hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm martine croxall. today at 2pm. the supreme court rules legal permission will not be needed to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state. services scrapped in a timetable shake—up by northern rail begin running again but passengers face more cancellations. it has been cancelled at very short notice. i was expecting a train at 6:07am and it has been cancelled because of lack of drivers. voting's under way in zimbabwe in the first general election since long—time president robert mugabe was ousted. more than 12,000 firefighters are tackling severe wild fires in california that have claimed the lives of eight people. coming up on afternoon live all the sport with reshmin — success in the tour de france still sinking in for geraint thomas. absolutely. celebrations rolling on for geraint thomas did he became the first welshman and the third briton

to win the tour de france. he will also be considering a new and improved contract offer from team sky. thanks reshmin and ben has all the weather. you upset a lot of people but i know it is not your fault. and people were asking for rain if you remember last week but i have to say, heatwave? what heatwave? was what people were saying over the weekend, different weather, wet weather, more than a month's weekend, different weather, wet weather, more than a months worth of rain in a few hours for some and windy as well so what will happen this week? for some, the heatwave will return and i will have the details in half an hour. thanks, ben. also coming up — behind the seams at max mara. the former punk from derby who's running the quintessentially italian fashion brand. hello, this is afternoon live, i'm

martine croxall. the supreme court has confirmed that the approval of a judge is no longer needed, in order to end the care of people who are in persistent vegetative states, as long as families and doctors agree to the decision. many thousands of individuals are believed to be in such a condition, with little or no hope of recovery. the decision applies in england, wales and northern ireland. 0ur health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. it's estimated there are tens of thousands of people living in a vegetative or minimally conscious state in the uk. patients with almost no prospect of recovery, who are kept alive with artificially administered food and water. until now, it was the courts who decided whether life—sustaining nutrition could be withdrawn. but today, the supreme court said there was no good reason for that. we find nothing in the common law, nor in any act of

parliament, that requires an application to be made. the case overturns part of an important ruling from 1993 in relation to tony bland. he was left permanently unconscious after the hillsborough disaster. that ruling said life—sustaining measures could only be stopped after applying to the courts. today's ruling says such applications are not obligatory. today's ruling is hugely significant for what are potentially thousands of families who find themselves in some of the most tragic situations. those who agree with doctors is that their loved ones should be allowed to die. they can now make that decision in the quiet of their home, in hospital, or elsewhere without the strain of having to go to court. the solicitor who represents families who had to fight for their loved ones in court welcomes the ruling. it's a really good decision for a sensible and compassionate society to allow

doctors and families to get on and make decisions on behalf of the patient in the best interests. but some are concerned that removing the safeguard of asking the court's permission could be dangerous. these decisions are very difficult, they need to be made by a specialist. the diagnoses are often wrong, the court has overturned decisions before. and this is why we feel it severely compromises the lives of these vulnerable patients. the supreme court's decision only applies where families and doctors agree, where there is disagreement, judges will still have to decide whether patients should be allowed to die. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. 0ur our legal affairs correspondent clive coleman is at the supreme court now and a very symbolic

decision today, it has been a long time coming for a lot of campaigners. i think it is a profound change in the law because four years there's been a distinction where families and doctors have agreed that life—sustaining medical treatment should be withdrawn, then they are able to do that. they don't have to go for a court order, so for a double, life—saving dialysis but in relation to the artificial supply of food and water, then they have had to come to court and seek a court order. that has been the case since the tony bland case that sophie mentioned in 1993. actually, very few cases have come to court so maybe only 100 or so by one barrister who practices in this area, barrister who practices in this area , over barrister who practices in this area, over that period, barrister who practices in this area, overthat period, have barrister who practices in this area, over that period, have come to court. why have doctors been so relu cta nt to court. why have doctors been so reluctant to bring these cases to court? it costs a lot of money, it can be up to £100,000 and it can ta ke can be up to £100,000 and it can take a long time, one year, and of

course their medical practice will be scrutinised by a judge. it has meant tens of thousands of people have remained on life support when their relatives may have wanted that —— not have wanted that to be the case and thought it was not in their best interests. this judgment gives us best interests. this judgment gives us real clarity, those families in those dreadful situations, if they are in agreement with their doctors, these decisions can now be made. it will be much easier but of course, these cases cut across religious and ethical issues. some will regard this as a hugely compassionate and humane ruling. 0thers this as a hugely compassionate and humane ruling. others will regard it as the removal of a vital safeguard from a very vulnerable group of people. so, for those people who do regard this as immensely controversial, even unethical, what more might they do legally to stop it? it is difficult because there is a very clear statement of the law and the decision now is in the hands

of the clinicians, who have to be in agreement with the families. if that is the case, the decision can be taken. lady black, who gave the ruling today, was very clear that if there really any disagreement, then there really any disagreement, then the case can and indeed should come back to court for court approval. but those who have real concerns about, and i suppose what this amounts to is a great vote of confidence, really, in the medical profession and their ability to liaise with families but those who are concerned about it will remain very concerned about it and short of campaigning, there's not an awful lot to legally which they will be able to do in these cases, as far as i read the judgment. thank you for joining us. clive coleman at the supreme court. services cancelled following a timetable shake—up at northern rail have begun running again. it follows weeks of chaos for passengers after the train

operator struggled to introduce a new timetable it introduced in may. it scrapped 168 services per day last month, leaving many travellers facing hours of delays, if their trains ran at all. manchester mayor andy burnham has written to theresa may asking her to intervene. among the routes returning to normal is the lakes line, seen as vital for tourism in the lake district. rob young reports. on behalf of northern, i would just like to apologise for the cramped conditions... this morning's 0720 from burnley to leeds, one of dozens of northern rail services beset with problems in recent months. commuters like simon have had a miserable few weeks. a lot of the times, the train either doesn't turn up, or it's actually too full to get on by the time it reaches my stop. it was so stressful, i actually took time off work. because when they changed the timetable, it was taking me upwards of three hours to get home on a ito—minute journey. in may, rail timetables underwent the biggest shake—up in their history. it led to chaos on the north‘s rail networks. passengers endured long delays. many trains didn't turn up.

in an attempt to improve things last month, northern rail scrapped 168 daily services, further infuriating passengers. today, 125 of those suspended journeys have resumed. it's been estimated the cancellations have cost businesses in the north £38 million. one of the worst—affected lines, which runs through the lake district, has been entirely out of action, sparking protests. all of its services are now back on the timetable. local newspapers renamed the company "northern fail" and they demanded the government sort the mess out. today, the north‘s most powerful politician asked the prime minister to take charge of the issue. i don't have the power. the transport secretary still has the power. but i've asked him, and asked him, and asked him to intervene. this isn't playing politics. i've said, please, intervene, do yourjob. and it's because i've run out of options that i've had to write to the prime minister. the government has branded the rail disruption unacceptable,

and says an inquiry will work out what went wrong. the resumption of services today has not gone as smoothly as many have hoped. 23 northern rail services have been cancelled. problems with signalling and drivers are to blame. many of these passengers in preston and liverpool this morning weren't impressed. it's been cancelled at very short notice. i was expecting a train at 6:07, and it's been cancelled because of a lack of drivers. theyjust don't seem to be improving, they don't seem to care. and when i put a complaint in months ago, i've heard nothing back from them. after today, i'm hoping things will get back to normal. the disruption isn't over yet. the remaining 43 of northern‘s suspended services won't appear on the timetable until september. the company says a more gradual reintroduction will ensure a more stable and reliable service. but it will have been a long time coming. rob young, bbc news. dave guest is at preston station. how has this gone down with

passengers? i have to say, i've been here since 5:30am and the first thing i heard when i arrived was an announcement saying northern apologised for the fact they cancelled train to barrow. we've seen cancelled train to barrow. we've seen a cancelled train to barrow. we've seen a number of cancellations and delays this morning but nowhere near as bad as they were at the beginning ofjune when as bad as they were at the beginning of june when they as bad as they were at the beginning ofjune when they introduced the interim timetable and took out 168 daily services. of course, they did that because the introduction of the timetable in may had caused such problems. basically, they did not have enough drivers to run the number of trains they were trying to run. they said the driver training programme had been derailed because electrification work on the track by network rail had overrun and it all had a knock—on effects tomic —— so they brought in the interim timetable last month, took out 168 services as the report said, including the lakes line which caused a brora up there because this is their busiest time of year in the

la ke is their busiest time of year in the lake district and they want to get tourists up on trains —— caused a furore up there. they will be pleased today's service has been reinstated. in preston, the cancellations or delays have been in the order of ten or 15 minutes and a handful of cancellations, 20 odd cancellations across the network, northern are saying, and a number of those are because signalling problems and what they describe as infrastructure problems so some of the station announcements have also blamed the fact the crews have been in the wrong place because of disruption to services. talking to passengers at preston, as elsewhere, i don't think they are really worried about who has caused the problem and who is going to sort it out but they want it sorted and quickly. i'm talking to people who have had to change their entire working patterns and the way they get to and from work because they could not rely on the trains any more. that is why andy burnham is so steamed up about this and calling on the prime minister to get involved. the department for transport itself has said the problems up here have

been unacceptable. we have heard that report from the northern powerhouse partnership saying that all of this has cost businesses in this part of the world £38 million. and about1 this part of the world £38 million. and about 1 million this part of the world £38 million. and about1 million hours of travelling time for business and pleasure has been lost so it had a huge effect and people will be watching closely to see if the changes work. northern are promising that tonight at rush hour they will be operating a good service and we will watch to see whether they do. long day but we are grateful to you, david guest in preston, thank you very much. with me is roger blake — director of infrastructure at railfuture — an independent group which campaigns for a better rail network. thank mac —— thank you forjoining us. thank mac —— thank you forjoining us. let's bc biglia, northern have not gone back to the timetable they used to run prior to the changes, it is slowly changing and should be in place fairly soon. arabist and the of the situation as of today is that we are rebuilding in stages what should have happened in may and tragically, didn't work, so the

expectation is that by september, we should have all being well, what we should have all being well, what we should have all being well, what we should have had back in may. and hopefully the ingenuity that passengers have had to shed to get to where they have wanted to go to at all can ease off? i think passengers have been expected to exercise a lot more than ingenuity. they have had very good cause to be very frustrated with all of this. the rail industry has left itself and its customers down badly and it needs to rebuild the trust of its existing passenger base and the confidence in the wider public who may be thinking about rail but hearing all these bad news stories, have been put off. there is a major confidence building exercise which is now needed. so how is the trust rebuilt? i think it has got to be just through communication. it can simply be good announcement at the stations. it can be staff on the trains, explaining, if you are held

up, if you are going slowly, tried to give an explanation why and if you don't know, say we are not quite sure what the problem is and we will let you know when you've we can. we heard david guest to say that passengers have told him they don't ca re passengers have told him they don't care who is responsible, whether it is the train operating company, the government, theyjust don't care but clearly there are component parts to who is responsible. where does the government fit in? where does northern railfit government fit in? where does northern rail fit in? government fit in? where does northern railfit in? orange maggot thereof very many component parts in this very complex industry and you are absolutely right that from the passenger perspective, theyjust wa nt passenger perspective, theyjust want the train to run. as per the timetable and as per the expected timetable and as per the expected time of arrival. it will be for others to conduct the many enquiries which are already set up, the government has asked the office of rail road to set up an enquiry, the house of commons transport committee are calling for evidence until the 5th of september, people have until

tomorrow to fill in an online survey on the website to contribute their own personal experiences. transport isa own personal experiences. transport is a massively political issues which may contribute to some of the problems with long—term planning but how... what is missing from the rail network? you mentioned customer service. is it lack of skilled personnel, drivers, engineers?” think the key thing that is missing isa think the key thing that is missing is a strong sense of leadership from the centre. the centre being the government? the government is part of that but i mean within the rail industry itself. there have to be good managers who inspire their staff to deliver the very best and this is the train operators, it is network rail, and it is fortunate that network rail are seeing the arrival of a new chief executive with established relic spirits who we can be absolutely sure will really get a grip of this. roger

blake, thank you for coming in. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. the supreme court rules legal permission will not be needed to end to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state. services scrapped in a timetable shake—up by northern rail begin running again but passengers face more cancellations. voting's under way in zimbabwe in the first general election since long—time president robert mugabe was ousted. and in sport, geraint thomas is celebrating his historic tour de france victory. he became the first welshman to win the tour on sunday. and the third brit to take home cycling's greatest prize, following in the footsteps of sir bradley wiggins and chris froome, who finished third. alastair cook says he understands why the england selectors have made an exception in picking adil rashid for this week's first test against india. a dry summer, together with good form, has seen the yorkshire leg spinner included in england's13—man squad. andy murray says it will be like "starting from scratch

again" when he steps out on court in the first round of the washington 0pen. he faces mackenzie mcdonald in just his third tournament since having surgery injanuary. i will have more on those stories just after half past. see you then. voters in zimbabwe are going to the polls in the first—ever election which doesn't feature the name robert mugabe on the ballot paper. mr mugabe was ousted last year after almost four decades of controlling the country. he couldn't support his successor, emmerson mnangagwa of the ruling zanu—pf party, describing its leadership as "tormentors". 0ur correspondent shingai nyoka has sent this report from the capital, harare. zimbabwe is bracing itself for a new beginning. since independence from colonial rule in 1980, no election has carried such weight, so much expectation.

many here rose in the cold hours before dawn, eager to cast their ballots. i'm declaring this polling station open at seven o'clock. up to 5.7 million people are expected to vote today. so much depends on this election. this once promising southern african nation has remained stagnant for 20 yea rs, nation has remained stagnant for 20 years, many waiting in line have no jobs. i want to vote for my children so jobs. i want to vote for my children so they can getjobs. this is what we wa nt so they can getjobs. this is what we want in zimbabwe because... since 1980, there is no freedom. no freedom of speech. so i want to express that through my vote. today, zimbabweans will decide theirfuture. the two presidential frontrunners are both new to the race. voters here are hoping that one of these men will draw the line on years of political instability

and turmoil, and finally turn this country around. up above, one of the men who carries this country's hopes. emmerson mnangagwa, the current president, on his way to vote outside the capital. his stronghold, the rural areas, where close to 70% of voters live. and may it be that the voting process for campaigning was peaceful. that voting today is peaceful. this is the reception his rival received, confident the urban vote belongs to him. my colleague, fergal keane, spoke to him after he voted. we will win this election, to the extent it is a free and fair election, particularly in rural areas. this election is a test for the party that has ruled this country for nearly a0 years, for the military that changed everything in november last year, and for the young, brash leader of the opposition.

whichever way this election goes, they will all need to accept the results. this country is at a crossroads. the next few days will be critical. zimbabwe and the world will be watching. shingai nyoka reporting there, let's now speak to our correspondent nomsa maseko who is in the zimbabwean capital harare. how different choice do voters feel they have this time? the fact robert mugabe's name is not on a ballot paper, zimbabweans, particularly the young, feel have a level of optimism, of bringing this country into a new, post—robert mugabe democracy, who earlier today also went out to cast his ballot amid loud, loud cheers, but he did not say anything when he went out there to vote. but there is a level of

optimism because whoever wins will have a huge task of restoring this country's economy and also creating millions ofjobs for country's economy and also creating millions of jobs for young country's economy and also creating millions ofjobs for young people. but clearly robert mugabe, in his intervention yesterday, said he couldn't vote for his own party any more, he clearly thinks he has an influence over the country with that two our press conference. “— influence over the country with that two our press conference. —— to our press co nfe re nce . two our press conference. —— to our press conference. it was a very long press conference. it was a very long press co nfe re nce press conference. it was a very long press conference with his wife egging him on, telling him to speak up egging him on, telling him to speak up and leaned forward as he was slouching on his chair. he looked frail and tired but still very much defiant, speaking about the military coup that took place here last november, saying it was unacceptable and under the rule of his successor, emmerson mnangagwa, the country is no longer democratic but some would argue that robert mugabe, when he went in, he was a freedom fighter,

but then soon became a tyrant. thank you forjoining us. more than four million people in india's north—east state of assam stand to be stripped of their citizenship after they were omitted from a list of recognised voters. india's hindu nationalist government says they are merely trying to root out illegal migrants. but human rights campaigners believe the government is actually trying to disenfranchise, or even deport, assam's muslim minority. joe miller reports. sumato bano, atab ali and shahida khatun have always called india home. but now they and dozens of their fellow villagers expect to lose the citizenship they thought was theirs by birth. they fear their land, voting rights and freedom will be next. schoolteacher hasitun is now the sole provider for herfour children. her husband, suspected of being a foreigner, is already behind bars.

a target, she says, of a witchhunt against her bengali muslim community. translation: this is our country. i grew up here, i studied here, i got married here, i have land here. how come we are not indians? authorities claim settlers from nearby bangladesh are enmeshed in assam's bengali population, hiding in plain sight, often with forged papers. to help pinpoint them, all 32 million inhabitants of the state have been forced to produce documents proving that their assamese roots go back to before 1971. but record—keeping in remote areas is patchy, and human rights groups are crying foul. the government says that assam is in danger of being overrun with illegal bangladeshi migrants. but, strangely, no—one can tell us where they are, how many of them there are,

or what fate awaits them. all they say is they come here to exploit this vast, fertile landscape. some say as many as 5 million have crossed the porous border into assam and are skewing local elections. but muslim activists say these numbers are deliberately exaggerated tojustify a hindu nationalist agenda, with chilling echoes of a crisis not too far away. translation: it is nothing but a conspiracy to commit atrocities. they are openly threatening to get rid of muslims. what happened to the rohingyas in myanmar could happen to us here. such fears have been exacerbated by prime minister narendra modi, who pledged to deport bangladeshi "intruders" unless they were hindus. in assam, a fellow party member is clear about his intentions. everybody will be given the right to prove their citizenship,

but if they fail to do so, well, the legal system will take its own course. you are saying these people will be expelled? yes. for now, bengali river communities are staying put, hoping hostility towards them subsides after next year's national elections. hasitun says they have always lived peacefully alongside their hindu neighbours, but now she fears bad news is on its way. joe miller, bbc news, assam. the bbc‘s nitin srivastava is in assam. what kind of legal recourse do these people have? well, the government and the agencies that have released this list today, which is a list of

almost 4 million people whose names are not eligible... they say it is not the end of the road for these people. they say they have a chance to sort of... go back to the government and the authorities with their papers which will prove they have been citizens before 1971 so thatis have been citizens before 1971 so that is the option the government says that... the option is not close to these people but the fact remains that these people who have gone through this exercise for the second time in the last 12 months are really in big despair. they are really in big despair. they are really dejected because for them, they feel they have done their best to prove that they have been indian citizens but this is what the response has been. thank you for joining us. apologies for the break—up in the sound quality. time for a look at the weather... ben hasjoined us, a rather different weekend, let's start in wales ? a few people coming up to me this

weekend and saying some probably less pleasant things than they have been the last two weeks because if you are planning an event this weekend, all of the fine, dry weather we have had, the heatwave conditions and then this weekend turns up and how different it was. this picture is from near merthyr tydfil, which really captures the intensity of the downpours, the thunderstorms, but at one place in wales, we had 41 millimetres of rain in 2a hours. there were places that during june only had 2—5 millimetres of rain so in the space of 2a hours, you've got a lot more than that but northern ireland, even more impressive, we saw some scenes of flooding like this, from one of our weather watchers in antrim but not far away, in aldergrove, they had 99 millimetres of rain in 2a hours, the average forjuly in that place is about 71 millimetres so 99 millimetres in the space of a day, such a change from what we have had. you can see from the picture that

the ground is so hard, it can't cope. the ground is incredibly dry because as we have been reporting for weeks, iimagine as we have been reporting for weeks, i imagine some of the ridiculously low rainfall totals, the ground is solid, it is like having a sponge that absorbs the water but replacing it with a brick, it's not going to absorb anything underground is a bit like that at the moment. this is what the weekend looked like in terms of the radar and we have not seen terms of the radar and we have not seen anything like this for ages. northern ireland, the heavy rain stalled on saturday, torrential downpours which is why we saw scenes like that and then on sunday, more wet weather from the south, so for weddings, camping trips, anything people might have been up to, not ideal. and one more thing, believe it or not, it was windy as well. that is dawlish in devon, where a few years back, storms caused huge damage to the railway. nothing quite as severe but not far away, in plymouth, 51 mph gusts which in weather terms overall is not huge but compared with what we have had

recently, such a big change. and i had an sos from my family who we re and i had an sos from my family who were washed out of the tent in wiltshire! i had to answer an sos at a wedding at the weekend, umbrella on standby. will be hot when a comeback? for some, it will. will be hot when a comeback? forsome, it will. it will be hot when a comeback? for some, it will. it feels like the heatwave is over but it may only be overfor heatwave is over but it may only be over for now because as we go through this week, yes, there are still showers in the forecast but nothing with the intensity we saw over the weekend. it will turn less windy and for some, especially in the south, those temperatures will start to climb. this is an unsettled satellite picture with a swirl of cloud to the north—west, an area of low pressure would still clumps of cloud being spun around, bringing outbreaks of ashari rain through the rest of the afternoon, showers into the south west and wales, north—west england, in fact, the south west and wales, north—west england, infact, some the south west and wales, north—west england, in fact, some more persistent rain here for a time. sunshine and showers were northern ireland and western scotland and for eastern parts of the country, but as many shows, mostly dry with

temperatures already starting to bounce back. this evening and night, we will take an area of rain across northern england into eastern scotland, some of that on the heavy side and then some dry weather but across the south—west, wales and the south—east, a fresh clutch of showers in from the south. still relatively warm across the south—eastern corner but some spots in scotland will get down into single digits. tomorrow, a shower restart across the south—east, a bit like this morning, they will clear into the north sea and then for central and eastern areas, not a bad date. if you like dry weather, there will be a fair amount with spells of sunshine, a few showers further west, certainly some rain, most of it quite like an patch into northern ireland and western scotland. 17 in glasgow but 25 again in london. wednesday is the mostly dry day of the next tube because most places will stay dry, with patchy cloud and sunny spells and the small chance of a shower but in northern ireland, once again, things cloud over through the afternoon with outbreaks

of rain. temperatures continuing to climb across south—eastern areas. we developed a bit of a split in fortu nes developed a bit of a split in fortunes through the latter part of the week. frontal systems wriggling around across the north—west of the country so a bit of rain at times. but high pressure builds back into the south and that will allow us to feed in some warm air once again, quite a familiar story, from the near continent into southern areas. further north, we stick with a fresher feed of air from the atlantic. for northern abbas to mirrors, aberdeen and glasgow, temperatures in the low 20s with a bit of rain. further south and east, have a look at these temperatures, if you don't like the heat, it is coming back, 31 or 32 by the end of the week with lots of sunshine. after a very different weekend, we're basically back to square one for some as the heatwave returns this weekend. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. legal permission will no longer be required to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state as long as there is agreement between families and doctors. the supreme court's ruling means

it will now be easier to withdraw food and liquid, allowing these patients to die. northern rail is reintroducing three—quarters of the services which it removed last month following a timetable shake—up, but commuters are still facing cancellations and delays. the company says that some of those cancellations are because of signalling problems — the responsibility of network rail. people in zimbabwe are voting in the country's first elections since long—time leader robert mugabe was ousted in november. mr mugabe's successor, emmerson mnangagwa, is hoping to legitimise his rule. california's deadliest current wildfire is getting larger, despite thousands of firefighters battling it. eight people have been killed so far by the fires burning in the state. and on the 200th anniversary of the birth of author emily bronte, we'll be visiting the parsonage where she was born, and where her life and work is being celebrated. sport now on afternoon live with reshmin.

is geraint thomas the most famous man in wales? he certainly is today. the whitchurch high school in cardiff has developed this map of producing some world—class sportspeople. if real madrid's serial—winner gareth bale or former wales and lions captain sam warburton are anything to go by. sir bradley wiggins said that today. the 2012 winner wiggins has even tipped thomas to retain his title next year and told the welshman that his life will now change forever. cardiff council has confirmed talks are planned between themselves, thomas and welsh cycling over a homecoming event to honour the cyclist‘s achievement.

thousands of welsh supporters had flocked to paris to see him seal the win — with teammate and defending champion chris froome finishing in third. so for today at least and falling towards a follow geraint thomas is the most famous welshman. i never thought about the outcome, it was all about the process and doing all the small things right. thinking about the next day and planning, just staying calm and collected. suddenly then realised i had won and it'sjust insane really. there's a theory doing the rounds that you were plan a all along. no, i wish i was. no, froomey was the leader going into it but obviously i had my chance and i'm really happy to have taken the opportunity. that is a great achievement by geraint thomas. greatest team celebrating after years of waiting

in the wings, if you like. that's great to see him. all he wanted to do was lie in bed with a cup of coffee, rather an —— unambitious way to celebrate. 10 years ago british riders weren t expected to do well at the tour de france — now we ve had 3 different british winners — what 5 the secret to their success? you have to put that down to team sky, they have been responsible for a renaissance in british cycling they have dominated all others on track and on the road. in 2010 when they were formed, the head dave b ra ilsfo rd they were formed, the head dave brailsford said he wanted a british major event winner within the next five years and he had noes in mind back then. that she had geraint thomas. team sky was ahead of schedule when sir bradley wiggins became the first winner in 2012, followed by 4 wins in the next 5 by chris froome. now, the ever—reliable wingman geraint thomas has finally had his chance to shine and brailsford said its all down to good old—fashioned teamwork

and harmony among the riders. the great thing about this particular tour de france was they are both so experienced, both very mature, and they were fantastic together, there was no conflict and they supported each other. world—class from chris froome, he was straight to the help of his team— mate when he was straight to the help of his team—mate when he knew he was not going to win the race and that is the sign of a great champion. england opener alistair cook says he understands why the england selectors have made an exception in picking adil rashid for the 1st test against india. a dry summer, together with good form, has seen the yorkshire leg spinner included in england's13—man squad. the decision is controversial because he's been included despite signing a deal to play only white—ball cricket with yorkshire. he has not played a first—class match since september 2017. andy murray says it will be like "starting from scratch again" when he faces mackenzie mcdonald in the washington 0pen first round on monday.

the tournament will be just his third since having surgery injanuary, and his first on a hard court. murray is now ranked 832 in the world and if he gets past mcdonald, he'll play fellow brit kyle edmund in the second round. the good thing is, when you are at the top of the game, it's not easy to move up one spot, but if i win a couple of matches here i could move up couple of matches here i could move up 300 spots in a week which is nice. hopefully i can get back up there quickly but it sort of feels like i'm starting from scratch again. obviously i've not been in that position since i was 18, so i'm looking forward to it. it will be ha rd looking forward to it. it will be hard but it should be fun. choosing celtic park for the first pro14 final outside a traditional rugby venue has been hailed as a "truly historic step" by the league. pro14 chief executive martin anayi says, "we're certain

that fans will share in our excitement". celtic chief executive peter lawwell meanwhile says he's "very proud" that the scottish champions' 60,000—seater stadium had been chosen. bt murrayfield, scotland's national rugby stadium, was host in 2016, while this year's final was held at the aviva stadium in dublin, with leinster beating scarlets. that's all the sport for now. a fourth firefighter has died battling a wildfire in california, bringing to eight the total number of people who have been killed in blazes which have forced 50,000 people from their homes. more than 5,000 people have been told to evacuate the town of lakeport in northern california where two wildfires are closing in and parts of the city of redding have been devastated. our correspondent tom burridge reports. a large part of northern california, ravaged over the weekend. firefighters have been brought in from other states to tackle a

wildfire that seems to have spread at unprecedented speed — destroying an area bigger than san francisco in just one week. across california, there are currently 17 wildfires burning, with 12,000 firefighters battling to contain the flames. brian hughes is the latest firefighter to be killed. he was struck by a tree. and this is the aftermath in redding. parts of the city now resemble a giant scrapheap, with homes and belongings completely destroyed. this was elise mackin's house. the wind just took off. i don't remember exactly what they called it, it was almost like a tornado with fire in it. it came over the hill and it wiped out our house, it

wiped out our neighbour's home. we were in the middle, the home on one side is still standing, the home on the other side is like ours, pretty much rubble. the wildfire in northern california is still burning, and spread yet further yesterday. but late last night, california's fire service said it had made progress and was now optimistic. for many residents, there's relief. it has finally calmed down for the first time in nearly a week. but it has been horrific. this particularfire, it's easily on a different level. i've experienced a few fires, but this one is just off the charts. in california, 50,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. across the us, there are currently around 90 wildfires burning. in canada, there are a0 more. wildfires in california are nothing new. but strong winds spread this fire so quickly it killed

people in their homes and left fire crews struggling to respond. scientists warn that scenes like this could become more common as our climate changes and our planet gets warmer. millions of people across england are unable to book an appointment with a gp outside of working hours — despite targets to offer extended access to doctors by october. analysis of official figures by the bbc shows that more than 5 million people — or 10% of registered patients — had no access to gps outside of normal working hours. joining me now is dr martin marshall, vice chair of royal college of gps. thanks forjoining us. why are gps not meeting the targets yet? the nhs is under enormous pressure and most gps would like to be able to meet the needs of their patients and there are many patients who would

like to be able to access routine gp services in the evenings and at weekends but the reality is that general practices are under enormous strain at the moment with insufficient gps and funding, it is very difficult to extend services even more. gps were given the option of opting out of 2a hours services, so of opting out of 2a hours services, so how likely are they to be wanting to work the so—called anti—social times? some gps did opt out, some joint co—operatives and they were happy to provide those services, but i don't think it is a question of reluctance, it's a question of capacity, when gps are working, 12, 14 capacity, when gps are working, 12, 1a hours day, the idea of extending it even further, without additional resources , it even further, without additional resources, that's impey doesn't make sense. how is the target of this amount of cover by october meant to be met? it is not entirely clear how

this will be met and some practices are doing this by combining together into networks are practices and rather than seeing your aim gp in your practice you might see one from a neighbouring practice. some practices are saying patients don't wa nt practices are saying patients don't want this kind of extended service and there is evidence that may be they would not be interested in saturday and sunday services, and so there is no need for it. it depends on the local population needs. how much of this is down to the fact we don't have enough clinicians are gps and nurses? a lot of it is. gps are trying to work efficiently and differently and you can see general practices which are providing online and telephone services but quite simply we have fewer gps than we had a few years ago, and there is a target to recruit 5000 extra gps but it is unlikely the government will

be able to hit that target so it is about numbers of clinicians who are able to provide services. how long does it take to train a home—grown gp? about ten years from entering medical school. october looks quite close. it does. thanks forjoining us. on his first major trip as foreign secretary, jeremy hunt is visiting china — where he's been speaking to officials about a controversial custody case. it involves two british children whose british father was murdered by their chinese mother. our correspondent robin brant is in shanghai and gave us this update. jack and alice are seven and six, they have been in a town about 1000km from here since their father, michael simpson, was murdered by their chinese mother in march of last year. the british family, led by iain simpson, the grandfather, wants the children to come to the uk, and he thinks

they could have a better life there. they have appealed tojeremy hunt on his first visit in the newjob to help them and to raise the issue. and he has done that. he said, as he sat opposite his chinese counterpart, that the authorities have agreed to look into the case. mr hunt said the overall custody issue is of great concern. for the simpson family, it looks like good news. but the custody case itself is going to take about a month, before it gets to court and they get a final decision on whether they stay here or can go to the uk. that is where there will be a real sign whether this intervention really means anything. whilst meeting with the chinese foreign minister on that visitjeremy hunt tried to break the ice with his hosts by mentioning that his family links to china but made a mistake whilst talking about his wife. also, my wife is japanese... my wife is chinese, sorry. laughter

that's a terrible mistake to make! we spoke in japanese at the state banquet, but my wife is chinese. easy mistake to make! it seems that boris johnson is finally moving out of the foreign secretary's official residence in central london after removal vans were spotted outside the home. mrjohnson has been living at number one carlton gardens, and was under pressure to move out following his resignation as foreign secretary earlier this month. his suspected departure comes days after anti—brexit campaigners staged a stunt by offering to help him move. jamie is here — in a moment. he will be telling us what's hot and what's not in the business news. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. the supreme court rules legal permission will not be needed to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state. services scrapped in a timetable shake—up by northern

rail begin running again but passengers face more cancellations. voting's underway in zimbabwe in the first general election since long—time president robert mugabe was ousted. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. mirror and express newspaper, reach, made a £113 million half—year loss after it slashed the value of its regional publishing operations by £150 million. the firm, which used to be called trinity mirror, says the loss reflects a "more challenging outlook" for its regional businesses. how's the uk property market doing? two different ways of looking at it — uk mortgage approvals hit a five—month high injune — that's encouraging. but in london the estate agent foxtons said it lost £2.5m in the first half of the year. it blamed "a sustained period of very low activity levels". bt has lost the rights to broadcast

nba basketball and ufc ultimate fighting a few weeks after also losing the rights to italian serie a football. the firm spends about £1bn a year on sports rights but told the bbc it would not bid more than it thought the rights were worth. so jamie, bmw is increasing prices? this is to do with its american operation. which is in south carolina. the biggest carfactory in the united states. it is to do with its exports to china. if you want to buy one tomorrow, a bmw, it will not cost a ny buy one tomorrow, a bmw, it will not cost any more tomorrow, but it is getting hit twice. we have tariffs in place by donald trump on steel imports and aluminium imports. so bmw is discovering that those prices of course are going up and that will add to its costs. it also exports

ca rs add to its costs. it also exports cars to china and china has just put ta riffs cars to china and china has just put tariffs on those as well. so they have to pay extra, if you want to sell a bmw in china, if you are chinese anyone to buy a bmw, it will cost more. —— and you want to buy a bmw. they had contributed to this? the idea of putting tariffs on to something, primarily the chinese wa nt to something, primarily the chinese want to affect south carolina because that is a political base for trump, and the idea as well is that if you don't buy foreign cars you will buy our own cars and that is a way of protecting industry. our north america business correspondent reporter, kim gittleson, joins us now from the new york stock exchange. this is the beginning of the effect of the trade was beginning to be felt by ordinary consumers, in china

and possibly by workers in south carolina. yes, we have seen a lot of indications that these tariffs are coming into effect and instruments will pay —— and ultimately consumers will pay —— and ultimately consumers will pay. the rising costs of steel and alan minion have forced companies to raise their prices, as well as the 4—7% price increase which bmw has said it will impose on of couple of models it sells in china. these are the big sport utility models which are popular in the us and also in china. bmw exported 100,000 vehicles to china in the last year alone. that is something that will significantly hurt the company if chinese consumers decide they don't want to pay the extra price increase and they go to competitors like mercedes

or other domestic car firms. this suggests the car in his tree is susceptible to this global trade war —— the car industry. it didn't feel like it had the wheel rim to increase their prices in china and it felt it would hurt its market position in china by would have to absorb these costs, so this is a difficult position for car— makers, american and european car—makers, trying to figure out how to price their vehicles in his very unstable trade environment. briefly, interesting comparison is caterpillar, but that doesn't seem to be too worried about this and they are selling a huge mad of goods to china. that is right, this heavy farm machinery is being sold abroad, and china buys a lot of them. they expect to lose something like $200

million as a result of these tariffs, but caterpillar feels the global economic recovery is strong enough and they can raise their prices and still sell their products abroad, so this is a mixed bag for corporations around the world when it comes to dealing with this particular trade war. thanks for joining us. looking at the markets, the ftse has not moved at all. the pound is a bit stronger. just a little. i will reveal more in one hour. yes,, back. 200 years ago today, emily bronte, the author of ‘wuthering heights' was born. she is one of the best known names in english literature, but only wrote the one novel — inspired by the windswept yorkshire moors which surrounded her. our entertainment correspondent, colin paterson has sent this report from the parsonage where emily bronte was raised — and where her life and work is being celebrated. it's a big bronte birthday.

the 200th anniversary of emily bronte, celebrated with poets in fields... yorkshire moors, so bleak and old, inspired the heart of emily. displays of falconry, because emily bronte had a pet merlin hawk, called nero... with events all centred around the parsonage in haworth, where she wrote her only novel, wuthering heights, before dying from tuberculosis at the age of 30. what she's left behind is this incredible, imaginative tour de force of a novel that people have just loved for generations and that continues to inspire artists and writers working today, and that's very much what we wanted to celebrate — her 200th birthday. and people had come from all over. there's this wildness and this beauty to the writing. i don't know, you just get kind of sucked into the story. you've got to come here and pay homage, really, because it puts everything into perspective, itjust brings it all to life. the celebrations have also included the unveiling of a tribute stone out on the moors, featuring a new poem by kate bush — who famously had a number one

with wuthering heights. # heathcliff, it's me i'm cathy, i've come home now... at the time, she explained her inspiration. i saw a series on the television about ten years ago. it was on very late at night, and i caught literally the last five minutes of the series, where she was at the window trying to get in. who are you? i'm catherine linton. i've come home. and itjust really struck me. it was so strong. then i read the book. you read the book later? yes, i read the book before i wrote the song because i needed to get the mood properly. one little quirk of fate, today is kate bush's 60th birthday. another famous fan is lily cole, who's directed a short film exploring the character heathcliff‘s origins as an abandoned baby — but in a modern setting. why does emily bronte mean so much to you? the fact that she wrote the book

at a time when it was very, very difficult for women to be taken seriously and to become authoresses or authors. the fact that she published it under a pseudonym, ellis bell, has always intrigued me. and we don't know very much about her. she's really a mystery and most of what we know is kind of hearsay and oral tradition. but it's purely the book. that's the reason i'm fascinated by her, that she created that work. and as for what emily would have made of all this? we also know she was an incredibly private writer and so i wonder if she may have also found this level of scrutiny perhaps a bit intolerable. oh, well. happy birthday, emily. colin paterson, bbc news, howarth. time for a look at the weather — here's ben rich. the heat wave came to an end at the weekend, some places of northern ireland —— in northern ireland had enough rain for a month injust a few hours. it will start to warm up

once again, though, especially in the south. some showers moving out of wales and into eastern scotland this evening and some more returning across southern this evening and some more returning across southern areas as we this evening and some more returning across southern areas as we get to the end of the night. clear spells through the night, but parts of scotla nd through the night, but parts of scotland will see temperature down into single digits. showers across the south—east tomorrow, they will clear, and then for many eastern areas it is a dry day with good spells of sunshine. thicker cloud for northern ireland and western scotland, outbreaks of rain and more ofa scotland, outbreaks of rain and more of a breeze. temperature in the south—east beginning to creep up and in southern areas we could get close to 30 degrees, even a touch above, by the end of the week, but fresher further north. hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm martine croxall. today at 3pm. the supreme court rules legal permission will not be needed to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state. services scrapped in a timetable

shake—up by northern rail begin running again but passengers face more cancellations. it has been cancelled at very short notice. i was expecting a train at 6:07am and it has been cancelled because of lack of drivers. voting's under way in zimbabwe in the first general election since long—time president robert mugabe was ousted. more than 12,000 firefighters are tackling severe wild fires in california that have claimed the lives of eight people. almost like a tornado with fire in it, and it came over the hill and... it wiped out our house. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with reshmin chowdhury. tour de france success is still sinking in in wales? the celebrations roll on for geraint thomas after he became the first welshman and third brit to win the tour de france. he'll also be considering a new and improved contract offer from team sky. thanks, reshmin, and we'll be

joining you for a full update just after half—past. ben has all the weather. the weekend came as a bit of a shock to the system. some spots had a month's to the system. some spots had a months worth of rain in just a few hours, some saw wind gusts above 50 mph but as we go through this week, it looks like the heat will return for some of us. details on the way. thanks, ben. also coming up — behind the seams at max mara. the former punk from derby who's running the quintessentially italian fashion brand. hello, everyone, this is afternoon live. i'm martine croxall. the supreme court has confirmed that the approval of a judge is no longer needed in order to end the care of people

who are in persistent vegetative states, as long as families and doctors agree to the decision. many thousands of individuals are believed to be in such a condition, with little or no hope of recovery. the decision applies in england, wales and northern ireland. our health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. it's estimated there are tens of thousands of people living in a vegetative or minimally conscious state in the uk. patients with almost no prospect of recovery, who are kept alive with artificially administered food and water. until now, it was the courts who decided whether life—sustaining nutrition could be withdrawn. but today, the supreme court said there was no good reason for that. we find nothing in the common law, nor in any act of parliament, that requires an application to be made. the case overturns part of an important ruling from 1993 in relation to tony bland. he was left permanently unconscious after the hillsborough disaster. that ruling said life—sustaining measures could only be stopped

after applying to the courts. today's ruling says such applications are not obligatory. today's ruling is hugely significant for what are potentially thousands of families who find themselves in some of the most tragic situations. those who agree with doctors that their loved ones should be allowed to die. they can now make that decision in the quiet of the home, in hospital, or elsewhere without the strain of having to go to court. this solicitor who represents families who've had to fight for their loved ones in court welcomes the ruling. it's a really good decision for a sensible and compassionate society to allow doctors and families to get on and make decisions on behalf of the patient in their best interests. but some are concerned that removing the safeguard of asking the court's permission could be dangerous. these decisions are very difficult, they need to be

made by a specialist. diagnoses are often wrong, the court of protection has overturned decisions before. and this is why we feel it severely compromises the lives of these vulnerable patients. the supreme court's decision only applies where families and doctors agree. where there is disagreement, judges will still have to decide whether patients should be allowed to die. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. our legal affairs correspondent clive coleman has been at the supreme court today. he told me earlier the move is a step change for those with loved ones in persistent vegetative states. i think it is a profound change in the law because for years there's been a distinction. where families and doctors have agreed that life—sustaining medical treatment should be withdrawn, then they are able to do that. they don't have to go for a court

order, so for instance life—saving dialysis but in relation to the artificial supply of food and water, then they have had to come to court and seek a court order. that has been the case since the tony bland case that sophie mentioned in 1993. actually, very few cases have come to court, maybe only 100 or so i'm told by one barrister who practices in this area, over that period, have come to court. why have doctors been so reluctant to bring these cases to court? it costs a lot of money, it can be up to £100,000 and it can take a long time, a year, and of course their medical practice will be scrutinised by a judge. it has meant tens of thousands of people have remained on life support when their relatives may not have wanted that to be the case and thought it was not in their best interests. this judgment gives us real clarity, those families in those dreadful situations,

if they are in agreement with their doctors, these decisions can now be made. it will be much easier but of course, these cases cut across religious and ethical issues. some will regard this as a hugely compassionate and humane ruling. others will regard it as the removal of a vital safeguard from a very vulnerable group of people. so, for those people who do regard this as immensely controversial, even unethical, what more might they do legally to stop it? it is difficult because there is a very clear statement of the law and the decision now is in the hands of the clinicians, who have to be agreement with the families. if that is the case, the decision can be taken. lady black, who gave the ruling today, was very clear that if there is any doubt or disagreement, then the case can

and indeed should come back to court for court approval. but those who have real concerns about, and i suppose what this amounts to is a great vote of confidence, really, in the medical profession and their ability to liaise with families, but those who are concerned about it will remain very concerned about it and short of campaigning, there's not an awful lot legally which they will be able to do in these cases, as far as i read thejudgment. legal affairs correspondent clive coleman at the supreme court. services cancelled following a timetable shake—up at northern rail have begun running again. it follows weeks of chaos for passengers after the train operator struggled to introduce a new timetable in may. it scrapped 168 services per day last month, leaving many travellers facing hours of delays, if their trains ran at all. manchester mayor andy burnham has written to theresa may asking her to intervene. among the routes returning to normal is the lakes line, seen as vital for tourism in the lake district. this report from our business correspondent rob young. on behalf of northern,

i would just like to apologise for the cramped conditions... this morning's 0720 from burnley to leeds, one of dozens of northern rail services beset with problems in recent months. commuters like simon have had a miserable few weeks. a lot of the times, the train either doesn't turn up, or it's actually too full to get on by the time it reaches my stop. it was so stressful, i actually took time off work. because when they changed the timetable, it was taking me upwards of three hours to get home on a ito—minute journey. in may, rail timetables underwent the biggest shake—up in their history. it led to chaos on the north's rail networks. passengers endured long delays. many trains didn't turn up. in an attempt to improve things last month, northern rail scrapped 168 daily services, further infuriating passengers. today, 125 of those suspended journeys have resumed. it's been estimated the cancellations have cost businesses in the north £38 million.

one of the worst—affected lines, which runs through the lake district, has been entirely out of action, sparking protests. all of its services are now back on the timetable. local newspapers renamed the company "northern fail" and they demanded the government sort the mess out. today, the north's most powerful politician asked the prime minister to take charge of the issue. i don't have the power. the transport secretary still has the power. but i've asked him, and asked him, and asked him to intervene. this isn't playing politics. i've said, please, intervene, do yourjob. and it's because i've run out of options that i've had to write to the prime minister. the government has branded the rail disruption unacceptable, and says an inquiry will work out what went wrong. the resumption of services today has not gone as smoothly as many have hoped. 23 northern rail services have been cancelled. problems with signalling and drivers are to blame. many of these passengers in preston and liverpool this

morning weren't impressed. it's been cancelled at very short notice. i was expecting a train at 6:07, and it's been cancelled because of a lack of drivers. theyjust don't seem to be improving, they don't seem to care. and when i put a complaint in months ago, i've heard nothing back from them. after today, i'm hoping things will get back to normal. the disruption isn't over yet. the remaining 43 of northern's suspended services won't appear on the timetable until september. the company says a more gradual reintroduction will ensure a more stable and reliable service. but it will have been a long time coming. rob young, bbc news. earlier i spoke to our correspondent dave guest who has spend the day at preston station. i have to say, i've been here since 5:30am and the first

thing i heard when i arrived was an announcement saying northern apologised for the fact they cancelled train to barrow. we've seen a number of cancellations and delays this morning but nowhere near as bad as they were at the beginning ofjune when they introduced the interim timetable and took out 168 daily services. of course, they did that because the introduction of the timetable in may had caused such problems. basically, they did not have enough drivers to run the number of trains they were trying to run. they said the driver training programme had been derailed because electrification work on the track by network rail had overrun and it all had a knock—on effect so they brought in the interim timetable last month, took out 168 services as the report said, including the lakes line which caused a furore up there because this is their busiest time of year in the lake district and they want to get tourists up on trains. they will be pleased today's service has been reinstated. in preston, the cancellations or delays have been in the order of ten or 15 minutes and a handful of cancellations, 20 odd cancellations across the network, northern are saying, and a number of those

are because of signalling problems and what they describe as infrastructure problems so some of the station announcements have also blamed the fact the crews have been in the wrong place because of disruption to services. talking to passengers at preston, as elsewhere, i don't think they are really worried about who has caused the problem and who is going to sort it out but they want it sorted and quickly. i'm talking to people who have had to change their entire working patterns and the way they get to and from work because they could not rely on the trains any more. that is why andy burnham is so steamed up about this and calling on the prime minister to get involved. the department for transport itself has said the problems up here have been unacceptable. we have heard that report from the northern powerhouse partnership saying that all of this has cost businesses this part of the world £38 million. and about1 million hours of travelling time for business and pleasure has been lost so it had a huge effect and people will be watching closely to see if the changes work. northern are promising that tonight at rush hour they will be operating a good service and we will watch

to see whether they do. the uk is to lose its command of the eu naval task force set up to combat piracy off the coast of somalia. the headquaters of eu navfor, which has been based at northwood in north london, will move to rota in spain, with some elements of the operation also moving to brest in france. it follows a decision by the european council to move the headquarters, because of the uk's decision to leave the eu. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. the supreme court rules legal permission will not be needed to end to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state. services scrapped in a timetable shake—up by northern rail begin running again but passengers face more cancellations. on george room geraint thomas was in

the footsteps of chris froome bradley wiggins to win the tour de france. alastair cook says he understands why the england selectors have made a selection in bigging adil rashid for this weekend's first test against india, the dry summer together with good form has yorkshire leg—spinner included in england's 13 man squad. andy murray says it will be like starting from scratch again when he steps out on court in the first round of the washington open. he faces mackenzie mcdonald in his third tournament since having surgery third tournament since having surgery injanuary. third tournament since having surgery in january. i third tournament since having surgery injanuary. i will have more on those stories just after half past. voters in zimbabwe are going to the polls in the first—ever election which doesn't feature the name robert mugabe on the ballot paper. mr mugabe was ousted last year after almost four decades of controlling the country. in a surprise intervention yesterday, mr mugabe said he couldn't support his successor, emmerson mnangagwa of the ruling

zanu—pf party, describing its leadership as "tormentors". our correspondent shingai nyoka has sent this report from the capital, harare. zimbabwe is bracing itself for a new beginning. since independence from colonial rule in 1980, no election has carried such weight, so much expectation. many here rose in the cold hours before dawn, eager to cast their ballots. i'm declaring this polling station open at seven o'clock. up to 5.7 million people are expected to vote today. so much depends on this election. this once promising southern african nation has remained stagnant for 20 years, many waiting in line have nojobs. i want to vote for my children so they can getjobs. this is what we want here in zimbabwe. i can't be a vendor, so if

my child can do it come he can be a vendor or so. since 1980, there is no freedom. for freedom of speech. so i want to express that through my vote. today, zimbabweans will decide theirfuture. the two presidential frontrunners are both new to the race. voters here are hoping that one of these men will draw the line on years of political instability and turmoil, and finally turn this country around. up above, one of the men who carries this country's hopes. emmerson mnangagwa, the current president, on his way to vote outside the capital. his stronghold, the rural areas, where close to 70% of voters live. and may it be that the process for campaigning was peaceful. that voting today is peaceful. this is the reception his rival received, confident the urban vote belongs to him. my colleague, fergal keane, spoke to him after he voted. we will win this election,

to the extent it is a free and fair election, particularly in rural areas. this election is a test for the party that has ruled this country for nearly a0 years, for the military that changed everything in november last year, and for the young, brash leader of the opposition. whichever way this election goes, they will all need to accept the results. this country is at a crossroads. the next few days will be critical. zimbabwe and the world will be watching. so is this the ringing in of the new for zimbabwe? i've been speaking to our correspondent nomsa maseko who is in the capital harare. the fact robert mugabe's name is not on the ballot paper, zimbabweans, particularly the young, feel they have a level of optimism, of bringing this country into a new, post—robert mugabe

democracy, who earlier today also went out to cast his ballot amid loud, loud cheers, but he did not say anything when he went out there to vote. but there is a level of optimism because whoever wins will have a huge task of restoring this country's economy and also creating millions ofjobs for young people. but clearly robert mugabe, in his intervention yesterday, said he couldn't vote for his own party any more, he clearly thinks he has an influence over the country with that two hour press conference. it was a very long press conference with his wife egging him on, telling him to speak up and leaned forward as he was slouching on his chair. he looked frail and tired but still very much defiant, speaking about the military coup that took place here last

november, saying it was unacceptable and under the rule of his successor, emmerson mnangagwa, the country is no longer democratic but some would argue that robert mugabe, when he went in, he was a freedom fighter, but then soon became a tyrant. special safety measures have been put in place to protect mourners at the funeral in salisbury of a woman who died from exposure to the nerve agent novichok. dawn sturgess died on the 8th ofjuly after she and her partner charlie rowley unwittingly handled the nerve agent after he found it in a small bottle. a 26—year—old man has pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation — after claiming to be a resident at grenfell tower before the fire. westminster magistrates' court heard yonatan eyob claimed £81,000 in financial aid over a 12—month period. he'll be sentenced next month. he's the ninth person to have appeared in court charged with fraud following the grenfell fire.

millions of people across england are unable to book an appointment with a gp outside of working hours — despite targets to offer extended access to doctors by october. analysis of official figures by the bbc shows that more than 5 million people — or 10% of registered patients — had no access to gps outside of normal working hours. more than a million people in india's north—east state of assam stand to be stripped of their citizenship after they were omitted from a list of recognised voters. india's hindu—nationalist government says they are merely trying to root out illegal migrants. but human rights campaigners believe the government is actually trying to disenfranchise, or even deport, assam's muslim minority. joe miller reports. sumato bano, atab ali and shahida khatun have always called india home. but now they and dozens of their fellow villagers expect to lose the citizenship they thought was theirs by birth.

they fear their land, voting rights and freedom will be next. schoolteacher hasitun is now the sole provider for herfour children. her husband, suspected of being a foreigner, is already behind bars. a target, she says, of a witchhunt against her bengali muslim community. translation: this is our country. i grew up here, i studied here, i got married here, i have land here. how come we are not indians? authorities claim settlers from nearby bangladesh are enmeshed in assam's bengali population, hiding in plain sight, often with forged papers. to help pinpoint them, all 32 million inhabitants of the state have been forced to produce documents proving but record—keeping in remote areas

is patchy, and human rights groups are crying foul. the government says that assam is in danger of being overrun with illegal bangladeshi migrants. but, strangely, no—one can tell us where they are, how many of them there are, or what fate awaits them. all they say is they come here to exploit this vast, fertile landscape. some say as many as 5 million have crossed the porous border into assam and are skewing local elections. but muslim activists say these numbers are deliberately exaggerated tojustify a hindu nationalist agenda, with chilling echoes of a crisis not too far away. translation: it is nothing but a conspiracy to commit atrocities. they are openly threatening to get rid of muslims. what happened to the rohingyas in myanmar could happen to us here.

such fears have been exacerbated by prime minister narendra modi, who pledged to deport bangladeshi "intruders" unless they were hindus. in assam, a fellow party member is clear about his intentions. everybody will be given the right to prove their citizenship, but if they fail to do so, well, the legal system will take its own course. you are saying these people will be expelled? yes. for now, bengali river communities are staying put, hoping hostility towards them subsides after next year's national elections. hasitun says they have always lived peacefully alongside their hindu neighbours, but now she fears bad news is on its way. joe miller, bbc news, assam. for now, bengali river communities are staying put,

hoping hostility towards them subsides after next year's karl lagerfeld, giorgio armani and donna karan are among the most famous fashion designers in the world. but ian griffiths? the chances are you have never heard of him. yet the former punk rocker heads up max mara — one of the largest luxury fashion brands. the italian company also has one of the biggest fashion archives in europe. it's not open to the public, but our arts correspondent rebecca jones has been to italy to see it. chic, sleek and sophisticated, max mara is best known for its classic camel coats. from the runway to royalty, it's worn by some of the most famous women in the world. nel cuore — max mara. the company was founded in 1951 in reggio emilia, a place better known for its parmesan cheese. its factories are still based in the town. they produce a50 coats a day here, contributing to an annual turnover of £1.3 billion. meet ian griffiths.

he is the creative brains behind the brand. an influential designer, he prefers life behind the scenes, but he's been at the company for more than three decades. this coat is quite a special one for me because it was my first coat for max mara. and he's taking me on a tour of the company's own secret wardrobe. this was bought in new york. it's from 1910 or 1920. this is an original balenciaga coat and we've used it time and time again for inspiration for different collections. the archive is crammed with fashion magazines, sketches and boxes of fabric samples. this archive plunges you into the heart of fashion history. there are 30,000 individual items of clothing here, rails upon rails of them, and notjust by max mara but by other famous fashion designers as well. have a look at this coat by yves saint laurent which belonged

to the actress audrey hepburn. this coat belonged to coco chanel and was worn by coco chanel. and here's an evening dress byjeanne lanvin from the 19305, found in a fleamarket. fashion is a bit of an underdog. it tends to disregard itself a little. so much of what we do gets thrown away but we believe in preserving that culture because in the future it becomes interesting or even valuable. ian griffiths first became interested in fashion living in manchester in the 1980s. he was a punk, partying in nightclubs and designing his own clothes. you're talking to the guy who used to walk around manchester wearing a wedding veil for normal daywear. 35 years ago there i was making clothing for myself and my mates to go clubbing out of lining material, and now here i am at max mara with 31 years behind me. and he's already working

with his design team on the next collection, inspired by the archive, proving how the past helps fashion face the future. rebecca jones, bbc news, reggio emilia. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon. the heatwave came to an abrupt end at the weekend. some spots in northern ireland had a month's spots in northern ireland had a months worth of rain in a few hours but this week, there are still some showers around but it will become less windy and it is going to start a warm up once again, particularly in the south. showers as we had through this evening, moving out of wales and northern england, into eastern scotland and some more returning across southern parts as we get towards the end of the night. clear spells elsewhere. still relatively warm the south—eastern corner but parts of scotland will see overnight temperatures into single digits. tomorrow, across the south—east, they will tend to clear.

for many eastern areas, a dry day with good spells of sunshine. a few showers at times further west and certainly thicker cloud of northern ireland, western scotland, outbreaks of rain, more of a breeze, 17 ireland, western scotland, outbreaks of rain, more ofa breeze, 17 in glasgow but temperatures in the south—east beginning to creep upwards and in southern areas, we could get close to 30 degrees or even a touch above by the end of the week. fresher further even a touch above by the end of the week. fresherfurther north. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. legal permission will no longer be required to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state as long as there is agreement between families and doctors. the supreme court's ruling means it will now be easier to withdraw food and liquid, allowing such patients to die. northern rail is reintroducing three—quarters of the services which it removed last month following a timetable shake—up, but commuters are still facing cancellations and delays. the company says that some of those cancellations are because of signalling problems — the responsibility of network rail. people in zimbabwe are voting

in the country's first elections since long—time leader robert mugabe was ousted in november. mr mugabe's successor, emmerson mnangagwa, is hoping to legitimise his rule. california's deadliest current wildfire is getting larger, despite thousands of firefighters battling it. eight people have been killed so far by the fires burning in the state. new laws come into force today to ban drones from flying above a00ft, and within just over half a mile of an airport. we'll be speaking to a drone pilot and cameraman to find out more. sport now on afternoon live with reshmin chowdhury. is geraint thomas the most famous man in wales? he certainly is today! of course wales has this uncanny knack of producing some world class sports stars — in particular the whitchurch high school in cardiff. former pupils include real madrid's serial—winner gareth bale,

former wales and lions captain sam warburton and geraint thomas himself. and today it was sir bradley wiggins who described thomas as the most famous of them all. wiggins, the 2012 winner, has even tipped thomas to retain his title next year and told the welshman that his life will now change forever. cardiff council has confirmed talks are planned between themselves, thomas and welsh cycling over a homecoming event to honour the cyclist‘s achievement. thousands of welsh supporters had flocked to paris to see him seal the win. i never thought about the outcome, it was all about the process and doing all the small things right. thinking about the next day and planning, just staying calm and collected. suddenly then realised i had won and it'sjust insane really. there's a theory doing the rounds that you were plan a all along.

no, i wish i was. no, froomey was the leader going into it but obviously i had my chance and i'm really happy to have taken the opportunity. thomas now has his chance to shine. and now onto boxing. one of the biggest characters in boxing — tyson fury — says he's close to a shot at a world title? yes, he was a former heavyweight champion. former heavyweight world champion tyson fury says he's in talks with wbc champion deontay wilderfor a fight later this year. warning, there is some flash photography coming up. fury made his return to the ring after nearly three years out last month and is scheduled to fight again in three weeks time in belfast. american wilder has been long linked to a fight with anthonyjoshua, but a deal for that fight has yet to be sealed.

i can't reveal —— i can reveal that negotiations are very strong for novemberand we are negotiations are very strong for november and we are almost done for this deal. francesco will give me the right fight and the right work to prepare me for deontay wilder. andy murray says it will be like "starting from scratch again" when he faces mackenzie mcdonald in the washington open first round on monday. the tournament will be just his third since having surgery injanuary, and his first on a hard court. murray is now ranked 832 in the world and if he gets past mcdonald, he'll play fellow brit kyle edmund in the second round. the good thing is, when you are at the top of the game, it's not easy to move up one spot, but if i win a couple of matches here i could move up 300 spots in a week which is nice. hopefully i can get back up there quickly but it sort of feels like i'm starting

from scratch again. obviously i've not been in that position since i was 18, so i'm looking forward to it. it will be hard but it should be fun. england opener alistair cook says he understands why the england selectors have made an exception in picking adil rashid for the 1st test against india. a dry summer, together with good form, has seen the yorkshire leg spinner included in england's13—man squad. the decision is controversial because he's been included despite signing a deal to play only white—ball cricket with yorkshire. he has not played a first—class match since september 2017. manchester city say their new signing riyad mahrez could be available to play against chelsea in the community shield this weekend. mahrez moved to city from leicester earlier this month, and injured his ankle in a pre—season friendly against bayern munich over the weekend. but a scan has shown there is "no significant damage". that's all the sport for now.

thanks forjoining us. a fourth firefighter has died battling a wildfire in california, bringing to eight the total number of people who have been killed in blazes which have forced 50,000 people from their homes. more than 5,000 people have been told to evacuate the town of lakeport in northern california where two wildfires are closing in and parts of the city of redding have been devastated. our correspondent tom burridge reports. a large part of northern california, ravaged over the weekend. firefighters have been brought in from other states to tackle a wildfire that seems to have spread at unprecedented speed — destroying an area bigger than san francisco in just one week. across california, there are currently 17 wildfires burning, with 12,000 firefighters battling to contain the flames. brian hughes is the latest

firefighter to be killed. he was struck by a tree. and this is the aftermath in redding. parts of the city now resemble a giant scrapheap, with homes and belongings completely destroyed. this was alyce macken's house. the wind just took off. i don't remember exactly what they called it, it was almost like a tornado with fire in it. it came over the hill and it wiped out our house, it wiped out our neighbour's home. we were in the middle, the home on one side is still standing, the home on the other side is like ours, pretty much rubble. the wildfire in northern california is still burning, and spread yet further yesterday. but late last night, california's fire service said it had made progress and

was now optimistic. for many residents, there's relief. it has finally calmed down for the first time in nearly a week. but it has been horrific. this particularfire, it's easily on a different level. i've experienced a few fires, but this one is just off the charts. in california, 50,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. across the us, there are currently around 90 wildfires burning. in canada, there are a0 more. wildfires in california are nothing new. but strong winds spread this fire so quickly it killed people in their homes and left fire crews struggling to respond. scientists warn that scenes like this could become more common as our climate changes and our planet gets warmer. shocking footage has emerged of a man hitting a woman in the face in central paris when she told him

to stop harassing her. the victim — 22—year old marie laguerre — has shared this video of the the incident which has since gone viral on facebook. it happened last tuesday outside a cafe in the north east of the city. prosecutors in paris have responded to the attack on miss laguerre by opening an inquiry into sexual harassment, although the man has yet to be found. our correspondent, hugh schofield, is following this story for us in paris. this has had a huge number of hits. it has. the woman involved has gone the republic with this and she was traumatised by being hit in this way —— has gone very public with this. she still bears the scars from it, but she wanted to make a point. she has deliberately posted it on with the cooperation of the cafe where it took place she has the video. the

video comes from their security camera. it is a concerted effort by her and the cafe to publicise this and make it as widely known as possible. we know this goes on but it is very rare to have such graphic imagery which is what has made this story so strong. before he hit her, he had been harassing her in other ways ? he had been harassing her in other ways? the sequence of events, you are watching the security camera from the cafe perspective and you see them approaching each other in the opposite direction and they pass each other and he is saying something to her there. she says he said something obscene and started grunting at her, and she replied, saying, go away in no uncertain terms, and he keeps walking, but then something gets the better of him and he flings an ashtray at her. he is very angry about her response, and he thinks that isn't enough,

maybe she says something else, he then follows her around the other side of the cafe and then we see the below to the head —— the blow. an appalling sequence of events and her hope is that by publicising this people are made more aware that this goes on. they are still trying to find this man. yes. as you say, the prosecution offices have opened an inquiry and! prosecution offices have opened an inquiry and i suspect they will find him because people in the neighbourhood will know who it is. he seems to be quite recognisable with a particular hairstyle which i would imagine makes fairly recognisable. this comes against a background of a change to the law here which is going to be passed this week in parliament which will make itan this week in parliament which will make it an offence to wall whistle and make sexual comments towards women “— and make sexual comments towards

women —— wolf whistle. what happen here, of course, is already illegal, this is an assault, and this would already immediately come under the law but what is happening is that as a precursor, with the remarks of what he said to her, they would be prosecutable and that will be an important change. thanks forjoining us. new rules come into force today banning drones from flying above a00ft, and within — just over half a mile of an airport. the number of drone incidents with aircrafts has risen sharply in the past few years. in 2017 there were eight reported incidents that posed a risk at gatwick. and earlier this month a drone came within 20 feet of an aircraft that had just taken off from luton airport. anyone caught could face five years in prison — an unlimited fine, or both. we can speak now to simon freebairn — he's a drone pilot and cameraman — who is in our birmingham newsroom. how necessary are these new rules?

they are necessary. the speed with which drone technology is increasing, it brings more people are frightened of drones and it is important there is legislation. what sort of qualifications do you need to buy and fly a drone? they can be bought in any shop and they range in price from the toys which might be a few hundred grams, to the drones which could be £30,000. the most popular ones would be about £500, but you don't have to have any licence at this present moment to actually buy one or fly one. is it likely that could change? one of the larger ones could really do some damage of this was caught in the engine ofan damage of this was caught in the engine of an aircraft. yes, this is why the rules have been brought into place, the un navigational order now

stops people flying at a00 feet and within one kilometre of an airfield and it also puts restrictions on flying in closely congested areas, so flying in closely congested areas, so this is necessary and it was just making sure people fly drones responsibly. if you are not going to ta ke responsibly. if you are not going to take some sort of tuition, what should you bear in mind? there is a popular thing on the internet, which gives the basics of what you must comply with with drones and in the past it hasn't been regulated so much, but with the new enforcement coming and it will be more important that people follow the drone code and stay within the law. a drone must never be flown out of sight of the person flying it will —— and so those new regulations will be in forced and the police will have the

powers under the new legislation. these new laws have got to be policed, but how do you do that? not easy to keep track of. no, that is right. that is why one of the new rules coming into play by november next year is that all drones must be registered if they weigh over 250 grams which is a very light one, almost like at the toy stage, and all drone pilots will need to have some sort of online test and be certified by the cia. —— caa. some sort of online test and be certified by the cia. -- caa. thanks for joining certified by the cia. -- caa. thanks forjoining us. on his first major trip as foreign secretary, jeremy hunt is visiting china — where he's been speaking to officials about a controversial custody case. it involves two british children whose british father was murdered by their chinese mother. our correspondent robin

brant is in shanghai and gave us this update. jack and alice are seven and six, they have been in a town about 1000km from here since their father, michael simpson, was murdered by their chinese mother in march of last year. the british family, led by iain simpson, the grandfather, wants the children to come to the uk, and he thinks they could have a better life there. they have appealed tojeremy hunt on his first visit in the newjob to help them and to raise the issue. and he has done that. he said, as he sat opposite his chinese counterpart, that the chinese authorities have agreed to look into the case. while respecting china's legal system. mr hunt said the overall custody issue is of great concern. for the simpson family, it looks like good news. but the custody case itself is going to take about a month, before it gets to court and they get a final decision on whether they stay here or can go to the uk. that is when there will be a real

sign whether this intervention really means anything. whilst meeting with the chinese foreign minister on that visitjeremy hunt tried to break the ice with his hosts by mentioning that his family links to china but made a mistake whilst talking about his wife. also, my wife is japanese... my wife is chinese, sorry. laughter that's a terrible mistake to make! we spoke in japanese at the state banquet, but my wife is chinese. what is chinese for faux pas? it seems that boris johnson is finally moving out of the foreign secretary's official residence in central london after removal vans were spotted outside the home. mrjohnson has been living at number one carlton gardens, and was under pressure to move out following his resignation as foreign secretary earlier this month. his suspected departure comes days after anti—brexit campaigners staged a stunt by offering

to help him move. jamie is here — in a moment he will be telling us what's hot and what's not in the business news. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. the supreme court rules legal permission will not be needed to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state. services scrapped in a timetable shake—up by northern rail begin running again but passengers face more cancellations. voting's underway in zimbabwe in the first general election since long—time president robert mugabe was ousted. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. bmw is increasing the price of two of its us—made vehicles in china from today — x5 and x6 — to compensate for imports that china placed on us goods earlier this month. electric carmaker telsa hiked the prices of its cars in china earlier this month as the us and china embarked on a tit—for—tat trade war. how's the uk property market doing? two different ways of looking at it

— uk mortgage approvals hit a five—month high injune — that's encouraging. but in london the estate agent foxtons said it lost £2.5m in the first half of the year. it blamed "a sustained period of very low activity levels". gvc — the uk company which owns betting chains ladbrokes and coral is looking to expand in the us after the supreme court paved the way to legalise sports betting there. it's setting up a 50—50 joint venture with mgm resorts, best known for its las vegas brands, mgm brand and bellagio. alot going on in the world of media — final of love island. i say that as though i'm some kind of expert. i'm not an expert on it either but it is very interesting commercially. it is not our age range really. the target age range

is 16-3a range really. the target age range is 16—3a so we are just outside. commercially it is really interesting. we think of a television programme with adverts, thatis television programme with adverts, that is how you make money. but it has developed so far beyond that. love island, there are apps and all sorts of things, and a clothes retailer, misguided, theirsales sorts of things, and a clothes retailer, misguided, their sales go up retailer, misguided, their sales go up a0% every time the programme is on air. they do opinion polls and previews

and you get these companies which come alongside those and they put their names to it and that is how they market it. superdrug has their suncare products, their they market it. superdrug has their sunca re products, their sales they market it. superdrug has their suncare products, their sales went up suncare products, their sales went up 110% as suncare products, their sales went up110% asa suncare products, their sales went up 110% as a result of being on the programme. and it is a moneyspinner that tv because it will be selling this programme abroad and the price which is touted around is about £1 billion. they do make the fabric go a long way. yes, they do. from what i understand. mirror newspapers, not doing very well. yes, it is now called reach, not trinity mirror. the owner of the mirror and express newspapers

has slumped to a £113m half—year loss after slashing the value of its regional publishing operations. reach, formerly known as trinity mirror, said the £150m charge reflected a "more challenging outlook" for its regional businesses. they include the manchester evening news, daily record and liverpool echo. print newspapers are having a difficult time, tabloid press, sales we re difficult time, tabloid press, sales were down 9.5%, over all tabloid newspapers, they are having a difficult time, but by our hoping they can push into the regional market —— they are hoping. they hope they can push in the digital newspapers may have studied some in places where they haven't even got a ha rd places where they haven't even got a hard print paper. and bt seems it's giving up on its sports rights whioch mean we won't be able to watch ultimate fighter. yes, i know. bt started five years ago to get into sports rights and it really started to push the prices up. now it is becoming more

discerning and it will stick with the premier league and the champions league but it won't go for other things, even though ultimately was very popular and was doing very well. —— even though ultimate fighter. it has spent a lot of money on sports rights, though. you are going to tell me that i'm not the demographic for ultimate fighter.” am not the demographic for anything! and now the markets. the concern behind this is the trade wars. the ftse is affected by trade tariffs put up between china and the us, and thatis put up between china and the us, and that is what is going on. we had very good economic figures at the end of last week but we also had twitter coming out with bad figures and also facebook, so those shares falling sharply, and that is worrying people. we also have the summer worrying people. we also have the

summer coming worrying people. we also have the summer coming up worrying people. we also have the summer coming up and that quietens everything down. jamie, thanks for joining us. this is more my thing. 200 years ago today, emily bronte, the author of ‘wuthering heights' was born. she is one of the best known names in english literature, but only wrote the one novel — inspired by the windswept yorkshire moors which surrounded her. our entertainment correspondent, colin paterson has sent this report from the parsonage where emily bronte was raised — and where her life and work is being celebrated. it's a big bronte birthday. the 200th anniversary of emily bronte, celebrated with poets in fields... yorkshire moors, so bleak and old, inspired the heart of emily. displays of falconry, because emily bronte had a pet merlin hawk, called nero... with events all centred around the parsonage in haworth, where she wrote her only novel, wuthering heights, before dying from tuberculosis at the age of 30. what she's left behind is this incredible, imaginative tour de force of a novel that people have

just loved for generations and that continues to inspire artists and writers working today, and that's very much what we wanted to celebrate — her 200th birthday. and people had come from all over. there's this wildness and this beauty to the writing. i don't know, you just get kind of sucked into the story. you've got to come here and pay homage, really, because it puts everything into perspective, itjust brings it all to life. the celebrations have also included the unveiling of a tribute stone out on the moors, featuring a new poem by kate bush — who famously had a number one with wuthering heights. # heathcliff, it's me i'm cathy, i've come home now... at the time, she explained her inspiration. i saw a series on the television about ten years ago. it was on very late at night, and i caught literally the last five minutes of the series, where she was at the window trying to get in. who are you? i'm catherine linton. i've come home.

and itjust really struck me. it was so strong. then i read the book. you read the book later? yes, i read the book before i wrote the song because i needed to get the mood properly. one little quirk of fate, today is kate bush's 60th birthday. another famous fan is lily cole, who's directed a short film exploring the character heathcliff‘s origins as an abandoned baby — but in a modern setting. why does emily bronte mean so much to you? the fact that she wrote the book at a time when it was very, very difficult for women to be taken seriously and to become authoresses or authors. the fact that she published it under a pseudonym, ellis bell, has always intrigued me. and we don't know very much about her. she's really a mystery and most of what we know is kind of hearsay and oral tradition. but it's purely the book. that's the reason i'm fascinated by her, that she created that work. and as for what emily would have made of all this? we also know she was an incredibly

private writer and so i wonder if she may have also found this level of scrutiny perhaps a bit intolerable. oh, well. happy birthday, emily. colin paterson, bbc news, howarth. and now the weather forecast. the weekend came as a shock to the system, the heatwave came to an abrupt end and parts of northern ireland had over a month of rain in the space ofjust a few hours. but it may only have been a temporary end to the heatwave, still some showers this week, but becoming less windy and by the end of the week things will warm up again for some at least. this is a very unsettled satellite picture, the area of low pressure to the north west, areas of cloud circulating around it, with showers, so showers drifting across the midlands and northern england into eastern scotland. further south

showers returning across the south west and wales and especially down to the south—east by the end of the night. relatively warm in the south—eastern corner, 15—16, but some parts of the north will get down into single digits. tomorrow showers to start across the south—east but that will clear away and for many eastern parts of the country it will be dry with spells of sunshine and further west sunshine as well, but also showers. very hit and miss. northern ireland and western scotland, the frontal system bringing showers, temperatures 17 in glasgow but creeping back up again in the south—east, 25 in london. wednesday will be a dry day in many parts of the country, good spells of sunshine, temperatures climbing further in the south—east, up to 27 perhaps, but further west the frontal system pushing rain in across northern ireland and as we move into thursday this wriggling

cold front will continue to wave across parts of northern ireland and western scotland. but the many eastern and southern parts of the uk the high pressure takes control and we bring in a south or south—easterly feed of air bringing very warm airfrom south—easterly feed of air bringing very warm air from the near continent. northern areas have something a bit cooler and fresher. aberdeen and glasgow, 20—22, and also rain around, but further south and east, warm air, temperatures could well get up into the low 30s by the end of the week with spells of sunshine. hello, you're watching afternoon live. today at a. the supreme court rules legal permission will not be needed to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state. services scrapped in a timetable shake—up by northern rail begin running again but passengers face more cancellations. it has been cancelled at very short notice. i was expecting a train at 6:07am

and it has been cancelled because of lack of drivers. voting's under way in zimbabwe in the first general election since long—time president robert mugabe was ousted. the uk is to lose its command of the eu naval task force set up to combat piracy of the coast of somalia. coming up on afternoon live all the sport — reshmin chowdhury. i'm sure the celebrations are still continuing in wales after the tour de france victory. yes, it is dominating the sport and rightly so but another line for you today. one of boxing's most colourful charachters, tyson fury, says he's close to securing a world title fight with the american deontay wilder later this year. more on those stories at half past. thanks reshmin, and ben rich has all the weather. a brooding sky from the weekend behind you. absolutely, heatwave, what heatwave?

temperatures took a significant tumble and some places had more than a month's tumble and some places had more than a months worth of rain in a few hours over the weekend but for some it looks like the heat will return this week. all the details just before half past. thanks, ben. also coming up — behind the seams at max mara. the former punk from derby who's running the quintessentially italian fashion brand. hello, this is afternoon live. i'm martine croxall. the supreme court has confirmed that the approval of a judge is no longer needed in order to end the care of people who are in persistent vegetative states, as long as families and doctors agree to the decision. many thousands of individuals are believed to be in such a condition, with little or no hope of recovery. the decision applies in england, wales and northern ireland. our health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports.

it's estimated there are tens of thousands of people living in a vegetative or minimally conscious state in the uk. patients with almost no prospect of recovery, who are kept alive with artificially administered food and water. until now, it was the courts who decided whether life—sustaining nutrition could be withdrawn. but today, the supreme court said there was no good reason for that. we find nothing in the common law, nor in any act of parliament, that requires an application to be made. the case overturns part of an important ruling from 1993 in relation to tony bland. he was left permanently unconscious after the hillsborough disaster. that ruling said life—sustaining measures could only be stopped after applying to the courts. today's ruling says such applications are not obligatory. today's ruling is hugely significant for what are potentially thousands of families who find themselves in some of the most tragic situations.

those who agree with doctors that their loved ones should be allowed to die. they can now make that decision in the quiet of the home, in hospital, or elsewhere without the strain of having to go to court. this solicitor who represents families who've had to fight for their loved ones in court welcomes the ruling. it's a really good decision for a sensible and compassionate society to allow doctors and families to get on and make decisions on behalf of the patient in their best interests. but some are concerned that removing the safeguard of asking the court's permission could be dangerous. these decisions are very difficult, they need to be made by a specialist. diagnoses are often wrong, the court of protection has overturned decisions before. and this is why we feel it severely compromises the lives of these vulnerable patients.

the supreme court's decision only applies where families and doctors agree. where there is disagreement, judges will still have to decide whether patients should be allowed to die. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. our legal affairs correspondent clive coleman is outside the supreme court now. just how significant is this change? i think it is very, very significant. i think this is a really profound shift in the law. the situation for many years has been that when doctors and relatives agree that really, there is going to be no meaningful improvement in the condition of their loved one, the patient, then doctors are entitled to stop medical treatment without going to court but i stress medical treatment. there's always been an exception. in artificial hydration

and nutrition, artificially providing food and water to the patient. for that category of case, since the tony bland case which sophie mentioned in the report, it has been the case that doctors have had to come to court to seek approvalfrom the had to come to court to seek approval from the court in order to stop the supply of food and water. today, that has been wiped away and thatis today, that has been wiped away and that is why this is such a profound change. it is now the situation at if the family, the relatives agree with the clinicians that there will be no meaningful improvement and it is in the best interests of their loved one, the patient, forfood and water to be removed, then that will be done. i think it really shows a great, not a leap of faith but certainly great faith in the medical profession and their ability to liaise with the family and loved ones of the patient in order to come to that conclusion. you know, we know there are tens of thousands of people, regrettably, in this dreadful, dreadful situation and

that means tens of thousands of families who will be agonising about what to do in the best interests of their loved one. it may well be the case that come because we know there are very few of these cases that have come to court since the tony bland face in the early 90s, that tens of thousands of families have beenin tens of thousands of families have been ina tens of thousands of families have been in a situation where their loved one has been kept on life support when they would have wanted that otherwise. they can now make those decisions in conjunction with advice from clinicians, the doctors caring for their loved one and that isa caring for their loved one and that is a really huge change. clive coleman, our legal affairs correspondent, at the supreme court. the funeral has taken place in salisbury of a woman who died from exposure to the nerve agent novichok. dawn sturgess died on the 8th ofjuly after she and her partner charlie rowley unwittingly handled the nerve agent, after he found it in a small bottle. the bbc‘sjon kay has been speaking to the reverend philip bromiley — who carried out the service. there was a sense of celebration,

that we wanted to celebrate dawn's life, and as you can imagine, there was a lot of mixed emotions, people who are obviously still in shock, people who were tremendously tearful at having lost a loved one. and yet also, just a little bit of upbeat spirit, to make sure that dawn had the kind of sendoff that they would have wa nted the kind of sendoff that they would have wanted dawn to have had. a number of people as i left the crematorium were saying to me, "that is exactly what she would have wanted, you know, something a bit upbeat". we ended the service with fame, i'm going to live forever, a great message for any funeral service to have and it kind of summed up she was known for dancing to things like that in her heyday. and members have —— of herfamily

played a part in the service? yes, dawn's sister claire gave an extremely moving eulogy. she was incredibly strong and a number of people wondered how on earth she did it but she did. and then dawn's daughter got up and said a couple of lines which resulted in a round of applause from everybody in the crematorium are just to say how marvellously she had done that and how courageous she had been. what did she say? she just said how much she loved her mum and how much her mum had loved her. she really got to the very nerve of what it must be like to lose your own mother. it is an awful thing but she was so strong. can you give us a sense of the extraordinary nature of this death and what happened? how was that reflected in how she died?m

our prayers, we made sure that we reflected the reading that came through from mark's gospel ofjesus stilling the storm, and saying come you know, peace, be still, and the waves and the wind just calmed down. we prayed for peace for dawn, peace for the family, peace that would overflow for the family, peace that would ove rflow fro m for the family, peace that would overflow from this place and go to the city and also to wiltshire. we also prayed that that peace would be also prayed that that peace would be a message of nonviolence that would go out to the world, that we simply reject violence. we don't want hatred in our lives. we prayed for a world that would be filled with peace. was the poisoning mentioned explicitly during the service? not explicitly during the service? not explicitly but we did mention that dawn had lived a vulnerable life and

we also mentioned dawn's compassion for the homeless. i think the tragic and suddenness of her death was probably reflected in many of the thoughts and hearts of the people that were gathered. and among those people, charlie, her partner, he was here but what did he say? charlie was sitting on the front row, obviously very emotional. it was just lovely to see him there and i am really hoping the service would have given him the healing that he will doubtless need to have in the days and months to come. he has often extreme close friend. services cancelled following a timetable shake—up at northern rail have begun running again. it follows weeks of chaos for passengers after the train operator struggled to introduce a new timetable in may. it scrapped 168 services per day last month, leaving many travellers facing hours of delays, if their

trains ran at all. manchester mayor andy burnham has written to theresa may asking her to intervene. among the routes returning to normal is the lakes line, seen as vital for tourism in the lake district. this report from our business correspondent rob young. on behalf of northern, i would just like to apologise for the cramped conditions... this morning's 0720 from burnley to leeds, one of dozens of northern rail services beset with problems in recent months. commuters like simon have had a miserable few weeks. a lot of the times, the train either doesn't turn up, or it's actually too full to get on by the time it reaches my stop. it was so stressful, i actually took time off work. because when they changed the timetable, it was taking me upwards of three hours to get home on a a0—minute journey. in may, rail timetables underwent the biggest shake—up in their history. it led to chaos on the north's rail network. passengers endured long delays. many trains didn't turn up. in an attempt to improve things last month, northern rail

scrapped 168 daily services, further infuriating passengers. today, 125 of those suspended journeys have resumed. it's been estimated the cancellations have cost businesses in the north £38 million. one of the worst—affected lines, which runs through the lake district, has been entirely out of action, sparking protests. all of its services are now back on the timetable. local newspapers renamed the company "northern fail" and they demanded the government sort the mess out. today, the north's most powerful politician asked the prime minister to take charge of the issue. i don't have the power. the transport secretary still has the power. but i've asked him, and asked him, and asked him to intervene. this isn't playing politics. i've said, please, intervene, do yourjob. and it's because i've run out of options that i've had to write to the prime minister. the government has branded the rail disruption unacceptable, and says an inquiry will work out what went wrong. the resumption of services today has not gone as smoothly

as many have hoped. 23 northern rail services have been cancelled. problems with signalling and drivers are to blame. many of these passengers in preston and liverpool this morning weren't impressed. it's been cancelled at very short notice. i was expecting a train at 6:07, and it's been cancelled because of a lack of drivers. theyjust don't seem to be improving, they don't seem to care. and when i put a complaint in months ago, i've heard nothing back from them. after today, i'm hoping things will get back to normal. the disruption isn't over yet. the remaining a3 of northern's suspended services won't appear on the timetable until september. the company says a more gradual reintroduction will ensure a more stable and reliable service. but it will have been a long time coming. rob young, bbc news. northern gabi have said 31 services

have been cancelled today. let's talk to diane cawood who is a trainee nurse who travels to placements across the greater manchester area. thank you forjoining us. what has it been like for you on northern? it's been hell, really, if the train turns up at all, it is too crowded for you to get on or it will be late. how well communicated have the problems being to you by staff at the stations? very poorly. you don't get any communication at all, quite honestly, even if you have to change platform, it will be last minute and you have to run, so for anyone with mobility issues, it is your train if they move it to a different platform. you had to make a complaint about the way some members of staff were behaving. tell us about that. my partner was sworn at bya train about that. my partner was sworn at by a train driver. he was stood at a platform, not doing anything. we complained about that months ago and absolutely nothing has been sent back. due to that and other issues,

i've had to write to my mp for her to ta ke i've had to write to my mp for her to take it forward. and what has yourmp to take it forward. and what has your mp heard back? a very much copy and paste standard reply which she isn't happy about and neither am i, quite honestly. we are told services that should have been introduced in may will come online by september. we heard there were 31 cancellations on northern today so things are still not quite working properly but what needs to happen for you to trust northern rail and feel confident in the service? the trust is completely gone and this only exacerbated the problems, this new timetable, the service before was still shocking. i think it should be taken back and nationalised. i think all the passengers would support that, quite honestly. thank you for joining us. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. the supreme court rules legal permission will not be needed to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state. services scrapped in a timetable shake—up by northern rail begin

running again but passengers face more cancellations. voting's under way in zimbabwe in the first general election since long—time president robert mugabe was ousted. and in sport, tyson fury says he's close to agreeing a world title fight. fury returned to the sport last month after a drugs ban. his second fight is next month, and he says a deal to fight wba heavyweight champion deontay wilder in december is "almost done". the celebrations roll on for geraint thomas after he became the first welshman and third brit to win the tour de france. he'll also be considering a new and improved contract offer from team sky. andy murray says it will be like "starting from scratch" when he steps out on court in the first round of the washington open. he faces mackenzie mcdonald in just his third tournament since having surgery injanuary. i'll have more on those stories just

after half past. britain's largest farm—approval scheme has been accused by animal rights activists of repeatedly failing to detect breaches of welfare standards at several farms in the past six months. undercover footage revealed by animal rights group animal equality showed pigs at one farm being shocked with electric prods and having their heads smashed against walls. red tractor, which was partly founded by the national farmers union, said the "health and welfare" of animals was "crucial" and any breach of rules would not be tolerated by the organisation. to discuss this, i'm joined by peter stevenson, chief policy adviser at compassion in world farming. thank you forjoining us. if they are properly implemented, how high are properly implemented, how high are the red tractor standards, in your view? the standards are far too low. for example, they allow sows,

just before they are going to give birth, to be put in a crate so narrow they can't even turn around and they are kept like this until the piglets are weaned at four weeks of age. they allow dairy cows to be kept indoors all year round. never going out onto pasture, even during the grass growing season, and their chicken standards are terrible. they allow 50,000 chickens to be crammed into a huge shed so overcrowded, you can't even see the flaw, it is just a sea can't even see the flaw, it is just a sea of chickens. even if they are properly implemented, the standards are too low. but this footage that has emerged shows something worse than standard is not being very high. this farm shows terrible treatment of and conditions for

animals, we've got tee separate problems, some farms are really dreadful, that are inhumane, and another problem is that many of the farms album —— allowed to operate a very low standards. how does it help and animals are treated in this way beyond the fact that minimum standards are not being met? clearly, what was going on at this farm is illegal and one would hope the authorities would prosecute those responsible. the other people who really can help our consumers. at the moment they are being hoodwinked by red tractor because it standards are low and poorly forced andi standards are low and poorly forced and i have urged consumers to buy to higher standards, rspca assured or soil association organic standards. for dairy, there's a really good scheme run by farmers themselves called pasture promise, in which

they guarantee the cows are out in they guarantee the cows are out in the pasture for half of the year. there's also the pasture fed livestock association, which again has excellent standards. shoppers, look at your labels and by good welfare meat and dairy. how inevitable is it that higher welfare standards means that food will cost more? it will cost more but it doesn't have to cost a lot more. we should, and the government has said they are thinking of doing this, we should stop subsidising large, wealthy farmers, and instead subsidise those farmers who commit to high welfare standards. that would allow the price of good welfare food to go down in the shops. equally, retailers must really avoid making excess profits on high welfare food. yes, we could have better welfare without it having to cost a lot more. thank you for joining having to cost a lot more. thank you forjoining us. voters in zimbabwe

are going to the polls in the first—ever election which doesn't feature the name robert mugabe on the ballot paper. mr mugabe was ousted last year after almost four decades of controlling the country. in a surprise intervention yesterday, mr mugabe said he couldn't support his successor, emmerson mnangagwa of the ruling zanu—pf party, describing its leadership as "tormentors". our correspondent shingai nyoka has sent this report from the capital, harare. zimbabwe is bracing itself for a new beginning. since independence from colonial rule in 1980, no election has carried such weight,

so much expectation. many here rose in the cold hours before dawn, eager to cast their ballots. i'm declaring this polling station open at seven o'clock. up to 5.7 million people are expected to vote today. so much depends on this election. this once promising southern african nation has remained stagnant for 20 years, many waiting in line have nojobs. i want to vote for my children so they can getjobs. this is what we want here in zimbabwe. i can be a voter, so if my child can do it, he can be a voter also. since 1980, there is no freedom. for freedom of speech. so i want to express that through my vote. today, zimbabweans will decide theirfuture. the two presidential frontrunners are both new to the race. voters here are hoping that one of these men will draw the line on years of political instability and turmoil, and finally turn this country around. up above, one of the men who carries this country's hopes. emmerson mnangagwa, the current president, on his way to vote outside the capital. his stronghold, the rural areas, where close to 70% of voters live. and may it be that the process for campaigning was peaceful. that voting today is peaceful.

this is the reception his rival received, confident the urban vote belongs to him. my colleague, fergal keane, spoke to him after he voted. we will win this election, to the extent it is a free and fair election, particularly in rural areas. this election is a test for the party that has ruled this country for nearly a0 years, for the military that changed everything in november last year, and for the young, brash leader of the opposition. whichever way this election goes, they will all need to accept the results. this country is at a crossroads. the next few days will be critical. zimbabwe and the world will be watching. a 26—year—old man has pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation — after claiming to be a resident

at grenfell tower before the fire. westminster magistrates' court heard yonatan eyob claimed £81,000 in financial aid over a 12—month period. he'll be sentenced next month. he's the ninth person to have appeared in court charged with fraud following the grenfell fire. millions of people across england are unable to book an appointment with a gp outside of working hours, despite targets to offer extended access to doctors by october. analysis of official figures by the bbc shows that more than 5 million people, or 10% of registered patients, had no access to gps outside of normal working hours. karl lagerfeld, giorgio armani and donna karan are among the most famous fashion designers in the world. but ian griffiths? the chances are you have never heard of him. yet the former punk rocker heads up max mara — one of the largest luxury fashion brands. the italian company also has one of the biggest fashion archives in europe. it's not open to the public, but our arts correspondent rebecca jones has been to italy to see it.

chic, sleek and sophisticated, max mara is best known for its classic camel coats. from the runway to royalty, it's worn by some of the most famous women in the world. nel cuore — max mara. the company was founded in 1951 in reggio emilia, a place better known for its parmesan cheese. its factories are still based in the town. they produce a50 coats a day here, contributing to an annual turnover of £1.3 billion. meet ian griffiths. he is the creative brains behind the brand. an influential designer, he prefers life behind the scenes, but he's been at the company for more than three decades. this coat is quite a special one for me because it was my first coat for max mara.

and he's taking me on a tour of the company's own secret wardrobe. this was bought in new york. it's from 1910 or 1920. this is an original balenciaga coat and we've used it time and time again for inspiration for different collections. the archive is crammed with fashion magazines, sketches and boxes of fabric samples. this archive plunges you into the heart of fashion history. there are 30,000 individual items of clothing here, rails upon rails of them, and notjust by max mara but by other famous fashion designers as well. have a look at this coat by yves saint laurent which belonged to the actress audrey hepburn. this coat belonged to coco chanel and was worn by coco chanel. and here's an evening dress byjeanne lanvin from the 19305, found in a fleamarket. fashion is a bit of an underdog.

it tends to disregard itself a little. so much of what we do gets thrown away but we believe in preserving that culture because in the future it becomes interesting or even valuable. ian griffiths first became interested in fashion living in manchester in the 1980s. he was a punk, partying in nightclubs and designing his own clothes. you're talking to the guy who used to walk around manchester wearing a wedding veil for normal daywear. 35 years ago there i was making clothing for myself and my mates to go clubbing out of lining material, and now here i am at max mara with 31 years behind me. and he's already working with his design team on the next collection, inspired by the archive, proving how the past helps fashion face the future. rebecca jones, bbc news, reggio emilia. time for a look at the weather.

then is here and of course as we saw at the weekend, a massive change in weather conditions for a lot of people. you might have been sitting there last week thinking, can the weather possibly change, it's been dry and hot for so long? this weekend gave the answer because we had scenes like these, not just the answer because we had scenes like these, notjust rain but buckets of rain, torrential downpours. this was how it looked from one of our weather watchers close to merthyr tydfil and not too far away from there, at tredegar, they recorded a1 millimetres of rain in 2a hours, a couple of inches but that was not the wettest place in wales, northern ireland had the greatest amount of rainfall, this was one garden in antrim and not too far away at aldergrove, very nearly 100 millimetres of rain in 2a hours. thejuly average 100 millimetres of rain in 2a hours. the july average for the month 100 millimetres of rain in 2a hours. thejuly average for the month is about 71 millimetres, so injust a few hours, they had more than a

month's rainfall. the ground couldn't cope? no, it is so hard at the moment, it is like having a sponge which absorbs the water and then you swap it out and have a brick instead, the grout is like that, it won't absorb any of the water. —— the ground is like that. hence the flash flooding and no great surprise when you look at the rainfall, northern ireland on saturday, the rain arrived, torrential rain at that and then it kept on raining for a good part of the day. on sunday, it came back, the day. on sunday, it came back, the rain, pushing back in from the south—west and if you were out and about, you don't need me to tell you but some pretty strong wind as well. this was the railway line at dawlish in devon, with the waves crashing over the sea wall. not too far away in plymouth, 51 mph gusts, not surprising if this was the autumn but this is late july so yes, surprising if this was the autumn but this is latejuly so yes, a different weekend. but it is likely to change? it will change again, back to square

one in many places as the heat returns. this is how we summed things up this week, not as windy as it was over the weekend. some breezy conditions in places with a few showers but then it will start to warm up, particularly in the south. this is the satellite picture, a pretty unsettled satellite picture, a curl of clout to the north—west, an area of low pressure and further clu m ps of an area of low pressure and further clumps of cloud flung around, with areas of showreel rain. this is how we close out the afternoon, still some sunshine in a south—east and relatively high temperatures with rain moving across wales, north—west england and in the southern scotland and that will continue to drag across eastern scotland as we go through this evening with heavy bursts of rain. elsewhere, still a few showers coming along in the south westerly flow, particularly in the south—west, wales and then into the south—west, wales and then into the south—east by the end of the night. temperatures pretty high across the south—eastern corner, 15 or16 across the south—eastern corner, 15 or 16 but parts of scotland down into single digits. tomorrow, starting off with showreel rain, some of which could be heavy in the

south—east but that should scoot off into the north sea and basically, central and eastern areas will then be in line for a largely dry day with some sunshine. further west, more cloud and a few showers and certainly more clout for northern ireland and western scotland with patchy rain at times. 17 in glasgow but temperatures in the south—east spill into the mid—20s. on wednesday, looking like a dry day for the vast majority, patchy cloud and sunny spells, still the small chance of a shower and clouding over later across northern ireland with more showreel rain spreading in but again, temperaturesjust more showreel rain spreading in but again, temperatures just nudging upwards. —— showery rain. you can tell the direction the forecast is heading in because as we get into later in a week, the frontal system will be wriggling around across parts of the northwest, northern ireland and western scotland but further south, high pressure building and we start once again to tap into some very warm air from the south. across liberia, we are expecting exceptionally high temperatures later this week. northern parts of the uk will stick

with slightly fresher air from the atla ntic with slightly fresher air from the atlantic so temperatures in glasgow on thursday and friday, 21 or 22 with the odd spot of rain but further south, 32 degrees possible in london on friday, plenty of other places not far behind and there will be sunshine as well. things still pretty mixed in the next few days but not the deluge of the weekend, not the very strong winds of the weekend either and then as we get towards the end of the week, southern areas particularly are going to warm up again. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. legal permission will no longer be required to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state as long as there is agreement between families and doctors. the supreme court's ruling means it will now be easier to withdraw food and liquid, allowing such patients to die. northern rail is reintroducing three quarters of the services which it removed last month following a timetable shake—up, but commuters are still facing cancellations and delays. the company says that some of those cancellations are because of signalling problems —

the responsibility of network rail. people in zimbabwe are voting in the country's first elections since long—time leader robert mugabe was ousted in november. mr mugabe's successor, emmerson mnangagwa, is hoping to legitimise his rule. the uk is to lose its command of the eu's naval task force, set up to combat piracy off the coast of somalia, next spring, because of brexit. the headquarters of eu navfor will move from london to spain, with some elements going to france. sport now on afternoon live with reshmin. one of the biggest characters in boxing — tyson fury — says he's close to a shot at a world title? absolutely right. former heavyweight world champion tyson fury says he's in talks with wbc champion deontay wilderfor a

fight later this year. warning, there is some flash photography coming up... fury made his return to the ring after nearly three years out last month and is scheduled to fight again in three weeks time in belfast. american wilder has been long linked to a fight with anthonyjoshua, but a deal for that fight has yet to be sealed. i can reveal that negotiations are very strong for december and we are almost done for this deal. francesco will give me the right fight and the right work to prepare me for deontay wilder. tyson fury is determined to reach the top again. he always sounds very confident. 10 years ago british riders weren t expected to do well at the tour de france — now we ve had 3 different

british winners — what 5 the secret to their success? there's been a real renaissance in british cycling — they've dominated all others nations on the track and the road. back in 2010 when team sky was formed, the head sir dave brailsford said he wanted a british major event winner within the next five years. he actually had thomas in mind. team sky was ahead of schedule when sir bradley wiggins became the first winner in 2012, followed by a wins in the next 5 by chris froome. now, the ever—reliable wingman geraint thomas has finally had his chance to shine. what he does next will be intruiging — does he stay at team sky or does he move to another team where he can be the top dog?

i'm sure he's in no rush to decide just yet, we imagine he'll continue celebrating his historic win in the meantime — and the secret, according to brailsford good old—fashioned teamwork and harmony among the riders. the great thing about this particular tour de france was they are both so experienced, both very mature, and they were fantastic together, there was no conflict and they supported each other. world—class from chris froome, he was straight to the help of his team—mate when he knew he was not going to win the race and that is the sign of a great champion. great champion indeed. andy murray says it will be like "starting from scratch again" when he faces mackenzie mcdonald in the washington open tonight. it's just his third tournament since having surgery injanuary, and his first on a hard court. you'll remember that he pulled out of wimbledon earlier this summer because he wasn't ready. murray is now ranked 832 in the world and if he wins later he'll play fellow brit kyle edmund in the second round.

alistair cook says he has sympathy for adil rashid — who's involved in a club vs country row ahead of england's first test against india. the leg—spinner‘s been picked for the series, despite signing a contract to only play white ball cricket for yorkshire. he didn't ask to be selected. he's earned his right on merit in a different way to the norm. and there isa different way to the norm. and there is a bit ofa different way to the norm. and there is a bit of a hullabaloo about it. he'sa is a bit of a hullabaloo about it. he's a quality bowler and he has improved a lot. is it ideal he hasn't played rebel cricket? not ideal. —— red ball cricket? but in these circumstances i can see why these circumstances i can see why the selectors have gone down this route. manchester city say their new signing riyad mahrez could be available to play against chelsea in the community shield this weekend. mahrez moved to city from leicester earlier this month, and injured his ankle in a pre—season friendly against bayern munich over the weekend but a scan has shown

there is "no significant damage". that is all these sports for now. now on afternoon live — let's go nationwide — and see what's happening around the country — in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. let's go to donna traynor in belfast, where residents in north atrim have been hard at work dealing with the aftermath of torential rain and flooding over the weekend. and stuart flinders is in salford, where they've been looking at a new historic england initative to highlight memorials to little known or forgotten figures from our past. donna — how badly was northern ireland hit with the weekend downpours? after so much hot weather we were crying out for some rain and we got too much, though, altogether at one time, far more than we had wanted, a

month's time, far more than we had wanted, a months worth of rain in a few hours on saturday. our reporters have been to homes and businesses in antrim but also counted down to see the damage and it really is not a pretty sight or a pretty smell —— county down. one woman said there was more than a foot of dirty water and sewage lying against her door. tha nkfully sewage lying against her door. thankfully she managed to escape. storm drains could not cope with the deluge but the water had to go somewhere and it ran into nearby houses and businesses. you can imagine the uncontrollable flow of dirty water. many flights in the uk we re dirty water. many flights in the uk were affected at the weekend, belfast international airport said it was so concerned by the safety with the horrendous weather at one stage that ground staff had to stop working. it has been a sure deluge

of water over the weekend in northern ireland but it really has left its mark and caused a lot of damage. what help is available for those whose homes and businesses have been damaged? there is a flood release scheme set up there is a flood release scheme set up in these circumstances and if homeowners are described as having severe inconvenience they can apply for payments, about £1000, from the local council, some people will be insured, but some people won't. all the while they will try to clean up the while they will try to clean up the mess that has been left behind andi the mess that has been left behind and i would say it will be some time before they will be back to any sense of the malady. the hosepipe ban was recently lifted, by the way —— any sense of normality. stuart tell us a little bit about this initaive from historic england and what they're hoping to achieve? statues and official memorials have become controversial in recent

yea rs, become controversial in recent years, the victorians were very enthusiastic, raising statues to the great and the good of their day, but many of these has become contentious overtime, representing views which might be considered abhorrent. consider the statue of cecil rhodes at oxford university. most these statues commemorate people who are white and male. historic england has the chance to preserve our history and they have decided to bring some of the lesser—known memorials into focus and redress the perceived imbalance. the idea is that this is to give those people who are more forgotten more recognition. and what are some of the forgotten figures up in the north west that have been nominated ? annie kenney was one of the first women to be arrested for taking direct action in support of the women's right to vote, the suffragettes were predominantly middle—class, and so maybe annie

kenney is less well—known because she was working class. historic england would like to raise her profile to this project. another memorial commemorates the founders of the abstinence movement. they campaignfor of the abstinence movement. they campaign for total abstinence from alcohol in the 19th century at a time when alcohol was deemed to be the cause of so many social problems and that moment has been given —— and that moment has been given —— and that moment has been given —— and that building has been given grade two listed status. one more i should mention, a bench in memory of the original bass guitarist with the beatles, stuart sutcliffe. that exhibition begins at the workshop in lambeth high street in london on the 30th of august and you can see more of those who are featured in the north west north west tonight.- both of you, thanks forjoining us. if you want to see any more on the

stories you can see them on the bbc iplayer. the uk is to lose its command of the eu naval task force set up to combat piracy off the coast of somalia. the headquaters of eu navfor — which has been based at northwood in north london — will move to rota in spain — with some elements of the operation also moving to brest in france. it follows a decision by the european council to move the headquarters, because of the uk's decision to leave the eu. with me is our defence correspondent, jonathan beale. what is the role of eu navfor and its relationship with the uk? it isa it is a mission to counter piracy off the coast of somalia, it was set up off the coast of somalia, it was set

up in 2008 and the headquarters were set up in north would around the same time, under the command of a british officer and has been since 2008. in a statement today from the european council they have said the relocation and changing command are required because of the uk's position to withdraw from the eu so this is because a brexit and that is why it is moving to spain and also france. different elements of the operation. the operation will continue and the eu has extended the mission until 2020 but this is not a surprise to the uk that this is still a blow. brexit seems to be fairly critical in this decision? yes, that is the central reason why it is moving out there. they hoped they could continue the operation in north would but the realisation that would not happen dawned on them pretty soon. with the negotiations over brexit. britain says it would

like to contribute after it leaves the eu to eu defence and security operations so it still would like to be part of it somehow depending on what the operations are and it might still be part of this eu navfor in some way, but this makes it more difficult. about a hundred people who work at the headquarters here, just under half of them are british, a mixture of civil servants and military personnel, and they will now be relocated, but this is a blow. thanks forjoining us. a fourth firefighter has died battling a wildfire in california, bringing to eight the total number of people who have been killed in blazes which have forced 50,000 people from their homes. more than 5,000 people have been told to evacuate the town of lakeport in northern california where two wildfires are closing in and parts of the city of redding have been devastated. our correspondent tom burridge reports. a large part of northern california, ravaged over the weekend. firefighters have been brought

in from other states to tackle a wildfire that seems to have spread at unprecedented speed — destroying an area bigger than san francisco in just one week. across california, there are currently 17 wildfires burning, with 12,000 firefighters battling to contain the flames. brian hughes is the latest firefighter to be killed. he was struck by a tree. and this is the aftermath in redding. parts of the city now resemble a giant scrapheap, with homes and belongings completely destroyed. this was alyce macken's house. the wind just took off. i don't remember exactly what they called it, it was almost like a tornado with fire in it. it came over the hill and it

wiped out our house, it wiped out our neighbour's home. we were in the middle, the home on one side is still standing, the home on the other side is like ours, pretty much rubble. the wildfire in northern california is still burning, and spread yet further yesterday. but late last night, california's fire service said it had made progress and was now optimistic. for many residents, there's relief. it has finally calmed down for the first time in nearly a week. but it has been horrific. this particularfire, it's easily on a different level. i've experienced a few fires, but this one is just off the charts. in california, 50,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. across the us, there are currently around 90 wildfires burning. in canada, there are a0 more. wildfires in california

are nothing new. but strong winds spread this fire so quickly it killed people in their homes and left fire crews struggling to respond. scientists warn that scenes like this could become more common as our climate changes and our planet gets warmer. jamie is here — in a moment he will be telling us what's hot and what's not in the business news. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. the supreme court rules legal permission will not be needed to end care for patients in a permanent vegetative state. services scrapped in a timetable shake—up by northern rail begin running again but passengers face more cancellations. voting's underway in zimbabwe in the first general election since long—time president robert mugabe was ousted. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. bmw is increasing the price of two of its us—made vehicles

selling in china from today — x5 and x6 — to compensate for imports that china placed on us goods earlier this month. electric carmaker telsa hiked the prices of its cars in china earlier this month as the us and china embarked on a tit—for—tat trade war. gvc — the uk company which owns betting chains ladbrokes and coral is looking to expand in the us after the supreme court paved the way to legalise sports betting there. it's setting up a 50—50 joint venture with mgm resorts, best known for its las vegas brands, mgm brand and bellagio. bt is understood to have lost the rights to broadcast nba basketball and ufc ultimate fighting after walking away from a bidding contest. a spokesperson for the telecoms giant told the bbc it would not bid more than it thought the rights were worth. the move comes weeks after bt lost the rights to italian serie a football. so what's happening

to the uk property market? it is hard to tell you, because we have contradictory information. the bank of england says mortgage approvals are going up, but then foxto ns, approvals are going up, but then foxtons, although it is very london centric but they have said their profits are down and they made a loss of two and a half million this year. so it depends which one you looked at. foxtons is very london centric and they say the market is pretty stag na nt if centric and they say the market is pretty stagnant if not falling. the argument is that what happens in london happens a year or so late in the rest of the country, though, so thatis the rest of the country, though, so that is quite wawrinka about increased mortgage approvals is quite positive —— that is quite worrying. reach, talk to me about

them. they used to be trinity mirror. they have the daily mirror and the daily express. and the daily record in scotland. and a host of small regional newspapers, like the liverpool echo and the manchester evening news. they are doing very badly. if you look across all tabloids sales are down 9.5% in terms of the print version, but they are expanding into the digital arena, but that is not making very much money at the moment. they had to do much money at the moment. they had todoa much money at the moment. they had to do a write—down as a result of the problems in their regional press and that was about 150 million they had to write off now that has hit their profits which are down 113 million in this half of the year. joining us now is yael selfin, chief economist, at kpmg. what do you make about the newspaper market? it is pretty gloomy. i could

not see any sign of optimism in their report. the ongoing decline in print advertising is nothing new and they did have to make a significant write—off on the back of it, and thatis write—off on the back of it, and that is probably because they did not take that into account sufficiently early on. hopefully once that is out of the way what we are going to see is more of the ongoing business that is going to grow marginally, provided the uk economy remains resilient which is what we are hoping at the moment. economy remains resilient which is what we are hoping at the momentm is in digital you think rather than print? some people say print is dead. it is a structural decline that we have seen for some time, absolutely, so growth will be in digital, but overall the results should not see a significant write—off going forward. should not see a significant write-off going forward. what about

foxto ns ? we write-off going forward. what about foxtons? we saw bad figures coming out of them, but we have the bank of england saying that more mortgage approvals and things are looking quite perky. have you read the situation? —— how do you. quite perky. have you read the situation? -- how do you. foxtons as you said is london centric and for the london market you have had the weaker pound that should encourage foreign buyers to stay but at the same time you have a very stretched valuation and also higher valuation which makes it more sensitive to the changes in taxation so overall you would expect london to be relatively weaker than the other regions. the other thing that foxtons shares with the other brick, if you like, estate agents, increased competition with online estate agents. finally, heineken having problems largely because of currencies? very

interesting story. this is very much a story about exchange rates and the fluctuation and exposure to its change right now more than ever, as well as exposure to higher input costs as a result of the increase trade wars. globally. heineken is but mgm warning signs are many other businesses. —— is potentially a warning sign. thanks forjoining us. the markets? the bt group is down a fraction. they have lost some of their sports rights. they also not doing altman fighting —— ultimate fighting they have lost that contract, but investors are have lost that contract, but investors a re not have lost that contract, but investors are not worried about that. gbc is up 5%. —— gvc.

investors are not worried about that. gbc is up 5%. -- gvc. thanks for joining that. gbc is up 5%. -- gvc. thanks forjoining us. shocking footage has emerged of a man hitting a woman in the face in central paris when she told him to stop harassing her. the victim — 22—year old marie laguerre — has shared this video of the the incident which has since gone viral on facebook. it happened last tuesday outside a cafe in the north east of the city. prosecutors in paris have responded to the attack on miss laguerre by opening an inquiry into sexual harassment, although the man has yet to be found. that's it from your afternoon live team for today, next the bbc news at five. time for a look at the weather. good afternoon. the weekend came as a shock to the system, the heatwave came to an abrupt end and parts of northern ireland had over a month of rain in the space ofjust a few hours. but it may only have been a temporary end to the heatwave, still some showers this week,

but becoming less windy, and by the end of the week things will warm up again for some at least. this is a very unsettled satellite picture, the area of low pressure up to the north west, areas of cloud circulating around it, with showers, so showers drifting across the midlands and northern england into eastern scotland. further south showers returning across the south west and wales and especially down to the south—east by the end of the night. relatively warm in the south—eastern corner, 15—16, but some parts of the north will get down into single digits. tomorrow showers to start across the south—east but that will clear away and for many eastern parts of the country it will be dry with spells of sunshine and further west some sunshine as well, but also showers. very hit and miss. for northern ireland and western scotland, the frontal system bringing showers,

temperatures 17 in glasgow but creeping back up again in the south—east, 25 in london. wednesday will be a dry day in many parts of the country, good spells of sunshine, temperatures climbing further in the south—east, up to 27 perhaps, but further west the frontal system pushing rain in across northern ireland and as we move into thursday this wriggling cold front will continue to wave across parts of northern ireland and western scotland. but for many eastern and southern parts of the uk the high pressure takes control and we bring in a south or south—easterly feed of air bringing very warm air from the near continent. northern areas have something a bit cooler and fresher. aberdeen and glasgow, 20—22c, and also rain around, but further south and east, warm air, temperatures could well get up into the low 30s by the end of the week with spells of sunshine. today at five, families

and doctors will no longer need to go to court, if they agree to end the life of a patient in a persistent vegetative state. the supreme court's ruling means it'll now be easier to withdraw food and liquids, if it's deemed in the best interest of the patient. critics say the decision should only be made by professionals but some patients families welcome the change. —— but some patients' families welcome the change. it's a really good decision for a sensible and compassionate society to allow doctors and families to get on and make decisions on behalf of the patient in their best interests.

we'll hear all the arguments, and talk to a professor who's been campaigning for a change in the law for several years. the other main stories on bbc news at five... northern rail‘s timetable shake—up has been scaled back as services begin running again, but passengers face more cancellations. millions of voters go to the polls in zimbabwe,