Where home is a shipping container the scandal of homelessness for some of englands children. And why the first team in 15 years to dive down to the wreck of the titanic say its deteriorating fast. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, england say they believe batsman jason roy will be fit, despite being hit on the head in the nets in the build up to tomorrows third ashes test at headingley. Good evening. Borisjohnson, making his first overseas trip as Prime Minister to germany, has declared in the presence of Angela Merkel that the uk wants a brexit deal but that the government cannot accept the irish backstop. The backstop guarantees an open border on the island of ireland if theres no trade agreement after brexit, and its part of the withdrawal deal drawn up by the eu and theresa may. Mrs merkel has repeatedly said that deal cannot be renegotiated, but she did today appear open to the uk coming up with some sort of alternative to the backstop in as little as 30 days. Our Political Correspondent ben wright reports now from berlin. Another Prime Minister arrives in berlin to demand more concessions on brexit. Prime minister, are you hopeful of a deal . Its a familiar tune, but this time the deadlock is stark, and its Boris Johnson receiving the red carpet, here to tell the german chancellor that the deal hammered out between theresa may and the eu must change. Otherwise, mrjohnson insists, the uk is leaving with no deal at the end of october and claims theres nothing mps can do to stop it. Berlin would not have been surprised to hear borisjohnsons condition for a deal, that the irish backstop, intended to prevent a hard border on the island of ireland after brexit, be scrubbed altogether from the Withdrawal Agreement. But eu leaders say the deal is closed. So what would one of europes most powerful leaders have to say to the man who led the uks campaign to leave . Before dinner, they spoke at the chancellery. We cannot accept the current Withdrawal Agreement, arrangements that either divide the uk or lock us into the regulatory and trading arrangements of the eu, the legal order of the eu, without the uk having any say. Mrjohnson, the eu says it will not renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement under any circumstances, so are you prepared to compromise, or is this trip simply posturing before you blame the eu for a no deal brexit . Yes, of course, i think there is ample scope to do a deal. The backstop, that particular arrangement, which i do think has grave, grave defects for a democratic country, a sovereign democratic country like the uk that plainly has to go. But once we get rid of it, if we can change it, then i think there is the real prospect of making progress very rapidly indeed. And chancellor merkel, the Withdrawal Agreement was defeated in Parliament Three times in britain. It has been buried by borisjohnson. Why wont you reopen it in the few weeks that are left, or do you see the brexit crisis now as the uks problem to solve . Translation the backstop has always been a fallback position. If one is able to solve this conundrum, if one finds this solution, we said we will probably find it in the next two years to come, but we can also maybe find it in the next 30 days to come. Now, so far, the eu has not been persuaded that any of the technical ideas for avoiding a hard border put forward by the uk works, which is why they insist on the backstop. But Angela Merkels offer of speedy talks was gratefully grabbed by the Prime Minister. And youve set a very blistering timetable there of 30 days, if i understood you correctly. Im more than happy with that. Before their dinner, Angela Merkel said the two leaders had a lot their plates to discuss the mood between them seemed warm, but without a big shift in the coming weeks by one side in this stand off, the uk is likely to be leaving the eu without a deal. And we can talk to ben now. What realistically are the chances of an alternative to the backstop . World, reeta, for which the eu has dismissed borisjohnsons world, reeta, for which the eu has dismissed Boris Johnsons demand that the Withdrawal Agreement to be reopened and the backstop is scrapped, but after his dinner this evening with Angela Merkel here in berlin, a downing street source said there is a glimmer of light where there is a glimmer of light where there was not the day before. I think number ten is encouraged by what they were hearing from the german chancellor, the fact that she has invited new ideas about how the uk might want to solve the Northern Ireland backstop, she has invited them to come forward with plans. I think they are encouraged by that. The problem is, for several years now, three years, the uk has been putting forward ideas that the eu says do not work, which is why they insist the backstop has to be in the deal, and nothing from Angela Merkel today suggested that she agreed with borisjohnson today suggested that she agreed with Boris Johnson that the backstop should be scrapped. The rapport was warm, and that matters in politics, Angela Merkel wants the uk to leave with a deal, and i think we will see a contrast tomorrow, where Boris Johnson might have a more chilly reception in paris. President macron thinks brexit is contaminating the eu project, and he said bluntly that if the uk leaves without a deal, it will be britains fault, and he said the deal would not be reopened. Will be britains fault, and he said the dealwould not be reopened. Ben, thank you, Political Correspondent ben wright there. If the uk does leave the eu without a deal, theres a warning today of severe disruption to access to pharmaceutical drugs and other medical supplies. A letter from medical leaders, seen by the bbc, says that a negative impact on the health and care of patients was a possibility. But the government says patients can be reassured that the supply of drugs and medical supplies wont be interu pted. Our health editor, hugh pym, reports. A factory in germany making insulin vitalfor diabetics in the uk as well as those around europe. Almost all of the uks requirements are imported. The government has called for medicine stockpiles to be built up and new ferry routes to be secured, because of fears of traffic chaos at calais and dover in the event of a no deal brexit. Health leaders are supportive but say more needs to be done. Obviously, it is really welcome that the government is looking at different ways of getting supplies into the country at this really challenging time. However, it is not tried and tested. There is huge risk around how these items are actually going to make it to the front line where they are needed. We dont know that that system is going to work because we havent tried that system yet. A letter seen by bbc news from medical leaders, coordinated by the Royal College of physicians, is being sent to the Prime Minister. It says, we are simply unable to reassure patients that their health and care wont be negatively impacted by the uks exit from the eu. It goes on to state that, delays at the border could exacerbate current supply issues and create the very real possibility that life saving medication is delayed from making it across the channel. The governments position was set out earlier today by the minister in charge of no deal planning. We are confident that the nhs and pharmacies will have access to everything they need. What we are going to do is make sure that businesses have access, as we see here at the moment, to the facilities they need to be able to export, and also that consumers have and will continue to have a flow of goods into this country. Pharmacists say for a little while now they have had difficulties obtaining some medicines. They are doing the best they can, they say, to help patients. There is no clear evidence that is linked to brexit. But they argue that, if britain does leave the eu without a deal, that will add to the existing pressure on the supply chain. This Danish Company makes nearly half of the uks insulin. They told us three times the governments required six week stockpile had been built up. We have done this, obviously, so that we can reassure patients who rely on our medicines every day, the half a Million People in the uk, we can reassure them that they dont need to be concerned. They will be able to get their medicines, no matter what the outcome of brexit in the coming months. Other pharmaceutical Companies Say they have months worth of supplies stored in the uk, but Health Leaders are still not convinced enough is being done to ensure patients will still get high standards of care. Hugh pym, bbc news. The possibility of a no deal brexit is also focusing minds at one major uk supermarket, which has told the bbc its considering rationing the amount that smaller businesses can buy if theres a disruption to supply. Our business editor, simon jack, is here. Different sectors are preparing for no deal. Whats the thinking here . Supermarkets have got very sophisticated supply chains, and i spend a lot of time and money preparing for all sorts of brexit outcomes, but what some of them are worried about is that smaller businesses have not done that amount of work and may suffer if there is supply disruption. What one of them wa nts to supply disruption. What one of them wants to avoid is for these smaller businesses, convenience stores, local restaurants, turning to the supermarkets as a wholesaler of last resort, and they say in that situation they would consider introducing russian in the amount that individual buyers could purchase of certain goods to enable ordinary shoppers to get what they need. These limits would not be set at limits that ordinary shoppers would notice, but for commercial buys it would limit their ability to do that. So the government, of course, says that no deal brexit disruption can be avoided, that some of the situations we have seen lea ked of the situations we have seen leaked over the press were a worst case scenario, and it is a situation they are working very hard to avoid. I think the message here is that there was businesses thinking of using supermarkets as a last resort wholesaler may need to rethink. Simon, thank you. The future of the hs2 rail line has been thrown into doubt after the government announced an independent review into the project. If completed, hs2 will provide a high speed rail link between london, the midlands and northern england. Its the biggest Infrastructure Project in the uk, and more than £7 billion pounds has already been spent on it. But the transport secretary, grant shapps, has refused to rule out scrapping it altogether. Our transport correspondent tom burridge has the story. His report contains flashing images. Theyve knocked down buildings on the edge of birmingham. Cleared a vast area of land in west london. And sensitively removed thousands of skeletons from an Old Burial Ground in central london. All to build a new High Speed Railway known as hs2. But today the transport secretary kick started a review. Crucially, he is not ruling out scrapping the scheme altogether. Just because youve spent a lot of money on something should not mean that you just carry on ploughing more and more money into it. But what weve said, what the Prime Minister made very clear during his leadership election, is we want to see great infrastructure in this country, we want to see it stack up, we want to see it work for rail commuters, people right across the country. But, as the review begins, ron ryall faces eviction. His premises, a business which he built up from scratch, is being seized by hs2 this week. Hell lose his home in march. Its my whole life its my home and my work. Its gone at the stroke of a pen. My little granddaughter came to me the other day crying because she said, why are you selling your house, granddad . Why . And the businessman who owned these office blocks at london euston, now wrapped in white, claims hs2 didnt pay him the correct price. He says the project was poorly conceived. What theyve constructed is not a fast train but a gravy train. And there needs to be very major enquiries as to who benefited. A letter leaked last month suggests the scheme might be running as much as £30 billion over its current £56 billion budget. The work done so far has cost the taxpayer more than £7 billion. Well, that there used to be a 400 room hotel. Gone in a matter of months. Work continues at this site daily. From here, you get a view right into what will be the new station, the burial site here has almost been removed. Buildings still being demolished beyond that. In reality, scrapping hs2 would be anything but straightforward. Thats because contracts would have to be unpicked but supporters of the project are worried. People across the north of england will now be very wary of what the government is doing with this review because people here have had promise after promise after promise. Altering the railway in some way might be a more realistic option for the government. The question overarching in its review will be is hs2 value for money . Tom burridge, bbc news. A man has been arrested on suspicion of arresting libby squire in february. The 21 year olds body was found on the humber street six weeks after she disappeared. Police say a 25 year old man is being questioned. The death of the financier and convicted sex offenderjeffrey epstein this month has seen attention turned to some of his high profile connections, including Prince Andrew. In claims, it seems Prince Andrew travelled with him and a 17 year old who accusejeffrey epstein of assaulting her. But tonight Buckingham Palace says any suggestion of impropriety with minors is categorically untrue. One set of relationships, so many repercussions. The prince has his arm around Virginia Roberts, 17 at the time it was her court case against ghislaine maxwell, on the right, that brought todays allegations. At the heart of it, this billionaire businessman, jeffrey epstein, who took his own life in detention 11 days ago. He was convicted in 2008 for sex offences. Epstein was alleged to have trafficked underage girls, both for himself and for his circle. Here he is in 2010, and here is Prince Andrew in epsteins house, just two years after the businessmans criminal conviction. Epstein was a highflyer with a private jet. In Court Documents seen by the bbc, the private jets pilot is that several times Prince Andrew travelled with Virginia Roberts and jeffrey epstein. The pilot gives dates and locations. Curious company for the queens second son. The palace has pushed back hard. The statement submitted, it said, shows a number of inconsistencies between the dukes alleged location and his actual location, in some cases he is on different continents. The fact that some of the dates and locations in this are wrong does cast doubt over the claim. Its also not evidence thats been put into a court of law with cross examination. When it was released, it came with something of a Health Warning from the court. But there are more papers to come, and alongside the video released earlier this week, todays allegations are a reminder of, at best, a terrible error of judgment. Jonny dymond, bbc news. How should the british countryside be managed . Its an ongoing debate between environmentalists and farmers. Some say nature should be allowed to take its course, leaving the land so that wildlife can flourish a practice known as rewilding. Others say the land should be used mainly forfood production. In the latest of our series, focus on farming, Claire Marshall has been to one of the most ambitious rewilding projects in britain. This is a typical slice of british farmland well designed to produce food for humans and livestock, but where wildlife is pushed to the very edges. Look at what happens when you abandon intensive farming and put the Natural World first. We have come to look at the largest rewilding project in england, a 3,500 acre estate in west sussex. This would have been a conventional arable field. It would have been a flat monoculture as far as the eye can see. Isabella tree and her husband gave up traditional farming 20 years ago. They have tried to recreate an ancient landscape where different animals graze freely alongside each other. Tamworth pigs act as ploughs. Old english longhorn cattle and deer help to fertilise the land and spread seeds. Its a miracle when the habitat returns and you have this dynamism, just the species find you. I mean, how, i dont know, but we now have turtle doves. We are about the only place in britain where turtle dove numbers are actually rising. That is our most likely bird to go extinct from britain in the next ten to 15 years. We are a hotspot for nightingales, we have woodlark, we have peregrine falcons, we have Purple Emperor butterflies. I mean, we have all these species that have found us because there is now the opportunity for them here. However, many farmers such as robin milton, who farms on the edge of exmoor, believe you can produce food and care for wildlife at the same time. Weve got quite a selection of habitats that the value, that are of huge value for biodiversity. Alongside that, we are producing beef and lamb of probably the finest quality with one of the lowest environmental footprints you can find. We are losing our wildlife in the uk at a dramatic rate. Take skylarks. Their numbers dropped by half in the 19905 and they are still dropping. And bees and hoverflies our key pollinators a third of their species are in decline. And hedgehogs weve lost a half in the last 20 years. There are many reasons for this, but intensive farming methods including the use of pesticides are seen as a key driver. However, the industry says chemicals are essential to food security. There are thousands of pests that are literally after your lunch. If we can make sure the fields are as productive as possible, then we have to use some sort of crop protection. But the facts wont disappear. The richness of life in the countryside is fading. Claire marshall, bbc news, west sussex. Its emerged that the level of eu migration to the uk has been underestimated for a decade. The office for National Statistics said the error was partly caused by undercounting migrants arriving from the eight countries whichjoined the eu in 2004, including poland. Here are some of their figures. For the year ending march 2016 the last year for which data is available the initial estimate for net migration from the eu thats the difference between people arriving and leaving was 178,000. Thats now been revised up to 207,000. An increase of 16 and the ons also says it may have over stated immigration from countries outside the eu. For some Children Home is a converted office block or even a former shipping container. Thats the finding of a report detailing how there are more than 200,000 Homeless Children in england. The childrens commissioner, anne longfield, says whole families are being housed in flats little bigger than parking spaces. Ministers say theyre spending a billion pounds tackling homelessness. Our social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan reports. Dozens of Homeless People live in these shipping containers stacked, stressed and stuck. Two year old asim lives here with his mum and three siblings, including 13 year old faris. He has severe autism, cannot speak, and his behaviour is increasingly challenging. Living here doesnt help. How can this be suitable for my son . This is not a home, you dont call this a home. This is a shipping cargo container where you keep storage. You dont keep human beings in here. Itsjust wrong, wrong, wrong. The containers been fitted with a tiny kitchen, shower room and two bedrooms, but after nine months here, the family have had enough. It says everything about englands housing crisis that if you have been living in a cold, wet, damp bedsit somewhere, then the idea of a warm, dry room even in a shipping container probably appeals, at least in the short term. But when those weeks become months or even years, it becomes a far less attractive option. Its notjust shipping containers. Former office blocks are being used to accommodate the homeless too. Government efforts to boost housing supply mean they can be converted without planning permission. Homes little bigger than a parking space what critics have called the slums of the future. When children feel insecure in their home, where they feel theres a stigma attached to their home, it can be really isolating and damaging to their own well being. Ending the freeze on housing benefit would make homes more affordable, say campaigners. But councils say other steps are needed too. Central government keeps much of the money that comes from the sale of council houses. Councils are restricted when it comes to borrowing in order to be able to invest in development locally. And a number of planning policies have meant that developers have been able to throw up shoddy, poor Quality Homes without providing social housing. Caring for faris is a full time, often draining experience. Doing so while living in a shipping container makes it doubly difficult. Its very hard, because we dont know whats going on. His behaviour is very challenging now. Im trying to make him healthy, im trying to make him a better man, but moving around is not helping anybody. Its just affecting me, even to lose hope, and i have lost hope. Michael buchanan, bbc news, west london. The first team in 15 years to dive down to the wreck of the titanic say it is deteriorating, partly because its being eaten by bacteria. Using a specially built submersible vehicle, an International Group of explorers have surveyed it and say that some parts of it are disappearing. Our science correspondent Rebecca Morelle reports. At the bottom of the atlantic, nearly 4000 metres down, the most famous wreck of all time. This is the bow of the titanic, still recognisable more than 100 years after she sank. Its the first time people have been down to see it for themselves for nearly 15 years but whilst some of the wreck is intact, other parts have disappeared altogether. Probably the most shocking area of the deterioration was the starboard side of the officers quarters, where the Captains Quarters are. The captains bath tub is a favourite image among titanic enthusiasts, and that is now gone. That whole deck house on that side is collapsing. Microbes are eating away at the metal, creating stalactites of rust that dangle from the ship. Amazingly, though, the glass in the portholes is still in place, giving a tantalising glimpse into the titanics past. It was the biggest ship of its time, setting sail from southampton in 1912 on its maiden voyage, heading to new york. But it never made it. It sank after hitting an iceberg. 1,500 people lost their lives. These incredibly ornate slippers belong to one of the titanics first class passengers, edith rosenbaum, a fashion buyer who was on her way to new york. She was one of the lucky ones. She survived, and she brought with her this musical toy pig that she played to soothe the children on the overcrowded lifeboat. Every one of the precious artefacts at the National Maritime museum tell a story. But exploring the titanic is also crucial. I think its still important to go down and visit the wreck because of course the wreck itself is now the only witness weve got of the titanic disaster. All of the survivors have now passed away so i think its important to use the wreck whilst the wreck still has something to say. The team are now analysing the footage theyve captured to assess how long before the titanic is lost to the sea. Rebecca morelle, bbc news. Thats it. Now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. Have a very good night. Hello and welcome to sports day. The countdown is on. It is notjust ours to go into england versus australia pa rt to go into england versus australia part three. The third test at headingley. Can league 1 part three. The third test at headingley. Can league1 berry save themselves from being dead and buried. Fans protest as the club faces extinction. And it is a miserable night in the championship. Welcome to sports day. Just over 12 hours, england and australia will resume their battles for the ashes at headingley. But all of that has been dominated by the c word, concussion. Images like this from the second test at lords have provided the backdrop to much of the talk at head of leeds with steve smith sidelined and confirm that this man will take his place. But england are keeping a watching brief overjason. He was hit on the head with his team mates standing by if he feels his concussion protocols. The captain says short picture bawling is a part of this ashes battle. I think the thing that hurts the most is, i stood up there in front of 35,000 people and someone moved me off a little bit. Thats what it felt like i was hit, you pride yourself on being able to get out of the way or take it on. I have to make sure that first and foremost ifind a way to make sure that first and foremost i find a way to stay in and keep betting. I feel like they got one up on me. Ive never had a blow is better as serious is that so hard to comment on his case. But he could see the concern on the guys in the field, we just want to make sure he was ok. I think guys are prepared for it, but it was another thing facing it. As we touched on yesterday, guys have plans and place and be prepared well for it, its about going on executing it and we think the wicket was quite a difficult one to face for the short pitch. Its about adapting to the situation. If they do not do it here, i suspect probably