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ben stokes was swallowed too. two deliveries which may settle the match. or does this drama have another remarkable twist in it? patrick gearey, bbc news, at edgbaston. time for a look at the weather. here's helen willets. lovely weather for the cricketers, not as hard as it is currently gci’oss not as hard as it is currently across portugal. in fact, yesterday, we had 45 degrees in this part of the world and it is going to get hotter before the he does eventually break, so some dangerously hot weather across the iberian potential and southern europe. homeward bound, temperatures are slightly more bearable, there is a ridge of high pressure, so a lot of dry weather around but this weather front divides the country today, giving some thundery rain. either side of it, we have got some sunshine, as you can see in fraser berg earlier on. near lake windermere, it looked a little grey, and along the coast in the last couple of days, rather
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misty and murky, so not all plain sailing. there is the heat in the south and the east, 30 degrees but a pleasa nt low south and the east, 30 degrees but a pleasant low 20s for scotland and ireland and the rain, it could turn thundery across northern england, possibly northern wales and up towards scotland. let's start with the heat, stifling out there, not much breeze around, picking up more clout across the midlands, the re m na nts of clout across the midlands, the remnants of that giving some thundery showers across north—east england and eastern scotland through the afternoon but away from these areas, temperatures in the low 20s and much of scotland and northern ireland very pleasant. the thundery showers move away tonight and behind the showers, much what comfortable night in the offing for northern ireland and scotland but in the south, the south of the weather front, still but uncomfortably muqqy' front, still but uncomfortably muggy, warm air. perhapsjust19 front, still but uncomfortably muggy, warm air. perhapsjust 19 in london itself. tomorrow starts on a fairly decent note, some low cloud particularly around the irish sea coast but it looks like a decent day. there may be some showers north
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of the great glen through the islands but 19, 20, very pleasant through the north and the south is where we see the intense heat but beyond, some sunny spells. come sunday, starting to push this next weather system into the atlantic but again, it looks like most rain will be held to the north and west, the islands of scotland, the cloud increasing elsewhere across northern ireland and scotland but again some very decent weather around, gentle breeze, the low 20s, compared with a distinct lack of breeze in the south, 28, 20 nine. so there is the divide, little difference in the fine and dry weather, just the difference with the heat, which continues into next week but there will be a gradual easing off in the highest temperatures in southern and eastern areas and hopefully it becomes a little more bearable for sleeping at night. nevertheless, thatis sleeping at night. nevertheless, that is where the heat continues but for many further north, some dry, fine and pretty warm weather. thanks, helen. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. the governor of the bank
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of england mark carney has warned of the possibility of britain leaving the european union without a deal, saying the uk and eu must do everything possible to avoid it. i think the possibility of a no deal is uncomfortably high at this point, yes. so you're saying quite clearly that a no—deal brexit would be a disaster? it is highly undesirable. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me, and, on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon i'm here with the latest from bbc sport centre. england have a lot to do if they wa nt to england have a lot to do if they want to keep their hopes alive of winning against india. there was a
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devastating spell of bowling. there are 86—6. that is the lead of 99. patrick is live at edgbaston for us now. it appears that england are crumbling. indeed, if i tell you just now, they celebrated the greatest england test 11. 1000 test match. some are in the 11. and england could really do with all of them in their prime because they are banged up against it. ifeel like i am repeating myself, but it is another england batting collapse. a really clever trap set by india. he was caughtjust really clever trap set by india. he was caught just around really clever trap set by india. he was caughtjust around the corner. after that, there was a reprieve before he was caught missiles. we might not see much more of the land in this test team. then two really crucial blows. two players who
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could've scored quick runs and got him toa could've scored quick runs and got him to a competitive position, but wolf wood both went, both caught in the slips. england are only 99 ahead. they are right up against it. india very much on top. they are indeed. what then could england do if they are to salvage something from this test match. i'm not sure. hope, pray, maybe do a rain dance. t20 quick get... if that comes off it might get england into a good position. they might worry about indian batsmen who didn't all look so great. england are now up against it big time. i think india may well have won this test match in this morning session. thank you very much. yes, an interesting afternoon to come. andy murray said he may pull out of the washington open
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after being out on court until three o'clock in the morning. he beats marist in after three sets, but he said that the timing was unreasonable. he sat in his chair and cried into his towel after the victory. the emotional coming he said at the end of an extremely long day and long match. he added that plaintiff sex match —— not next match was possible. he is fifth. he is got two wins this season and although it was one of the most difficult decisions of his career, he felt it was time for a new challenge. he would drive in renault. sarah won gold on her return to international competitions ten months after giving birth to her second child. she victory won the c-s. that second child. she victory won the c—5. that was in italy. adam peaty has been in impressive form at the
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european championships. he broke the championship record in the 100 metre breaststroke heat. this is his first international championship wood competition since the commonwealth games back in april where he was beaten for the first time in four yea rs. beaten for the first time in four years. since that wake—up call, he has been working hard. very controlled. we had a plan. how do we get back to these fast heat swims? how do we control the emotions to last for six, seven days. add in the leopards going to be eight or nine days. for me, i went out in the morning, used the crowd and enjoyed it. that is something i have been missing for the past couple of months. this is the real me and hopefully i will make a statement again and then tomorrow who knows? and this golfer has the lead after another impressive round at the british open. she still has not dropped a shot. four birdies have taking her to nine under par in a
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five way tie. parker is four shots off the pace. that is all from the bbc sport centre. it is back to you. see you a little bit later. thank you very much. you are still watching bbc news. we're going to talk more about many of today's stories. but let's just show you the scene here. let's go to harare, where an opposition press conference hasn't happened, as riot police. we're waiting for a news conference, there is a new due to begin by the leader of the opposition. but there area number of leader of the opposition. but there are a number of agency saying that right police chased a way journalists who were waiting for that news conference. clearly as you can see here right police. we have been watching these images for the last couple of minutes. journalists and camera crews are running away from the scene. and the reuters news agency in particular said that some
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of the right police shouted out, out at some of the waiting journalists. that is as much as we know about that specific element at the moment. we are keeping an eye on it, but of course, the opposition mdc are questioning the outcome in particular of the presidential election. we woke up to news of the election. we woke up to news of the election results which were very close. it just put election results which were very close. itjust put emmerson mnangagwa as the winner. that is being challenged by the opposition. they are saying that the vote was rigged and it would seem as if a news co nfe re nce rigged and it would seem as if a news conference has been broken up by the police. we will keep an eye on that and we will have more later this afternoon from zimbabwe. donald trump's used a speech at a rally in pennsylvania to address what he called false reports about what happened when he met the queen the us president complained about the coverage of his recent meeting and first offical visit to the uk.
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mr trump said he'd been falsely accused of keeping the queen waiting at windsor castle and then staying too long. he also renewed his attacks on the media despite a warning yesterday from the united nations that his criticsms were putting journalists in danger. but we got along fantastically well and the time went by. you know, like sometimes if you like somebody, you get along, good chemistry, the time goes by? so we were there for about an hour. so here's the story. i got there. remember, i got there early and the queen's guards waited with me, waited... in fact, we took a helicopter. you see all these secret service guys? they are not late. they don't believe in being late. they are incredible. they believe in being early, not late. one of them said to me, "sir, we weren't late." so here is the story by the fake news. "the president was 15 minutes
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late for the queen." wrong. and then here's the rest of the story. here's the rest... here's the rest of the story, they said i was late, when i was actually early, number one. number two, i guess the meeting was scheduled for 15 minutes and it lasted for almost an hour. "the president overstayed..." laughter. so i was late and i overstayed. and honestly, folks, it was such a beautiful, beautiful visit and afternoon. but they can make anything bad because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news. that was president trump their in a rally in pennsylvania. that was president trump their in a rally in pennsylvania. the new head of the armed forces has said he will not allow a witch hunt of veterans over their roles
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during the "troubles" in northern ireland. in his first interview since becoming chief of defence staff, general sir nicholas carter said that it was right that serving and former personnel were held to account for wrong—doing, but he would fight moves to prosecute soldiers. it is right and proper that if our soldiers have done something for it, but only if they've genuinely done something wrong because we need to have some standards, we need to have values that people are held against, otherwise we would lose the moral high ground. what is fundamentally wrong, though, is if they're chased by people making vexatious claims, and that will not happen this year marks a hundred years since the end of the first world war, so 100 days before the centenary on 11 november, the royal british legion is launching a movement to honour the generation who served in the war. the legion will commemorate the 1.1 million british and commonwealth armed forces who lost their lives, but also the military
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personnel and civilians who played their part at home. 0ur correspondent caroline davies is at tate modern in central london well, today is a hundred days before it is 100 years of the end of the first world war. the british legion‘s messages very clear, it is a big thank you. now this is not just about those who fought in the first world war, but the others who also made different contributions. let me take you to have a quick look. here are the ladies of tottenham who took over the football team after all the men went away to the front and they decided they wanted to keep it going. many thousands packed out the stadiums to watch them. memories of the women and children who helped to keep the food going while the war was continuing. now here we have the memorials to all the different servicemen who contributed. we've got a couple of tommies here,
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a member of the raf and also done here some sailors representing the navy. the contributions of women were significant. this letter remembers all the women who were part of the any ammunition teams. here is mary curie. she made mobile x—ray devices. these devices went down to the front. these devices went down to the front. a lot of these pioneers and innovators making different inventions that are still used today. here we are remembering those from the commonwealth who volunteered to come to fight in the first world war as well. it is incredibly beautiful, colourful work of art. here is the artist sara. why did you want to make it so colourful? i wanted to bring everything to live. i wanted to get away from looking at black and white photographs. and yes, just bring people to life.
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anybody can come up to the illustrations and really relate to them. it feels like you could almost bump into these people in the street. is that what you wanted to create? absolutely. it was purely by chance. i coloured them in as an experiment and as soon as i did i could feel how alive they felt. there is one particularly special person in this montage. and this is your great—grandfather down here. tell me a little bit how you came to find out about him? through my research. ijust wanted to find out more about him and so i did that and found out where he fought. and he died just before the end of the war. i live in brighton and he was from there. so it felt really special to include him in the illustrations. and i actually found out he lived just around the corner for me. itjust brought it all to live. that is incredible. do you think that given
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that it has been a hundred years since the war ended that it is difficult for people to relate to? i think yes. people might not think they have a connection and i hope through this campaign people can now... they can look up their great—grandfathers and find out more about them like i did. or even if they just want to come and look at the illustrations. looking into the faces of these people, they can say a thank you without really knowing anyone specifically. thank you very much. this is starting in london, but this memorial will be taken all across the country to six different cities. and people are being asked... have a look down here to live their own mark. this is one of the children's that left their own mark. a small thank you for lily. —— i thank you from lily. a message from this generation to that great generation, room and bring the sacrifices that they made to make this modern britain.
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caroline davis at the tate modern in london. caroline davis at the tate modern in london. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news... a warning from the governor of the bank of england — the possibility of britain crashing out of the eu without a deal is ‘uncomfortably high' —and that a ‘no deal‘ scenario could mean disruption to the economy. the sister of the missing midwife, samantha eastwood, has appealed for information about her whereabouts after she was last seen leaving the royal stoke university hospital. and as forecasters say europe could record its highest ever temperature later today, tourists and locals have been warned to stay out of the sun and to keep hydrated. hello. in the business news this afternoon... in the business news this afternoon... bank of england governor mark carney tells the bbc the chances of a no—deal brexit is "uncomfortably high"
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and "highly undesirable". carney added that if no deal was agreed it would lead to higher prices and cause to disruption to the uk economy. sterling fell to an 11—day low on the back of carney‘s comments. the trade war between the us and china escalates, after the chinese government decides to place new tariffs on £46 billion worth of us goods. beijing said its actions were " rational and restrained". the royal bank of scotland announces it will pay its first dividend in ten years. that's despite reporting a fall in profits to £888 million for the first half of the year. rbs‘s bottom line was hit by a £1 billion settlement with us authorities over mis—selling mortgage—backed securities. and despite a jump in profits, amazon paid less tax in the uk last year. the online retail giant paid £7.11 million in tax two years ago, but that dropped to only £1.7 million in 2017. amazon responded by saying the lower amount is because of share—based payments for staff. hello, good afternoon. welcome to
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the business news. welcome to the business news. the owner of british airways — international airline group — has announced its second quarter results today. pre—tax profits rose by 6.3% to £789 million for the period april to june. iag's bottom line was booster by 2.3% rise in passengers. the firm also said its costs excluding fuel fell by 2%. i'm nowjoined by sally gethin, who's the editor of gethin‘s inflight news. sally, thank you forjoining us. firstly, these results came in underestimate, so we did see the share price fall a little this morning, round about 3%. however, they seem to be more concerned about industrial action with air traffic control. yes. obviouslyl
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industrial action with air traffic control. yes. obviously i ag has a big vested interest in smooth over flights across europe. it is very concerned. france is proving a big sticking point at the moment was not only 83 staff shorter sids, but also action by traffic controllers. this is not just action by traffic controllers. this is notjust disrupting iag, but other carriers. these groups together are starting legal action and lobbying the european commission to enforce the overflight rules, which is part of free movement within the eu. and this is very important. the airlines including iag are saying we are not challenging the controllers right to strike, but why can we not fly over the airspace? why do we have to have the airspace? why do we have to have the flights disrupted ? the airspace? why do we have to have the flights disrupted? when that happens, diverted flights will increase the fuel consumption and eventually the house and knock on impact on the airline ticket price. that is one challenged airlines.
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another, the rising fuel costs. exactly. and they are showing no signs of abating. 0bviously, fuel, isa signs of abating. 0bviously, fuel, is a fact of life for people. it is something they have to live with. it is their bloodline. they need that fuel to be able to operate, so some airlines hedge against that so that they can manage through the lean times. 0bviously, they have to keep a weather eye on the cost of fuel. because if it does not flatline or diss kris, they have to consider other ways to compensate for that. —— ordiss other ways to compensate for that. —— or diss kris. when you have low—cost airlines, obviously that fuel price can make a massive difference to the operating profit and revenues. ok, thank you very much forjoining us. let's have a look at some of the other stories. we've had the latest figures
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from the royal bank of scotland this morning — and they've been watched very closely — so let's run you through those numbers... the bank's profits fell to £888 million for the first half of the year, compared to £939 million a year earlier. the main reason for the fall was due to rbs paying a £1 billion settlement to the us department ofjustice over mis—selling—mortgage—backed securities. rbs also announced it would be paying its first dividend in ten years, which will be around 2pence a share. well earlier our busines editor simonjack spoke to rbs‘s well, earlier our busines editor simonjack spoke to rbs‘s it was a very good day for us to be able to announce profit in the quarter when we paid £1 billion for the department ofjustice. and for the department ofjustice. and for the half 1.8 30 and of profit dropped into the bottom line. 888 million. it has been a very good half for us considering what we have gone through. what is happening in the marketplace is a lot of other
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things weighing on the share market. the talk of trade wars, brexit itself, what is going to be the outcome for the uk. all of that affects the stock. another good thing for us was the announcement of the intention to pay a dividend, the first one in ten years. it is good news for our investors. they can start to see some return coming through. including the biggest shareholder which is the taxpayer. just on that point, rbs is obviously a very different thing than it was ten yea rs a very different thing than it was ten years ago. much more uk focus, business and personal banking in the uk. is there a sense that companies which are very exposed to the uk economy like you are suffering because of the uncertainty of brexit and that is what investors are scared about? there is certainly -- it is certainly weighing in on the stocks. it just means it is certainly weighing in on the stocks. itjust means that we have
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to stay very stable, very high capital levels, very strong liquidity to make sure that we can ta ke liquidity to make sure that we can take care of her customer base and a matter what happens. that was the chief executive of rbs. it's earnings season, so lots of financial results out this week. car makers toyota surprised analysts by reporting a 7.2% rise in quarterly profits to £5.9 billion. the japanese car giant says it had strong sales in asia and its restructuring plans had helped lower costs. now the us economy added 157 million jobs last month. —— 100 57,000. they we re jobs last month. —— 100 57,000. they were expecting it to be closer to a hundred and 90 thousand. and william hill and paddy power have both announced expansion plans in the united states. william hill signed deals with 11 casinos in mississippi. paddy power's subsidiary fanduel, have set there sights on several
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cities in the us aswell, signing deals in multiple states. these moves come after the us supreme court ruled in may that individual states could allow allowed sports betting in knocking down a 1992 federal law that banned it in most states. that has opened the door. and sainsbury‘s has apologised to customers who were unable to access delivery orders online on thursday. some customers reported problems getting onto the website or amending their shopping list during the evening. a spokeswoman for the supermarket said that the website was taken offline in the early hours to fix the fault and was now operating normally. let's have a look at the market before we go. the royal bank of scotla nd before we go. the royal bank of scotland is doing quite well after the announcement of the dividend. the first in ten years. well, that is it for me. i'll be back later. we're just is it for me. i'll be back later. we'rejust gonna is it for me. i'll be back later. we're just gonna have a quick look at the scene. we're just gonna have a quick look at the scene. let's go to harare,
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where an opposition press conference hasn't happened, as riot police. they were driving awayjournalists who were waiting for the conference to begin. we are now hearing that they are going to let the news conference go ahead. there has been some confusion and we don't know why journalists were pushed out of the area by the right police, but we had seen 25 minutes ago journalists, camera crews running away from the scene, but it appears that that news conference will now shortly go ahead. we will hopefully, tune in here perhaps after two o'clock. 0f course the opposition saying that the vote has been raped. the presidential election in particular. the results were very close, but giving the election to emmerson mnangagwa. you have more on that later this afternoon. we would just pause and catch up with the weather.
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very important. all the latest details now. thank you ever so much. yes, dangerously hot weather across the iberian peninsula. particularly in portugal. yesterday we had 45 degrees, we are expecting the heat to peak tomorrow. where we could be hit to record values, 47 celsius. closer to home, the heat has been building. we are above 30 degrees. the weather front is giving us some weather today. to the north and south, we have got the sunshine. this is the scene or was the scene in ambleside underneath the blanket of cloud and also it is very misty and murky. we have had that miss from the sea for couple of days. it will hang around through the weekend. this is the rain we're talking about. some heavy showers and thunderstorms potentially for northern england in the next few hours. but the heat is building and
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will continue to do so for the next hour or so. the baking sunshine... the temperatures aren't that high under the cloud, but in certain places like in scotland away from the showers there is some very decent weather. 0vernight, the showers clear away and actually to the north of our weather front, it will feel fresher and more co mforta ble will feel fresher and more comfortable for sleeping. not so further south. an uncomfortable night with high humidity. and another one or two of those to come as we go through the weekend. a little bit of mist and fog around tomorrow in the morning especially around the coast. it looks like a very decent days. more sunshine for northern england and wales today —— then today. again a lot of areas of scotla nd then today. again a lot of areas of scotland and north ireland will look fine and dry and warmer. temperatures will be average. sunday, you can see the weather
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front starting to come into the mac through the west. bringing increasing cloud and moisture. much of north of ireland, will be very pleasa nt of north of ireland, will be very pleasant and for england and wales, it will be quite the temperatures getting up into yorkshire are pretty high. 26 or 27. getting up into yorkshire are pretty high. 26 or27. next getting up into yorkshire are pretty high. 26 or 27. next week, getting up into yorkshire are pretty high. 26 or27. next week, it getting up into yorkshire are pretty high. 26 or 27. next week, it is a very similar picture. we keep the cool conditions, that pleasant conditions in the north, but the heat stay, it will start to the way further south. hello, you're watching afternoon live —
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i'm ben brown. today at 2. the governor of the bank of england, mark carney, has warned that the possibility of a "no deal" brexit is "uncomfortably high". i think the possibility of a no deal is uncomfortably high at this point, yes. you say quite clearly a no deal brexit would be a disaster?fl yes. you say quite clearly a no deal brexit would be a disaster? it is highly undesirable. zimba bwe's opposition vows to challenge the result of the presidential election after emmerson mnangagwa is declared the winner. nelson chamisa is due to give a news conference — which has been delayed by riot police. the sister of a midwife missing for a week has made an emotional appealfor information. samantha eastwood was last seen leaving work last friday morning.
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