Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 10 Sep 2016

1. Clinton attacks Trump's 'basket of deplorables' supporters

Hillary Clinton told an audience of donors that half of Donald Trump's supporters fall into "the basket of deplorables". The Democrat hopeful said: "To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it." She said some were "irredeemable" and "not America."

2. British businesses 'lazy and fat' says trade minister

UK businesses have become "too lazy and too fat", argues international trade secretary Liam Fox. He told an event that companies could help deliver greater prosperity if people stopped preferring to "play golf on a Friday afternoon". Labour MP Pat McFaddon said: "It is hard to see why Fox is attacking British business when he is supposed to be promoting the UK as a great place to do business."

3. Russia and US announce Syria agreement

The US and Russia have announced an agreement on Syria starting with a "cessation of hostilities" from sunset on Monday. The Syrian government will end combat missions in specified areas held by the opposition. Russia and the US will establish a joint centre to combat fighters. "The cessation of hostilities requires access to all besieged and hard-to-reach areas, including Aleppo", said US secretary of state John Kerry.

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4. NHS hospitals continue to rake in parking revenue

Hospital parking revenue has risen by millions despite government demands that NHS bosses stop making money out of patients and their relatives. Health trusts were accused of taking money from the sick and vulnerable to top up budgets after a survey found the sum collected from parking charges rose each year since the Tories re-entered Downing Street. Labour accused the coalition of dropping plans to scrap the charges.

5. Facebook u-turns on Vietnam girl photograph

Facebook says it will allow the famous photograph of a girl fleeing a Napalm attack taken during the Vietnam war to be published on its platform. The social network had previously removed the image, posted by a Norwegian author, on the grounds that it contained nudity. The editor of Norway's largest newspaper had written an open letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg calling the ban "an abuse of power".

6. George Bush's 9/11 reaction revealed in full

George W Bush's immediate reaction to the September 11 attacks has been published in full for the first time, including the president's immediate determination to "get the b-------" responsible. "I can't wait to find out who did it," he said. "It's going to take a while and we're not going to have a little slap on the wrist crap."

7. Theresa May 'planning free vote on Heathrow expansion'

Theresa May will hold a free vote on expanding airport capacity, according to a leaked document. A Cabinet Office paper, photographed on the tube and passed to Channel 4 News, examines the possibility of waiving collective responsibility for any vote on the endlessly contentious issue of expanding an airport in the south-east. Several cabinet ministers represent constituencies that could be affected by a third runway.

8. Mourners upset as Jeremy Clarkson blows up home

Jeremy Clarkson has blown up his five-bedroom Chipping Norton house. The former Top Gear presenter had called in a demolition company to raze the £4m property to the ground to make way for a new 12,173 sq ft home. A funeral was taking place in a nearby village at the time, leading to complaints that mourners were disturbed by the noisy blasts during the burial.

9. Theresa May attacked for grammar school 'tosh'

Theresa May says she will defy critics of her education revolution because of the debt she owes her grammar school past. Writing in the Daily Mail, she says she will press ahead with new grammars until every child has the same "opportunities that I enjoyed". But Ofsted says the idea that poor children would benefit from a return of grammar schools is "tosh".

10. Islamic State 'is everlasting and expanding'

Islamic State will thrive even if it is defeated in the present battle for Syria and Iraq, one of its fighters has vowed. Faraj, a 30-year-old fighter from north east Syria, says that "when we say that the Islamic State is everlasting and expanding, it is not a mere poetic or propaganda phrase". He adds: "Isis has sleeper agents all over the world and their numbers are increasing".