While Manchester United are in action against fc twente, 0 0 there. Tottenham open their Europa League Account on thursday night. Their Midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur is facing an Fa Charge for an alleged Racist Remark made in a Media Interview this summer concerning his Team Mate Son heung min. Well the Spurs Captain has expressed his � love for the uruguayan today, in spite of bentancur� s Misconduct Charge which, if proven, could bring with it a hefty ban. I love him, i love him with a lot of good memories and we started playing together when he joined and he apologised straight afterwards and had a holiday and i was at home and i didnt even realise what was going on and he just sent me a long Text Message that it was coming from his heart, you know and afterwards, when we come to, when we come back to the Training Ground into pre season, hes really sorry and he almost cried when he apologised. There are also two games in the third round of the English League cup. Liverpool are in action against west ham. West ham have took the lead, but have pulled one back. Arsenal are at home to Bolton Wanderers and are leading 2 0. There are four matches in the second leg of the second round of the Womens European champions league, three have already finished. Wolfsburg Beat Fiorentina 5 0 Vivien Endemann Scoring twice for the Home Side they progress 12 nil on aggregate. Valerenga beat anderlecht 3 0, to go through 3 1 on aggregate. Galatasaray won their tie against Slavia Prague after extra time 2 1 on the night, Ir 3 on aggregate. Benfica are in action against hammarby. They lead 1 0. Theres also some action in La Liga in spain. Barcelona are up against getafe and they lead 1 0 Robert Levandowski with the goal there earlier girona played out a goalless draw against rayo vallecano. Manchester city has confirmed that their Midfielder Rodri has suffered Ligament Damage in his right knee. The spaniard had to come off in the 21st minute of their draw with arsenal on sunday. He has been seeing a specialist in barcelona. The recovery time from an Acl Tear is usually around nine months which would rule him out for the rest of the season. With growing concerns around the financial reliance of Womens Football on the mens game, a new global Investment Group believes it has the solution and has told the bbc it is ripping up the Rule Book on football ownership. The mercury 13 group bought theirfirst club, Fc Como women, in italy earlier this year, and has pledged to spend more than £80 million building up a multi Club Portfolio exclusively in Womens Football. They say investment in england is an absolute priority. We believe there is an incredible opportunity to give these clubs they feel they need to write a Big Wave they need to ride a Big Wave we are seeing in Womens Sport and cement themselves as the worlds super clubs. If you want to keep across all of those Life Scores in the football you can do that via the Bbc Sport Website and app, but thats it for me at the moment. This was the last day of the Labour Party Conference in liverpool, and it ended with quite an embarrassing defeat for the government on that proposed cut to the winter fuel allowance. A Union Motion that called on ministers to reverse the cuts, was carried this afterrnoon by a show of hands, with members cheering as the result was announced. That was carried. Cheers. There will be no apology from the Prime Minister. In fact today, he has been outlining another area where the government is looking to claw back money, within the benefit system. The Prime Minister said he wants more schemes across the country that will support the long term sick returning to work. Nearly 3 Million people are now signed off work in the uk, that is half A Million more than were claiming benefit in 2019. The pandemic a big factor. But the Prime Minister thinks many of them could be encouraged back to work. The office for Budget Responsibility says the cost to the government from Sickness And Disability benefit will increase by £30 billion over the next five years. In an interview with our colleague nick robinson, the Prime Minister said the country needs to tackle Benefit Fraud much more effectively. Are you telling those who are out of work who may think that they cant work, that the country has a right to expect, that they look for work . They do everything they can to get work . That is the sacrifice they need to make . Well, yes, of course, in relation to long term sickness, which is at very high levels, then of course people need to look for work, but they also need support. And thats why ive gone out to look at schemes where businesses are supporting people back into work from long term sickness, because quite often i think what lies behind this is a fear for someone whos been on long term sickness, that, can they get back into the workplace . Are they going to be able to cope . Is it all going to go hopelessly wrong . Yes, they need to get back into the workplace where they can. But i do think if we can put the right support in place, which ive seen pilots of this, they work pretty well. I want to see more of those across the country. That is what we need to do. Rachael walker is from policy in practice, an organisation that helps people navigate the Welfare System. Welcome to the programme. We will talk about what works in a second, would you agree with the Prime Ministers basic proposition that virtually no one to claim benefits without trying to get back to work . In trying to get back to work . In a trying to get back to work . In a word, no. The welfare trying to get back to work . I� i a word, no. The Welfare System is there to support people who are unwell, sick and disabled. I think we should celebrate in we live in a society that doesnt let people go to destitution because of ill health, Howeverthe Destitution because of ill health, however the Prime Minister is correct in terms of improving employment in the prospects of people who are certainly long term unemployed or sick is one of the healthiest way to bring down the benefits bill. The benefits bill. What preportion the benefits bill. What proportion would the benefits bill. What proportion would you | the benefits bill. What proportion would you estimate of that number we have set out there are capable of going back to work . �. ,. , to work . Im not remotely qualified to work . Im not remotely qualified to to work . Im not remotely qualified to suggest to work . Im not remotely l qualified to suggest whether to work . Im not remotely qualified to suggest whether or not someone is capable of working or not, however we know it doesnt take an economist to seeiu it doesnt take an economist to see ill health is increasing since 2019, at the same time will we have taken an extraordinary amount of public services, will have had a pandemic and people are living in more poverty. Poverty and ill health are related. The white determinants of health is what is driving some of these you these things. We know employment is one of the roots out of this, so was childcare, transportation, infrastructure, we know affordable housing and living wages are all contributing factors and we know people who are long term unwell, you would certainly find people who would want to be able to work, if they could, should they have the schemes and the available employment to help them. He and the available employment to hel them. ~ and the available employment to help them help them. He talked about these pilot help them. He talked about these pilot schemes, help them. He talked about these pilot schemes, businesses supporting people back into workplaces, some of which he said was very effective. Tell us about those, what sorts of things can businesses put in place to help people get back on the latter . Place to help people get back on the latter . Businesses could be more flexible on the latter . Businesses could be more flexible around be more flexible around accommodating people returning to the workplace after a long time. More flexible opportunities, opportunities for people to work for people to work from her home, for example which is something some of us take for granted for now, but would help people get back into work. It also excepted this will not be a smooth transition for some people, some people who have been out of employment may lack the skills or it may need that really intensive support to get them back into employment. That high intensity costly intervention sometimes does put us off, but we know it is an investor save bundle, if we can get people back into employment, it will improve their health and bring Benefits Costs down. Their health and bring Benefits Costs down their health and bring Benefits Costs down. That stuff you and thank you costs down. That stuff you and thank you for coming onto the programme tonight. Lets have a look at some news that has just come to us in the last few minutes. The Prime Minister we are told has met President Zelensky at the general assembly in new york. Downing Street Spokesperson has said the Prime Minister had a fairly productive meeting with the ukrainian leader paying tribute to the continued courage of the ukrainian people. He acknowledged and certainly the ukrainian president has been looking from some of this from his audiences afternoon, he acknowledged ukraine is at a critical point in the work, but reiterated the Uk Support is ironclad and will continue as long as it takes. An important week for the ukrainians which we will talk about in a second on our programme with the plan due to be presented to The Americans tomorrow, the key question is whether he will be able to use those longer range missiles to hit targets, the uk seems to be more disposed to the idea at the time. Almost 200 women have now come foward to accuse the former Harrods Owner mohamed Al Fayed of sexual assualt. These fresh accusations following the airing of a bbc� s documentary last week which brought to light decades of serious allegations against Al Fayed, who died last year. Five of the original accusers describe themselves as � lambs to the slaughter. � 0ur Correspondent Ellie price has the story. He would call me into his office and this doesnt work and this is distracting and then would rip my buttons open off the front of my shirt. These women didnt know each other� s stories until the Bbc Documentary last week. We arejoined here on breakfast right now byjen, nicole, they all described being isolated by mohamed Al Fayed at the time. And katherine. Now they realise they were not alone in what they experienced. We all have the same pattern, even though if you lined us up, i think we go from working there in the � 80s to the mid 2000s. All of us had the same experiences. And being all together, i think its quite good to think, 0h, god, i thought for ages this wasjust me. You kind of accepted what was going on and internalised that actually, you know, is Itjust Me . Am i the victim of the really hard behaviour . You were terrified to speak out. Jen was too, and this morning she waived her anonymity for the first time. Initially i didnt want to be involved because mohamed was still alive. And as ridiculous as that may sound to people not involved, he still felt like a threat until the moment he died. Mohamed Al Fayed was chairman of harrods between 1985 and 2010. He died last year aged 94. He wont Face Justice now but these women say there was a web of corruption within the company that allowed the abuse to happen and kept it hushed up. I almost had given up hope that anyone was going to actually find out anything, really, because he was so successful at putting people up in front of him that he could hide behind. They enabled all these people, enabled the situation, and left us like lambs to the slaughter. Harrods declined to come on Bbc Breakfast this morning. The department store, which came under new ownership in 2010, has previously said its appalled by the allegations. Harrods also told the bbc it was investigating whether any current employees were involved in any of the allegations, but they havent told us if any individual has been identified or any action taken. The monster that was Al Fayed was at the centre of all this, but its easy and convenient, if i may say so, to actually just say it was him. There was a system, there was a process which enabled and facilitated the sexual abuse of these women. And there are people still working at harrods who you think were involved in this . Thats my belief. Many women later abused by Al Fayed were asked to take intrusive sexual health tests when they started at harrods. Today a complaint has been made to the general medical council about one of the doctors who carried out such tests. I never got my results either. They went straight to mohamed Al Fayed. I never got them. They never even shared them with you . They never shared them with me. Shocking. Since the Bbc Documentary was released last week, lawyers for Al Fayeds accusers say hundreds more women have come forward. And with every new story, the Call Forjustice grows stronger. Ellie price, bbc news. So many coming forward. If you want to watch that documentary, its on the bbc iplayer. Around the world and across the uk. This is bbc news. Welcome back. Each year, on the second day of the Un General Assembly they dedicate an entire session to an issue of singular, global importance. And the focus this year was Climate Change and the threat from rising sea levels. The leaders from the small island states have been giving impassioned speeches about the existential threat they face not just from warmer waters, but the way in which that is now amplifying the severity of the tropical cyclones. Europe is not entirely detached from that risk. This month, as summer came to an end, large parts of Central Europe were deluged by heavy rains and flooding. 2a people were Killed Homes and businesses damaged, the bill to the eu 11 Billion euros. A new study shows that it was man made Climate Change this summers floods twice as likely to happen. The World Weather Attribution group said one recent four Day Period was the wettest ever recorded in Central Europe. Though i suppose by consolation, the storm was well forecast, meaning some regions were at least better prepared for it. We will need to be as we go into the future. Joining me now is diana urge vorsatz. Shes a professor at the central European University In Vienna and also the Vice Chair of the intergovenrmental panel on Climate Change. Thank you for being with us. I was looking at the graphs today. On the positive side our carbon emissions, we are starting to bend the curve, thats the most positive thing you could say, but to use the bath analogy, the water is still rising. Is there a Point Of No Return . Still rising. Is there a Point Of No Return . There are some oints of no return . There are some points of of no return . There are some points of no of no return . There are some points of no return, points of no return, nevertheless, we think the size and the consensus is that right now we can. Most of these points of no return from happening. So this is still a good time to stop the water accumulating in the bathtub and preventing further devastating floods because even though we have prepared well for this and we prevented a lot of lives lost, still the damage to the economies and properties is a giant. Do not want to have many more events moving forward. The us watching more events moving forward. The us Watching A more events moving forward. The us Watching A hurricane in the water at the are you saying unless we get a grip on this urgently, we will see a steadily increased in the drumbeat of these kinds of disasters . Drumbeat of these kinds of disasters . Those events as ouve disasters . Those events as youve just disasters . Those events as youve just said disasters . Those events as youve just said were disasters . Those events as i youve just said were reported as the most severe in what we have seen so far. These are going to get even worse unless we stop emitting Carbon Dioxide further. So this could become among the more usual of offence, average, rather than the extreme of the extremes. We dont want to do that so definitely making more urgent and more demanding and serious reductions in Greenhouse Emissions is urgent. In reductions in Greenhouse Emissions is urgent. In many countries emissions is urgent. In many countries we emissions is urgent. In many countries we seem emissions is urgent. In many countries we seem to emissions is urgent. In many countries we seem to be emissions is urgent. In many i countries we seem to be going emissions is urgent. In many. Countries we seem to be going a different way, China Opening more Coal Plants and now for the first time in ten years, the first time in ten years, the american Electricity Demands are starting to grow, ai would just use around 4 of the american output is forecast to grow at about 8 9 of their electricity used by The End of the decade. Two thirds of that power is coming from Oil And Gas, they are talking about reopening Coal Plants that have been decommissioned. How concerned are you that actually we are not moving as quickly as we should be . We are not moving as quickly as we should be . Maybe we are not movin we should be . Maybe we are not moving as we should be . Maybe we are not moving as quickly we should be . Maybe we are not moving as quickly as we should be . Maybe we are not moving as quickly as we we should be . Maybe we are not moving as quickly as we should, | moving as quickly as we should, but we are moving. There are really important signs, for example in the first half of the year of 2024, we saw renewable based Electricity Production from intermittent sources, wind and solar, have overtaken Fossil Fuel based Electricity Production in europe. And in the world, they are now becoming about a third of global Energy Production or Electricity Production. There are many good productions directions. You mentioned china. Ijust came back from the week long major net Zero Energy Building conference in china were over 30,000 participated. There are really major developments in this industry and a lot of interests towards this as well. There are many with fast railways opening. Altogether, we do see a lot of development, nevertheless this is still not enough, just having renewable energy is not enough and as we have reason to demand, what area we see enormous increase is related to artificial intelligence. Is related to artificial intelligence. Is related to artificial intelliaence. ,. , intelligence. There are some ositive intelligence. There are some positive things intelligence. There are some positive things for intelligence. There are some positive things for every positive things for every dollar spent on Oil And Gas it is spent on renewables, positive news come up as you say we need to do more. They keep coming out to the programme. Let me show you some live pictures im watching Kamala Harris in pittsburgh talking about the economy right now, an issue she is trailing Donald Trump by ten points, so she needs to get her message out. Still really tight across all the bible states, but certainly she could do with finding some support for the economic programme she is trying to set out. Battle states. A few months ago Donald Trump was 12 points ahead of joe biden, that lead has halved since Kamala Harris became the opponent that may be because the economic plan of Donald Trump has sounded somewhat incoherent. Light on policy heavy on the tarrifs. If you dont make your product here, then you will have to pay a tariff, a very substantial tariff when you send your product into the united states. And by the way, you know, for years they knocked the word. The word tariff, properly used, is a beautiful word, one of the most beautiful words ive ever heard. Its music to my ears. A lot of bad people didnt like that word, but now theyre finding out i was right. And we will take in hundreds of billions of dollars into our treasury and use that money to benefit the american citizens, and it will not cause inflation, by the way. He believes tarrifs would revitalise the us car industry, make childcare affordable, stop wars, he think it will maintain the Dollars Status as the worlds reserve currency. And he is not talking about small changes in tariff rates. He wants tariffs as high as 100 , if not higher. Not all republicans are in favour. Heres the Senate Minority Leader mitch mcconnell. Yeah, im not a fan of tariffs. They raised the prices for american consumers. Im more of a free Trade Kind of republican that remembers how manyjobs are created by the exports that we engage in. So im not a tariff fan. This Week Trump threatened one of americas best known companiesjohn deere, with a 200 tarrif if they moved a Manufacturing Plan to mexico. This morning the Editorial Board of the wsj said hard to believe, but Donald Trump is giving us companies a reason to think Kamala Harris might be better for their business. Lets speak to Richard Mcgahey Economist at the new school in new york. He is also the former Executive Director of thejoint economic committee in the us congress. Welcome to the programme. The word, tariffs, music to your ears . , ears . You can use the strategically, ears . You can use the strategically, but ears . You can use thej strategically, but from ears . You can use the i strategically, but from is flowing a blunderbuss last everything and it will have negative consequences for the economy, negative consequences for business and for american households. Let for business and for american households. Households. Let me play the role of donald households. Let me play the role of Donald Trump. Households. Let me play the role of Donald Trump. He i households. Let me play the. Role of Donald Trump. He would a Free Trade deals would cause factories to close and in the long run, the efficiency gains created by Free Trade, thats what you would say, the efficiency gains created by Free Trade, lead to its new and betterjobs but he would point to pennsylvania, ohio, michigan where lots and lots of Manufacturing Jobs have been lost. So where is the benefit from Free Trade . Lost. So where is the benefit from Free Trade . The democrats made big mistakes from Free Trade . The democrats made big mistakes in from Free Trade . The democrats made big mistakes in opening. From Free Trade . The democrats| made big mistakes in opening up Dates Economy and there were negative effects especially in those industrial communities you mentioned not so much from trade with mexico, but from letting china in. So he is on the right issue about what happens and we need to do more to help those communities, but his solution will not work. He seems to his solution will not work. He seems to think they will be billions of dollars flowing into the exchequer by putting these tariffs in place, how would it really work . He would aet some would it really work . He would get some money would it really work . He would get some money from would it really work . He would get some money from the get some money from the tariffs, but not as much as he thinks because they would slow the economy and cause inflation because the tariffs of the sort he is talking about are a double whammy, that in both ways slowing the economy with less growth and would contribute to inflation by some estimates as much is a 2600 hit on the average american household every year. So that would mean less Tariffs Money coming in as the economy slows, but a Trade Work not to the american Benefit Or Anyone elses. We do need strategic use of tariffs and Trade Policy and biden has done that and harris is announcing some of those today but what we need is a Rifle Shot not a blunderbuss. The one Policy Area Werejoe biden in Donald Trump seem to stick together is the protectionist attitude towards chinese trade, 47 think tariffs are a good idea, how the democrats done enough to demolish that . Demolish that . No, they have not communicated demolish that . No, they have not communicated well demolish that . No, they have not communicated Well On demolish that . No, they have| not communicated Well On how demolish that . No, they have not communicated Well On how we can use tariffs and other trade issues strategically. I didnt harris are aiming at key issues like semiconductors, clean energy, but have not communicated with people how the negative effects of a broad suite of tariffs as trump is calling for would hurt the economy. Calling for would hurt the economy calling for would hurt the econom. ~ ,. ,. ,. , economy. We will see if Kamala Harris does economy. We will see if Kamala Harris does that economy. We will see if Kamala Harris does that today economy. We will see if Kamala Harris does that today in harris does that today in pittsburgh. Thank you very much forjoining us on the programme today. We will be back promptly with the panel and we will be talking security tonight. Lebanon, ukraine and we will also talk about interference for airlines that are travelling across europe. Standby for that. Hello. As we head towards The End of september, it has been a pretty wet month for many, especially across central and southern parts of the uk. Weve had more rain around on wednesday, and over the next few days, its still looking pretty wet. Therell be some strong winds as well. Perhaps something a little bit drier and quieter by the time we get to the weekend. But for the here and now, this is the rainfall were likely to see accumulate between now and The End of friday, could be as much as 18mm. Perhaps parts of north east england, potentially through the midlands into wales as well. So areas that could really do without seeing more rainfall as it falls on that saturated ground. So low pressure is driving our weather. Its gradually shifting its way eastwards at the moment. Weve got some rain for the rest of this evening and tonight, pushing across central and eastern parts of england, northern england, its going to be pretty persistent overnight. Northern ireland also seeing some outbreaks of rain to the south of that, Clear Interludes and intermittent heavy showers, perhaps some thunderstorms rattling through overnight as well. Its northern and central parts of scotland that are going to stay driest for longest, but temperatures falling into single figures here. Most of us though, sticking in double figures overnight. But through the day on thursday, that rain is going to be quite persistent for parts of north east england, driven in with that brisk easterly wind. Northern ireland also looking pretty wet for a good part of the day. Further south across england and wales, sunshine and showers, but the showers could be torrential at times, bringing a threat of localised flooding. Some hail in the mix, some lightning as well. 18 degrees in the sunshine in between the showers. Cooler but drier for the north of scotland. That Cooler Air then sinks a little bit further south across the uk as we move through into friday. So a bit of a change in wind direction. Still some heavy rain for many central and southeastern parts to start the day on friday. Looks like that clears away, and then were back into clearer, fresher conditions with sunshine and a few blustery showers as well. Temperatures ranging between only about 9 10 in the north to 13 or 14 towards the south. So certainly a colder Feeling Day friday. Fast forward into saturday, first thing could look like this. Some frosty conditions, two or three degrees in some of our towns and cities. Could be a little bit colder than that in the more rural spots. So heading through the course of the weekend, then a lot of dry and settled weather on the cards. Weve got this area of high pressure dominating our weather, although it will feel colder. A front brings a few showers across the north of scotland, and then later on sunday, the next area of rain moves in from the southwest. But it wont be as wet as it has been across central and southern parts of england. Perhaps a bit more rain in the north and the west on sunday. Bye bye. Youre watching the context on bbc news. We have heard again todayjust how dire translation we are attacking all day, both to prepare the ground for the possibility of your entry, but also to continue striking hezbollah. Today, hezbollah expanded its range of fire, and later today, they will receive a very strong response. Prepare yourselves. Well, theresjust been more incoming israeli fire and there is smoke rising now. We cant tell exactly what has been hit, but that is a residential area with residential blocks. We see a lot of stranded people with their suitcase, with Small Belongings Thani they could bring with them. While escaping southern lehanon. They were just desperate to find a place. We have heard again todayjust how dire the situation has become. The Security Council must deliver its responsibility for global peace and security. Joining me tonight on the panel is mikey kay, former Raf Assault Helicopter pilot and military strategist, and ivo daalder, former us representative to nato, now president of the Chicago Council on global affairs
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