this is bbc news i'm nicholas. the headlines at 7. the brexit secretary says he's confident the uk won't crash out of the eu without a deal. dominic raab says he believes an agreement is possible within months, if brussels shows ambition. if it's reciprocated, the energy that we're going to bring to these negotiations, the ambition and pragmatism, we get a deal done in october. hundreds of volunteers from syria's civil defence force, known as the white helmets are rescued from a war zone in southern syria. they are safely in jordan a three—year—old boy who was seriously injured in an acid attack in worcester has been discharged from hospital police want to speak to three men, following the attack at a shop in the city yesterday afternoon inquires of the moment, and we are really keen to identifying that three people that we think may have information to help us. virgin media customers lose access to ten tv channels after a row betweeh the company and uktv over fees. a woman who lost 9 members

of her family when a tourist boat capsized in the us, speaks of her grief... the brexit secretary dominic raab, says he's confident a deal to leave the european union can be reached by mid october, the deadline set by the other 27 member states. but he says it's right for the government to step up preparations over the summer, for the possibility that no agreement is reached. the former conservative prime minister sirjohn major warned that a ‘no deal‘ brexit, could result in dire economic consequences, for those he said "who could least afford it'. here's our political

correspondent chris mason. it sounded like they all agreed, but the cabinet meeting, some on the table were unsure about the prime minister's plans for brexit. that's according to the new brexit secretary. but he sounded confident that a deal can be done with brussels. i am striving every sinew of our department, wiping is a man who wants to do a deal with us, tremendous pressures on his site to get the best deal, but we've got to, i think it is the only responsible thing to do to be prepared those negotiations and the energy and ambition are not reciprocated. the energy that we're going to bring to these negotiations, who will get a deal done in october. the labour leader spent the day, at the festival. he is scathing about what

he sees as government dithering. it's been two years, surely they should be in a better position to figure out the arrangements that we re figure out the arrangements that were going to happen the future, and i decide the feeling that the tail is wagging the dog in the tory party, and new deal seems to be ruling the roost in there pushing for that. no deal would be a very bad situation. if it soundsjust a tad familiar, this man was furious with conservative eurosceptics at corridor of the century ago. —— a quarter. the people have we still going to be hurt most. it'll be a terrible betrayal of the interests of everyday people, who really not political. a government forecast suggested the northeast of england, which endorsed which would take the biggest hit if the deal was not

struck, and another referendum would be morally justified, struck, and another referendum would be morallyjustified, people in middlesboro agreed. inserting another referendum considering that, quite a lot ofjobs with the loss.|j think we should do is get another agreement and walk away. going back palate was in a think nothing would change for the worst. mps been a shift of the summer on tuesday, but then prime minister senior team will fan out around europe and the division of brexit. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages. atio:30 and 11:30pm this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are the author and broadcaster, natalie haynes and rob merrick, deputy political editor of the independent. israel has interevened, to help more than a hundred members of the volunteer syrian civil defence force, known as the white helmets, escape an offensive by government forces, in southern syria.they‘re

now safe injordan along with three hundred members of their familes. britain, along with france and canada requested israel's help, over concerns the volunteers might be detained by the syrian army. the white helmets mainly work in rebel held areas rescuing civilians from air attacks. rescuing the rescuers. syrian civil defence volunteers and their families evacuated into jordan, and to safety. these pictures filmed by the israeli army show its troops escorting the white helmets from the syrian border, escaping assad regime and russian forces. israel's prime minister said it was an urgent international operation. translation: the lives of these people, who have saved lives, were now in danger. i therefore authorised the transfer, via israel, to other countries as an important humanitarian gesture. they will now be resettled in britain, canada and germany. the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt,

called the white helmets "the bravest of the brave", adding, "in a desperate situation, this is at least one ray of hope." in the hell of syria's war, the white helmets have often been first on the scene, pulling victims from the rubble of air strikes, administering first aid when hospitals are bombed. nominated for the nobel peace prize, the volunteers say they have saved over 115,000 lives. 260 white helmets have been killed, some targeted by a second air strike as they moved in. but president assad calls them jihadists. as syrian government and russian forces surround opposition areas of south—west syria, civilians and fighters have been bussed to rebel—held idlib in the north. but the regime refused to let the white helmets join them. as assad forces, backed by russian air power, close in on south—west syria, resistance is crumbling.

and the medical lifeline of the white helmets has been cut. caroline anning is save the children's syria advocacy manager, she gave us their perspective on the work of the white helmets. well, i think definitely no doubt that given the state of the violence in israel, the huge use of explosive weapons in populated areas, people being panca ked weapons in populated areas, people being pancaked on top, they clearly have done vital life—saving work, putting their lives at risk this save people day in and day out. so you have to commend them for that work, but i think one of the things to remember is that this is, this has been able to happen to pull these people and their families out,

by the same time, the is ongoing in southern syria, where families and children are attacked and without the military and eight, people have been delivering aid, running schools hospitals also fear for their lives now. so i think it is a step forward , now. so i think it is a step forward, but we still have much to do. working behind the scenes to ensure the safety of humanitarian work, on the international aid, we cannot do our work and help children and families on the ground without the network of the humanitarians who have been there, stayed in very dangerous conditions and are doing things like running underground schools, running clinics, nutrition programmes, all sorts of things that are keeping families together. and we're not trying to work with this these parties, but we're trying sure

—— just these party. and when possible they're able to continue their work. police in worcester have released cctv images, of three men they want to question, after a three—year old boy was seriously injured in a suspected acid attack. officers say he was deliberately targetted. a 39—year—old man from wolverhampton has been arrested, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm. olivia crellin reports. a shocking attack in an quintessential english city, it was the scene of a acid attack on the child in a busy retail park. it left residents shaken. it was this just disgraceful. the police have

released these images, but 2a hours later they do not know the motive for the attack of the exact substance use. it was dangerous enough to hospitalize the young boy who was being treated for serious burns on his arms and face. really for the family but even this quiet city, the threat of acid attacks lingers. three members of the anti—corruption unit at the metropolitan police are being investigated over claims they covered up or failed to properly pursue allegations of wrong—doing by other officers. the independent office for police conduct, which is carrying out the investigation, says a number of other officers are also being assessed. our home affairs correspondent tom symmonds gave us the detail from scotland yard. this is the department, the directorate of professional standards at the metropolitan police, that itself investigates problems with police officers, either criminality by police officers or breaches of police guidelines, misconduct.

the police watchdog today says that it is investigating a series of allegations against officers working within that directorate. is about the allegation that they may have interfered and prevented investigations and other offices. and so far, three middle ranking officers are facing investigation and they're officers are facing investigation and they‘ re looking officers are facing investigation and they're looking at the cases at in another dozen or so. a highly controversial thing for them to say, but that has a long history of dealing with corruption within the force in the 70s, 80s and 90s, it was about corrupt links between criminals and the police, and i was about corrupt links between police and other police. when a tourist boat sank on a lake

in the american state of missouri, has been describing what happened. in all, 17 people died when the duck boat capsized during a thunder storm, on table rock lake on thursday. caroline davies reports. out of her hospital bed, in public for the first time. last week, tia coleman was on a pleasure cruise with her family when the duck boat she was on started to sink. when that water came over the boat, i didn't know what was happening. i had my son right next to me. but when the water filled up the boat, i could no longer see. and i just remember kicking and swimming, swimming up to the top. and as i was swimming ing. isaid, "lord, please let me get to my babies, i've got to get to my babies". i've got to get my babies. tia was rescued, but 17 people didn't survive, including her husband, three children and five other relatives. the boat had life jackets, but tia says the family didn't wear them because she was told they wouldn't need them.

if i was able to get a life jacket, i could have saved my babies. because they could have at least floated up to the top and somebody could have grabbed them. and i wasn't able to do that. under missouri law, passengers over the age of seven aren't required to wear life jackets. there was a weather warning before the boat set out, but the owner of the tour boat company said he'd been told by employees that the storm had come out of nowhere. something happened, and we don't know exactly what it was, and we will. but it doesn't matter. any time people suffer a loss like that, it can't be replaced. i mean, it's absolutely devastating. the community here have each other to lean on. when tia goes home to indiana, it'll be without her family. since i've had a home, it's always been filled with little feet and laughter.

caroline davies, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. the brexit secretary says he's confident the uk won't crash out of the eu without a deal. dominic raab says he believes an agreement is possible within months, if brussels shows ambition. hundreds of volunteers from syria's civil defence force, known as the white helmets are rescued from a war zone in southern syria. they are safely in jordan. police want to speak to three men, following an acid attack on a three—year—old boy in worcester eleven taxi drivers have been shot dead in south africa. they were ambushed by unknown gunmen late on saturday as they were returning tojohannesburg from a funeral. four others are seriously

injured in hospital. rivalry between groups running minibus taxi routes has led to violence in the past. south african journalist eye—yanda th—longo has been telling us about what the motivation could be behind the attack. there can be terrific incident taking place here in south africa and the province, and of course the police have said that they do not know what the motive of this heinous act is. it is believed to be linked to ongoing turf war that in that city ofjohannesburg, between the ivory park association and they have had quite a long battle between themselves and other rival associations over routes. and that has generally been what has been the reason behind the taxi violence across south africa, way back to the 1980s.

where the taxi started operating in south africa, every single province in this country, we've seen is that the reasoning behind it has always been a battle over routes, a rather lucrative industry in south africa and they carry about 60% of commuters and over 14 million people in south africa, use the taxi as a means of transport, and so is a multibillion—dollar industry, there's been a number of concerns of course that it has been an industry that has been unregulated for many years, and as result now, we are seeing hundreds of people entering into the taxi industry and it's major competition the french finance minister, bruno le maire, has said a trade

war is now a reality, and is threatening global growth. he was speaking at a g20 summit in argentina where finance ministers and bankers from the world's leading economies denounced president trump's policy of imposing trade tariffs. translation: we ask the united states to see sense. we call for them to respect multilateral rules and to respect their allies. world trade cannot base itself on the law of the jungle. the unilateral increase of tariffs is the law of the jungle. the law of the jungle, the law of the fittest, this cannot be the future of global trade relations. at least 10 people have died in vietnam in floods caused by typhoon rains which struck central and northern parts of the country. the waters have also damaged thousands of homes and destroyed crops. aaron safir reports.

a violent force of nature that vietnam knows only too well. these waters were unleashed by typhoon, the third tropical storm — son tinh — to hit the country this year. it made landfall on wednesday evening, damaging infrastructure and crops through thanh hoa and nghe an provinces. yen bai, like many other areas of the country, continues to suffer floods and landslides in the storm's wake. nationwide, around 4000 houses have been damaged and thousands of hectares of crops have been destroyed. these waters have come quickly, but it will take much longer to repair the damage. vietnam's rainy season is betweenjune and november, and storms and floods frequently claim hundreds of lives. so far, around a dozen people are confirmed dead and a similar number are missing. but with several communities still isolated and a warning of more rain is to come, that number could rise. millions of virgin media customers,

have been unable to watch some of their favourite tv channels today, because of a row between virgin, and the broadcaster uktv. popular stations like dave and gold, are among all ten of uktvs channels that have been cut, in a battle over fees. here's our business correspondent joe lynam. already, you're picking up the lingo! only fools and horses, the good life, but from many uk tv viewers, there paper channels disappeared. that's because ten channels, have been told entirely from their platform and with them, a

host of the country's favourite shows. he is very disappointed, he loves watching dave. i'm frustrated that i renewed my contract and did not know about this. so i'm frustrated that there is a lot of content that i watch, particularly dave. ajoint content that i watch, particularly dave. a joint venture content that i watch, particularly dave. ajoint venture between the bbc,, they own the rights to broadcast bbc tv shows, but virgin has cut the price of the pay, so they have switched off the signal entirely. virgin media have offered us entirely. virgin media have offered us less money for the services, the reality of that money is important to us, it allows us to invest in the channels, and the programmes that are viewers love. and but virgin seesit are viewers love. and but virgin sees it differently, it's a big uk

tv refuses to allow viewers to watch box that's all in one go. will like uk tv to provide us the box set, the same box sets that they provide to netflix, so we want our customers that same access. we are selling public water to the public. for every days for the channels such as dave ann gold are absent, both sides will be losing money. in the meantime, viewers are missing out. mps are calling for a consultation on whether to ban the sale of real fur in the uk. the environment, food and rural affairs committee has been investigating why many high street retailers illegally sold fur described as fake, sarah corker reports. awareness of the issue. decades on, some shoppers have been unwittingly buying real fur labelled as fake.

the mis—selling was exposed by campaign groups and the media, including this investigation by the bbc. it emerged that several major retailers had sold products described as artificial, but tests showed were made from fox, rabbit and chinchilla. now an inquiry by the environment, food and rural affairs committee accuses retailers of being complacent about the problem. the reason why people buy fake fur is so that they're not wearing real fur, so it's pretty shocking that they can get away with that, really. i'd be disgusted to ever find out that something was an animal product that i hadn't knowingly bought into. so i don't think it's acceptable in any way, shape or form. furfarming was banned in the uk in 2000 but it is legal to sell some types of real fur imported from other countries if it is accurately labelled. during this inquiry,

evidence was taken from retailers here in camden to learn how realfur was mis—sold as fake, and what changes have been put in place to make sure it doesn't happen again. and the report calls for clearer labelling and stronger enforcement of the rules by trading standards. mps also want the government to begin a consultation on whether the sale of all types of real fur should be outlawed. sarah corker, bbc news he was famed for performances such as his heart—rendering portrayal ofjohn merrick in ‘the elephant man'. but sirjohn hurt was also a hugely talented artist. now, more than a year after his death, his paintings are being shown to the public for the first time. our reporter ian barmer has been to see the exhibition. no one excethohn hurt‘s family and friends has seen this

many of his artworks together in one place. he was a man who drew, constantly. and painted whenever he could around his many acting commitments. this is clearly a self—portrait. i think this was probably about 2010, or 2011, when john did this, but i always loved it. i used to, at night, i would be taking pilchard the dog for a walk down the track and john would still be in the barn and this would be standing on an easel with the light on it. it fooled me every time, i would think it was him. john hurt went to art school before he became an actor and even then he could never let it go. the exhibition has oil paintings, linocuts and drawings and a small selection of this many sketches. he was always drawing on napkins, scripts, i've got loads of them with little sketches on them. all sorts of things, you know. bus tickets, envelopes, the whole thing. it was something he had to do. it was part of his dna. i'm very pleased to meet you, mr merrick. one of his best—known film roles was the elephant man, and he drew his character,

john merrick. the exhibition in the auden theatre at gresham's school is one of the highlights of the whole festival. others include unpublished love letters written by george orwell and a stanley spencer portrait that has never been seen before. i think it is significant on a national stage because he was an internationally known figure and he painted seriously all his life. he started life as a painter and then turned to acting. this is the first—ever exhibition of his work. although it concentrates mainly in the last 20 years, it is a significant thing. it is a big responsibility. john had been asked in the past, i think, if he wanted to have an exhibition and he kind of pushed... i haven't enough work or it wasn't good enough. i can only hope that he would be quietly chuffed, you know. but he may well be up there in some way or another saying, what are you doing?

it is a great chance to see works by a man who never exhibited during his lifetime. ian barmer, bbc news now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz the heat wave continues with temperatures rising even further this week, but not for everybody and i cannot stress the really high temperatures as far as this week is concerned will be concentrated across southeastern and eastern parts of the country. other reasons why we're not getting a lot of rainfall is these weather fronts which you can see here, the streets of cloud are very weak, they failed to reach us. there is cool air right in the atlantic, but ultimately across more southern in the atlantic, but ultimately across more southern and eastern areas is that heat that is going to

blow from the south, and through the whole week. starting with the evening, and into tonight. in the northwestern areas of the country, we have these weather fronts that are moving in bringing a bit of rain to western scotland, maybe there'll bea to western scotland, maybe there'll be a few showers and coming up in the south, 20 degrees as the overnight low and it is still very warm in belfast. the starting temperature on monday. so here the weather fronts behind temperature on monday. so here the weatherfronts behind me, you can see this as the fresh error trying to talk and, but the... in some areas, scotland and northern ireland is in the fresh atlantic air, but still very warm, temperatures will get around 2a degrees. these weather fronts don't make much progress, they kind of stalled roundabout here, and this is what happened on tuesday in just about one weather front, another one, they are very

weak, but there is that cooler air thatis weak, but there is that cooler air that is trying to come in with those weather fronts again on tuesday, with that heat, this keeps on winning. but much of wales, but particularly hot across the east and southeast parts of the midlands, temperatures on tuesday and at some spots to get up to 32 and perhaps 33 degrees, compared to the much fresher conditions of belfast and glasgow surrounding 20 celsius. and the look of that, we will keep that in the south, right into the and and perhaps cooling off a little bit into the week. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. the brexit secretary says he's confident the uk won't crash out of the eu without a deal. dominic raab says he believes an agreement is possible within months, if brussels shows ambition. hundreds of volunteers from syria's civil defence force, known as the white helmets are rescued from a war zone in southern syria.