this is bbc news. i'm nicholas owen. the headlines at 8pm. it has officially been the hottest day of the year with temperatures reaching a scorching 35 degrees in parts of the uk. it comes as mps warned that he'd waste could become the new normal in the uk. and kill thousands every year. —— heat waves. with record temperatures built upon, later this hour a bbc news national programme to explain what is going on and why it has been so hot. feeling the heat? that is at 8:30pm. our other main news tonight. medicinal —— medicinal cannabis is to be legalized on prescription in the uk. it follows the high—profile cases of children with severe epilepsy being denied access to cannabis oil. the bbc is due for a more than three quarters of £1 million toward sir cliff richard legal costs following his case. former pakistan cricket captain claims victory in the country's general election. and what are the hottest jobs around ? we

general election. and what are the hottestjobs around? we are out with some workers feeling the full force of the uk heatwave. it has officially been the hottest day of the year so far. the heat has been causing health problems of the elderly and hospital staff have reportedly needed treatment themselves. the symptoms of heat exhaustion, after shifts on hot. today the mercury hit a scorching 35 celsius. at london's heathrow airport. temperatures are set to rise even further. what remains this week could even break the all—time record of 38.5 degrees celsius which was set and can't in 2003. mps have warned that heat waves could become more common in the future and that

110w more common in the future and that now infrastructure is ill—prepared to with it. ourfirst now infrastructure is ill—prepared to with it. our first report is by john k who is in the thinking for us this evening. wally is suffering. at 86, the heat has made his lung condition worse. he was rushed to hospital after collapsing at home. condition worse. he was rushed to hospital after collapsing at homeli fell, fell backwards into a radiator. sort of chunk it up. he's 110w radiator. sort of chunk it up. he's now making sure he drinks plenty of water during the heat wave. second time it's happened. and so is don, on the other side of the work. he came in dehydrated with a kidney problem. i go into the hallway. what time hejust problem. i go into the hallway. what time he just passed problem. i go into the hallway. what time hejust passed out? problem. i go into the hallway. what time he just passed out? yeah. that scary. it is. in marriages the air c011 scary. it is. in marriages the air con units were brought into the hospital this afternoon as temperatures climbed above 30 celsius. here in the thinking, the heat has led to an increase in admissions including sunburn and sun sure. we've got more patients needing more treatment and in fact

that this time of the year we have not nearly all of our beds, our winter pressure beds already open and that is a real concern for us. so you're operating at winter levels at the end ofjuly? absolutely, yes. next to the ambulances today, an ice cream van. how's this for hospital food? but elsewhere in the uk, medical staff have not been so lucky. well, nursing staff are reporting hospital environment in hospital wards reaching over 30 degrees at the moment. obviously thatis degrees at the moment. obviously that is having an impact on their health and well— being. that is having an impact on their health and well—being. nurses reporting feeling sick, dizzy. we've even had any simple of a nurse who has had to be hospitalized after doing long shifts in a really hot emergency environment. so just serious concerns, they themselves, nurses, of them becoming the patients. if euro, passengers thought they were a scraping the heat by crossing the channel, they we re heat by crossing the channel, they were in for a shock. air conditioning problems meant some

carriages couldn't be used. leaving travellers hot, bothered and delayed for five hours. fire travellers hot, bothered and delayed forfive hours. fire hydrants were open to cool people down. not quite the beach or swimming pool they were dreaming of. as the music festival opens in the, the met office says much of england could now see dramatic by the storms and hail showers. but the warnings of sudden rainfall and flash flooding. but before the deluge, here they are bringing in extra water to keep the cloud hydrated. we massively increased the amount of water on site. we've worked with water to bring in pill tanks and out four or five pillow things around the side, much more attacks, filtered water, you know, it is all here. you will not go thirsty. just when you thought it couldn't get any hotter, tomorrow the mercury is set to rise even higher. and could beat the all—time record. john k, bbc news. whether you are enjoying the

sunshine are getting a bit fed up with it, there is a warning that we may have to get used to these sweltering conditions. a report from mps on the environmental audit committee says he plays good increasingly become the new norm for british summertime. they predict the number of heat related deaths will travel by the middle of the century to 7000 people a year, unless the government does more to make sure buildings and infrastructure can cope with rising temperatures. for more on this, i'm joined by the labourmp more on this, i'm joined by the labour mp who chairs that committee. good evening to you. you're very suitably dressed for what is going on. how serious is this, really? a lot of people and particularly older people would say we've dealt with it before, we have had very hot summers before. well, this is a serious problem. 15 of the 16 hottest summers ever have taken place since 2001. so we remember the summer of 76, but what older people in particular don't realise is that

these heat waves are becoming more frequent and more intense. and we have a slightly british tendency to keep the stiff upper lip calling and keep the stiff upper lip calling and keep carrying on, and that is not the same, that is not what people do in mediterranean countries where they don't go out between 11 and three, keep their homes shaded and have a sort of after dark life where they go out for their walk in the evening. this is going to be serious particularly for older people with heart, lung and kidney conditions who are really at risk. let's go back on one thing. i believe you started your deliberations on climate generally. half we had a thing from the beast from the east? that's right. we started our inquiry in march. we sat there talking about heat waves with six inches of snow carpeting the street outside parliament. it was a slightly bizarre moment to be taking off. it was also the same phenomenon which is these very still highs, the splitting of thejudge is these very still highs, the splitting of the judge dream and the kind of polar vortex being in the wrong place. with the climate scientists told us is that these

sorts of extremes, the average temperature has gone up by 0.75 celsius. actually we are predicted to cv signatures rise to 1.5 degrees. that is average, but it means the extremes can be very hot and the extremes at the other end could also be very cold. you talk about changes that are needed but you mention and continental countries, or some of them anyway, everything backed up around sort of the middle morning in some cases and people eat late and they are up late. so we don't have that sort of society at all, do we? it is not just a matter of the infrastructure, it is habit. well, the infrastructure is eight important point. chief temperatures today were hitting 30 on the london underground, hitting 35 degrees. absolutely intolerable levels of heat on the on the ground. it is going to take 20 years before the two can properly be cool because it isa two can properly be cool because it is a huge programme of infrastructure investment. people on trains, where the train tracks are potentially blocking in the heat, signals going down because of electricity failures. all of these

issues really matter. then we come to the issue of our cities and buildings. we are building homes that are too hot, that are prone to overheating. and then we are sticking things onto them, which then contributes him he the electricity and contribution to the urban heat effect. we recommend to government they need to change the building regulations and also make our homes much more efficient, what efficient because we will have a lot less water to drink in the future, 4-796 less water to drink in the future, 4—7% reduction in water supply, that is an absolutely massive reduction. mary creagh, very grateful to you. thank you very much indeed. we will find out how this story and others are being covered on tomorrow's from pages at 10115 pm and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. joining me tonight is like all correspondent for the sun and jason bt, head of politics at the mirror. specialist doctors in the uk will be able to legally prescribed medicinal cannabis from the autumn following a

review from the home office. decided to relax the rules after a series of high—profile cases with children of severe epilepsy being denied access to cannabis oil. other forms of cannabis will remain illegal. here is our medical correspondent. two days 1h two days 1a and has a rare form of epilepsy. he used to have up to 100 seizures a day. but since he went of a tennis oil medicine, he has been seizure free. he's full of life. and he likes it. haven't seen him go for yea rs he likes it. haven't seen him go for years and years. suffering. stop going for treatment. and those endless visits to hospitals. and now he is alive. the epilepsy medicine tj takes was developed by a british company at this cannabis research facility in kent. it also has a licensed drug for multiple sclerosis, no doubt then that cannabis medicines can work. but a

series of six children mike alfie word denied access to cannabis medicines because the drugs, produced overseas, had not undergone rigorous clinical trials. he ended up rigorous clinical trials. he ended up in hospital having multiple seizures until his mum was granted a special licence to import the drug. now adamant parent power has made it easierfor specialists here to prescribed them. this announcement today gives every person in that situation hope, that they can try this medication and that it just might they can try this medication and that itjust might work. i've always been clear that it doesn't always work for everyone, but when it does work for everyone, but when it does work it works like a miracle. the government is adamant this will not lead to the legalization of cannabis for recreational use. cannabis remains an illegal class b drug, so the production, possession and dealing of cannabis are still

criminal offences. anyone trying to grow this lots at home would risk a jail term. there are more than 100 active compounds in the cannabis plant. this change in the rules should make it easierfor researchers to investigate their potential benefits as well as harms. fergus walsh, bbc news. a high court judge a high courtjudge has refused to give the bbc permission to appeal his ruling, or appeal against his ruling, with the corporation breached the privacy of sir cliff richard and his coverage of a raid on his home in berkshire in 2014. the bbc has apologised to sir cliff for the distress calls, but wanted permission to appeal because it argues thejudgement permission to appeal because it argues the judgement could threaten press freedom. they will not have to decide whether to take its case directly to the court of appeal. the corporation has also agreed to pay £850,000 to cover the legal fees for sutcliffe, that sir cliff has incurred. lucy manning has this update from outside the royal courts

of justice. the bbc got a sense today ofjust how big the bill is he is facing for losing that case against the circular for last week. the total bill so far and it is going to rise significantly, is £1.5 million. £850,000 of fat as you said, is to pay sir cliff richard for part of his legal fees. the pay sir cliff richard for part of his legalfees. the bbc pay sir cliff richard for part of his legal fees. the bbc also tried and failed today, to see if it could get permission to appeal the judgement. thejudge did not appear massively impressed with the bbc‘s argument, calling them "irrelevant, wrong and meaningless". the bbc now has to decide whether it might go directly to the court of appeal. but it said that while there were issues of significant press freedom that might need to be looked at, it also did not want to prolong the case. so the bbc really has to decide whether it is going to risk a potentially more of licence fee payer's money or deal with the issue that is pink is

a significant threat to the press freedoms, that it does not allow the bbc and other newspapers to properly report police investigations. the judge today said that was a misreading of his judgement, judge today said that was a misreading of hisjudgement, that the bbc have quite a significant decision to make. lucy manning reporting. the european union's chief brexit negotiator says he will not accept one of the key proposals in theresa may's checkers plan. speaking in brussels along side the brexit secretary, michel barnier said the european union could not and would not allow the uk to collect tariffs on their behalf after brexit. let's ta ke let's take a look at the headlines now on bbc news. the temperature reached 35 degrees this afternoon at london's heathrow airport, making it the hottest day of the year so far. medicinal cannabis is to be legalized on prescription in the uk, following the high—profile cases of children with severe epilepsy being denied access to cannabis oil. as we've just been hearing,

denied access to cannabis oil. as we'vejust been hearing, the bbc is to pay more than three quarters of £1 million towards sir cliff richard's legal costs, following his privacy case. now, let's go over to the bbc sport central before we do have a lot of sports news from that wonderful studio. that evening, mike. great to see you. a trouble—free day tha nkfully see you. a trouble—free day thankfully for durra nt see you. a trouble—free day thankfully for durrant thomas on his bike in the tour de france. he managed to take his lead on the 18th stage and it is still a healthy one of one minute and 59 seconds. good job for the welshman with a mountainous final test for him tomorrow as nick parrott reports. after a ha rd after a hard mounting stage yesterday, this was a chance for him to conserve his energy ahead of another big challenge tomorrow. the stage in southwest france should have been trouble—free for the main contenders for top while the terrain did not pose a challenge writing in

a large group of writers is always hazardous. after winning yesterday's stage, brought back down to earth. running repairs allowed him to rejoin the main group. but 30 writers have failed to make it this far. and the columbian, who is fifth overall, will be hoping his injuries donein overall, will be hoping his injuries done in his rates. at the sharp end, france's won the battle of these printers to take the stage victory. thomas crossed the line soon after. tea m thomas crossed the line soon after. team sky say the probability of winning the tour rests with him. as tomorrow's mountain stage will be chris froome's last chance to get back into contention for a fifth title. nick harit, bbc news. former manchester united alex ferguson says he would not be here today without the great care of hospital staff after his surgery for a brain haemorrhage back in may. sir alistair spoken holtby for the first time since going home from hospital -- sir time since going home from hospital —— sir alex. he thinks all of his well wishes. hello. just a quick

message, first of all to think the medical staff at michael's field, salford royal and alexander hospitals. the people gave me such great care and i would not be sitting here today. so thank you, for me and my family. thank you very much. it has made me feel so humbled. as all the messages i have had from all over the world. wishing me the best. and the good wishes to resonate very, very strongly with me. so thank you for that support you have given me. and lastly, i'll be back later in the season to watch the team. in the meantime, all the best to joe's eight and the players. thank you very much. good to see sir alex looking well again there. i'm sure he will be interested in tonight's football. burnley fans can be true proud of their team, playing in european football for the first time since 1967. this time they are in the second qualifying round of the

europa league, up against aberdeen in the first leg, half an hour into the match. burnley have lost their goalkeeper. aberdeen are 1—0, stephen scoring for the scottish side after 18 minutes. sir alex ferguson's former club, of course. elsewhere rangers have managed to ta ke elsewhere rangers have managed to take the lead in croatia. morale is with the goal there. you can see the other scores there as well. northern irish side, crusaders are two down now to the slovenian side olympia, and welsh side drawing 1—1 with lincoln red imps. adil rashid has been picked for england's squad for the first test against india next wednesday is biking out with his company archer focus on monday in 2020 matches. he has not played a test since facing india in 2016. former captain michael vaughan said the decision to include him is ridiculous and yorkshire's chief executive mike arthur said he hopes england know

what they're doing. but the national selector ed smith said earlier today that his selection does not set a bad precedent and he is basically in one awful. ireland have guarantee their place in the quarterfinals of the women's hockey world cup with a shock win over india. they secured a 1—0 victory, thanks to anna flanigan's deflected effort there. the result was ireland competing in theirfirst world cup in 16 years, they will top of pool b. that means england cannot now qualify automatically for the last eight. england to face ireland this sunday, to determine where they will finish in the group. it will still be quite hard for england not to make the quarterfinals. but obviously island doing brilliantly there in their spot as ireland doing brilliantly there. that is every sport. studio: thank you very much indeed. speaking of cricket, former pakistan cricket captain imran contessa claimed victory in the country's general election. his political party has won the most seats and set to become prime minister. his voters

claimed there was widespread vote rigging and interference from the forces. crowds gathered outside his home when the outskirts of islamabad, hoping for a glance of the man said to become pakistan's new prime minister. he can bring real reforms. and we think that he is the only one who can take pakistan forward in the right direction. from inside his home, he addressed the nation. declaring victory in the elections and promising to create a fairer, more equal society. translation: we will want pakistan and a way that it has never been before. he first became a star as an international cricketer. in britain, he was known for his good looks and playboy lifestyle. in 1995, he married british socialite. after

entering politics 22 years ago, he initially struggled, but his anti—corruption message has energised young voters. his political rivals they'll have rejected the results of the vote. his critics say pakistan's military won it to replace the outgoing government with his party. translation: this is clear rigging and we completely reject the results. khan's artie bell dismissed those claims. for his supporters, imran khan represents a break with the old bull of politics, one that was dominated by few influential families. imran khan's promised to create a new pakistan, but as prime minister he will face real torches. —— real challenges. chief amongst them will be reaching out to those who did not vote for him, as well as continuing legends about the fairness of this election. bbc news, islamabad. let's go live now and speak to

doctor a mina from the university of london. thank you very much for joining us. vote rigging, do you think it was widespread? how serious a factor was that in the end? the felt rigging question has been raised in the media here, and it has been raised by the political parties most of all by the opposition parties. i know that polling agents we re parties. i know that polling agents were not able to stay until the end of the counting, the vote counting, and that has been the major cause for concern. i believe there is also a piece of paper that has also caused some issues. i, myself, when to vote. in terms of observing what was going on the ground and as well as the reports coming in from the commonwealth observers that was there, the election process seemed to be fairly smooth in the major cities. there was, of course, the incident that was unfortunate. there

will be other reports that come in. i think will be other reports that come in. ithink imran will be other reports that come in. i think imran khan's rt will have to respond to that listing of vote rigging. whether it is something thatis rigging. whether it is something that is actually more to do about the process of communication between the process of communication between the election commissioner of the stand and how it is run, this particular process, it is the first time they have also had the overseas vote coming in. and they have also taken a long time to declare the results. they still don't have all the final results. so there are questions, people are asking questions, people are asking questions rightly. and i think those questions rightly. and i think those questions will need to be answered by the ruling party and to see what the election commission in particular had to say about this. the election commission in particular had to say about thism could be damaging i guess to imran khan himself, could an end? because after a ll khan himself, could an end? because after all being against corruption was very much the central point of his campaign. absolutely. that is

why i said that he has to come out in his party has to come out and make a statement about this and make the claims that will prove their righteousness to the people who voted him in, to say that yes, we are hearing what you are saying and we are going to look into this process and we are going to see what the results are, because you're absolutely right, that the opposition parties can take to the streets and do the turnout that his party did in return, to say well, what you did before we can do now and we can bring the country to a standstill and save this election has not been fair. but from the reports also that have come and, it seems that the election omission is performed better than it did last yearin performed better than it did last year in terms of how it randy election, but there have been issues of course there was also military presence within the election booths. where i went to vote, there was also

men in uniform standing there as well alongside me, commonwealth observers alongside party observers and etc. so there are lots of parts to be puzzled. they make up the election process, yeah. doctor amina yaqin, thank you very much indeed. let's go back to our main news this evening and the continuing heatwave here. in a few minutes we will be bringing you a special programme, looking at what is actually going on with the weather and light it has been so very hot. now, this long, hot spell may be great if you can sit in the sun and had to be shaped when you feel like it, but it can be a we'll struggle for those who work outside and cannot escape the heat. this report from suffolk. stuart clark loves his job. stuart clark loves hisjob. but stuart clark loves his job. but he doesn't love it quite as much as it is usual, just at the moment. stewart drives steam trains on the bureau valley railway. he basically

saysis bureau valley railway. he basically says is very, very close to an open fire on day. in the cabin you get a fair bit of the because obviously you've got the back of the firebox here and obviously the fire is in there, so you get a lot of interference back in the cab when you are farina got to open the doors, so you got the full fire actually in front of you, even when the doors open, so it gets very hot. marcondes three trips a day and the temperature in his cap is well over 40 degrees in this heat. in times of the year you can manage quite co mforta bly, the year you can manage quite comfortably, you keep warm, but not too warm. but at the moment it is tremendously hot. it is quite uncomfortable, but we keep going. spare a thought for factors, who are that little bit closer to the sun. —— factors. this team working on a barn in suffolk of having to stop work early. what we have started to do is get up about six, try and get two side for seven, getting the manager and a lot of water and just try and keep out of the heat when we can. which obviously isn't very

often, but we just keep coming down the ladder, when someone, i intend to go home at about 1pm and jump in a river somewhere. an art market, this shift is struggling to keep food fresh and to keep her cool at busy periods. it is quite full on. luckily we got the shutters and we can open those up and try to get some air in, but there is no real escape from it. yeah, there's an awful lot of heat. you just have to stay hydrated. get out and get some airwhen we can. stay hydrated. get out and get some air when we can. but, stay hydrated. get out and get some airwhen we can. but, yeah, stay hydrated. get out and get some air when we can. but, yeah, just focus really. for many, the heatwave has been a big bonus this summer. but if you are working and doing a hotjob in the hot spell probably cannot end soon enough. hello there. it was a very warm day right across the board today, but a very hot across the southeast. 35 celsius being recorded. heathrow airport this afternoon making this the highest temperature of the year

so the highest temperature of the year so far. thunderstorms have been breaking out across eastern england. that is of things to come in the next 24—48 hours, increasing chances ofa next 24—48 hours, increasing chances of a digitalfor some next 24—48 hours, increasing chances of a digital for some severe thunderstorms as well. reason for the breakdown and weather, big area of low pressure in the atlantic is heading to our direction, destabilising the atmosphere. thunderstorms will develop, but tonight widely in the midlands, eastern side of england, pushing to eastern side of england, pushing to eastern scotland, meanwhile further west we have got that weather front pushing more cloud ambris and outbreaks of rain. another fairly warm night to come and particularly across the southeast corner. no lower than 20 or 21 degrees in london. we start friday also. thunderstorms across eastern areas and torrential downpour is, made some hail, frequent lightning. then across the southeast and midlands, more thunderstorms develop right into the afternoon. meanwhile the wind and the rain continues to push into western areas. not quite as warm as thursday, but again across the southeast it could be hot again, temperatures into the load to mid

30s celsius. for friday evening, those thunderstorms to gore and more widespread, reducing longer spells of rain. things become more u nsettled of rain. things become more unsettled as we head on into the weekend. something we have not seen for a long time, and that is an area of low pressure sitting right on top of low pressure sitting right on top of the uk. we are looking at a much cloudier day, much breezy or as well for all areas. brain will be affecting the northeast of scotland and in another band of showers and rain pushes into to the north and the west of the country, but because spells of sunshine in the southeast, although it will be much fresher as it has been of late. a good 10 degrees out on recent days, further north and west, very windy temperatures and high teens celsius. for sunday we have got another area of low pressure swinging into the southwest, pretty wet day for some northern and western areas in particular. maybe some boundary downpours mixed in. sunshine will be across eastern areas. it will be a very bust three day, these showers will be quite heavy and blustery. high teens celsius and the north, maybe 23 or 24 degrees at best in

the southeast. that is the sign of things to come, turning much fresher through the weekend and into the start of next week. sunny spells and a few showers. feeling the heat. an in—depth look at the global heat wave that has seen at the global heat wave that has seen extremes of at the global heat wave that has seen extremes of summer at the global heat wave that has seen extremes of summer heat on confidence across the northern hemisphere. with multiple heatwave sitting countries across the globe from east asia to north america will be finding out how different communities have been coping. in japan, they declared a natural disaster, there have been dozens of deaths in the record heat while much of southern europe has been sweltering, it has been quite a different story in iceland where they have one of the worst summers on