Just what the pressure is now. And the chief executive there is with is to explain how bad it might get as the peak season arrives. Weve heard a lot about trump and the russians allegedly digging the dirt on Hillary Clinton last year. It seems her campaign was paying for dirt to be found on donald trump. Awkward 7 or obvious . We talk to her trusted advisor, sidney blumenthal. And from trump, to the queen, Annie Leibowitz has photographed them all. I just thought, thats my photograph of the president and first lady. It was a classic Helmut Newton style photograph of melania with donald trump, sort of, as an ornament. Hello. We are giving you a forewarning of something important tonight, a possible impending crisis in the nhs. Winter is coming, and that is the busy season. But strange things have been happening to climate in the nhs, there appears to have been no summer, no quiet season. Its operating at full pelt through the year so we are heading into winter without any slack, and that could be catastrophic for waiting times over the next few months. You will see what im talking about in this film made by nick blakemore, documenting a slice of life at Queen Elizabeths hospital in birmingham over a four day period. Before you watch, remember that while the nhs is a caring human service, it can also be seen as a production line. There is a flow of people in and out of treatment and the two have to match. If the back end is clogged up, the effects ripple back through the system. Ed sister, can i help . My names eve gillepie, im one of the senior sisters in the a e department at the Queen Elizabeth hospital. So youve still got two empty at the moment . Lovely. Yeah. As soon as we get some space out here well think about shoping some people around, 0k . The way that things have become in a a e over the last two years, we are at breaking point. It cant carry on. The queues on the corridor, and the situation the patients are in and the departments in, its unsafe. I slipped down the stairs, and i think i broke my foot. Im in a lot of pain. Very bad. You just dont expect to see so many people, and you know, people not having beds, not being seen to by doctors. It just feels like were in a third world country, to be honest with you. Were probably seeing 100 patients more a day than we were a year ago. Two or three patients used to be stressful, but over the last couple of years, this is just an average day that we would have this many patients on the corridor at one time. And were not even in winter yet. No. No, sorry. Excuse me. Were going into the Emergency Department to see a gentleman whos already been in the Emergency Department for over eight hours. So where are we going . Were going to resus. He needs to be in a bed on our medical admissions unit. We havent been able to find that space for him. I think the delay weve got is because were waiting for a side room. Yeah, 0k. So, is he going to be stable enough to go into a side room . He probably is, actually. Yeah, i think if we can get him a little bit more fluid. The nhs is breaking at the seams. The amount of people who need the services we can offer is growing, and we just do not have the resource to deal with that. Although hes not full resuscitation, i would expect him to recover from this episode, if that makes sense. 0k. Brilliant. Thank you, adam. The reason we have people queueing round the corners in the Emergency Department is because the whole system is stuck. Were congested. Theres nowhere for anybody to go. If i cant discharge people from the back end of the hospital, so people needing the Long Term Care because of lack of community services, that means theres no beds that come up on the acute wards. Which means theres no beds coming up on the medical admissions unit, and thats why people are stuck in a e cubicles or even on the corridor in the Emergency Department. Right, then, bernard. How are you feeling . Im knackered all the time. I cant use energy up doing anything else. Ive been a pain in the arse on the ward, because i know i am, because im blocking a sick persons bed up. And i know they cant do anything else for me. And youve been in hospital for, its about five weeks this time, isnt it . And because of you getting so breathless, thats why were looking for you to move into 24 hour care. Sure, yeah. I must have had four people come to talk to me. Ive been rejected by all of them, because of this. Because care homes dont normally have built in oxygen. Bernards told us that four different places have turned him down so far. And when i asked him how that made him feel, he pointed out that nobody actually gives him the direct message, its the staff come and assessing, and they never actually say to his face, we dont want you. I aint bothered snuffing it tomorrow. I wouldnt do anything to help it. I dont want reviving again. I dont want to keep coming backwards. I dont want to live whatever the rest of my life is like this. Im going to leave you, all right . Is that still hot . Yeah. Thats still warm. Thats still hot. Can we start moving some people down into rooms for me, the one at the front into two. The one behind into three. And then well go in. This chappie into two for me. And the lady behind into three. Ive got cancer. And what happened today . Ive been very weak. And so, i had to get in touch with relatives. Who got in touch with the doctors, and here i am. I phone up every morning, because we live a bit of a way away from frank. And over the past few days, hes become progressively weaker. How do you feel about having to wait in the corridor . Its a sign of our times, isnt it. I mean, theyre under so much pressure now from various things. Its what you expect, really. Ten years ago, i never once nursed a patient in a corridor. Never once had to shuffle people around, and explain why we were sending them out into the waiting room. It was easily managed within the department. Over the years, especially the last two years. The renal colic man can go into six. Its just dreadful. Theres just no space for people. Walk round and see if theres anyone that can move out of cubicles, so we can off load the new ones. So we asked you to come here so we can complete an assessment on your mother, who is vera yates, yeah . Date of birth, the 30th of august, 1924. Shes got advanced vascular dementia. I wont be recommending continuing health care at this moment in time. Where does this leave mum as far as her care . Itjust means now that her care will not be funded by health. So she will receive £155. 05 per week from the nhs towards her care in a nursing home. I have 30 beds on this ward. Back injanuary, i had three or four patients, possibly, who had been on here for a few weeks, most people are on here for two or three weeks up the mess. Now, i have at least ten patients who are out on the social Services Computer system waiting for a long term placement. Im getting people with more challenging behavioural problems on the ward. Theyre people who find it hard to find a care home that can meet their needs. Have you had a cup of tea this afternoon, mum . I think so. You think so . The overall process of moving from where we are now to where mum needs to be during the next few weeks is just the concern we have at the moment. Singing shes off now my background is, when you start the process off, you create a deadline, dont you. I dont know whether thats there. And im just concerned that this thing will drag on. Phone rings qe alert phone. Hi, trauma desk. Im ringing from a e. Were getting a code red through. So if we could have. Pelvic. Txo. 15 minutes. By land. 0k. Ill call you back as soon as have a hostel number and trauma name. Its a 30 year old male. Weve got no itu beds for the code red. 0k. Which im addressing at the moment. Im going to have to pull someone out of itu into the beds. To see the nhs as it is now, i dont see it getting any better. I dont know what the answer is to it. But in my eyes, its just going to get worse. So, hes had agonal breathing, theyre worried cardiovascularly, so agonal breathing was agitated. It was a push bike. A code red . Weve got a code red trauma call in about 15 minutes. A 30 year old male. I feel for the patients. How long have we got . 15 minutes. I feel for the new nurses coming through that have to work in an Emergency Department like this, to never have known it how it was, its a shame. Itjust seems to be acceptable to treat people on the corridor, and you know, its not dignified, really, is it. Its not the way we want to treat our patients, but we dont have a choice. Heroic efforts to cope at Queen Elizabeth hospital. Thats how it feels at one very large hospital, and well talk to the chief executive shortly. But im with our policy editor chris cook, so lets get more on the national picture. Give us a wider sense of whats going on in the Emergency Services all over the country. Birmingham is not alone, there is a structural problem with a e at the moment. At the moment, what we look for in a es, 95 of patients should be dealt with within four hours of coming in. This is the 95 line, where they are supposed to be, 2011 12. On the left side of the graph, that is 2011 summer. There is a dip in the winter. They mostly stay at 95 . There is a wobble in the winter and that is it. The year after that, 2012 13, there is a bigger wobble in the winter, it takes longer to get back to the line, but we are up there. In the game for 95 . 2015 16 is a different year. It starts lower. It dives deeply, and doesnt really recover. We lose a chunk of performance this year, which we have never got back. If we draw in the line from last year, we can see the server started low, dived really low, pulled it back, but we are going into this winter a long way from where we are supposed to be. Thats a e, hospitals do more than a e, what is the importance of the accident and emergency . Apart from the intrinsic importance as health providers, what you saw in the film was an example of how they are interconnected to everything else. The measure of a e is helpful, it is a canary in the coal mine, it helps us see the bigger picture, the health of the health system. Well, back in february we showed you a film about how they were coping at Queen Elizabeth hospital in birmingham. And we spoke to damejulie moore, the woman in charge there. She was candid about the problems. But that was the end of winter, so we have her back now to see how the management is coping with the pressure we saw in the film. Good evening to you. What is your best case for this winter . I think the film has really said it all, that a e isjust a part of an overall process. Im slightly more optimistic this winter because what we have done, and this is a relatively new building at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, is over the summer, starting at the end of last winter, we stripped out all the nonclinical accommodation around the a e department which is due to open next week or the week after to create additional capacity but the walls are not elastic, theres very little else we can do. Rooms, offices have all gone. Youve turned them into more wards . More beds and assessment areas and they will open up next week. 0k. That is one issue, the second is staffing. Even if we could open up lots more capacity, a e is not proving to be a popular profession for people any more because of the pressures we have just seen. I worry about how we will staff them in the future. It does not have to be bad this winter but what is the worst case because we have heard worries about flu from australia and these kind of things, what might you lose sleep over . Well, it came out in the film that one of the things that has really changed in the past couple of years is patients who are delayed in hospital who no longer needed acute medical care but cant get out into the social care system or into other nhs provision. Both of those are causing delayed transfers that those patients and we have seen that go from average about 20 patients three or four years ago to now in excess of 71 and last year we lost 25,000 bed days to patients who dont need to be there. Im a bit more optimistic at the moment because we have a change in approach from the executive leadership of our local authority who are making good strides, whether it will be enough and in time, but it seems positive moves about how we can help people get to the right place more quickly. This is about providing good care, not just about beds. Lets focused on the delayed transfer of care because when we spoke to in february it was clearly a huge issue and the government says it has provided £2 billion additional funding for social care. Are you confident it will make a difference, at least on the blockage at the end of the system . Well, what we have seen, we work with quite a lot of local authorities, mainly birmingham and solihull, and solihull has gone from over 400 days lost to delayed transfers of care injune to fewer than 11 in september. With a concentrated effort you can do that and that has been magnificent, and birmingham, it started a bit later because the new Leadership Team came in later but they are doing similar things so im confident we will see some movement happening but i would also want like to look at what the nhs does. There is a care issue in the nhs as well. Something called continuing health care where people have Health Care Needs which are assessed as belonging to the nhs and one of the things that has been particularly upsetting i think is that when people want to go home to die, they are assessed as needing continuing health care and put on a fast track system but in the past six months alone, 75 people have died in one of the hospitals im responsible for, waiting for that continuing health care. So they have died in hospital . Rather than a time. At home. So the fast track system are taking months . Sometimes it does, yes. Theres a story in the guardian today suggesting the government will pay people £1000 a month to take someone in, to take them out of hospital for recuperation. Does that work, putting them in my Spare Bedroom . Im not sure, it is certainly an idea which has been touted run before and people have concerns about how you get the individuals and check up on progress and how you would monitor that but at the moment, anything is worth a try. Do you think we ever get back to the a e times of 95 . Basically we are way off the target, 95 of people seen in four hours is the sign of a system that is working and we are way off it. One of the things that is quite difficult is how you measure this so if you bring in a system to improve care for patients, for example, we saw patients coming through the Emergency Department who could have more appropriately gone to someone else so the man who came in and said he had cancer, weve set up an acute oncology units are people bypass the Emergency Department and go straight to the ward. You cant count those in the numbers going through the Emergency Department and if you start trying to count in all the other pathways you put in to try to speed things up a patience, you get closer to it but we dont consistently measure it. If you provide care outside of hospital, so people dont come through the Emergency Department, again. We are not always measuring the same thing. 0k. We have talked about people coming out of the system into care or whatever they need. The numbers coming in is another part of the problem your staff were talking about. There are more people coming in. Is it a problem with gps or population growth or what . I dont think it is so much a problem with gps because a lot of the patients there really needed to be in, it is not something gps could necessarily deal with. It is a symptom of we are living longer, longer with more diseases and we have seen a 16 rise in the Emergency Departments at the Queen Elizabeth in the past two years which is a massive increase by anyones imagination. As i said at the start, the walls are not elastic and we dont have all the staff in the world so we will do what we can to do that but we have do have the whole Hospital System working together. What would it take to go back to the good old days . Chris showed us the picture when there was a bit of a dip in winter but it was basically 95 . What would it take . So far, you have not presented is usually grim picture of this winter, actually rather better than some other doctors i have heard talking about the prospects. But what would it take to go back to a kind of well functioning system that met the targets . We have not got enough capacity, beds or staff and that is what we need to focus on. Alternatives to hospital care are great and we need to do that but at the moment, a lot of the patients need to be in hospital. We need to train a lot more staff as well. One of the other problems, why there are problems with delayed transfers of care is it is quite difficult to staff the Nursing Homes and certainly for us to be able to afford the Nursing Homes, to get people to provide care at home. We dont value caring as an occupation very much in this country. Often, some of the carers are paid minimum wage or just above when actually, it is one of the most importantjobs you can do and we need to value it far more highly. Damejulie moore, thank you very much and thank you for letting us into film in the hospital. The labour Mpjared Omara has been suspended by the party while it investigates numerous allegations of misogyny and homophobia, mostly but not all rather old. The question the labour party has found itself asking today though, is less about omara himself, more about its procedures for selecting candidates. Im joined by nick watt, our political editor. We should say, he was not expecting to win, he was kind of what they call a paper candidate, shoved on the ballot, never dreams of winning and ending up in westminster. Its imported to say white labour suspended in today because a website revealed hed made some really offensive remarks this year and the significance of that is in a lengthy apology to the parliamentary labour party, on monday night he said hed make those kind of remarks many years ago and hed been on a journey but what is interesting is that labours National Executive committee is looking at how they selected jarrod omara. As you say, it was last minute, snap election and the National Executive committee in those circumstances use the rules where you select by election candidates and they run the process. They did not interview him. No . No and there was a cursory look at his social media and they are essentially saying, how can we make sure we dont do this again . For example, newsnight understands they will be selecting 75 labour candidates between now and christmas and making sure, remember, they did not expect to get sheffield hallam, those kind of seats, they will have a more robust process. Meanwhile in brexit land, we have this bill which has been sitting around, the withdrawal bill, which has been in the sidings for a bit and its got to come out, they have to put it to parliament. Theres a strong expectation the Committee Stage will begin on the 14th and 15th of november, tee days per week for four weeks which means it should be done by christmas. Theres been a lot of discussion about the government in negotiation with tory rebels but i understand one of the big stumbling blocks has been over devolution and the need to reach an agreement with the devolved bodies. I understand a Cabinet Meeting last tuesday, a rather sombre meeting, david mundell, the scotland secretary, said, weve got to get a legislative consent motion from the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish Parliament has got to give this a tick. Intense talks have been under way. There is a hope there will be a deal that will mean that holyrood will be able to say it is ok but a sign of how important that is, if there were a vote at holyrood tomorrow, the expectation is that Ruth Davidson and the scottish conservatives would not be able to give their consent to the bill. But there is not going to be a vote tomorrow and there are lots of negotiations and big confidence there will be a deal. Thank you forjoining us. You remember the dossier on donald trump. It emerged in a leak injanuary, and had been compiled by a british agent called Christopher Steele. It was the one with some salacious allegations involving trumps behaviour in a russian hotel. Well, the Washington Post has uncovered something interesting. Mr steele was ultimately being partly paid by Hillary Clintons campaign. The dossier made headline news, even though most Media Outlets felt uncomfortable spelling out all the allegations. The thrust of it was that the russians might have some serious dirt on president trump, so called kompromat, thus potentially compromising his policy towards president putin. Are you sure russia was behind hacking . I mean, maybe. But are you really, really sure . It was china. It hit the Public Domain after the election, but its existence had been the talk of many in washington prior to that. We knew it had been paid for by supporters of clinton, just not that the campaign itself and the Democratic Party contributed. The Washington Post says that the Campaign Lawyer paid a company which then hired steele to do the research. Nothing new. But many have been critical of president trumps son who met up with a russian offering tempting dirt on hillary. No democrat thought it expedient to explain that the democrats were themselves indirectly hiring a foreigner to dig up dirt on trump. Sidney blumenthal is long time advisor to both bill and Hillary Clinton, and joins me now from washington dc. Good evening. So much going on in american politics but i want to start with this dossier. Did you personally know that the campaign was partly financing it and its research . Erm, i did not but it was fairly well known last year that without knowing exactly, that there were democratic donors who were paying for this investigation into the russian intervention into the us president ial election, which subsequently, all Us Intelligence agencies concurred and was done in order to help elect donald trump. And they found in hiring Christopher Steele, the most professional and credible person they could, who also held the trust of the fbi and had worked on dozens of investigations with the fbi, and he has turned over his material long ago to the fbi counterintelligence unit, which is now investigating it and has in turn turned the material over to the special prosecutor, Robert Muller, the former director of the fbi. A lot of people looking at this will say, really, this is both sides digging up dirt. Possibly donald trump did it better than Hillary Clinton because he had a stash of e mails, or there was a stash of e mails but both sides were doing it. It is kind of dragging american politics into which both parties are as bad as each other. It is unprecedented that an anniversary foreign power, in this case, russia, intervened in the president ial election in order to determine its outcome. We have learned since Christopher Steeles dossier became public that there was a lot more to those active measures, including exploitation extensively of social media and we are going to see on the 1st of november testimony before congressional committees of the heads of google and facebook about that. So this is a major issue involving the tech companies, american political life, the future of our democracy and how donald trump became president. And went donald trumer went to see a russian lawyer who said, ive got dirt on Hillary Clinton, it was only because she was russia and that there was a problem with that. People said it was terrible he accepted such an invitation when in fact in your view, it was only because she was russian and it is fine to get dirt on the opponent. Well, lets see what Robert Muller determines about that incident and how he sorted out. I believe that donald trump is panicked about the investigation conducted by robert mueller, and it is very tightly held, there are no leaks from it. He has all this material. He will determine its validity and credibility and he has much more material than simply be Christopher Steele dossier. He has intercepts of Trump Associates with russians and he now has, through subpoenas, documents, e mails, phone conversations and he has begun to gather testimony. So let us wait and see what mr mueller does but i think we can detect in the creation of conspiracy theories on the part of donald trump, nothing new, a whiff of panic. Lets talk about the republicans because something rather interesting happened yesterday with Senatorjeff Flake making an impassioned speech that he had given up and constable donald trump. He obviously thinks he has calls and american politics. Did you see that . I know you are a Hillary Clinton supporter but did you see that as an important moment, if you like, in the revolution of the Republican Party and how it relates to drop . Senatorjeff flake of arizonas speech, which was extraordinary, yesterday, on the floor of the senate, denouncing donald trump on every level and calling him indecent and a threat to our democracy, unprecedented from a member of ones own party. It was not the only speech making these points. There was senator bob corker, the chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, saint donald trump is a threat to national security. There was the speech of former president george w bush, making all of these speeches about the destruction of Civil Society by donald trump, without naming him. And there were the comments and the speech of senatorjohn mccain, who was a former republican president ial candidate, and who is critically ill and feels unbound, now, to say whatever is on his mind. So we have four distinguished republicans now stepping forward, making a consistent case about donald trump and what we are seeing is a party that is fracturing before our eyes. Sidney blumenthal, thank you. For some, Annie Leibovitz is most famous as the photographer who took portraits of the queen ten years ago, and who unwittingly featured in a bbc documentary film scandal in which footage was edited to falsely look as though the queen had stormed out in a huff. It would be a pity if thats all you know of leibovitz, though. Her portraits are highly valued by subjects and viewers alike, from the beautifully intimate, to lavish, over the top constructions. And a new book of them has just been published portraits 2005 to 2016. Odd title, as some of there are actually portraits from years either side of those dates. But when i sat down with Annie Leibovitz i didnt ask about that. We talked about some of her photos, and inevitably, the politics behind them. Annie leibovitz, lets start with Hillary Clinton, because youd planned to finish the book, so to speak, with a portrait of Hillary Clinton in the white house. Yeah, it was almost worse than that. I actually really thought about doing the book, a good reason to do the book at this time, and that time was just literally over a year ago, not that long ago, was with the idea that it would end with Hillary Clinton, which would be, you know, sort of a beginning. I imagined Hillary Clinton, you know, in the oval office and that was my ending. Lets just say. When it didnt happen, when she was not elected and, you know. I really thought about not doing the book. It was just topsy turvy, you know, i mean, this kind of amusing character, you know, became the president of the United States and this woman who had all the credentials, all. Should have been the president of the United States. It was a big blow. What was interesting is, youve got a picture of hillary in the book. Its not at the end, its a picture of her as secretary of state. It was a tough decision about. You know, as i was finishing the book, i had pictures of Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, and you know, i had a photograph of obama, you know, literally his last day in office, in the oval office, and it looked. And thats how the book was ending and it looked sad. I did not want it to look like we. That hillary lost, you know. And so on purpose, i kept hillary at work, during that period of the obama administration. Youve got an extraordinary picture of donald trump and melania in the book. Right, right. Very pregnant. Yes, very pregnant. Tell us the story of that. Well, the elements were there. Its not like. We were supposed to meet them on the tarmac, i think they were on their way back to new york, the plane was there. You know, basically, in the stairway, the back entrance to the trump aeroplane, you know, the motors on both sides. Ijust thought, thats my, thats my photograph of the president and first lady. Sorry, were going back to the early 20005, now, so its. Yes, so this is very. Its not as president. No, its not as president , no, no. But did. But it tells you who they are. Theres a gold bathing suit. Helmut newton used to get clothing that was always like a size too small for the person, so it always looked like it was going up their bottom or whatever. So it was, it was a classic, you know, kind of, you know, Helmut Newton style photograph of melania, sort of with. You know, donald trump as sort of an ornament. Youve obviously not a fan of donald trump as president. Youre obviously not a fan of donald trump as president. Do you have to like the people you take . Imean, you. You know, were not. I personally have this issue where i, i think its a weakness in my work where i do like to admire and like people i photograph. But that, thats not the nature of my work in the long run. I believe you should be able to photograph people you dont like. But you never make any of them look bad. I suspect you sometimes, you pick up the vanity or the grandeur they think of themselves with but you dont. Ithink if. You know, i think that old saying, if you give some enough rope, they hang themselves, i think that actually is really very, very true in this work. Now talking about controversial people. 0k Harvey Weinstein. Yes. Theres a picture of Harvey Weinstein, bob weinstein, with their mother, actually, again going back to the early 20005. Yes, and because this book is so new, itjust just came out, im like, oh, my god, Harvey Weinsteins in there erm, but, istand by the photograph in some ways because he is with his. You know, i think this idea of putting him and his brother with their mother. Its poignant, actually. Theres a subconscious aspect there of bringing him down to size, basically, you know, with his small mother standing in front of him. I think it says a lot. Did. Its become a very common question to everybody in this, yourcircle, i mean, did you know, had you heard much about Harvey Weinstein . I, i didnt know the, the details. That all of this is coming to the surface is so long overdue and, and that we are, as a society, recognising, you know, all of this. I mean, i, i havent had. You know, the most pleasant experiences. You know, ive seen him more as a bully, you know, in a couple of instances, and you know,. You know, actually said i would not work on any of his sets any more. But i didnt know about any of his, erm. The sexual predation was a different thing . Yeah. There was one woman who has, theres no shortage of pictures of, of course, Queen Elizabeth. And you got a really quite extraordinary and wonderful picture of her with Princess Anne in an incredibly. Right. It makes me cry, that picture. I love it because it feels. I feel out of all the photographs ive taken, its not a great photograph but its a very genuine look orfeel from Queen Elizabeth. And i think they were very happy, you know, to be together in that photograph. Interestingly, that was of course the second time, and she must have liked you because she would not have sat for you a second time if she didnt appreciate the first time. I, i. One thinks when you have that opportunity, it is never going to happen again so when it came up again, it was very. Very humbling and amazing. And she, shes such a willing subject. I mean, this isjust, the other thing is, imagine sitting for lucien freud and that very strange painting, and, you know, when i look at all the sittings she does, she basically understands that she is the muse and she is to sit there and be interpreted in as many different ways as possible. And, erm, she goes along with it. I mean, shes totally giving herself over to, to your vision. You dont like being called a celebrity photographer. No, i cant stand that word. Ijust, itjust sounds cheap to me. Ifeel like im in a long standing tradition of portrait photographers, especially in these edits of these books. The work is really, erm, hopefully you can see our time. It is a story, you know, about our time, the people that, you know, are making our time and do things. My portraits are about people who, who either have achieved something or, or are doing something that matters, or. An upbeat note to end. Annie leibovitz, lovely to talk to you. Ok, thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks. Thats almost it. We leave you with the man who was hailed by Elvis Presley as the true king of rock and roll, fats domino, who died yesterday at the age of 89. Here he is way back in 1956. Goodnight. Aint that a shame. My tears fell like rain. Aint that a shame. Youre the one to blame. Oh well, goodbye. Although i cry. Aint that a shame. My tears fell like rain. Aint that a shame. Youre the one to blame. Major changes underway. The top temperature was in london. These are the average temperatures, maximum temperature is bits time of year. Significantly above average. But on sunday it is a change. 1a in london, nine in aberdeen. Below average for the time of year and to the south, average at best. It is going to be a shock to the system given how mild it has been. If you were bought a winter coat, you might get to where it by the end of the weekend. We saw more sunshine early on but the cloud has been coming in from the south west and it is on this weather front here. In the south west of england, misty and murky and fog around. It may spill into the south east as well. Dampness, rain and drizzle pushing into wales and the midlands. Clearer skies further north. Not too cold and it is blowy overnight. A few showers for northern scotland. We have this weather fronts stuck across wales, the midlands and perhaps into Northern England where we will see rain and drizzle. Wetter weather across lincolnshire. Cool under the cloud, 13 degrees. Further north, sunshine, temperatures 13 or 1a degrees. Mild across southern part of england and wales. After the foggy start we get sunshine and sneak the temperatures up. The weather front gets broken apart as weather front gets broken apart as we head towards friday and the High Pressure building in a cross in the uk will draw down some drier air. So that means more sunshine to end the week and temperatures back to normal for this time of year. Looking ahead to saturday, things change again. More cloud and there will be a stronger wind, more cloud and there will be a strongerwind, beginning more cloud and there will be a stronger wind, beginning to feel colder. Big area of low pressure spilling its way down into europe to bring some wet and windy weather around here. Higher pressure towards the west of the uk which means during the second half of the weekend we will draw down the winds from the north and that will make it feel significantly colder. The strongest winds down the eastern side of the uk. Most places will be dry with sunshine. 13 or 1a degrees at best in the south. Further north, 9 degrees and there may be more showers as well. Sunday will feel colder because we will have the stronger wind. As the winds ease overnight we may see more frost around. This weather changing at a time when the clocks go back. Maybe it is an omen . Im in singapore, the headlines thailand begins five days of funeral ceremonies for its revered King Bhumibol adulyadej, a year after his death. Iam in i am in bangkok where long lines of people are still waiting for the chance to go and see the elaborate cremation ceremony for the late King Bhumibol expected to start in less than an hour. Im Babita Sharma in london. Also in the programme. 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