thank you henry bonsu and lord digbyjones. goodbye. good evening. we start with cricket.sailable lead of 61 points —— surrey. the celebrations begun when they passed the victory target of 271. it was one of their outstanding players of the season, south african bowler mornay morkel who struck the winning runs with another key player rikki clarke with him in the middle. surrey. were last champions in 2002. we are absolutely delighted. it is what everyone wants to win. and to do it, we are delighted. more nerve racking than you wanted today when you're six or seven down? definitely, i could have done with being there at the end and it would have made it easier. i was watching my phone most of the time and trying to drink coffee and distract myself. staying with cricket and former england one—day captain paul collingwood will retire at the end of the season more than two decades after making his first—class debut. he played in 68 tests and was part of three ashes winning teams, leading england to victory also at the t20 eight years ago. his final game will be at home to midd

with me is the political commentator, henry bonsu.alking about brexit earlier and michel barnier and it looks like negotiations are not going smoothly. he has issues with the planned from the uk. nicola sturgeon fairly vocal about her views on the uk, brexit and how scotland may try another bid for independence. she is under pressure both inside and outside the party, to gives indications of another referendum. this is for scotla nd another referendum. this is for scotland to be independent of the uk. according to these new poll carried out which are for pro remainers, if we do go forward and do brexit, support for leaving the united kingdom among scots will increase by four point two four to 796, increase by four point two four to 7%, giving it a clear lead to those saying they want to remain at 43%. northern ireland, reunification with the republic of ireland, raking up the republic of ireland, raking up the uk so that will only be england and wales left. some would argue last week scottish politics were in turmoil. alex salmond now

with me is the political commentator, henry bonsu.arnier and it looks like negotiations are not going smoothly. he has issues with the

broadcaster henry bonsu joins me now.e rigg the's reports, and this is a real problem, isn't it —— rigby. 0nly real problem, isn't it —— rigby. only a few days ago michel barnier was saying he would offer the uk an unprecedented deal, and there was speculation in this country that he was under pressure from president macron in france and some in germany to be more flexible, coming back of his claim that 80% of the deal had already been done. we will get to a resolution before the deadline in 0ctober. now he has thrown a spanner in the works. he is not talking about cherry—picking, he says britain can't be allowed to pick raisins, iam britain can't be allowed to pick raisins, i am not sure where that idiom comes from. it is highly unusual. i don't think there is an expression in french which can explain it, but he calls part of theresa may's plant in sane and illegal and it would be an invitation to fraud. one of the issues that he highlights is the fa ct issues that he highlights is the fact that in the so—called checkers

at the papers with our reviewers the former trade minister, lord digbyjones and the broadcaster, henry bonsufor that. two russian men — named by the british authorities as suspects in the chemical attack in salisbury — have appeared on russia today, russia's state—funded television channel. the pair — who identify themselves as alexander petrov and ruslan boshirov — claim they are the victims of a fantastical coincidence and insist they are innocent. in their first comments since being accused of poisoning the former russian agent sergei skripal and his daughter, they said they were tourists on a visit to salisbury cathedral. our security correspondent gordon corera has more details. last week, britain presented ruslan boshirov and alexander petrov as a pair of russian military intelligence officers, assassins, sent with nerve agent to kill. but today we saw a different side. they told the kremlin—funded news channel they were tourists who had come to salisbury to see the sights. translation: what were you doing there? our friends had suggested for a long time we visit this wonderful town. s

— our guests joining me tonight are former trade minister, lord digbyjones and the broadcaster, henry bonsuternational driving permit to drive on the continent, if no deal is reached in the brexit negotiations before next march. the warning comes in papers published by the government to help businesses and consumers plan for life outside the eu. and there's no guarantee that free mobile phone roaming in the eu will remain the same either. the prime minister has been holding a cabinet meeting to discuss the latest preparations as our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. sending a message across the continent, making a call, hiring a car. if there's no deal between the uk and the eu, free and easy becomes costly and hard. the brexit secretary hopes the government has it under control. we would face short—term risks and short—term disruption. what we need to have in place and what people would expect us to have in place is a set of plans and proposals and a readiness amongst our institutional capacity for staff and government to manage those risks, avoid them where possible, or mitigate