i am going to engage in battle with somebody. (drumming music) somebody tell me when it's finished. so, the battle is over. i think i lost it miserably, but i loved it because i had a great time and i will come back next year. good morning. welcome to breakfast,

with ben thompson and babita sharma. our headlines today: geraint thomas is set to become the third briton and first welshman to win the tour de france. he came through the last competitive stage yesterday. it'll be champagne on the streets of paris today, where victory awaits him. five people have died in wildfires in california and nearly 40,000 people have left their homes. a state of emergency has been declared in three more counties overnight. tough times for travellers as stormy weather led to cancelled flights and disruption on the roads, and there's more forecast for today. good morning. yes, it's another windy day with gusts widely of up to 40 windy day with gusts widely of up to a0 mph. cooley, 50 for some western and southern coasts and there's more rain in the forecast —— locally. —— western. i'll tell you all about it in 15

minutes‘ time. it's sunday the 29th ofjuly. our top story: geraint thomas will ride into paris later today to be crowned winner of the tour de france. tradition dictates that the overall leader is never challenged during the final stage and after more than 80 hours in the saddle, the welshman holds the yellow jersey. 0llie foster has the details. after more than 3,000 kilometres, the tour title rested on this, a 30—kilometre time trial. commentator: geraint thomas, closing in on history. geraint thomas had to protect the lead he'd fought so hard for in the alps and the pyrenees, keep hold of that precious yellow jersey that he'd worn for over a week. he had a wobble, but he stayed on. and now, 11 years after his first tour de france, the path is clear to his coronation in paris, taking the crown from his teammate, chris froome. incredible just to be sat here with this jersey. it's insane. a big thanks to froomey as well, because he committed to me

and he was really happy to see me do so well and we're good friends, and i really appreciate, you know, having probably the best stage race rider ever, you know, riding for me. this from a man who's already won so much. olympic and world titles on the track. he was commonwealth champion on the road four years ago, but like the mountains he has conquered here, he's once again at the pinnacle. this is the sixth time in seven years that a british team sky rider will have won the tour, and that rankles with the home crowd. the team has also had to deal with a number of doping investigations, nothing relating to thomas and no wrongdoing has been found, but their reception here on the champs—elysee will still be mixed. and remember, this wasn't the outcome that team sky had been planning for. froome was their leader, he was chasing a joint—record fifth tour title, but he was off the pace. a strong time trial at least dragged him back onto the podium.

the dutchman tom dumoulin will finish second overall after winning yesterday's stage, but his time was never going to worry thomas. he said he'll allow himself a couple of beers and a burger last night, but that will just be the first stage of the celebrations to come. 0lly foster, bbc news, paris. nearly a0,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in california as wildfires spread across the state. at least five people have died, including two children and their great—grandmother, and 12 others are missing. in the last hour the state's governor has declared a state of emergency in three more counties. here's our north america correspondent, james cook. even by the wild standards of rural california, this fire is exceptional. driven by galeforce winds, the blaze was so intense it created tornadoes of flame, uprooting trees and hurling cars aside. that's a home i believe, some kind of structure completely on fire right there.

oh my goodness! nearly a0,000 people were forced to flee. fire everywhere on both sides of the roads. there's houses coming down, houses that were already down. hundreds of homes have been destroyed, including some built during the gold rush of the 19th century. two firefighters were killed, and ed bledsoe was searching for his family. i want god to help me out. help me get ‘em. i just can't see how i can go without them. somebody has to know where they're at. the news was not good. two children and their great—grandmother have now been found dead. across the us and canada, 130 major wildfires are now burning, from alaska to texas. oregon has been particularly hard hit. in california, more than 9,000 firefighters are battling seven big blazes. one has closed yosemite national park. a damaging blow to tourism. scientists say human activity, natural weather patterns

and man—made climate change are to blame, and the immediate forecast is worrying too — more hot, dry, dangerous weather is on the way. james cook, bbc news, los angeles. at least 10 people have died and dozens have been injured after a 6.a magnitude earthquake struck a popular tourist destination in central indonesia. residents and tourists poured onto the streets and into open fields to escape damaged buildings on the island of lombok. the tremor was felt 60 miles away in the bustling holiday island of bali. qatar is being accused of running a secret campaign to undermine its rivals during the bidding process for the world cup in 2022. the sunday times claims pr firms and former cia agents were used to discredit australia and the us, breaking fifa rules. qatar says it rejects each and every allegation. search teams have recovered the body of a man who got

into difficulty while swimming in the river great 0use in bedfordshire. emergency services were called to reports that a man in his late 20s had got into trouble on friday afternoon. police said the man's next of kin have been informed, and officers are supporting his family. 0nline trolls who intimidate election candidates or campaigners could be barred from public office. the government's considering the move after a report found social media abuse was rife in last year's general election. let's get more on this from our political correspondent susana mendonca. susana, an interesting one, we've seen all the reports and all the criticism of the role social media played in the election. but i wonder how much of a difference this can really make. for the government, they are under pressure to be seen to be doing something about it and i think in essence that's why they're going down this route of banning online

trolls from standing for public office. at the moment, if you're convicted of a crime and sentenced for longer than a year, you can't stand as a candidate any weight. also there are laws around severe intimidation and if you get a custodial sentence, longer than a year, you wouldn't be able to stand for public office but this is about sending a message and making it clear to people that if you do abuse mps online, that they are going to be consequences for that. if you look at what's happened in terms of what happened last year at the general election, it was the worst level of abuse mps have reported and we have those quite graphic accounts in parliament with people talking about the kind of abuse they'd experienced, conservative male mps received the highest level of abuse on twitter. the labour mp diane abbott received a lot of abuse as well so it is something the government wants to be seen to be acting on. susana, thank you very much. susana mendonca there.

storms and flooding disrupted road travel and caused flights to be cancelled yesterday as the uk heatwave came to an end. more than 15,000 british holiday makers have been unable to return home and some travellers experienced delays of up to 20 hours. problems will continue for some passengers today as airlines struggle to play catch up during their busiest time of the year. 0ur correspondent, simon clemison, has the latest. want to get away from it all? try getting through the airport first. new pictures have emerged showing stansted over the last few days. planes were cancelled after friday's lightning. each flash may have only lasted a fraction of a second but the impact is still being felt days on. it's thought about 15,000 people are not where they should be this morning. some flights arriving both here and at luton overnight have come in hours late, meanwhile departures at gatwick had continued to be delayed. if you struggle to get over the water, getting under it was no easier.

the sunshine of the m20 not what they were aiming for. eurotunnel is now said to be running normally after three days of a limited service because of problems following the drama in the skies, in the early hours, a new met office warning of wind and rain for the west country and other parts of southern england and wales began. the weather may have started the problems, but it's the sheer number of people trying to go on holiday which is keeping them going, as booking onto new flights is hard with so few seats left. simon clemison, bbc news. blue badge parking permits are to be made available for people in england with hidden disabilities such as autism or mental health problems. the department for transport said people with non—physical disabilities would have an equal right to free parking from next year. the current rules do not explicitly exclude hidden disabilities, but councils' interpretations can vary. similar changes have come into effect in scotland and wales. it's a bit of a problem, an annual

one for zookeepers in china. what do you get the panda that has everything? who knows! to celebrate mao zhu's fourth birthday, yunnan wild animal park prepared a four—layer iced cake for him to enjoy. visitors sang happy birthday to the giant panda before he tucked into the delicacy consisting of bamboo, bamboo leaves, apples, honey and corn bread. he looks pretty happy, doesn't he? they sang happy birthday as well. mao zhu's friend zhen duo was keen to have a taste, but the birthday boy was not keen to share. he kept it all to himself. not getting a look in on the cake! hgppy not getting a look in on the cake! happy birthday to him anyway. fake news is now so prevalent on social media there is a danger it

could overwhelm reliable news sources. that's the warning from mps today. so, is there anything we can do to limit the amount of disinformation we're all exposed to? let's speak to damian collins now, who chairs the digital culture, media and sport select committee. welcome to the programme, damien. a lot of strong language in this report, saying you believe the uk faces a democratic crisis. why do you believe our democracy is under threat? when you look at some of the studies done on fake news on the internet, particularly on sites like facebook, you see some of the most widely shared real news stories are getting less coverage or are being less widely shared and the leading fa ke less widely shared and the leading fake news stories and it's being presented in such a sophisticated way that readers often find it difficult to distinguish whether a story is real or fake. difficult to distinguish whether a story is real orfake. so if difficult to distinguish whether a story is real or fake. so if that's going on, that is a big problem because that means that for many

people who increasingly get their news served to them mainly through sites like facebook, what they're getting is a mixture of real and fa ke getting is a mixture of real and fake news and it's difficult to distinguish them and that i think becomes a crisis for democracy particularly during election periods and there's a growing problem not just in the uk but around the world of fa ke accou nts just in the uk but around the world of fake accounts and fake pages being set up to spread disinformation election periods. some of that work has been co—ordinated by agencies in russia. of course, how that information is sent out and disseminated is of an issue. this report itself was leaked on friday. what is your response to that? obviously completely wrong it was leaked. i think what we should focus on is rather than that act by a sort of slightly disgruntled individual, we should look at the substance of the report, which is to say that what we've got to do is put greater obligations on the tech companies to act against known

sources of fake news and disinformation so they close down people developing networks to spread this disinformation. we need also tighter regulations around paid for promotional advertising through sites like facebook, where if you're an advertiser you can advertise through the newsfeed of someone's facebook account, where they may get m essa 9 es facebook account, where they may get messages from friends and family but also paid for content, that can include political campaigning. it's not always clear or clear atwal who's behind that political campaigning, where they're based on what other messages they're sending out and as well as putting a greater responsibility on the tech companies to act against the sources of fake news, we need greater transparency for people who use facebook and other social media sites about where the content they are viewing is coming from. facebook released a statement saying they're working alongside the uk government to insure a transparent process, and they've made or advertising on their social media site more transparent. wa nt to social media site more transparent. want to go back to the disgruntled

individual who leaked this information, dominic cummings, he was asked to present information to this enquiry and he refused, citing in itself he called the report fake. what would you say to that? it's a ridiculous donald trump view of the world where if someone comes along with inconvenient truths, you dismiss it as fake news and the term itself has been somewhat degraded as a consequence of that. what we're talking about isn't fake news but concerted campaigns of this information where people are knowingly and deliberately sowing confusion or doubt about the news or propagating stories that are com pletely propagating stories that are completely wrong. dominic cummings was given lots of opportunities by oui’ was given lots of opportunities by our committee to come in and give evidence and respond to what we're saying, instead he chose to lead our report and insert himself in the story for reasons not clear. the bulk of what we're talking about isn't directed solely at dominic cummings at that the internet like this is damaging to our democracy and it affects the way we receive

and it affects the way we receive and consume news, and this is very serious. damian, you said it's difficult to keep up with the ever—changing landscape with social media and fake news and the noise out there, so essentially how do you legislate for this and how are you able to put the parameters in place to make sure fake news doesn't continue? i think it is a question of looking at the liability and the law for the technology companies for the content on their site. in the past they have largely asserted that they are merely platforms, they serve content of the people create and don't have a responsibility for it. in countries like germany, where berwick eight speech laws historical reasons, are very strict, faced that may act against hate speech online. the consequence of that is that facebook have had to hire a very large numbers of new people to monitor what goes on on in the platform and they have a high compliance rate the taking down hate

speech. if we greater liability for them here to say that where there are known sources of fake that can be spread, they can be harmful, then you should act against it. they are making steps forward on transparency for advertising but i think in our bill at oral law that you have to imprints that identify the advertiser for anything run during election periods. thank you very much forjoining us. if you have looked out the window point you have noticed it is damp and cooler out there. here's alina with a look at this morning's weather. it is quite change. the very much. —— changeable. were happy waiting weeks for rain and we suddenly get lots and lots all at once. the case for northern ireland today we had 99 millimetres in the 2a hours. 7a millimetres in the 2a hours. 7a millimetres of that fell in three

hours. you can see the impact that that amount of water had in the area. there is more rain to come today. some gusty wind as well. quite tricky travelling conditions in places, those gusts could reach a0, 50 mph. underthejetstream in places, those gusts could reach a0, 50 mph. under thejetstream it is down much further south, that is driving areas of low pressure towards the uk, two of them today, just noticed the squeeze in the isobars are windy day. this is the rain that has been falling over the past few hours, making progress steadily north—east and the heaviest of the rain this morning across wales and south—east england workplaces could see 60— 80 millimetres. the strength of the wind as well, a0150 mph, that whether extending into northern england. northern ireland, a dry day. dry across large swathes of

scotland, but what an windy until thatis scotland, but what an windy until that is away, and the rain further south pushes northwards into scotland. steady progression eastwards through the day of this rain, becoming a little more patchy, or showery as it does, but most places will season rain today. behind it, brightand places will season rain today. behind it, bright and sunny spells tried to come through but showers are never too far away. 15— 19 for scotland, a slightly warmer day for northern ireland. showers continuing to this evening, fading overnight but another spell of rain arriving into south—west and the far south—east towards the end of the night. temperature wise, 11, 19 celsius. cooler night. we start the new week a fairly showery regime and to the south—east, some showers across kent but they will start to pull away. through tomorrow, it is a

day of sunshine and showers, it looks like showers will be going the further west you are and the best of the sunshine, temperatures up to 2a or 25 celsius. thank you, a bit cooler, refreshingly so. it will be a ceremonial sprint finish when geraint thomas rushes to the finishing line of the tour de france later. the victory will come in the welshman's ninth tour, and before this year his best finish had been 15th. his rise was unexpected, but well deserved, as friends and fellow athletes rushed to congratulate him. one of the first to tweet his support was fellow olympic champion sir chris hoy. he tweeted this picture of geraint and the rest of the gb track team at the 2012 olympic training camp watching bradley wiggins winning the tour de france victory. and the 2012 winner, described geraint thomas as a truly amazing athlete, praising his hard work over the years.

close friend mark cavendish rushed to congratulate his pal, applauding his loyalty and work ethic as something to aspire to in life. someone who knows all the twists and turns of the tour is michael hutchinson, 3—time british time trial champion. michaeljoins us from central london. nice to see you. what comes out of this. you see it in the tweets and all the coverage that geraint has had, it is about finesse, control, he assurance in winning this. that is quite striking. it's not about speed and injuries, it is about control and assurance. —— endurance. it is about consistency, it has a lwa ys it is about consistency, it has always been there, having a bad day. the thing that really impressed me and surprised me a little about two, i thought it proper bully had the physical ability to win the tour de

france, but i thought it would be a scramble. i thought he would need a bit of luck, and actually from the first stage as he always looked like the guy who is going to win the tour de france. if you won —— watched this and knew nothing about it, you would say of course he won, he was the best. let's talk about that time trials. it looks relatively simple to us at home, but it is a tough course. a very difficult course, lots of technical demand. it was a course that the french organisers made with one eye on another writer, i think the making them as difficult as they could because that makes time gap smaller. geraint had an enormous advantage with a two—minute leader —— lead and there is nothing that make that race easier than going have enough space to lose a second here and there and still be 0k. he rode a very good, aggressive

time trial, better than he needed to. i guess he was really trying to set the crown on three good weeks. before this one, his last best finish has been 15. some calling it a surprise victory, you got a wonderful story about are at the tea m wonderful story about are at the team back in 201a. —— team hotel. explained that story. chris froome crashed out in the early stages in 201a when he was the defending champion. i was there as a reporter andi champion. i was there as a reporter and i am probably 150 or 200 other members of the cycling press staking out team sky's hotel because we didn't know what was happening. when the team turned out, geraint thomas acted as the team ‘s spokesman, which it is comfortably, he gave us a sort of statement about what happened to chris froome, what the

tea m happened to chris froome, what the team was doing going forward, took a few questions and at the end of that one of the tv interviewers said sorry, who argue? he said he was geraint thomas and dispelled the name and they said what do you do exactly, are you a mechanic? he explained he was a bike rider, very patient about it. most like writers under those circumstances would go ballistic. geraint was perfectly charming about it and i was really impressed by that. there will be very few who don't know his name now. let's talk about how it's rational this can be for a whole new generation of cyclists that are coming through, what will this mean for them! —— then? —— them? it is always good when somebody new wins this, it suggests that new people can come through, you get so used to people like chris froome every year, somebody new, somebody

who is related. bt is a very straightforward feeling man and comes over as that i think that is what the people like to see coming through, it is great for welsh sport. welsh sport punches well above its range, it is great to see another welsh sporting figure coming out. some great scenes later to gay —— today. make you very much, enjoy the day. —— thank you very much. you're watching breakfast from bbc news. it is approaching 26 minutes past seven this morning. time now for a look at the newspapers. margaret 0liver, a former detective at greater manchester police is here to tell us what's caught her eye. we'll speak to margaret in a minute. first, let's look at the front pages.

the sunday telegraph leads on brexit today. the sunday express‘s top story is about the forthcoming hosepipe ban in the north—west. grassroots in open revolt on may's brexit. the paper says water company united utilites is urging people to report those flouting the ban, which comes into effect on the 5th of august. and the observer goes with a story about how campain group leave planned to target voters with pro—brexit adverts the day after the murder ofjo cox. we have margaret 0liver, hello. what has caught your eye this morning? you have a story about anonymity for mps. my history is with the criminal

justice system and the law. this one in the sunday telegraph caught my eye occurs mps are greeted anonymity when they are under investigation for inappropriate behaviour. what concerns me is that i fear where are we going to have a system where we have one rule for the rich and one for the rest of us? i think it is really important that we are able to trust mps and feel thatjustice is seen to be given, and i already feel that in the country at whole, there is this attitude or belief starting to develop where we are really questioning whether we could trust those in the tip —— in positions of

authority and one of the lords is worried that many won't be identified. this isjust mps? yes, it is just mps, but for the rest of us, we are not given the same protection. i find it us, we are not given the same protection. ifind it a bit worrying and mps are there as representatives of the rest of us and they should be subjected to the same laws. this goes to the heart of what we were talking about with damian collins, about how transparency is key in preventing any conversation about fa ke preventing any conversation about fake news or information that is incorrect. an idea that would be more transparent. the public will see this as one rule for them and one rule for us and that could not be in the best interest of the country as a whole. let's return to our top story today. geraint

thomas's victory. also on the top there, having won to olympic goals in dancing, victoria pendleton back. two related stories in terms of the elite sport, but the side—effects, perhaps. i picked out the story about the cycling and what a really great achievement by geraint thomas. which is really, really good to see. you know, iwould which is really, really good to see. you know, i would say that is this down to the fact that cycling, there as being great investment in the cycling, we have had the velodrome, he has had the backing and the encouragement of the country. if as a country we support sports people, iam sure a country we support sports people, i am sure that we have got the skills they and the people in our country to achieve ins like this. also, inspirational role models as well, as i was mentioning. someone

to aspire to, knowing it is possible, is great. it is great because this would give kids around the country something to focus on instead of sitting there on their eye pads and watching tv, they are inspired by this, get out on the bikes, it can lead to this and the benefits of that are just great. greater inspiration than what we are seeing unfold. thank you, we will have more from you later. ok, thank you. headlines coming up injust have more from you later. ok, thank you. headlines coming up in just a few minutes. see you sundar. —— see you sundar. —— see you soon. hello, this is breakfast, with ben thompson

and babita sharma. we'll be talking about geraint thomas and his tour de france success with kat in a few moments. good morning, here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news: nearly a0,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in california as wildfires spread across the state. at least five people have died, including two children and their great—grandmother, and 12 others are missing. thousands of emergency workers, including the national guard, have been deployed. at least 10 people have died and dozens have been injured after a 6.a magnitude earthquake struck a popular tourist destination in central indonesia. residents and tourists poured onto the streets and into open fields to escape damaged buildings on the island of lombok. the tremor was felt 60 miles away in the bustling holiday island of bali. qatar is being accused of running a secret campaign to undermine its rivals during the bidding process

for the world cup in 2022. the sunday times claims pr firms and former cia agents were used to discredit australia and the us, breaking fifa rules. qatar says it rejects each and every allegation. all online election material could include what's known as a digital imprint in future, making clear who produced it. a committe of mps has backed the government proposal after its inquiry into fake news following the cambridge analytica scandal. the parliamentary report, which we discussed here on breakfast yesterday, found the volume of disinformation on the internet was now so big it was starting to crowd out real news. readers often find it difficult to distinguish whether a story is real orfake, so if that is going on that isa orfake, so if that is going on that is a big problem because that means that for many people who increasingly get their news served

to them mainly through sites like facebook, what they're getting is a mixture of of real and fake news and it's difficult to distinguish them. and that i think becomes a crisis for democracy, particularly during election periods. storms and flooding disrupted road travel and caused flights to be cancelled yesterday as the uk heatwave came to an end. some air passengers experienced delays of up to 20 hours, and travellers queued for miles on the m20 to board eurotunnel trains after the air—conditioning failed. the met office has issued a yellow weather warning for parts of england and wales today. gosh, how things have changed. blue badge parking permits are to be made available for people in england with hidden disabilities such as autism or mental health problems. the department for transport said people with non—physical disabilities would have an equal right to free parking from next year. the current rules do not explicitly exclude hidden disabilities, but councils' interpretations can vary. similar changes have come into effect in scotland and wales. time for sport and only really one

story with kat. we should be wearing yellow, shouldn't we? story with kat. we should be wearing yellow, shouldn't we ?|j story with kat. we should be wearing yellow, shouldn't we? i don't think we have really earned it.|j yellow, shouldn't we? i don't think we have really earned it. i don't think so! we haven't done 80 hours in the saddle. 80 plus hours, incredible! you forget, he wasn't even supposed to win. he's gone out, chris froome was meant to be team sky's principal rider but geraint thomas has gone out and won it fair and square. his last best finish was that next best finish was 15th? a couple of years ago, yes. -- his next best finish. the way he has conducted himself, incredible. chose anyone can do it but i don't think they can, that's the thing about the tour de france. —— that shows. it's a mental, physical, emotionaltest. huge. after more than 2,000 miles,

geraint thomas will ride up the champs—elysees later today, champagne in hand, the first welshmen to win the tour de france. jo currie is in paris and has more. thomas now finds himself a champion in waiting following the penultimate stage, a 31km time trial. for his big rivals, the likes of chris froome, it was their last big chance to attack his lead. they tried, but they failed. thomas held head them off, finishing the stage in third. he now finds himself one minute and 58 seconds ahead of second placed tom dumoulin. there's one more stage to come, but that's very much a processional stage and traditionally no—one attacks the yellow jersey. all thomas has to do is cross the line on the champs—elysee in paris and he will be crowned champion. defending champion chris froome also had a good run out, and managed to pull himself up to third in the standings. there'll be no record fifth title for him this year, but he will at least make the podium. this is a huge moment for wales, never before have they had a welshman win the tour de france. now welsh cycling has itself a new hero. jo currie, bbc news, paris.

it's incredible just to be sat here with this jersey, it's insane. a big thanks to froomey as well because he committed to me and he was really happy to see me do so well and we are good friends and i really appreciate having probably the best stage race rider ever, you know, riding for me. but yeah, it's just so surreal. it's going to take a while to sink in, i think. tonight, i think, i won't celebrate too much because champs—elysee's hard, man, if you switch off, it's one of the hardest stages. i will certainly have a beer or two and i think we've got some burgers but i'll save the real celebration for paris on sunday night. burger and chips, that's the way to celebrate, isn't it? flicking through the back pages today, nice

to see a good splash of colour. normally some kind of variation on red and blue because of all lovable teens wearing red and blue. red and blue because of all lovable teens wearing red and bluelj red and blue because of all lovable teens wearing red and blue. i love those images, to get shot by the photographer, fantastic —— because of all the football teams. look at that, the pain and the passion of it all. we will see him ride into paris later today and as jo was explaining, no one attacks the yellow jersey, the explaining, no one attacks the yellowjersey, the convention of the final stage. i wonder if someone did? i wasjust thinking that -- convention. they would be struck off, social pariah! you have time to get there! on my bmx down the champs—elysee. get there! on my bmx down the champs-elysee. i would pay money for that! while the men were racing around the south of france, the best female riders were whizzing around london for the ride london classique. it's the richest one day race in women's cycling and it was won by dutchwoman kirtsten vild, who has now been successful twice on the mall, after her triumph back in 2016.

lewis hamilton may well be hoping for rain today for the hungarian grand prix as he hopes to extend his formula one championship lead before the sport's summer break. the world champion put on a masterclass in the wet to claim pole position ahead of his mercedes team mate valtteri bottas and the ferraris of kimi raikkonen and main rival sebastian vettel. hamilton currently leads the championship by 17 points. we couldn't have expected this. honestly, the ferraris have been quickest all weekend, and we were just trying to do our best to be as close to them as possible, but then the heavens opened and it was fair game. it's all about give and take each time you go around, each corner. i was up and i was down and i was up and i was down, so it was an emotional rollercoaster. a very happy lewis hamilton, as you would expect. stand by for some classic grumpyjose mourinho, because chelsea and manchester city won their pre—season friendlies overnight, but manchester united were beaten by liverpool, who ran away with it in the second half for a a—1win. new signing jerdan shaquiri scoring his first goal for the club.

and with united still missing many of their normal first team after the world cup, jose mourinho wasn't too impressed. if i was them, i wouldn't come. i wouldn't come, i wouldn't spend my money to see these teams. i wouldn't spend my money. for example, i was watching something on the television today, was chelsea against inter. the people in nice decided the beach was better than this and they went to the beach, they didn't go to that game, the stadium was empty. cheery stuff. motherwell came from behind against clyde to guarantee their place in the last 16 of the scottish league cup. connor sammon secured a 3—1win with his stoppage time header. kilmarnock and st mirren also went through to the next round. you can find all yesterday's other results on the bbc sport website. in boxing, dillian whyte bolstered his claim for a world title shot with a gruelling points victory against new zealand's former world champion joseph parker.

white floored parker twice in the contest but couldn't stop his opponent, who rallied in the late rounds. whyte held on and won on the judges scorecards and said he'd be up for a rematch with anthonyjoshua. his only career loss came againstjoshua in 2015. in the women's hockey world cup, england will play ireland later today to determine where they will finish in the group. yesterday, australia booked their place in the quarter—finals after drawing with new zealand in their final group game. elsewhere, wins for germany and belgium whilst argentina drew with south africa. thailand's ariya jutanugarn and south korea's amy yang share the lead going into the final day at the ladies scottish 0pen. it was a blustery day at gullane yesterday, with gusts of wind reaching up to 31mph. this eagle chip helped us open champion yutanugarn join yang on eight under par. georgia hall is the the top—placed brit. she's tied for 10th on three under. meanwhile, in ontario,

world number one dustinjohnson has put missing the cut at the open last week behind him. he's one of four players leading ther canadian open on 17 under par. he said the crowd were probably rooting for him because he's engaged to the great canadian ice hockey player, wayne gretsky‘s daughter. helps, doesn't it? trainer sir michael stoute secured a record—breaking sixth king george trophy win at ascot. stoute, who had his first king george win with shergar in 1981, had two horses battling it out in the closing stages, claiming first with poet's word and second with crystal 0cean. not a bad day at the office for sir michael stoute. about 6pm he is back on the champs—elysee? i think on the champs—elysee? ithink so, on the champs—elysee? i think so, something like that, i will have to check. they are always great pictures, the arc de triomphe in the background. and then when he goes back to wales,

can you imagine the party there? nice to see you, kat. nice to see you too. great britain's first disabled air display team will take to the skies in the next few weeks. the four—person squad is made up of wheelchair users and amputees, and was assembled in honour of the hero fighter pilot sir douglas bader, who lost both his legs. a film crew from our disability unit, bbc 0uch, went to meet them. alan, with barry, mike and mark. we will be great britain's first disabled air display team.|j will be great britain's first disabled air display team. i want us to bea disabled air display team. i want us to be a display team people want to see because we're good rather than, oh, look what those disabled people are doing, bless. iwant oh, look what those disabled people are doing, bless. i want us to be good. after 20 odd years of being paralysed, i think it's fair to say i was pretty fed up. someone saying do you want to learn to fly, it was like a light going on against rbi got the least experienced of everyone here.

i'm very privileged to be in the tea m i'm very privileged to be in the team but i'd also be quite relieved to be the one sat on the ground doing the commentary for the first air display. what attracts me is it's good fun. to sit there and look out the window and see another aeroplane. you're using all the controls, all the time. you're using the throttle, the elevators and the rudder pedals, which obviously we both have difficulties with that. so you're constantly, constantly on the go. if i'm honest, i'm uncomfortable flying close to another aircraft. you're taught to see and avoid, and all of a sudden you're close enough that there's this huge aircraft that's there next to you, and they're saying, get a little bit closer, get a little bit closer. and really all i want to do is run away but the thrill of doing this is just unbeatable. i think we both know what pain is. i was paralysed at 18 yea rs what pain is. i was paralysed at 18 years old, i had a motorcycle accident. broke every bone in my

body apart from my arms and my legs, very lucky to survive but it left me confined to a wheelchair for the rest of my life. what happened to me was the same, a motorbike, got hit bya carand was the same, a motorbike, got hit by a car and almost got amputated there and then and the surgeons did there and then and the surgeons did the rest later that night. when i woke up i realised my leg had gone, when i woke up i realised my ambition to fly would have gone but ididn't ambition to fly would have gone but i didn't know disabled people could fly, i i didn't know disabled people could fly, i did i didn't know disabled people could fly, i did a bit of research and realised disabled people could fly andl realised disabled people could fly and i made it a goal to get a license. i wouldn't have thought in 1 million years i could have done formation flying, and who knows what's next? it's not going to be a case of we are the red arrows with propellers and no legs. i still can't believe that we're doing this, just learning to fly was a privilege. but learning to fly formation, that just a privilege. but learning to fly formation, thatjust doesn't happen, that something else, let alone to disabled pilots. i think there's a perception that disabled people just aren't capable

of living full, independent lives andi of living full, independent lives and i hope that sometimes by doing something like this, you know, we help straighten that record a little bit. taking to the skies in style. great story. good luck to all of them. you're watching breakfast from bbc news. it isa it is a quarter to eight. the headlines: geraint thomas will cycle up the champs—elysees later today, as the first welsh winner of the tour de france. a state of emergency is declared in three more californian counties due to a massive wildfire, at least five people are now known to have died. here's alina with a look at this morning's weather. it is cooler, it is raining and where has the sunshine gone?m it is cooler, it is raining and where has the sunshine gone? it is coming back, we have drawn from 35 celsius to a months worth of rain in

2a hours of. northern ireland saw 99 millimetres of rain and 7a millimetres of rain and 7a millimetres of rain and 7a millimetres of that fill in the space ofjust millimetres of that fill in the space of just three millimetres of that fill in the space ofjust three hours. this is some of the footage from northern ireland through yesterday afternoon, atrocious conditions of. there is more rain to come today. very welcome in many places but a lot of it in the short amount of time, some gusty wind as well. high up in the atmosphere shifting its way south, coming in off the atlantique and pushing areas of low russia towards our. two areas of low pressure to watch out for. that squeeze in the isobars indicates the strength of the wind. some rain that has been settling in over the last few hours, gradually pushing its way eastwards and the heaviest rain this morning will be across south—west england and wales could see perhaps 60— 80

millimetres of rain. these are the gusts, particularly gusty for the southern and western coast. pushing its way into scotland, a drier day for northern ireland, some heavy rain and strong wind for the western isles but that will pull away westwards. eventually extending across scotland and generally that will be pushing its way eastwards through the day, becoming a little bit more showery, some bright and sony spells following, but lost three showers never too far away. a really dusty, fulfilling day, temperatures between 17— 22 celsius. cooler for east anglia and south—east england, singing highs of two and four and 25 yes they. still a few showers around, they will fade, overnight, some showers into wales and south—east england as well. temperatures overnight, 11— 17

celsius but cooler for scotland and northern ireland. we start the new working week early showery airflow and noticed that front in the far south—east could bring rain across kent, that will clear away and generally it is a day of sunshine and showers. the most frequent showers for the —— further north and west you are. temperatures up to 25 celsius, fairly cool north and west, 16-19 celsius, fairly cool north and west, 16- 19 the celsius, fairly cool north and west, 16— 19 the back to you. celsius, fairly cool north and west, 16— 19 the back to youlj celsius, fairly cool north and west, 16- 19 the back to you. i am relieved to have a bit of cool and nice to know it will warm up, i will ta ke nice to know it will warm up, i will take that. thank you very much. now on breakfast, it's time for click and the team are looking at the latest in visual effects. the eight planets in our solar system, all unique

and instantly recognisable. and don't they look amazing from our viewing podium here in outerspace? now what we really wanted to show you here is just how good visual effects have become. not only does the graphics computer generate all of these lovely images but, as the cameras move about, the objects and the background appear to stay in their correct positions. now this is not easy. now this technology originally came from the movies and now it has come to tv. so, here we are in the bbc‘s virtual studio and the first thing that you will notice is obviously that the graphics computer replaces anything that is green with the background. but, in order to draw all of the objects in the right

place in 3—d space, the computer needs to know exactly where the cameras are so it can draw everything from the right angle, and that is why all the cameras have this set of reflective tracking balls on top of them. it also means that i can take my own set of tracking balls and turn this into a virtual hand—held camera that i can fly through the sea. so, there is mercury and venus, earth and mars, coming round past jupiter, just duck under saturn, and there is uranus and neptune. and here is the thing, just as we are getting used to having this much fun in a tv studio, at the top end of the movie industry, they are getting ready for something even more incredible. he is mark cieslak in los angeles. the next big leap in cinema technology could be upon us. called intel studios, this is the first time a crew has been allowed to even catch a glimpse behind the scenes

at this state—of—the—art equipment. this space is designed to film in 360 degrees, a technique known as volumetric capture. diego priluski has worked on the visual effects for movies like gravity and warhorse. now he is heading up this operation. wow, so this is your volumetric space? it is indeed. it is pretty big. is the largest currently in the world. it is currently focused on large—scale volumetric capture, and it is a unique space that we have built, dedicated for the methodologies of filmmaking volumetric. can we take a look inside your dome, please? wow—wee! (laughs). that is a lot of green. it is a lot of space

and a lot of cameras. how many cameras have you got here? well, currently have we have more than 100 cameras. it really changes from production to production. our goal really is to, how do you have enough sensors to capture the entire information from any angle? so as you can see around, it is really a variation of angles and positions that really enables you to capture every bit of information from any direction. in this space, a scene can be performed once but is recorded on all of those cameras surrounding the actors, so every single angle is covered. the individual shots are pumped via fibre—optic cable to dedicated server, which then processed the images into a point cloud. a point cloud is a 3—d 360 degree representation of the entire studio. the action can then be watched from any angle the viewer desires. 0nce decisions have been made about where to position the camera, the action is cleaned up, using vfx and the scene is complete. this particular scene was attempted several times but this clip was made from shots all captured on the 15th attempt. you can relight that scene, you can integrate, of course, virtual sets around that, but the key thing is that you can

keep that live performance, and you can keep that truly capture of the actors, that true presence that they have, into the interaction between them, and once you have digitiser all the information, once you basically generated this volumetric, immersive data, you can really be walk inside the space, either on a virtual space and virtually come out and reshoot the entire scene again. the filming process, with its 100 plus cameras all filming at once, generates a massive amount of data, all of which is processed and stitched together on—site. in total, there are 10 petabytes of storage in here. that is the equivalent of 133 years of hi—def video. so far, paramount pictures have penned a deal to use this space for upcoming projects. because the studio's dome separates the filming from the crew

controlling the kit, directing the action is similar to directing in a modern news studio. ok, so do you want to get on stage, get ready. yeah, yeah. so no suits, no motion captured things, it is you and your waredrobe that will be the performance. so this is my opportunity to try out this volumetric studio. i'm used to working with one or a couple of cameras, it is going to be a bit difficult working with over 100 of them. and they will be able to capture from every single conceivable angle me attempting to get this ball into that hoop. let's try that again. this time, the team add backgrounds and create a seamless moving shot made from the 100 individual camera captures. (laughs) 0hh, and the crowd goes wild! creating the shot is not quick though, this one took about 150 hours to make. as we look at filmmaking, we want to create that transition.

how do you immerse into this world and into these experiences, but with the real actors, with the real performances? le tour de france is coming to an end this week. the monumental 3,351 kilometre race is now 115 years old. fans love its epic proportions and its gruelling pace, but this year they may also be able to enjoy lots and lots of lovely data, because analytics and machine learning are coming to one of the oldest sporting competitions in the world, and kat hawkins went to find out how.

this year's tour de france is taking place against the same beautiful french mountains as always. but there's a big difference this year. technology and data play more of a role than ever before. cycling is becoming increasingly data—driven and for good reason. masses of data can be collected and, in a sport of fine margins and superhuman indurance, those insights are the key to energy efficiency, strategy and gains. we look at many things, we look at obviously heart rate, we look at power data and their maximum powers and their altitude and elevation gains. so we look at that and we see how the riders are building and we leveraged that data to try and build them to be better and stronger in stage races. how is the data collected and transmitted ? that is where these little devices come in. it may not look like much but this small clip—on device is on the back

of every bike taking part in the tour de france this year and it has actually been revolutionary. the sensors on the bikes send real—time locations data to a nearby vehicle, which them beams it up to a following helicopter. it is then sent to the data truck for real—time analytics. and this is where the magic happens, from bike to motorbike the helicopter to here, this is where all the data for the tour de france is being stored. the data truck is where data is analysed, enriched, and visualised for broadcasters and teams. there is even enough data for machine learning algorithms to get to work. the depths of data analytics produced from simply a gps device is staggering. conceptual data such as 3—d maps, weather, gradients and rider information is also added to bring the data to life. during the race, riders wear earpieces and following closely behind them is the data car, where the team analyst is disecting the data and feeding them live information. what happens in here?

it is quite an important place, isn't it? if you imagine you have a comms office when you're trying to fly a rocket to the moon, just feel like we're that place in nasa where all the details come in and they come in from all directions, and then we send out one message to the riders. hundreds of datasets are analysed, from competitor tactics to live course conditions. so we analyse all of the climbs, the gradients of the climbs, the road surfaces, the width of the roads, any road furniture, anything, you know, coming around a blind corner there is a pedestrian crossing, and all of these kinds of things we try to find. 0n the tour de france with restrictions and sponsorship deals, we do not get any heartrate and power data, but we do get location, which is absolutely crucial because we can make decisions much, much quicker. ok, so we are in the race. this is happening, this is live. what are we saying to our riders? so, we're saying, "come on, serge,

you have got 250 more metres hard. radio: round the next corner here, the hairpin, you can't see it but it flattens off in 250 metres. you'll get some respite, we've got drinks in 400 metres, so you'll get to cool down. take your drinks and we've only got 10 k to the finish. good lad. keep fighting. i can see automatically that the psychological impact of that is huge, but how do the cyclist themselves feel about having data in their sport? having everything about you measured and tracked can have its downsides. of course, a lot of teams are trying to keep it secret because when you're racing the tour de france you don't really want to give your competitors that advantage. people say it's turning into f1, it's just robots talking to robots. what do you say to those people? it's more than that. a robot doesn't have to put the effort in. from data centre to road race, there's 20 kilometres to go. 20 kilometre windspeed. the final is coming up. that is it for the shortcut of click for this week. don't forget the full—length

verswion is up on iplayer for you to watch right now, if you fancy. and you can follow us on twitter and facebook throughout the week for loads of tech news and behind—the—scenes photos too. thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. good morning, welcome to breakfast with ben thompson and babita sharma. 0ur headlines today... geraint thomas is set to become the third briton, and first welshman, to win the tour de france. he came through the last competitive stage yesterday.