A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Researchers at the university of oxford discover that cancer risks from undergoing menopausal hormone therapy are bigger and last longer than thought. Would that put you off seeking treatment . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. In a few hours from now a scottishjudge will give his decision on a legal attempt to block the suspension of the uk parliament. On thursday lord doherty heard arguments from representatives of a Cross Party Group seeking an interim interdict that would halt the move by the government. The group of 75 parliamentarians are seeking the scottish legal equivalent of an injunction to stop parliament being suspended. The battle to stop the suspension of parliament will be focused in court today. Outside this court, campaigners hope that the judge will agree with them and a legal attempt to stop the prorogation of parliament has been successful. The government and their Legal Counsel insist that the issue is not a matter for the court, but a group of 75 parliamentarians are seeking the scottish legal equivalent of an injunction to stop parliament being suspended. Clearly there are a number of teams of lawyers who take the view, as i do, that what happened was unlawful and unconstitutional and it is appropriate to sit addicted to a judicial challenge. The queen has agreed to the minister s request to suspend parliament in september and over. Borisjohnson then said the queen speech would take place on october 14 to outline his agenda of new legislation. Critics say it will not have mps enough time to pass law to stop a no deal brexit from happening. Those critics include gina miller. She has brought a legal challenge as well, this time of the high court in london. And next week in parliament, a Cross Party Group of mps are planning to bring forward legislation that. A no deal brexit. But the Prime Minister has promised a renewed effort to secure a deal. Uk s negotiators will now meet their eu counterparts twice a week next month in a run up to a crucial summit on october 17 and 18. The Usjustice Department has said it will not prosecute the former fbi director, james comey, for leaking a white house memo to the media. A report found hed released the information in an attempt to pressure the department to investigate his conversations with President Trump, but that none of it was classified material. Peter bowes reports. The former fbi director and the president. It was a short lived cordial relationship with these two men not on handshaking terms for long. Ever since he was sacked by mr trump,james long. Ever since he was sacked by mr trump, james comey has been a vocal critic of the president. His firing raised questions about whether mr trump was trying to obstruct the investigation into possible collusion with russia during the 2016 election. After losing hisjob, james comey divulged parts of a memo he had written about his private conversations with mr trump. He passed the contents to a friend and authorised him to share it with a journalist from the new york times. The memo painted an unflattering present picture of the president , with one leg recalling that he was asked to pledge loyalty to trump doing a private dinner. The report says that mr kony broke fbi rules by sharing the contents of the memo and that he had failed to live up duty to safeguard sensitive information. He retained several memos in a safe at home but the Inspector General said he was not recommending that mr comey be prosecuted for the breach as he had not divulged any classified information. Mr comey said he had been vindicated while President Trump responded that the former fbi boss should be ashamed of himself. Lets brief you on some of the other stories making the news forecasters are expecting Hurricane Dorian to strengthen into an extremely dangerous storm as it heads for the us mainland. Its expected to hit between florida and southern georgia, possibly late on sunday. The eye of the storm missed the main island of puerto rico, sparing it significant damage. In the light of the warnings, President Trump has cancelled a planned trip to poland. A genetic analysis of almost half a Million People has concluded there is no single gay gene that determines a persons Sexual Orientation a notion popularised in the 1990s. Research in europe and the us has found that a combination of genes account for between 8 and 25 of same sex behaviour across the population. The increased risk of Breast Cancer for women taking menopausal hormone therapy lasts for a decade after treatment stops, according to a report published in the medicaljournal, the lancet. Researchers at the university of oxford found that two in every 100 menopausal women, taking the combined therapy drugs, would develop Breast Cancer. Our health and science correspondent, James Gallagher reports. Louise rivers started having symptoms of menopause three years ago. She said she lost her brain and was struggling to work herjoints and, she was not sleeping well and she began to get migraines. Louise said starting hormone therapy last year was a difficult decision, but the right one. I definitely feel as ifi the right one. I definitely feel as if i concentration levels about whether they were a is ago. I feel a lot more confident working. I still have a few bad days here and then, still get migraines, but overall i feel much better taking it and i did for when i was not taking it. It has long been known that men oppose all hormone therapy increases the risk of cancer. The latest study shows that the increased risk last over a decade since stopping the drug and the dangers are twice as i as previously thought. It means for every 50 year old taking daily oestrogen and press just in every 50 year old taking daily oestrogen and pressjust in pills, one would have cancer. We dont want to give them false reassurance about the risks did it what we hope is that women would use this information to make a much more informed decision about whether or not they want to start taking a charity or perhaps continue taking hrt. Louise says she found the latest findings concerning but that she would not panic. Taking hormones improved her quality of life and she wa nts to improved her quality of life and she wants to chat to her consultant at their next appointment. Huaweis new Flagship Smartphone will not be able to use google apps and services because of a us trade ban. Huawei is expected to launch its 5g capable mate 30 line of smartphones next month. This will be the 1st major phone release by the Company Since us trade restrictions against it were instituted. Huawei has used googles android operating system in its smartphones in the past. Fiona reynolds is the chief executive officer of pri principles for responsible investment shejoins me now. Good morning to you. This is an interesting one. This uncertainty about the launch of this new phone goes to show the confusion for all sorts of dismisses as a result of this escalating trade war. |j sorts of dismisses as a result of this escalating trade war. I does sit atan this escalating trade war. I does sit at an interesting time. If we go back, this was really, this ban came in place because the us blacklisted around National Security concerns but it sits within the time of these trade restrictions as well. And it will be interesting to see what will happen. While way is now the second largest producer of mobile phones. It has overtaken apple, which is extraordinary. But in terms of selling the phone in europe and other parts of the World Without having access to things like google maps and youtube, et cetera, it will be quite difficult to see how that could happen. Ithink be quite difficult to see how that could happen. I think the chinese are very inventive and they have come up with their own operating system as a way of coming around this but will that be preferred to people than what they already know . People know the google system and the android system, the google system is the preferred system, even for huawei. It is very interesting to see what will play out here. Quite interesting. It is a forced innovation. What i thought was interesting is that ours you say, huawei was blacklisted as a response to security concerns yet President Trump has indicated that that restriction could be lifted as part of any kind of trade deal with china. What does that say about his security concerns over huawei . That in itself is interesting because it was concerns about security and pressure put on many other countries about including the uk about giving access to Chinese Companies around security concerns. So them then being able to say that if we do a trade deal we can get our way in this escalating tensions that we have, that we might be able to do something about it, it brings into question this whole thing. Wasnt a security concern really or not . But we have seen the president changed his mind on these topics on a regular basis. As part of the trade war, it will be interesting to see how Companies Like highway are affected and while they seem to be the first one, i dont think they will be the last company that will be embroiled in this ongoing trade war. We have some papers to get through later on and i will see you in about half an hour. The prominent pro democracy activist in hong kong, joshua wong, has been arrested ahead of another weekend of planned demonstrations in the city. Mr wongs political party, demosisto, said that he was bundled into a car as he was walking to a local metro station. Joining me now is the bbcs martin yip in hong kong. Do we know on what charges . We have just received we havejust received in we have just received in the last 30 minutes, confirmation from the Hong Kong Police that mr wong and ms chow, both 22 years old, were arrested. The recent one, that we believe refers to joshua arrested. The recent one, that we believe refers tojoshua wong, is being detained for investigation of suspicion of inciting others to participate in unauthorised assembly as well as knowingly taking part in an unauthorised assembly. That is for both joshua an unauthorised assembly. That is for bothjoshua and agnes chow, another well known figure in this political group. A third charge that is being investigated in connection to these crimes, the third one is organising an unauthorised assembly. That is what we have learned from police and that is in connection to protest back on june police and that is in connection to protest back onjune 21, the early days of the protest, where thousands of protesters on that day had been ambushing the Police Headquarters for over ten hours. The police have arrested close to a thousand people. Is the timing of these latest arrest significant . The police have given no indication of why they are being arrested only today but i would presume that many people would try to think that there is a connection between these arrests and what was planned to happen tomorrow, a major rally that would mark the fifth anniversary of a decree given by the Chinese Parliament which prescribed what beijing calls universal suffrage for hong kong. They called it fake democracy back then and that led to what we know now as the Umbrella Movement or occupy central. Those 79 days of sit in protest whichjoshua those 79 days of sit in protest which joshua himself had those 79 days of sit in protest whichjoshua himself had been a key member of and they had been fruitless in a significant sense because they did not bring what they want. Five years on they want to mark the event with a rally but they have been banned from holding such a rally because the police said yesterday that these rallies would be hijacked by more radical protesters again who clashed with the police as we have seen in the last two months. Thank you very much, martin. Stay with us on bbc news still to come are these the remains of napoleons favourite general . Why a 200 year old mystery may have finally be solved. Gudin hes the first African American to win the president ial nomination of a major party, and he accepts exactly 45 years ago to the day that Martin Luther king declared, i have a dream. As darkness falls, an unfamiliar light will appear in the south eastern sky. An orange glowing disc thats brighter than anything save the moon our neighbouring planet mars. Horn to0ts there is no doubt that this election is an important milestone in the birth of east timor as the worlds newest nation. It will take months and billions of dollars to repair what katrina achieved injust hours. Three weeks is the longest the great clock has been off duty in 117 years. So it was with great satisfaction that clockmakerjohn vernon swung the pendulum to set the clock going again. Big ben bongs youre watching the briefing. Our headlines pro democracy activists in hong kong say two of their leaders have been arrested a day before a banned demonstration. And our top story the brexit battle heads to the courts. A first verdicts due on whether the uk government can suspend parliament. Some british families living in spain say they feel as if theyve been left alone and forgotten by the uk government. Concerns over healthcare and dwindling pensions is leading some to consider their future in a country they hoped to make their final home. The bbcs tim muffett has been meeting those who say theyre stuck in limbo, as the government edges closer to a no deal brexit. Under the spanish sun, dave is sweating on events in russells and westminster. Good to meet you. Are good to meet you, too. How have you been treated by the British Government . Dreadfully. What they have told us have been half truths, lies, misdirections, it seems to change week by week. Dave moved to spain in 200a. He has parkinsons disease and has had two heart attacks. Like other british pensioners, he has been able to Access Health in another eu country but the chance of a no deal brexit has changed things. That drug is for parkinsons. If it is has changed things. That drug is for parkinsons. If it is a nodeal brexit, you do not know for sure whether you can access these medicines. I cant get there without medicines. I cant get there without medicines. The cost of medicines alone is about 700 euros a month. Somebody else would have to get it. Im wondering, you know, is it worth going on . If i lose my healthcare, wouldnt it be easier to just die . Evenif wouldnt it be easier to just die . Even if there is a no deal brexit, both the british and the spanish governments have said they want to carry on offering a reciprocal healthcare agreement to pensioners from both countries but nothing yet has been formalised and it is that uncertainty which many are finding so unsettling. My battle with cancer has been hampered by actually having a fight with brexit as well. Lisa moved to spain three years ago and is undergoing treatment for Breast Cancer. Expats have been advised to register for cancer. Expats have been advised to registerfor spanish cancer. Expats have been advised to register for spanish residency. Lisa says her application has been rejected on a technicality even though she has been here for three yea rs. Though she has been here for three years. If i dont though she has been here for three years. Ifi dont have residency, i dont have my healthcare rights. Do you feel if there is a no deal brexit, your treatment could eventually stop . It could suddenly countries could decide they dont like each other too much. It is unlikely that so was prorogation and this is why the panic and the anxiety is rising. Others are confident things will be sorted. Neil runs a support group for expats. There is no question that britain and spain would want an agreement. Before spain even joined the eu, there were lots of agreements between britain and spain over healthcare, pension rights, but no government is going to let people not be covered, its just not going to happen. People here expect to feel the heat but as brexit gets nearer, the questions keep coming. Now its time to get all the latest from the bbc sports centre. Hello, im Eleanor Roper with your friday sport briefing. Thursday proved an eventful day at the us open with simona halep suffering a shock defeat to taylor townsend. The number 4 seed and wimbledon champion was beaten over three sets. The american, whos ranked 116 in the world, put on an amazing display to come back from a set down and win 26, 63, 76. I feel like a lot of the times when i was playing her, i played not to lose. In a player like that, she is way too solid, has had so much experience, that thats not going to fly. I was just like, experience, that thats not going to fly. Iwasjust like, what experience, that thats not going to fly. I was just like, what do you have to lose . Im going to go for it and do what i do best. Where i am the most comfortable, which is at the most comfortable, which is at the net. I won a lot of points, i lost points, i lost big points, but i was rewarded in the end so thats what was most satisfying. Onto football and no prizes for guessing what the standout group is in this seasons champions league. Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and inter milan have all been drawn together in group f thats alongside slavia prague. Thats definitely got to be the Toughest Group of the lot. Elsewhere, the reigning champions liverpool are alongside napoli in group e, real madrid will play french champions psg in group a. Last seasons runners up tottenham have been drawn in group b, along with bayern munich, with juventus taking on Atletico Madrid in group d. They met last season, with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring a hatrick forjuve in the last 16. Well see how well the reigning us open champion Novak Djokovic has recovered from his shoulder injury later as he takes on denis kudla in the third round. Djokovic struggled with his shoulder during his victory over Juan Ignacio Londero but was hoping it would respond to treatment. The good thing about grand slam s is you have a day off in between the matches so as i said, i am hoping with a proper medical help and treatments, i will be able to get myself better, in a better state than i was. A story now which is getting lots of attention on twitter. In an open letter to espn, nfl veteran ryan russell has opened up about his sexuality. Russel, whos played for both the Dallas Cowboys and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers says lgbt people are invisible in pro sports and he wants to change that. After years of being ashamed of who he is, he now says that the next team who sign him should know who he truly is, and thats someone who loves both men and women. You can get all the latest sports news at our website thats bbc. Com sport. But from me, Eleanor Roper, and the rest of the team, thats your friday sport briefing. A one legged skeleton discovered under a dance floor in russia may hold the key to a centuries old mystery involving napoleons favourite general. Charles etienne gudin died during the french invasion of russia in 1812. What are believed to be his remains were found in the city of smolensk. Samples have been sent to france for dna testing. The bbcs tim allman has the story. A solemn unveiling in moscow. The skeleton, or at least whats left of it, of a hero of the napoleonic age. Translation until today, for france, there have never been historical events like this. A general who was found, a friend of napoleon. You can see the importance of this discovery, including from franco russian relations. Charles etienne gudin de La Sablonniere was a veteran of the french revolution and the napoleonic wars. At a battle near the city of smolensk he was hit by a russian cannonball and lost his leg. A few days later he died of gangrene. His heart was returned to paris, but the rest of him remained in russia. Until earlier this year, when what are believed to be his remains were discovered in a wooden coffin buried close to where he died. It was thought his grave may have been destroyed during the second world war. Of course, the overriding question is this general gudin or not . Translation there will be a genetic analysis to confirm 150 that it is him. Even if im already deeply convinced that it is him. We hope he can be welcomed with the honours he deserves. Fragments of his coffin handed over to his descendant. Soon the general himself may return home to france. Tim allman, bbc news. And, tell me what you think about our talking point today. Researchers at the university of oxford discover that cancer risks from undergoing menopausal hormone therapy are bigger and last longer than thought. Would that put you off seeking treatment . This once as big pharma has a grip on healthcare and women are always the first to suffer. Brooke also got in touch and says for sure she wouldnt do it, her aunt died and she thinks it was getting cancer through hormone replacement therapy. Let us know your thoughts use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. We saw 25 degrees across the south east of england on thursday. Plenty of sunshine and warmth here but further west and north, closer to the area of low pressure, more u nsettled to the area of low pressure, more unsettled and more cloud. That is how it is looking on friday again with low pressure to the north and High Pressure over the near continent. Windy day again across the northern half of the country, breezy further south. Outbreaks of rain becoming and more persistent into north west england and also north west wales. Winds are reaching 3040 north west wales. Winds are reaching 30 110 mph. Further south and east, had a chance of seeing the sunshine and a warmer day, mid high teens further north. Rainfall totals really mounting up across Northern Ireland and scotland. You can see the bright colours and some of the rain will be heavy so could be a lot of standing water and minor flooding in places. Generally speaking, a relatively mild night with the breeze. Temperatures 11 15. The weather front continues to bring wet weather front continues to bring wet weather early on saturday to the north and west and begins to pivot around but it will be a dying feature as it moves through during the day. A very wet start for Northern Ireland, parts of scotland and then the rain pushes through england and wales, tending to fizzle out as it reaches east anglia and the south east. Behind, a bit brighterfor northern the south east. Behind, a bit brighter for Northern Ireland and quite wet for the far north of scotla nd quite wet for the far north of scotland and the northern isles. Another warm day across the south east and the last of the warm days for the time being because that weather front clears through during saturday night and opens the floodgates to much cooler, fresher air. This is polar, maritime and air. This is polar, maritime and air. Starting sunday off on a chilly note. This is the first day of meteorological autumn. Some of the showers will be heavy and thundery and it will feel chilly when the showers arrive. Low mid teens in the north and high teens in the south and perhaps 20 or 21 across the far south east. Throughout next week, High Pressure wants to build in with variable cloud across the north and the west stop given the sunshine, the temperatures will return a bit closer to the seasonal norm. This is the business briefing. Im sally bundock. Bracing for impact. More us businesses and farmers say they are suffering from the trade war with china as they prepare for the fall out from a new round of tariffs coming in on sunday. As the citys set to see the thirteenth weekend in a row of demonstrations, we look at the impact hong kongs protests on companies. And on the markets, asia stocks bounce back amid positive