Good morning. Welcome to breakfast, with tina dahely and Steph Mcgovern. Our headlines today work to prevent a dam in derbyshire from bursting continues in the face of a new warning of more thunderstorms and flooding. Prime minister Boris Johnson visits those affected in Whaley Bridge and promises to make the area safe. Because this is a major problem. If that dam goes, you know the potential destruction that can wreak on the whole of the village below. The home secretary, priti patel, says she wants criminals to feel terror at the thought of being caught. A day to remember for rory burns, as he hits a first test century to give england the advantage, heading into day three of the first ashes test against australia. And breakfast enters the robot wars but can our mean machine overcome the heavyweight champion of the world . Some drier weather on the way for the majority of the uk, but tomorrow, the prospect of further heavy showers, particularly across Northern Britain. Its saturday th
Hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. My guest today was told that he has a reading age ofjust eight. His dyslexia was so bad he had to return to school to study in his 20s for the exams that he simply couldnt pass when he was there the first time. He is now dr peter kyle, a close ally of keir starmer s and the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, who, if labour comes to power, may find himself having to take a very important decision whether there should be another referendum about the future of the uk. This time it would be about whether Northern Ireland should leave and become reunited with the republic. Peter kyle, welcome to political thinking. Thanks, nick. I say that in the introduction that you have a reading age of eight. Really . And if so, how on earth do you do the job youve got now . Well, ive never known any difference, so i cant describe i cant com
Or corky from the Night Manager, youll certainly recognsie this famous face. Tom hollander and his fellow actor will keen on stage, on putin and russias billionaires. And with me the real life logan roy. Actor brian cox is back after the huge success of the drama succession. Rain newton smith, the boss of the cbi battling to save it, and salma shah, tory insider and former adviser at the home office. Morning, morning. Promises, promises the conservatives made some huge ones in the past on imigration and they simply havent been kept. Before we talk about that lets take a look at some of the front pages. Theres no one story that dominates today. The sun looks ahead to holly willoughby s return to the Tv Sofa Tomorrrow after all that drama. The mirror suggests auntie holly, claiming the bbc is trying to poach her. Who knows . The sunday times features one of our Talking Points today whats going on at the cbi, suggesting the former boss tony danker is going to sue. And our main conversatio
is newsday. thank you for being with us. it s 8:00 in the morning in singapore, and 5:30am in odisha in india, where the country s worst train disaster in decades happened. there s a growing sense of shock as the scale of the crash becomes more apparent. the rescue operation has been called off with more than 275 people known to have been killed. a major investigation is under way. officials have confirmed that signalfailure may have been a factor, but there are broader concerns, too. our correspondent archana shukla has been at the scene. we ll hear from there shortly, but first, let s show you this report. a painful search. sifting through photos, from hospital to hospital, and now morgue to morgue. inconsolable and traumatised. 22 year old himanshu can barely speak. his brother was on the train that crashed. can i see my brother, just once? he keeps repeating. and at this makeshift morgue, he is just one of the many families in the desperate search to find those missin