Well, after yesterdays washout, the weekend is looking a bit more promising. Sunshine and showers, but quite windy at times too. Its saturday, 17th august. Our top story detectives investigating the killing of a Police Officer in berkshire have sealed off a nearby caravan site. Pc Andrew Harper, who only got married four weeks ago, died after he was dragged along by a vehicle as he was attending reports of a burglary. Our correspondent ben ando has the latest. Roughly three miles from the crossroads where pc Andrew Harper lost his life, caravans behind a fence at a site now linked to the investigation into his death. Ten people are in custody and are likely to face questioning today. All male, ranging in age from 30 down to 13. Pc harper died near the a4 between reading and newbury in berkshire. He was responding to reports of a burglary when he was apparently struck by a vehicle and dragged beneath the wheels. Some reports suggest he was subsequently hit by a police car arriving at the scene. His chief constable says andrew will be missed as a friend, colleague and a fine officer. We deal with a number of Challenging Police environments, we have experienced Police Officers on that team. He was well regarded, and is a significant loss to the force and also to his colleagues and friends. Pc harper was married just four weeks ago. He and his bride were about to go on their honeymoon. He is the first policeman to die in the line of duty since an officer was stabbed at the houses of parliament two years ago. Flags were flown at half mast yesterday at Thames Valley police stations. Today, pc harpers colleagues will resume their investigation into how a routine call to a seemingly petty crime turned to tragedy. Just after 8 00 this morning well speak to Deputy Police and crime comissioner for Thames Valley police. Labour has warned that high streets are facing a retail apocalypse and has announced proposals to tackle the number of empty shops. Jeremy corbyn has promised to give Councils Powers to reopen shops that have been left vacant for more than a year. Its estimated that 29,000 shops have been vacant for more than 12 months. A postmortem examination has determined that the death of the disgraced us financier Jeffrey Epstein was suicide. The chief medical Examiners Office said that epstein, who was found dead in his cell in manhattan a week ago, had hanged himself. 0ur washington correspondent Chris Buckler has more. A postmortem was carried out last weekend. The details were not immediately released, which led to a flurry of stories and speculation in the us media. The Washington Post at one stage reported that one of the bones broken inJeffrey Epsteins neck was more consistent with the case of somebody being strangled than a case of hanging. However, that is not always true in cases of older men, and the new york medical Examiners Office say that having looked at the results, they are convinced and have determined that he died as a result of a suicide. However, there are still many questions about the circumstances of his death. Particularly about irregularities at the prison itself, and also questions about why he was taken off suicide watch just days after an earlier attempt to kill himself. The Us Department ofjustice is also pursuing inquiries into some of epsteins associates, whom they believe abused and groomed underage girls. Chinas ambassador to britain has warned therell be military intervention in hong kong should further clashes arise between police the United States has made a last ditch attempt to prevent the release of an Iranian Oil Tanker seized by Royal Marines last month in gibraltar. Ajudge in gibraltar ruled on thursday that the vessel could leave, if assurances were given that the cargo would not be delivered to syria. But now the Usjustice Department has issued a warrant to seize the tanker, which is still at anchor. Police in barbados say there is nothing to suggest that an intruder killed a british woman who died while visiting her family in the west indies. Officials say cctv footage showed that no one entered the building where Natalie Crichlow was staying. A postmortem revealed that her death was caused by infection following serious burns in a fire at the house. Nasa says its planning to send a female astronaut to the moon for the first time. The Us Space Agency says the artemis lunar project will be based in alabama and they will aim to complete the mission by 202a. The estimated cost could be as high as £24 billion. Peter fonda, star of the 1969 cult classic, easy rider has died at the age of 79. His family said he passed away peacefully at his home in los angeles after suffering from lung cancer. 0ur correspondent, peter bowes takes a look back at his career. Easy rider, the counterculture classic. The open road, sex, drugs and rock n roll. The film was written, produced by and starred peter fonda, along with dennis hopper, playing a pair of long haired bikers travelling through the American South west and deep south. It touched a nerve with the countrys youth and the mood of the times. It also spawned a new era in filmmaking, focused on younger generations. It earned peter fonda an oscar nomination for best original screenplay, and catapulted him to start in hollywood. Stardom. Later in his career he was nominated for best actor in the 1997 drama ulees gold, in which he played a florida beekeeper. He won a golden globe for the film. Peter fonda was part of hollywood royalty, the son of the actor henry fonda and younger brother ofjane fonda. Like his father, he was honoured with a style hollywoods walk of fame. Staron. A lasting tribute to the actor, and as news emerged of his death, a place for his fans to remember their hero. In a statement peter fondas family said they were mourning the loss of a sweet and gracious man who had an indomitable spirit and love of life. Jane fonda said he was her sweet hearted baby brother and went out laughing. Chinas ambassador to britain has warned therell be military intervention in hong kong should further clashes arise between police and pro democracy activists. As protests continue on the island today, the local police force say they are capable of maintaining law and order. Werejoined from hong kong by our china correspondent stephen mcdonell. Good morning, stephen. We have been watching the images from where you are for sometime now, and seeing many, are for sometime now, and seeing any are for sometime now, and seeing many, many people joining those marches behind you. Us more . This is a much by teachers, actually. Thousands of teachers have come out in support of their students, participating in the pro democracy movement. In their thousands, they are walking through the streets, and it is very peaceful. Last nights rally in China Gardens which spilt out into the cbd was also very peaceful, and it does seem to be that this weekend there is a big effort by lots of those in the pro democracy account to try to keep some sort of peace on the streets. I think many were shocked by those images we saw at the airport, especially for example a Police Officer being bashed with his own function, having to pull out his own function, having to pull out his Service Revolver to get people to clear away. Truncheon. Because of that, word is spreading on these chat groups to try to calm everything. That doesnt mean everything. That doesnt mean everything will become, this is the first of several rallies today and it could be that we will still see the street clashes which will become ever more violent. It is interesting, this prediction, or warning, really, which came from the ambassador in britain, but there would be intervention from the Central Government of violence continued here. We had an off the record briefing with police on thursday night. They spoke to several journalists. He thursday night. They spoke to severaljournalists. He wrote police headquarters. The police told us, admitted, they were really stretched at one point. Especially with these wildcat strikes from the protesters. When that strike was going on, but widespread strikes, they were 12 different flareups at once to handle. They say they have reorganised their deployment, they have 3000 riot police which they can put out on the streets, and they can 110w put out on the streets, and they can now move in much more quickly. They also say that a have used undercover officers within the ranks of protesters to grab a so called ringleaders or troublemakers, as the police would do. Now, for this reason, they say that there is no need for intervention because they can handle it. We will see what happens in the coming months. Stephen, thank you. Labour has warned that high streets are facing a retail apocalypse and has announced proposals to tackle the number of empty shops. Lets talk to our Political Correspondent tony bonsignore. An interesting time, tony, because just this week we had the retailers coming together and saying they want to see action about empty shops, they say that Business Rates are something which is a big problem for them. What are labours plans in all of this to try to hold back from these empty shops taking over . Yeah, good morning. 0ne these empty shops taking over . Yeah, good morning. One thing everybody can agree with is that there is a problem here, but the high street is suffering in a big way yet again. You can see it over the past year or so. You can see it over the past year or so. What are labour are suggesting today, Jeremy Corbyn is going to be visiting bolton and is going to speu visiting bolton and is going to spell this out in more detail. The idea is that local authorities will be able to take over shops that have been boarded up, but have been va ca nt been boarded up, but have been vacant for 12 months or more. We are talking here about 29,000 odd shops and a position across the country. What labour are saying is, well, local authorities should be able to turn them into new start up firms, for example, or cooperative businesses, or Even Community projects. The idea, they say, is to stop what they are calling this retail apocalypse, this concern at the moment that lots of high streets, lots of town centres, are turning into ghost towns. As you can imagine, the tories are unimpressed. They say what this will actually do is have the opposite effect. They say what you will do is end up scaring off investment, and they will be even more boarded up shops. Theyve got their own plan, the conservatives. It is called the future hi streets fund. Hundreds of millions of pounds up for grabs at the moment, lots of town and city centres across the country bidding for that number. What does this tell us . Ithink for that number. What does this tell us . I think the politics of this are all about those towns up and down the country, many of them feeling like they have been forgotten over the past few years, and i think both parties are making a bid for voters in those towns. On the topic of property, we also have the new chancellor, sajid javid, talking this morning and the Times Newspaper about potential changes to stamp duty when it comes to buying houses. What is he saying . Yeah, an interview today in the Times Newspaper. He is a new chancellor, sajid javid, and everybody is trying to work out what he might do. It looks like he might have to move relatively quickly because we have the possibility of a no deal brexit, and of course the possibility of a general election as well. He was asked about the various things he might do, and one of the issues which inevitably came up or stamp duty. It is a really emotive subject, this, for obvious reasons. What he said was actually pretty noncommittal. He said he is looking at all sorts of things but the Times Newspaper run without today, saying is something the government might look at. Again, what do we take from this . I think it is a government looking very, very closely at the moment at what it can do over the next few months, especially as i say with this growing possibility of either a no deal brexit or a general election. Lots of possible policy options being thrown around at the moment. Tony, thank you. 7 13am. Depending on what you are up to this weekend, you may have your eyes on the weather. The big picture is that it is quite u nsettled the big picture is that it is quite unsettled but the weather is going to be overall better today than it was yesterday. Yesterday was a washout, it was pouring with rain in some parts of the country. This is the weather front which brought that weather yesterday. Notice that the clouds have now pulled away towards the east. We are still under the influence of this really big low pressure system dominating the North Eastern portion of the atlantic, and this low pressure is going to stick around for the whole weekend and even into monday. 0verall, not a huge load of change to the feeling of things out there. Locally, of course, from day to day, it does change a bit. This is what we have this afternoon. Frequent showers and strong winds in western scotland, the north of Northern Ireland as well, but for england and wales today, predominantly sunny. The chance of catching a showers low. Even if you do, it is probably going to be brief. 22 in london and in the high teens in the north. Notice the show is becoming frequent and heavy in scotland and Northern Ireland this evening and overnight. Winds around the coast will be up to gale force 15 miles an hour gusts. Across england and wales the weather is going to be mostly clear. The chance of a few showers appearing during the night and into tomorrow morning. That is pretty much it. Here is that low pressure, i mentioned it will be here all weekend. It is certainly with us tomorrow. For a time there is a chance they could be a little bit of rain early in the morning in the south east, but i think that will be out of the way before most of us are awake. The weather overall, sunshine and showers, cracks of thunder are possible. Gusty winds as well, especially around the coast. England and wales, again, a predominantly sunny day. Actually, across england and wales, but saturday and sunday are not looking bad at all. It doesnt feel like the middle of august, but, you know, to than what it was yesterday, if you dont like the rain. Monday, the low pressure system is still with us, starting to push away, pushing away meaning it is taking its unsettled weather weather. In the wake of it, we still have some showers Northern Ireland and scotland. Again, england and wales not looking bad at all. 21, 16 in the north. At this time of year thatis in the north. At this time of year that is a little disappointing. We would like those temperatures to be a bit higher. The chances are that since next week the weather will be improving and settling down, in the north, i think the risk of showers continues. So thats it. Nothing too glorious on the horizon. And again, it isnt looking to. Do you like it when it is all over the shop, because then we have to listen to you more to prepare for the day . When it is all over the shop the weather is quite easy because you can say it is a mixed bag and cover all the bases. I quite like that. It is when there is uncertainty, that is what i dont like it, when i am not sure. Can you believe he nearly considered putting his heating on yesterday as well . What did he say . He got as far as standing next to the device that changes it. Then he realised the batteries had gone and he couldnt be bothered. But he was close. Youre watching breakfast from bbc news, its 7 16am. Time now for a look at the newspapers. Lets look at the front pages. The daily mail leads with tributes to pc Andrew Harper who was killed after attending reports of a burglary. It has a photo of the officer at his wedding just four weeks ago. The mirror also has a picture of the officer with his wife and says they were planning to go on honeymoon next week. The times also has the couple on its front page, but leads with news of the chancellors radical plan for his first budget. The paper says sajid javid is considering a change to stamp duty which would switch the burden from buyers to sellers. And the Daily Telegraph leads with reports that ken clarke has volunteered to become caretaker Prime Minister to avoid a no deal brexit. It says he has also given his backing to a proposal by the lib dem leaderjo swinson, to lead an emergency government to sort brexit out. Its now 7 17am. We are going to talk about a remarkable sporting event now. A baton representing the lives of those saved by Organ Donation has been travelling the country to mark the beginning of the world transplant games. Yeah. Thousands of athletes, all of whom have received a transplant, are taking part. Kathryn stanczyszyn has more. Craig jones trains every week with his Volleyball Club in leeds but this is a practice with a difference, his final one before coming an international competitor. Lets go hes heading to a sporting event with one criterion, they have to have had a life changing operation. After multiple infections destroyed craigs lungs aged 18, he spent the best part of his 20s house bound on 24 hour oxygen. Spent the best part of his 20s house bound on 24hour oxygen. Nine years later my lung capacity went down to 996 later my lung capacity went down to 9 and the doctors told me that i needed a transplant immediately. 9 and the doctors told me that i needed a transplant immediatel