Day. Heavy rain arriving from the south west, gusty winds picking up through the English Channel as rainfall sweeps northwards, potentially thundery showers as well, so temperatures up to i7 20d, but be prepared for disruption tuesday down to the heavy rain, especially for southern england, south wales and strong winds, all associated with this low pressure. Through wednesday, still some fairly heavy rainfall lingering, particularly for the south east corner wednesday morning. Elsewhere, sunny spells, a view showers, may stand out through the morning, but it should turn to brighten up through the day, not as windy as tuesday, temperatures between 16 and i9 tuesday, temperatures between 16 and 19 degrees, typicalfor the tuesday, temperatures between 16 and 19 degrees, typical for the time of year, plenty of showers in the outlook for our capital cities. Some sunshine in between the showers too. Bye for now. Hello, this is bbc news with me, martine croxall. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. First, the headlines. Labour insists it can win a general election, as arguments rumble beneath the surface over the partys brexit stance. Labour is at a crossroads now. I dont think it is sustainable for us to maintain a neutral position. Crisis talk continue at thomas cook, amid fears it could collapse within hours. Angry scenes in hong kong, as pro democracy activists disrupt transport services protesting against what they see as chinas growing interference. Game of thrones will have one final chance to achieve emmy glory later as televisions best and brightest prepare for this years us awards ceremony. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are parliamentary journalist tony grew and entertainmentjournalist caroline frost. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. The telegraph leads with the future of labour, after its shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry warned the party could lose almost a third of its membership if it did not adopt a remain stance over brexit. The i says mr corbyn is preparing to go to battle against his own mps and Party Activists on the issue. The front page of the times also looks at the Party Conference but focuses on labours plans to abolish private schools. The daily mail leads on thomas cook, and says it could take up to two weeks for the government to re patriate 165,000 of the companys customers who are abroad. The Financial Times also features that story and says the total compensation bill could exceed £600 million. And the mirror says labour is announcing plans to com pensate vetera ns who were victims of nuclear testing. Lets begin with the telegraph and how it is reporting the labour Party Conference in brighton, labour will be crushed over brexit, corbyn told. He is taking a neutral stance at the moment. He is taking an unusual sta nce moment. He is taking an unusual stance in our politics, shall we say a policy of no policy. The tory position is we are leaving on 0ctober position is we are leaving on october the 31st, the lib dem position is we are not living at all, and a labour position as they will renegotiate a new deal better than what theresa may negotiated, then they will put that to a referendum but not say what side they will support. That leaves open they will support. That leaves open the possibility thatJeremy Corbyn will negotiate such an amazing deal that he will vote against it. It is a classic move it does seem a bit like yes minister. It is not exactly what you would call an elevator pitch, is it . Compared with the tories, moving firmly to the right, they seem to be going more and more do ordie, die they seem to be going more and more do or die, die in a ditch, lots of dying going on, all about leaving come what may on october the 315t, the lib dems, very successful branding campaign, whether or not they think they will get the votes is to be seen, but what we do know is to be seen, but what we do know is that they are increasingly, under the new leadership, firmly in remain, now revoked. I guess that leaves some middle ground for labour to accommodate, but Jeremy Corbyn, as they telegraph put it, it is a case of the star wars moment, the walls closing in, the bar starting to bend, how do you keep the remainers in the party and a leavers, it is what theresa may struggled with and failed, and now Jeremy Corbyn is trying to do the same thing and failing. Jeremy corbyn is trying to do the same thing and failing. Be differences, who are the labour party activist, and what they want over brexit, compared with people who are not members of the party but might vote labour . To be fair to Jeremy Corbyn, he is in a difficult position. The Labour Party Membership and mps are overwhelmingly of a remain disposition, whereas labour has scores of seats across the country where people voted to leave by up to 70 of people in those constituencies voting to leave, so even approaching the idea that you are not going to just respect the referendum result that was announced in 2016 is, in itself, difficult territory for labour. The brexit party are polling 12 , up to 15 , and that cuts across both parties, but it does particularly concentrate in leave areas, and as i say, not just northern constituencies, but a lot of labour constituencies are leave facing. However difficult you site is for him to respect the result, you cant respect the leader ofa result, you cant respect the leader of a National Political party who is so of a National Political party who is so visibly and transparently trying to hedge his bets. Shouldnt we somehow be embracing an ideology and following the party that has that ideology . Leadership would be preferable we are not seeing any leadership from labour, and that poses a big risk in each election, because the tory position, we have to get on his, and the lib dems, they are unassailable atria, and labour is not. The independent, Jeremy Corbyn terrified of becoming prime minister, lining up someone to succeed him. I am not surprised. We know he has had a remarkably cerebral, respected record on both sides of the house, i listen to an interview with rory stewart today, saying for the last few years he was amazed by how little respect other, more central, more power hungry labour figures had for Jeremy Corbyn, because he used to shout from the backbenches. He is an activist now disguised as a political leader, and it is becoming more and more clear which role suits him the easier, and which fits his corduroy trousers. He is there on the barricades, on the soapbox, he should still be shouting, he is great at rallies, he doesnt do interviews. There is a reason he is not a neat fit for Political Leadership in the 215t century. Not a neat fit for Political Leadership in the 21st century. He hasnt had an original idea in a8, he is not a thinker, his values and views are incredibly entrenched. He has stuck by it, and this is the huge problem labour have had with anti semitism, it is back to the absence of leadership on these issues. I think it is really interesting that we talk about Jeremy Corbyn being 70 years old, and that being too old, and i remember when tony blair was prime minister, bill clinton, people in their a0s running the country. If you look at america, the frontrunners, trump himself, the over 70s making a comeback. Do think it is the age that is the problem . You get people with fresh ideas surrounding themselves with younger people, i do nothing is to be counted against him, but perhaps the age the ideas. I do not think it is to be counted against him. Thousands face a fortnight of thomas cook chaos, we do not know what will happen overnight tonight, but emergency talks have been taking place all day. The foreign secretary said, dont worry, we will get you home. 0h, said, dont worry, we will get you home. Oh, no, nothing makes me laugh more than the panicked way in which the British Press approaches these issues, the largest repatriations. These people are not on a beach in normandy they are in holiday resorts and they will have to get a different flight home, and it is made out as the worst thing that can happen. I mean, i know it is the daily mail. A fortnight of thomas cook chaos they will probably get a different flight home tomorrow. We are making light of it, but this is one of the oldest companies, a household name on most high streets, may be that as part of the problem, still so much shop frontage in an era where people tend to book more on the internet. There are a few factors feeding on, one of the high street casualties, and other companies have come along and become very good at doing the same thing, they are competing for space in an increasingly narrow field of marketing. Not many people sort of proportionately do book all package holidays, but a certain number still are out there, 165,000. I felt sorry for one person i heard on the radio, saying they had paid £500 on a massive deposit for the holiday of a lifetime, i did go to friday, they we re lifetime, i did go to friday, they were meant to pay the remainder, thousands and thousands, but either they lost holiday and the 500 paid they lost holiday and the 500 paid the remainderand they lost holiday and the 500 paid the remainder and lose the lot. A of people are stuck, but as you say, it is all relative, and i am not sure it is quite the serious generation defining peril it is being sold as. It is sad for those people, obviously. Gosh, you have found your composure at the last moment repatriations involving an Emergency Coalition of european airlines. And being paid for it a moment of National Crisis 0therwise being paid for it a moment of National Crisis otherwise i forget how cynical you are and there you are again the daily telegraph, eating meat should be a crime, says barrister. It is a position this is something that im surprised Jeremy Corbyn has not tried at the labour Party Conference, just because it is a strong position. Michael mansfield, a vegetarian. He is pointing out, and it is consistent, what he is saying is that it should be banned the way that smoking is, because it has all the same perils, it is wilfully destroying animals. I do not think it will necessarily find a landing place in this particular nation right now at a time of complete peril in the political chaos, im not sure this is the time for a nation to be encouraged to change their eating habits. But i defend his right to make the position, it is consistent. At speakeasies, make the position, it is consistent. At spea keasies, black market make the position, it is consistent. At speakeasies, black market bacon people are eating less meat for health and ecological reasons, and once they trade substitutes that look and taste like meat. And they have. Once it becomes more mainstream, people will question whether they need to eat meat. I can question whether in 20 years it might be looked down upon in the same way that shooting staggies. I dont think it should be criminalised, Michael Mansfield is what i believe is called a colourful character, but the direction of travel is probably correct. Something that looks and tastes like meat, that is like sweetness, isnt it, you continue the need to have that kind of thing in your diet. They are artificial, this would be made that you would not be able to tell the difference. How would meet does not be made not be artificial . Well, it wont be meat, but it will be protein from a plant based. Meat will still come from cows and sheep and chickens and things. Ok finally, our security at sussexes paid a visit to crime plagued township. Royals in this country are supposed to be dull and boring, the duke and duchess of cambridge are exemplary at being boring, and we have had far too much excitement from the sussexes. The differences, william cant put a foot wrong and harry is not fair to the throne. They should properly stick with the arranged programme, be dulland boring at all times, and i probably wouldnt get as much bad press. they dont do anything out of the ordinary, they are criticised for not using their privilege to make positive change, arent they . This is overdue, there has been a tonne of bad press through the summer, all about privilege, entertainment, and i think about privilege, entertainment, and ithinka about privilege, entertainment, and i think a rather sober visit to something which shows deprivation, if they can bring joy to some area, thatis if they can bring joy to some area, that is probably overdue for them, and they are probably ageing as we speak. Why isnt she opening a Leisure Centre in leicester and being bored senseless like the rest of the royal family . A voice leicester is all right for Leisure Centres at the moment, thank you thats it for this hour. Tony grew and caroline frost will be back in an hourfor much more. Thank you for now. Next on bbc news, its click. A request for an ambulance at manchester. It is michelle gaffey. She said the patient is in the bathroom, she has overdosed. A 35 year old male. He is not conscious, not breathing overdose. America is facing the worst Public Health crisis in its history. 70,000 of its citizens are dying each yearfrom drug overdoses. Im not doing nothing except sticking a needle in my arm, every day, all day long. Its a waste of everything. Around three quarters of those are a result of opioid addiction. Its the number one killer of americans under 50, and it has reduced the average life expectancy. We go out on these types of calls over and over and over again, all day long. Doug, can you get up . By the end of this programme, three lives will have been lost due to opioid overdoses. Its a crisis widely blamed on the overprescribing of pain medication, the addictive nature of which has left many turning to the street when their prescription dries up. I was 16 years old and got my wisdom teeth out. And they prescribed vicodin, and i was like, what is this miracle . These things are amazing and in the end, i ended up being an every day user. Now synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which can be 50 times stronger than heroin, and carfentanil, which can be thousands of times stronger, are being imported in bulk from china and cut in with heroin. Its not heroin thats killing our people. Its fentanyl. Its an issue affecting every corner of society. Layla, wake up again, fentanyl driving up into New Hampshire to pollute our communities. President trump has declared it a national Public Health emergency. We will end this terrible menace. We will smash the grip of addiction. Last year, the food and Drug Administration and congress pointed the finger at the tech giants for fuelling the epidemic by not removing adverts for the illicit sale of opioids on their platforms. America is in the midst of one of the worst epidemics it has ever experienced with this drug epidemic. But your platform is still being used to circumvent the law and allow people to buy highly addictive drugs without a prescription. What we need to do is build more ai tools that can proactively. You been said before you were gonna take em down, and you havent, and they re still up. Gentlemans time has expired. Well, his questioning was up, but weve got a whole programme, and weve given nick kwek the whole show to investigate this. Ive spent the last few months looking at this hugely pressing issue which is sweeping america, but what is important is that its notjust an american issue. Were beginning to see the full extent of this on our shores here in the uk, where apparently a quarter of us are being prescribed potentially addictive medication. But in the states, i wanted to look at whether or not Technology Companies really are contributing to the recent rise in opioid overdoses, or as Technology Companies, if their inherent nimbleness and ability to quickly innovate could actually provide an interesting solution to the epidemic. 0k, and nicks first port of call was an online Forensics Lab in the south of the usa. At the university of alabama at birmingham, gary warner and his students monitor for illegal activity online. So some of these students are investigating terrorism, some are working on financial crimes. Their pioneering expertise in computerforensics have helped the likes of the fbi, the secret service and now facebook the virtual home of more than half of americans. They realise that they had a problem with drugs being sold on their platform. Weve been working to eliminate terrorism from their platform for some time, and i think weve taken the same approach. They said, what could you do to help with this . Gary and his team have flagged thousands of websites to law officials that they believe advertise Illegal Drugs. I browse social media platforms, looking for people that are selling drugs on them. They usually comment on drug users posts. In the comments sections, there will be people trying to sell them drugs. Just one of us alone finds probably thousands of different accounts every day involved in some way, hundreds of different websites we go through. Its a lot to look at. We look at the worst parts of the internet there are Research Chemicals is the term they use. Research chemicals websites are selling the bulk fentanyl. 0n the social media, it is really more the people who are looking for an individual dose. What is on your screen there . I have a lethal dose of fentanyl, compared to a penny. Its 2mg, its enough to kill a grown man. What were seeing is that a lot of what people are buying is a painkiller. Theyre going to a site that looks like an online pharmacy, not realising thats not a legitimate pharmacy, and theyre buying the drugs without a prescription. And the problem is that when you get it, its not a properly regulated drug. You dont know where it came from. Youre really rolling the dice with your own safety. So youve been doing this line of work for a few years now. How much of this is work, and how much of this is personal . So, yeah. Well. Yeah, well go there. 0k. Um, i lost my daughter, uh, to heroin. She was, um. She was a troubled kid, and she got involved with heroin, and she actually committed suicide while she was high one night. She was 19. Um. If this lab can help. Somebody else not lose their little girl ortheirson, um, thats a worthwhile cause. He exhales wow yeah, when i asked gary that question, i actually didnt know how close he was to the issue, him losing his daughter. But what i have found is that a lot of people that are drawn to this line of work are personally connected in some way. Theyve either had family members have gone through it or going through it now, or they themselves have gone through it. 0k, right. So weve established that social media makes it easier for people to find drugs. Im assuming that gary warners lab could do more thanjust flag up posts to facebook . Yeah, so users searching for drugs in america now on facebook are redirected automatically to a government run support website or helpline. But, as garys team told me, with a lot of these adverts appearing in peoples comment sections or in private, closed groups, they are not actively going to search for drugs. These links just appear, and they might click on them and may be redirected to websites that sell the drugs. But with 500,000 comments being posted to facebook per second and the ability for people just to create new profiles, to then advertise drugs online once their old ones are shut down, its kind of an Impossible Task to keep up. The platforms will shut them down, but theyjust get brought up undera different name. But they. Im not sure if its one person or a scam or a big organisation, but they will have about 15 or so different accounts, run by the same person, because they have the same phone numbers. People used to sell viagra on facebook. 0k, well you get rid of the word viagra and a couple of variants on it, and people said, oh, i guess i cant sell viagra on facebook, and they quit. The criminals, the drug user, the drug dealers are all getting very creative with, how can i describe my product im seeking or my product im selling in a way that gets me around the censors . Theyve got 0s in the middle, where theyre supposed to have 0s. So if you are searching for things by the dosage size, having the letters mixed in messed that up. Theres just been this almost. We call it a keyword arms race. We put some terms in and facebook begins to block them, so they use different terms, and then itjust keeps going. How many have you got . Oh, keywords . Uh, 1,695, and thats an older list. We probably have more than that. Itjust needs to be updated. People are like, well, they should just hire more content moderators. And no, if you had an infinite number of content moderators, youd almost need one for every person whos posting on facebook. Theyve got to go after it in an algorithmic way. Garys team are developing software to automatically scour the web for fentanyl a tool previously used for Homeland Security investigations. And so if we go visit one of these sites, you know, five fentanyl pills between 200 980, well, we didnt really look for that. We found it by the tool giving us a list of recommended sites that scored high for fenta nyl keywords. The average user experience, its harder to find drugs online than its ever been before on these platforms. Is it possible still . Yes. Its always going to be possible. And if we multiplied by 100 the amount of money we spent, it will still be possible, because that is how facebooks scale works. Its not only Facebook Twitter has also come under fire for not removing public posts advertising Illegal Drugs for sale. We dont need to have our social media promoting the use of Illegal Drugs to our children and our families. Yes, i agree with you this is unacceptable and we will. We will act. Lauren culbertson heads up twitters Public Policy in washington. Weve taken down 17,000 tweets since we have ramped up this work, and that number is growing by the day. As well as deleting tweets, twitter has partnered with the Drug Enforcement administration on their biannual take back days, where americans can safely deposit their unwanted opioid medication. They created a pill emoji and spread the word through hashtags. Whatever the case, dont be the dealer. Right now, were actively working on a search prompt, where people would be directed towards services. Were just having a few engineering issues, but we should be there soon. So, traditionally, twitter is champion freedom of speech and doesnt want to get too heavy handed with censorship. How much has twitter had to change its policy with regard to the Opioid Crisis . Well, illegal activity has always been against our terms of service. And so we enforce against that. As a lot of people appreciate, content moderation is really tricky, and you have to strike the right balance. And so while we want to enforce against illegal drug sales, we also want to make sure that were not over correcting in censoring the people who are talking about, and have conversations about, the Opioid Crisis. 0k, sadly, thats all weve got time for for the short version of click for this week, but you can see more ways that tech is trying to help solve the Opioid Crisis in the full length version, which is available to watch on iplayer right now. If youve been affected by drug addiction, maybe its you, maybe its someone you know, help is out there. You can talk to frank, which is the nhss confidential Advice Service for addicts and their carers. Their phone number and website is below. Thank you for watching. Stay well. We will see you soon. Good evening. We have seen a fair bit of rain arriving through sunday but temperatures up to 27 degrees in the east. Through this coming week, things are turning cooler and more unsettled, certainly over the next few days, got some wet and windy weather and low pressure moving in from the atlantic. Through the course of this evening and overnight, some rain moving across scotland and some showers across northern ireland, Northern England in north wales, clear spells but temperatures in the double figures so quite mild, some misty and murky patches on monday morning. Monday has its own wet and windy weather pushing to the south, and for southern scotland, some sunshine through the day, a few showers across scotland, and temperatures cooler than recent days, about 16 to 21 degrees. The rain could be quite heavy in southern england and parts of wales as well, some strong gusty winds especially to the English Channel and sunshine for the north and 15 to 20 degrees. Goodbye. This is bbc news. The headlines at 11 00 crisis talk continue at thomas cook amid fears it could collapse within hours. 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