Issue figures suggest 40 percent of companies have wider gender pay differences than they did last year the B.B.C.'s looked at the wages of middle ranking workers at more than a $1000.00 organizations quit fits and power and Virgin Atlantic all reported wider pay gaps its claim the U.K. Is vulnerable to Chinese influence and interference a report from the defense and security think tank Risi argues there are risks in a number of areas and urges against allowing the firm or Huawei to build a new 5 G. Mobile phone network or security correspondent is Gordon Corera influence can come in the form of funding lobbying giving people jobs in academic freedom comes through the influence of China on what people might be able to talk about who might be able to speak at universities and there is a warning about the possible role of China in the national infrastructure particularly in telecoms hallway denies being an arm of the Chinese government and a British man has managed to get back to the U.K. From the Czech Republic using his friend's passport Alan Poole travelled from Prague to Newcastle Amsterdam and was checked at least 4 times he accidentally picked up his friend's passport he's now stuck abroad getting help from U.K. Officials now the sport Here's Nick Hatton little holes Champions League last 16 tie is finally poised after their 1st leg at hand by Munich ended in a goal is drawn the Reds had 16 efforts on goal just 2 though were on target and a frustrating night at Anfield the limb who monitor criticize the quality of their final ball also ways for Barcelona despite 25 shots there much in Leon also finished goalless West Bromwich Albion moved within a point of the automatic promotion spots in the Championship and sank to a $32.00 win at Queens Park Rangers Inverness are through to the quarter finals of the Scottish Cup It's thanks to a penalty shoot out victory over Ross County Tom striker Harry Kane is likely to face Burnley in the Premier League on Saturday and south returning to training ahead of share jewel Cain wasn't expected back until. Next month after injuring his ankle in mid January while still Bagley halfpenny has not been rolled out has suffered a 6 Nations clash with England in Cardiff us despite not playing since being concussed on the 11th of November he will Scotland's Finn Russell missed their match against France in Paris after he failed a concussion test and I know one day Captain Owen Morgan says deciding whether or not to pick Joe for this summer's World Cup will force a conversation with selects his board who regularly bowls at 90 miles an hour will be eligible to play for in the next month residency rules this is B.B.C. Radio 5 Live on digital B.B.C. Sound Smart speaker. On the whether it will be a went stance in many central and northern areas with the South saying the driest whether it will turn try and brighten the east a little later on the highs of 13 Celsius B.B.C. 5 life on Sunday nights at 830 will be live from Pavel E. morning on. The U.K. On digital and on like I'm Roger Sharpe were up all night the number of countries where calibers use is entirely legal can still be counted on the fingers beginning with Uruguay and 2013 a number of other nations taken all restrictions off of the Jewish. Of marijuana for recreational purposes was notably Canada of a came the biggest country to hold a legalized cannabis use last year aside from the patchwork of states and kind of the southern neighbor record of us may be used for recreation kind of issues in Spain Peru the Netherlands and South Africa is unlikely to be punished in practice a greater number of countries allow its medical use and a notably conservative one is the newest entrant just in the 1st in Southeast Asia it's time or. Well amid mounting speculation that more will follow her to day and Labor M.P. Has announced she is leaving the party Joan Ryan represents Enfield North she's relatively new M.P.'s She will join the independent group in the comments all of them are on happy about the leadership's position on Bracks it and particularly its handling of allegations of anti semitism in the Labor Party. Our political correspondent Jonathan Blake spoke to me about it before we went to bed John Ryan is a relatively moderate Labor M.P. Who took the marginal seat of Enfield north in North London at the last general election with the rare literally slim majority around 58 percent so not a huge Leigh safe Labor seat but she has been one of those M.P.'s who has not been entirely Theseus stick to put it mildly about Jeremy Corbin's leadership of the Labor Party in fact fighting the last general election she sent a letter to her would be local constituents saying nobody expects to reason may not be the prime minister so she's given that as part of the reasoning for her leaving the labor party and not immediately. Announcing that she would trigger a by election by stepping down from parliament if you like she was like the rest of them in fact just just joining the group yeah that's right they are still M.P.'s They are no longer members of the Labor Party but they represent their constituents in whichever part of the U.K. They were elected and as far as any of them any of them have said so far they intend to continue that until the next general election whenever that may be but they now sit in Parliament as an independent group a group of 8 Now John Ryan having been the latest to come on board and she set out her reasons for doing so at length largely and really slowly I think in her case because of the issue of anti Semitism within the Labor Party and is she under pressure from her constituency party to do this. I mean she certainly has given that as a reason there is don't underestimate the frustration among many Labor M.P.'s with Jeremy Corbin's leadership not just on the issue of anti Semitism although that is a. It's sort of all encompassing as a issue and has come to sort of represent the frustration that many of them have with his leadership in general but more broadly the direction in which he has taken the party. Further to the left in British politics and also his stance on Bret's it and not campaigning enthusiastically for a people's vote. Another referendum either on Britain's membership of the European Union or on the final deal that the government reaches with Brussels so there they are as issues I'm sure we'll have will have played a part here but certainly as far as Joan Ryan is saying tonight at least in the immediate announcement of her resignation it is that overriding issue and just to give you a sense of the strength of feeling she has she talks about this being a very difficult decision but the Labor Party in her words has become infected with the scourge of anti Jewish racism under Jeremy Corbyn she says this is been allowed to happen it simply didn't exist before and no other leader would allow this huge shame as she puts it to come upon the party it's left her horrified angered and appalled so you get a feeling that this is been some pent up frustration and anger that she's been feeling for some time along with some of her colleagues and she now sees no alternative but to put it all out there and quit the party. But if she's in the newest intake of Labor M.P.'s obviously they came in and they were selected after Jeremy carbon became leader so in a sense they have signed up to the Labor Party as it now is is she is she expressing some discomfort about that she said that in an interview with The Times newspaper she said that that letter I mentioned a little while ago gives her some something of a get out clause if you like him put it like that with some sort of recourse to those people who say hang on you're elected as a member of the Labor Party. On the basis of a manifesto of Jeremy Corbyn policies under his leadership and now you're disowning the party but wanting to stay in Parliament off the back of that election victory she says that letter that she wrote made it clear implicitly if not explicitly I guess you could say that she was not running as a fully signed up card carrying CORBA nights member of the Labor party she was there to get elected and get the Labor Party as strong as possible in Parliament if it wasn't going to being government in the hope that in the future in her hope that in the future there will be a different leader different leader with different policies and a different platform but it looks like as far as she and the others who've quit the party are concerned believe there is no prospect of that happening any time soon and Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters grip on the party has now become so firm that they do not feel that they have a place within it John Blake and stand by for more news later today if the rumor mill is to be believed. Well Thailand has become a farce country and the site East Asia to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes the drug can be used to treat a range of conditions including multiple sclerosis the side effects of chemotherapy Thailand like many countries in the region as previously implied a tough approach on drugs but legislators were in pot and fluence by the growing acceptance of marijuana and other countries want speak the Washington Times correspondent and by co-president like Hello Richard yes and this means that doctors patients schools farmers under her nurse export hers all of these people can now legally access medical marijuana and also medical cook home and if people are not familiar with crypto it's a local grown plant that people say gives you more energy or lessens pain lessens your depression maybe you can treat heroin it's usually used by construction workers fishermen that sort of thing so both of these now are legal only meant for medical purposes not recreational and this is a problem for Thailand because they're a little bit late and those people can have medical marijuana there isn't any here in Thailand and suddenly start churning it out they've got to set up a $1000000.00 factories it's got to be under medical conditions you've got staff well that's not going to happen for a while so they're going to have to be importing their medical marijuana from America Canada Israel countries where they make it medically grade my goodness if memory serves Richard Thailand is not a good place for people who are caught using recreational drugs though is it. That's right and the amended Narcotics Act of 1979 which is now amended for this medical use still has a severe punishment for recreational use of marijuana up to 15 years in jail depending upon if you've got a large supply or not so people are warning no you can't go out and smoke a spliff on the street that's not going to happen but one politician has come up with an ingenious way to get votes in next month's election he's telling ties of both for his party each adult earns $13000.00 a year because he wants to make it recreational So if it becomes recreational you get 6 personal plants to grow and sell my goodness may want to want to account for this new policy on medical use though who drove this through well I think it's the big money that they are missing out and they realize other countries are making billions of dollars from recreational medical marijuana but ironically you know this is a a military regime that seized power in a 2014 who wouldn't imagine that they would be the ones but yes suddenly they agreed this is a good idea and they rushed it through parliament their own appointed parliament and the king signed off on it a couple of days ago saying you have ironically a hardline military regime saying yes let's have medical marijuana but again it's for the money and of course to help patients that are suffering severe diseases as a going to be a regulatory agency that will control licenses for growing medical marijuana. Yes for each step of the way if you go to a hospital if you're a patient if you want to do research and want to export it everything's supposedly going to be controlled tightly by the tied government various agencies have got their hand in this so that's a that's another problem that people are going to have to face in getting all these licenses the political party that says no we should have recreational would say just have to live like you do tobacco your group can't sell your plant privately but you sell it to the tobacco company and they would have it commercially distributed but so far medical marijuana and could term are handled by the government but by strict licensing throw times like an opportunity for rather a few people to make rather a lot of money. Well the people that will make money and initially it will be in America Canada Israel if you're turning out medically grade marijuana this is suddenly one of your markets that you'd be exporting to and in fact ties are a little bit upset that you know they'll be getting it it's important it will still be too expensive for most of the patients because you have thousands of Tide patients and foreign patients is a big medical here in Bangkok people come for medical care and they can't access it and the Thais will not be banking that money and then there are the the westerners the more adventurous Westerners I suppose who who retire to Thailand aren't they have they're going to be pretty pleased about this and yes this place is packed now they like everyone else will have to go to their doctor and convince him that they've got a serious illness it's not like in California where you walk in and you say you can't sleep here and you'd have to have something highly qualified you're dying of cancer you're in you have you have a serious illness that needs to be treated by or alleviated by medical marijuana once almost licensing goes through yes that person could order it but again they're importing medical grade so this is not the cheap stuff that you buy in the street. Wow Well Richard. As a fascinating turn about really isn't it and such a concern of country that that but but you think money is the root of it well the billions and billions of dollars that these all these other countries are making everyone is aware of that and they're saying that this will become the biggest cash crop it's recreational here bigger than rice palm oil rubber tapioca and sugar because Thailand also has its own unique brand that was famous during the Vietnam War tie sticks which is a very powerful brand that got the Golden Triangle which. The drum producing area in the place is wide open for this is an agricultural country so they're set up to grow plus says market and export people are hoping like these political people that this will pave the way for recreational legalization some time soon. Richard good to have you thank you so much well in the Slovak Republic. And it's a very unhappy one because it's the 1st anniversary of the murder of the Slovak investigative journalist Yan could shack and his fiance our correspondent Rob Cameron has traveled to Bratislava far the week and I asked Rob to tell us more about yon could shock were young could see it was an investigative journalist he was 27 years old and he was working on a number of stories really helping to unpick the nexus of the links between organized crime politics and big biz business big business in his native Slovakia and he was murdered one year ago today on the 21st of February along with his fiance a lady called Martina also 27 years old and they were both shot dead in the house that they had recently moved into and in fact they were killed. Just a matter of weeks before they were due to get married so an incredibly distressing and emotional story in a story which has really shaken slid back it to its core Do the police have any leads. They do the there have been a number of arrests in the autumn police arrested 8 people and 4 of those people have been remanded in custody and 3 of them have been charged with 1st degree murder one is a former elite policeman there's another person with. A military background and then there is a woman who appears to have. Been done some sort of glamour modeling and things like that and has got his contacts with various business people in that part of the world but what police don't have yet to at least if they do they're not saying publicly is the person who ordered this killing because these 4 people. Really are believed at least to be pretty low down the food chain and they're not believed to be the people who actually ordered the killing of could see arc and his fiance So one year on you know Slovak's still really want to know who ordered this killing the police have said it was to do with his work because you know he was obviously looking to a lot of dodgy deals and links as I say between organized crime both in this country and beyond and politics and so really the public still don't have the answer of who killed him obviously has his body of work has got to contain clues sorry so you think had he been focusing on anybody in particular. They do definitely contain a clue is that the. The newspaper firm of whom you worked actually published the article that he was working on when he was killed they finished it and published it and that article was all about the links between the. Italian Get a crime syndicate and the routes they put down in eastern Slovakia and the various schemes that they are involved in defrauding and stealing E.U. Agricultural funds in the east of Slovakia he was basically was working on a big expose a ABOUT THE in there and get a corrupt local officials in eastern Slovakia. Subsidy fraud V 18 fraud and some of these business people's links with very very high figures in the government and in the party that. Is the main party in government so most people assume that that was the link but in fact the suspected Italian Mafia members who were arrested shortly after he was killed were in fact released within a matter of days for lack of evidence and now the spotlight is pointing in a different area perhaps closer to home figures here in Slovakia and actual people who are Slovaks themselves Has anybody in a position of power and so back actually come out and said much about this so they said for example that they're committed to a full investigation. Well yes I mean that's something that's oft repeated that the authorities whether they be the judicial authorities of the police and also political parties and politicians of all said no we have to get to the bottom of this you know this is unacceptable for an E.U. Member a NATO member a young fledgling democracy but you know very much part of the West. We have to find out who did this to hail society but of course his murder cause huge political Russians a year ago within less than a month the prime minister Robert Fried saw who was linked via several of his key advisers to some of these dodgy Italian figures he stepped down he's still. The leader of the party which is in government in Slovakia but he no longer has the post of prime minister and his political career really has taken a really severe knock in all of this but so long one hand that happened you know because there were these mass demonstrations of people furious and and outraged at this killing so people really did feel that no we do have some power we have the power to change events and change that are his destiny on the other people here still don't know who was it who ordered this professional hit job who was it who ordered this killing and I think until they know that and until that is settled in court then I think really that there won't be that sense of closure in Slovak society that that country so desperately needs and are people genuinely that upset about it or ordinary people who maybe don't have that much invested in newspapers for example. I think a year ago they did certainly when some of the demonstrations of the demonstrations that took place after the end could see us killing a year ago were the biggest since the fall of communism in 1000 on they were pretty massive for this part of the world which is another in 4 big demonstrations. I think what we'll have to see is how many people come out of the streets on the 1st anniversary rally which takes place on Thursday I think then we really get a sense of just how much more emotion is really left in this society these you know these senseless killings of this very talented young journalist and his wholly innocent fiance Rob Cameron brought to Slava sans about a Sandoz is coming back to fight another presidential election he's ready he says to fight for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Presidency in the year 2027 a 7 year old Senator Sanders from Vermont who became a progressive cause celeb and 2016 when he 1st Ron is ahead and so merrily polls in his campaign say that within 3 and a half hours of launch they raised a $1000000.00 Paul heights as political editor remarked 7 days newspaper poll Sondos poll ratings are still is good yeah I mean what we've seen in early polls of the Democratic field is that he's right up there along with former Vice President Joe Biden usually is just behind Biden by a little bit but I think it's important to note that this early on in a primary election those kinds of polls really mostly measure name recognition and it's no surprise that the leaders are a former vice president and the runner up for the Democratic nomination 4 years ago I don't necessarily think that those Tell us a lot about where this race is headed. I mean it's an entirely different field isn't it he's not entering the kind of the fresh face of progress of a. Democracy or even socialism there's a whole other matter though isn't it yes definitely 4 years ago when he 1st ran for president there was Hillary Clinton and that was pretty much it and so Sanders who the time was not very well known outside of Vermont became sort of the defacto alternative to Clinton and so he sort of occupied a space that was there for the taking this time around it's the exact opposite there is no real front runner and there are just tons of candidates and potential candidates 5 other U.S. Senators have already joined the race a couple more are eyeing it and then there's a whole slew of governors and mayors and business leaders so in a way that actually could help centers this time because he is better known than many of them he has a campaign infrastructure already set up and very importantly he is this base of small dollar donors out there which is already tapped to great effect I think the latest numbers are that in his 1st 12 hours in the race he has raised more than $4000000.00 now which is just a huge amount for a single day so I think that's I think he will definitely be a force force to be reckoned with. When he heard about it the president was relatively nice he said well I like Berni but his type you know as time has come and gone he he more or less said well he shot his boat and 2016 Yeah yeah I mean. You've also heard from the president spokespeople is this repetition of the fact that Sanders is a well serious cause of something democratic socialist The Trump usually loses the Democratic Party when he refers to Sanders you know there are some interesting similarities between the 2 of them in that they are both populists they have both appeal to white working class voters and their policy prescriptions however are generally pretty different so you know no doubt Trump's rhetoric which changed Sanders were to advance in the field I wouldn't read too much into what he says on the 1st day of Sanders campaign. What about the assessment from Vermont because nowhere is are people more familiar with that it's about I found those on the on Vermont the is there still a same father in the belly as far as local supporters are concerned well it's hard to know this early on but I think so he just well you know it's worth noting that Sanders has been president in Vermont for a very long time he 1st started running for office here in the 1970 S. He was mayor of city of Burlington where I'm calling you from right now in the early 1980 S. And he's been in he's represented the state in Congress since 1990 S. So he's extraordinarily well known and well liked in Vermont he was just reelected to another 6 year term last November to the Senate and he wanted a huge percentage of the vote so I can't back this up with any data any fresh data at least but I suspect that he remains popular that Vermonters support him running for president in part because we're a very small rural state we don't have a ton of power and influence in the U.S. But he has done a pretty good job of exporting from on ideas and from our opinions to national stage and I think from honors appreciate the. And here we are with a president who is 73 or 74 Joe Biden talking about maybe running again who is also a 73 or 74 Bernie Sanders who 77 I mean what does about all these guys in those. They don't know undeclared I guess yeah I mean there are there are a couple of people on the other side looking at runs Lisbeth Warren is another of them and there's a whole class of far younger candidates in the race you know people in there with Warren she would like if you implied that she was in 07. You know yeah I'd like it but there's you know there is a real generational divide in the field and I think that there is definitely a pretty big segment of Democratic voters who believe that the next their next candidate should not be a septuagenarian white male so it's not just age but race and gender are going to be big factors in this primary there are a number of candidates who are women who are people of color and it's you know I think that's going to be a huge disadvantage to Sanders this time around that said you know he is like I said quite popular among white working class voters and if the field is splintered and fractured between May candidates if he can get those votes he doesn't have to win 51 percent this time. He only has to win 253035 percent of the vote to when the nomination. And one last thing just to say you know coming from a British perspective where we have the National Health Service that has been his biggest calling card hasn't it the idea the US is medical care free for all exactly that has been the cause it has animated him throughout his career and one of the interesting dynamics here is that he's a bit of a victim of his own success he I think is partially responsible for making that idea so popular in the US to the point where many other presidential candidates are now mimicking him and supporting that and some of his other policies and so he is now not the only progressive in the race pushing for these ideas and he will face competition from the people who are in some ways following his lead so he will he may succeed in spreading the ideas even if he doesn't end up winning the nomination . That was poor Heights who has followed Senator Sanders for the last 2 U.S. General elections and that brings us to just stop to help us for. 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Millville is in us for whatever that's pretty much of his we draw them we won was about as low enough as well so not perfect but good enough to work with that 2nd I takes place on the 13th of March also wasteful in front of goal Barcelona they had $25.00 shots in their 1st leg at Lee on that much they were also finished goalless West Bromwich Albion a move within a point of the championships automatic promotion sports thanks to a 32. When a Queens Park Rangers Jake Livermore scoring in the 94th minutes Q.P.R. Were down to 10 men after an injury to Luke Freeman It means a Steve McClaren side of last the last 6 league games I feel so sorry for the players they fought back twice for him enough time to tell man and we just felt we needed to hang on I thought we were and deserved to scruple at the end and we've been dealt quite a few in the last 4 or 5 games to keep coming back we've just got to recover from this and come back again Inverness are through to the quarter finals of the Scottish Cup is after a penalty shoot out victory over Ross County in final of last night's results on the B.B.C. 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Have to be in a position those walk of the rules or discussions with victims of the week elsewhere from England center Luther Burrell will switch codes to join Super League side Warrington Wolves after leaving Northampton at the end of the season he signed a deal until 2021 and then one day Captain Owen Morgan says deciding whether or not support George Archer for this summer's World Cup will force a conversation with selectors Barbados born Archer who rightly bowls at 90 miles an hour will be eligible to play for England next month due to the residency rules when he becomes available for selection it will be a conversation I will have to have with the selectors and everybody else involved ready in that process as we do before every tour and every game we ask the simple question how do we make our side and our. 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Sound this small speaker and online Good morning want to say we saw temperatures reach 13 degrees Celsius in Southampton very mild for the time of year but we'll be tearing thermostats for further as we go through the next few days indeed given a bit of sunshine as we head into the weekend we could see temperatures climb as high as 18 degrees but to get there we do need some sunshine and thus going to be in fairly short supply for many areas today is going to be quite a card start then across much of the U.K. We've got some rain around as well some wet weather for Scotland and Northern England the rain quite heavy at times too it will tend to linger at times around western coast and hills but across the eastern side of Scotland the eastern side of the penance the weather will try to brighten up here and actually we should see some so the spoils coming through later in the afternoon lifting the temperatures to around 30 or 40 degrees in Northern Ireland Well there's probably will be a bit of rain over the next few hours patchy in nature but see it should brighten up later in the afternoon so a bit of sunshine highs reaching 14 degrees in Wales we'll probably see some rain for a time this morning turning quite heavy before easing off later in the afternoon Eastern Wales probably staying largely dry today will brighten up temperatures around 12 or 13 degrees for 7 counts of England the Middle East Anglia was a cloudy start for many areas but something the weather will slowly try to brighten up with a little bit of sunshine coming through the best of this towards East Anglia in southeast England as we head into the afternoon temperatures very mild for the time of year for these areas looking highs of 12 or 13 degrees Celsius that leads on to a mild night Wednesday night south westerly winds continue to bring extend. Crowd across the country if you clear spells towards the southeast where we may well see if you missed and folks actually is formed but for most areas it's going to be a mild one bit of light rain and drizzle around western coast Nels Magic's into Thursday's forecast and although the weather starts off on a cloudy note was better prospects for seeing some bright or sunny spells to develop always best to the east of high ground this temperatures will be edging up looking for around 15 degrees or so it gets a little bit warmer still 3 Friday into the weekend when those temperatures given some sunshine could go as high as 80 degrees Chris folks 5 life whether the best life school that still leaves cold Cultus in Radio. 220 year old European tourists. From a popular surfing beach in New South Wales travel documents and other items belonging to Hugo Palmer from East Sussex and his French friend you unfair you who are both 20 were found Shelley be some 235 miles north of Sydney Film are so joins us from from said Hello Phil yes morning to you Rod and whether a lot of people out surfing on the day that they went missing. Well we don't exactly know when they went into the water we don't exactly know that they actually went into the water but the assumption is is that these 220 year old backpackers had been driving north towards Port McQuarrie stopping off at a popular surfing beach in the town called Shelley beach and it's understood that towel song glasses travel documents and the keys to the hire car that was in one of the car parks were found by passers by early on Monday morning the thought is is that these 2 young men may have entered the water on Sunday evening or afternoon or depends what sort of time they went into the water given that it's a very popular time of year to be in the water but the later you go the fewer people are around and that's part of the police investigation we have drones a helicopter doing is police on trial bikes combing nearby walking tracks and all of the activity focused at sea and on land and also the detectives involve involved asking people if they saw 2 young men matching the description of this young Englishman in his French friend to try to piece to together exactly what happens if there is local knowledge I'm sure there's lots of it then people will be following the direction of the prevailing currents or trying to figure out where they might have come ashore if they did come ashore. Well officials have been using DI to determine ocean currents to help in this show we've done stories on this sort of technique here in Sydney Rob what you have is that popular surfing the speech is invariably have rip currents all this water barreling towards the coastline has to go somewhere once it reaches the shore and these rip currents of fast moving channels they can move at the speed faster than an Olympic swimmer and people who come into difficulties at beaches often are overcome by a sense of panic because they are whisked out to sea in waters beyond their control so what the authorities have done they put Di in the water to try to get a sense as to where the water may have taken these 2 young men when you speak to locals. Up at Port McQuarrie they say that it's a very popular beach for young families children going snorkeling but they say when you go out past the rocks into deeper water those rip currents can be very very dangerous and to the untrained die to people from overseas for example not used to Australian conditions they can strike people when they when they least expect it and it was a sad day when conditions were good for surfing No not according to officials Rod We have heard from senior police officers up there and they have described this as being terrible that time and once again that's another warning for locals who generally don't go out into the water in those sorts of conditions what we do know is that Hugo Palmer and his French friend had been documented in their trip here to Australia we understand there arrived in early November and had been using social media to tell their friends and family both here and abroad of their exploits we know that they spent time in Melbourne in Sydney then were travelling north in a rented home. Car they'd converted into a camper van it's a very popular tourist route for backpackers to go up and down Australia's east coast especially at this time of the year old Summer is coming to an end and the backpack is chasing the warmth in the sun by heading north and it seems that these 2 young men were following their adventurous spirit north but as we say the search is now well into its the day and has been no sign of them so hope for the best Phil thank you very much indeed Well let's take a little look at the morning papers and a lot of it still travails of the Labor Party. And the other big story is of course of. Who has been stripped of her U.K. Citizenship the Metro leads with the times and the. Daily Star. Everybody seems. Very engaged by the story. Financial Times leads with the Honda news from Swindon. The sun is critical of the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle for says flying 10000 miles to 3 continents and 11 days really keeping the pressure up there for some reason let's have a look at the Daily Express shall we and the company of night editor Michael Booker will lead in with the news that broke last night that the Home Office stripping should mean a big go the Islamic state schoolgirl who fled Bethnal Green in 2015 to travel to Syria to support isis there a stripping or other citizenship that is being revoked by the Home Office this was the news came in a letter those publicized after it was sent to the family's lawyer in London in a statement her family said they were very disappointed with the intention to have this order depriving or other citizenship and they said the considering all legal avenues to challenge this decision now this was made by the Home Secretary said you judge it and it's already been crossed process they can appeal it and it looks as though the family will be appealing but the home office here initially didn't comment on what they said they do in comment on individual cases did break their silence to say that in order to protect this country the Home Secretary has the power to deprive someone of their British citizenship where it would not render them stateless and they said that based on all the available evidence this decision has been taken and it's not being taken lightly now she herself has been given a number of interviews over the past week after being scolded by the times in a refugee camp and she says that the Home Secretary has no proof she's a threat. Well the fact that she was in ISIS which to many people will be pretty full on she causes some thought the threats and I think the tension has been running over the last week which been signed by about 485000 people. Asking for Britain to strip her of her citizenship but I think this is going to be quite a long legal battle by the looks of it. Now the cost of a particular drug is causing a lot of heartache What is that drug and what does it cheat well it's oh oh candy and it's a drug that treats cystic fibrosis now where the Xpress have been fighting about for the last few weeks on behalf of families of sufferers of cystic fibrosis in this country and now the company is called vertex to make in their US firm and they're currently in a bit of a battle with the N.H.S. Over the cost of it now the N.H.S. Have offered around $500000000.00 pounds to provide it on the N.H.S. This offer hasn't been accepted by vertex and so far they are a bit of a stalemate now families are a little bit more angry today after finding out that the U.K. Bosses of Texas recently received a 15000000 pound win for her in that package so this is understandably not going down particularly well with the families we already revealed how the C.E.O. Of the company in America just Laden. And $35000000.00 pounds from the company in 2014 alone now we went to the techs and they've defended their cash bonuses to their staff saying the executive pay is not a significant factor in the cost of their drugs and it's got nothing to do with about the currently having over the provision of the drugs to the N.H.S. But as I said it's not done anything to calm the families of British sufferers who have spoken to us of their disgust at the level of pay $1.00 dad Greg Baba he's from Cambridge and his son No a 19 month old is desperate for all Cambie he says this amount of pay is disgusting it shows how hollow vertexes statements about caring for British families with cystic fibrosis really are and another mother Jen banks who saw in law can he's 2 and has cystic fibrosis said the greedy fight over. Money forgets the sick children who need it now and she said Law Karen recently had a swab to see if his list infection had gone and they wouldn't get results for another week and she told us that's another week of waiting and worrying with the risk of catching life shortening infections still ever present so you can understand how the families are upset by this and again this is one that's going to room alone they the techs do say that they are now close to another meeting with the health secretary over this but I think it needs to be broke forward. Nothing I think spooks people more than the idea of the nocturnal cat burglar who slips into the house and then steals the family's so over but one burglar in particular is still giving the police a slip about a year ago police in a quiet big blaze of publicity blinked linked number of crimes together and. Quite very high end sort of this one targeted families with a lot of money in a. Big houses across the south of England they dubbed it the night watcher and he made off with a round about 10000000 pounds worth of jewelry in cash during these rates he carried a shotgun on a number of these and it was about 12 raids in total and Isis a wealthy householders were target book a year on from the Big as a publicity he's not been active since and they don't know where is it where he is and and they also fear the police in that story who are leading the one that he may have fled parole to now Detective Chief Inspector Mark Preston of Surrey Police who speaking yesterday said no further offenses that fits the profile have been identified since October of 2017 and as I say says this may be because the offender has left the country victims included that you can do to survive Richmond who were attacked in their West Sussex stately home and had around about 700000 pounds worth of value stolen all the brick in the store and kick a pregnant woman stolen and made horrible threats to a number of others now there's a say they launched this inquiry last year called Operation Promethea S. They thought that with I think there were some quite the front page headlines on a number of newspapers about it but nothing since so it does seem as though he's seeing the seen the publicity and gone into hiding but he still got the 10000000 pound worth of loot and the police are still after him. Bad news for a bowling club at the top of a hill yes is a very bad news particularly if you're knocking on in years and you don't like walking up this hill this is the Bellevue both clipping graves and now for years they've been parking on the streets nearby the Regulus and just ambling in to play bowls but unfortunately the locals around there if it complained to the council the council of agreed and decided that the can't park around that the ball is and they have to park in a council called Park right at the bottom of the hill unfortunately as a say a number of these bowlers are getting on in years and on his mobile more buzz a used to be some of them around about 90 and having to carry more than 28 pounds worth of the equipment because them balls they're pretty heavy things you know so a lot of them now thinking of given Oh and particularly Bellevue's chairman Peter Clemons now he's a fairly sprightly 73 but he says he's going to call it a day when these restrictions come into force around the clock as he says a number of players suffer from shortness of breath as well as hit the knee problems mainly due to our age bracket he says that when he does have to climb the slope enough to be taking painkillers the 2 or 3 days to ease the pain so you can understand other a bit well literally store by this change in the rules and hoping that the council see sense and change the rules otherwise that the think they don't have to close the close. And it was fashion week when the news came through that Karl Lagerfeld had passed on yes 85 year old the king of fashion but London's fashion wait it's still go in the river see there was quite a few people remembering him yesterday and will do all week but this his spirit his wacky spirit was kept alive by the usual weird and wonderful shows and you know what we're all going to be wearing this time next year if the cup walk is to believe those are currently sure you'll be wearing it whatever it is what is it exactly really it's you play you boots draped around your head now this was some of the pictures in the paper today yes that's right boot stripped around your head also the models who were up and down the catwalks were wearing the coats in jail because tight tight tightly around your face so yes this is what we're all going to be wearing this time next year. And our clothes all around our heads so we won't be seeing anything and we pumping into lampposts fashionably so well as they were fashion tonight and wonderful insight in Veronica horribles a bit Sheree of Karl Lagerfeld in the Guardian saying that his fingerless gloves were to hide his mechanics of what she was ashamed because his mother loads them anyway other insights to follow because I've been speaking to Professor count Franklin B.-E. From the Kingston school a fashion farmer PRESENTER The clothes shop and we start with a quote from U.S. Vogue editor in chief on a winter who said Karl Lagerfeld represents the soul of fashion I ask our if that was true. Well I think more coal delivered was a sort of prolific output. You know it sort of across almost 7 decades he began work in his teens I think at 17 and he also not just for his workload but for his kind of personal brand you know he he was I call iconic to look at him most people knew him by sight you didn't have to kind of go Well who's that I think when you when you told people today or if your hair today that he had died immediately got this image than of the swept back hair in the the huge sun losses the sunglasses the very very high starched cola. You know the amazing sort of almost like powdered white hair the very chiseled your line the very upright stature and the slimline suits and the slimline black tie and he will yes he curated his own image with as much intensity as he curated each and every one of his women's wear collections when you talked to him you met him in the ninety's and that's rather massive unfortunately right in the middle of the of the world of fashion what was it like that he gave off this kind of sense of of tremendous power. Where he was always very confident and you had a sort of very kind of deep voice where it was quite staccato quite far he had lots to say he never kind of scratched his head and and pondered but one of the lovely things that I saw was his generosity in giving backstage interviews it was my job to take a crew backstage after the show and. You know to try and get a few kind of sentences from him really about you know the designs is inspiration and usually that's quite stressful because the designer will only give the Syrian tears before they're whisked away you know they've often been a moderate but he would stand there and talk to everyone right down to the people with the smallest cameras and then it was the people with the radio interviews and then it was students and he would sit effortlessly between German French and English and just seem to love talking about fashion and his ideas. Con Franklin talking about Karl Lagerfeld was always so very welcoming to people who came backstage after the show and want to know more well thank you for your company tonight the sunrise is. In some blood and the smarting at 717.