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is it going? i'll reveal all a little later on. thanks darren. also coming up: shift like the seasons # chops for no reason... give us an eee — by gum. the opera notes sung in a yorkshire dialect. we talk to the writer and composer. hello everyone — this is afternoon live. simon mccoy. theresa may is in brussels for an eu summit — she's pushing for progress on brexit negotiations — and will address eu leaders tonight. but no one thinks it's going to be easy — and mrs may is being urged by some in her party to issue this ultimatum: if trade talks don't begin soon britain will settle for a "no deal" on brexit. this report from our europe correspondent damian grammaticas. are you confident today, prime minister? deal or no deal? but at this stage it's no deal. the pm's jaguar and the talks both making slow progress. gathering in brussels, the leaders from the eu's 27 other countries have made plain they're not satisfied with what the uk's proposing in the brexit negotiations. their conditions have not been met. you said the conditions are clear, what conditions? we had the conditions. ireland. we have the conditions about the rights of the citizens, we have preconditions also of open bills. so this is a clear line. bye bye! hasta la vista. the eu side they say britain has to compromise more to move on, are you willing to budge? i set out a few weeks ago in florence the very bold and ambitious agenda and vision for oui’ and ambitious agenda and vision for our future partnership between the eu and the uk. at the heart of that remains cooperation on the key issues and dealing with the shared challenges that we face. that speech that i set out in florence set out that i set out in florence set out that ambitious vision and i look forward to us being able to progress that in the weeks ahead. the problem for theresa may is that whatever she tells these leaders over dinner, it's highly unlikely to unblock the talks. and the reason for that, from the very outset the eu have set the conditions. the leaders say the uk must clear up the uncertainties caused by brexit before they will move onto trade talks. and what's on the table so far simply isn't good enough. mrs may will have just a few minutes over dinner tonight to persuade the leaders otherwise. but after five rounds, the negotiations have stalled. it's the eu that controls the pace and the sequence here. the prime minister's speech in florence did lift the tone, but the eu says the uk hasn't provided solutions to the problems caused by brexit. so this summit is likely to say on the issue of citizens‘ rights the uk must provide legal certainty, including a role for the european court ofjustice. on ireland, the uk needs to present and commit to flexible and imaginative solutions. on a financial settlement, the uk must make a firm and concrete commitment to settle all its obligations. mrs may has already had one dinner in brussels, on monday. she is under pressure from some at home to walk away from the talks. also in brussels today, saying no deal would be a disasterfor the uk, isjeremy corbyn. the prime minister seems to have managed to upsetjust about everybody and have a warring cabinet around her. it's up to her to get the negotiations back on track. we cannot countenance the idea that we just rush headlong into no deal with europe. it means that this summit eu leaders won't approve a move to trade talks, and it won't happen until the issues on the table are resolved. damian grammaticas, bbc news, brussels. joining me from westminster, conservative mp john joining me from westminster, conservative mpjohn redwood. you signed a letter with that message to theresa may, if things don't move, let's not take this any further. what we've said in a positive and helpful way, the government is preparing to leave without a deal. they'd far rather have an agreement. we think wejust they'd far rather have an agreement. we think we just need to firm that up we think we just need to firm that up and get it across to the rest of the eu that it is perfectly fine for the eu that it is perfectly fine for the uk to leave and trade with them, as we trade with the rest of the world at the moment, under world trade rules. we'd rather have a free trade rules. we'd rather have a free trade agreement, it's quite possible to design an agreement that is better than our world trade model. at the world trade model isn't too bad. and i think if they realised we we re bad. and i think if they realised we were serious about that, they are more likely to want to talk to us about something better. what has happened here? before the referendum brexiteers were saying this process would be fairly easy and we would get what we wanted. would be fairly easy and we would get what we wantedlj would be fairly easy and we would get what we wanted. i don't think that's what all of us were saying, i remember saying it might be no deal, it might be something better than no deal. it rested largely in the hands of the rest of the eu. a good deal would be better than leaving under wto terms. i can think of lots of deals that would be far worse. for example i don't think we should pay anything to sit down to have talks andi anything to sit down to have talks and i don't think we should pay to trade. one of the priorities me and many the voters had in mind, we want to spend our own money. there is a huge amount of money going to these rich countries on the continent that we don't get back at the moment, the sooner we have control of that, the sooner we have control of that, the sooner we have control of that, the sooner we can put extra money into our public services, spend it on our priorities. it is one of the big winning themes of the campaign, we mustn't give it all away. it's increasingly clear who is in control of these talks, given we can't seem to push anything forward at all. why are we surprised by that? i'm not surprised at all, when i've been asked in recent weeks if i thought there was a quick resolution around there was a quick resolution around the corner, i said not at all, there would only be a resolution if the eu wa nts would only be a resolution if the eu wants there to be won and i think they are much more likely to want to move on to free trade talks quickly. if they do recognise what we're saying in our letter today that the uk hasa saying in our letter today that the uk has a perfectly good option that doesn't require their agreement to anything. do you think theresa may needs to be diplomatic to eu leaders, or start to get tough? i'm sure she will be charming and diplomatic and i'd always recommend you do that. i don't say disobliging things about the european union member states, i want to trade with them. you don't want to be part of it. i don't want to be part of the european union institutions, i've been very critical of those institutions in the past when we we re institutions in the past when we were a full member trying to move in the direction we wanted but never getting them to go in the way we wa nted getting them to go in the way we wanted at all. i would want her to be diplomatic and charming, as she will be. she's got to be very firm on these fundamental points, she cannot give away shed loads of money because it would break faith with what we're trying to do, which is get control of our money, laws and borders. john redwood thank you very much. in a moment we'll get the latest from damian grammaticas in brussels. but first, norman smith, welcomed afternoon live. to be a fly on the wall at these talks tonight, theresa may, it's an impossible task, isn't it? i think it theresa may, it's an impossible task, isn't it? ithink it almost is. she's having to fight on so many fronts, really, not just is. she's having to fight on so many fronts, really, notjust to try and push eu leaders to move on to trade talks or to give some sign at least they're going in that direction. at they're going in that direction. at the same time she has to look over her shoulder and see what's happening back at westminster. what is striking, it seems to me, is we're seeing a real push by the brexiteers to get mrs may to be much more accepting of the idea of simply walking away from negotiations, accepting there's not going to be a deal and will have two move onto world trade organisation terms. what strikes me as interesting is there seems to be an attempt by the brexiteers to detoxify, to normalise the arguments around no deal, because they take the view that in much of the business community, amongst the media, indeed amongst the political classes, no deal has been viewed as, frankly, a catastrophe, a cliff edge. and they wa nt to catastrophe, a cliff edge. and they want to try and just get people to at least think about it as a possibility, so they are now saying, look, if they had no deal it would give business uncertainty as to where they were going. if we went for no deal we wouldn't have to spend the next 18 months bogged down in endless negotiations, which they believe, frankly, are going nowhere. it would enable us to strike some of these free—trade deals with other non—eu countries which they believe is where our future lies. there is a real not just political is where our future lies. there is a real notjust political tussle going on, their areas and intellectual tussle as well, trying to shift people away from what they view as this consensus that no deal is a com plete this consensus that no deal is a complete non—runner. they want no deal to be viewed notjust as an a cce pta ble deal to be viewed notjust as an acceptable outcome to brexit, but maybe even an attractive outcome to brexit. there is another option, which is they want their no deal option to be used as a threat against the eu at the summit. it's true. clearly there is one argument to say mrs may will be helped by the fa ct to say mrs may will be helped by the fact that she can say, look, i've got all these people breathing down my neck, you really need to cut me some slack. the one thing i would say against her, i think there is a view amongst brexiteers that these negotiations are never going to succeed, that we are remorselessly heading towards no deal, because they believe the european commission and eu leaders are not going to cut mrs may this magical bespoke deal that we want. we're not going to get that, they say. instead what they are intent on is administering a so—called punishment brexit to us. in that circumstance the only reasonable they say is to recognise that and prepare for no deal. we'll go to damian grammaticas in brussels. you could rename it the lion ‘s den because it has that feeling with theresa may going to the heart of it. it may look like that from the westminster perspective. looking at it from here we've had lead after leader walking into the summit issuing some quite warm words saying there has been progress made, they're welcome theresa may's speech. all warm signals they want to send. angela merkel has said in the last hour or so she hopes for progress by december. that is all the positive signals they want to send because i think the view here is very different from what you've been hearing, which is that eu leaders are not talking about the punishment deal, they don't want that, they don't think it's a good idea. they also do not think a no deal scenario isa also do not think a no deal scenario is a good idea. none of them want that either. the eu side have been very clear, they say no deal would be deeply damaging for everyone and they see this whole process as about how to manage the difficulties created. they say everybody will be worse off at the end, it's how to get to a reasonable outcome. i think on that the difficulty they have is that talking about a no deal does not force them to change their position. what they've laid out, clearly, a re position. what they've laid out, clearly, are the conditions and the issues they see as having to be sorted out at this stage of negotiations. that is the issues around the uk's withdrawal from the eu, its exit, those separation issues we've talked so much about. their view, simply, that those things need to be settled. those are theissues things need to be settled. those are the issues that have to be cleared up the issues that have to be cleared up first. that creates the good faith to move forward. money doesn't do anything to buy a deal in future, money is all about settling the issues of the past. citizens rights issues of the past. citizens rights is about settling the issues for four million—plus people whose lives are affected. ireland is about settling the problems around the border. that is why they are focusing on that and insisting on that before they will countenance any move to trade talks. that is also why what's theresa may says this evening world really move the dial because it's what happens in negotiations in coming weeks that will really matter. damian, thank you very much. it's now the world's fastest—growing humanitarian crisis. thousands of rohingya muslims are continuing to flee violence in myanmar, facing horrendous conditions when they arrive in neighbouring bangladesh. so far, nearly six hundred thousand rohingyas have crossed the border, and some 15,000 are stranded there with limited food and water. clive myrie is in bangladesh. i was going to ask what conditions are like but they look grim. yeah, i'm completely soaked. for the refugees here it's very difficult, no question. this refugee camp houses hundreds of rohingya muslims. they are safe, they've got food, most of them, and they have clean water and facilities at base camp, but it's very difficult indeed. we've been caught in the middle of a cyclone. it's washing away a lot of the muddy valley floor, the basis for a lot of the tents and the makeshift shelters made by the refugees. the conditions aren't ideal. if you wander around a lot of the refugee camps in this area, the main thing that hits you is the number of children there are. its estimated something like 60% of the refugees if crossed the border in recent months are actually under the age of 18. because they're younger and more feeble and is susceptible to disease and shortages of food, they can pick up illnesses, that means they are much more susceptible to longer term problems. i've been finding out about this visiting one clinic near this refugee camp. i should say so of the images in my report are a little distressing. —— some of the images. i'm surrounded by babies, children under the age of two months, and they are all fighting for their lives. they are all severely, acutely malnourished. and many of them have travelled with their families from across the border in myanmar, escaping the military there and the militias who have burnt them out of their homes, and they have ended up here. sadly, the doctors here have been telling me that several simply don't make it. only yesterday, four actually died. with me is ian cross, one of the senior doctors here. he is actually a former gp from leicester. good to see you. thank you very much for allowing us in here. just tell us about some of the ailments that a lot of the children are suffering from here. the main ailments that we see an acute respiratory infection. bronchopneumonia, bronchiolitis, pneumonia. we see a lot of children who are very malnourished and when they get chest infections like this, they find it very difficult to fight off the infection. you have covered a lot of emergencies in your time. this must be one of the worst. this is one of the worst. this is one of the worst i've been involved with, yes. it is shocking. i must admit, i was very moved by this when i first came. on my first day, four people died. that was really shocking to me. even though i am hardened old doctor, it was difficult for me. and this is a crisis that has been going on for such a long time. just a couple of days ago, we saw 10—15,000 pour over the border. sure. you are going to get more and more people coming here with their children. yes, and we are trying our best to upgrade our facilities and our help posts to provide services for these people. msf has gone from a team of seven to a team of a0 in a matter of a couple of weeks. all of this must be heartbreaking for you to see. absolutely. absolutely terrible. you look around and... tears come to my eyes sometimes. it's dreadful. you just do what you can, you know? in a way, i am lucky that i am a doctor. i have my hands, my tools — i can help to make people better. if i wasn't able to do that, i would feel so frustrated and i would feel even worse. but when you are hard at work, it... you can cope with it. the dedication of people like ian cross and the other foreign workers have come here to help try and give some sort of reassurance to the local people that they are going to be safe and looked after, and crucially, the local staff who have been working tirelessly to deal with this incredibly fast—moving crisis. their dedication is really quite a standing. 10,000 refugees, simon, crossed the border today, 20,000 so far this week. 800,000 so far this year. by the end of the year, december 31, they reckon there will be about a million people who will have fled their homes in myanmar and come here to bangladesh. thank you very much for that. a lot of tweets about brexit, theresa may arriving at brussels. there is one you perhaps needs to read between the lines. it's written by lloyd blank fine. what he says is he hasjust left frankfurt. great meeting. good, i'll be spending a lot more time here. the significance of this is the boss of goldman sachs. he is american—born. companies are looking at relocating from london after brexit. you can read between the lines of it. then do. to treat us. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: the prime minister arrives in brussels hoping for a breakthrough in the brexit negotations as an eu summit gets underway. there's been a big increase in the number of crimes, particularly violent offences, in england and wales. the spanish government says it's taking steps to impose direct rule over catalonia this weekend. and in sport — mp damian collins says the failure of senior figures to acknowledge their shortcomings — in their handling of racism and bullying claims — ‘raises doubts‘ over their ability, to take the fa forward. arsenal midfielderjack wilshere has defended his and his team—mates against criticism from watford striker troy deeney — who implied the gunners lacked character after their premier league meeting last weekend. the england cricket head coach tells us they‘ve had poor preparation ronnie o‘sullivan wins throughout the open and even has time to let somebody else finish for him. i‘ll be back with more on those stories later. there‘s been a largejump in the number of crimes recorded by police in england and wales. the latest figures show recorded crimes rose thirteen per cent in the twelve months to the end ofjune. our correspondent anisa kadri is here. these look on the server is significant figures. violent crime is up, up significantly. in fact crime in every category the police keeps records for across england and wales is almost in every category up. there are more than 5 million crimes overall recorded. the highest number ina crimes overall recorded. the highest number in a decade. we‘re talking about quite serious figures here, as you say. getting into the specifics, violent crime is up by 19%, including knife crime, firearms offences. we‘ve also got statistics showing cases of murder and manslaughter are up. 629 cases in the last 12 months. 46 more than the previous 12 months if you exclude terror attacks and cases in the hillsborough disaster, which were included last year. some of the serious crimes showing increases in the latest data. thank you very much. the constitutional crisis in spain is deepening, with madrid now declaring it will impose direct rule on catalonia. ministers will meet on saturday to activate an article of the constitution, which allows them to take control of the province. earlier this month catalans voted overwhelmingly to leave spain in a disputed referendum. our correspondent caroline hawley has the latest. side—by—side, the flags of spain and catalonia. but this now is an extraordinarily fraught moment between madrid and barcelona. in the black car, the man at the centre of this crisis. the catalan leader had given until this morning to clearly drop his bid for independence or face the imposition of direct rule from madrid. that had been seen as the nuclear option but, this morning, it‘s what the spanish prime minister announced, an unprecedented move not seen during spain‘s four decades of democracy. translation: with the absence of a response to the precise and clear terms, the government understands there has not been a reply to its requirements. as a result, the government will continue with procedures outlined in article 155 of the constitution with the objective of restoring legality to catalonia. the catalan president had responded with a letter in which he said the independence declaration he made last week remains suspended. but he said if central government refused dialogue, then the catalonian parliament could vote to ratify independence. catalans themselves remain deeply divided over independence. but those who support separating from spain only seem to have had their views strengthened by the central government‘s response. independence now, she says. spanish ministers are due to meet on saturday to approve plans to exert more control over the self—governing region, including over the regional police seen here arguing with spanish police. tensions are running high across catalonia with fears spain‘s biggest political crisis in a0 years could lead to further unrest. caroline hawley, bbc news. from the houses of parliament to the strictly dance floor, ed balls is a man of many talents. but the former labour politician has suffered with a problem which affects one percent of the entire adult population in the uk — he has a stammer. a condition he was unaware he had until in his 40‘s. ahead of international stammering day on sunday, ed is trying to raise awareness of the condition. asi as i say, you didn‘t realise until much later in life that you were affected. i didn't. i had much later in life that you were affected. ididn't. i had moments when i was becoming an mp, where things had gone wrong with my speech, where suddenly the words wouldn‘t come out. my dad had said to me, i don‘t know what it is, but you‘ve got the same thing as me. it was only after i became a cabinet minister and we really looked hard at it, why did every now and then my speech go wrong we found out it was a stammer. i think most people think ofa a stammer. i think most people think of a stammer being where you can‘t get your words out but for very many people they have a stammer like mine, the same as the king in the king‘s speech, what the experts call interior iced. it happens on the inside. at key moments you can‘t manage to get the words to come. the awareness stage is important because there are so many people in the country who avoid situations, don‘t speak up in the workplace because something‘s not right and it‘s likely to be a stammer they don‘t even know they‘ve got. likely to be a stammer they don‘t even know they've got. the awareness is fine for those who have it. but people who don‘t have it need to be aware, too, because there is a... some people feel the need to finish somebody‘s sentence if they feel there is that gap. how do you deal with that? when i was secretary of state for children we made a dvd with a brilliant charity called action for stammering children, the michael pailin centre who supports children who stammer. it was a dvd for teachers, which has been used around the world, it‘s called wait, i haven‘t finished yet. it‘s children with stammer is telling teachers the things to do and not to do. if somebody has a stammer, to not call them in class finish their sentence or hurry them up, it leads to the stress and the build—up. clearly if a child is really upset it has to be handled carefully but people with stammer is don‘t want to be interrupted. sometimes you have to give people time to get the words out. obviously me, live on television, it‘s a bit harder. the thing i learned which is really important is, for me, the coming out and talking about it, saying, i‘ve got a stammer but it‘s part of who i am andi got a stammer but it‘s part of who i am and i deal with it every day, it took away a lot of the pressure for me and it made it easierfor me took away a lot of the pressure for me and it made it easier for me to you know, do professional speaking and at the same time be a stammer. ireland it was a response to the budget speech where it didn‘t go as well as you would have hoped, it was the first time many people understood there was this problem. i wonder if you know you‘ve got a stammer, i mean politics, the house of commons must be the last place on earth to help. winston churchill had a stammerand he earth to help. winston churchill had a stammer and he led our country through the darkest phase. the television and the radio... ed sheeran is one of our great pop stars, he has a stammer. emily blunt has a stammer and she‘s a film actress. i was in the cabinet, a good cabinet minister, but i had a stammer. the idea that because you might have a stammer, any other disability because you are in a wheelchair, because you have a learning difficulty, the idea it should necessarily stop you from... people with dyslexia can do brilliantjobs, the people with dyslexia can do brilliant jobs, the idea people with dyslexia can do brilliantjobs, the idea they have dyslexia shouldn‘t stop them. if you‘re going to do speaking in the house of commons with stammer, it‘s more of a challenge. i would say in the end it made me a better politician because i understood how ha rd politician because i understood how hard things can be. if you help people to overcome these things they can succeed. in 2015 it went horribly wrong, didn‘t it, you lost your seat. it‘s funny, walking in now, you said you feel guilty, looking at what‘s going on at the moment, why guilty?|j looking at what‘s going on at the moment, why guilty? i was in politics for 20 years and then came out in 2015 and i‘m doing lots of interesting things now in my life and yet at the same time the country‘s facing such huge challenges trying to make brexit work. i think any of us who were politicians from the outside now we feel as though we ought to be doing our bit. what would you do? there is theresa may right now going into the heart of the eu into brussels, seemingly with this deadlock, what would you do? if you could pick up the phone, what would you say? well i think it‘s really hard to have a negotiation with something as complex as the whole european union about our exit terms before we as a country have really worked out what we think a good deal and a bad deal is. the problem for theresa may is that she voted to stay in the european union but she is now the prime minister of negotiating leaving with rather large numbers of her backbenchers and frontbenchers, including people who come on the television and radio every day, telling her what she should and shouldn‘t do. owen paterson a former cabinet minister said no deal in his view should now be her strategy. their problem is she‘s been caught hostage by these people on her own side. as the country if we don‘t work out what we actually think the right thing to do is, it‘s very hard for us to negotiate. i wonder if you‘re behind the curve, isn‘t this how every person from every country feels? they see frustration because of the way politicians are dealing with this? a lot of people say we are ina with this? a lot of people say we are in a process of national crisis, we need a unity government if ever we need a unity government if ever we needed one. we had an election and ended up with people voting in very large numbers to give us, in a democracy, the political situation we have, which is a prime minister without a majority trying to do this difficult negotiation. we had a referendum in which people voted, they voted to leave the european union. it‘s quite hard simply to blame politicians. as a country we‘ve made these decisions but the reality is i think theresa may has a very, very difficult task. jeremy corbyn has been from the outside saying, sort it out. of course he's right... it‘s easy to say. saying, sort it out. of course he's right... it's easy to say. but very ha rd to right... it's easy to say. but very hard to do. is theresa may in the end going to be the prime minister who can do a deal not only a cce pta ble who can do a deal not only acceptable to the european partners on the country, but can also take her cabinet and her party with her. that is a challenge. increasingly people are thinking it might be impossible for her to pull off. do you have any sympathy for her? she‘s walking into the summit with angela merkel and emmanuel macron. any sympathy for her? of course i have sympathy for her? of course i have sympathy for her? of course i have sympathy for her, because she is structurally eight remainer leading a leave government without a majority doing the most conjugated negotiation in our country‘s history for 50 years. while she‘s... of course that‘s hard. she‘s also up against a commission which wants to doa against a commission which wants to do a deal which is as bad as they can make it for britain to try and put off france or spain or sweden from trying to do the same thing. on the other hand she‘s going to be speaking at the summit to political leaders not from the commission, but from germany, mrs merkel, president macron, they know, actually, no deal, a confrontation, would not only be bad for britain but bad for france and germany and europe. it will be up to the wire and it often work these ways in negotiations, people will stand back and say, before we jump over this cliff, why don‘t we reconsider? quite a gamble. he must hankerfor those relatively peaceful days when all you had to deal with was your two bosses at each other‘s throats. well, those are difficult times, politics is a tough game. gordon brown and tony blair, they had a wea k brown and tony blair, they had a weak opposition leader and we‘re introducing national minimum wage, investing in the health service, most people would look back at labour and conservative and think of those as good times, not difficult times. tony accuses you of briefing against him. that is ancient history and tony blairand against him. that is ancient history and tony blair and i regularly in recent yea rs, and tony blair and i regularly in recent years, what he tends to say is, in good dancing!” recent years, what he tends to say is, in good dancing! i was going to talk about the dancing. you have no regrets about doing that? of course not. i mean, i'm ajune ace, didn't it? up until then, not. i mean, i'm ajune ace, didn't it? up untilthen, you had not. i mean, i'm ajune ace, didn't it? up until then, you had a reputation as a political bruiser. but then you look like a group of people who would take no nonsense and suddenly you‘re doing a passage of play and people see a different side to you. —— paso doble. oh, my word. what do you think of that? oh, my gosh. it wasn‘t the greatest dancing but people enjoyed it. i think at a time when our country is having tough times, weather you‘re labour or conservative, english or scottish, weather you support united we re scottish, weather you support united were city, we can all enjoy strictly come dancing and it is good to have things that are culturally unifying. politicians are human beings and work hard and are often most people, they do something about our society that tends to think of politicians is weird, abnormal, different, mainly what i did in a small way was to show that politicians are human beings too. is this the strictly moment for you where you could think about becoming prime minister orders politics off the agenda? well, i'm not doing it tony blair and you never say never because 1‘s politics is something you have done, you miss it. iam is something you have done, you miss it. i am also doing some different things, iam it. i am also doing some different things, i am at harvard, i am at a football club, doing stuff for the bbc, which i‘m looking forward to doing, i think in life you should a lwa ys doing, i think in life you should always move onto the next challenge and the next opportunity and thing you can do. people who spend their time trying to go backwards and do what they did in the past better, i think sometimes that can make you feel disappointed in the end. if i could come on this programme, have a nice chat and say, international stammer awareness day, let‘s get the support people need, then maybe i am making a positive contribution to the world. is nice to see you, thanks for coming in. three of northern ireland‘s most senior police officers are under investigation for alleged misconduct in public office and criminality that could amount to conspiracy to pervert the course ofjustice. the police ombudsman is examining allegations involving the chief constable, george hamilton, his deputy, drew harris and an assistant chief constable. all deny any wrongdoing. in any big investigation, when you review it, there will always be areas for organisational learning about the margins but i am confident that there will be no serious misconduct found against me or any other officers under investigation. but you know what? i have confidence in the police ombudsman that they will do theirjob, rather than me saying this because that is the way it is supposed to work and i think people introducing public discourse is unwise and i would encourage complainants to have confidence in the police ombudsman rather than in the police ombudsman rather than in the need for public comments. we have the second named storm of the season, it has been named by met eireann. it is actually this cloud, the classic cloud shield which shows us the classic cloud shield which shows us this is hiding an area of low pressure and undergoing an expose of genesis. it is forming rapidly because it is on the left side of the jet stream and that‘s where bc areas of low pressure developing quickly and you can see the pressure dropping quickly over the next few days. unfortunately, for us, this rapid deepening is happening while it is out in the atlantic, rather than over the uk. if it happens when it is over the uk, the winds are even stronger. having said that, we‘re looking at lively dusts, saturday, we will probably seen the peak of the winds and they will be across southern and western parts. 60 mph around coastal areas. these winds on saturday are coming at a time where we actually have spring tides and some very big waves and that could bring some impact with coastal flooding where we have those strongest winds in the south and west. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. theresa may meets eu leaders in brussels — with pro—brexit colleagues urging her to give an ultimatum. the number of crimes recorded annually by police in england and wales has reached five million for the first time in a decade. the spanish government begins moves to impose direct rule over catalonia. sport now on afternoon live, with hugh. a busy afternoon? yes, good afternoon, simon, very busy, as you can‘t help. i will reflect more about the growing crisis at the fa, so much pressure after their performance in parliament. we will have more from richard conway coming up. we will also look ahead to the ashes, which will start sooner than most people think. the women‘s team play later this week and had pretty bad preparation so far, more on that inafew bad preparation so far, more on that in a few moments. studio: but the fa, this fallout does continue? yes. in the last few minutes, the sports minister tracey crouch has issued a statement regarding the crisis at the football association saying — "i hope that the fa learns lessons from this whole sorry saga to ensure that all in the sport and the wider public have faith in their processes and procedures." today, pressure has built on those in power after seniorfigures answered questions in front of mps regarding discrimination claims that were made against the former england boss mark sampson. our sports correspondent richard conway has more. accusations of a cover—up, claims of a failure to support a victim of racism, evidence labelled as shambolic, the fa is dealing with another self—made crisis, one that some feel could cost officials and theirjobs. what is disappointing is people directly involved in the process, the chief executive, head of hr, they were not prepared to apologise. i think that raises serious doubts about weather they have the right people to take the organisation forward. be chelsea play at the heart of this issue says she feels vindicated after receiving an apology from fa bosses. it was touched she was the victim of racist remarks from herformer touched she was the victim of racist remarks from her former england manager but the fa‘s processes and power structure are under increasing scrutiny, given the way it handled claims. time and again we see a failure to address issues, serious allegations, if you analyse what has happened here, it fits the definition of institutional discrimination to 80, i‘m afraid. the head of the player union, whose actions and sally were cold into question is sceptical now of weather players can trust the governing body. this was a leading player and we're going to treat a leading player like that, what does it say for how anybody else is going to be treated? so, from a point of view, it is almost a dereliction of duty. former players hope some good can come from this lengthy saga. we don't want this to happen to somebody else, it wasn't really about me, it was about finding the truth and letting people realise that if you have a grievance, you can bring up warbird and will not be ostracised from the team. it is understood the government remains concerned about the fa‘s handling of this case but for now, an organisation always keen to talk of its successes is left to reflect on its successes is left to reflect on its costly mistakes. richard conway, bbc news. england‘s women cricketers have played an inter—squad game to prepare for the ashes after two of their warm up games were washed out by rain. the series starts on sunday and head coach mark robinson admits they‘ve not had the ideal preparation. to malpractice claims rained off, we had no opposition today, the ground was only half ready, we needed a net and one half in the morning and then they managed to get the net down in they managed to get the net down in the afternoon and got some good and meaningful practice, not as good as playing games but at least we got something in. let's take on this, never short of attention, ronnie o‘sullivan got maybe a little too much today, he was joined by a spectator, who was clearly overjoyed after he had made three consecutive century breaks in bands like to wind his third—round match at the english open. having rolled in the pink here, ronnie thought he would be generous and offer the spectator a chance of pocketing the black. but could his new partner do it? well, let‘s see... she duly mist, u nfortu nately. let‘s see... she duly mist, unfortunately. she takes time over it, let‘s put it that way. obviously not the same talent as champion. she tries again... even worse! it didn‘t spoil ronnie‘s day as he is through to the next round. studio: that's to the next round. studio: that‘s great, thanks very much. our reality check correspondent, chris morris, is here and you‘ve been looking at what it will take to unblock these talks. you could say a lot of it is down to money. yes, ants down to the speech theresa may gave in florence which was broadly welcomed by the eu. one thing she said was she was prepared to offer a sun of £18 billion in 2019-20, that is to offer a sun of £18 billion in 2019—20, that is money that makes sure other countries are not out of pocket. she also said the uk would honour the commitments it made as a member states. that‘s fine. but the other member states and saying to eu negotiators, you need to fine out what exactly that means in practice and that is key. and what does it mean in practice? looming large on the back and something cold the reste a liquider. the total is currently £230 million. you can calculate roughly 12%, £26 billion, a lot of money, so, that‘s the sort of thing the eu wants clarity on. it is also talking about things like infrastructure development projects, which much of this money is spent on. other things they are committed to, pensions, for example, there will be pension payments for civil serva nts will be pension payments for civil servants who have been in the eu while britain was a member. what will we do about that? and then what are cold contingent liabilities, a posh way of saying things that we may have to pay in the future but are not sure about. things like lens to other countries, if those loans come back we will get the money but they won the money upfront. what is they won the money upfront. what is the eu looking for? what it is not looking for, let‘s put it like that, a finalfigure, it looking for, let‘s put it like that, a final figure, it doesn‘t want a number, it doesn‘t want you, me, the daily mail on the guardian to get an algorithm and come up with a number because they understand the political sensitivities in the uk. but it does want is some kind of guarantee and in the docks between michel barnier and david davis, it probably wants something in writing which says clearly that honour our commitments means on all our commitments means on all our commitments that really is the sticking point. how do we persuade the eu side we‘re talking roughly the eu side we‘re talking roughly the same language? what is the uk position? at the moment, they're saying the speech in florence, given the delicate nature of debate in the uk, wasa the delicate nature of debate in the uk, was a substantial gesture. there was nearly £20 billion bet on the table and pledged on a commitment, said with a little bit of creative ambiguity, it has to be said that the pledge was there. david davis said this in parliament this week. blu ntly, said this in parliament this week. bluntly, he said that is exactly what is going on. we shouldn‘t forget we‘re in a negotiation, both sides are saying things in public is designed to sort of keep their negotiating mandate pushed forward but behind the scenes, they do need to sort out the specific issue about money. we keep hearing the word, deadlock. it sounds like deadlock and in some ways it is at the moment but if you talk to you officials, they say, we‘re not actually that far—away from this idea of sufficient progress and we could get there and we hope to get there by december. they have put out a couple of cabot this week, that they will talk amongst themselves and get their house in order and if they do that, they will be more rounds of negotiations and the hope is that thatis negotiations and the hope is that that is when things were before that. if it does not happen by them, then that is when i think we get to a real moment of crisis. time pressure on all sides may persuade things to move forward. chris, thanks very much. sir tom jones has become the latest celebrity to speak out following the sex scandal in hollywood involving harvey weinstein, saying that sort of behaviour happens in the music industry with both men and women. he said at the start of his career he was propositioned by a man — an experience that left him feeling "terrible". colin paterson reports. for more than 50 years, sir tom jones has played up his reputation as a sex symbol. but in an interview for 5live‘s afternoon edition on the red carpet at the series launch of the voice, he revealed a man in the music industry tried to take advantage of him at the start of his career in the early 1960s. in the beginning, yes, there were a few things like that. but you avoid it. what‘s tried on women is tried on men as well. he did tell other people about the proposition at the time and the incident was never repeated. it was only once, really. how did it make you feel? terrible. then you think, i‘ve got to get away from this person. it can‘t be like this. sir tom jones had been giving his reaction to recent allegations and revelations surrounding the us film industry and said, to him, it was an all too familiar story. there‘s always been that element there that people with power sometimes abuse it. that‘s what the actress tippi hedren says. she starred in the birds and marnie, both directed by alfred hitchcock. speaking in a new interview with the bbc, she claims that the director offered to advance her career if she was willing to sleep with him. i was really angry that he would have pulled that on me. it was so unnecessary. and just so degrading. the entire film crew knew what he was trying to do. they knew i was just in a day—to—day battle just staying out of his way. this story continues to widen its scope. since the original allegations against harvey weinstein, more than a0 women have come forward. there are ongoing police investigations on both sides of the atlantic. now, with sir tom jones‘ comments, attention may turn to the music industry. colin paterson, bbc news. the headlines on afternoon live. the eu summit gets under way. there has been an increase in crimes reported in england and wales. the spanish government is taking steps to impose direct rule over catalonia. the uk chancellor has asked financial regulators and the serious fraud office to review whether the banks hsbc and standard chartered are linked to a corruption scandal in south africa. former cabinet minister lord hain has raised concerns the banks may ‘inadvertently have been conduits‘ for laundered money. neither bank has yet commented. theresa may has vowed to make it as easy as possible for eu citizens to remain in the uk after brexit ahead of a key summit of european leaders. in a facebook post, the prime minister insisted and the cost "as low as possible". campaigners have welcomed her message but said it seemed more aimed at persuading the eu to progress brexit talks. one in four low paid workers are permanently stuck in poorly paid jobs in the uk with little chance of earning more, according to the social mobility commission. the government body says low pay is ‘endemic‘ in the uk, with women more likely to get stuck on low pay. baggies on retail sales? yes, they fell by 0.8% in september and in august they had risen by 1.3%. it seems to be a complex picture. partly due to the weather, quite rainy in september, people did not wa nt to rainy in september, people did not want to go out to the shops and spend cash but also rising prices, inflation now at 3%, as we know. this week, we have also heard how a lot of people are racking up huge credit card bills, the average for young people is around £3000. add to that all this uncertainty, me, brexit, and weather the bank of england will put up interest rates. amazon is up to stuff. yes. amazon has actually invited bids from cities across america, who might be interested in their city or state hosting amazon‘s second headquarters and there is an awful lot at stake, lots of jobs to and there is an awful lot at stake, lots ofjobs to be had if they do actually wind this bid and a p pa re ntly actually wind this bid and apparently the deadline is today. we can speak to samira hussain in new york. i understand new york is interested , york. i understand new york is interested, which other cities in the running? so, just to be clear, amazon did not open this upjust the running? so, just to be clear, amazon did not open this up just to american cities. it is too north american cities. it is too north american cities, so you also see some big cities in canada that are really making the push. like toronto and vancouver, that are really trying to push amazon to consider them as well. in terms of american cities in the running, new york, of course, is in the mix, some other cities in the newjersey area, newark, newjersey, austin, texas also looming on the list, lots of cities have certainly expressed interest. the cities must persuade amazon that they are the best city for amazon, what kind of incentives are they offering? so, amazon has already stipulated a few rules about the winning city, in needs to be close to an international airport, you have to have at least! million people in it and it has to have a strong transportation system. they also want a diverse population and some good schools. amazon is really thinking ahead in terms of the kinds of things their employees will really wa nt of things their employees will really want in a city. in terms of pot sweeteners, so to speak, a lot of states are putting together packages that would offer a lot of tax incentives. the best example close to here would be newjersey and the governor of newjersey, chris christie, offering $7 billion in tax incentives. the reasoning being that by offering these tax incentives, they will get 50,000 jobs that pay about $100,000 each year, a huge influx and it would be worth it for any american city. thank you. new york is one of the city is hoping to wind that bit. those retail figures, city is hoping to wind that bit. those retailfigures, let‘s see how they are affecting the markets? those retail sales did affect the pound and there is an inverse relationship with sterling and the ftse 100 relationship with sterling and the ftse100 because companies listed on the ftse100 have been impacted. very quickly, we have had a message from the ceo of goldman sachs. it‘s really fascinating because he has tweeted this at the same time as those talks are taking place in brussels. he has actually said that he has just left frankfurt, brussels. he has actually said that he hasjust left frankfurt, great weather, good because i will be spending a lot more time here. hashtag brexit. and he warned that hundreds of jobs could hashtag brexit. and he warned that hundreds ofjobs could go. more than you later, thanks very much. from la boheme to the magic flute, some of the most beautiful operas ever written are traditionally performed in italian, french or german. but now there‘s a new work that‘s about to be premiered — and it‘s being sung in english with a yorkshire accent. it‘s called the arsonists and it‘s opening next month in salford. our arts correspondent, david sillito, has been listening in. # let us all increase our productivity # let ourfingers be worked to the bone. # joining me now from salford is the opera‘s composer alan williams. that was a rarity, the particular clip he played. for a composer it makes a difference. each type of english has its own natural rhythm. in the north, we have more short vowels and would save path rather than "ba hth", so vowels and would save path rather than "bahth", so we have to make it a stage between long and short notes. how many opera singers are there out there who took naturally to this? it is easier with singers already based in the north which is why i am working with heritage opera, based in manchester. but yeah, through various means, including recording the libretto in the actual voice of the librettist, ian mcmillan, and also using what is cold ipa, the international phonetic alphabet, it is almost like you‘re treating the axe like a foreign language. the letter t is very different. it can be. yorkshire people also use it, as everybody does, to point things out, but it is often dropped as well and it depends what kind of emphasis you want in the libretto and in the music. what is the intention? this is to get peephole in the north more interested in opera ? peephole in the north more interested in opera? is there a perception they are not already?” think there‘s a perception that opera is elitist, but it is for rich people and is about rich pole or people and is about rich pole or people who are not like us whereas you compare it with the situation in theatre and there is a lot of northern voices and theatre, echoed to the theatre and the maxine peake playing hamlet, for example, and it‘s not a marked thing, it‘s not an unusual thing to have a kind of northern identity and theatre but it doesn‘t exist at all in opera. northern identity and theatre but it doesn't exist at all in opera. alan, good of you to join us and good luck. thank you very much. we will be speaking to lesley garrett, opera singer and north country lass, that‘s at 3:15pm. now, though, let‘s have a look at the weather. winds are picking up from the south—west, through the english channel, early part of the night and quite a messy night. clouds and outbreaks of frame. mild night with mist and low hill fog. a grey start for many. the brain tends to peter out, the next lot of wind and rain arrives later in the day for northern ireland and the far south—west. temperatures really should be at this time of year. the strongest winds and west wales, southern parts of england, 50—60 mph. further north, still windy and still quite few showers. rohingya hello, you‘re watching afternoon live — i‘m simon mccoy. today at 3: afternoon live — i‘m simon mccoy. deal or no deal — theresa may is urged to give an ultimatum to the eu summit in brussels. that speech that i set out in france set out that ambitious vision and i look forward to us being able to progress that in the weeks ahead. recorded crime passes the five million mark — for the first time in 10 years. there‘s a particular rise in violence. deepening crisis in catalonia — as spain triggers the process of direct rule. coming up on afternoon live all the sport — hugh‘s here... the fallout continues at the football association over their handling of bullying and racism allegations. sports minister tracy crouch staying the fa learns lessons to ensure the public can keep faith in them. thanks hugh, and we‘ll bejoining you for a full update just after half—past. darren has all the weather. all calm moment. stormy weather on the way just all calm moment. stormy weather on the wayjust in time for the weekend. brian makes an appearance. i'll weekend. brian makes an appearance. i‘ll have all the details later on. thanks darren. also coming up: # lasses are brussen things, shift like the seasons # chilt for no reason, there is no...# give us an eee — by gum. the opera notes sung in a yorkshire dialect. we‘ll talk to opera singer lesley garrett about what she thinks. hello everyone — this is afternoon live. i‘m simon mccoy. theresa may is in brussels for an eu summit — she‘s pushing for progress on brexit negotiations — and will address eu leaders tonight. but no one thinks it‘s going to be easy — and mrs may is being urged by some in her party to issue this ultimatum: if trade talks don‘t begin soon britain will settle for a "no deal" on brexit. this report from our europe correspondent damian grammaticas. it contains flash photography. are you confident of progress today, prime minister? deal or no deal? but at this stage it‘s no deal. the pm‘s jaguar and the talks both making slow progress. gathering in brussels, the leaders from the eu‘s 27 other countries have made plain they‘re not satisfied with what the uk‘s proposing in the brexit negotiations. their conditions have not been met. you said the conditions are clear, what conditions? we had the conditions. ireland. we have the conditions about the rights of the citizens, we have preconditions also of open bills. so this is a clear line. bye bye! hasta la vista. the eu side they say britain has to compromise more to move on, are you willing to budge? i set out a few weeks ago in florence a very bold and ambitious agenda and vision for our future partnership between the eu and the uk. at the heart of that remains cooperation on the key issues and dealing with the shared challenges that we face. that speech that i set out in florence set out that ambitious vision and i look forward to us being able to progress that in the weeks ahead. the problem for theresa may is that whatever she tells these leaders over dinner, it‘s highly unlikely to unblock the talks. and the reason for that, from the very outset the eu have set the conditions. the leaders say the uk must clear up the uncertainties caused by brexit before they will move onto trade talks. and what‘s on the table so far simply isn‘t good enough. mrs may will have just a few minutes over dinner tonight to persuade the leaders otherwise. but after five rounds, the negotiations have stalled. it‘s the eu that controls the pace and the sequence here. the prime minister‘s speech in florence did lift the tone, but the eu says the uk hasn‘t provided solutions to the problems caused by brexit. so this summit is likely to say on the issue of citizens‘ rights the uk must provide legal certainty, including a role for the european court ofjustice. on ireland, the uk needs to present and commit to flexible and imaginative solutions. on a financial settlement, the uk must make a firm and concrete commitment to settle all its obligations. mrs may has already had one dinner in brussels, on monday. she is under pressure from some at home to walk away from the talks. also in brussels today, saying no deal would be a disasterfor the uk, isjeremy corbyn. the prime minister seems to have managed to upsetjust about everybody and have a warring cabinet around her. it‘s up to her to get the negotiations back on track. we cannot countenance the idea that we just rush headlong into no deal with europe. it means that this summit eu leaders won‘t approve a move to trade talks, and it won‘t happen until the issues on the table are resolved. damian grammaticas, bbc news, brussels. let‘s get more on this now with the economist columnist tom nuttall. he‘s in brussels for us on afternoon live. i‘m just going to tell you some news i‘m just going to tell you some news i‘m reading on the press association, apparently angela merkel has said there are encouraging signs talks on the future eu uk trade relationship could begin as early as december. given where we are, i guess it is some optimistic approach.” given where we are, i guess it is some optimistic approach. i mean the original hope, of course, was that they would conclude the first phase of talks, the divorce settlement, at the summit that is beginning behind me now, and move on to trade immediately afterwards. it hasn‘t happened. the next european summit is in december and the hope is enough will have happened in negotiations between now and then to unblock those talks and begin talking trade at that point. basically it comes down to one thing, one word, money. the europeans want to see the brits commit to paying more for the divorce settlement before they will agree to talk trade. we're not in the position where they have figures on the table, they are still talking about the principle of what we owe money for. correct, i don't think they‘ll need to have figure in black and white to move on to the second phase, they‘ve been pretty clear on that all the way through. what they do need from britain is a commitment to settle a bill that goes beyond simply paying for the current budgetary period, which expires in 2020. that's budgetary period, which expires in 2020. that‘s what the prime minister signed up to in her florence speech. they want a commitment to cover more than that. commitments have been made but payments have been made. the nuts and bolts, the technicalities, that is what they will want to see britain sign up to in negotiation rounds that take place between now and the summit in december. bring what's going on behind the scenes, what do those eu 27 leaders and negotiators, what do they really think about britain at they really think about britain at the moment? i think they are very worried theresa may is a weak prime minister not able to hold her cabinet and government together. not able to arrive at a consistent position that she can bring to the negotiating table here. they don‘t have a stable negotiating partner. one of the ironies is that while britain is keen to move on to talking trade as soon as possible, it doesn‘t know what sort of trade deal it wants in the long run. the regular turn of british politics, the arguments between ministers and so one are watched closely in brussels and european capitals. they are waiting to see the british government arrive at a clear and consistent negotiating position. there‘s been a largejump in the number of crimes recorded by police in england and wales. the latest figures show recorded crimes rose thirteen per cent in the twelve months to the end ofjune. let‘s speak to john flatley from the ons. on the face of it, john, pretty grim figures. we need to see these figures. we need to see these figures in context. in 201a the police watchdog, her majesty‘s constabulary, released a critical report showing two in every ten crimes were not being reported. we‘ve seen improvement in recording processes and practices which has a large drive behind these rises, but not entirely. that is the thing, still a significant increase in crime. significant increases. some of the most concerning those involving serious injury, knife crime, murder and so on. it's not necessarily your job to crime, murder and so on. it's not necessarily yourjob to go into these figures in terms of why, but is there any idea from these figures which particular crimes? significant rises in violence. rises in a range of violent crimes. we seen a rise in ford, and increase both in police figures and in data supplied to us from the financial and banking sectors where fraud is becoming much more common than it was a few years ago. we're looking at recorded crime, not clear up rates, just as initial calls. crimes reported to and recorded by the police. we also have evidence from an independent survey of the general public showing in the long—term there have been reductions in crime. these new rises we see in police figures are bucking a long—term historical trend downwards. any regional differences in terms of these? a lot of regional variations. we see some of the rises in knife crime disproportionately concentrated in london and other major cities. it isn‘t a problem in rural areas. things like burglary and car theft we see right across the country. small optics in a number of areas. —— uptake. the country. small optics in a number of areas. -- uptake. any victimless crime is a lesser crime, any sense of where they are going or are people not reporting them? crime isa are people not reporting them? crime is a wide—ranging thing, the most serious tend to be lower volume. inconvenient and annoying but not particularly harmful, those are the categories most affected by the changes and improvements in police recording practices. john flatley, thank you very much. we‘ve heard norfolk police, a funding gap of £10 million, has announced it is cutting all of its police community support officers. they provide a visible uniformed presence to offer reassurance and support to members of the public and assisting police officers. 150 posts are affected however the force says it intends to increase the amount of police co nsta bles increase the amount of police constables it employs. you‘re watching afternoon live. the constitutional crisis in spain is deepening, with madrid now declaring it will impose direct rule on catalonia. ministers will meet on saturday to activate an article of the constitution, which allows them to take control of the province. earlier this month catalans voted overwhelmingly to leave spain in a disputed referendum. our correspondent caroline hawley has the latest. side—by—side, the flags of spain and catalonia. but this now is an extraordinarily fraught moment between madrid and barcelona. in the black car, the man at the centre of this crisis. the catalan leader had given until this morning to clearly drop his bid for independence or face the imposition of direct rule from madrid. that had been seen as the nuclear option but, this morning, it‘s what the spanish prime minister announced, an unprecedented move not seen during spain‘s four decades of democracy. translation: with the absence of a response to the precise and clear terms, the government understands there has not been a reply to its requirements. as a result, the government will continue with procedures outlined in article 155 of the constitution with the objective of restoring legality to catalonia. the catalan president had responded with a letter in which he said the independence declaration he made last week remains suspended. but he said if central government refused dialogue, then the catalonian parliament could vote to ratify independence. catalans themselves remain deeply divided over independence. the crisis began with an independence referendum that spain said was illegal and tried to stop. spanish police stepped in to prevent people voting. the question now for catalonia is what will happen next? spanish ministers are due to meet on saturday to approve plans to exert more control over the self—governing region, including over the regional police seen here arguing with spanish police. tensions are running high across catalonia with fears spain‘s biggest political crisis in a0 years could lead to further unrest. these are the headlines: the prime minister is in brussels hoping for a breakthrough in the brexit negotiations as an eu summit gets underway. there‘s been a big increase in the number of crimes, particularly violent offences, in england and wales. the spanish government says it‘s taking steps to impose direct rule over catalonia this weekend. in a moment: give us an eee — by gum. the opera notes sung in a yorkshire dialect. — we talk to the writer and composer. and we‘ll talk to lesley garrett as well. in sport, the sports minister tracy crouch says she hopes the fa learns lessons from the saga involving the former england head coach mark sampson. crouch reiterated she expects world leading standards of governments from all of our sports bodies. jack wilshere has defended his team—mates against criticism from the watford striker troy deeney, who implied the gunners lacked character after their premier league meeting last weekend. even the best sometimes need a helping hand. ronnie o‘sullivan finishes off his match at beamish open with the aid ofa his match at beamish open with the aid of a member of the barnsley crowd. i‘ll be back with more on those stories just after half past. it‘s now the world‘s fastest—growing humanitarian crisis. thousands of rohingya muslims are continuing to flee violence in myanmar, facing horrendous conditions when they arrive in neighbouring bangladesh. so far, nearly six hundred thousand rohingyas have crossed the border, and some 15,000 are stranded there with limited food and water. clive myrie is in bangladesh. for the refugees here it‘s very difficult indeed, no question, this refugee camp houses hundreds of thousands of rohingya muslims who managed to cross the board in recent days and weeks to get here. they‘re safe, they‘ve got food, most of them, and clean water. and facilities at this refugee camp. it's facilities at this refugee camp. it‘s very difficult indeed, we‘ve been caught in the middle of the cyclone. it‘s washing away a lot of the muddy valley floor, the basis for a lot of the tents and makeshift shelters that have been made by the refugees themselves. conditions aren‘t ideal at all. if you wander around a lot of the refugee camps in this area, the main thing that hits you is the number of children. its estimated something like 60% of the refugees who crossed the border in recent months are over 18 and because they are younger and more feeble and susceptible to disease and shortages of food and so one, they could pick up bonuses that means they are much more susceptible to longer term problems. i‘ve been finding out about this visiting one clinic near this refugee camp. i should say some of the images in my report are a little distressing. i‘m surrounded by babies, children under the age of two months, and they are all fighting for their lives. they are all severely, acutely malnourished. and many of them have travelled with their families from across the border in myanmar, escaping the military there and the militias who have burnt them out of their homes, and they have ended up here. as you can imagine, it has been an arduous journey for them and they have picked up ailments, and the lack of food, the lack of water on that long trip has meant they have ended up being cared for in here. sadly, the doctors here have been telling me that several simply don‘t make it. only yesterday, four actually died. with me is ian cross, one of the senior doctors here. he is actually a former gp from leicester. good to see you. thank you very much for allowing us in here. just tell us about some of the ailments that a lot of the children are suffering from here. the main ailments that we see an acute respiratory infection. bronchopneumonia, bronchiolitis, pneumonia. we see a lot of children who are very malnourished and when they get chest infections like this, they find it very difficult to fight off the infection. you have covered a lot of emergencies in your time. this must be one of the worst. this is one of the worst. this is one of the worst i‘ve been involved with, yes. it is shocking. i must admit, i was very moved by this when i first came. on my first day, four people died. that was really shocking to me. even though i am hardened old doctor, it was difficult for me. and this is a crisis that has been going on for such a long time. just a couple of days ago, we saw 10—15,000 pour over the border. sure. you are going to get more and more people coming here with their children. yes, and we are trying our best to upgrade our facilities and our help posts to provide services for these people. msf has gone from a team of seven to a team of a0 in a matter of a couple of weeks. all of this must be heartbreaking for you to see. absolutely. absolutely terrible. you look around and... tears come to my eyes sometimes. it‘s dreadful. you just do what you can, you know? in a way, i am lucky that i am a doctor. i have my hands, my tools — i can help to make people better. if i wasn‘t able to do that, i would feel so frustrated and i would feel even worse. but when you are hard at work, it... you can cope with it. the dedication of people like ian cross and other foreign workers who come here to help try to give some sort of reassurance to the local people that they are going to be safe and looked after, and crucially the local staff who have been working tirelessly to deal with his incredibly fast—moving crisis. their dedication is really quite astounding. 10,000 refugees, simon, crossed the border today. 20,000 so far this week. 800,000 so far this week. by the end of the year, december 31, they reckon there will be about a million people who will have fled their home in myanmar and come here to bangladesh. more than a million cases of fly tipping have been reported across the england in the last year, costing the tax payer up to 58 million pounds to clear up. household rubbish accounts for two thirds of all rubbish dumped. councils have been given new powers in england which allows them to issue fixed penalty notices for fly—tipping. black monday — the biggest single—day stock market collapse in history — was 30 years ago today. the crash began in far eastern markets on the morning of the 19th of october 1987, and accelerated as the day continued. by the end of the day billions had been wiped off global markets. simon gompertz looks back at a day that shook the global finance industry. it was a shattering day. exactly three decades ago, months of rising share prices gave way to a sudden crisis of confidence. is itjust blind panic? there comes a time in all marketplaces where psychology overtakes fundamentals. the great storm had flattened woodland across the south. there was genuine fear, a feeling of financial apocalypse. as new york woke up later that day london time, the financial storm spread across the atlantic. these were the biggest share price falls ever seen, prompting the president to try to calm things down. i don‘t think anyone should panic. all the economic indicators are solid. this was in a slow—moving analogue age of landlines, paper everywhere, typewriters, clunky calculators. but it was also a wake—up call to the tech age. computer trading kicked in as people tried to cover their losses and sell shares. on black monday itself, the market fell by 11%. but that was superseded by the next day, tuesday 20th october, a further 12% fall in share prices. i was up there in this new brokerage firm we‘d founded. we were very nervous. justin erquhart stewart is a veteran stockbroker who experienced the full blast of the storm of 1987. is it about to happen again? it‘s one of those moments where this could easily snap because of what, we don‘t know anything. you‘ve had rockets being fired. that didn‘t impact. brexit hasn‘t had an impact yet. is it possible interest rates are now rising, as they are in the states, and may start to rise here as well? # you win again...# the bee gees were number one for black monday. and the comforting thing was markets did win again. share prices were back up within a couple of years. sir tom jones has become the latest celebrity to speak out following the sex scandal involving harvey weinstein in hollywood, saying that sort of behaviour happens in the music industry with men and women. he said at the start of his career he was propositioned by a man, an experience that left him feeling terrible. colin paterson reports. for more than 50 years sir tom jones has played up his reputation as a sex symbol but in an interview for five live‘s afternoon edition on the red carpet and series launch of the voice he revealed the man in the music industry tried to take advantage of them at the start of his career in the early 1960s. at the beginning yes there were a few things like that, but, you know, you avoid it. what stride on women is tried on men as well. he told other people about the proposition at the time. the incident was never repeated. it was only once, really,. how did it make you feel? terrible, then you think, i have to get away from this person, this... it can‘t be like this. sir tom jones had been giving his reaction to recent allegations and revelations surrounding the us film industry and said to him it was an all too familiar story. there has always been that element there that people with power sometimes abuse it. that‘s what the actress to be hedren says. she starred in the birds and marnie, directed by alfred hitchcock. speaking in a new interview with the bbc, she claims the director of which to advance her career if she was willing to sleep with him. i was really angry that he would have pulled back on me. it was so unnecessary and just so, so degrading. the entire crew, film crew, knew what he was trying to do, and they knew that i was just in a day to day battle with just staying out of his way. this story continues to widen its scope. since the original allegations against harvey weinstein, more than a0 women have come forward and there are ongoing police investigation is on both sides of the atlantic. now with sir tom jones‘s comments, attention may turn to the music industry. colin paterson, bbc news. you‘re watching afternoon live. nhs blood and transplant says the most common reason for families overriding a loved one‘s wishes is the donation process takes too long. mark hutchings reports. for many, becoming an organ donor is a crucially important life and death decision. now data from nhs blood and transplant shows since 2012 505 people who signed the donor register had that wish vetoed by families. in the past year the number of deceased donors was 1a00 but 91 cases were blocked. under legislation relatives don‘t have a right to overwrite their loved one‘s pledge. in practice, objections are being adhered to. the most frequent from relatives who thought the donation process took too long. other common complaint that the patient had suffered enough or that there was divided opinion in the family. one teenager who signed the register is clear her views should hold sway.” wa nt to clear her views should hold sway.” want to have the final say what happens to my body when i die, when i signed happens to my body when i die, when isigned up happens to my body when i die, when i signed up i wasn‘t aware of that whole thing is that your family had to become alike, supportive of your decision. it seems like, what‘s the point of signing up if... it could be overruled anyway. in 2015 in addition to the register the welsh government introduced a policy of deemed consent under which it is assumed an individual has no objection to donating organs unless they said otherwise, theirfamilies are still consulted. similar changes are still consulted. similar changes are planned in england and scotland. the message from those promoting organ donation is whatever the law it is as important as ever to discuss your decision with loved ones. deadlines coming up, first, the weather with darren. mist and fog has been lifting but there is more rain around today. heavy rain moving up across the midlands into northern england. staying wet in northern ireland. its bills further into wales and the south—west with the wind picking up. one ahead of that in the south—east if it brightens. windy weather to the south—west. quite a messy night of rain from time to time, a mild night. more mist and low cloud. hill fog especially across northern parts of the uk. a great start for many. sunshine creeping through into northern ireland, the south—west, for a while. the rain tending to peter out. sky is brightening in many areas. the next dose of wind and rain arrives late in the day. temperatures where they should be at this time of year. wet and windy weather on for saturday. strongest winds in west wales. further north, still windy. still quite a few showers. our latest headlines. theresa may meet eu leaders in brussels with pro brexit colleagues urging her to give an ultimatum. in above crimes recorded annually by police in england and wales has reached 5 million for the first time in a decade. the spanish government begins moves to impose direct rule over catalonia. sport with hugh. a lot of action fund on the pitch. that story regarding the fa. tracy crouch, the sports minister, issued a statement regarding the crisis at the fa. she said today, i hope the fa learns lessons from this whole sorry saga to ensure all in the sport and the wider public have faith in their processes and procedures. pressure building today on the fa. we‘ll hearfrom our small‘s jack wilshere ahead of the europa league games tonight. arsenal and everton in action. the fallout from this parliamentary committee inquiry is quite wide—ranging, isn‘t it? it is, it should run and run, we‘ve heard from a number of figures across football today. those in power, the senior figures at the fa, and the questions in front of mps yesterday. it regarded discrimination claims made against the former england boss mark sampson, made by former striker any aluko. richard sampson, made by former striker any alu ko. richard conway sampson, made by former striker any aluko. richard conway sent this report. accusations of cover—up, claims of failure to support the victim of racism. evidence labelled as shambolic. the fa is dealing with another self—made crisis. as shambolic. the fa is dealing with another self-made crisis. one that some feel could cost officials their jobs. what was really disappointing is the people directly involved in that process, the chief executive, head of hr, dan ashworth, they were prepared to apologise for their failings and the way this was investigated. it raises serious doubts as to whether they are the right people to take the organisation forward. eniola aluko says she feels vindicated after receiving an apology from fa bosses. it wasjudged she receiving an apology from fa bosses. it was judged she was the victim of racist remarks from her former england manager but the fa‘s processes and power structure are under increasing scrutiny given the way it handled the claims. time and again we see a failure to address issues, serious allegations. if you analyse what has happened here, it fits the definition of institutional discrimination to a t, i‘m afraid. the head of the player union, whose actions and salary were called into question is sceptical now of weather players can trust the governing body. this was a leading player and we're going to treat a leading player like that, what does it say for how anybody else is going to be treated? so, from a point of view, it is almost a dereliction of duty. former players hope some good can come from this lengthy saga. we don't want this to happen to somebody else, it wasn't really about me, it was about finding the truth and letting people realise that if you have a grievance, you can bring it forward and will not be ostracised from the team. it is understood the government remains concerned about the fa‘s handling of this case but for now, an organisation always keen to talk of its successes is left to reflect on its costly mistakes. richard conway, bbc news. jack wilshere says arsenal‘s character isn‘t in question after criticism from watford striker troy deeney. it came after arsenal‘s defeat at vicarage road in the premier league last weekend. the club‘s former defender martin keown was another of those to criticise the team — saying arsene wenger‘s side lack determination. you cannot question our character, people try to put us down, they always have, i don't think the comments were justified. when we look back at the game, we look back at ourselves and what we do wrong, i think we can look back and we don't question our character. we did certain things wrong but we didn't wa nt certain things wrong but we didn't want to let the lead slip. we'll move on. arsenal take on red star belgrade in the europa league — that‘s a six o‘clock kick off — whilst everton host lyon at 8:05. england‘s women cricketers have played an inter—squad game to prepare for the ashes after two of their warm—up games were rained off. the series starts on sunday and head coach mark robinson admits they‘ve not had the ideal preparation. two practice games rained off, we've had to play queensland today. we had no opposition today, the ground was still only half finished, we had to put a net at one half in the morning and do some practice and in the afternoon we managed to get the net down and it was just about 0k and we got some good meaningful practice m, got some good meaningful practice in, not as good as playing games but at least we got something in. now, never short of attention — five time world champion ronnie o‘sullivan got maybe a bit too much today. he was joined by a spectator who was clearly overjoyed after o‘sullivan made three consecutive century breaks in barnsley to win his third round match but having rolled in the pink — ronnie allowed his new partner to have a go at the black. ronnie will be back tomorrow. you can watch the world parrot taekwondo championships on the bbc sport website. —— para—taekwondo. our reality check correspondent, chris morris, is here and you‘ve been looking at what it will take to unblock these talks. yes, the speech theresa may gave in florence was broadly welcomed by the eu. one thing she said was she was prepared to offer a sun of £18 billion in 2019—20, that is money that makes sure other countries are not out of pocket. she also said the uk would honour the commitments it made as a member state. that‘s fine. but the other member states are saying to eu negotiators, you need to find out what exactly that means in practice and that is key. and what does it mean in practice? looming large in the background and something calld the reste a liquider. "still to be paid." the total is currently £230 million. you can calculate roughly 12%, £26 billion, a lot of money, so, that‘s the sort of thing the eu wants clarity on. it is also talking about things like infrastructure development projects, which much of this money is spent on. other things they are committed to, pensions, for example, there will be pension payments for civil servants who have been in the eu while britain was a member. what will we do about that? and then what are called contingent liabilities, a posh way of saying things that we may have to pay in the future but are not sure about. things like loans to other countries, if those loans come back we will get the money but they won the money upfront. what is the eu looking for? what it is not looking for, let‘s put it like that, a finalfigure, it doesn‘t want a number, it doesn‘t want you, me, the daily mail or the guardian to get an algorithm and come up with a number because they understand the political sensitivities in the uk. but what it does want is some kind of guarantee is some kind of guarantee and between michel barnier and david davis, it probably wants something in writing which says clearly that honour our commitments means on all our commitments that really is the sticking point. how do we persuade the eu side we‘re talking roughly the same language? what is the uk position? at the moment, they‘re saying the speech in florence, given the delicate nature of debate in the uk, was a substantial gesture. there was nearly £20 billion put on the table and pledge to a commitment, said with a little bit of creative ambiguity, it has to be said that the pledge was there. david davis said this in parliament this week. bluntly, he said that is exactly what is going on. we shouldn‘t forget we‘re in a negotiation, both sides are saying things in public designed to sort of keep their negotiating mandate pushed forward but behind the scenes, they do need to sort out the specific issue about money. we keep hearing the word, deadlock. it sounds like deadlock and in some ways it is at the moment but if you talk to eu officials, they say, we‘re not actually that far—away from this idea of sufficient progress and we could get there and we hope to get there by december. they have put out a couple of carrots this week, that they will talk amongst themselves and get their house in order and if they do that, there will be more rounds of negotiations and the hope is that that is when things move forward. if it does not happen by then, then that is when i think we get to a real moment of crisis. time pressure on all sides may persuade things to move forward. laura kuenssberg has been talking about the dutch prime minister and this is what he has been saying, that unless the uk gives more detailed cash, "i don‘t see how we can move forward". he also says he picked up the phone to theresa may last week and this is what he said to her. i phoned her and said, please, teresa, give us more detail on the bill but i did warmly welcome the foreign speech but i particularly wa nted the foreign speech but i particularly wanted clarity on what she meant by honouring commitments when she spoke of that in her florence speech. just a bit of a taster therefrom laura kuenssberg as to what has been going on and the sort of contact behind the scenes with these strength negotiations. you are watching afternoon live. a new generation of council houses is what theresa may promised at the conservative party conference but how easy would it be to achieve? with just over 1 how easy would it be to achieve? withjust over1 million people in england on council waiting list for a home, some cities say they need more resources to solve the housing shortage. john maguire has been finding out. designed as an alternative to tower blocks, the alexandra estate in london promised a modernist utopian version of social housing when it was built in the 1970s. costs overran, and the architect paid the price with his career. but, today, neave brown holds the ultimate prize in his profession. well, well, well — it‘s quite heavy. this is the royal institute of british architects‘ gold medal for 2018. it is a recognition of his work to create council housing that offered not just shelter, but community. it‘s a mix of people, an ordinary mix of people, because urban society depends on that. our ordinary solutions, of point blocks, mixed development and so forth, deny people the right to belong to their community. what we tried to do was make it part of their community. he still lives nearby in another estate he created — smaller scale, but the same ethos. back at alexandra road, in the shadow of the next generation of homes, long—time resident elizabeth knowles tells me the estate has had its problems, but this is a vision that has survived the test of time. it's a concrete village, i always think of it as a concrete village. when i went to work, i would actually go down in the garages, because i would meet so many people i knew on the way to work that it would make me late for work if i stopped to talk to them all. so people do know one another. and they‘re the lucky ones. there is a huge shortage of affordable housing across the uk. this week, the prime minister hosted a downing street summit. the policies and promises made in this house must create tens of thousands of others every year. she has pledged an extra £2 billion to create 25,000 homes for social rent over two years. it's a nice size, isn't it? it‘s lovely, and it‘s dead easy to maintain. in sheffield, laura coldwell waited seven years for this house. her smile says it all. i am a happy person, but it did take a lot of pressure off. we moved into this house, and it‘s so stable for my family. it‘s happy, we‘re happy here. it‘s stability, which is what everybody wants and everybody needs. the challenges may differ between councils, but one thing remains constant. they all need cash. sheffield wants to be allowed to borrow more. it does come down to money. and we have the land, we have developers, we have contractors lined up. we could actually get spades in the ground, people could be in homes by the end of next year. all we need is government to give me that say—so. the demand is undeniable, the problem urgent, and it requires a major increase in supply, building notjust houses, but homes. john maguire, bbc news. the 19th national congress of the congress party of china is well under way. president xi jinping congress party of china is well under way. president xijinping has already had his say and there is more on the agenda but one thing they‘re knocking to discuss the country‘s relations with north korea. the bbc‘s steve mcdonald has been doing his best to fine out what china‘s political elite think of kim jong un. sorry, sorry. china and north korea used to be the best of friends, but recent events have put quite a strain on that relationship. here at the communist party congress, let‘s try and find out what china‘s political elite now think of the north korean leader. it‘s bad enough to try and talk to these delegates at the best of times, but when we‘re asking about the delicate question of falling out with an old ally, then it‘s even harder. sorry, sorry. we‘re not having much luck out here. perhaps in the tea break, someone will talk to us. let‘s head inside. well, you can‘t say we didn‘t try. but it seems when it comes to china‘s ever—colla psing relationship with north korea and its eccentric leader, these delegates don‘t really want to talk about it. susanna is here with the business needs. first, the headlines. the prime ministers in brussels hoping the breakthrough price negotiations as the eu summit gets under way. there has been a big increase in the number of crimes, particularly violent offence, in england and wales. the spanish government says it is taking steps to impose direct rule over tackling this weekend. here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live. the uk chancellor has asked financial regulators and the serious fraud office to review whether the banks hsbc and standard chartered are linked to a corruption scandal in south africa. former cabinet minister lord hain has raised concerns the banks may ‘inadvertently have been conduits‘ for laundered money. neither bank has yet commented. theresa may has vowed to make it as easy as possible for eu citizens to remain in the uk after brexit ahead of a key summit of european leaders. in a facebook post, the prime minister insisted the application process for settled status would be "streamlined" and the cost "as low as possible". it is deadline day, amazon has given cities across the country until today to submit bids to host its second headquarters. it will create up second headquarters. it will create up to 50,000 jobs for whichever city is chosen. one in four low paid workers are permanently stuck in poorly paid jobs in the uk with little chance of earning more, according to the social mobility commission. the government body says low pay is ‘endemic‘ in the uk, with women more likely to get stuck on low pay. the south african corruption scandal is wide open? yes, philip hammond has asked for it to be looked into. it is alleged that perhaps these groups where implicated inadvertently and the banks were used to siphon money, laundered money, through the banks and out of the country. the former labour cabinet minister, peter hain, has spoken about this and he raised concerns, he was contacted by a number of whistle—blowers and the bbc spoke to him and he told us what they had alleged. that a massive scale of money laundering has been going on through standard chartered, hsbc and their outer banks. which all come under uk jurisdiction hsbc and their outer banks. which all come under ukjurisdiction and therefore it is welcome that the chancellor has referred this to the authorities, the financial authorities, the financial authorities, including the serious fraud office because it is vital that britain is taking action to identify the money, track it down and return it to the south african treasury because this is money stolen from south african taxpayers and should go back to the south african treasury so it can be spent on schools and hospitals and housing and other essential needs, not corruptly and other essential needs, not corru ptly stolen by and other essential needs, not corruptly stolen by those running the country, politically and their business. that was lord hainan there in the banks have not commented. todayis in the banks have not commented. today is the anniversary of black monday, which means a lot to some people? it certainly does, it was the daily financial markets went into meltdown and has become known as black monday, the 19th of october, 1987, the bee gees were number one with the song you wind again, but the financial markets we re again, but the financial markets were losing big—time. this was the wea kest o ne were losing big—time. this was the weakest one day follow the ftse100 since it began back in 198a and it was prompted by a sharp, a lot of traders switched and there was a sea of red and it really has prompted, particularly in the us as well, lots of financial circuit breakers to come into play, to try to stop the same thing happening again. speak to a market commentator. david, you must have real memories of that day. what happened to you and how did you react? hello, susanna. it was a terrible shock to all of us but then again, we somewhat expected something to do that to happen. we had seen the dowjones rise by aa% in the nine months from august 1986 to august 1987, which was pretty much unprecedented. we started to trade on screen because they had no such thing as stock losses and then we had massive liquidity and then there were junk bonds to consider as well and tax concessions given to many companies to borrow money in order to build businesses up. it was what we cold in those days, fraught. it was never more evident than in tokyo. people forget that in 1987, the nikkei was at 38,010 years later, it was 9000. that is the level of how we know everything was hopelessly overpriced. the dowjones on that day dropped 508 points, 23% in one day, the ftse 100 on that day dropped 508 points, 23% in one day, the ftse !00 actually, which preceded it, then the dropped 10.8% on the day that during the month of october, which had become notoriously bad every sort of ten years, dropped 33% in the month of october and the dow jones, years, dropped 33% in the month of october and the dowjones, 26%. hang ona october and the dowjones, 26%. hang on a minute. i‘m going to take over because susanna was doing her gcses in 1987. what you mean? she was not even a twinkle in her father's i! we we re even a twinkle in her father's i! we were still getting over the great storm. and i remember the lunch time news that day and i mean, it was huge! qc, the level of education, simon, just wasn't around in those days. we were very reliant on writers, nothing wrong with that, but we didn't have the technology, the bloombergs, the bbc website to the bloombergs, the bbc website to the degree that is today, so news travelled very slowly. technology was pretty embryonic then said people didn't really know how to cope. there was no bottom to it and itjust went cope. there was no bottom to it and it just went on and on. cope. there was no bottom to it and itjust went on and on. if there are circuit breakers now. and interestingly, they come in ten year cycles, in october, yesterday the dowjones hit a record level, 23,000, it has dropped a little today but there are real concerns about more froth in the market. yes and until we know interest rates will go up, the valuations tend to be ignored. we at unprecedented levels, which you pointed out, but while interest rates are at zero, unless the federal reserve, and we may get a new governor or german, replacing janet yellen, it's possible donald trump want someone else to stimulate the economy more aggressively. if you saw interest rates go up then, i think you would see a major shake—out because at the moment, margins are very thin on business, companies are doing extremely well on takeover acquisitions, thereby greater market share in order to deliver shareholder value, but this is all pretty sloppy stuff and it isn't really what i would call growth. unless you have a return at asset class that people took money from, such as bonds, and you have a handsome dividend, it is very difficult to pull the trigger and say, time out here, time we went to the hills. i want to reminisce, i'm sorry. make them 87, it was all those yuppies, images of them on their phones panicking. a different time. we didn't have mobile phones, it was the old dog and bone. the outside line. people were rushing off to call boxes at lunch time to see what was happening. no question of lunch being cancelled except on that day. did you cancel lunch that day? absolutely, there was too much money to be made. lunch, how do you spell that? from success to where you are now. you wind again. let's see what is happening with the markets. we can see the dowjones on the board, it has opened lower today but after reaching a record high yesterday, the nasdaq is doing particularly well, interservice not doing quite so well. a full 25%. that shows real concern about its forecast going forward and we will have more on that coming up later today. a construction firm announced results today that for 50% lower than expected. from la boheme to the magic flute, some of the most beautiful operas ever written are traditionally performed in italian, french or german. but now there‘s a new work that‘s about to be premiered — and it‘s being sung in english with a yorkshire accent. it‘s called the arsonists and it‘s opening next month in salford. our arts correspondent, david sillito, has been listening in. # let us all increase our productivity # let ourfingers be worked to the bone. # the arsonists, chamber opera to be sung in a south yorkshire accent. you are witnessing history here. this is heritage opera and this is the first—ever performance of their new opera written specifically to capture the natural musical beauty of the vocal cadences of south yorkshire. applause oh, dear me! oh, so good! that‘s brilliant! have they got it? i think they have, they certainly have, yeah. is it south yorkshire, that? i think it is, i think the south yorkshire thing is the flatness of the vowels. that‘s what we‘re after, the real flat vowel, and that was the genesis of this idea — can you sing an opera with a flat vowel? # you must be stupid # you need to get away, you need to get away # get away # and there is a point to this. drama portrays the full range of accents. that doesn‘t happen at all in opera and i think it could be perceived as being one of the barriers, one of the problems that opera is having, communicating with a wider audience. and this experiment has also revealed something unexpected. the unique sound of god‘s own county is a bit more mediterranean than you might imagine. let us all increase our productivity. let ourfingers be worked to the bone. so all the "t" sounds and the "company" sounds, really short ends. yes, absolutely. is that difficult for singing then? no, it‘s better. there‘s not so much of a diphthong on the end there. in that way, it‘s a bit closer to the italian. yorkshire is closer to italian? in that way. fantastic. and, to end, i set them a little challenge. could you do this — verdi‘s la donna e mobile — in a barnsley style? # lasses are brussen things, shift like the seasons...# i think we‘re onto a winner. we just need that top note now. he hits top note applause david sillito, bbc news, salford. we will be talking to dane lesley garrett later, a yorkshire lass. —— dame garrett later, a yorkshire lass. —— da m e lesley garrett later, a yorkshire lass. —— dame lesley garrett. some breaking news on the continuing scandal surrounding harvey weinstein. he has been stripped of his british film institute fellowship, that news coming in from the bfi. they say the serious and widespread allegations about harvey weinstein are in direct opposition to the bfi values. it is unacceptable in any circumstances or in any industry, people should be safe and respected in the workplace. the fellowship has ordered lists. he was awarded his in 2002 and was stripped of it today. you‘re watching afternoon live, time for a look at the weather. the winds are picking up. quite one ahead of that in the south—east. windy weather from the english channel. quite a messy night, clouds and outbreaks of rain. a mild night with mist and low cloud, hill fog across northern parts. some sunshine creeping through into northern ireland, the south west, rain petering out, sky is bright and in that the next dose of wind and rain arrives later for northern ireland and the far south west. temperatures where they should be for this time of year. strongest winds in southern wales and parts of england. the north, still windy and quite a few showers. hello, you‘re watching afternoon live — i‘m simon mccoy. today at a. deal or no deal — theresa may is urged to give an ultimatum to the eu summit in brussels. that speech i fit out and florence said that that ambition and i look forward to progressing that in the weeks ahead. recorded crime passes the five million mark — for the first time in 10 years. there‘s a particular rise in violence. deepening crisis in catalonia — as spain triggers the process of direct rule. coming up on afternoon live all the sport. mid—afternoon. sport minister tracey crouch calls the fa‘s handling of racism and bullying allegations a "sorry saga", and hopes "the fa learns lessons" to ensure the public keep faith in them. darren has the weather. you have got your eye on brian? yes, i do. it sounds scary. it is a storm. we have had enough rain today. there is no more rain in the next few days. storm brian is set to arrive on our shores in time for the weekend. thanks darren. also coming up: give us an ee by gum. the opera notes sung in a yorkshire dialect. — we talk to opera singer lesley garrett about what she thinks. hello everyone, this is afternoon live. theresa may is in brussels foran eu summit. she‘s pushing for progress on brexit negotiations, and will address eu leaders tonight. but no one thinks it‘s going to be easy — and mrs may is being urged by some in her party to issue this ultimatum: if trade talks don‘t begin soon britain will settle for a "no deal" on brexit. there is stroke the geography in this report. there is/ the geography in this report. are you confident of progress today, prime minister? deal or no deal? but at this stage it‘s no deal. the pm‘s jaguar and the talks both making slow progress. gathering in brussels, the leaders from the eu‘s 27 other countries have made plain they‘re not satisfied with what the uk‘s proposing in the brexit negotiations. their conditions have not been met. you said the conditions are clear, what conditions? we had the conditions. ireland. we have the conditions about the rights of the citizens, we have preconditions also of open bills. so this is a clear line. bye bye! hasta la vista. the problem for theresa may is that whatever she tells these leaders over dinner, it‘s highly unlikely to unblock the talks. and the reason for that, from the very outset the eu have set the conditions. the leaders say the uk must clear up the uncertainties caused by brexit before they will move onto trade talks. and what‘s on the table so far simply isn‘t good enough. she has arrived in this summit hoping her talks will be enough.” have set out my plans. the speech i made in florence about the ambitious vision and i look forward to progressing it in the weeks ahead. mrs may will have just a few minutes over dinner tonight to persuade the leaders otherwise. but after five rounds, the negotiations have stalled. it‘s the eu that controls the pace and the sequence here. the prime minister‘s speech in florence did lift the tone, but the eu says the uk hasn‘t provided solutions to the problems caused by brexit. so this summit is likely to say on the issue of citizens‘ rights the uk must provide legal certainty, including a role for the european court ofjustice. on ireland, the uk needs to present and commit to flexible and imaginative solutions. on a financial settlement, the uk must make a firm and concrete commitment to settle all its obligations. mrs may has already had one dinner in brussels, on monday. she is under pressure from some at home to walk away from the talks. also in brussels today, saying no deal would be a disaster for the uk, isjeremy corbyn. the prime minister seems to have managed to upset just about everybody and have a warring cabinet around her. it‘s up to her to get the negotiations back on track. we cannot countenance the idea that we just rush headlong into no deal with europe. it means that this summit eu leaders won‘t approve a move to trade talks, and it won‘t happen until the issues on the table are resolved. damian grammaticas, bbc news, brussels. let‘s speak now to the labour mp mary creagh — who is a supporter of the pro—eu group, open britain. she‘s in our westminster studio. do you have some sympathy for theresa may? it is a tough call this? i have no sympathy at all. she triggered article 52 soon, called a disastrous general election which she did not need to and left herself ina she did not need to and left herself in a disastrous negotiating position. she now finds herself in a very difficult gridlocked position. it is up to herd to unblock this impasse and sort these things out so we can get on with trade talks. but it will not happen at the moment. there is clearly huge problem. isn‘t this time for everybody to get together and back are? this is a time for the prime minister to work with her european counterparts and sort out the issues: money, northern ireland and eu citizens rights. it is unacceptable but 15 months on from the referendum, we still have children and young people who were born in this country, who are frightened at school about the impact on their families of what could happen if their parents are forced to leave. and as long as no deal brexit is being talked up by the right—wing of the conservative parties, that is still a possibility for them. it sounds like you would be happy to write a blank check if we progress the talks? there is no talk about a blank cheque. what we need is hard—headed negotiations and what we cannot countenance is no deal brexit nightmare that would see the trickle ofjob losses we have already started to see at the vauxhall plant in elsner airport. people, banks upping sticks and leaving our country. we do not want to see that turning into a flood. if she does not get on with the trade talks before december, i am very afraid that in the new year we could see an acceleration of that, which would be disastrous forjobs, incomes and families in this country which are already seeing their wages fall and their prices rise. isn't the problem now that theresa may is seen as a weakened prime minister for the reasons you have outlined, but that makes it more difficult for her to argue with any position of strength because everybody knows, there are others back home, including yourself, who are not backing her? my party is not in government and her party is. what she has is a cabinet which is squabbling among themselves and frankly, contradicting themselves almost within hours. it is like watching an episode of the prentice, where everyone is taking their leadership ambitions for a walk —— the apprentice. they are not delivering what people want which is to stay in the customs union, stay in the single market and protect trade with the european union which is our largest single trading partner. there is no free trade deal became do with anywhere else that will make up for the loss of trade if we crash out with no deal and end up if we crash out with no deal and end up with world trade organisation tariffs. what would you be saying if you were in brussels tonight?” would say we want to work in partnership with our eu counterparts because any deal we did also affect eu citizens resident. i know that, but there is clearly an issue with the money and david davis has said as much. ijust wonder where you draw that line. at what the macro what point it is ready to spend money when we get to that stage? road—macro the possibility of leaving about a deal would cost us tens of million pounds a year. the prime minister needs to negotiate in good faith. i do know what the papers are. she made a mention of £20 billion in her florence speech. i don‘t know what the counter proposals are. until we do this deal we will not be able to protect trade, jobs and income in this country. she certainly needs to move fast on the irish border because we heard from the home office and the customs cheap this week, that no new customs rules can be put in place by march 2019. if we crash out with no deal, we have no mechanisms to put new tariffs on our goods and that is unthinkable. mary creagh, thank you for joining unthinkable. mary creagh, thank you forjoining us. staying with brexit, ijust want forjoining us. staying with brexit, i just want to show you a tweet which came in earlier which is causing some concern. there it is. i have just left frankfurt, great meetings, great weather, really enjoyed it. good, because i will be spending a lot more time there. the importance of this is the name. simonjack, why importance of this is the name. simon jack, why is importance of this is the name. simonjack, why is he is so important? he is the chief executive of goldman sachs, probably the most famous investment bank in the world. they employee 6000 people in the uk. he has always spoken very warmly about london as a great financial centre. but this tweet is a little mischievous and is very direct. he said just left frankfurt. really nice here. good, because i will be spending a lot more time here. it has been well—known that goldman sachs was considering frankfurt as a new base. they are building a new building there. but that level of openness about how much time he will be spending there, really reflects what i am hearing from the rest of the financial community, that they don‘t think there is enough time. they are beginning to put their contingency plans into place as actual plans. although they would like to mothball the plans, they think a hard brexit is the only sensible thing they can plan for. a few people will say who cares if a few people will say who cares if a few ba n ke rs few people will say who cares if a few bankers left for frankfurt. some say they would not mind giving them a lift to the airport. but the chancellor will care. they provide 12% of gdp and 90 sensible exports. a very important sector and this is a very interesting intervention from the chief executive of one of the world‘s biggest investment banks. the chief executive of one of the world's biggest investment banksm frankfurt the likely beneficiary because i thought paris was also vying to lure these businessmen over. there will be no one winner. hsbc said they would move 1000 jobs to paris. bartley said they would move people to dublin. rbs said to amsterdam. frankfurt is emerging as the main winner. no surprise because it is the home of the european central bank. you have a very big central bank there. they have been the structure and transport links. not many people i speak to in the city want to move to frankfurt, but lloyd blankfein is doing his bit to up lloyd blankfein is doing his bit to up the reputation of that city. there will be no one winner. drip, drip, these banks are putting up buckets around europe, little bit of water on day one and they can top it up water on day one and they can top it up as they see fit. it is not about day one, they will tell you, it is about year five and year ten. i should add that next door at number 11, follow me if you would, we have the great and the good of the car industry. they are talking about a spencer bleak electric cars and diesel. one said we cannot avoid the elephant in the room, investment in the uk car industry has fallen very sharply over the last two years. they are trying to reassure the car industry who are nervous. it takes confidence to build a car. some components can cross the eu several times. they will worry if they throw sand in that engine it will come to a stuttering halt. we have banks and cars, a stuttering halt. we have banks and ca rs, two a stuttering halt. we have banks and cars, two industry central to brexit and they are both in the news today. you go and stand back outside and the ten. i will be due a statement. london will remain the world‘s financial sector. we have the pulse of capital which is unrivalled by centres in europe. that is the statement from the building behind you. i wonder if that is designed to calm a few nerves? i think that is true. the concentration of talent, legal, finance and banking cannot be replicated over time. it is like a barrier reef in the city of london. you are not going to kill it but it does not mean it cannot be damaged. a lot of institutions are putting their toe in the water to the. they are taking at premises, they are getting licenses, they are getting their employees‘ kids into schools around europe. that is a big issue, where will my kids go to school, where will my kids go to school, where will my family live? all of these things are coalescing. as the clock ticks down a lot of people financial services tell me, it is too late. we have smashed the glass, we have pressed the emergency button and we are moving. london will not disappear overnight. far from it. and we are moving. london will not disappear overnight. farfrom it. it will continue to be a massive financial centre but they are putting little buckets around europe and they are starting to fill. simonjack, and they are starting to fill. simon jack, thank you. just and they are starting to fill. simonjack, thank you. just to bring you some breaking news from southern rail. we hear that drivers will be balloted on a proposed deal to end their long—running dispute about driver only trains and a five—year pay deal. according to aslef, 28.5%. talks have been taken place between aslef and southern rail‘s parent company go via thameslink. —— go via thameslink. the rmt union remains in dispute and has planned further strikes next month. the deal does seem to be close with drivers and the aslef rail union. that news just coming in. there‘s been a largejump in the number of crimes recorded by police in england and wales. the latest figures show recorded crimes rose 13% in the 12 months to the end ofjune. anisa kadri broke down the figures for us. police on the streets, reassuring sight for many. but these latest figures for england and wales show crime has passed the 5 million mark for the first time in ten years. that has been 19% more violent crime reported, including knife crime and firearms offences. 8% more people have been murdered and killed, once major events such as terror attacks are taken into account, and robberies are rocked by a quarter. these mopeds gangs are growing problem. some of these increases are down to improvements by police have under recorded crimes in the past. but the police federation blames police cuts. the government says it is working with forces to protect people. of course it is important that police have the resources they need but also the tools they need. we have a very constructive relationship with the police. the policing minister is visiting all chief constables and police and crime commissioners to see what we can do to support them. norfolk police may become the first forced to axe all of its police community support officers if the motion is passed. the chief co nsta ble motion is passed. the chief constable says it is part of a plan to save money and address an increase in sexual offences and cyber crime. the pcso role has limitations and there was no longer a significant difference in how much it cost to employ them. nothing is simple when it comes to recording crime. the british crime survey, which includes crimes which have not been reported, shows a fall. why are the figures from the office for national statistics showing a rise in crime? this is based on a very large sample of the general public and is good at charting long—term figures on crime. however, the police recorded crime figures are better at picking up short—term movements in crime, but are restricted to crimes which come to the attention of police and do tend to be skewed to the more serious end of the spectrum. what becomes clear is that have been real rises in violence and figures for killing is nine times what they were ten years ago. that is puzzling the experts. you‘re watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. the prime minister is in brussels hoping for a breakthrough in the brexit negotiations as an eu summit gets under way. there‘s been a big increase in the number of crimes, particularly violent offences, in england and wales. the spanish government says it‘s taking steps to impose direct rule over catalonia this weekend. sport minister tracey crouch calls the fa‘s handling of racism and bullying allegations a "sorry saga", and hopes "the fa learns lessons" to ensure the public keep faith in them. arsenal midfielderjack wilshere has defended his team—mates after troy deeney said they lacked character. and even the best sometimes need a helping hand. ronnie o‘sullivan finishes off his match at the english open with the aid of a member of the barnsley crowd who is not quite as good as him. i will have more on this stories just after a:30pm. scotland is to become the first part of the uk to ban the smacking of children. the scottish government has confirmed it will back a bill put forward by a green msp. 50 other countries — including france, germany, sweden and ireland — have already made the change. let‘s go to stephen godden. is this happening? it will not definitely happening? it will not definitely happen but there seems to be a shift from the scottish government that could make this happen. under the current law, parents are currently allowed to claim what is called a justifiable assault when punishing their children. there are conditions attached to that. they cannot use and implement. they cannot strike a child in the head and they cannot shake them. but being allowed to smack a child in that way, only a handful of european countries, that is allowed. there has been a political shift in recent times to try and change that. the issue has been bubbling away in the scottish parliament. the green mspjohn finnie has put forward legislation in the form of a member ‘s bill to have an outright ban in smacking. he said while scotland cannot be considered the best place in the world while the law does not give children the same protection as adults. that ban has been backed by some organisations but some church groups favour the status quo. previously the scottish government said they did not support the physical punishment of children but they had no plans for a ban. that position has now shifted. last month, nicola sturgeon said she would not opposejohn finnie‘s members bill and now it has shifted even further. she said they will now ensure that mr finnie‘s postal does indeed become law and that civil serva nts indeed become law and that civil servants are now actively working with mr finnie to ensure that does happen. as for the rest of the uk, there is not a ban anywhere else. pa rents a re there is not a ban anywhere else. parents are permitted to use what is termed reasonable chastisement. the welsh government have been looking at plans for a formal consultation on the issue. as for a time scale, this could happen at any time within the terms of the scottish parliament so it may happen in scotland first, it may happen in wales first, but the scottish government are keen to point out this is not a race. more than a million cases of fly—tipping have been reported across the england in the last year, costing the tax payer up to £58 million to clear up. household rubbish accounts for two thirds of all rubbish dumped. councils have been given new powers in england which allows them to issue fixed penalty notices for fly—tipping. the constitutional crisis in spain is deepening, with madrid now declaring it will impose direct rule on catalonia. ministers will meet on saturday to activate an article of the constitution, which allows them to take control of the province. earlier this month catalans voted overwhelmingly to leave spain in a disputed referendum. our correspondent caroline hawley has the latest. side—by—side, the flags of spain and catalonia. but this now is an extraordinarily fraught moment between madrid and barcelona. in the black car, the man at the centre of this crisis. the catalan leader had given until this morning to clearly drop his bid for independence or face the imposition of direct rule from madrid. that had been seen as the nuclear option but, this morning, it‘s what the spanish prime minister announced, an unprecedented move not seen during spain‘s four decades of democracy. translation: with the absence of a response to the precise and clear terms, the government understands there has not been a reply to its requirements. as a result, the government will continue with procedures outlined in article 155 of the constitution with the objective of restoring legality to catalonia. the catalan president had responded with a letter in which he said the independence declaration he made last week remains suspended. but he said if central government refused dialogue, then the catalonian parliament could vote to ratify independence. the crisis began with an independence referendum that spain said was illegal and tried to stop. spanish police stepped in to prevent people voting. the question now for catalonia is what will happen next? spanish ministers are due to meet on saturday to approve plans to exert more control over the self—governing region, including over the regional police seen here arguing with spanish police. tensions are running high across catalonia with fears spain‘s biggest political crisis in a0 years could lead to further unrest. harvey weinstein has been stripped from his british film institute fellowship. that has been announced. at the weekend he was expelled by the governing body of the oscars and has been suspended by its british equivalent, bafta. harvey weinstein has unequivocally denied allegations of sexual abuse and harassment and said all relations he had were consensual. from la boheme to the magic flute, some of the most beautiful operas ever written are traditionally performed in italian, french or german. but now there‘s a new work that‘s about to be premiered — and it‘s being sung in english with a yorkshire accent. it‘s called the arsonists and it‘s opening next month in salford. our arts correspondent david sillito has been listening in. # let us all increase our productivity # let ourfingers be worked to the bone. # the arsonists, chamber opera to be sung in a south yorkshire accent. you are witnessing history here. this is heritage opera and this is the first—ever performance of their new opera written specifically to capture the natural musical beauty of the vocal cadences of south yorkshire. applause oh, dear me! oh, so good! that‘s brilliant! have they got it? i think they have, they certainly have, yeah. is it south yorkshire, that? i think it is, i think the south yorkshire thing is the flatness of the vowels. that‘s what we‘re after, the real flat vowel, and that was the genesis of this idea — can you sing an opera with a flat vowel? # you must be stupid # you need to get away, you need to get away # get away # and there is a point to this. drama portrays the full range of accents. that doesn‘t happen at all in opera and i think it could be perceived as being one of the barriers, one of the problems that opera is having, communicating with a wider audience. and this experiment has also revealed something unexpected. the unique sound of god‘s own county is a bit more mediterranean than you might imagine. let us all increase our productivity. let ourfingers be worked to the bone. so all the "t" sounds and the "company" sounds, really short ends. yes, absolutely. is that difficult for singing then? no, it‘s better. there‘s not so much of a diphthong on the end there. in that way, it‘s a bit closer to the italian. yorkshire is closer to italian? in that way. fantastic. and, to end, i set them a little challenge. could you do this — verdi‘s la donna e mobile — in a barnsley style? # lasses are brussen things, shift like the seasons...# i think we‘re onto a winner. we just need that top note now. he hits top note applause david sillito, bbc news, salford. and we‘ll be discussing this with yorkshire‘s own harry gration on news nationwide at a.30. now, we all like a good snooze. the adorable moment that a sleepy badger was found up enjoying a snooze in a cat basket. the scottish spca said they were called to a home when a badger made its way through the cat flap, filled up on some cat food and then fell asleep. the charity said it was unusual behaviour for badgers which are usually rather shy. when you are tired, you are tired. let‘s have a look at the weather. darren bett is here. storm brian does not sound fierce. did you know there is a place called badger in somerset. no, idid a place called badger in somerset. no, i did not. iwill show a place called badger in somerset. no, i did not. i will show you what the weather was like their early on. there is some planning going on. not really. you do not like the name brian. if we have a particularly stormy winter we could get to storm simon. there could be a lot of hot airthere! simon. there could be a lot of hot air there! listen, if simon. there could be a lot of hot airthere! listen, if you simon. there could be a lot of hot air there! listen, if you don‘t like it, you can name them yourself! all these names come from the public and they are chosen from a list of names provided by the public. anyway, this is storm brian. it is picked up by thejet anyway, this is storm brian. it is picked up by the jet stream. anyway, this is storm brian. it is picked up by thejet stream. it is what is called explosive psychogenic is. that is what it is undergoing at the moment. we were talking about stammering earlier on. this is rapid deepening of an area of low pressure. it is deepening right now. when it heads to the uk it will not be undergoing that deepening. if it was, the winds would be much stronger. as it is, we are looking at inland gusts of 50 mph. around western coasts 50, 60 or 70 mph. that will be combined with some spring tides. there will be rough seas, big waves and coastal flooding as well. now, here is badger. i promised it. stop heckling in the background! this rain is quite heavy as it has run through shropshire heading through northern parts of england opting to east scotland. more wet weather in northern ireland. wet and windy in the english channel. overnight i think we will all get some rain from time to time. the wind is much lighter in the northern half of the uk. another mild night. no frost anywhere. still windy across southern parts of the uk. as we head through the day tomorrow we will find a slow improvement through the day. the rain is tending to peter out. we may even see some sunshine. scotland, because the winds are lighter it will take longer to lift the low cloud, mist and fog. wet weather and windy weather sneaking into the far south—west of northern ireland by the end of the day. that is the start of storm brian. as the centre of the storm approaches the uk, so the winds start to pick up. saturday will be a windy day. that will be the windiest day. those are though severe gales. not so bad for southern england. the showers come packing in. showers or longer spells of rain. for the second half of the weekend, not as windy. still quite lonely out there. again, some sunshine and showers. certainly, some very windy weather on the way. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. theresa may meets eu leaders in brussels — with pro—brexit colleagues urging her to give an ultimatum. the number of crimes recorded annually by police in england and wales has reached five million for the first time in a decade. the spanish government begins moves to impose direct rule over catalonia. sport now on afternoon live. lots to look forward to for everton and arsenal fans. lots to expect, both managers under pressure after difficult stretches, particularly for everton and a defeat for arsenal in the premier league at the weekend. they continued their europa league campaigns later. that‘s on the field. beat off the field stuff is the parliamentary enquiry with the fa. huge implications, it seems. it will rumble on. the sports minister tracey crouch has issued a statement regarding the crisis at the football association saying — "i hope that the fa learns lessons from this whole sorry saga to ensure that all in the sport and the wider public have faith in their processes and procedures." this follows what happened at the department of culture, media and sport with greg clarke and others testifying to the committee. one of the things to arise from yesterday‘s evidence, the chairman of the kick it out campaign, lord ouseley, saying eric clarke, chairman of the fa, misled mps yesterday as to when he was given information of the case surrounding eni aluko and others. —— saying greg clark. by september i was given access to what i wanted, which was what happened on the first day when he received eni aluko‘s complaint. my assessment given to the fa the next day on september six was that you screwed up, it was a flawed investigation and you need to hold up your hands and apologise. you need to engage with eni aluko and her representatives to deal with what went wrong and how to put it right. the premier league have announced they will not be any fixtures on christmas eve this year after calls from fans to bear their festive plans in mind. december 2a isa festive plans in mind. december 2a is a sunday and supporters had feared they would be asked to travel for one or two matches selected for broadcast. four will be on the television that wigan, three of them on the saturday, while are still against liverpool, thought to be the most likely scheduled on christmas eve, will be on the evening of friday the 22nd. jack wilshere insists arsenalcharacter isn‘t in question after criticism from watford striker troy deeney. it came after arsenal‘s defeat at vicarage roadin after arsenal‘s defeat at vicarage road in the premier league last we can. the club is back former defender martin keown was another of those to criticise the team saying arsene wenger‘s side lack determination. people try to put us down and they always have. i don‘t think the comments were justified. when we look back at the game, we will look at what we did wrong and i don‘t think we can look back and question our character. we did certain things wrong, but we certainly didn‘t want to let the lead slip. we will move on. jack wilshere‘s arsenal and everton both involved in the europa league tinai. without victory in the condition and a poor start in the premier league, pressure mounting on ronald koeman. he said yesterday the equation was simple, his side need to win. only one point out of two, you need to win, iwin one point out of two, you need to win, i win at home normally. you need three wins out of home and then get something out of the away games. that‘s normal. the situation is we need to win tomorrow to get a good possibility to go through this tournament. england's women cricketers have played an inter squad game to prepare for the ashes after two of their warm up games we re after two of their warm up games were rained off. the series starts on sunday. head coach mark robinson admits they haven‘t had the ideal preparation. to practice games rained off. we were meant to play queensland today. no opposition today. the ground was still only half finished so we had to put a net at one half in the morning and do some practice in the afternoon. and we managed to get the nets down and it was just about ok. we had good meaningful practice, albeit among ourselves. it‘s not as good as playing games but at least you got something in. and now the events in ba rnsley something in. and now the events in barnsley this afternoon. now, never short of attention — five time world champion ronnie o‘sullivan got maybe a bit too much today. he was joined by a spectator who was clearly overjoyed after o‘sullivan made three consecutive century breaks in barnsley to win his third round match but having rolled in the pink — ronnie allowed his new partner to have a go at the black. which she duly missed twice. however afterwards the lady insisted on going for a job with him. —— going for eightjog with him. now on afternoon live — let‘s go nationwide — and see what‘s happening around the country — in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. a new opera is opening next month and it‘s being sung in english with a yorkshire accent. we‘ve got a real yorkshireman, harry gration from bbc look north in leeds is here. and i‘m alsojoined by geeta pendse from bbc east midlands today in nottingham, who has news of a celebration very close to her heart. to harry in leeds first — a landmark day for yorkshire in the operatic world? we have been running this story all day. an opera sung in yorkshire. how was it going down? it's going down great, lad. it‘s bound to. i don‘t know how you prepare, simon, for your broadcasts in the afternoon, but i listen to opera. it gets me in the right mood and gets me psyched up the right mood and gets me psyched up to do all that we should do when we have the guest in the studio, lad. go on, what do you do? ijust sing, i‘m well known for it. i have a little ditty here to give you later. what‘s smashing about this particular opera, it‘s written by the great ian mcmillan. a barnsley lad through and through. it‘s a south yorkshire opera and i think it will take off big. it‘s something we are rather proud of. this is my ditty, forgive the singing, but i will do my best. #eyup will do my best. # ey up welcome to look north # ey up welcome to look north # we‘ve got news and sport # we‘ve got news and sport # throw in some weather to, # throw in some weather to, # that‘s the cheapest we can do # that‘s the cheapest we can do # news 2a have that good old boy # news 2a have that good old boy # he‘s called simon mccoy # he‘s called simon mccoy #he # he‘s called simon mccoy # he knows about royaljoy! anyway... i don‘t know what to say. that‘s fantastic, harry. it did stop being called a news 2a some time ago. but the words are ok! is there ago. but the words are ok! is there a feeling this will introduce opera to people in yorkshire? seriously, we have a thriving opera club here, opera north. iam we have a thriving opera club here, opera north. i am going to a dinner they are throwing tonight to raise funds. that is in leeds. we take opera seriously. whether or not it catches on in quite the way ian mcmillan hopes it will, i‘m not so sure, but we will see. and if it does, we will be on your channel again. fantastic, and i suspect you have just gone viral. i doubt it. you will, but not for the reasons you think. great to hear from you harry. i don‘t know how you follow that, but anyway. i know! it's diwali today. huge way you are. that was delightful, i don't know how to follow that. in leicester particularly its huge. today is diwali day but celebrations started almost two weeks ago when the lights we re almost two weeks ago when the lights were switched on and on belgrave roadin were switched on and on belgrave road in leicester. it's known as the golden mile. they lit up around 6000 lights. thousands of people flocked to the golden mile to watch the moment when the lights were switched on. since then it's been a hive of activity, colour and food. all culminating in today's celebrations. i know it‘s close to your heart, you went to a diwali lunch with your family today. i have. you have to get your food in. family today. i have. you have to get yourfood in. i family today. i have. you have to get your food in. i went for lunch earlier. it's not singing, but i was going to offer you some food my mother packed me away with in this gorgeous box. if you can imagine the sweetness in this box, it's coming your way. i will hold you to that. welcome to the programme and thank you for that. i‘m just going back to harry. i‘m still in shock. i‘m not sure i heard what i heard. give me one more bar... i have to remember it. i will do the end. # news 2a have that good old boy # he‘s called simon mccoy # he knows about royaljoy! fantastic. to both of you, thank you very much. a rather special nationwide. you can keep in touch with all your regions on the iplayer as well. if you want to see harry, there is the way to keep doing it again and again. i recommend doing that. demonstrations have been held across somalia protesting against saturday‘s huge truck bomb in mogadishu which killed more than 300 people. our africa correspondent alistair leithead visited the scene and sent this report. the clean—up and salvage operation has been going on for days now. this used to be a painting and decorating shop. the guys are recovering pots of paint, tiles, getting what they can from this. this whole area was the worst affected part by the bomb. you can see all this rubbish here, it has been cleared, tonnes and tonnes already taken away. have a look at that hotel in the background, that pink, orange building. that essentially was what was here. you‘ll see what is left in the second. what‘s amazing is how quickly people are getting back to trying to get things back to normal. building the roof and the walls over on this building here. if we swing around you can see this huge area here that was completely levelled by the bomb. this is where that pink hotel was, in that open piece of land here. this was a busy shopping area on one of the busiest on one of the busiest days of the week. hundreds of people were found, their bodies in this area here. they have sealed the whole area. we can go to the actual sight of where the bomb went off. you can see how fast the work is being done to get things back to normal. they are resurfacing this road. this is the exact spot where the bomb went off. they don‘t think this was the intended target. they believe there was a lot of traffic on the road. the bomber had been spotted by security forces and he hit the button. unfortunately, he was right next to a fuel truck which also went up, amplifying the bomb. on this side as well, this was the headquarters of the somali red cross. you can see the damage to this building. everybody inside this building was killed. the cars that have been piled up along here were out on the road. again, you get the sense of the force of the blast. the reaction of people here is anger, real anger. we were here yesterday and there were riots with police because people were so angry that things are not being done. the anger is against al—shabab for doing it, and the government and security forces for not doing enough to stop it. three of northern ireland‘s most senior police officers are under investigation for alleged misconduct in public office and criminality that could amount to conspiracy to pervert the course ofjustice. the police ombudsman is examining allegations involving the chief constable, george hamilton, his deputy, drew harris and an assistant chief constable. all deny any wrongdoing. in any big investigation, when you review it and reflect on what has happened, there will always be issues for organisational learning around the margins. i am absolutely confident there will be no misconduct, no serious misconduct found against me or any of the other officers against whom allegations have been made. i have confidence in the police ombudsman. let them do theirjob, let them vindicate us, rather than me saying this, because that‘s the way it‘s supposed to work. i think people introducing public discourse in this is unwise. i would encourage the complainants to have confidence in the police ombudsman rather than the need for public comment. in a moment we will be telling us what‘s hot and what‘s not in the business news. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. the prime minister is in brussels hoping for a breakthrough in the brexit negotiations as an eu summit gets underway. there‘s been a big increase in the number of crimes, particularly violent offences, in england and wales. the spanish government says it‘s taking steps to impose direct rule over catalonia this weekend. here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live. the uk chancellor has asked financial regulators and the serious fraud office to review whether the banks hsbc and standard chartered are linked to a corruption scandal in south africa. former cabinet minister lord hain has raised concerns the banks may ‘inadvertently have been conduits‘ for laundered money. neither bank has yet commented. theresa may has vowed to make it as easy as possible for eu citizens to remain in the uk after brexit ahead of a key summit of european leaders. in a facebook post, the prime minister insisted the application process for settled status would be "streamlined" and the cost "as low as possible". campaigners have welcomed her message but said it seemed more aimed at persuading the eu to progress brexit talks. it‘s deadline day in one of the mostly hotly contested battles in the united states. the e—commerce giant amazon has given cities across the country until today to submit their bids to host its new and second headquarters. amazon says it would create up to 50,000 jobs in the new city. one in four low paid workers are permanently stuck in poorly paid jobs in the uk with little chance of earning more, according to the social mobility commission. the independent body says low pay is ‘endemic‘ in the uk, with women more likely to get stuck on low pay. a quick talk about retail sales. disappointing figures. they came out in september at 0.8%, compared to 1.3% in august. many people blame the rising cost of living with inflation high at 3%. goods in the shops and food prices in particular squeezing the amount of money people have to spend on other items, big—ticket items in particular. there is also uncertainty surrounding the outcome of brexit talks and also whether or not the bank of england monetary policy committee will put up interest rates in november. that‘s all playing a part. and poor weather playing a pa rt part. and poor weather playing a part as well. that's what the office for national statistics says. and poor weather is playing a part in another story from unilever, the makers of ben and jerry‘s ice cream and also magnum ice cream. they say poor weather in europe and hurricanes in america and the caribbean have dented their ice cream sales. we‘re also talking about what‘s been with the office space supplier. a company that perhaps many people would not necessarily have heard of, but it says the problem is office space in london is not very well sought after at the moment. also hurricanes in parts of the world and extreme weather events has led to a demand in office space. this is the company iwg, which has had some poor results out today with its share price dropping dramatically. we can get more on all of these stories with helen meer, investment research in list at the share centre. why is struggling so much. in london it's not new. they did say earlier in the year that the london market had been suffering. it could be partly a reflection of brexit. iwg's offices are used by lots of small start—up businesses who are looking to expand. looking for the temporary solution. if the confidence is in there then they don't use space. management did say that the international markets and mature businesses would begin to pick up, but this latest trading update didn't say that at all. it was more of the same. as a result we have seen management the operating profits down significa ntly seen management the operating profits down significantly to a range of between 160 and 160 and £170 million. there have been other issues, weather—related issues in mexico. a few things combining to result in a pessimistic outlook for the shares. unilever blaming extreme events for a fall in its ice cream sales. it owns ben and jerrys and magnum brands. it has other products like marmite. people are not switching from ice cream to toast and marmite. this company has done very well in the last several years. it has seen good growth. this quarter's results could be a bit of a blip. ice cream sales has been good generally. the weather in europe has not been great. we have had extreme weather in italy, generally not warm weather in the summer months in europe. also disasters and hurricanes in america haven't helped. the developed market growth has been lacklustre, but that is being made up by good growth in emerging markets, especially in india and china, which for a group like this, most of the growth will come from there in the future. we have a weather theme today because the office for national statistics says poor weather in the uk might have accounted partly for a slump in retail sales in september, down 0.8%. do you think it‘s also the squeeze in living costs and uncertainty surrounding interest rates. the retail sales numbers are very volatile on a month by month basis. if you look at the longer term trend, they seem to be coming down. you need to look at what's going on with the economy, consumer is being pressed, inflation hitting 396 is being pressed, inflation hitting 3% and wages only rising about 2%. there will naturally be a squeeze and people are spending less. the implication will be, what will happen to interest rates? some say they will rise in november. these numbers were not bad enough to impact that. mark carney was the go—ahead. i think the market now it seems that any subsequent interest rate rises in the first half will nowjust be pushed back a little. thank you for talking to us. let‘s ta ke let‘s take a peek at the markets. the ftse100 down slightly. retail sales, those figures we were just talking about, they did affect sterling, pushing it down a little. that offset the losses on the ftse 100 because the index is stuffed full of international companies. when their overseas earnings are converted back, lower sterling is better for them. converted back, lower sterling is betterfor them. a big fall today, we talked about office space iwg, but outsourcing construction firm intaserve is also down. they issued a profit warning that might mean it doesn‘t meet its loan obligation, so its earnings ratio, so it is employing a financial adviser to sort that out. it didn‘t impress investors too much. the nasdaq is on the board. we have seen a real rise in technology stocks, the likes of ebay and amazon in recent weeks. ebay share price has slipped back after it said its profits were not as good as they were expecting. there has generally been a sell—off on wall street after the dowjones reached a record high of 23,000 yesterday. thejudge in the the judge in the trial of a man accused of tampering with his wife‘s parachute and killing her has been told they must have been removed deliberately. this case goes back to april 20 15th when victoria cilliers made her jump over the april 20 15th when victoria cilliers made herjump over the airfield in wiltshire. she fell a000 feet when her main and reserve parachutes failed to open. she lived, but suffered multiple injuries. it has been the prosecution case throughout that her husband tampered with her parachute in an attempt to kill her. they say he played with the chords on the main chute and removed two nylon slinks or ties on the reserve chute so it would malfunction. emile cilliers has always denied doing that. what we have had in the two and a half week trial so far is lots of witnesses talking about the evidence and in particular about these nylon slinks, whether they could come off accidentally, whether they were never packed on the reserve parachute in the first place. today thejudge, mrjustice sweeney has attempted to clarify matters for the jury, telling them that after all the evidence they have heard so far, both the prosecution and defence have agreed that all the other explanations can be set to one side and the jury should focus on the fact that the slinks were removed deliberately by somebody. they can set aside any idea of accident, of them coming undonein idea of accident, of them coming undone in the packing of the parachute, anything like that can be set to one side and they should confine themselves to answering the question, who took off the slinks deliberately. the judge said the jury deliberately. the judge said the jury should keep an open mind about this and emile cilliers denies tampering with the parachute. the prosecution say it is their case that he had the time and opportunity in the toilets at the airbase to tamper with the parachute, but this is something emile cilliers denies. he denies three counts in all, two cou nts he denies three counts in all, two counts of attempted murder and one counts of attempted murder and one count of recklessly endangering life. duncan kennedy reporting. sir tom jones has become the latest celebrity to speak out following the sex scandal in hollywood involving harvey weinstein saying that sort of behaviour happens in the music industry with both men and women. he said at the start of his career he was propositioned by a man — an experience that left him feeling "terrible". colin paterson reports. for more than 50 years, sir tom jones has played up his reputation as a sex symbol. but in an interview for 5live‘s afternoon edition on the red carpet at the series launch of the voice, he revealed a man in the music industry tried to take advantage of him at the start of his career in the early 1960s. in the beginning, yes, there were a few things like that. but you avoid it. what‘s tried on women is tried on men as well. he did tell other people about the proposition at the time and the incident was never repeated. it was only once, really. how did it make you feel? terrible. then you think, i‘ve got to get away from this person. it can‘t be like this. sir tom jones had been giving his reaction to recent allegations and revelations surrounding the us film industry and said, to him, it was an all too familiar story. there‘s always been that element there that people with power sometimes abuse it. that‘s what the actress tippi hedren says. she starred in the birds and marnie, both directed by alfred hitchcock. speaking in a new interview with the bbc, she claims that the director offered to advance her career if she was willing to sleep with him. i was really angry that he would have pulled that on me. it was so unnecessary. and just so degrading. the entire film crew knew what he was trying to do. they knew i was just in a day—to—day battle just staying out of his way. this story continues to widen its scope. since the original allegations against harvey weinstein, more than a0 women have come forward. there are ongoing police investigations on both sides of the atlantic. now, with sir tom jones‘ comments, attention may turn to the music industry. colin paterson, bbc news. a quick apology. we were promising lesley garrett all afternoon. we had terrible problems with our satellite coverage. that‘s it from your afternoon live team for today, next the bbc news at five with jane hill. time for a look at the weather... here‘s darren bett. the mist and fog has been lifting, but there is more rain around with rain moving up through the midlands into northern england. staying wet in northern ireland with rain coming down into wales and the south—west. windy weather from the south—west through the english channel this evening. the early part of the night, quite a messy night with cloud and outbreaks of rain at times. a mild night with more mist and low cloud with hill fog especially across northern uk. some sunshine creeping through in northern ireland, and the south—west for a while. the rain petering out. the next dose of wind and rain arriving temperatures where they should be at this time of year. rain and windy weather on the way on saturday. gusts of 60 mph, 70 around some coasts. further north, windy with some showers. today at 5pm, theresa may calls on eu leaders to set out "ambitious plans" for the brexit negotiations. the pm is in brussels, where eu leaders are assessing whether enough progress has been made to begin trade talks. that speech that i set out in florence said out that ambitious vision, and i look forward to us being able to progress that in the weeks ahead. we‘ll have the latest from brussels, and i‘ll also speaking to the actor sam west about the impact of brexit on the creative industries. the other main stories on bbc news at 5pm... a big jump in recorded crime in england and wales. violent crime is up by nearly a fifth. the desperate plight of rohingya children fleeing myanmar, and facing appalling conditions when they arrive in neighbouring bangladesh. harvey weinstein is stripped of his british film institute fellowship,

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