it still continues to fascinate. and the weather does as well here on earth. nick has the week ahead. friday's thunderstorms sport and into the heatwave which lasted for most of the week, with temperatures above 30 celsius. this weekend will feel much cooler, especially where it has been so hot. it will be breezy than we have had recently. a look and feel this weekend will be quite different to what we have a new suit. —— been used to. 0n on saturday, still to begin with, some heavy and bunbury rain around, especially through eastern parts of scotland, clearing northwards. sunshine and showers following behind, some of those have been pondering, especially into northern ireland. the temperatures colours indicate that temperature drop off, most noticeable where it has been so hot. so into east anglia, even though 25 celsius is still hot, it is 10 degrees down competitive ask a

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monday, the afternoon delivers a fair bit of dry weather and it will be allayed warmer in the sunshine as well. still quite easy, perhaps not as windy as it was on sunday. tuesday again, here is your area of low pressure. around that, weak weather fronts. low pressure. around that, weak weatherfronts. northern low pressure. around that, weak weather fronts. northern and western areas seeing a few showers. 0ne ought to lack dotted elsewhere. —— one or two dotted elsewhere. a breezy nature to be weather, lasting into tuesday. temperatures in the low teens and high 205. although by wednesday low pressure is beginning to pull away from us, they will still be a fuse showers. —— a few showers. now, a change as we go towards the end of the week. high pressure will start to fight. the further north you are, still the chance of a few showers, but with high pressure building vacuum that should settle things down once again. leaving things mainly dry and

warming up in the south. this is our next week is shaping up. an u nsettled next week is shaping up. an unsettled start with low pressure in control. the position of the low pressure means northern and western parts of written are most likely to see occasional wet weather, but showers will be dotted about. earlier in the week we showed you this picture of a weather station in suffolk, brooms barn, no rain for more than 50 days. it has now had some rain and some of us elsewhere have been very dry but have now rain as well. enjoy it while it lasts, it should settle down and warmup of its next week. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers are going to be reporting on tomorrow. we are joined tonight by rachel cunliffe, the comment editor at city am, and the defence editor for the london evening standard, robert fox. a man

of many words. let's have a quick, —— quick brief look at some of the front pages before we discuss them in more detail. a little papers, as you can imagine, mentioning the weather on their front pages. the guardian describes july's weather on their front pages. the guardian describesjuly‘s heatwave as the face of climate change. the summer of chaos is how the mirror calls the end of the heatwave, where some parts of the uk had torrential rain and thunderstorms. i would love to show you some of the papers but they are not popping up, i'm afraid. we might as welljust talk they are not popping up, i'm afraid. we might as well just talk about them, shall we? rather than me go through them and you not be able to see them. now you know what it is like on live television. let's start with the financial times, hopefully we can show that too. this feature is donald trump. and his claim that his policies, putting america first, has pumped up the economy. before we

go into the devil of the detailed is that true? it is true. the american economy is doing very well. he calls at historic us growth figures, they are not quite historic. they were higher in some quarters under 0bama, but they are certainly very good. they are primarily due to his policies, his tax cuts for businesses, at the beginning of the year. so, yes, that is true. what is also true, however, is that he is doing damage to the us economy with his trade policy, his protectionist policies, his taxes on imports, his steel and aluminium imports. the trade war, he has promised to start a big visible trade war with china and the eu. —— big, beautiful trade war. that will hit us consumers and manufacturers who use their products and a whole bunch of subsequent industries further down the chain. so it is a victory for him now but i think is going to find quite difficult to maintain that. as we we re difficult to maintain that. as we were saying last time, he has

promised to do that. it is just going to be growth, growth, growth. there is also an aspect here, the ft reports that in fact exports were boosted by foreign buyers trying to buy before the tariffs come in. it is very interesting listening to him talk about it, he has a terrible ambivalence towards europe. of course, the big trade war, in europe was eight bad thing, europe was a foe at one point, and now it best buddies. now that jean—claude juncker has called, it is all over the place. but it doesn't matter, to trump. he has promised that the figures are going to be, believe me, even greater in the next quarter. 4.196... even greater in the next quarter. 4.196. .. somebody even greater in the next quarter. 4.196... somebody has given the graphics machine a kick. somebody put the money in the metre. there you go. give it a kick. so, donald trump is very, very proud. as we saw injon sopel‘s trump is very, very proud. as we saw in jon sopel‘s report trump is very, very proud. as we saw injon sopel‘s report on it on bbc

news, as he left the rose garden at the white house, where he was announcing his triumph in the economy, all the reporters wanted to know was about russia and collusion. you've got to remember, a lot of this is about getting us to talk about it. since you mention russia andi about it. since you mention russia and i am not one bringing it up, we also the news today that is the meeting we heard so much about between his son and some russian agents during the election campaign, where there was the possible promise of collusion and hacking lyrics and ten's emails and all that stuff that is going on, donald trump claimed not to know about it. —— hillary clinton's emails. his son claimed not to know about it. we're hearing from his former lawyer today that a p pa re ntly from his former lawyer today that apparently he did not about it. sometimes you do get lucky and with these growth figures he got lucky, because that is what we are talking about. but russia isn't going away. no. president twitter, as he is often known, you would think user numbers would not be dropping on twitter because you think even more people would you taking to twitter

to see what trump is seen, but that is not case according to the ft weekend. is this social media's bubble bursting, or twitter‘s double bursting? evidently notjust twitter, because this is the week that we heard about facebook was mac user growth not being up to scratch. facebook‘s stock price drop, twitter‘s did as well. there are a number of things going on here. one is that the social media sites say that the reason for this is that they are getting on a fake accounts, so yes, uses have fallen because the fa ke so yes, uses have fallen because the fake users are going, and that is a good inc. it is actually more complicated than that. with the data scandals of cambridge analytica, with the idea runs the awareness of how much the social media sites are tracking us and selling on our data, and also the fake new scandal, i think people are becoming a lot more savvy about what they put online. these sites or work because they make us want to post as much as possible and gather data on us. if we stopped doing that if we find clever ways to perhaps not give our real information out, their value drops and we are starting to see that. i think we are going to see

more of that. this awareness of what they have actually been doing isn't going away. yes. i want to move on, we have a lot of stories to get through. the independent leads with brexit. people don't want to talk about brexit today, they want to talk about the weather. at theresa may wants to talk about brexit, big—time. she is not getting what she wants. the grand plan, this strategy, of going around brussels, as it were, and talking to the individual heads of government is not working. we are getting further dire warnings. what do they want? what do they want? i do suspect, as rachel has said, the crunch is coming. there are reports that angela merkel wants to have an emergency meeting at the beginning of september, about whether they can stop or reset the clock on article 50 or chapter 50, rather, stop or reset the clock on article 50 or chapter50, rather, i

stop or reset the clock on article 50 or chapter50, rather, lam not at all sure. but it is looking grim for both sides at the moment. i am hearing from inside sources there is absolutely no progress discernible over the last few weeks. absolutely no progress discernible over the last few weekslj absolutely no progress discernible over the last few weeks. i like how you said i had an idea of how we are going to get through this, i have no idea. nobody does. they will come up with somewhere to fudge it, because the eu is very good at that and despite what you hear, the eu doesn't want no deal more than we do. is it a game of calling bluff? i think it is. what is interesting in this story is the new poll that has come out, and i'm going to get so many people talking about this on twitter, but for the first time, this poll says there are more people who support a second referendum than people don't support it. a2% in favour, a0% against. not sure what the rest are doing, we will talk about them later. 0nly the rest are doing, we will talk about them later. only one in five people approve of what the government is doing. i am amazed

this is that high. competence in this is that high. competence in this country and brexit and in this prime minister and in this government is at an all—time low. —— confidence. that pressure that has been building for a while is really coming toa been building for a while is really coming to a bridging point. i don't wa nt to coming to a bridging point. i don't want to say that there will be a second referendum or that they won't be ideal, but they looking more likely. let's move on to the guardian. 0ne likely. let's move on to the guardian. one of their lead stories on the front page, apart from the horrific fires in greece and climate change, is data abuse and fake news being a risk to democracy. how do we know that poll is true, you know? this is something i am very passionate about because i think they can use, the term fake news, is lose too loosely, actually. i don't like that story, i don't like the way that story has been done, that doesn't mean it is not true. what mps are warning about, this is a select committee, is that fake news is used to guide us to vote or think

a certain way, which is a heck of a lot more dangerous. we all make mistakes, but i agree with you absolutely, that when you make fake news you are imputing that this is a malicious attempt. it is unselfconsciously to spread false witness and rumours. the background to this is, that as you say, dc must, the culture, media and sport committee, is coming out with this report, we think on sunday. —— dcms. it has been pre—empted by one of the people who feels he is going to be criticised by it, dominic cummings, would be vote leave campaign. he has been quite extraordinary, leaking the report of bits of its —— or bits of it on social media and on his website. he had been vehemence on criticising the mp5, calling them charlatan5 and so on. —— three mac.

it is exactly what i was talking about. there is no debate about thi5. about. there is no debate about this. you impute malice, possibly even criminality, on anybody who critici5e5 you. even criminality, on anybody who criticises you. it is policing it, isn't it? that is the point. that is what is difficult. what we are hearing is that the government is expecting the organisations themselves, like twitter and facebook, to police themselves. an enormous facebook, to police themselves. an enormou5job. facebook, to police themselves. an enormous job. that is never going to happen, i don't think. would need huge resources. a guardian and the times have been speaking an awful lot about the weather. the guardian in particular, but the times as well. is this the face of climate change or is itjust the weather. we have a heat wave in 1976, didn't we? i don't remember. it is a bit more than that. i don't like the way you said about. i was only two in 1976. heatwaves a re said about. i was only two in 1976. heatwaves are frequent occurrences. extreme weather. the idea behind the

climate science is that because of climate science is that because of climate change, frequent even so going to become more likely and we should start to get used to this. i liked the play between the guardian and the times. the guardian has the day after tomorrow apocalypse sort of view. the times has the more practical stories. some of them are quite nice, that is not the same that climate change isn't very serious, because it is. there is a great story about how people have been coping in the heat, including being allowed to wear shorts in the office. there is some great advice here, saying that officers should loosen grescos. top man has confirmed that sales for shorts were up confirmed that sales for shorts were up 200% from last year. i am allowed to wear shorts in the office whenever i want but i work in the city, and i like this kind of general consensus that, yes, all bets are off. it is hot, you can wear what you want, you can eat ice cream in the office. whatever you

need to get through the day. cream in the office. whatever you need to get through the daylj cream in the office. whatever you need to get through the day. i think we have to stop short at sandals. particularly with socks. a lovely piece about a species we haven't 5een appearing, including the spoon flower planned, which grows in mexico, and a family they reported that yesterday the chelsea phy5ic garden wa5 hotter than the chuwar and desert, which is great. and there is a lovely moss, a bit of a menace, called the marble moss, inevitably, because its wings have thi5 marvellous pattern. —— moth. a very interesting piece about that, about the frequent conditions. and what is remarkable is that has reined in many parts of the uk, what is interesting is that mother nature sta rts is interesting is that mother nature starts to kick in instantly, the flowers co m e starts to kick in instantly, the flowers come out, the glass becomes green again. you are just happy to

see your garden green again. put out ice blocks for your cats and dogs. and a cold water bottle. thank you very much to both of you for taking us through the papers. keep cool tomorrow, stage dry as well. us through the papers. keep cool tomorrow, 5tage dry as welllj cannot tomorrow, 5tage dry as well.” cannot see the moon. —— and try to 5ee cannot see the moon. —— and try to see the moon. yeah, chimes in the moon as well. good luck. that is it for us now. we have more stories to other 90 on bbc news. thank you for watching. this is sport stay, live from the bbc‘s sports centre with me, chris mitchell. coming up for you, he performance. joan thomas extend his lead at the tour de france. —— peak

performance. —— geraint. the hungary grand prix. and england selectors will be smiling as adil rashid's turn continues. geraint thomas is now within touching distance of his first grand tour title. the welshman shrugged off any attempted attacks on the day's 19th off any attempted attacks on the day's19th stage at the tour de france, and he still looks strong. in fact, he has increased his overall lead two minutes and five seconds. drew savage has the details of the 19th stage. congratulations to geraint thomas in well earned. the men in the yellowjersey needed

to defend his lead ended up extending it. there are three mountains left and he had helped counting them from no less than the defending champion. the mountain, almost twice as high as snowdon, scaled successfully. the final climb, it has had been predicted, the attacks came. the men in fourth place made his move. chris froome left behind. geraint thomas left exposed with his teammate seemingly struggling, but he was able to handle anything his rivals could manage. it still was not over. rogic went for it again. the former ski jumperflew went for it again. the former ski jumper flew away to win the stage by 19 seconds. rogic up the third overall, ahead of chris froome, the tea m overall, ahead of chris froome, the team sky achieve their overall objective. geraint thomas looked the fastest, and gained three seconds that should help him keep the yellow jersey. this is how the overall

classification looks than with the miya's time trial to go and then the possession to paris. geraint thomas out in front with a commanding lead. —— tomorrow's. note that chris froome back down in fourth, he looked a little bit tired of some of those climbs today and he has lost more time, off the podium now. sebastian vettel was fastest in practice at the hungarian grand prix. the ferrari driver took advantage of mistakes and other drivers to finishjust advantage of mistakes and other drivers to finish just quicker than max verstappen. lewis hamilton, who has a championship leader of seven points over sebastian vettel, was slower, back in fifth place. italy's women have pulled off a shock at the hockey world cup, school and with just five seconds remaining to beat south korea. that result means italy, the lowest ranked side in the tournament, had guaranteed themselves at least a play—off

place. and you can see how surprised they were about themselves. they will play the defending champions, the netherlands, on sunday, the winner of that match guaranteed a place in the quarter—finals. and even a delay for rain and storms could not dampen the spirits at the hockey world cup. the coaches for the netherlands in china enjoying a friendly game of rock paper scissors. they suspended for the lightning. that game was a predictor for the match, with the dutch cruising to a 7—1win over the chinese. hull kingston rovers held off the second half fightback from rivals hull fc as they hung on to win 20— 16 in the super league. rovers were 16 points up at half time. that was thanks largely to two tries from craighall on his first game sincejoining tries from craighall on his first game since joining the club. tries from craighall on his first game sincejoining the club. hull fought back though the level in the second half, but this penalty sealed

the derby win. let's look at the other results for you. huddersfield up to fifth after that win. second placed wigan, at the bottom of your screen there, peter cata la ns bottom of your screen there, peter catalans dragons. and struggling salford notched up their seventh win of the season, beating leeds rhinos. with less than a week to go before the first test against india, adil rashid showed his form as yorkshire vikings beat the birmingham bears by 41 vikings beat the birmingham bears by a1 runs in the t20 blast. yorkshire showed an excellent batting display, taking 126 —— making 126 in their 20 overs. in reply, birmingham were set 126 to win. and look at that, adil rashid trapped samhain. birmingham struggled to get to their target and

it was a comfortable victory in the end for the vikings. early in the day, lancashire thunder won that their first day, lancashire thunder won that theirfirst win in's day, lancashire thunder won that their first win in's super league game for almost two years when they beat yorkshire diamonds in the roses derby. yorkshire posted 12a runs from their 20 overs, before the lancashire bowlers tore through yorkshire for a 32 run victory. now, what are these two boxes have in common? the answer is they have both lost the anthonyjoshua. britain's dillian whyte was beaten by the superstar back in 2015, and new zealander parker famously lost him in cardiff last year. well, now, they are fighting each other. they met in london and anthonyjoshua warned his opponent. thejourney

met in london and anthonyjoshua warned his opponent. the journey to the top of heavyweight boxing is not a lwa ys the top of heavyweight boxing is not always a laugh a minute, especially the dillian whyte joseph always a laugh a minute, especially the dillian whytejoseph parker. for new zealander parker, he held one year of the heavyweight title until very recently. —— helwan version. joshua disappointed him in front of 80,000 people in cardiff earlier this year, parker's only professional defeat, but now he is back with a new attitude. —— he held a version. there is no hope for me here —— there is no hope for that here, i'm here to do damage. i am here, i'm here to do damage. i am here to punch without intentions. i'm going to breaking down, and i wa nt to i'm going to breaking down, and i want to catch and flash, he is going to ta ke want to catch and flash, he is going to take a lot of punches. looking to prove a point and come back with a win, something white knows all about. he too only has one blemish on his professional career and you can guess who inflicted it. three yea rs can guess who inflicted it. three years ago, beforejoshua became a

world champion, he defeated white inside seven rounds, defeat that white has used as a springboard to launch himself towards his very own world title challenge. is very risky, it is dangerous, in fact. i would like to say he is going to bring it, hopefully he does. it is going to go down, it is going to jump going to go down, it is going to jump off at some point. i don't know, first—run, third round, we are going to trade some serious lead at some point. and for the excerpt, what lies in wait is an american wbc champion, as does you know who, at the unified champion and possible revenge. before they had to glasgow for the european championships, the country's is triathletes will be in canada the stage six of the world series in edmonton. britain's women have had a positive start to the

season, with five ranked in the top ten at the moment, more than any other nation. i think at the minute, the british women especially in a really good place. we are really good unit and consistently top athletes now and that is great that we have not has got one or two that is doing that, we have got four or five, and we have women who cannot even make the world series start line because we have too many brits who are already there. that is brilliant, it is doing to the sport and it means that we will keep pushing each other on and increasing standards hopefully. this weekend, will be looking to finish top ten in everybody‘s absolutely capable of that. most of the girls have already been on the podium this year, this series. i thinkjodie is the exception that she is coming back from a long—term injury, i am sure she will get her podium by the end of the season as well, if it is not this weekend, another weekend. and yeah, if we can get five goals in the top ten, that is a pretty consistent rating and it is definitely not out of around. and

you can follow the canadian leg of the world triathlon series on the bbc. the woman's races after midnight tonight and there are highlights on bbc two from 12pm on sunday. 0k, highlights on bbc two from 12pm on sunday. ok, that is all from sport safer now. we'll have more sport throughout the weekend for you. bye canal. —— for now. hello there. the current heat wave ended with a bang and what a bank across eastern parts of the country, violent thunderstorms broke out into the afternoon and evening, especially across the eastern side of england where we had some incredible lightning strikes, some torrential downpours of flash flooding and also large hail. if you also erupted across south—western parts of scotland and further westwards as well, as we are starting to see more showery rain and the off the atlantic. these

continuing to rumble on across many eastern areas as we head into the next few hours. lots of whether photos coming in of the thunderstorms across the eastern side of england. this spectacular one here in north yorkshire. the storms produce a very large hail, up to golfball size across parts of norfolk and in york. these storms lining up on this first weather front will continue to move their way northwards and eastwards. the big of low pressure is what is going to continue to drive our weather as the head on into the weekend and this cooler, windier and unsettled spell. across northern and eastern parts of scotland, another pulse of buying pushing into we western areas by night. saturday morning could see another pulse of heavy rain moving its way northwards, becoming confined to scotland during the day. some wet weather into scotland, into

northern ireland. possibly sunny spells in the south—east. just to know how will win we need is going to be, 30 mile an hour gust. it is going to feel cooler, particularly in the south—east, which will be about 10 degrees cooler than we saw on thursday and friday. a secondary low is pushing in across the south—west, it will pack quite a lot of punch, just in time for part two of punch, just in time for part two of the weekend. this is likely to bring a dose of really significant, useful rain to our part of the land. very strong gale force winds across england and wales in particular, especially across the south—west of wales and the south—west of england. we could see if he breaks in that crowd later on, maybe a little bit of lightness, with the best of it in northern ireland and western scotland. will feel even cooler on

sunday. 21 to 22 across the south—east. it remains unsettled in the next week. as the pressure of moves in, it will start to settle down and warmup, particularly in the south. welcome to bbc news. i'm alpa patel. our top stories: donald trump celebrates the strongest us economic growth in four years, despite warnings it might not last. the president takes credit for putting america first. we are the economic and the of the entire world are soppy when i meet the leaders of countries, the first thing they say invariably is "mr president, so nice to meet you, congratulations on your economy". a spectacular night sky show as a blood moon rises, in the longest lunar eclipse this century. the cbs television network investigates an allegation of sexual misconduct against its chaiman and chief executive. and from syria, to the royal albert

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