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Toppling down across northern parts of scotland and to the north of Northern Ireland. Otherwise sunshine for scotland, Northern Ireland, and skies brightening from many parts of england and wales. Still a bit damp, many parts of england and wales. Stilla bit damp, dreary many parts of england and wales. Still a bit damp, dreary and chilly for east anglia and the south east of england. Through this evening and overnight we should eventually see the back of that damp cloudy weather in the south east and most places will be dry, with strong winds and more cloud fishing in scotland, Northern Ireland, bit of rain in the north keeping up the temperatures but further south in england and wales a chillier night with clear skies developing here and there. Where we get long breaks in the cloud, it could turn into a bit of a misty and foggy morning, particularly more into the west country, i suspect, that fog eventually lifting, then sunshine arriving across a good part of england and wales. Always more cloud further north, particularly with the stronger winds developing in Northern Ireland and scotland, so rainfor Northern Ireland and scotland, so rain for northern scotland. Probably not quite as chilly as today and are noticeably better day towards south eastern areas. Towards the middle of the week, the rain waiting in the north will come down across the uk on that weather front there. A lot of rain at the moment across parts of spain and france, and that front will just increase parts of spain and france, and that front willjust increase the cloud across the south east of the uk and bring one or two match hours, no more than that, really, on wednesday. Then dry weather and sunshine before it gets or two showers, no more than that. Those temperatures still sitting around 1215d. Temperatures still sitting around 12 15d. By temperatures still sitting around i2 isd. By thursday not much of that rain left as it sweeps down across the uk, many places becoming dry for a while. But we pick up some showers across western areas. Some blustery showers, really come across the north west of scotland, and those temperatures not really changing a great dealjust temperatures not really changing a great deal just yet. Temperatures not really changing a great dealjust yet. The end of the week, we could see more rain fishing into that chilly air across northern parts of the uk then we change the wind direction, drawing some warmer conditions across more southern areas and hopefully a bit more sunshine as well. How nice, darren, thank you. A reminder of our top story. The Prime Minister will push for another vote on his brexit deal this afternoon but the speaker of the commons may reject another vote. The speaker has said previously he will try to find a way for the has to express its voice. I think there isa to express its voice. I think there is a clear desire from the country, businesses, from our European Partners. They want to see that happen andi partners. They want to see that happen and i think people would find it odd if it didnt. There will be full coverage this afternoon from westminster of course. The team is 1 33pm. The welsh forward will miss the rest of the world cup, with a torn hamstring. He has mostly been deployed at number eight injapan, limped off in the of their quarterfinal win against france. Jonathan davies missed the game with any problem and should be fit for the semifinal against south africa next sunday. England should have a fully fit squad to choose from for their semifinal against the reigning champions, new zealand, next saturday. They had been worried aboutjonny may, their winger scored two tries against australia, he had a twinge in the hamstring and is expected to be fine for the match on saturday. Even with all their players available, how can england get the better of the all blacks . Their assistant coach says its all about making a positive start to their semifinal. There are certain things we want to do in the first 1520 things we want to do in the first 15 20 minutes and went to get that right. We need to focus on what we do. If we do well, hopefully we will replicate the same sort. Some sides are more attacking, but i think is pretty all their set pieces are strong, the transition game is strong. They defend exceptionally well. Andy murray will turn out for Great Britain at next months new look davis cup finals in madrid. He was instrumental back in 2015 and won the european open yesterday, his first singles title in over two yea rs, first singles title in over two years, following a second hip operation in january. This years, following a second hip operation injanuary. This also in the team, dan evans, jamie murray and either cao edmund liked to take up and either cao edmund liked to take up the last place. 18 nations will ta ke up the last place. 18 nations will take part. Gets going in the middle of november. Jason roy says that next summers new competition will bea next summers new competition will be a great watch for spectators. We saw the first draft in british sport yesterday. As the eight teams were finalised. He had already been selected for the oval invincible is for the competition nextjuly. Selected for the oval invincible is for the competition next julym far as were concerned as players, were hugely excited about working towards it and find new formulas and how to play. It is going to be quite difficult to get your head around as with the tactics, but to be honest, as players we are excited for it. It is huge tournament on, soil, played by some of the best players in the world. The west indies star batsmen missed out on selection, the eight teams still have a wild card pick next year. Thats all the sport, much more on the bbc sport website and you cant look at the teams for all the 100 city franchises. We will be back with more on afternoon live. Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, has appeared in court this morning, as he continues to fight his extradition to the united states. He was jailed for 50 weeks in may, after he jumped bail, by going into hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in london for seven years. 0ur correspondent, richard galpin, is at westminster magistrates court. What happened this morning in court . Think, perhaps it was a procedural hearing, but what was most interesting to see was a Julian Assange himself, in the dock, in the sense that he was looking quite smartly dressed, clean shaven, but he seemed to be really quite frail. For example, the districtjudge asked him to give his name and date of birth, and he really struggled to get his words out. And he appeared not to remember, for a few seconds orso, not to remember, for a few seconds or so, when he was born. He also went on to say he didnt understand what was going on. In the court. So i difficult day for him. His appearance, as i said, seemingly that he is really quite frail. He also went on to complain about conditions in prison where he is being held in a medical ward. Conditions in prison where he is being held in a medicalward. He clearly has some Health Issues and there he was saying he cant think properly. We cant access any of his writing and we certainly know that he has not been allowed access to a computer. As for the hearing itself and the process, we understand that despite his defence lawyer arguing that they should be given more time because of what they say is new evidence, allegations that the us had been spying on mrJulian Assange and his lawyers when he was in the Ecuadorian Embassy, it doesnt say that will happen. The final hearing, scheduled on february 2a, looks like it will go ahead. Thank you. Two 17 year old boys have died, after a stabbing, at a house party, in Milton Keynes. One of the boys died at the scene, while the other was taken to hospital, but died in the early hours of sunday morning. The victims have been named, locally, as dom ansah and ben gillham rice. The police say their investigation is ongoing. Ever corresponding is in Milton Keynes for us. Good afternoon. There have been a lot of activities here this morning, a lot of Police Activity and you can probably see over my shoulder we have some forensic activity going on down there. As you can see, all of these dishes have been cut back, police are searching for something in those bushes. We had sniffer dogs out all day and we have seen detectives knocking doors, speaking to neighbours, doing what they call house to house inquiries. As you can see, were standing in front of this police court in which we are told is going to be here for a few days while the enquiry is still going on. What we know about what happened on saturday night . We understand that there was a party, a private party, at one of the houses. We cannot see the house at the moment because of the house at the moment because of the card in but it is just around the card in but it is just around the corner. It was a private party, we are told for a teenage girl. That is what police believe. You understand that that two 17 year old boys who died, named locally but not officially by the police, we understand that they were invited to the party but what we are told by police is that the suspects wanted in relation to this attack, we are told they were not invited. Gate crashers, if you want to use that phrase. We are told they had their faces covered when they came to the address. I have been speaking to the address. I have been speaking to neighbours here today about what has happened, this is a nice area of Milton Keynes, as you can imagine, people are shocked. Pure shock, you know, you cant say anything different, can you . You just dont believe its. People always say you dont believe its going to happen where you live. And you dont. It puts people at unease, but the. Officer who called round, last night, did say that if you are worried, thenjust ring up, and they will send somebody out. But. It is disturbing. But, i feel for the families. You know, at 17, theyve got their lives ahead of them. As well as police going round speaking to neighbours here about what they saw and heard and whether any of that information is helpful to the investigation, we know they are also speaking to guests who were at the party. Given that this was the party for a teenage girl, they will have been in their ages of 16 to early 20s, so guests will have been around that age. Police are talking to them about what they saw but will also be supporting them. There were two other people injured on the night, a 17 year old went to hospital, and a 23 year old is still in hospital, we know the 17 year old has been discharged but the 23 year old is in a stable condition and is in hospital. Police say they wa nt and is in hospital. Police say they want anyone with any information to come forward and they have just told me that anyone who was helping the offenders in relation to this attack, they also want them to come forward with any information. British and american scientists are joining forces to search for the earliest signs of cancer, in a bid to detect and treat the disease before it emerges. The researchers say they plan to give birth to cancer in the lab to see exactly what it looks like on day one. Its just one of the Research Priorities of the new International Alliance for cancer Early Detection, which says working together on Early Detection of cancer will mean patients benefitting more quickly. Rebecca fitzgerald is a professor of Cancer Prevention and lead for the Early Detection Research Programme at the university of cambridge who explained to joanna at the university of cambridge who explained tojoanna gosling what detection at an early stage can do. Unfortunately, most cancers are diagnosed at an advanced stage. That means, usually, we call that stage three or four, at that stage, unfortunately, around 80 of patients will not live beyond five years. We can completely turn those statistics on their head if we detect it early. So, cases diagnosed at stage one and two around 80 of patients actually can survive beyond five years so it makes a tremendous amount of difference. That applies to all cancers, does it . We use the cancer term quite broadly. We increasingly understand cancer as a whole range of different tumours. Those are summary statistics, and there are differences between the different subtypes. But those statistics come from summarising the eight most common types of cancer. Just to give a little bit of clarity on that, breast cancer, for example, we know the outcome has improved substantially, over the last years. Whereas, for Something Like pancreatic or oesophageal cancer, that i work on, then the outcome are still very, very poor. Your goal is to develop noninvasive tests like breath tests, blood tests, youre in tests to try to spot cancer at its earlier stages. Urine tests. The way that youre going about that is to try to give birth to cancer cells, effectively, in the lab to see how they progress how are you doing that . The idea of this new Exciting Alliance is to bring expertise from five major centres two in the us, three in the uk so that we can really bring together people who have not necessarily thought about cancer before, people working across engineering, physics, chemistry, right through to social sciences, to really focus on in this problem. It is a tough problem to crack, so we want a range of different technologies that we will develop. We also want to do basic, fundamental studies in the laboratory. The one you mentioned, kind of creating a tumour from the time it is born to understand how it develops. So, a range of different angles to see if we can shed light on these problems. How far off the sort of noninvasive testing that i mentioned are things, potentially, if this all goes to plan . Some things are already quite far advanced. For example, ive been developing a test which is a little, tiny capsule on a string to detect the earlier stages of oesophageal coal cancer. That is quite advanced through clinical trials. Breath testing is another exciting new development, that is futrther off but there are promising signals. We are also looking at completely novel ways that have not been used before in a cancer context, they are in the kind of discovery phase. In the alliance, we want to look across things which are both quite well developed and completely new ideas. They will take time so we will have to be patient. 0bviously, with testing that could pick up things before a patient has a clue that is something going on in their body, it could become very expensive, rolling out screening programmes, and there is also the risk of diagnosing something which may have never developed into a cancer. How important is it still for people to be aware of the early signs . Are they always there . Various cancers get described as being silent killers because there are no real symptoms, before they get to the later stages. You make some good points. One of the things we have to do is also work with the nhs and policy makers to improve awareness of cancer. Some of those subtle symptoms that we might ignore, and when to seek kelp. When to seek help. Then, to try and understand what tests we can apply for those early stages that are not too invasive, and to try and avoid some of the problems of overdiagnosis. That is absolutely part of the goal of the alliance, to really better understand more precisely who is at risk what those warning signs are. We dontjust want to do lots more testing in Healthy People to make people unnecessarily worried. We want to come up with new ways into this problem that really help us understand who is at greatest risk and how we can identify those changes early, so they dont have to go through unnecessary invasive tests. The headlines on bbc news. Borisjohnson will try to get mps to vote on his Brexit Agreement but he could be blocked by the commons speaker. Prince harry opens up about struggling in the spotlight amid reports of a rift, with his brother. Some members of the Northern Irish assembly will gather at stormont for the first time in nearly three years, to debate the liberalisation of abortion laws. The illegal use of drones will be tackled by a Specialist Police unit under new government plans. Its been set up to avoid a repeat of the disturbances seen at Gatwick Airport last winter, when around 1,000 flights were delayed or cancelled following sightings of rogue drones. Andy moore reports. The technology now exists to bring down a drone electronically in a matter of seconds. The security minister, brandon lewis, saw for himself how it can be done in a lab. That is quick, isnt it . Now the hardware is being exported to the real world, with mobile units that can detect and bring down rogue drones. In essence, what we are looking to do is make sure that where drones can be used for malicious, or inappropriate circumstances, that our agencies, our police forces, have the tools and ability to stop that and prevent that. Last december, drone sightings over Gatwick Airport caused chaos for several days. The flights of hundreds of thousands of people were cancelled. At heathrow, in a separate incident, flights were briefly disrupted earlier this year. Nobody has ever been arrested. Drones are also used to deliver drugs and mobile phones to prisons. It will be used on major infrastructure sites. It could be airports. We are working with the ministry ofjustice looking at prisons, talking to the ministry of defence about various sites that we could use it around there. So around Critical National infrastructure sites of importance. Drones have many positive applications. Here, a device equipped with an infrared camera is being used in an exercise by firefighters to detect heat sources. The government wants to make sure this kind of technology is used for the general good, not for malicious purposes. Andy moore, bbc news. Millions of new Affordable Homes are needed, over the next decades, in the uk to house a growing and ageing population. But councils struggle to find appropriate homes in the places they are most needed. Last year, a pioneering project was launched in the seaside town of margate, in kent, to try to deal with these problems. Three generations of the same family whod previously lived in separate homes successfully applied for a new housing scheme. All of them moved into a big new house that had been a run down hotel. Heres what happened. 12a dalby square was bought by Kent County Council in 2012. For the last year, its been part of an experiment looking at the benefits of moving multiple generations of the same family in together. Lets meet the family. Weve got hospital sister lizzie and her fiance, richard, whos a chef. Lizzie has two children. Charlie works in a supermarket. 18 year old dan is training to be a chef. Theres charlies 6 year old daughter, poppy. And finally lizzies big brother, andrew, whos charlie and dans uncle. Brea kfast. Richard and lizzie have the day off. Andrew started work early, and dan is still in bed. Charlie is getting daughter poppy ready for school. I make breakfast for a couple of times a week when im before they all moved in together, the family lived in three separate homes scattered around margate. Lizzie, richard and dan lived in one. Andrew lived on his own, and single mum charlie and poppy had their own place. Juggling poppys school times and her own work hours was a challenge for charlie before moving into this house. My hours do change sometimes from week to week so it does make it a little bit difficult with school runs, but with a bit of help on hand now. Its nice that shes still getting picked up by a family member. Thanet council, who were behind the project, wanted to see if a multigenerational home would save money on things like social care and would reduce the impact on the environment of everyone living separately. Andrew has learning difficulties. Hes always lived an independent life but, before moving here, hed struggled to look after himself. Andrew was really struggling a lot when he was on his own. Hes always been a bit of a loner and quite happy in his own company, which is good, but he really had alienated himself from the family and kept himself very secluded. You know, he was really struggling. Buying the building and converting it from a Rundown Hotel to a state of the art family home cost more than £950,000. Kent county council spent almost 650,000. Thanet council spent around £74,000. Nick dermott, the heritage adviser for thanet district council, thinks its worth the expense. I think taxpayers money is a good use for this project because it is the exemplar to other authorities as to what they can do with their Historic Housing stock which is so often blamed as being the cause for the social ills of those areas. And if that stops buildings being demolished, which i hope it will, that has saved the entire country money. The familys privately renting the house from Kent County Council. It cost around £1,750 a month plus bills. Richard says that living together has helped them save money. And were not all paying separate rents. Were not paying separate electricity bills and gas bills and water bills and council tax and everything else. So were all nowjust paying one lump sum for the house. The university of kent will be publishing its findings later this year. The family has a further 12 month contract to live here. But lizzie hopes theyll be there for good. Yeah, weve talked about the future quite often. It would be lovely that this would be our forever home. Loss advertisements promising unrealistic results are targeting young men with some procedures delivering damaging consequences. Its led the British Association of hair restoration surgery to call for greater regulation of the industry. Tim muffett reports. My name is jerry. I had a hair transplant in 2015. The whole experience, to be honest, was terrible. Youre wanting to kind of better yourself and make yourself feel better for it then to only be way worse. All ive got is regret. Jerry started losing his hair in his early 20s. Newspaper adverts helped convince him to pay £9,000 on a transplant. What were the adverts promising you . And what did the clinic promise you . A full head of hair, thats why i went in. I paid for front to back, so planted from here all the way to the back of my head. I was screaming in pain, saying that i could really feel this. What do you feel about the results you have now . I think they speak for themselves. Theyre just shocking, absolutely shocking. Straightaway, i had a big patch at the front of my head and just a line across where the new hair was planted. And then the patch is starting to get bigger. You can see all the scarring. The nerve damage is all round the top here. Its like. Its like a brain freeze all the time, just a constant pain. Its thought a fifth of young men experience hair loss, by the age of 20. It can have a huge impact on self confidence and self esteem. I find it increasingly common that people are seeking to have these kind of procedures even earlier, at a younger age. Perhaps its also because of the number of celebrities, actors, footballers, who are having it done and making it public. Bessam farjo says he is increasingly being asked to correct botched transplants. A hair transplant, whichever technique we use, relies on moving hair roots from the back and the sides of someones scalp to the top. If you do too much, too soon, you end up with visible scars. Putting the hair line low, you end up with a look that doesnt look natural. At dr farjos clinic in manchester are clients undergoing transplant surgery. We are at the part of the operation that determines the design of the transplant. We make tiny little cuts in the skin at a particular angle, in a particular direction, and at a particular depth. So without that, thats when transplants can go wrong . Thats when the appearance of a transplant can go wrong. There are a lot of clinics where its not the doctor making the incisions in the skin. Its a non medically trained person. There needs to be steps put in place to change that. It is often seen as cosmetic surgery because it affects appearance, but hair loss from male and female genetic pattern hair loss is really a medical condition. Done properly, the procedure can boost hair growth and self esteem. But a bad hair transplant can be an expensive, painful mistake. Tim muffett, bbc news. Tens of thousands of homes are without power in dallas after a tornado swept through the north of the city. Video footage on social media showed the moment the tornado struck with the sky lit up by a thunderstorm. Power lines and trees were brought down leaving roads littered with debris while flights were cancelled and delayed at regional airports. Simon mccoy will be here soon but for now, look at the weather. For those on half term break, at least the weather is mixed but driver than it has been. High pressure trying to nudge its way in, not Strong Enough to hang around for too long. Low pressure to the south east corner, that means some contrast whilst many dry with sunny spells, like we saw earlier in the wagon, to the south east and east anglia, close, it is free like here in bromley. Drizzle easing off into the evening, a bit damp at cost east anglia. Most places dry, a cool evening rush hour, temperatures around 9 13. Going into this evening, the rain around east anglia will fizzle out, most places dry, a strengthening breeze in the north of the country, hebrides and Northern Isles and Northern Highlands will see cloud and outbreaks of rain, which means some of the highlands it could be 10 15d warmer. Elsewhere, cool night, with temperatures dropping down into single figures, and the ground damp across england and the ground damp across england and wales, some mist and fog, to hamper the Tuesday Morning commute. Murky across the south but dry overall, in the east anglia and the south east, many places seeing sunny spells. A bit more cloud for scotla nd spells. A bit more cloud for scotland and Northern Ireland tomorrow, the rain will be limited tomorrow, the rain will be limited to the far north. Temperatures up degree at around 11 15dc. Tuesday night, into wednesday, low pressure stealth of a north west of us, high pressures and a bit further south, so dry conditions, but this little weather front could bring so dry conditions, but this little weatherfront could bring more so dry conditions, but this little weather front could bring more cloud and drizzle back to the south eastern particular. More persistent rain spreading in western scotla nd persistent rain spreading in western scotland and Northern Ireland through the day. Much of england, wales and eastern scotland will have a dry day, varying amounts of cloud, sunny spells and temperatures around 1215. As sunny spells and temperatures around 12 15. As we go to thursday, this area of low pressure in the back will bring a wet night to scotland and Northern Ireland as it moves its way in, the wind will start to strengthen. Widespread gales, scotla nd strengthen. Widespread gales, scotland and Northern Ireland through thursday. As a day goes on, could see winds close to 70 mph across the hebrides and western highlands. A breezy day away from that, sunny spells, a few showers, cloud and south east and east anglia, 11 15dc. The speaker has said previously he would allow the house a way to express its voice, there is a clear desire from the country and businesses and our European Partners that they want to see that happen andi that they want to see that happen and i think people would find it out allow that duke and duchess of sussex opened up about the pressures of the last year and living in the media spotlight. My british friends said to me im sure his great but you shouldnt do it because the british tabloids will destroy your life and i very naively, im american, we dont have that they are. Two