The hallowed walls of tinseltown. Tonight, double oscar winning actor Emma Thompson gives me a full and frank assessment of how rife the problem is, how the culture of couch casting has worked. And of what needs to change before this kind of problem becomes an anachronism. I spoke to her in westminster this evening and asked if weinstein was somebody she would have called a friend. No which is the understatement of the century. I only had Business Contact with him because miramax owned nanny mcphee for a while and were very difficult about his bullying patterns, which also existed in his business world. So my main contact was shouting at him down the phone that i never wanted to work with him ever, ever, ever. So when i came into rooms where he was, which often happened, he would look. Well, actually, frightened. I think that is the sort of thing that happens, if you call out a bully on their behaviour, they tend to avoid you. You called him out for being a bully to women . Yeah, no, no. Not to women, that was in his business practices. I did not know about these things but they dont surprise me and they are endemic to the system anyway. And what i find extraordinary is this man is at the top of a very particular iceberg. I dont think you can describe him as a sex addict, he is a predator, that is different. He is as it were at the top of a ladder a system of harassment and belittling and bullying and interference and what my mother would have referred to as the olden days as pestering. Is he pestering you . That was a word we used to use. This has been part of the world of women since time immemorial. This has been part of the world of women since time memorial. What we need to talk about is the crisis in masculinity, the crisis of extreme masculinity, which is this behaviour, and the fact that it is not only ok but it also is represented by the most powerful man in the world at the moment. When you describe him as the tip of the iceberg, do you think there are others like that in your industry i hollywood . Of course, many. To that degree . Maybe not to that degree. Do they have to all be as bad as him . To make it count . Does it only cant if you really have done to loads and loads of women or does it count if you do to just one woman, once . I think the latter. It was written that you rebuked him on the set of brideshead for trying to put your co star on a diet . It was not harvey, it was the other producers, my co star had been told by the producers that she had to lose weight and i said that i would walk away from the film off i heard anything like that again. I will always speak up because i am bolshie and i will take somebodys head off if i see that happening but i am lucky. I have had education, i am white. Which makes it easierfor me to speak up and a woman of colour. I have worked independently until i was 30 so i was always extremely feminist, extremely aware of the oppressions and the little run of small cruelties and mediation is that women have experienced. There are 66 Million People in this country and 35 million are women. If you speak to any of those women over the age of 15 and they all will have a story to tell you about some kind of harassment, whether it was being felt up on the tube, it happened to my daughter the other day, being nine years old at a magicians party and somebody putting their tongue down my throat, being and left with an older man i was getting on with at 2a and he lunged at me. Everyone has stories that. When you knew Harvey Weinstein as a bully, was that something you would have passed on to others . Would you tell people . Or did you feel that was not your place . I discussed that at length with my producer, we discussed the fact that we were glad to get away from him. And i often expressed the feeling that i had. When i was in a room with him he gave of the most appalling order. How would you explain . People knew about this for decades, his sexual behaviour. The directors, agents and fixers who seem to push these women, actresses, into the mouth of the line. How do you explain that . Isnt it the same story as jimmy savile . Its the same story, emily. If somebody is powerful, as the nurses used to do in those hospitals, be careful, be careful. Pretend you are asleep. The agents said, he is a little bit. Oily. This and that. He might pester you a little bit but go in because one of the big problems about the way in which our systems work at the moment is are so many blind eyes. And we cant keep making the women to whom this happens responsible. They are the ones who have to speak. Why . Say this is happening. The difference with the nurses was they were trying to protect the patients from somebody they knew was predatory. With directors and agents, they were pushing these women sometimes into his line of fire . Yes, it is pretty filthy, right . That is a conspiracy of silence and there are about a million missed opportunities to call this man out on his disgusting behaviour. His spokeswoman has said that the sex that he had was consensual. You will have heard of women who chose to play the game in hollywood. They know it is a competitive industry. That they reckoned or made the decision that a sexual favour might be worth a part in a blockbuster movie . I am sure that goes on. One of the points made by women in film is one of the ways we can avoid that kind of power, that is a power struggle, that is not about their decision being wrong, that is about the system being so wrong that their only choice, they see their only choice to be this choice that isnt a choice, it is about power, about i have no power because in our systems, there are not nearly enough women, particularly in hollywood, in positions of power and women at the top of the tree in the studios who could perhaps balance everything. There are not enough women on the set. Film crews can be very. With young women in particular. There are just not enough women, actually. This is part of our difficulty, part of the rebalancing. This is a gender dysfunction. The other thing it is is a Public Health issue. This is not aboutjust one mans crimes against women. This is about our systems and balances, the gender crisis in the systems and we have to act upon this. We must turn this on its head, we cannot allow this to continue because it means that naturally Vulnerable People will continue to be preyed upon, whether Harvey Weinstein goes to jail or not. This is not about victim blaming but the culture of the casting couch, where women feel they have to give sexual favours for parts, that has been going on for decades. Since women were women. What happens if theyjust say no . Sometimes they dont get the part. Really . Yes. Well, unless you have producers next to those directors saying, i think that is the best one. And the director says, no. The producer says that is because you have slept with her, you made her sleep with you. That is what has to happen, people have to be called out. All the time. Thats all, all the time. Do you think there is a liberal hypocrisy at the bottom of this . One word, polanski. Is there a sense we forgive artistic people on one level, because we think they are creating great at . I have a good part in that because when i was working with mike nichols, who i loved, he asked me to sign a petition when Roman Polanski was to be extradited, it was about 15 years ago. And i signed that without thinking about it. And then i was called on it by some young feminists at my sons university and they said this man is a rapist, he raped this woman, i watched the documentary and i decided that i had been wrong, i had been absolutely bamboozled not only by the influence of mike nichols but by my respect for his art. So i stood back and took my name off the petition and explained myself to those who supported polanski. What should happen . On a practical level, his cbe should be revoked . For sure. That is not the most important thing, the most important thing is we extrapolate from this event what is really going on. Thats whats most important, otherwise people are going to go, do you rememberjimmy savile or Harvey Weinstein . And not go, what we need to say is we need to change this, if we want to do something we have to get more women into this profession in positions of power. That is a moment you say, i think hollywood will change. Can you say that hand on heart . No, i cannot. But i do see and hear a lot of voices and i want to add mine and say that hollywood can and must change. If everyone is talking about Harvey Weinstein right now, and you have suggested there are probably plenty of others guilty of pretty similar behaviour, why are people not coming out . I think it is hard. Some people, from what i have read, some women have absolutely said that other directors have tried it on with him. Some women have come out and said that, actually. If you look at the materials. Perhaps the more of us who say this is endemic, lets just say its endemic. I have just said that i spent my 20s trying to get old mens tongues out of my mouth. Theyjust that, she is up for it. So i would imagine that happens really very regularly and so perhaps this is a moment when we can say two men and women, open your eyes and open your mouths and say something. Thank you. Emma thompson speaking to me earlier today. Harvey weinstein has unequivocally denied any allegations of non consensual sex. Now to brexit talks. The fifth round ended today. It sounded remarkably similar to the fourth round. And indeed if you were listening the first three. Michel barnier, the chief eu negotiator, had a pithier way of putting it. Deadlock. This should have been the week things moved on to trade but as you heard, the stumbling blocks that still exist made it impossible. Big questions surround eu Citizens Rights and that brexit bill. But if at this stage you admitted youd slightly lost the plot with the brexit negotiations, you wouldnt be alone. Tonight we try and find clarify labours position. Earlier i spoke to their brexit secretary, sir keir starmer. Today marks a serious failure to meet a very important deadline. We are seven months into the article 50 process, as a result of todays decision its now highly likely that we are going lose another two months on the first stage of the negotiations. That is really serious. Its a failure. If we end up with no deal because of the lack of progress, that is a very bad position for britain and very bad for the eu. What would you do to close these gaps, would you offer more money as the brexit divorce bill to get things moving . A number of things need to happen. Theres a gap on eu citizens and is caused by the Prime Ministers red line, she will not allow any other court to have a role in it, i hope that gap can be closed. So on the European Court ofjustice, you would be happy for us to be subject to its rulings and writs during the transition . Yes, the only basis for a transitional arrangement is that the European Court has jurisdiction during that transitional arrangement. Theresa may is talking about fulfilling uk commitments and at that point things have got stuck. Would labour go further and offer a blank cheque and say it is more important to push things . Of course not. Ive never criticised the government were keeping the sums as low ive never criticised the government for keeping the sums as low as possible, any responsible government would do that. Help me understand. We have called for an emergency meeting today. Youve written to david davis. He has written to say if you are prepared to spell out how much money you are prepared to offer or what role the European Court ofjustice would have, i would be happy to engage in your points. Any more movement on those points hes asked for . Its important we listen to what was said today. Michel barnier said they havent even discussed the money. Not that they were arguing about money. They are so far apart, so deadlocked they not even talking about it. I dont understand the labour position on brexit. John mcdonnell thinks Single Market membership is not respecting the referendum. Barry gardner says it means leaving the Single Market. Diane abbott says labour is taking no options off the table. You said the Single Market is important, tom watson agreed with you on my programme. Is that labours position. Labours position is as i have said about the summer, it is agreed and signed off by the shadow chancellor. Weve called for transitional arrangements after we leave the eu until we get a deal. Inside the market. So however long the transition we should remain within the Single Market . In the Single Market and in a Customs Union subject to the jurisdiction of the European Court of justice. The reason for that is to avoid a cliff edge which all businesses want to avoid, to make sure our economy does not crash and to make sure we have the certainty and stability to see us through to the final deal. I didnt understand that that was now your clear and unified position on brexit. We talked to people on Oxford Street earlier and they didnt have a clue. I listen to the news. Are they for it . I wouldnt like to bet on it either way. No, actually, labour are not for, they are for a deal. Trying to stay in the Single Market and the Customs Union. Trying to have it all. I dont think they do, actually. I dont think they know themselves, to be honest. Divided, the same as the conservatives. This is not representative of everyone in the uk but see the confusion . We didnt hand pick those people, no one understood what labour thinks about brexit. I appreciate we have to do more work communicating our message. The first question was if we have an agreed position, we have, we obviously have to do more work communicating that but the final deal will be one we live with for a long time so we need to get that right. No deal will be catastrophic for our country. I dont think everyone has appreciated what no deal means. It means there is no agreement on trade, nor on the Northern Ireland border which means hard border, no agreement on aviation so planes can fly, no agreement on security and counterterrorism, the implications are such that we ought to focus on transitional measures and avoiding a no deal. Keir starmer, thank you. I am nowjoined by conservative mp chris philp, who serves in the treasury team. I am guessing that this is not where you wanted your government to be. It is deeply frustrating that we are not talking about trade or even transition. What is really frustrating is that it doesnt have to be that way. The eu negotiating team have chosen voluntarily not to discuss trade in transition. That makes a no deal scenario more likely because the clock is ticking. If we did have no deal that wouldnt be good for the uk although wed deal with it but its not good for the eu either. It is extraordinary. It put german and french jobs at risk as well. No deal used to sound like hyperbole, now it is more likely. Your government has one job, to get a deal. We are ready to talk about trade, transition, mutual recognition of Citizens Rights and agree a deal on that today. In fact we were ready to talk about those things six months ago. But youre not ready to put more money on the table to let those talks start. No reason why money should be a precondition to talking about trade, it is an artificial condition created by the eu. It has been made and you must deal with that. It is completely unreasonable. On money we have said a lot. In florence, theresa may said a few important things that even Michel Barnier agrees that important. She said we would honour all our commitments as members. You are talking to yourself. Youve heard Michel Barnier said it is deadlock. During the transition we would make contributions. It doesnt need to be deadlocked. We are ready to talk about trade. Let me talk about new money on the table, theresa may said yesterday £250 million set aside for a no deal contingency, did your chancellor now that was coming. He did because he said to the Treasury Select Committee and hour and a half before her ministers questions. An hour and a half before . They are singing from the same hymn sheet. On monday he said it would be a last minute plan. What is said to the times was that he would only spent when it was necessary. That is sensible and prudent. It became necessary on wednesday . This money wasnt allocated on wednesday morning, it was allocated for some months. Why didnt you tell the chancellor to stop him telling the times is something that contradicted it. He said it included the money that was allocated some time ago. I dont remember him mentioning the figure. He said he wouldnt look at the no deal money until he had to, and then she announced this £250 million. Some money we spent already which was necessary. Either this idea of a no deal has become super real in the last 48 hours or it suggests that your Prime Minister and chancellor not really talking to each other. They are and i pointed out how the comments are consistent. I think it is only prudent to plan for a no deal scenario even though we wanted to avoid it. It would not be good for the uk or the eu. We are the largest export market for german cars, so a no deal scenario would cost german jobs. Its about time the European Commission and the european governments wake up and realised that the unreasonable stance they are taking will damage their own economic interests as well as ours. They should stop being unreasonable and Start Talking trade. What is the atmosphere in the treasury like . The atmosphere in the whole conservative party is fine, we united around the florence speech. Im looking at the front page of the daily mail, in which nigel lawson says that the chancellor should be sacked. Nigel lawson was a great chancellor but that was 30 years ago and he doesnt speak for the modern party. We united behind the florence speech and behind the chancellor. The one thing that frustrates us and frustrate everyone, is that the eu are unreasonably refusing to discuss trade or transition. But has to end because it will damage their interests as well as ours. Get on with those talks and lets make progress. Thank you for coming in. Last night we reported on the row in the United States about whether nfl stars should take a knee in defiance of donald trump, to highlight the treatment of black americans. In tonights viewsnight, professor Kehinde Andrews says sports stars here should do the same. British sports stars should take a knee during the national anthem. After President Trump attacked nfl players who joined Colin Kaepernicks refusal to stand during the us national anthem, he sparked a wave of protest. The players stress that they are not protesting either the anthem or the flag but Racial Injustice in america and their right to freedom of expression. But why not protest the flag . Racism is so deeply ingrained that it is part of the dna of the nation. Britain is no different. The police may not kill as many black people but is that only because they do not routinely carry guns . Every inequality of housing, employment, education and wealth that plagues African Americans is strongly felt by black people in britain. All of this injustice is the direct legacy of the British Empire that often made its place in the world through genocide, slavery and colonialism. The empire produced a Toxic National identity, yet many people are yearning to roll back the clock to when britannia ruled the waves. So rather than draping themselves in the flag, ortearing up during the anthem british sports stars should take a knee or clench a fist. The flag is not a symbol of pride but of oppression. An anthem praising the monarch is not unifying, but divisive. A nation that will not deal with the realities of its racism is not one that the children of the colonies can feel part of. So never again will i stand for the national anthem. The duke of westminster has escaped paying inheritance tax on a fortune estimated at more than £8. 5 billion. The estate appears to have been in family trusts which were passed to his son, now the 7th duke of westminster. The example may be a rather exotic one, but the question of inheritance tax is one thats divided this country for decades. Should children get to inherit their pa rents wealth . And to the question that threw the entire conservative Election Campaign into chaos should it make any difference if there is social care to be paid for in their old age. Chris cooks been looking at the numbers. The Housing Market is one of britains biggest problems. Its probably not much of a shock to you that house prices have risen rapidly in recent decades. The average price is now around £200,000. Although that hides enormous variation between the south east and the rest of the country, in particular. Inheritance tax policy has responded by raising the point at which tax is due. So the explosion in house prices hasnt been matched by inheritance tax receipts. It is still only bringing in about £4] billion a year. So that rise in asset values hasnt been tapped very efficiently by the government. If we look at deaths registered on the hmrc database where there is no surviving spouse, in 2014 15 there were 140,000 estates containing housing. Thats a stock of properties assessed at about £30 billion. Now the total amount spent on care for older people by and through local authorities is about £7 billion. And the government spends a further £4. 7 billion on attendance allowance to support older people who need care. The kings fund and Nuffield Trust estimate that we really need to add in more money. Up to an additional £3. 5 billion a year. What was dubbed the dementia tax at the election was really an attempt to move tax from that £30 billion property pile into the other. At the moment each year people die with all that housing wealth, which largely passes, with a little bit of tax taken out, to theirfamilies. At the same time we need to find more money to care for a lot of those people in the years before they die. So why not take a bit more of that £30 billion . Our policy editor chris cook with the numbers. Joining me now is news editor at the institute of economic affairs, kate andrews, and political economist will hutton. Welcome to you both. Nice to see you. Why not, kate. This idea of inheritance wealth is out of date, isnt it . I think inheritance tax is out of date but im not sure this new policy to finance social care is the way to go about it. Inheritance wealth, not tax. People shouldnt have to choose to accessing social care and whether they can pass on their home. I think this policy has got that wrong in some respects. We need to fundamentally look at the way we Fund Health Care overall. We need to move to some kind of pre funded insurance system, what National Insurance is supposed to before but hasnt been used for. When you play with those numbers, £30 billion gets passed down and only £3 billion is needed to cover that funding gap, it makes total sense. It is not fair in six months time to say to someone if you have dementia you will have to risk giving up the assets you have accumulated in your life which otherwise could go to your family. I understand where they are coming from on the policy but i think it is misguided. It stops us from having a wider discussion about intergenerational unfairness. We need to have a pre funded system so as the demographic shifts the burden does not following young people. George osborne went before tory conference on year ago to say he would raise inheritance tax to £1 million, one of the most popular policies the tories have come up with which stopped gordon brown from calling an election. Youll never put the british people of the idea of being able to hand on their house and wealth to their kids. There has been a fantastically successful programme of disinformation about this. House prices are stunningly high in relation to income. Much higher now, even going back to the all time highs, you know, the £5 trillion worth of housing wealth, and we have created this gigantic tax onshore haven that is the british Residential Property market. Inheritance tax is minimal, theres no Capital Gains tax, the council tax is trivial and, actually, i would prefer a system of social insurance to deal with care in the old age, and its a pity both things get conflated, but if youre asking the straight question, should some about housing wealth be hypothecated in some way to segue into a social insurance system, to deal with the financing gap, this answer is an unambiguous yes, and its great that a tory minister has opened this up. Right, because she has said, why should young people, taxpayers, financially prop up the care of elderly people when they might be sitting on an asset they want to hand down to their own kids . Why should the average young taxpayer, dealing with the other debts and problems, pay for that . They should not, somebody who cannot get onto the tax ladder in the first place should not be propping up other people to keep their big homes. We need to talk about this issue of housing overall because one of the reasons inequality skyrocketed in britain not so much in the past decade but previously is because houses became so expensive. It cant be seen as a given because you are sitting on a big house, other people havent been able to buy their own. For sure but let us get to the root of this problem, housing keep going up because we dont have enough houses to meet demand. We need to build more homes, that will bring down the cost of housing and will tackle the issue of intergenerational unfairness. It is notjust a question of not building, i am in agreement, but there has been an astonishing amount of credit via quantitative easing, £449 billion, and above that, this nature of british property that it is a tax haven and we have come, over a 40 year period, everyone watching this, they know that the best investment you can make is to borrow money and actually your house price goes up and you get wealthy that way, and she is right, the minister, to say that people think of housing not as a place to live but as an asset class. And we should not be thinking of it in those terms and we should not be thinking of it as something that you hold in order to pass on to your children because it is an asset. That disfigures the Housing Market and it creates massive intergenerational inequality. There is one question that sent the Election Campaign flying, the one of dementia tax. Were you in agreement . Was it the right way for the conservative or any government to go . It was a mistake but having said that, she should have stuck with social insurance, nick timoney should not have inserted that. Compulsory insurance . Nobody wants to buy insurance against alzheimers . You mitigate the price by either in the private or Public Sector offering to put part of the wealth in your house against your care bills. You mitigate the price of the insurance. That is what was offered . That is what was trying to happen with report. The problem was with the proposal that theresa may came up with, youre only left with 100k, and you will be stripping people of their assets. Nobody is after taking every single penny from people approaching kind of the end of their lives. What is the solution then . It was the wrong policy overall. We must acknowledge that inheritance tax is quite ineffective, it raises one quarter of i of gdp and these are small fixes to tackle the overall issue. And i believe the solution lies somewhere in pre funded insurance but also the focus on the grandstanding projects like hs2, estimated to cost 60 billion, that is the social care funding for the next decade. Hold onto the money we have before we start increasing taxes. Inheritance tax is not a death tax, it is that we share in your good luck tax. Inefficient tax. We share in your good luck. And once you start looking at it like that you can get somewhere. Thank you both very much. U2, rem and Franz Ferdinand count themselves as fans. But despite being an influence on some of the biggest musicians on the planet, the go betweens were a band with virtually no commercial success at all. How do you account for a group that seemed to have everything going for them the songs, the look and the timing to become superstars, but failed time and time again to make a commercial impact . The band was put together by robert forster, who taught his best friend, grant mclennan, to play. After several false starts, their story came to an end with mclennans premature death in 2006. But they have a loyal following and their story has just been told in a feature length documentary. Forster has now published his own account, grantand i, and has been talking to our culture correspondent, stephen smith, in the soho studio where the go betweens recorded 30 years ago. Because its 30 years back, theres a certain amount of memory loss and people are revisiting the period and thinking that we didnt have hits. And there arent any. Round and round. Up and down. Through the streets of your town. They were the go betweens, but they might as well have been called coulda, woulda, shoulda. The 80s band that might have conquered the world but somehow never did. This single was perhaps their catchiest. Written by the late grant mclennan. Critics loved them. They were signed to a fashionable label. So what went wrong . The story is not a usual band story. Where the band starts there, the five guys in the pub, and it goes for that amount of time. There is hit singles, there is a stadium tours. People in rehab. And then you write the book. Its not that. We were just a little bit too. Umm. We were not pliable. We were quite strong. We had strong beliefs. And we were a bit cynical. Forster taught his college pal mclennan to play an instrument and the go betweens were formed. They might have gone further with a bigger label behind them, says forster. Making their way over in london turned out to be tough. We didnt have a support system. We didnt have an auntie living down in bath with a fridge full of food that, when things got bad in london, we could just sort of go down and live with auntie and she would feed us. You must be unique amongst australians in not having people like that . I know, i know. The story of the go betweens wasnt going to be mirrored in rock biographies. In the life of the Rolling Stones or pink floyd, with their flushed starts in fame. Our path would follow another model. The wrong roads, grant would one day sing. Progress made in a zigzag shape. Foreign cities seen in poverty, almost tested. I recognised this in our fourth year as a band. It was a feeling i had that we just werent top 40 people. Dressed in a white shirt. With my hair combed straight. Some of forsters choices also raised eyebrows. Dismayed by an older generation of rock stars whose hair stayed uncannily youthful, he died his own barnet grey at aged 29. When will change come . Just like spring rain. The other thing that i have to add is that i was a great fan of an actor called john forsythe, who played Blake Carrington in dynasty. To me, he looked better and more interesting than jagger or mccartney or bowie at that time. And i thought. Big claim. That is the man to emulate. And did you wear the dress to look like joan collins, then . No. The dress, i was trying to do emmylou harris. It probably didnt register. Not even in australia . In australia it did. In australia it did the go betweens had a second wind at the turn of the millennium. But the death of grant mclennan, 11 years ago, is the full stop to the story of the stars who might have been. Im sad about the go betweens albums that didnt happen. But greater for me and what i felt is just the loss of a friend. It just leaves me. A classic example is here. You know, hes not walking in with me and were going oh, wow, we did. We did two singles here in 1986. Im the one who walks in by myself. Alas, the go betweens didnt have the big hit singles, the star on the walk of fame. But one thing they cant take away from you, you have a bridge named after you . It was a complete surprise. Its the first bridge built in the middle of brisbane in 40 years. I opened it in 2010. I do drive around brisbane and i see traffic signs with the go between bridge. And that may be my legacy as i drive. That could be it. Thats all weve got time for this evening but we leave you with a short film, paper trail, just released by artist jake freed. He made it, frame by frame out ofjust ink, tippex, and collage. Which certainly puts our efforts into perspective. Goodnight. Mightand might and gonna talk to you a little bit about hurricane o in a moment but before that i want to look at the weather over the next 12 hours oi the weather over the next 12 hours or so the weather over the next 12 hours or so hurricane ophelia. A slow moving weather front moving in and tightly packed isobars tell you it will be quite windy day. So these are the kind of temperatures you will see overnight. Five or six in the morning, rain across scotland and Northern Ireland, wet weather for north west england and wales too. Elsewhere in england a lot of cloud through most of the day but as the breeze picks up it will blow holes the club late in the afternoon, so some sunny spots possible. Some sunshine late in the day. And Northern Ireland. Rainfall totals building up across the hills of cumbria with some localised surface water fighting. The fronts tomorrow night move southwards and thenit tomorrow night move southwards and then it stops and starts moving north again and we will be left with cloud and rain across Northern England and northern wales too. A marvel nights with double figures everywhere. I6 marvel nights with double figures everywhere. 16 for manchester and cardiff as well. Saturday starts on a mild note. Generally for the weekend we will have been coming from a long way south. Weather fronts not far from the north west of the uk but by and large a lot of dry weather. It is going to be mild given it is coming from the south. Where we see sunshine this week and pppin9 where we see sunshine this week and popping through the clouds we could see temperatures as high as 23 degrees, way warmer than it should be at this time of year. Saturday sta rts be at this time of year. Saturday starts on a cloudy night with spots of rain around across Northern England. The weather becoming dry. It will be dry in Northern Ireland. The rain set in the western scotland. Temperatures in the low 20s where we see sunny spells. A better chance of seeing some of the sunny breaks across eastern areas of england through sunday. Cooler in the north west of the uk with a band of rain. Beyond that we have to look down to the south at hurricane ophelia. Here it is. It is going to pass to the east of the azores on the weekend. On sunday it wont be a hurricane. The jet stream will turn into a strong area of low pressure coming to the british isles. It is uncertain whether it will go to the west. It could go across the uk. This is a storm to watch. Although it wont be a hurricane by the time it wont be a hurricane by the time it reaches us on monday, it could still bring a very stormy, potentially disruptive spell of weather. Uncertain, but you must stay in touch with the Weather Forecast over the next few days because of this storm could turn out to bea because of this storm could turn out to be a really nasty one. Thats your weather. This is newsday on the bbc. Im rico hizon in singapore. The headlines. Police in the us and the uk launch investigations into Sexual Assault claims against Harvey Weinstein. In an interview with the bbc, Emma Thompson takes the movie mogul to that task. This man is at the top of a particular iceberg. I dont think you could describe him as a sex addict, he is a predator. Held hostage for five years by the taliban, a north American Family is freed. Hello. From london, we go inside the huge rehab centre in the philippines where the government