in the guardian, a stark warning that planet earth is facing ‘biological annihilation‘ — that is, its sixth mass extinction. scientists who analysed various species found billions of populations had been lost. they blame human overpopulation. the japan times looks at bad behaviour on social media manifesting itself in real life. it has analysis suggesting popular role models are not acting in polite ways, and our own behaviour is now changing. single shot, double shot. however you have have it, coffee could help you live longer. the daily telegraph looks at research showing each cup you drink can increase your lifespan by up to nine minutes a day. that is good news for us. my life is increased by about 45 minutes today. mitigated by how many cigarettes you smoke. with us as henry bonsu. how many copies? i don't drink coffee, i

drink tea. maybe there will look into a survey into that. a serious story, and the cost of the syrian war so story, and the cost of the syrian warso far story, and the cost of the syrian war so far not only in terms of the number of deaths of a long—term impact on this country and the sort of figures needed to get this country back on its feet. but we can'tjust skip country back on its feet. but we can't just skip around the death toll. we are talking about 320,000 people killed at least in the six years since the war began but when you look at the human cost, infrastructure, the way people live their lives, over half a million jobs lost on average annually, are the stats. we are looking at people not having a place to live. every time a bomb drops, it lands somewhere. we are talking about health facilities,, medical facilities. people not having jobs,

how do you live? audi rebuild? you need security, you need stability. four. whenever you hear refugees, whenever they are in germany, the us, iwant whenever they are in germany, the us, i want to go back to build my country. if there is no viable ceasefire with the country will be split into two, audi rebuild. and those huge international donor conferences, a lot of the money doesn't get there. people say these things a grandstand on the international stage but what happens if you do not deliver the money? i just came back from rwanda, a country that was scarred. they have managed to rebuild. stability first, defence and a population with a

leader who has vision. the grc. terrible bout. and there is an attempt currently to defuse the crisis in qatar. the head of exxon mobil, his boss, donald trump, backed the move against qatar stating they were sponsoring terrorism. saudi arabia, bahrain, the uae, cutting diplomatic ties. a list of 13 demands. the closing down of al jazeera. they are list of 13 demands. the closing down of aljazeera. they are saying, take a hike. rex tillerson says, we have to make a breakthrough. it's been going on for several weeks. the defence secretary has come out in support of qatar which houses us troops. the us policy sees the president saying something, and his

cabinet saying something different. what is the role of liquefied natural gas? it is the world's biggest exporter. america wants to raise its exports to china. if you do stabilise qatar... i'm sure there are other considerations. those 13 demands. , he says those demands are not a dead duck but they have to start again because the package is not viable. they might cherry pick and make a breakthrough. this takes us on and make a breakthrough. this takes us on to the next story. aramco. it is the move into liquefied natural gas. that is a very significant element of the story. we have the chief executive of aramco says the

outlook for oil supplies is worrying. actually, the move to renewables and alternative forms will take a lot longer and be more complicated than people think. but he is going to say that because the oil price has been tanking and he wa nts to oil price has been tanking and he wants to scaremonger and get people worried. that is his job. the saudis are worrying and they want to divest and diversify but a lot of people are saying, this is the starting gun to get viable energy. but the new crown prince has accepted the oil dependency for saudi arabia will be limited. this issue of them tried to sell part of aramco, 6%, but even that because it would be bending the rules to allow them to invest on the london stock exchange. the fact --

the very fact that aramco is going to an ipo, it tells you something. the guardian paper, it's a scary headline. biologicalannihilation, the earth faces sixth mass extinction. this is based on thousands of species, presumably from very simple species to more sophisticated ones. when people think about extinction, they think about elephants, the cape buffalo, the jarrah, hippopotamus, but what we are hearing from the proceedings of the national academy of sciences is is all those small microorganisms in the biosphere on which the food chain depends. it's about us in the end. there are too many human beings and we consume too end. there are too many human beings and we consume too much and we are eroding the habitat of all these animals. what do we do? stephen

hawking thinks we need to find a colony on a more hospitable planet. it's about reducing consumption and countries like the usa and china and india, cutting cloth according to what they can afford. everybody reducing consumption. there is not universal scientific agreement. there are some in this report suggesting that we should be concerned about it. this annihilation as it's been described, yet ca n annihilation as it's been described, yet can speak spanish so you would know this professor's name, in mexico, he says that it would be a dereliction of duty if we don't.“ you look at the previous fossil record, the most recent one is the cretaceous tertiary period, we know what happened then, the asteroid hit

and the dinosaurs were wiped out. the japan times and social media. like you didn't know about twitter before president trump. social media and how it works. the bad behaviour on social media is changing our behaviour in real life.|j on social media is changing our behaviour in real life. i think the average person is behaviour in real life. i think the average person is pretty robust but in some populations, maybe injapan, people are more cis is —— susceptible when you see rob carr —— ina susceptible when you see rob carr —— in a slut shaming his girlfriend or donald trump shaming a reporter, there are teenagers losing their teenage years. two trump, it is a verb in high school, which is to grab verb in high school, which is to gmba verb in high school, which is to graba woman verb in high school, which is to grab a woman by... extraordinaire, he got away with it. one of these

scientists, catherine steiner adare, the author of the biggest connect. she says we are normalising this behaviour. do we have time for coffee ? behaviour. do we have time for coffee? wake up and drink the copy. lam nota coffee? wake up and drink the copy. i am not a copy drinker. i did try to support rwandan copy when i was there. but there are two copy ——2 studies claiming each copy you drink can increase your lifespan by nine minutes. no causal link. it could just be that copy drinkers are... we need to go and grab one now. tuesday's forecast has some rain in it. we haven't been able to say that for some time. you may well say that monday was wet in my neck of the woods, that came from showers and thunderstorms.

if one of those caught you, you certainly knew about it. not a cold start to tuesday. from the word go, some bits and pieces of rain across the heart of scotland, the north of england, through wales and the west midlands and into the southern counties of england. it isn't wet everywhere right from the word go. scattered showers across the far north of scotland, we mentioned rain just to the north of the central belt. turning bright across a good part of northern ireland, southwestern scotland and the far north of england. further south again, the first signs of bits and pieces of rain coming through on a wee south, south—westerly breeze. further south again, some dry weather to be had across the midlands, east anglia and the south—east. already at this stage back across the south—west, the cloud really filling in. some of the rain even from the word go will be quite heavy across parts of pembrokeshire and into the south—west of england. into the afternoon, still little islands of brightness and dry weather across the south. perhaps some of the driest weather found across northern ireland. in the middle of the afternoon,

pembrokeshire, southern parts of wales quite widely into the south—west of england, some rain quite heavy. 20, 30, a0 millimetres building up here. even so, still islands of brighter weather. where we have some brightness in the south—east, looking at 18, i9, possibly 20 degrees. a bit cooler further north, pretty acceptable for the time of year. 14—17 should cover it. what have we got for wimbledon? dry enough, probably, until the middle part of the afternoon. clouds thickening, the chance of a shower. as we get deeper into the day, so that rain and low pressure and the fronts migrating across east anglia and the south—east. still there on the first part of wednesday. as they pull away, this little ridge of high—pressure toppling in across the british isles. then settling down very nicely, a lot of fine and dry weather. a splendid day, temperatures mid—teens to around 20 degrees. that is a sort of pattern we expect on wednesday and into the first

part of thursday. notice we have a weather front beginning to push in from the atlantic. i think that brings the chance of some rain initially into western scotland and northern ireland. increasingly, as it topples across england and wales, a burst of showers, not much more than that. and following that in behind, another spell of fairly quiet weather. hello, this is breakfast, with louise minchin and dan walker. plans to change the way we work. a review for the government calls for the end of the cash in hand economy. with suggestions for tackling low—paid jobs, zero hours contracts and the gig economy, it says the government should strive for good work for all. good morning, it's tuesday the 11th ofjuly. also this morning:

for the first time since 1984 there's a british woman wimbledon quarter finals. that's right, johanna konta will play simona halep on centre court