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A ceremony to mourn the first one to be lost to climate change. 0h, hes gone. And england take wickets as they look to bowl out australia to win the second ashes test. And coming up later, this weeks click looks at whether e scooters are legal, and tests out new fingerprint based contactless cards. Good evening. The Cabinet Office minister michael gove has played down concerns highlighted by leaked government documents that warn of chaos in the event of a no deal brexit. He said significant steps had been taken in the past three weeks to accelerate planning for such a scenario. The documents, seen by the sunday times, warn of shortages of food, fuel and medicines, as well as the return of a hard border in ireland if britain leaves the eu without a deal. But mr gove insisted the papers were old, and examined the worst possible outcomes. Food shortages, fuel shortages, unworkable plans for the irish border, this is a pretty bleak picture . I think its important that we look in context at the document thats appeared in the sunday times today. 0peration yellowhammer is the name that the government has given to planning for absolutely the worst case in the event of a no deal brexit. And its also important to recognise that this is an old document, that since it was published and circulated, the government have taken significant additional steps to ensure that we are prepared to leave on 31st october, deal or no deal. How much can actually have changed since borisjohnson took overfour weeks ago, surely some of this is still realistic . I think its important to recognise that any prudent government will always plan for absolutely the worst case. But its also important to recognise that in the last three weeks, there has been a significant acceleration in what weve been doing, and in the days and weeks to come, well be making sure that everyone in the country is as prepared as they can be. Yes, of course there are challenges in leaving without a deal, but there are also opportunities after 31st october if we have left with a clean break. But there arent any new significant plans for the irish border, so are they still unworkable . It is the case that the uk government have been clear that we will not put up any infrastructure at the border. There is no return to a hard border. We will have a system of very, very limited checks, simply where International Law requires it. So, we are not going to ensure that there are any impediments on the irish border. What the european decides, well, that is a matter for them. That is fine and well but this document suggests that is unworkable . No, it is the case that we can ensure that we will have a system in place that ensures that there is no need for any infrastructure at the border. Of course, we want a deal and we believe that its entirely possible to secure a deal with the European Union by 31st october. One of the things that stands in the way of securing a deal are the actions by some in the house of commons who want to try to frustrate the governments plans for departure on 31st october. The sooner everyone recognises that we are leaving on that day, the quicker we can move to a deal which not only safeguards an open border in Northern Ireland but also safeguards the uks economy and security and in particular safeguards the eus economy and security. That was michael gove speaking. With me is our Political Correspondent mark lobel. We have a reaction on camera from michael gove. Remind us what he is trying to reassure us about. He is confirming that this document that the sunday times received through a leak is genuine. He is trying to clarify that the warnings on it over food trying to clarify that the warnings on it overfood prices going up, shortages of medicines and the like, are out of date. We understand that this document was presented to him, to the new team that borisjohnson brought in about three weeks ago. We are talking about a few weeks out of date for significant issues. They have been hard at work in downing street in the Cabinet Office with daily meetings preparing for no deal, signing contracts with rates to ease the passage of freight and medicine and health care products, but they can only do what they can do in the time, so presumably there isa do in the time, so presumably there is a lot of work to be done. Interestingly, the one problem that money cannot solve is the hard border between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland. We had fighting talk, real politics from michael gove, saying that the uk government does not intend to put any physical checks on the border, what does the eu think about that . All of this is making many mps who wa nt to all of this is making many mps who want to resist a no deal project very unhappy. This is what labour had to say, the shadow security minister. This is not project viewer, this is project reality. What we have seen revealed in the sunday times today sets out that we could be here in 2019 with shortages of food, shortages of fuel, shortages of medicine. Project fear. Quite an extraordinary level of disruption. Boris johnson will be heading to europe, a busy week ahead for him. He insists he wants a deal and will be searching one in europe this week, meeting the leaders of france and germany, the key figures he needs to talk to to find a way through each of their demands. At the moment it is a stand off. He wa nts to the moment it is a stand off. He wants to convince them that negotiations could immediately begin but the eu will be looking at what is playing out with all the confusion over no deal, the disruption in parliament that is expected to happen, and votes of no confidence or legislation potentially coming forward that could delay the date of brexit itself. The eu are leaving britain are leaving britain to it and standing back from all this but to start negotiating late in the day would be difficult if borisjohnson is hoping for a deal. Another Brexit Development is this possible recall of mps to parliament. Remind us of that. Dozens of mps have written to borisjohnson to Bring Parliament back to discuss this, i wrote in the open, and to do so this, i wrote in the open, and to do so from roughly now until the 31st of october. That is unlikely to happen but mps will not have to wait long, they are backing a couple of weeks time. It goes to show how frustrated certain mps feel and how they feel that going through parliament is only way of stopping a no deal brexit. Thank you very much. You are watching bbc news. More than a 100,000 people have taken part in the latest rally in hong kong, against what the protestors see as attempts by china to undermine the citys autonomy. The protests began 11 weeks ago and have at times been violent, but todays gathering has been peaceful. 0ur china correspondent Stephen Mcdonell has been following the protests in hong kong today. There was a big push on to make this weekend a much more peaceful one in terms of rallies. A large part of the city, at least on the island, has been caught up in this enormous demonstration today. Despite the heavy, driving rain, hundreds of thousands of people have turned out. Here, this is people coming back into victoria park. When i say back in, potentially for the first time coming to victoria park. If we swing around here, you can see this is the direction of the park. We have had this situation where the park has been full once and then people left the park, and its filled up yet again. So, this is the second shift. I guess you can put it that way. It does give you an idea of the number of people who will turn out here if a protest is going to be peaceful. It was given permission, this is a legally approved rally, the authorities said it was ok. They didnt give permission for a march, butjust by virtue of the sheer numbers, people have had to pour out of the park and into the streets all around it because it couldnt take that many people. As i say, for many blocks back from the park, several kilometres between here and central, the streets have been full and the park has also been full. And it is a vote of confidence, i guess you could say, in the more peaceful way, in terms of the pro democracy movement. The more radical elements, they can turn out a few thousand, maybe 10,000 at best, but this has been a really huge gathering here today in favour of democracy and yesterday we had a pro beijing rally, which seemed pretty big. Maybe there was 100,000 people there at best. It is hard to say how many were here today, it feels to me about ten times the size, though, given the huge disruption to the city with so many people. Underground train stations have had to close because they were just jammed with people trying to reach the rally point. Roads have also been blocked. People have had to go off walking, using the road to leave because public transport had to shut down. They have tried to get some momentum going in terms of their call for democracy, in terms of their call for an independent public enquiry into the police force and if anyone thought the steam was coming out of this, well, this just shows it hasnt. I think there is a long way to go yet before this crisis is over and perhaps this isjust the way things will be from now on in hong kong. The search has resumed for a missing six year old boy after he fell into the river stour, near the town of sandwich yesterday. Lucas dobson was fishing with family members when he slipped into the water. Specialist diving teams and Emergency Services are being supported by a large group of public volunteers in the search. 0ur correspondent simon jones is in sandwich. Lucas dobson fell into the water just after 1 oclock yesterday afternoon. So, he has now been missing for more than 2a hours. This is how we understand the sequence of events. He was just upstream there and at one point he was going to step from a jetty onto a fishing boat. He was with family members, but he fell between the gap between the jetty and the fishing boat. He disappeared into the water. Four adultsjumped in after him, including his father. But they could find no trace of him. So, they, of course, alerted the Emergency Services and that has prompted a huge response. We have had police, the fire service, the coastguard and the lifeboat all involved in this. Plus volunteers. We have seen boats coming up and down the river looking for clues. People searching through the undergrowth here, which is quite thick, just trying to find any trace of lucas. His family, for them, it has been a desperately worrying time and we have been speaking to his aunt about how she is coping with the situation. I think the not knowing is the hardest bit. You dont know. I am personally not trying to think about it. I am not accepting it yet. Because we cant find him, i tell myself that he got out and he is lost, he is looking for us. He is wandering around, wondering where we are. That is what im telling myself. Because to think that my little nephew is still in the river is just too much to think about. Huge uncertainty for the family, a desperately worrying time for them. They said they have taken comfort from the fact that hundreds of people from the local community have come out. They have been walking the river bank looking for any traces of the six year old. So far, nothing has been found, but people have been telling me that they just want to do something. They are all so anxious, they are walking in pairs trying to find any sort of clues. But the reality is time is going on and hope must be fading. Superintendent Amanda Tillotson of kent police has been descibing the search operation. This is a massive operation and firstly i would like to say that my thoughts go out to the family of lucas. This is an awful, tragic incident, but obviously we will work hard to bring a quick resolution and find lucas as quickly as we can for the family. But it is an absolutely massive operation with various different agencies, both Emergency Services but we have also got volunteers, and of course, members of the public, and they are all working extremely hard to find lucas. That is the latest on the search for the missing six year old boy. More than £70,000 has been raised to support the family and widow of a Police Officer who was killed while investigating a report of a burglary in berkshire on thursday. Pc Andrew Harper was 28 and newly married. The police are questioning ten men and boys on suspicion of murder. Daniela relph reports. Three days after the death of pc Andrew Harper, the trawl for evidence goes on. At the place where he died, tributes continue to be left, some from those who knew and loved him, others from those just moved by his death. Ahead of local team readings game against cardiff today, footballers and colleagues of pc harper stood in silence, in tribute to the fallen Police Officer. This time last month, pc harper was getting married. He and his wife were due to go on honeymoon next week. In churches across the Thames Valley, prayers were said for the Police Officer and his family, and at the church closest to his home, parishioners have left messages in a prayer book. As you would expect, probably around every church in the country there are prayers left for Andrew Harper, his family, the police, the whole police community, those working on the case. It must be terrible for them. Theyre naturally held in prayer and i am sure we are just one church out of many around the country where that will be true. The focus of the Police Investigation is centred on a local caravan site run by the local authority and used by the travelling community. Ten people were arrested here, and police remain on site. Access to the area is restricted. The Police Federation has set up a page for donations in recognition of pc harpers sacrifice. Now way beyond its original target, the Harper Family will decide how the money is spent. The Thames Valley force say this is a complex murder enquiry. Is a complex murder inquiry. Their priority is to establish how a call out to a burglary led to the death of one of its own officers. Health workers in glasgow say an outbreak of hiv among the homeless and drug users in the city is now the most serious in the uk since the 1980s. The bbc has learnt has learnt that at least 157 cases have been confirmed in the last four years. 0ur scotland editor, sarah smith, has been given exclusive access to the first project in the uk, that carries out rapid hiv tests, on the streets of glasgow. Just one tiny drop of blood can test whos been infected by the rapidly spreading outbreak of hiv in glasgow. So, illjust put this in here, 0k, and if its one line, it means there is no hiv antibodies in the blood, and if it is two lines it means there is, but we well just sit you outside for now. Injust minutes, robbie gets the news hed hoped to hear. Im pleased to tell you there is one line, which means you dont have hiv. Sleeping rough and injecting drugs, he knows he is at high risk of infection. So, robbie says he always takes care to get clean needles, available free from various chemists and charities. Do you know people that do share needles . Aye. If you can get your money to get drugs, get drugs, you can get the right paraphernalia to handle the drugs. Its not hard, you know what i mean. Waverley care in glasgow are the first and only Team Anywhere in the uk taking hiv testing onto the streets. Hi, it is marrie here at waverley care. They gave us an exclusive look at their attempts to reach the growing Homeless Population in glasgow. Everybody seems to know someone with hiv, but werent aware of the outbreak. The numbers, they may be aware of one or two, in their close circle of friends, but not aware of the potential hundred plus that is connected to Glasgow City Centre who are hiv positive. Widespread hiv testing, trying to identify everyone who is infected, could help to contain the outbreak. But at the moment, the really worrying thing is that the spread of the infection in glasgow seems to be rapidly escalating, with around a 100 increase in new cases this year so far. This man is a heroin addict who manages his hiv with restriction medication. With prescription medication. When he was first diagnosed, though, he was terrified the infection would be fatal. I tried to overdose, as i was sliding down a wall, somebody touched me on the shoulder and ijumped up. So, that saved my life. Why is there such a bad outbreak of it in glasgow . You see, the people thats got it, i think that theyre not telling. I think theyre not telling people that theyve got it and theyre letting them use their needles. Living on the streets with hiv is not easy. Not everyone takes their medication every day not when heroin is a higher priority. Thats why halting the spread of infection is so urgent and so difficult. Sarah smith, bbc news, glasgow. The headlines on bbc news. The man in charge of planning for a no deal brexit, michael gove, says leaked documents showing shortages of goods and a hard border with ireland are out of date and are worst case scenarios. 100,000 people have been gathering in hong kong for more pro democracy protests for the 11th week running. The search continues for six year old lucas dobson whos missing after he fell into the river stour in kent. The bbc understands that the muslim convert known asjihadijack, who joined the Islamic State group as a teenager, has had his british citizenship revoked. Jack letts was 18 when he left his 0xfordshire home in 2014 to travel to join fighters in raqqa. The decision was reportedly made by sajid javid when he was home secretary. The home office have declined to comment on the case. 0ur correspondent Charlotte Gallagher said that by revoking his citizenship, the government had effectively passed responsibility forjack letts to the canadians. He was just a teenager when he left to join Islamic State fighters in syria. He was 18 years old in 2014. Now, in 2017, he was captured by Kurdish Forces and was put in a kurdish prison, where he remains. Now, his parents have always been sup

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