A nakedly political put up job downing street reacts angrily as borisjohnson is referred to the Police Watchdog over his links to an american businesswoman when he was mayor of london. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn pledges to scrap the universal credit welfare scheme. The heat dominates at the world athletics championships. Kenyas Ruth Chepngetich wins the womens marathon but nearly half the field pull out. Good morning. A very unsettled weekend ahead. Whilst there is some sunshine in the forecast, theres also heavy rain and some strong winds. All of the details in the next half an hour. Its saturday the 28th of september. Good morning, everybody. Our top story downing street has reacted angrily after Boris Johnson was referred to the Police Watchdog over his friendship with an american businesswoman. The independent office for Police Conduct will look at whether a criminal investigation should be launched into allegations thatJennifer Arcuri was given favourable treatment, including financial grants, when mrjohnson was mayor of london. Our Home Affairs CorrespondentDaniel Sandford reports. Come to london. Build your businesses here. The mayor of london supports you. The american tech entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri received £11,500 sponsorship for events run by her company innotech from organisations linked to borisjohnsons office while he was mayor of london. He then went on three overseas trade missions with borisjohnson all of which shed originally been turned down for. She then went on three overseas trade missions with borisjohnson all of which shed originally been turned down for. The bbc has spoken to several people who were on the trips. They said Jennifer Arcuri seemed out of place, as her companies were less substantial than those of other participants. Borisjohnsons office intervened to make sure that she got on one of the trips to tel aviv, though she paid her own way. I like it its brilliant the allegations of Improper Conduct were originally made in the sunday times and have been looked at by the Greater LondonAuthority Monitoring officer this week. Shes now decided to ask the Police Watchdog, the independent office for Police Conduct, to assess whether borisjohnson should be investigated for the criminal offence of misconduct in public office. The iopc are involved because, as mayor of london, borisjohnson was also in charge of londons metropolitan police. The Prime Minister has vigorously denied the allegations. A senior government source said the referral to the iopc was a na kedly political put up job. Daniel sandford, bbc news. Labour is promising to scrap the controversial benefits system universal credit if it wins the next general election. Party Leaderjeremy Corbyn will say today that welfare reforms introduced under the conservatives were inhumane and cruel. Andy moore reports. Jeremy corbyn enjoying a kick about with the hawks heroes a scheme in brighton aiming to improve the physical and mental well being of men over 30. This morning, the well being of everyone on universal credit will be at the top of his agenda. Hell say the government scheme is behind schedule and over budget, as well as being inhumane and cruel. We are going to be scrapping universal credit and were going to be replacing it with a Social Security system that has respect at its heart and that tackles poverty, because everywhere universal credits been rolled out, weve seen very serious problems. Weve seen people going into debt, people going into rent arrears, some people even facing eviction as a result of it. We think the system really is too flawed and it has to be scrapped. More than 1. 5 Million People receive universal credit. Its designed to combine several old benefits into one means tested payment. Labour hasnt announced details of an alternative scheme, but its immediate emergency reforms would include ending the 5 week waiting period, scrapping the two child limit, and dropping the benefit cap. Difficulties involving rolling out universal credit were acknowledged by the former work and pensions secretary earlier this year. I know that there are problems with universal credit, despite its good intentions. Ive seen them for myself. I will be listening and learning from the expert groups in this area who do such good work. I know it can be better. But the government says Jeremy Corbyns plans to scrap universal credit entirely are totally irresponsible and reckless political point scoring. Some charities have welcomed the labour plan. But others are worried about yet more upheaval for families on benefits. Andy moore, bbc news. Another political story for you as well this morning. The Brexit Party Leader nigel farage has warned the Prime Minister not to return from brussels with, in his words, a reheated version of theresa mays deal. Mrs mays deal was rejected three times by mps. Speaking at a brexit conference in london, mr farage said the conservatives will lose votes to his party if people think the same deal is being offered. Ill tell you this, mrjohnson, mrcummings. If you think if you think and if you do get this through, that you can sell this as brexit, youre in for a big surprise. The british people wont swallow it. If they realise nothing has changed, they will not put up with it and you will lose votes to us in absolutely huge numbers. Heed that warning, please cheering and applause the us secretary of state mike pompeo has been ordered by democrats to turn over documents relating to the Trump Administrations dealings with ukraine. They want to impeach President Trump over allegations that he put pressure on his ukrainian counterpart to investigate joe biden, mr trumps likely opponent in next years president ial election. With more, heres our north america correspondent david willis. Democrats in the us house of representatives have issued their first subpoena in the impeachment investigation into President Trump. It was issued to the us secretary of state mike pompeo, and he has been called upon to come up with any documentation regarding a telephone conversation injuly of this year between President Trump and his opposite number in ukraine, mr zelensky. Now, that controversial telephone conversation appeared to involve President Trump putting pressure on his opposite number to come up with compromising information about mr trumps democratic rival joe biden. Now, at the time of the call, the white house was sitting on some 400 million in aid money that was earmarked to be paid to ukraine, but had not been. So as well as that, they are calling on five members of the state Department Staff senior people to testify before them, one of whom promptly resigned on the news. That man is kurt volker. He was the us special envoy to the ukraine, and he was criticised in a whistleblowers report that was released this week for brokering meetings between Donald Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and members of the ukrainian government. So the Trump Administration now has a choice either co operate with these democratic demands, or refuse to do so and potentially find themselves the subject of an article of impeachment relating to obstruction of congress. Protestors are gathering in hong kong to mark the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the so called umbrella protests. The movement has resurfaced this year with demonstrators expected to disrupt traffic outside hong kong airport. We can now go to our china correspondent, stephen mcdonnell, who is live in hong kong for us. Very good morning to you, four days of action planned and we know that in the past few months have seen protest overspill into violence. What is the atmosphere like today . Five years ago today, there was a mass sitting in the heart of hong kong and became known as the umbrella movement, a failed attempt to deliver universal suffrage in the city. Now, months it went on for and then wound up and people thought that was that. Fast forward to 2019, the same demands are being made, again, it has been led by the students, but we have seen a much more violent situation with his clashes on the streets. There is going to be a rally tonight marking this anniversary but really what tonights rally, what all the protests planned for tomorrow, what the next several days of politics in hong kong are all about is with leading up to another big anniversary on tuesday the 70th anniversary on tuesday the 70th anniversary of the communist party coming to power in china. Now, ageing wants that date to be a big celebration of everything that is great about china as it is now beijing wants. And protesters here are determined to crush the party. They are rallying all of their supporters and on the other hand we also have the so called probate gene camp which have promised to come out into the street to defend the flag, as they are calling it, into the street to defend the flag, as they are calling it, pro beijing camp. So we are set for a pretty tense few days here in hong kong. Thank you, stephen. Theres been reports of an explosion near a polling station in the afghan city of kandahar as voting gets under way in the countrys president ial election. Tens of thousands of Afghan Forces were deployed across the country to counter taliban militants, who had vowed to target polling stations. A number of people were reportedly injured in the blast. More information on that as the morning goes on. Older people who will have buy their tv licences from nextjune are likely to be targeted by fraudsters, according to the charity age uk. Nearly 4 million more elderly households will be required to buy a licence next year after the bbc announced that free licences for the over 75s will be means tested. The charity estimates that more than £300,000 could be scammed by fraudsters posing as tv licensing authorities. So we know that 18,000 people fall victim to this scam every year and because over 75 have not paid a tv licence, sometimes for many years, we know that they may be more likely to fall the mto this scam is that we predict potentially a 13 increase in the number of People Living money to this scam and that concerns us because there are a lot of very Vulnerable People in the age group of the over the broadcasting regulator ofcom is to investigate the way the bbc has handled a complaint about breakfasts Naga Munchetty. She was speaking on this programme after President Trump called for four non white congresswomen to go back to their countries. The bbc said naga was entitled to comment about her own experience of racism, but she should not have speculated about the president s motives as that breached impartiality. The bbcs david jordan explained the decision. Unfortunately towards the end of the discussion, she did sort of venture into speculating about what President Trumps motives might have been in making the comments that he made. Theres no doubt that the comment he made is racist. To say to anybody from a Minority Ethnic Community, from an immigrant community that they should go back to where they came from is just ignorant prejudice and is racism, and she was right to identify it as such. So theres no doubt that the comment was racist. But what she then went on to speculate about, together with dan walker later in the conversation, was what was motivating that . Was it being done for to attract attention or for some other reason . And you can watch the full interview with david jordan on newswatch here on bbc one at 7 45 this morning. Prince harry has said that visiting the most famous site of his late mothers anti landmine campaigning was an emotional experience. He was speaking after walking through a partially cleared landmine field in angola, just as diana princess of wales did in 1997, shortly before her death. The prince also visited the exact site of where diana walked, which is now a busy, built up community. It looks so different and it is com pletely it looks so different and it is completely transformed, what, 22 yea rs completely transformed, what, 22 years on. I cannot imagine how emotional that must have been for him. And if you like to back a horse at short odds, this could be the race for you. There they go do not adjust your set you cannot even see over the rails the annual Shetland Pony grand national took place at newmarket yesterday. How cute is that . 13 riders, who had to be aged between nine and 13 and under five feet tall, raced over 2. 5furlongs thats four miles shorter than the full sized race at aintree. Between nine and 13, that is the children, not the horses bless them do not adjust your shetland ponies 12 year old zac kent won by a nose, which must have left the other riders feeling rather low. Ba boom the conservative Party Conference gets under way this weekend in manchester with a raft of Animal Welfare pledges, including the compulsory microchipping of pet cats. The gathering comes after a week of turmoil in westminster over brexit and questions being asked about the language used by mps. Werejoined now from our london newsroom by the environment secretary, theresa villiers. Good morning to you. Thanks for joining us. You want to talk about Animal Welfare and we will talk about that in a moment. But there is an elephant in the room at the same time. This announcement overnight that the Police Watchdog in london is looking at whether to investigate the Prime Minister over his relationship with this american businesswoman when he was mayor of london. What did you think when you heard about this . Is it oh, no, another thing . It isjust such an obviously politicised complaint. The Prime Minister has said all proprieties happen in the normal way. I think it is not a story. The conservative today are announcing significant measures to improve the welfare of animals. Those are the kind of issues that i think people wa nt kind of issues that i think people want politicians to be grappling with, rather than this knockabout stuff and allegations about what boris did as mayor of london. He was a great mayor of london and they really think this story is overblown. They really dont think there is an issue there. It is now being investigated, or the allegations are being looked into to see if there is a case to be investigated. It is clearly quite a long process. Picking up what you said about this being politically motivated. This decision has been made by an independent watchdog. It has not been made by political opponents. So it is hard to call it a political decision. Well, certainly, this is being politically driven, it is politically motivated and the Prime Minister has been clear that proprieties were observed. I really think there are so observed. I really think there are so many observed. I really think there are so many more observed. I really think there are so many more important issues like putting more police on our streets, increasing funding for schools, all of these things are the kind of issues that my constituents and the general public want us to focus on. They just dont general public want us to focus on. Theyjust dont believe that this complaint is the issue its being made out to be in the media this morning. And it is notjust this complaint, is it . We will find out in time if there is anything to it. These are just allegations at the moment. But there is a narrative here, there is an issue of trust, an issue of character which just seems to keep coming up again and again when borisjohnson to keep coming up again and again when Boris Johnson is to keep coming up again and again when borisjohnson is concerned. And thats not sustainable, is it . Surely gets to a point where that can carry on. The Prime Ministers character is someone whos determined to get on with brexit so we can bring the country back together, bridge divisions, and also do even more than we doing at the moment on the kind of issues that ive been talking about stop the strong domestic agenda that our Prime Minister has got to tackle crime, extend and increase the capacity of our nhs so we can care for the elderly, and to ensure that all children get the best education in great schools. These are all about the character of our Prime Minister and what he is determined to achieve for our country and take it towards a brighter future. Your domestic agenda, the Domestic Animals agenda, is what you are talking about this morning, about microchipping cats and that kind of thing. People will think it is slightly odd, perhaps, that the conservative party is heralding policies on the kind of matter when there is a much bigger issue about brexit that people just want sorted. Is there not a conflict . No, because we are doing both. We are absolutely preparing with determination for exit day. We are doing everything we can to get brexit done. But Animal Welfare is crucial for a compassionate society, a civilised society. And what we are proposing today in terms of live exports, trophy hunting, primates, and cat microchipping, all of that will help improve the welfare of animals and they know that, you know, my inbox, my post bag is full of people asking us my post bag is full of people asking us to take this kind of action. People have been campaigning for an end to live exports for slaughter for 30 years and what i have announced today takes us a big step closer to seeing a more or less com plete closer to seeing a more or less complete and to that trade. Some people, im sure, will be watching that saying thats great, these are important issues that need to be tackled, but there will be others, have no doubt, who think it is a bit rich for Boris Johnsons party to be talking about compassion this week when some of the language has been using, not about animals, but his fellow politicians has been. What chalets say. So controversial. Again, there is a conflict between what youre to set as the political agenda and what many people interpret as the political reality right now what chalets say . dont right now what chalets say . |j dont believe there is a conflict. The debate was, there were strongly expressed views in that debate. But the Prime Minister is absolutely clear, as are all of us, that there is no place for threats to mps. It is no place for threats to mps. It is utterly disgraceful when those threats are made. In no way was there any suggestion that those threats were justified. The there any suggestion that those threats werejustified. The Prime Minister does describe the ben act on brexit. Minister does describe the ben act on brexit. It is minister does describe the ben act on brexit. It is one minister does describe the ben act on brexit. It is one thing calling ita on brexit. It is one thing calling it a deeply flawed piece of legislation. It is the surrender act, the use of the word surrender that people have a problem with. Are you happy with it . Would you call it a surrender act . Ijust did. It tends to completely cut the ground from under ourfeet tends to completely cut the ground from under our feet in terms of negotiations. Address require our prime to accept an extension on whatever terms are dictated by the eu. Soi whatever terms are dictated by the eu. So i think that is a reasonable description of this piece of legislation. Theresa villiers, environment secretary. Thank you for joining us breakfast this morning. It is 20 past seven. Heres alina with a look at this mornings weather. A very good morning to you. Good morning. A lot of us are seeing some very heavy rain through this week. More to come through this weekend. The heaviest of which probably through this evening and overnight. Met Office Warnings for the heavy rain. Gales as well. All of this combined could bring some disruption to travel. We are keeping an eye on this area of cloud in the atlantic. Approaching from the south west. This will bring the heaviest of the rain and strongest winds later on today and then overnight. Head of this we have an area of low pressure generating when across scotland, Northern Ireland, northern england. And in the heavy rain sets in through the evening. This is what has been happening over the last few hours. Justin ran across eastern scotland, northern england, to the south we are seeing showery outbreaks of rain. This will tend to clear away eastwards through the morning. It may take its time to clear from the east coast of scotland. Much of england and wales a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. Same for Northern Ireland and scotland. More showery redeveloping across north wales in the middle through the afternoon. The heavy rain approaching from the south west letter on this afternoon. Quite breezy if not windy day. The winds will be strengthening all the while from the south west. Temperature wise, the mid to high teens for most, but still on the cool side across northern scotland. Here is the area of low pressure. Through the evening and overnight bringing heavy rain across South West England and wales initially then working north and eastwards. It is falling onto already saturated ground. There could be issues with flooding. Not just the rain but the strength of the windless well, gusts reaching up to 50 mph for southern and western coasts. A0 mph for some inland areas as well. A mild note for most of us. Through tomorrow morning we have some heavy rain becoming increasingly patchy as it works across midlands and northern england. Once again a day of sunny spells and showers. Not many showers for Northern Ireland. The rain will be easing across the northern parts of england. That rain may be slow to clear some. We have some strong wind through tomorrow evening across central southern england and the eastern side of england as well where there could be touching a0 50 mph fora where there could be touching a0 50 mph for a time. Very strong winds. Although a respite on monday morning, dry was spells of sunshine. Look whats waiting in the winds. Another area of low pressure putting from the atlantic. While we will start the new chinese will turn wet and windy once again. If you are looking for something drier and brighter, wednesday and thursday we will start the new week with whether that turns. Definitely central heating weather. My husband would disagree thank you. Last year a look for a combination lock for the boiler, for the thermostat. November. November it must be warm up november. November it must be warm up where you live. It is warmer where you live. That is true. Lets take a look at todays papers. The mirror leads on the story that ministers are urgently considering a ban on the import of souvenirs from trophy hunting safaris. Online opioids scandal is the headline for the times main story. An investigation by the newspaper found Online Pharmacies prescribing dangerous painkillers without consulting gps. The daily mails lead story reports controversy over the bbcs ruling that brea kfasts Naga Munchetty breached its editorial guidelines when discussing a tweet by President Trump. This and the guardian front cover has the same story. The newspaper reports of a staff revolt and growing anger over the way the issue has been handled by the bbc. The paper also reveals the return of political satire tv show, spitting image. Thatis that is the picture at the bottom. In the sun today, not content with being the number one most downloaded artist anywhere, ensuring his taking up artist anywhere, ensuring his taking up painting. They are pretty good. Ed up painting. They are pretty good. Ed sheeran. It is Jackson Pollock inspired. There he is in his studio. What has he got on his feet . they look like. They look like a couple of cats. Not on his feet. A little kitten with its tail in the air. I hope has been microchipped m kitten with its tail in the air. I hope has been microchipped it is when people put supermarket carry bags over their shoes to protect it. As an offering those shoes. Multi , multi, multimillionaire artist and still protecting his shoes. That is good. 26 minutes past seven. Washington was abuzz this week when the Democratic Party launched impeachment proceedings against President Trump. They want him removed from office over allegations that he put pressure on the ukrainian president to investigatejoe biden mr trumps likely opponent in next years president ial election. But how important is this issue to voters outside the us capital . James cook has been to the crucial swing state of pennsylvania to find out. Donald trumps ruutu the white house wran through the mid west. Route. His promise to make the rust belt shine again was critical in 2016. And how as albanians feel about the president now could determine his chances of re election. So what do voters hear think of mr trump asking ukraines leader to investigate his potential opponent . ukraines leader to investigate his potential opponent . I dont like the idea that trump is asking or trying to get someone else to investigate joe biden. That doesnt seem right. Him being the president , he has permissions and kind of can get away with Different Things that uri would not be able to get away with. I mean, i dont know the actual laws behind it, it just mean, i dont know the actual laws behind it, itjust seems not straightforward or appropriate of a public official. At the heart of this affair is the us relationship with ukraine and at the heart of pittsburghs big ukrainian community, these voters sounds pretty devoted to President Trump. Community, these voters sounds pretty devoted to President Trumplj just think it was probably a normal political conversation and i dont think there was any malicious intent behind it. And thats my opinion. And what youre feeling about why the democrats are now doing what they doing . I think is fully shunned is just another attempt on the part of the democrats to create more pain and turmoil because they lost the last election. For many voters there are more pressing concerns. These americans say the biggest thing at sta ke americans say the biggest thing at stake next year will be immigration and the economy. Hes pushing entrepreneurship as well as individuality. So donald trump my number one pick, probably not. But he is in office but im with him all the way because im american. As you know, he makes it very hard for, how today say, the coloured folks, hispanics, african americans. When we say make it harder, you know some of the laws and policies he is coming outwith, tearing families apart. I think we are getting four more years. Laughter. This will be the year that id go out and vote. Laughter. And the focus here is the election rather than impeachment. An air of scandal fatigue may help the president. Although who knows whats coming down the track . Donald trump really should have a 1 way ticket to re election. The economy is growing, unemployment has been falling, and wages have been raising at last. And, in normal times, thats what americans think about when they decide how to vote. The thing is, these are far from when they decide how to vote. The thing is, these are farfrom normal times in us politics. James cook, bbc news. James cook reporting there. He works on bbc scotland every evening at nine oclock. You can see more stories like that on bbc scotland every weekday evening at nine oclock, or on the bbc iplayer. You have the welder politics in washington and london. It is hard to know how they are tricking down world of politics. Id tell you what we can tell you. We will hello, this is breakfast withjon kay and nina warhurst. Good morning. Heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news. Downing street has reacted angrily after borisjohnson was referred to the Police Watchdog over his friendship with an american businesswoman. The independent office for Police Conduct will look at whether a criminal investigation should be launched into allegations thatJennifer Arcuri was given favourable treatment, including financial grants, when mrjohnson was mayor of london. The Prime Minister denies any wrongdoing. Labour will promise to scrap the welfare system of universal credit if the party wins the next general election. The party Leaderjeremy Corbyn will today condemn the system as an unmitigated disaster which is inhumane and cruel. The government says the proposal is irresponsible. The Brexit Party Leader nigel farage has warned the Prime Minister not to return from brussels with, in his words, a reheated version of theresa mays deal. Mrs mays deal was rejected three times by mps. Speaking at a brexit conference in london, mr farage said the conservatives will lose votes to his party if people think the same deal is being offered. Ill tell you this, mrjohnson, mrcummings. If you think if you think and if you do get this through, that you can sell this as brexit, youre in for a big surprise. The british people wont swallow it. If they realise nothing has changed, they will not put up with it and you will lose votes to us in absolutely huge numbers. Heed that warning, please cheering and applause the us secretary of state mike pompeo has been ordered by democrats to turn over documents relating to the Trump Administrations dealings with ukraine. They want to impeach President Trump over allegations that he put pressure on his ukrainian counterpart to investigate joe biden, mr trumps likely opponent in next years president ial election. Five state Department Employees have been summoned to congress. Theres been reports of an explosion near a polling station in the afghan city of kandahar as voting gets under way in the countrys president ial election. Tens of thousands of Afghan Forces were deployed across the country to counter taliban militants, who had vowed to target polling stations. A number of people were reportedly injured in the blast. Protesters in hong kong will hold a rally later this morning to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the so called umbrella protests. The original series of pro democracy demonstrations took place in 201a with protestors carrying umbrellas to protect themselves from Police Pepper spray. The movement has returned this year, with campaigners expected to gather outside hong kong airport to disrupt traffic later today. More than half of patients with a deadly skin cancer once seen as untreatable have been handed a lifeline, thanks to a revolutionary new treatment doctors will announce today. Just one in 20 patients would survive five years after being diagnosed with late stage melanoma a decade ago, but drugs that harness the bodys immune system mean 52 are living for longer than five years. Experts have hailed the transformation as a huge milestone. James gallagher reports. Pam smith is alive and well but it has been more than five years since she had the devastating news that her cancer was untreatable, and aggressive melanoma had spread inside her body and, she says, she did not stand a chance. But pam took pa rt did not stand a chance. But pam took part ina did not stand a chance. But pam took part in a pioneering trial and says it saved her life. With having those drugs like that, i might not have got to see my grandchildren. So because its just over the five yea rs now because its just over the five years now since it happened and my youngest grandchild is he was six at the weekend so i wouldnt have seen him growing up and the other grandchildren as well. Ten years ago people usually died within 6 nine months of being diagnosed. This trial on patients tested a combination of immunotherapies and showed 52 were still alive five yea rs showed 52 were still alive five years later. The doctor who is presenting the data at a cancer conference said the impact was an amazing surprise. It has been the most extraordinary transformation from a disease that was regarded amongst all the cancers as the most difficult to treat, with the most serious prognosis, too, as you say, the possibility that 50 of people with stage iv melanoma would be alive five years after having immunotherapy alive five years after having immunothera py treatment. Alive five years after having immunotherapy treatment. Pam has not been cured. Her cancer halved in size after treatment and has not grown in five years. Others are in com plete grown in five years. Others are in complete remission with no sign of the tumour in their body. Immunotherapy is Nobel Prize Winning science that is making the untreatable treatable. James gallagher, bbc news. Pensioners across the globe by going head to head in a world cycling championship. In the Nursing Homes staying in their care homes, a virtual experience on stationary bikes. This care home is in iceland. Both pensioners have already cycled 3000 kilometres fantastic. How do you win . Is it who goes the furthest . You collectively notch up the miles . Good on them. It looks like you can go somewhere completely different and it is a really good destruction. Nice to do it has teamwork. Good work that looks fun time now for sport. Other sports of sport sorts of sport with holly. U nfortu nately sport sorts of sport with holly. Unfortunately they cannot do this from home but island have their second game of the Rugby World Cup and it is against their host though, they will not be easy but bearing in mind they have beaten them the last seven games mind they have beaten them the last seven games but ireland. The last seven games but ireland. The last seven times they have met but still, they cannot be underestimated and they cannot be underestimated and the stadium with 52,000 fans, most of them will be japanese fans, arent they . That will be daunting. I think ireland will have some voice. Do reckon . They will have some song. Always, always. Andy swiss is outside the shizuoka stadium for us this morning. Im sure ireland fans are out in force there, but they wont be able to compete with the home support . I think thats right, holly. It is fairto i think thats right, holly. It is fair to say i think thats right, holly. It is fairto sayjapan i think thats right, holly. It is fair to sayjapan is embracing this Rugby World Cup. It has been a sea of cherry and white here outside the stadium. A little bit of green as well but as you say, 50,000 fans here, the vast majority of them will be supporting the host. Japan made a slightly scratchy start to the world cup. They admit Opening Night nerves got to them a little bit, although they eventually beat russia by 30 points to ten. They will be the underdogs for the match but of course, people remember what happened at the last world cup when they pulled off one of the greatest shocks in rugby history. They beat south africa. As for ireland, they will be going into the match as the favourites, particularly after the ruthless for me over scotland. They will be without one of their star players, flyhalfjohnny sexton, but they know if they win the match they will take a big stride towards the quarter finals. Kick off in about a0 minutes here, holly. It should be some atmosphere andy, we expect to see a bit more green in the background next time. Thank you very much lets speak to former Ireland International paddy wallace, whos in belfast. Good morning. It is japan, we have beaten them seven times before . But they cannot be underestimated, can they . You are not facing japan, you are facing the whole nation, their coach said, notjust a rugby team, so it shows howjapan have embraced the competition so far. Every stadium seems to be packed out. Ireland have a lot of support from the local japanese last ireland have a lot of support from the localjapanese last week against scotla nd the localjapanese last week against scotland but i think they will be changing jersey colours this week. Certainly, the home side will be well supported, as you say. |j suppose from the point of view of ireland, it is notjust about winning but winning by a significant margin. These boomers points are proving very important at this early stage . Joe smith willjust want to get the victory first and foremost andi get the victory first and foremost and i think at this stage of the competition, he is hoping for a clea n competition, he is hoping for a clean sheet in terms of injuries. I think he is wrapped johnny sexton, who is such a key component for the irish team in a bit of cotton wool with the eyes on the quarter finals already. But he is confident injack hardy, his replacement, to come in and joey carbery coming in off the bench to cover the half as well and i think they will both get plenty of game time against the japanese to see who the best option is to back any sexton up. I suppose it shows joe schmidts confidence. Another man on the pitch today, rory best, it was the option to rest him but he will be there with his 100th international. What an achievement cap. Rory came into the tournament under a lot of pressure. He produced one of his best performances in a greenjersey last week against scotland, the foundations were built up front with the set piece, with the maul and the ferocity at rack time and they would wa nt ferocity at rack time and they would want a repeat of that against the japanese. Ruck time. He will be aiming to take, you know, put his stamp on the japanese forwards, makes life a lot easier for the backs as you set against scotland. Inking back to last weekend and the victory over scotland, based on their performance so so far, how do you think they have gone . They had a lot of pressure because they did not really perform in the warmup games or the six nations and they have created some momentum for themselves and are showing signs of that year in 2018 when they beat the all blacks and did the grand slam, that is the kind of form and they are executing very clinically and making a lot of m ista kes clinically and making a lot of mistakes and as i said, yes it pitch their set piece was dominant. They are getting to play most of the players in the squad, i think will be perhaps 29 or 30 of the whole squad will have game time by the end of the japanese game, which is great ina of the japanese game, which is great in a world cup setting. You know, the great matches, the tough matches are these first two games, scotland andjapan, and are these first two games, scotland and japan, and the two weaker nations, in the group. They can you know, rotate the squad and get eve ryo ne know, rotate the squad and get everyone playing and hopefully prepare for a quarterfinal perhaps against south africa which would be against south africa which would be a huge encounter. We will leave you for now, let you go and get yourself a bacon roll and a cup of coffee before the game which kicks off in 35 minutes. One game has already finished, argentina scored the bonus points against tonga, 28 12. Moving on from japan to somewhere a little bit hotter to the athletics world championships, where the womens marathon started at midnight local time but with temperatures of 32 degrees celsius and humidity reaching over 70 . 28 of the 68 starters withdrew in the gruelling condition briton Charlotte Purdue among them. Organisers decided to go ahead with the race, where kenyas Ruth Chepngetich went on to win in in two hours, 32 minutes, a3 seconds thats 15 minutes slower than the world record. It wasnt just the marathon that was affected. This isjonathan busby of aruba. He was competing in the mens 5,000 metre heats and he was in serious trouble. Helping him across the line was braima dabo of guinea bissau. Busby was ok in the end he even had time to stop his watch so how are the british athletes faring in these conditions . Well, so far so good for Shelayna Oskan Clarke and alexandra bell, who are into todays semifinals of the womens 800m. But there was huge disappointment for the former european champion lynsey sharp, who failed to qualify. She finished fourth. The top three went through and she wasnt quick enough to get a fastest loser spot. Sharp had been touted as a medal contender in a depleted field this year in the absence of the defending champion caster semenya. She would be really disappointed with that performance. To rugby league, where st helens are through to their First Super League grand final for five years after thrashing wigan a0 10. St helens, who won the League Leaders shield, were all over the reigning champions wigan. Mark percival took the game beyond wigan with two tries. The warriors will another chance to make the grand final when they play salford next week. But for saints, the celebrations could begin. Britains nicola adams has retained her wbo world flyweight title after a split decision draw in her historic fight against maria salinas. After becoming the first female boxers to fight at the royal albert hall, the pair were closely matched. Afterwards, the two time olympic champion admitted she was a bit ring rusty after a year out and offered the mexican a rematch. It was great to see her back in action again. That smile that smile more of that winning ways. Action again. That smile that smile more of that winning wayslj cannot get my head around that extreme heat in which to run a marathon on crosstalk we are still talking about it, 35 degrees, even having that at midnight and in the stadium as well we have a huge amount of air conditioning but for the athletes it is difficult from coming from the extreme heat into those air conditioned type. Coming from the extreme heat into those air conditioned type. M coming from the extreme heat into those airconditioned type. It is not ideal, is it . Should we look at something a bit more comfortable . More bearable temperatures . Good morning. No extreme temperatures across the uk this weekend. Potentially some very turbulent weather. Warrane to come. Gales in places. That could bring travel disruption particularly across england and wales. It is down to this massive cloud heading its way towards us. That will develop some heavy rain, strong winds through this evening and overnight. Ahead of this evening and overnight. Ahead of this we have low pressure in charge, which is bringing showers come spells of rain this morning, particularly across the eastern side of scotla nd particularly across the eastern side of scotland and northern england. This will be tending to pull away over the next few hours. It may take time to clearfrom over the next few hours. It may take time to clear from the far eastern coast of scotland. Elsewhere we have a scattering of showers. We will keep those across wales, South West England, not a bad day across Northern Ireland, the western side of scotland, and eventually down into southern scotland as the showers clear. See some opposition showers, showery rain across north wales and the midlands in the afternoon before heavy rain moves into South West England in south wales. A breezy if not windy day, particularly across england and wales. Winds strengthening all the time. Temperatures, mid to high teens. Cool the northern scotland. There is the area of low pressure pushing north and eastwards through this evening and overnight. The northern accent takes us into the far noth of england, maybe southern scotland. Rain falling on saturated ground, because issues with flooding and strong winds. The strongest of which across england and wales where they could touch 50 mph in places. Asa mild they could touch 50 mph in places. As a mild night. Temperatures across central and southern england not much lower than 1a or 15. It would start of the day tomorrow, bleakly across the midlands, northern england. Slowly the smell of rain associated with the low pressure will pull away. To the north and south of this is a mainly dry day with a scattering of showers. Still some strong winds as this area of low pressure starts to put eastwards. The winds will be strengthening and eventually starting to turn more northerly as well. The filling day across scotland, Northern Ireland, northern england. Called a feeling day. Notice the squeeze on the high suppose. Really windy conditions track eastwards late on sunday. We could still see the gusts touching 1a15 could still see the gusts touching 1a 15 mph, particularly for channel coasts. The area of low pressure also weighs with through monday morning. Behind the winds are lighter, things are dry for a time another area of low press approaching from the atlantic as we go through monday. Still an u nsettled go through monday. Still an unsettled theme through monday and tuesday pressure. Something quieted through the middle part of the week but it will go hand in hand with something much cooler. Stop so not looking too bright for the conservative Party Conference in manchester. But we have been wanted to get our layers on for that. Would you run a marathon in that . to get our layers on for that. Would you run a marathon in that . I can runa you run a marathon in that . I can run a marathon in any weather. wouldnt. Well be back with the headlines at 8 00. Now on breakfast its time for newswatch. Hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. A public backlash after the bbc upholds a complaint against breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty over comments about racism. Who was wrong . In a week of anger and arguments at westminster, a row has been developing too here at the bbc. Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty has been found by the corporations executive complaints unit to have breached bbc guidelines in comments she made on air injuly. They were part of a conversation initiated by co presenter dan walker after President Trump had told four democratic congresswomen to go back to the places from which they came. I tell you. It is, it is the president. That was the most telling quote for me last night. I cant remember who said, but she said, ive been told to go home times, to go back to where she came from. She is being told by the man sitting in the oval office. Every time i have been told, as he woman of colour, to go back to where i came from, that was embedded in racism. Now, im not accusing anyone of anything here, but you know what certain phrases mean. You still hear that quite regularly . Not regularly, but ive been told every so often. You are sitting here not giving an opinion, but how do you feel as someone who has been told that before. Furious, absolutely furious. I can imagine that lots of people in this country will be feeling absolutely furious that a man in that position feels it is ok to skirt the lines with using language like that. Do you feel that his use of that, because that is the point i was trying to make, then legitimises other people to use that . And as our guest was saying there, it feels like a thought out strategy to strengthen his position. And its not enough to do it just to get attention. He is in a responsible position. Look, i am not here to give my opinion. Although bbc breakfast posted and promoted that on its twitter feed, one person pursued that to the executive complaints committee, the final arbiter of complaints in house at the bbc. They ruled that the bbc added but the emergence of that decision on wednesday unleashed an angry response from politicians, otherjournalists inside and outside the bbc, and also from members of the audience. A twitter called joyously elly user posted this lynne roach agreed other viewers echoed those thoughts, withjonathan bye writing well, to discuss this, i am joined now by david jordan, the bbcs director of editorial policy and standards. Thank you for coming on newswatch. Is it now ok for news presenters to talk about personal opinions in discussing these stories . It shouldnt be ok to talk about personal opinions, but it should be ok to talk about personal experience. I want to make it clear that what Naga Munchetty did when she responded to the questions she was asked and suggested that the statement that had been made had been a racist statement, and her response as a person who has had that kind of horrible things said to her in her lifetime, was completely ok, and the executive complaints unit which came to this finding had no objection to either of those statements. So those people who have interpreted this finding as somehow ruling out either of those two things are wrong, and those people who have interpreted the statement suggesting the bbc is impartial on racism are also wrong. Thatjust isnt the case. Some viewers, as you heard in those e mails, said, why is Naga Munchetty being singled out for censure when many older white male presenters arent . Its not a good look for the bbc. I dont think we singled anybody out but i am afraid that the executive complaints unit deals with the complaints it gets. Some people say why isnt dan walker being singled out or mentioned in the same way as Naga Munchetty . The symbol fact is that we havent had a complaint about dan walkers role. The complainant didnt mention dan walker at all . There were quite a lot of complaints at the time it was made. A lot of people disagreed with your audience members about what she said at the time. Only one of those, as you correctly said, made its way to the executive complaints unit. Then theyre obliged to deal with a complaint they have and not complaints they might like to have or other complaints that might be available. Thats what they did in this instance. One might wonder how they came to their decision, because could they not look at the context . Even if the complaint was just about Naga Munchetty, youre saying the complainant didnt mention dan walker at all, can they not look at the fact he initiated the conversation . There is a mention of dan walker in the finding that they have put together in the letter to the complainant. And it does indicate that dan walkers contribution was not shall we say helpful in the conversation. Dan walker led Naga Munchetty to the conclusion is that she eventually made, including the statement by naga herself that she was voicing personal opinions and should stop. So it is a more complex and nuanced situation and some of the people who have reacted to the headlines in the newspapers and other and elsewhere have appreciated. Whats puzzling some viewers as well is that Naga Munchetty specifically said in the clip was that she specifically wasnt accusing anyone of anything. How did the bbc come to the conclusion that somehow her comments crossed a line and it seems to be accusing trump . She said that at the outset but, unfortunately, toward the end of the discussion, she eventually ventured into speculating about what President Trumps motives might have been in making the comments that he made. There is no doubt that the comment he made made is racist, to say to anybody from a Minority Ethnic Community orfrom an immigrant community that they should go back to where they came from is just ignorant prejudice and is racism. And she was right to identify it as such. So therel no doubt that the comment was racist, but what she then went on to say together with dan walker later in the conversation was what was motivating that. Was it being done to attract attention or for some other reason. That was one of the things she suggested. Dan walker, his first comments did specifically bring up President Trump and his possible motivation. So again, i think some viewers are puzzled as to why the complaints unit has chosen to leave him out of their assessment. Only because Naga Munchettys contribution was what was complained about, not dan walkers. But the question is. But they did actually mention dan walker in their findings. So they did nod in the direction that you are suggesting by indicating that his role perhaps wasnt as helpful as it might have been. Is that enough, or should the bbcs complaints unit have actually chosen actively to look at dan walkers role in it rather than going with what the complainants raised . At the moment, under the rules it operates, available to anyone to see, under the current rules which are available publicly, that isnt possible. Could you tell us a bit about the process that the executive complaints unit would have used in analysing this debate . Did they interview anyone or get any Expert Opinion or talk to any of those involved . They have been in contact with news, who act on behalf of all of their presenters and reporters if there is a complaint that is being entertained by the executive complaints unit. And talk to them about it and i think they have been in touch through news with Naga Munchetty herself about the finding. So they talk to those people. But what theyre doing, and its an objective process, what theyre doing is they are looking at whether or not what was done matches the requirements of our editorial guidelines. So that is the process they go through and require us to call in independent experts because if we are expert on our own editorial guidelines, then what are we . That is the process they go through and they arrive at as independent a judgement as they can to whether that has been fulfilled. A number of prominent broadcasters and viewers like lenny henry and former presenter pat young have publicly said that the bbc has got this badly wrong. Will you reconsider the decision to uphold this complaint . I dont think in a lot of the comment that i have seen, unfortunately, that people are focusing on the whole of thejudgement. Theyre focusing on an idea that Naga Munchetty has not been allowed to make a statement about the racist nature of the comment that was made and not been allowed to talk about her personal experience of having had that kind of comment made to her. And her hurt and her anger, and thats. This complaint in the guardian was that the whole decision was wrong and that the bbc should reconsider it. I have read it, and unfortunately, there still seems to be confusing things, for example, to be suggesting that the bbc is impartial on the issue of racism, which is simply not true. Our values, our impartiality values are not value free, they do encompass freedom of expression, they do encompass democratic rights, the right, the rule of law. And so on and so forth. You cant have those if you have a society based on racism and excluding some voices on the basis of race. So our impartiality is not value free and we are not impartial on the issue of racism. David jordan, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all of your comments this week. Please get in touch with your opinions about what you see on bbc tv news online or bbc social media. You may even get to appear on the programme. You can e mail newswatch bbc. Co. Uk or find us on twitter newswatchbbc. You can call us. And if you have a look at our website. Thats all from us. Im away next week but Rebecca Jones will be here at the normal time with more of your thoughts about bbc news coverage. Goodbye. Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with jon kay and nina warhurst. Our headlines today a nakedly political put up job. Downing street reacts angrily