fl—uritfi can jump six times her body length with remarkable precision. unlike other spiders, she was trained to lea p other spiders, she was trained to leap in the lab. and she was giving up leap in the lab. and she was giving up her secrets in the name of science. the lead researcher on the project was amazed by the spider's agility. the moment when we succeeded to train kim tojump between the platforms was amazing. we started collecting the data very quickly and they were saying how small she is, to the limit even sometimes i was looking to her in the eyes, she is very small, she will get shy and gave me her back when i looked at him in the eyes. simply fantastic. researchers are looking at a new generation of jumping robots which could be used in the future to catch pests, just like spiders do. consolation for arachnophobia, spiders have many practical uses. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. moving swiftly on acclamation mark

of the heat is ebbing away from some areas but we have another of the heat is ebbing away from some areas but ”ef:e ar heat a of the heat is ebbing away from some areas but ”fie ar heat is i171? if”. . % the beautifulblueskiesonihelhames it i already 25 degrees beautifulblueskiesonihelhames it. already 25 degrees in and it is already 25 degrees in london, the number is not far off yesterday. turning coolerfrom tomorrow one is cut —— tomorrow onwards, not bad temperatures, very little rain in the south—east of the uk. belfast has already had rain today, turning much cool already, temperatures down by quite a few degrees from yesterday. it will be quite chilli overnight with spells of rain from time to time. everything is coming in from the atla ntic everything is coming in from the atlantic on this band of rain having cleared away from northern ireland, heading into the uk. still some sunshine ahead of it, the heat focused on the eastern side of england, where we will fight temperatures of 26, 27, maybe even

28. through the midlands and eastern scotla nd through the midlands and eastern scotland the rain continues to track eastwards, it will weaken as it heads eastwards, not much rain towards the east coast, waldo two sharp showers across east anglia and the south—east. —— one or two sharp showers. quieting down, winds easing. cooler than it has been, but ten or ii easing. cooler than it has been, but ten or” in easing. cooler than it has been, but ten or ii in the south—east after the heat of today. tomorrow, or is the heat of today. tomorrow, or is the starting dry and sunny but looking to the atlantic to see weather fronts heading our way. looking to the atlantic to see weatherfronts heading our way. as each one comes its way it brings them progressively cooler air, hence temperatures dropping over the next few days. a sunny start the most on wednesday, large amounts increasing, wet and windy weather quickly into northern ireland, pushing further into scotland over the irish sea into scotland over the irish sea into westernmost england and wales do the afternoon. the midlands and eastern england are dry, more cloud than today, temperatures not as high as today, 21 is not bad but 11 in

belfast and i2 as today, 21 is not bad but 11 in belfast and 12 in glasgow. the weather front moves eastwards later in the day, not much rain for the south—east of the uk, a brief bump in the pressure map, a brief ridge of high pressure across southern parts of the uk. probably dry on thursday, sunshine for a while. showers more likely further north, they could be heavy enough for highlands and in the northwest for highlands and in the northwest for a while before fading away later in the day. temperatures are bit better on thursday for the northern half of the uk, 15 to 18 and the south—east. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me — and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon. we begin this lunchtime with world champion mark williams. keys says he thought his

career had ended five years ago before he went on to claim his third title at the crucible last night, he beatjohn higgins 18—16 in the thrilling final becoming the oldest world snooker champion of 13 years. his last title was in 2003. the welshman failed to even qualify for the championship last year but this season he has claimed the northern ireland open and the german masters. he says he can't explain the turnaround. to think i'm going to have a season like this next season is probably a bit silly of me to think i will carry on this form, and the run. but you know, if i turn up next season and i play like an absolute fish, then i can't grumble! this season has just made up for my last 15 years of playing absolute garbage! as expected, the arsenal captain, laurent koscielny is out of the then for six months. manager arsene

wenger confirmed the news earlier, describing the defender as devastated. he picked up the injury in their europa league semifinal exit last week against atletico madrid. joe gomez will miss the final against real madrid, he got the injury earlier in the england when over holland in march. three days after knocking out david haye to win the 30th fight of his career, heavyweight tony bellew says he is torn about whether to walk away from the sport. bellew says his wife wants him to retire, but he feels in the best form of his life and is tempted by talk of a fight against former heavyweight world champion tyson fury, who has of course announced his comeback to the ring. everyone wants to see me face guys i can't beat, and when you tell me i can't beat them that's music to my ears, i want to do it even more. he is not a puncher, the only thing he has over me is size, height and weight.

i have speed, power and a better boxing brain than him. england rugby head coach eddiejones will respond to their poor six nations showing by bringing in an attack coach for the tour of south africa. he is set to announce his squad this week with growing calls for wasps fly—half danny cipriani to be included. eddie jones for wasps fly—half danny cipriani to be included. eddiejones will also need to appoint a new captain for the tour with dylan hartley rolled out through concussion. he has been involved in the planning of the tour and wejust involved in the planning of the tour and we just wish a good recovery 110w. and we just wish a good recovery now. do you think he will come back? there is no reason why he can't. nature runs its course with head injuries. you have to be guided by the medical staff. but he's got the motivation and the intention of coming back so no reason why he can't. all being well could he come back as captain? will have to wait and see, we don't need to make a

decision right now. eddie jones speaking to our reporter chris jones. major league baseball is to come to these shores next year with a regular two—game series in london nextjune. it has been confirmed that the boston red sox and the new york yankees will win both games in london with plans to play a game in 2020 to establish what it calls a long—term footprint in the city. the west ham united home stadium was chosen because it has the right dimensions for baseball with the capacity of 50 5000. more information on our website, go over to the bbc website, the sports section. that's all the sport for 110w. section. that's all the sport for now. more for yu during this afternoon. thank you very much. there are calls for more to be done to tackle gun and knife crime after a spate of violence over the bank holiday weekend in london. on saturday 17—year—old rhyhiem ainsworth barton was shot dead in kennington. he is now one of more than 60 people to have been killed this year alone in the capital.

earlier my colleague, victoria derbyshire, spoke to three mothers who lost their sons to knife crime. i have six other children, three grandchildren, even my first grandchild, she still writes notes to dwayne because he's very much in her heart. the ripple effect is into the community. it affects community groups, the police. we really need to grasp more and do more to stop this. it's devastating. how would you describe it, jessica? i don't even know. it'sjust really, really hard and difficult. because i saw the lady and i couldn't believe it, i was watching it on facebook, i had to put it aside because it brings back the memory. and every time, every day i hear about stabbing and i see the stabbing, the mothers crying, i want to reach out to them but i don't know what to say to them. because i am in the same

boat, not knowing what to do, who to turn to. it gives me that anxiety, that thing in my stomach. it is too much for me now. it's like, i keep thinking i'm getting better but it's getting worse for me, and i'm thinking i need to be there for these other children, because i've got two more children. but what do i do? i don't know. i'm going to bring in michelle. michelle, absolutely heart—rending, distressing testimony from the two mums sitting alongside me in the studio. i wonder if you could give our audience an insight into the impact on you of losing a son. the impact is that someone has torn out not just my heart but my umbilical cord. my son was my only child. i'm not the only mother who has lost an only child, but the problem we have is that every time another murder comes onto the screens of the tv or social media it takes us all back

to the first steps of our journey. we are all going down the same path, wearing different shoes at different stages. but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an end to it. it seems to be getting bigger and bigger now. it seems to be empowering these people, and we are hearing more of it because of social media now. because of social media you're sometimes getting reports of these murders before they have actually been put out on the media. so for all of us mothers, the heart wrench effect is unbelievable. no one can help us, because losing your child is something no one can ever understand. lorraine, is there a way you can help others to try to prevent other mums, dads, losing their sons? it is evident that we have some violent people on the streets of london. that need to be taken off, they're young children

as well as older ones. but where are they getting these guns? a child cannot just purchase a gun on amazon. so there needs to be more focus from the police in terms of investigating and the murder squad. we need to tackle the root of this. stop and search is one aspect but we are dealing with the small boys on the street. who is fuelling them? because right now they are being fuelled to a degree that they are shooting in broad daylight. so we need to crack down and get these guns out of our communities. these older gang members, they need to be brought tojustice, we need to really uproot and investigate what is going on and eradicate it. three mothers who lost children to knife crime is speaking to victoria derbyshire this morning. more now on recommendations from a think—tank that radical

reform is needed to prevent today's under—30s from having a significantly poorer life than their parents. in a moment we'll talk about the ideas suggested by the resolution foundation, but first let's just run through how the generations are classified. on when people were born. it breaks society into groups based on when people were born. those born between 1911 and 1925 are part of what they're labelling the "greatest" generation — many of whom would have fought in the second world war. the next group is being called the silent generation — born between 1926 and before the end of the second world war — this generation reached adulthood in the 1950s and early 60s. the post war baby boomers is the next group — they were born between 1916 and 1965 — their early adult years were in the late sixties up to the early 80s. this generation have reached or are soon reaching retirement age. those in generation x were born or are soon reaching retirement age.

between 1966 and 1980 — this group are probably the last generation to grow up in a pre—digital world. millennials are classified as being born between 1981 and 2000 — those in this group are now reaching young adulthood. and finally the group born after the millenium up to today are being called the latest generation. i'm joined now by torsten bell who's the director of the resolution foundation — the organisation behind the report. our headline today, a payment of £10,000 to be given to the young and pensioners taxed more? can you explain this thinking. we've taken a long hard look at britain in the 21st century, different challenges facing every generation, notjust the young. the old worried that they won't receive the social care that they believe they expect, and that they believe they expect, and that they need, but the young are not earning as much as they would have expected, they are earning the same as those born 15 years before them. so that's not the progress we have got used to, generation and generation, and as everyone knows they are finding it much harder to get on the housing ladder, they are

paying more than a quarter of their income on housing, higher in london but higher than previous generations. this is what the country needs to wrestle with, paying for that health care that older generations deserve, doing that in a fairway but making britain work our young people again because thatis work our young people again because that is the sign of a healthy society. many would agree but might wa nt to society. many would agree but might want to get their head around these figures. £10,000, will it help these young people get on that property ladder? yes, we are talking about enough money, if we did that today it would double the wealth of them, these are serious sums of money but it won't solve everything overnight, this is why there are 30 and recommendations in this report. it's important to show young people that we can make acid accumulation, property, building it up, something

available to them as it was to the predecessors. are we headlining the right recommendations today? the big ones are we have to find the nhs and social care in a fairway, everyone will need to contribute. it won't be possible to ask the working age population to bear that burden, they the group worst affected by the financial crisis, which has hit earnings so hard in the last decade. and we need big reforms across our assets and wealth system to make sure both that wealth pays its fairway in terms of taxes but also young people are able to get a secure home so if they are renting need longer term tenancies where they are not at risk of losing

their home but they also need homes to be built so they have more of a chance of getting mad housing ladder and we need to take seriously the fa ct and we need to take seriously the fact that inheritance is set to double over the next two decades. this is a huge deal, something that politics are not remotely wrestling with yet, do we want to be the kind of society and who your parents are drives so much of your lifetime living standards. i think we don't. looking again at how we do it tax inheritances, abolishing inheritance tax which has too many loopholes and too high a headline rate, having a new kind of tax paid by those lucky enough to receive an inheritance, not those unlucky enough to pass away. that is how we can pay for things like this inheritance that we think people need. how much support will you get when you are looking at the so—called grey vote, those people who have already paid a lot of taxes, wealthy homeowners, how much support will you get this politically? if you look at what is underlying this, in ourfamilies, people look after the old and young, and we move things around to help the group most in need at a given time and that is what underpins society. we provide state pensions to the old, education for the young, help with people in the middle of their working lives, this is called

their working lives, this is called the generational contract. i don't think this is a generational war. old people want younger people to get on housing ladder like they did and not to have their living standards crushed by a large housing costs, you can standards crushed by a large housing costs, you can see standards crushed by a large housing costs, you can see that in is changing in older people's views about house—building. pre—2010 that was great opposition to it, we are 110w was great opposition to it, we are now seeing those numbers changing drastically. old people, like young people, want to see the next generation able to succeed. torsten bell, from the resolution foundation, thank you. in a moment a summary of the business news this hour but first, the headlines on bbc news: president trump will announce later whether the us will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. bridging the generational divide — a call for all 25 year olds to be given ten thousand pounds each — and for working pensioners to pay more towards the nhs. rail companies begin a public consultation aimed at making tickets fairer and easier to use. hello, i'm rachel horne. in the

business news. the owner of clydesdale bank and yorkshire bank has made a takeover approach to virgin money as it tries to create a more substantial challenger bank to take on the big four lenders. the combined bank would have six million customers. virgin money says it's reviewing the proposal. the drugmaker shire has agreed to a £46bn takeover by the japanese pharmaceutical firm, takeda. it ends a long takeover battle with takeda making five separate offers since march and it's the biggest overseas takeover by a japanese firm in history. average house prices fell by more than 3% in april, the biggest monthly drop in nearly eight years. a report by halifax bank says activity in the property market has been soft all year but it expects the strong labour market will keep prices growing throughout 2018. with productivity in britain's factories flatlining, manufacturers are asking the government to put its foot on the accelerator and develop

a strategy to boost the industry. the business secretary greg clark promised to create an independent industrial strategy council last autumn. but that hasn't yet rolled off the factory line. and the manufacturers' group, the eef, has warned that the need is urgent with productivity growth plummeting to just 1% per year since 2008. i've beenjoined by lee hopley, chief economist at ces. thank you for joining chief economist at ces. thank you forjoining us. it feels like the productivity problem is something we discuss a lot — just remind us what we mean when we talk about the productivity problem. it is important that we produce with ever increasing efficiency, in terms of the labour and the resources that go into production. it's important forfarms. go into production. it's important for farms. they want to use this resource more efficiently because that help them succeed on international markets. and it is important for employees because it helps them get a pay rise at the end

of the day. lee, we've talked about productivity growth plummeting to just 1% a year since 2008. what percentage should we be at and why are we not there. the reason we've been talking about this for the last decade is the fact that we have seen so little improvement in our productivity performance. we just haven't been able to make any gains as an economy. that's quite different to the picture we were looking at in ten or 20 years running up to the financial crisis. manufacturing productivity growth was close to 5% a year compared to one percent productivity growth was close to 5% a year compared to one percen t that we've seen over the last and get higher living standards we needif we wa nt to higher living standards we needif we want to improve our economy and get higher living standards we need to look at how we can get manufacturing productivity growth back on track. we've had a good track in lifting our whole economy productivity. to

increase productivity, we've heard about this industrial strategy council promised by the business secretary last autumn. what difference could that may you that happened? difference could that may you that happened ? industrial strategy difference could that may you that happened? industrial strategy is crucial to moving the needle on our productivity performance across the economy. one of the components of that that the government committed to in its white paper last year, we started to create architecture that could take a deep dive and look at productivity weaknesses, where growth performances are, where they are lacking, and the aspects of best practice that we can learn from. almost six months and it would be good citizens that coming to fruition and getting a handle on what policies would make a difference to what bits of the economy. lee, if things don't improve from this 1% growth rate that we've had since 2008 what impact will this have on going forward ? impact will this have on going forward? a impact will this have on going forward ? a crucial impact will this have on going forward? a crucial question. we've been talking about this for so long because it's important particularly in comparison to some of our international competitors. that is where our research is flagging today. it's flooding in comparison

today. it's flooding in comparison to some european community ‘s and we don't want that gap to open up further so that is a real need to address this urgency now. lee hopley chief economist at the of, thank you. also in the business news today: the french government has repeated its warning about the potential for air france to fail if it doesn't settle a pay dispute with its staff. transport minister elisabeth borne has told french radio that she's worried about the future of air france because it's less competitive than other european airlines, including its dutch partner klm. air france klm shares lost 14% of their value yesterday but have recovered slightly today. the tesla founder elon musk has spent more than £7 million of his own money buying shares in his own company to boost their price. tesla reported record losses last week. in an angry outburst, musk warned speculators there would be "carnage" for anyone betting on its shares losing value — also known as shorting. and did you know that plastic waste is contributing to this problem? if you can make out what that is, it

isa if you can make out what that is, it is a fat burg. fatbergs — the congealed waste clogging up our sewers — are created by wet wipes being flushed down the toilet. thee reason they don't break down is that they contain plastic. the government has included wet wipes on the list of plastic products it wants to ban, so manufacturers will need to develop a biodegradable version or wet wipes will be wiped out. let's look at the markets. a mixed day in europe, the ftse is making up for lost time, it was shut yesterday because of the bank holiday. there's a bit of profit taking going on, and the dax. we mentioned the japanese company ta keda which the dax. we mentioned the japanese company takeda which was at its peak share price in january company takeda which was at its peak share price injanuary but has fallen since then, some of its shareholders perhaps not keen on this takeover. on the british transport company, share price down 10% today, rumours of a takeover bid from us hedge fund called apollo

group, they won't go ahead with the takeover, they said, so the share prices down. more business news throughout the afternoon. kate. rachel, thank you. celebrities have gathered at one of new york's most dazzling events: the met ball. the event raises funds for the metropolitan museum of art's costume institute and attracts fashion designers and stars from around the world. this year's theme of "heavenly bodies: fashion and the catholic imagination" inspired some incredible outfits, as our reporter nada tawfik reports. the grand staircase of the met gala was full of divine inspiration. angelic halos, bejewelled crosses, and flowing robes ruled the red carpet. the theme of this year's costume ball was heavenly bodies and the catholic imagination. so the who's who of fashion, hollywood, sports and music, dressed in their sunday's best. i thought this theme was actually really playful and extremely meaningful and fun, and there's a lot you could do with such an incredible theme, creatively. rihanna was a show—stopper in this

jewel encrusted pope outfit. the singer was a co—host of the evening along with donatella versace, and amal clooney, who wore this gown inspired by stained—glass. not the easiest thing to manoeuvre. look after look dazzled at fashion's biggest night. i think one of the most amazing things is to see people really focus on fashion. i know the oscars, golden globes, it is about that industry, and people love to dress, but this is about our industry. and it's about designers being fearless and being able to create in a way that they normally might not be able to create. it is always such a magical night. you feel like cinderella coming up these stairs, and you know, getting dressed up and having such a fantasy. it may seem controversial

to pair the superficial with the sacred. but the vatican has actually blessed this exhibition. they have loaned dozens of rare items including one tiara with 18,000 diamonds in it to be displayed. many of the items have never been seen outside the vatican before. this year involved actual negotiations with the vatican for a very long time. and it's a wonderful thing to bring all this extraordinary clothing and objets from the vatican. if some young person comes to see the fashion but sees the exhibition as well, that is a great achievement. so the crossover is what i love about it. the invitation—only event is always full of surprises. and the designs never disappoint. nada tawfik, bbc news, new york. time for a look at the weather. good afternoon kate, the heat is beginning to ebb away from many parts of the country but it's still hot in the south east, blue skies on

the thames earlier, temperatures not farfrom the thames earlier, temperatures not far from where they were yesterday in london. it will turn colour in the next few days, not bad temperatures, not much rain in the south east, a different story further north—west across the uk where we've had rain in northern ireland and ten pitchers are much lower than they were yesterday and over the next few days it should feel quite chilly, there will be spells of wind and rain. we've got one area of rain pushing east steadily many into the northern half of the uk, not much rain further south, the band having cleared northern ireland now, ahead of it is where the heat is building up across the south east into eastern parts of england, some decent temperatures ahead of the rain, in eastern scotla nd ahead of the rain, in eastern scotland and to the midlands, the rain having cleared northern ireland and is pushing and across north west wales, northern england and scotland, over the east midlands and is becoming light and patchy but it may trigger some sharp showers to end the day. everything moves away

overnight into the north sea, tebbit is begin to drop and the winds should be light, a cooler might than last night, most noticeable in scotland, still warm ten or 11 in the south—east and east anglia after the south—east and east anglia after the earlier heat but he'd is getting pushed away into the near continent, one weatherford clearing away, the next coming into the atlantic, behind these weather systems the air getting chillier, one place after another. many areas. sunny and dry on wednesday, but we could see wet and windy weather coming quickly into northern ireland which will move into scotland and westernmost parts of england and wales of the afternoon, the east midlands having afternoon, the east midlands having a dry day, but so and temperatures, if you are under varane 1112 degrees, the rain heaviest in the west as it pushes east overnight, very light and patchy again. behind that this airflow bringing in showers, sufficient bridging in the

pressure packing to mean the southern half of the uk will probably be dry, very few showers around, heavy with rain and thunder in the north—west before fading greater in the day. better temperatures for scotland and northern ireland but we are dropping again further south to 15 or 18 degrees. quite sharp change over the days ahead. hello, you're watching afternoon live, i'm simon mccoy. today at 2:00pm: the nuclear countdown — president trump prepares to announce whether he'll abandon a deal with iran, or re—impose sanctions. adding to brexit tensions — borisjohnson describes one of downing street's plans for customs controls as "crazy". give every 25—year—old £10,000 and make working pensioners pay more towards the nhs. the new proposals to reduce wealth inequality. i'd love to get my own place but the reality is, you will not until your late 20s, it if you are lucky.

just the ticket? or totally off the rails? the latest proposals from the train companies to make ticket prices fairer. coming up on afternoon live all the sport. the new snooker champion is at least a man of his word? very