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warning but should lift away. We should see bright and sunny

I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me.

If we got along well, that would be good.

Well that's because he'd rather have a puppet as President.

No puppet, no puppet. And it's pretty clear.

You're the puppet. It's pretty clear you won't admit.

The Russians have engaged in cyber attacks against the United States of

She has no idea whether it's Russia, China or anybody else,

But then Donald Trump was question about the

procession of women who come forward to accuse him of sexual assault.

These women, the woman on the plane, the woman...

I think they want either fame or her campaign did it.

Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger.

I think they want fame or herald campaign did it and I think it is

her campaign. Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger.

He goes after their dignity, their self worth. I don't think there is a

woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like. Nobody has more

respect for women than I do. Nobody. Nobody has more respect. Please

everybody. The moderator intervened because the audience was laughing.

There was exchangeses on guns, abortion and immigration. This on

Social Security benefits. My Social Security contribution will go up as

will Donald's, but what we want to do is replenish... Such a nasty

woman. Then came the truly astonishing moment. Donald Trump

alleged that the election is being rigged. His daughter and his running

mate said they would accept the verdict of the American people so

will Mr Trump? I will look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I

have seen is so bad. She should never have been allowed to run for

the presidency based on what she did with e-mails and sew many other

things. Are you saying you're not prepared to stick to that principle?

I'll tell you at the time, I'll keep you in suspense. That's horrifying.

Every time Donald thinks things are not going in his direction, he

claims whatever it is is rigged against him, there was a time when

he didn't get an Emmy or his TV programme three years in a row and

he thwarted that the Emmies were rigged... I should have gotten it!

This is how Donald thinks and it is funny, but it is really troubling.

Election fraud is rare in the US and after the debate, the spin room

lived up to its name as Trump sur gates sought to explain what he

meant. Donald Trump has to see how close the election is. If it is a

400 margin in the election then there might be a question of voter

fraud. If it is a 4 million margin, there won't be. This is...

REPORTER: Were you surprised? That's the answer I would have given.

Lagging behind in the polls, Donald Trump needed to change the

trajectory of this race. He needed to win big, but he didn't, but he

created a new storm that goes to the heart of American democracy.

It is fair to say many of Donald Trump's advisers were aghast at what

he said in the debate. We have had that clarification, I will accept a

clear election result, but I will reserve the right to file a legal

challenge. Donald Trump is trying to put out a fire he started. Election

fraud is rare in the US. The most detailed surveys showed over one

billion votes cast over a ten year period, there were 31 cases of voter

impersonation. Some analysts say it is Donald Trump laying the

groundwork for a defeat. One other problem re-emerged today. Another

woman has come out to say that he made unwanted sexual advances

towards her. Sophie.

A Royal Navy destroyer and a frig at have been sent to shadow a group of

Russian warships. The ships including Russia's only aircraft

carrier and a battle cruiser are believed to be heading to the

eastern Mediterranean. Well, our diplomatic correspondent James

Robins is in Moscow. Do we know what the Russian warships are doing?

Well, the Kremlin and President Putin are clearly combining military

purpose with a bit of political theatre. I mean, first the military

purpose. By sending a large naval detachment and deploying their

flagship care craft carrier to a combat zone for the first time,

Russia is reinforce its ability to strike at targets. It must be

assumed they may go back to bombing and they may accelerate what they

believe is their ability to destroy all opposition within Aleppo before

the end of the year and certainly before whoever is elected, the next

American president takes office. There is the political theatre I

think Russia is taunting France and perhaps to a greater extent Britain

saying to the Royal Navy, do you don't have an operational aircraft

carrier, we're doing this because we can and you don't join the fight in

Syria, we have and we can win it because we're a great power. James

Robins, thank you. MPs have backed a proposal to strip

the former owner of BHS Sir Philip Green of his knighthood. Sir Philip

was accused in armed of asset stripping. The businessman insists

that he is working on a deal which will resolve the issue. Here is

Simon Jack. This knight of the realm has been described by many as more

like an emperor and today they came to bury him and not to praise him. A

billionaire who should never receive the knighthood. A billionaire who

shamed British capitalism. BHS one of the greatest scandals. The House

has sympathy for the thousands of workers who have lost their jobs and

seen their benefits decreased as a result of greed. Stripped Green of

his knighthood. Take him to task and maybe get him to sell a few of his

super yachts. This wasn't really much of a debate and some MPs were

uneasy. To call for another committee to strip somebody of an

honour when the normal process that one is only taken away when somebody

has committed a criminal offence is abuse of the House of Commons. Let's

not forget 11,000 people lost their jobs. Jean was one and she was very

clear about what should happen. I think he should be stripped of his

knighthood, 100%. He doesn't realise what he has done to everybody and

he's swanning around with a knighthood. It is not fair for what

everybody else has gone through. Today's motion does not mean that

Sir Philip Green will lose his knighthood, any decision will be

made in Whitehall. It is very rare for people not found guilty of doing

anything illegal to lose honours. Fred Goodwin of RBS fame is the last

and most famous example. But it seems Sir Philip has become the new

poster boy for popular and political mistrust in business.

During her party conference to reason they made a thinly sky 's

attack on him. A director who takes up massive dividends while knowing

the company pension is about to go bust. I'm putting you on warning.

This can't go on any more. Sir Philip was watching the event in

Parliament today. Whatever happens to his knighthood is only redemption

may be sorting the pension mess that still hangs over him.

Theresa May is in Brussels for her first European

She is under pressure to reveal more about Britain's Brexit strategy.

He did take on five litres of blackcurrant squash but he's a big

lad. The gorilla that raided the store cage at London zoo.

Captain Wayne Rooney could return to the staring line up

for Manchester United's Europa League match against Fenerbache

Southampton are facing Inter Milan at the San Siro.

Iraq's Prime Minister says the operation to recapture the city

of Mosul, the last major stronghold of so-called Islamic State

extremists in the country, is progressing faster than planned.

IS control a large area around Mosul, where one and a half million

In the past 48 hours Iraqi government forces have made

And today their Kurdish Peshmerga allies launched a major

offensive north and east of the city.

Our correspondent Orla Guerin is with Kurdish forces attacking

Singing of bravery on their way into battle.

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters shoulder to shoulder, knowing dawn

could bring them face-to-face with so-called Islamic state.

With first light, the Kurds began a major assault on IS positions.

The militants replied with tracer fire.

The Peshmerga tried frantically to shoot it down.

A booby-trapped drone killed two Kurdish fighters earlier this month.

As IS was pounded with heavy weapons, we managed to listen

Here they try to coordinate a counterattack on the troops.

Try to target them on the bridge, one commander says.

"Fire missiles from the petrol station".

Then there's a plea for reinforcements.

But IS couldn't muster any and the assault continued.

In less than 60 minutes, the village of Nawaran fell.

We are entering an area the Kurdish forces have just taken.

They came in about half an hour or so.

The further they go forward, the more resistance they expect

to face from suicide bombers and from snipers, and we've heard

some sniper fire just in last few moments.

We have to be very careful here, we have to stay on the asphalt.

The troops believe that IS has spent months planting roadside

So they know there are many more hazards on the journey ahead.

But there is now a sense here that the noose is being

Orla Guerin, BBC News, north of Mosul.

A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.

The Scottish Government has published its draft bill on a second

independence referendum. The move does not guarantee another

referendum but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland should be

ready to hold a vote if it's in Scotland's interests.

Doctors who train and work as GPs in Wales will receive ?20,000

as long as they stay for at least one year after completing

The scheme, which will be in place from next August, has been launched

by the Welsh Government to tackle shortages.

A husband and wife from County Armagh have admitted sexually

assaulting a vulnerable woman over an eight year period.

60 year old Keith Baker admitted raping and abusing a woman

who was kept in squalid conditions in his Craigavon home

Bakers' wife Caroline admitted helping him and pleaded guilty

to indecently assaulting the woman, who has severe learning

There are fears that hundreds of local pharmacies in England

could close after the government announced cuts to

Ministers says there's a need to save money, as some areas

have several chemists very close together -

but they insist that the quality of service provided won't be affected.

Pharmacists certainly don't love it, and the money they get from the

government will be cut, but there will be extra support for pharmacies

in isolated areas. Graham Phillips runs for chemists in Hertfordshire.

One of them qualifies for the higher funding but overall, he says he'll

lose out. We are not protected. They are giving something with the right

hand and taking away with the left. Overall will be worse off and

running at a loss. The government is in effect saying there are too many

pharmacies. Here in St Albans there is one over there and you don't have

to go very far to find another, and there are others within a short

distance as well. On some high streets around the country there are

literally a dozen pharmacies or more. There have been predictions

that financial cuts will result in pharmacy closures, so how do

customers feel about that? I think it's a bit contradictory with things

they've previously said about encouraging people to come to

pharmacies rather than going to hospital or their GPs. I think you

could reduce a few, when there is a lot in a town obviously they are all

competing against each other and they are all more or less selling

the same sort of things. I think we do need them, whenever you go in

there is always a big queue. They are essential services and it would

be a shame to lose than. NHS chiefs say the aim is to make better use of

government funding for pharmacies while improving the service. This is

not about closures, it's about increasing efficiency, but changing

the way that pharmacists practice as well.

But the Scottish and Welsh government say they have no plans to

cut community pharmacy budgets and Labour MPs said the policy in

England was a false economy and would lead to more pressure on

hospitals and GPs. Campaigners have welcomed a move

to pardon thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted

of sex offences, now abolished, The majority of pardons

will be posthumous - but some say it's wrong to offer

a pardon, if no offence Out and proud, there is nothing to

hide in Manchester 's gay village but it wasn't always this way. 50

years ago doing this could land gay men in jail. The world War II mac

code-breaker Alan Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency with

another man. He took his own life as a result. This memorial in

Manchester remembers Alan Turing as the father of computer science and

as a victim of prejudice. After he was pardoned his family campaigned

for other prosecuted gay men to be given the same treatment. No the

so-called during law will be extended to thousands of men who

will receive formal pardons. Man I spoke to in Manchester welcome the

decision. Some of my friends who grew up back then had to hide away,

they were made to be criminals, they were not criminals but they were

made to feel like they wear. I do think they should go a step further

and apologise. It wasn't nice I imagine, to be walking down the

street and not be able to hold hands. If it wasn't for those people

we would not be able to do that today. We have to remember what they

went through for us. It's not something that is generally wrong in

society. But not all campaigners agree that pardoned convicted men is

appropriate. We introduced two of them, young activist Daniel Harris

and 93-year-old George Montague who has a conviction for gross indecency

but does not want a pardon. Why should we have criminal records? Why

should we be asking for forgiveness which is what a pardon is for

something which we have no control over whatsoever? I see a pardon as a

way forward, but it's not enough. And I completely ask for the

government to actually give an official apology and put right the

wrongs from the past. Men eligible for pardons will have to apply to

the Home Office. Alan Turing's family say they are glad other men

will finally receive the same justice as him.

The European Space Agency says it still doesn't know the fate

of a robotic probe which was due to land on Mars yesterday.

Scientists say that signals from the robot were lost shortly

before it was expected to touch down.

They believe its parachute was jettisoned too early

More details have emerged about how a silverback gorilla escaped

from its enclosure at London Zoo last week - leading to panic

managed to walk through two locked doors and helped himself to large

amounts of blackcurrant squash. Back in his enclosure,

surrounded by his family A week ago Kumbuka was the reason

visitors were locked up and armed The 29 stone gorilla had escaped out

of his den into a staff only area. Luckily the keeper who found him

knew him well enough to keep calm. Kumbuka pottered out of a door that

had not been secured. The keeper just turned to Kumbuka,

started chatting calmly, calm down Buki, everything's fine,

just as normal, no problem. At that point, Kumbuka was just

exploring the environment. And just pottered in to a store room

next to his dens and was quite He did take five litres

of blackcurrant squash but he's a big lad, 29 stone gorilla,

he can cope with five litres The zoo insists members of

the public were never in any danger. Thirst satisfied, Kumbuka

was tranquillised and Sarah Campbell, BBC News,

London Zoo. Good evening everyone, the weather

are stuck in repeat at the moment but like a classic BBC comedy with

scenes like this we will take it every day won't we? Unfortunately it

does look as though we have seen quite a bit more cloud further east,

yet again the winds whipping up the sea and some threatening looking

skies earlier this afternoon in Norfolk, that is where we have seen

a cluster of showers from East Anglia and moving down into the

south-east. Those showers will continue to ease through this

evening and overnight, dying back to North Sea coasts. Further west,

clear skies, at this time of year temperatures will fall away we could

see a touch of frost in the countryside as temperatures reach

freezing. We could start with mist and fog patches which will slowly

lift away and we will see a good slice of sunshine for many of us yet

again. A few sharp showers across East Anglia and the south-east which

will hopefully be is and the risk of a few nuisance showers up to the far

north-west of Scotland. Add on the strength of the winds, temperatures

are little on the subdued side, 11-14d. Little change into the

weekend, we keep some sunny spells, there will be early fog and frost

around. There's not going to be that much in the way of change, winds

will start to strengthen down into the South West with the threat of

this area of low pressure bringing rain to the south-west by the end of

the weekend but generally speaking if you have outdoor plans I don't

think you will be too disappointed. A good deal of usable weather out

there. Largely dry and sunny at times but the temperatures will

struggle from time to time. Enjoy if you can.

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