and st helens head coach justin holbrook is expected to be named the new coach of the gold coast titanshe next 2a hours. holbrookjoined saints in 2017 and guided them to a first challenge cup final in 11 years after they beat championship side halifax on saturday. the club are also 10 points clear at the top of super league. holbrook‘s expected to see out the rest of this season with saints. back to cricket now and with the ashes just days away and australia looking to succeed in england for the first time since 2001, one englishman has been leading the way down under. and you've probably not heard of him. charlie hemphrey was spat out of the english game eight years ago without playing county cricket. after working as a baggage handler in brisbane, he's since gone on to become the first english player to score a first class century in australia since 1978, winning their domestic competition. now at the age of 29, he's finally getting his first shot at the county game over here. ben croucher has been to meet him. i had had enough here. i thought cricket has passed me by. i did not see a

and justin holbrook will leave the super league leaders st helen‘s at the end of the season.e, with his side top of the league and into the challenge cup final. that‘s all the sport for now. i‘ll have more for you in the next hour. many thanks. president trump has been keen to show his support for britain leaving the european union. his former strategist steve bannon is also watching politics here in the uk very closely. 0ur north america editorjohn sopel caught up with him at a conference on the border with mexico, to get his thoughts on brexit and our new prime minister. when theresa may and the team came over early in the administration, they looked at brexit as an obstacle to be overcome, not an opportunity to be grabbed. you can tell that, i think, right away. if you look at 16, brexit and the trump election are inextricably linked. here we are two and half, three years later with brexit and you are still not out and now you have a hard deadline on october 31st. it was inevitable somebody like boris would come to the forefront and become prime minister and now, it is sti

and st helens head coach justin holbrook is expected to be named the new coach of the gold coast titansge cup final in 11 years after they beat championship side halifax on saturday. the club are also 10 points clear at the top of super league. holbrook‘s expected to see out the rest of this season with saints. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. bye. we started this week off on a fine note. plenty of sunshine up and down the country on monday and it was quite warm to. now we turn our attention to this area of low pressure which is going to bring some unseasonably strong winds and heavy showers, feel quite cool as well. certainly today, feeling on the call slide. some of these downpours could lead to localised flooding and it could be strong winds which cause issues to trees bring —— being infull winds which cause issues to trees bring —— being in full leaf. showers affecting southwest england and wales, migrating north and east wards. you can see where some of the heaviest of the showers will be. wales in the south—west. winds

coming up on sportsday on bbc news, st helens head coachjustin holbrook is expected to be named the new see out the rest of the season with saints. three months after the journalist lyra mckee was shot dead during rioting in northern ireland by the republican group the new ira, no—one has been charged with her murder. in londonderry, where she died, tensions with paramilitaries remain. 0ur ireland correspondent emma vardy has been back to the estate where lyra mckee was killed, and reports on the dissidents pushing anti—police campaigns, and the threats to the community. in the area of derry known as the creggan, normality belies an undercurrent of violence. this mainly catholic housing estate remains one of northern ireland's last strongholds where banned irish nationalist groups or dissident republicans still hold some sway. that is saying to people, just you keep quiet and we'll do what we like here. since the death of lyra mckee, ira signs have appeared in the main street warning people not to speak to police. this one here says informers will be shot, with a picture of a rat on it.

stephen: actually, this discussion actually happened in earnest about ten years ago, and richard holbrookeon. i don't know if you know willie. >> of course, i come from texas. >> stephen: willie came to richard and said why don't we have a department of peace? he said, willie, we do, it's called the state department, it's just not used that way. >> let's talk about that. we have a $750 billion military budget, then the state department, is $40 billion. within the state department we have peace building agencies. building peace is as sophisticated a level of expertise as is military skill which is also certainly important, but the military is like a surgeon, of course we have to have the best surgeon, but any person knows you avoid surgery if at all possible. our peace buildings get less than one dollar billion in the budget and peace building skills, there are four factors which statistically prove that, when present, they increase the incidents of peace and they decrease the incidents of violence. number one, expanding economic opportunities for women, number two, expanding educational op

commission president due to issues in the government coalition personal knowledge of the local support holbrooke 1st and foremost we have chosen to women. for the 4 peoples issues a perfect gender. really happy about it after all europe is a woman child michelle the belgian prime minister is nominated to be the next head of the european council with spain's foreign minister josep barrel as the e.u.'s foreign policy chief while the international monetary fund boss christine lagarde is nominated to head the european central bank you know had 6 in the tide of course we all had to give a bit we all had to move but once again the european council has approved the fact that it's capable of doing so and given the disparate conceptions in europe and amongst the various party groups and families and the various prime ministers i believe it to be an athlete. the dutch labor leader from his to movements had been seen as the front runner for a commission president as the talks started on sunday but there was a big push back from countries including poland hungary the czech republic and slovakia the so-calle

over, flight on the way holbrook was banging away at carter the whole trip. on the plane, i searched the record, there is no indication they made any decision. the next day at this economic summit, president 2001, nonounced before money has ever done that before. i a career bureaucrat couldn't do that. i came to greatly respect jimmy carter for having the guts to make the right call, he ignored all this noise down here. he said this is what it needs. and he made the right call. we came back from geneva. this one thing on vice president mondale. his speech is absolutely brilliant. it was so accepted by the delegates. left out one little thing, a test of civilization. after the delegates left and a few weeks later, the night closed in. that really struck people. who wants to match what we did? 290 million new dollars, which doesn't sound like much now. my job was to carry it out. i was just heartsick. we did not have the competence to do this. had were alle we on geneva. who's going to review it? back and i call all of the ngo's in the united states. we spent t

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justin holbrook will lead league leaders st helens at the end of the season.ght. some serious chirping coming from the pirates dug out. and now garrett is on his way to the dugout, and here we go. oh! so this is the cincinnati reds pitcher and garrett reacting to some heckling from the pittsburgh pirates bench. here it is, sparking a mass brawl between the two sides which lasted for two five minutes. five reds players were ejected from the game. you don't want to see scenes like that. that's all the sport for now. more on the next hour. see you then. thank you very much. borisjohnson has been holding talks with the five main political parties in northern ireland, after promising to do everything in his power to restore the power—sharing government at stormont. but the prime minister has been met with angerfrom sinn fein, who say his reliance on the dup means his claim to be impartial is "laughable". the conservative leader relies on the support of the dup's ten mps for a commons majority. the leader of sinn fein, mary lou macdonald, also warned mrjohnson that

helens head coach, the last half hour, justin holbrook is expected to be made at the new coach of the saturday. the club also ten points clear at the top of super league, they are expected to see out the rest of the season with saints. that is all this but for now you can find more and all of the stories at the bbc sport website, but because i see a gay forward site sports and below have you —— more for you at 6:30 p:m.. borisjohnson has said he‘s "very confident" a new brexit deal can be reached with the eu, despite the government stepping up its preparations for no—deal. the prime minister, who is spending the day in scotland, where leaving without an agreement is widely opposed, said the backstop proposal aimed at preventing a hard border in ireland was "dead". but he said there was scope for a new plan, provided there was "goodwill and common sense". what we want to do is make it absolutely clear that the backstop is no good. it has got to go. the withdrawal agreement is dead, it has got to go. but there is scope to do a new deal. do you have proposals that you will take to brusse