death of the ten—year—old, found dead at her home near london last year. the health secretary announces plans to name and shame failing hospitals and new tables in england. and timothy west known for his roles in coronation street and east enders has died at the age of 90. let's catch up at the age of 90. let's catch up with all of today's sport headlines. hello from the bbc sport centre. carlos alcaraz has responded to a surprise defeat that opened his atp tour finals by beating his second opponent to keep his chances of reaching the semi finals alive in turin. having lost to casper ruud, alcaraz then had to overcome illness to practice yesterday... but it didn't seem to hamper him too much today against andrey rublev. the four time grand slam champion took the first set 6—3 and although rublev made it more of a contest in the second. alcaraz claimed the tiebreak to win in straight sets. meanwhile, the opening tie of the billiejean king cup between spain and poland

in malaga has been postponed due to a severe weather alert that's followed another period of heavy rain in southern spain. the tie was originally scheduled for wednesday and will now take place on friday. our tennis correspondent russell fuller is there. the problem is that this is a stadium, albeit an indoor stadium, albeit an indoor stadium that is purpose built for the believe jean stadium that is purpose built for the believejean king cup finals for the region of and lussier decided to switch the finals from seville to malaga or injuly. it's been erected in a shallow bowl and there is significant flooding around to the arena. ankle deep in places. we are not allowed access to the site so we cannot say whether the interior of the arena has been affected. as a result, spain against poland is not taking place today. it will be staged instead from 10am local time on friday morning and the first tie of the finals is now do to be japan against romania at ten o'clock tomorrow

morning, but with the rain do to continue until at least nightfall, there is a significant amount of work for the organisers to do to get it safe for the spectators by then. chelsea's women's champions league match against celtic later takes their captain back home. erin cuthbert returns to glasgow for the match between the winners of the english and scottish domestic leagues, and she's been impressed with how the women's game is developing in scotland. it's a great moment, really excited to play at celtic park. i think these games should be in the biggest of stadiums and it's great there's so much hype around it in scotland. the fact we have these in the big stadiums and there will be so many young girls that come tomorrow night, whether they want to play for chelsea or celtic, they think that's possible and that they can achieve their wildest dreams, so i think it's something i certainly never had eight years ago so it shows how far the women's game has grown in scotland. in this evening's other matches, galatasaray host wolfsburg, with both sides looking for their first win of the campaign. real madrid welcome dutch side fc twenteh to the spanish capital, while roma face

eight—time champions lyon. both sides have two wins from two so far. after defeats by new zealand and then australia, england's autumn internationals do not get any easier at the weekend. but one of the team's coaches insists the negative attention they're getting ahead of the challenge of facing world champions south africa is part of the "privelege" of playing for your country. richard wigglesworth also admits there's a pressure to get results after four consecutive defeats in all. a couple of points away from feeling very, very different, but we didn't. so what we need to change is making sure we are on the right end of those results and there's some stuff on saturday that we didn't enjoy watching back, so take the learning that then translates to these pockets of good into more consistency, which will show results. we cannot mope around going into play in the double world championship, the best team in the world. so we are getting

really excited about that challenge, and a huge challenge it is. we need to be ready to be ripping into it. and that's all the sport for now. back to you, matthew. keeping an eye on washington, the white house on capitol hill after the new senate majority leader has been elected. waiting for the first response is there. so as soon as anything happens we will return straightaway to washington. but here, here, the health secretary, wes streeting, has announced new performance league tables which will show failing hospitals in england. he says nhs managers who don't improve patient care will be sacked. our health editor, hugh pym, has the latest. wes streeting had already made it clear there would be no extra money for the nhs without reform. the budget set out funding. today he told an audience of nhs leaders it was time to deliver better value for money. so improving services for patients should be rewarded, and the quid pro quo is there will be no more rewards for failure. the work you do couldn't be more serious.

when you get it right, lives are saved. when you don't, the consequences can be tragic. if performance slips, i reserve the right to take those freedoms away. and for those judged to be persistently failing, we will act, going from zero consequences for failure, to zero tolerance. the plans include league tables for nhs trusts in england, with a range of performance benchmarks, stopping wage rises for nhs bosses and other performing trusts, and removing bosses at failing trusts. so what did health leaders make of it? trust leaders absolutely recognise the scale of the task and the need for this to be a genuinely supportive endeavour between the secretary of state and themselves. and there is an unintended risk here in kind of rooting out failure that we perpetuate some of the challenges that are there. wes streeting did say that trusts which improved patient care and were more efficient would get extra funding for equipment, and the freedom

to decide how to invest it. others welcome the idea of improving nhs accountability, but warn that in practice the reforms might not help. there is a danger that it creates this target chasing culture where people don't spend the time actually sorting out really structural, difficult, important things we need to do. we've got huge problems around capitaland buildings, it, and the reform of social care. and in a way i want my managers to be incentivised to spend time trying to fix those things, which make the staff more productive. winter is approaching with all the pressures that brings — crowded a&e units and long waits. there is still an overall waiting list of more than 7.6 million in england for planned treatment. patients and staff may feel those should be the priorities for ministers.

a bbc undercover investigation has exposed failures in a safety scheme meant to protect vulnerable people in pubs, bars and night clubs. the ask for angela initiative is now in place at thousands of venues nationwide and provides a discreet lifeline for people who believe they are in danger to use the codeword "angela" to get help. but secret filming by bbc researchers found that in half of the london venues they visited, including major chains, staff failed to know what to do. the bbc received similar reports from across the uk. guy lynn has this exclusive report. is there anyone called angela here? erm, no. a bbc undercover researcher pretending she's on a date asks for angela. angela's not a person, but a code word for "i need help." this bar, like many others we discover, is subscribed to the safety scheme but fails to do it in practice. is there anyone called angela around? angela? anyone called angela 7 no? ask for angela is a national safety scheme running

in thousands of pubs, bars and clubs with a simple concept. if you're in distress, go up to the bar and ask for angela. specially trained staff should help you to safety straight away. after tip offs, our undercover journalists are secretly recording to see if pubs and bars are doing it properly. at this music venue in brixton, it's a pitch perfect response. is angela around the corner? is she working today? yeah. i'm just getting uncomfortable, that's all. i'm just gonna go. okay. our researcher is led to safety immediately and gets help from the manager. anything that we can help with or anything you want to talk to us about? absolutely. contrast with this. is angela working tonight? is she — angela? no. numerous pubs advertise online they're running the scheme.

posters in toilets reassure women and everyone else that they will be helped out if they feel in danger. but the reality time and again when we ask for angela. angela? no. angela? i'm the manager. i know my stuff. okay. for this investigation, the bbc visited 25 venues across various parts of london. 13 — more than half of them had no idea what we were talking about, and we heard reports of similar problems across the uk. a lot of people check in advance to see, and if ask angela is at a bar, you're like, okay, they'll have my back if anything happens. we're already telling our friends where we are. we're already telling people, track us, have us track our phones. we think that we're in an area that we're going to be safe, and it's really more than disappointing. it's putting women at risk.

a number of bars and clubs were run by some of the uk's largest chains. the ask for angela charity running the scheme, said it was disappointed at what we found. many councils now make ask for angela a key part of getting an alcohol licence at all. yet in too many cases, this investigation has shown angela is nowhere to be found. guy lynn, bbc news. let's speak to farah benis, an ask for angela ambassador. she has spearheaded campaigns against public harassment against public harassment against women. welcome here to the programme. that report is really worrying because if people think there is a safety net but there isn't, the problem is obvious. thank you for having _ problem is obvious. thank you for having me. _ problem is obvious. thank you for having me. look, - problem is obvious. thank you for having me. look, it- problem is obvious. thank you for having me. look, it is- for having me. look, it is disappointing to see that some venues are struggling to respond to ask for angela appropriately, but it's equally important to recognise the other half where it is working

well. forthose other half where it is working well. for those venues that are facing challenges, i think we've got a myriad of factors such as tight budgets, high staff turnover and the fact that this training is not mandatory. so that makes consistent implementation difficult, especially when anyone can download a poster off the internet without any guidance. i would also like to say that it is really important to note that tackling violence against women and girls cannot be done with a single solution, and ask for angela is one piece of that puzzle and we cannot deny that it has been an incredibly successful educational and sensitisation campaign. the problem lies where venues need both resources and structured support. resources and structured smart-— resources and structured su . ort, �* , ., ., support. i'm 'ust going to dive in and ask_ support. i'm just going to dive in and ask you _ support. i'm just going to dive in and ask you a _ support. i'm just going to dive in and ask you a question -

support. i'm just going to dive in and ask you a question that| in and ask you a question that is linked to what you are saying, because is it clear to you why it is not being recognised in those cases we were showing? what is it a lack of publicity? is it training, what do you think is the cause of that? i what do you think is the cause of that? ., �* ,._ what do you think is the cause ofthat? ., �* �*, of that? i wouldn't say it's a lack of publicity. _ of that? i wouldn't say it's a lack of publicity. i _ of that? i wouldn't say it's a lack of publicity. i would - of that? i wouldn't say it's a j lack of publicity. i would say it's the lack of training. the reality is that, as i said before, anyone can download a poster off the internet, and if venues are just doing that been thinking that is enough, well, it's not, is it?— it's not, is it? have you had to ever _ it's not, is it? have you had to ever use _ it's not, is it? have you had to ever use it? _ it's not, is it? have you had to ever use it? i _ it's not, is it? have you had to ever use it? i haven't - to ever use it? i haven't personallv- _ to ever use it? i haven't personally. i— to ever use it? i haven't personally. i have - to ever use it? i haven't personally. i have had l to ever use it? i haven't - personally. i have had some experiences during my years, but the reality is that i'm a security professional, so and also and ask for angela traynor. so for me, ifeel a bit more equipped personally to handle it over a young bartender, for example. that's of course won't be everyone's

reality. so we need, as we know, we need to see an improvement in this reporting mechanism to ensure that it is working betterfor those mechanism to ensure that it is working better for those who are vulnerable.— working better for those who are vulnerable. you talked in our are vulnerable. you talked in your first _ are vulnerable. you talked in your first answer _ are vulnerable. you talked in your first answer about - are vulnerable. you talked in your first answer about the i your first answer about the obvious downside of this investigation, but the upside as well. in terms of where it works, what is the sort of frequency that it's being used? to be honest, i would be making it up if i had any statistic for you, it up if i had any statistic foryou, but it up if i had any statistic for you, but i have had a lot of positive feedback and i know that ask angela's organisation has. there are plenty across the board. has. there are plenty across the board-— the board. plenty of work obviously _ the board. plenty of work obviously to _ the board. plenty of work obviously to be _ the board. plenty of work obviously to be done - the board. plenty of work obviously to be done as l the board. plenty of work- obviously to be done as well. we have to leave it there but thank you forjoining us on the programme. more than 100 post office branches and a thousand jobs are at risk, in a major restructuring of the business. the company chairman says the re—organisation would offer a new deal for sub—postmasters. but a union has called the timing of the announcement �*tone deaf�*.

our business correspondent, marc ashdown, reports. after nearly a year of intense scrutiny over its past, today the post office is looking to its future. the new chairman, nigel railton, has been carrying out a strategic review, which he says is a bold and exciting overhaul which genuinely puts postmasters at the heart of the business. subject to government funding, it will see us building a new deal for postmasters. you hear that a lot today. but i hope we will start a new chapter in our relationship, by transforming the service and the support you receive from the post office, and by strengthening your voice across the entire organisation. he promised that postmasters will be undervalued no more. their annual remuneration will increase by £250 million a year by 2030. he also wants to cut costs and improve the finances by addressing loss—making parts of the network, and to enhance services for communities by overhauling technology, introducing 500 new banking hubs. the post office has 11,500

branches across the uk. most are run as franchises. but 115 are crown post offices, like this one. they're owned and managed by the organisation, but they�* re loss—making. so their future is uncertain, putting at risk up to 1,000 jobs, along with hundreds of roles at head office. the dvla are saying no. gerry brown is one of thousands of self—employed sub—postmasters. he welcomes the idea of a slimmed down centre. it will hopefully put more money in his pocket. well, the most important thing is an increase in our remuneration, in our pay. we have been starved of cash. our income has been cut, services have been cut, and it's made it impossible to run a post office. but the union representing post office staff described the plan as tone deaf and immoral. we are not going to support the idea that they close the entire crown post office network or franchise. that's not going to create

a future for the post office. and we're certainly not going to support this attack on our members' jobs. we will be looking for the government to intervene. the government said it is in active discussions with nigel railton. a consultation will follow as he tries to convince ministers, the public and sub—postmasters that this new deal is a good deal. mark ashdown, bbc news. the transport secretary has announced a review of how train companies enforce their fares. louise haigh has asked the rail watchdog to investigate the use of criminal prosecutions, amid concerns that some passengers are being treated too harshly. our transport correspondent, sean dilley, has the latest. show me the pass you used. no, no, you didn't use this. you didn't use it. these inspectors are looking for fare dodgers. you didn't use this one either. criminals who rob taxpayers and passengers, leading to higher ticket prices for all of us. who is that then? did you know what you were doing was wrong? of course i've done wrong.

people who deliberately avoid payment can be prosecuted. but the government says these powers and threats should not be used against people who make genuine mistakes. i have asked the office for rail and road to carry out an independent review of ticket enforcement across the rail network. we have seen some egregious examples of fare prosecutions. and while fare evasion is totally unacceptable and we will continue to pursue it, we need to be clear where people have made genuine mistakes. it was all sparked by this man, sam williamson. the engineering student was told he could face prosecution after being caught out by nuanced terms and conditions. he saved £1.90 on a journey by using his 16 to 25 railcard. but despite being sold a ticket that said it was valid at any time, inspectors told him he could not use his discount on an on peak service unless the undiscounted fare was above £12. i really welcome this news from the transport secretary. i know that the way my case was handled felt much too heavy—handed and i've heard so many other stories of people

who have experienced similar. so i hope this is the first step towards the train operating companies being more responsible in how they are using these prosecutions. sam's case was eventually dropped by northern. the publicly owned company withdrew similar live prosecutions and said it would look at historical cases. the independent review will look at when it's right to prosecute passengers. what is important with this review is getting to the point of actually making the process for chasing passengers and collecting fares as fair and reasonable as possible, and only pursuing those passengers actively avoiding fares. rail evaders are prosecuted under a law made in 1889. 135 years on, the government says it wants to look at how they slow is being used today.

sean dilley, bbc news. the health secretary said there are "legitimate concerns" over the role of physician associates amid worries they are being used to replace fully—qualified doctors. campaigners where he lives are being put at risk. —— worry lives are being put at risk. it was my mum, wife, grandma. a family's grief, caught in the middle of a toxic debate in the nhs. he thought he was doing right and he was in a situation where he wasn't supported. i think they were being used basically as cheap labour in that situation. the role of the physician associate, a doctor's assistant. do they support, or can they put lives at risk? you don't know what you don't know. and if you've done less training, you can get into deep

water without realising that you're getting into deep water. 59 years old, this album. susan, that's kate's mum and roy's wife, died in hospital injuly last year. she was just the best mum, really. she just lived for us, lived for us all, really. and that's your mum, she'd probably be about 18 there. she had been treated by a physician, associate, or pa for short. they are healthcare professionals with two years of medical training who work across the nhs. i've always said we don't blame the pa. yes, he made mistakes. but would he have made those mistakes had he been supervised? the pa left a drain in susan's abdomen 15 hours longer than it should have been. the 77—year—old developed an infection and died two days later.

so you thought that the physician's associate was a doctor? yeah. yes. definitely, yeah. you don't think about going into a hospital and saying, can i have your name, please, what's your qualification? you just presume that they're going to get looked after. the coroner at susan's inquest said she had died due to an unnecessary procedure, contributed to by neglect, and said that without proper oversight nationally, patients were at risk. the general medical council, which is due to oversee their role from next month, says regulation will improve patient safety. even though physician associates make up just a small proportion of the nhs workforce, the debate around them has become increasingly toxic. where an associate's job begins and ends, and where a doctor'sjob begins and ends, has become very, very blurred. it's something which strikes right to the heart of you as a doctor. how are these people coming in who have done less than we have, less training, less exams, less everything and doing the samejob? but are patients being put at risk? we think they are. we think that having patients treated by people with less experience must have have an impact. speaking earlier on bbc breakfast, the health secretary said plans to increase pa numbers were currently on hold. before we put the foot down on the accelerator to expand the number of roles, i think we firstly need to take

before we put the foot down on the accelerator to expand the number of roles, i think we firstly need to take stock on where we are, dive deeply into some of the challenges that have been put to us by the medical profession about the deployment of these roles, because i need to assure myself, in order to assure the country, that we've got the right people in the right place doing the right thing. the nhs trust which oversees royal oldham hospital said it was deeply sorry, and that they owed it to mrs pollitt and her family to make things safer for patients in the future. the pollitts aren't looking to blame one person, or even one hospital. they want national change. there's nothing we can do for my mum now. um, but there's no point in being angry and having that bitterness for the rest of our lives. ruth clegg, bbc news. the actor timothy west, has died at the age of 90. in a diverse career spanning seven decades, he appeared in soap operas, dramas and tv sitcoms.

he is survived by his wife, the fawlty towers star prunella scales. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba looks back at his life. lords, i protest my soul is full of woe, that blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. as an actor he was one of the most skilled of his generation. he had a love and a gift for shakespeare. mourn with me for what i do lament and put on sullen black in continent. his henry bolingbroke in a bbc adaptation of richard ii won him huge acclaim. as did his appearances in king lear, love's labours lost and macbeth. his presence and passion meant he was also in demand in cinema. here portraying a calm determination as a police officer on the hunt for edward fox's jackal in the day of the jackal. without a name all other proposals are meaningless. the first task then

is to find it. over the years he was regularly cast in a variety of tv shows, and was one of the small group of actors to appear in both eastenders... what's the beard for — lost your shaver? i like it. ah, suits you. ..and coronation street. i'm off for a walk. do you want company? no, i'll be on my own, if you don't mind. in later years he devoted himself to caring for his wife, fawlty towers actress prunella scales, who had been diagnosed with dementia. some of their time together was filmed for great canal journeys on channel 4. i just feel really that i don't any more have anyone really to talk to. as tv it was gentle and moving. a touching view of a marriage and a partnership that lasted for more than six decades. the actor timothy west who has died at the age of 90.

that is almost edge from me today, pictures live from the white house, where we think that meeting between donald trump orjoe biden is still going on, about an hour and a half so far. earlier, we saw the two of them, handshakes and smiles with donald trump saying politics is tough. talking about the smooth transition of power. live shots from capitol hill waiting for the first response after the senate majority leader elected in the last couple of hours. thanks for watching the programme today. we will see with the same time tomorrow. hello. it's starting to feel a little colder now, and of course, you'd expect that we're well into november, but i think more of the same as far as the weather goes for the rest of this week.

the really chilly weather conditions won't arrive until next week, with widespread frosts expected at night, but for the time being, it's still about the high pressure, just about. but we are seeing signs of the weather turning in the north of the uk. this is the satellite picture from earlier on a cold front, a weak cold front moving through scotland and england and wales through the night. so a little bit of light rain and drizzle possible. but to the north i think we're expecting the skies to clear end of the night and it could be quite chilly in the glens of scotland. a touch of frost is possible for most towns and cities, though you can see temperatures are between around five and ten celsius, so relatively mild starts off quite grey. tomorrow in the south could be again a little bit of drizzle for a time and cloudy elsewhere too. but through the morning into the afternoon the cloud cover should thin and actually may end up being a pretty decent day with some sunny spells but not guaranteed. temperatures 1a in belfast, but for the most part i think it'll be around 11 or 12. here's friday morning then. crucially, the winds are still coming in from the southwest, so that's relatively mild air mass. here's that first cold front that's behind this cold front that we have,

that colder air streaming in from the arctic. it's going to be a very gradual process. so we're not expecting a sudden drop in the temperature. it'll be a couple of degrees every day over the weekend and into next week. but that is very much the headline, because we haven't seen a chilly spell of weather for quite some time, and this is certainly going to be the coldest weather we will have seen this season so far. so the cold fronts sweeping across the country during the course of sunday, introducing that colder air, squeezing the milder air towards the south. look at the wind arrows. they're pointing all the way from the norwegian sea and the arctic. and in fact, next week we'll see a widespread frost across the uk. whether you're north or south around coastal areas, it'll probably be above freezing, say three orfour celsius. but for many of us, scenes like this frosty countryside on the way and by day temperatures could be only around five or six celsius. so yes, colder weather on the way, but notjust yet. a few more days of this relatively mild weather.

at six: heading back to the white house, donald trump flies into washington to meet president biden. all smiles today as they meet to discuss the transition of power. donald trump assures him it would be "as smooth as you can get". politics is tough and it's, in many

cases, not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today. also tonight: the actor timothy west has died at the age of 90, leaving behind his wife of 61 years, prunella scales. surprise at the old bailey, as the father of ten—year—old sara sharif — who was found dead at her home in surrey — says he takes full responsibility for her death. woman gasps she's gone. panic on spain's costa del sol — thousands of homes are evacuated in malaga, as more torrential rain sparks flooding. and was this whale really a russian spy? the mystery may have just been solved. and coming up on bbc news, eight england players have dropped out of lee carsley�*s squad for the interim manager's final two games in charge. they are in athens to play greece tomorrow and host ireland on sunday.