Hello and welcome to bbc news. Britains Prime MinisterBoris Johnson says he is cautiously optimistic of getting a brexit deal. Hell travel to luxembourg on monday for his first meeting since taking office with the European Commission president , jean claude juncker, and the eu chief brexit negotiator, michel barnier. At an event in the north of england on friday, borisjohnson told an audience that theres a rough shape of a deal in place for britain to leave the European Union. Our deputy political editor, john pienaar reports. Trust me. Nice to see you. It looks like campaigning, and it is, for future votes and for trust that hes the one to deliver brexit no more delays. An exciting time, he told one supporter. Not exciting, worrying, she said. Maybe worrying for him too, wanting a brexit deal, attacked by critics for closing the commons. Im all in favour of our mps. Heckler why are you not with them in parliament sorting out the mess that you created . Get back to parliament and sort it out hes being heckled by the Commons Speaker too, whos warned of more laws to ban a no deal brexit, maybe force another extension. Whatever the shenanigans that may be going on at westminster, we will get on with delivering our agenda and preparing to take this country out of the eu on october the 31st. What chance of a deal . He is hoping for a last minute breakthrough. I am cautiously optimistic. How, how, is that a good enough characterisation . I am cautiously optimistic. He will meet the eu Commission President in luxembourg on monday, still a long way from agreement. His Democratic Unionist Party allies want to be convinced by a brexit deal that they see as no threat to the union, and they havent been. We are not going to vote for any arrangement which makes us different than the rest of the United Kingdom and as a result forms a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom. As far as the Irish Government is concerned, our position hasnt changed. I would have to say that what has been put forward so far falls very far short of what we need. So the chances of a deal still seem remote, but that doesnt mean it cant happen. It would certainly help borisjohnson out of a tight political corner. If he is forced to extend brexit he could expose the tories to a potentially serious threat from the brexit party. And now there is a law that could virtually outlaw a no deal brexit. Wanting a deal, even needing one, wont necessarily make it happen. Good luck with brexit. Thank you very much. Where theres a political will, theres often a political way. But no one has found it yet. The american Actress Felicity Huffman has been sentenced to 14 days injailfollowing her involvement in the Us College Admissions scandal. The desperate housewives actress was involved in a plan to fix her daughters exam results and help her get into good schools. Our north america correspondent david willis has the latest from washington. It is the walk on part no hollywood actors would ever want to land. Felicity huffman arrived for sentencing accompanied by her husband, having omitted paying to have her daughters exam results. To ladder place at a top university. The College Admission scandal has seen 33 parents charged with driving administrators and sports coaches by administrators and sports coaches by a middleman. It is also reinforcing the view that the University Admissions system here is inexorably slanted towards the ridge. Prosecutors accused Felicity Huffman out of acting out of a sense of entitlement. She named her actions on parental insecurity and in a Statement Released after the hearing wrote other parents charged in the scandal are pleading not guilty, the americans, start Lori Loughlin is alleged to have paid 500,000 in bribes to get her two daughters accepted into the elite university of Southern California as members of the rowing team, using doctored photos because neither girl had actually taken part in the sport. In order to succeed you have to climb on someone elses order to succeed you have to climb on someone elses back and put them down, i think thats the question. Felicity huffmans sentence will start in six weeks time, meaning that in theory she could spend next sunday on the red carpet at the emmys. Her Netflix Series when they see us has been nominated for a string of awards. Her defence team had argued for probation and community service, no time in prison. Prosecutors countered, saying that being confined to a hollywood mansion with an infinity pool hardly constituted meaningful punishment. She will begin his sentence on 25 october. Her sentence. Now to an incredibly destructive greenhouse gas, that can seriously damage the atmosphere. Sulphur hexafluoride, also known as sf6, is used to prevent fires and accidents in electrical equipment, in power stations and wind turbines. But if it leaks the consequences for the environment are severe, and levels of sf6 in the atmosphere have increased sharply in recent years. Matt mcgrath investigates whats behind the rise. Were about to witness the startling destructive power of electricity, as technicians prepare a short circuit test at this laboratory. This is why industries rely so heavily on sf6. It prevents overloads that destroy installations. But the gas is also the most powerful climate warming substance known to science, 23,500 times more damaging than carbon dioxide, and levels in the atmosphere are increasing. Its leaking into the air faster than ever before. This is a very potent greenhouse gas, and its very long lived. So what we put up in the atmosphere will essentially stay there for hundreds or thousands of years. If we dont cut emissions, welljust continue to add to that atmospheric burden. The main reason for the rise in the use of sf6 has been the change in the way we make electricity. In the past, we relied on a handful of large coal stations for our power, but these have been replaced by dozens of wind farms, requiring many more substations and connections to the grid. The electricity generated by wind farms is sent via underwater cables to substations on land. It travels along high voltage lines, and the power is then converted so it can be used in homes and offices all over the uk. On every step of the journey, switches and fuses are used to prevent short circuits and fires. But around 80 of the ones in the uk depend on the powerful greenhouse gas, sf6. The eu will review the regulations on sf6 in 2020, but some Energy Companies are sensing that change is coming. This new wind farm being built off the coast of east anglia is one of the first and largest in the world constructed without sf6. However, there are limitations. The turbines here are connected to the substation, and that still relies on the gas. But at this factory in the netherlands, they have been making electrical switch products without sf6 for decades. They are already for a0 years in the field and they are reliable, they are safe and they are really working with no use of sf6. Changing from sf6, a reliable and Cost Effective insulating material, wont be easy. The industry regulator 0fgem says its setting targets for companies to move away from the gas. But a ban on the substance is thought unlikely before 2025. Four people have died in spain as heavy rain and flash flooding continue to batter the south east of the country shutting down Regional Airports and schools. 0livia crellin reports. A woman and her family are hauled to safety. 0ne bag of possessions all they could take with them, as the water steadily rose around their home. These dramatic images of a landscape now underwater, and the urgent response to save those trapped by the deluge were recorded by spains military emergency unit, now called out to help the thousands affected. Just 48 hours after some areas saw their heaviest rainfall on record, swathes of spains southern countryside were transformed. Translation i went out to buy bread and then i saw the whole town centre filled with water and i was like, how did this happen . Everything filled with water, the whole side over there. And there was a submerged car as well, people in the water i dont know the speed with which the floods came shocked many and even proved fatal. Of the handful of victims the floods have claimed so far, most perished in their cars when the water either flipped their vehicles or trapped them inside. Worst hit are the regions of valencia and murcia, where the water has been sweeping anything in its path along with it, forcing hundreds of people to be evacuated while hundreds more are left stranded. This includes tourists. The two consecutive days of torrential rain has forced local airports, Train Networks and dozens of roads to close. But at alicante airport, the arrivals lounge filling with travellers, who had nowhere to go. Nobody gets out here, everybody is stuck on the airport. And with us are five, six planes coming in, so everyone has 200 passengers. There are more than thousands of people here stuck in this airport. They cannot pick up their hire car, the taxis have got the message from the police and the central not to drive because it is not safe. So the few taxis that are coming here, of course, for money, it is terrible. The line here are, i dont know, perhaps many hundreds. As many areas affected remain on red or orange alert, the authorities continue to recommend that citizens remain at home and avoid using their cars. But while the weather is reported to have stabilised, the extent of the damage it has caused is still unclear. And the numbers of displaced continue to grow. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come the british singer lily allen says her record label has not taken any action after she claimed she was sexually assaulted by someone at the company. 30 hours after the earthquake that devastated mexico city, rescue teams still have no idea just how many people have died. There is people alive, and there is people not alive. We just can help and give them whatever weve got. A state funeral is being held for princess grace of monaco at the church where she married prince rainier 26 years ago. It looked as though they had come to fight a war, but their mission is to bring peace to east timor, and nowhere on earth needs it more badly. The governments case is being forcefully presented by monsieur badinter, the justice minister. Hes campaigned vigorously for the abolition, having once witnessed one of his clients being executed. Elizabeth seton spent much of her time at this grotto, and every year, hundreds of pilgrimages are made here. Now that she has become a saint, its expected that this area will be inundated with tourists. The mayor and local businessman regard the anticipated boom as just another blessing of st elizabeth. This is bbc news, the latest headlines britains borisjohnson says hes cautiously optimistic about a brexit deal as he prepares for his first face to face talks with the European Union next week. The desperate housewives star Felicity Huffman is sentenced to two weeks in prison forfraudulently securing a University Place for her daughter. Staying with brexit now and the former british Prime Minister, david cameron, has launched a scathing attack on borisjohnson, saying he behaved appallingly during the Eu Referendum campaign. In an interview to mark the release of his memoirs, the former Prime Minister also criticised mrjohnsons decision to suspend parliament. Heres our deputy political editor, john pienaar. Weve seen past Prime Ministers take potshots at their successors, but never anything quite like this. David camerons about to release his memoirs and hes given a brutally plainspoken interview to the times. In the book he describes his now formerfriend, michael gove, the cabinet minister for no deal planning, as mendacious, a liar, in other words. He describes him and borisjohnson as having left the truth at home during the Eu Referendum campaign, having behaved appallingly. And hes scathing about the decision to expel rebels from the Parliamentary Party and stop them standing as candidates. And as for suspending parliament, he calls that sharp practice, a sort of Old Fashioned term for cheap trickery. Now, this is a row of a kind we havent quite seen before. It compounds the row that is going on just at the moment. And we are now looking at a former Prime Minister attacking the present Prime Minister on top of a former Prime Minister, john major, challenging Boris Johnson in court. Has there ever been a Prime Minister as polarising and divisive as the one were seeing now in modern times . Its true that those closest to Boris Johnson, in number ten downing street, believe these divisions may work for him and help convince brexiteer voters that mrjohnson is on their side, but if the Prime Minister hoped to deliver what some have called a clean break brexit that and to reunify the country afterwards, well, surely now achieving either one of those ambitions, let alone both of them, looks like an uphill slog. The singer, lily allen, says her record label has not taken any action, after she claimed she was sexually assaulted by someone at the company. She says she spoke to an executive at warner music last year, where her alleged attacker is still employed. The record label has called the allegations appalling and says it takes accusations of Sexual Misconduct extremely seriously and will investigate. Heres chi chi izundu. With three uk number one singles and two number one albums, lily allen is one of the most successful british female artists in music. Sun is in the sky, oh why oh why would i wanna be anywhere else. Last year, lily published her autobiography and that is also where, for the first time, she talked about being sexually assaulted in 2016 by someone in the Music Industry after a party. I was drunk, so i cant. All i can tell you is what i do remember which is, you know, waking up in bed with somebody that i trusted, in a position that i really did not want to be, or had never given any indication that i did want that. But lily says she didnt leave the matter there, and feels it was brushed under the carpet. In a bbc interview with her friend, miquita 0liver, she says she also talked to a boss at her label, warner music. I went out for dinner with one of the label bosses and he said to me that he had no idea about this incident until he read about it in the book. Did he say, now that we know, boy, are we going to do something about it . No . Warner music says these allegations are appalling and adds we take accusations of Sexual Misconduct extremely seriously and investigate claims that are raised with us. We are very focused on enforcing our code of conduct and providing a safe and professional environment at all times. Lily allen is one of the few british artists to have gone public about Sexual Harassment in the Music Industry. But is there a code of silence . Is there a blanket of fear . Perhaps those are the reasons why the industry has not quite had its public metoo moment, and that fear could be around the destruction of a career. I did not get a particularly good run at festivals this season. I didnt get, you know, particularly big gigs offered to me. I didnt get a Big Marketing push behind my album campaign, even though it was probably one of the best records that i have ever written. And you think it is directly linked . Yeah, i really do. Yeah. I really do. The bbc understands lily allens alleged attacker continues to work with the label. She says she didnt go to the police about the assault and according to those who represent survivors of Sexual Assault in the workplace, that isnt uncommon. I think the difficulties can be because they perceive the perpetrators to be very powerful. I think they think that women who are victims of Sexual Assault, and indeed men, will struggle to find people to support them in that industry. Lily is currently working on her new album, but it will be her last with warner. Chi chi izundu, bbc news. The singer sam smith has asked fans to use the pronouns they them rather than he him after coming out as non binary. The british singer famous for songs such as too good at goodbyes and writings on the wall made the announcement on instagram, describing enduring a lifetime of being at war with their gender. Dr lee airton is the author of gender your guide. They told me earlier that the issue of pronouns is notjust strictly for non binary people. Well, think it is key to understand that ones pronoun is important for everybody, not just people who are non binary, who are transgender, but for everyone. I think it is a common misconception that pronouns are particularly important for people are trans or non binary when everyone receives a lot of affirmation every day from other people who gender them correctly, refer to them correctly using the correct pronouns. So often people who have never had that pronouns mistaken, you realise very quickly that pronouns are important for everyone, even if