddling and all kinds of sport. i was a little bit of a tomboy andi was getting pushed around, and there had been numerous times where i'd be crying on the bus journey home. it was a lot to deal with.

kimberly woods found opening up to our family challenging and sought emotional support through relationships. but in 2015 she found herself alone. i had a lot of breakdowns in that period. it got to the point where i was keeping going for canoeing. i won the senior european championships that year and away from canoeing, you'd think everything was going well but it really wasn't. how low were you at that point? it got its lowest in november when i had to have a knee operation. i was so drained from not being able to go paddling and almost have that kind of release, i was with my thoughts 24/7 and that was the worst place i could've been. the self—harming was pretty constant and it was a cry for help, i guess. how important was your coach craig's intervention? his intervention was very important. i'd probably say i wouldn't be going to the olympics next year without that. opening up about her

problems and receiving treatment at a private mental health hospital helped woods find a new way to cope. whenever i was close to self harming, i'd always have a hairband on my wrist and i'd just end up flicking it, just to have a distraction. throughout the lockdown, i would have definitely struggled if that happened years ago. it never, ever even occurred to me of the fact i will not be in a boat for a while, i need to self—harm because i have this whole support group around me now. what advice do you have for any young athletes out there who are struggling? it is a normal thing now to have mental health struggles so just be open in communication. it can be the key to being happier in general. another thing is to find the love in yourself, don't try to seek it from others. thank you to kimberly for opening up and sharing her story about her

mental health with us. and that's all the sport from me. holly, thank you for that. i am getting the impression that i am the odd one out on bbc one this morning. good morning to you, folks. what are you up to? hello, and welcome to sunday morning live, their show that gets to the heart of the week's issues. i'm sean fletcher. and i'm sally phillips. coming up on today's show... with more than 4000 migrant crossings of the channel this year, a poll has found that nearly half of us don't sympathise with their plight. we will debate what, if any, moral duty we have to them. also, double mobo award winning rapper guvna b will be here to talk to us about how religion and rap can work in harmony. i will be speaking with journalist, broadcaster and football fanatic adrian chiles about finding faith in his 405. hello and welcome

to our look at this morning's newspapers. with me are anne ashworth, the property and finance journalist and commentator, and david wooding, political editor of the sun on sunday. good morning to both of you. let us bring you up—to—date with what the front pages all this morning. according to the observer, nearly five million gcses will this week be awarded, using a model that education experts fear could lead to even more results being downgraded than in last week's a—levels controversy. the sunday times reports that teenagers and their parents are turning to the courts, as the row over the way in which grades were awarded to a—level students in england intensifies. the sunday express has education secretary, gavin williamson, vowing to get children back to school next month because, he says, the risks of not returning are "too high to ignore. meanwhile the sunday mirror reports that some mps are calling for the education secretary to quit in the wake of the a—levels results issues. according to the sunday telegraph, public health england is to be

scrapped and replaced by a new body early next month, specifically designed to protect the country against a pandemic. the daily mail says home secretary, priti patel, is embroiled in a row, after claiming migrants were crossing the channel to escape france, where they feared they would be tortured. and the sunday people predicts the country won't recover from the current recession till 2023. it is not all as pessimistic as that, but we are starting with some difficult news after a difficult week for a—level students and their families and indeed the people in education who are trying to help them. let's start with the front page of the mirror, if we can, and it is pretty empathetic to the government at the better times but this has not been the best of times for government, has it? certainly not. the a—level and the

handling of the results was never going to go well but it has been even more disastrous than we could have fed and so everybody is now calling for the head, and gavin williamson. let's put aside the row of a—levels, and bring the row of the gcses, how can they get rid of the gcses, how can they get rid of the education secretary when we are trying to get schools back, something on which the economy depends? there are huge numbers of events all coming together but whatever, gavin williamson and the education minister nick gibb are at the middle of a storm which seems to be just serious the whole time. dave, the mirror is saying he should be sacked, the sunday express are much more sympathetic. he has written the article himself, ijust

noticed the deputy political editor byline on this is david williamson, i don't think they are necessarily related. it says he is making a passionate plea to get back to school and presumably he would be quite keen for people to concentrate on the next school term, not what has gone on over this year. yes, as anne rightly said, he has the gcse results coming up next week, the biggest on with 7000 to relax 700,000 students getting their grades. bodies 20 tonne into the express. . . grades. bodies 20 tonne into the express... when he is about to get kids back to school and he is launching a back—to—school safety campaign to try to convince parents that it campaign to try to convince parents thatitis campaign to try to convince parents that it is safe to go back to school and in his article he argues that it is morally, socially and economically necessary for children to be back in class. i agree with him on that, he has evidence for the institute for fiscal studies, all the group saying that children need

to be back in school. the problem is the teaching unions who are not convinced that it is safe to go back to school and have drawn up a 200 point check list saying that if you can't take all these boxes, you can't take all these boxes, you can't go back. what is compounded this problem for him now, i'm sure he'sa this problem for him now, i'm sure he's a little bit worried about this deep down inside, is the trade unions can sniff blood hair, they can see our scalp to be claim so it might make them a little bit more determined to dig in when it comes back to school and he is looking beyond the gcses now, probably takes it is written that it will be another disaster next week and is trying to focus on getting the kids back to school in september. as we say in the sun on sunday, some mps are saying if he fails on that account, he is toast. let's talk about another minister in a bit of trouble, it is interesting to know whether or not this story on the front of the mail feels it might bea the front of the mail feels it might be a bit ofa

the front of the mail feels it might be a bit of a summary story, priti patelin be a bit of a summary story, priti patel in racist french storm. said to have accused the french of potential in torturing refugees, although it looks like the home 0ffice although it looks like the home office is saying, she was just quoting what refugees had told her. this is actually an actuary story. we have a meeting between priti patel, the home secretary, and her french counterpart over the migrant crisis, which is really building up over the summer and she seems to have accused the french of being racist. part of this accusation appears to stem from the european human rights court ruling in the case of certain migrants that they have been denied the basic rights under french law to which they are entitled while they wait the asylum application to be processed. there isa application to be processed. there is a big background to the story of the front—page piece, inside the mail on sunday, detailing what seems

to be alleged very poor treatment of migrants in paris and the conditions in the camps near calais which priti patel says it's driving them to take these appalling trips across the channel in these inflatable dinghies. 0ne channel in these inflatable dinghies. one of the most interesting things about it is instead of accusing priti patel of being wrong about the french, accused her of not being very intelligent. i'm not sure if that resonates very well. also in the mail on sunday, they are talking about the people behind these migrant crossings, the people who are making money from human misery and it is quite interesting. the mail on sunday has stayed away from the education story which is running everywhere else and going other places on people's mind, in this extremely summer which none of us will ever forget.

i think so say all of us to that, anne. dave, in terms of this particular story, the difficulty i suppose as we finally move out of the transition of the end of this year from the european the transition of the end of this yearfrom the european union, we are not members any longer but we are still in a sense cooperating in lots of ways, we are going to have to do bilateral deals with the french over how the migrant questionnaires handled and presumably personal relationships between the ministers involved might weigh a bet on that. yes, the french have already asked for £30 million to help them to help us for £30 million to help them to help us with the migrant crisis. they should be fulfilling their own obligations. 0ne mp said to me it is a bit like the vikings used to blackmail us for money, not to invade, raid and pillage our shores many years ago. in truth, a deal will have to be done. there are so

many agencies who run that dangerous and busy waterway, the english channel, the border force, hm revenue and customs, the royal navy, the ministry of transport, all these different organisations and we need one overall body to look after this. the whole of the law is difficult here which is why priti patel is having such a difficult time as home secretary trying to stop this wave of migrants coming over and why the mps, the 40 mps on the zoom call while asking so many questions about why the migrants are so desperate to get over to britain. we have this covert threat commander appointed last week a, it will be interesting to see what impact that has. let's move on to the sunday people, the reality is whoever is responsible for it, it is a pretty pessimistic prospect, boris' three

year slump. nobody really knows when we will be out of this recession, if only we did. it depends on so many factors. a vaccine that gets people back to work, more immediately the return to school on which so manyjobs actually depend. how many women will not be able to return to theirjobs full—time and the schools are back and also on the creation of newjobs to replace the hundreds of thousands ofjobs to replace the hundreds of thousands of jobs that to replace the hundreds of thousands ofjobs that are going to be lost? 2023, it is a slightly strange year to ta ke 2023, it is a slightly strange year to take because indeed nobody knows and it is dependent on the number of factors, and also you might say that in some ways the economy, despite the dire figures that we saw during the dire figures that we saw during the week, is already beginning to recover. but that recovery needs to be fostered and that is what boris probably needs to be much more afraid of their own headlines

putting a date on how long his slump, i don't think that is one thing we can entirely blame on boris when it will end. indeed. borisjohnson will have these on that, but, dave, that could be close to future general election. —— boris johnson will be close to future general election. —— borisjohnson will have views on that. the front of the observer, the money might be a bit short and we've been spending a lot of it already, the health services that we might need a bit more this winter. the nhs, they are always asking for more money and there's lots of demands, and the deal was struck with theresa may in 2018 to increase the by 3.4% year on year over five years, given an lecture £20 billion. at the time it was held as a great success at the time it was held as a great success and securing the future of the financing of the health service. we have had the pandemic which came

round the corner rapidly and has changed everything, it is taken a great strain on the nhs which has coped amazingly of course. british eunuch has held himself hostage to fortune in some ways because he says he will give whatever it needs to the nhs -- he will give whatever it needs to the nhs —— rishi sunak has held himself. they need more dosh. more money as ever. an interesting timing because it comes as the telegraph is reporting that matt hancock coming back from holiday this week is going to be axing public health england and replacing it with a new organisation to focus on potential pandemic risk. when i first read the story, i thought, this is how it starts, looking for scapegoats for everything that has happened during the pandemic. public health england, remember the body that used to be in charge of staff like —— stuff like

we ate more healthy food, took more exercise, had a key role in this pandemic which are properly filled out, its resources are not great but whatever, there will be history books written about who failed what during the pandemic. but public health england, which seems to have failed on so many counts including testing and tracing, is going to be done away with and we are going to have a new kind of centre for looking towards future pandemics, hopefully there are none, and during the planning because one of the things is, participate to everyone and now as we look back at events, we thought we were well prepared, indeed we were underprepared on the property extends notjust a public health england but to every part of government. there is a risky as well, a political risk, dave, because the telegraph is reporting that this new organisation will be run by baroness

harding, the former boss of talktalk, not tiktok, that would be worth a fortune. the boss of talktalk, she is married to a conservative mp, she's been in charge of the track and trace system which has been criticised, whether it has been light on its feet, contacting enough people, available, information available to another 30s, is it going to make it vulnerable to this new organisation if it is perceived by being too politically close to government? it isa politically close to government? it is a very good point. i think there is some concern at the heart of government about who takes the blame. this is the start of the blame. this is the start of the blame game, perhaps. there are all these thousands of officials who run these thousands of officials who run the nhs and all other organisations within government and the pandemic has exposed how the government, the ministers still get the blame, the

buck rests on the ministers' tasks which is probably right. but they seem which is probably right. but they seem to be informing the view that if they are going to get the blame for everything that they want a bit more control over this because so much of the health service workings has been devolved to independent agencies like public health england and there has been some criticism at them. they war game a pandemic in 2016 and said when it came and hit us 2016 and said when it came and hit us earlier this year, we were told thatis us earlier this year, we were told that is not enough... we are going to have to stop at that. thank you for a lively paper review, as ever. and forjoining this morning. that was dave and anne. that is it from us. we have lost the intense heat of the past week, but we have not lost the ability to brew up some thunderstorms. the southern half of the uk looks like it could encounter

some issues as they surge up from the south through the afternoon. a band, if you like, i've showered swelling their way across the south—west of england into south wales, the midlands and south—east. the sun comes out, one thing up, a little bit more energy and the on the same means the shower will turn nasty in some places. northern scotland, the better the sunshine. more cloud in the south, showers to the east of northern ireland. the showers, as you can see, localised across parts of southern england and south wales. but just across parts of southern england and south wales. butjust because they are localised, it does not mean they cannot cause significant problems. yesterday in parts of essex, we saw 40 millimetres of rain fall in the space of an hour. it is a similar threat that we are talking about is the showers push pushed away increasingly across wales into the midlands and east anglia through the evening. they may come down a little as they and the night across wales but some heavy rain for northern

england as well. not all areas will get the torrential rain but if you do, you will certainly know about it. warm, muggy overnight, 15 in birmingham. monday, low—pressure dress for the not so a greater risk of rain across southern scotland first thing and then the whole band of rain swings across northern ireland for monday, so after a couple of dry days here, much wetter weather come monday afternoon. for england and wales, small, little spots that could be very intense. the risk of thunderstorms breaking out three monday afternoon. temperatures back closer to average values for the week ahead. it looks like it will come down thanks to the high pressure through the middle pa rt high pressure through the middle part of the week, but then thursday and friday promises this area of low pressure to come rolling away, making it a deeperfeature pressure to come rolling away, making it a deeper feature than we normally expect during the summer, more like something we get in autumn. thursday and friday could

herald the arrival of heavy, persistent rain that widespread a concern. “— persistent rain that widespread a concern. —— widespread gales also a concern.

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