and fancy taking a private plane without breaking the bank balance? we are in the air. kat looks at flight sharing via a day—trip to northern france. welcome to france. until next time, from me, and the rest of the team in south africa, it's goodbye. good morning — welcome to breakfast with victoria fritz and tina daheley. our headlines today: adults in england will automatically become organ donors unless they opt out, under plans unveiled today. the government says it could save 700 lives a year. police investigating the disappearance of a midwife from staffordshire find a body and arrest three people. more than 700 firefighters battle a major wildfire in portugal as southern europe continues to swelter in near record temperatures. against all the odds, ireland

are into the hockey world cup final — the first irish team, male or female in any sport, to reach a majorfinal. good morning, a dry day to day. cloudier further north and a bit of rain for western scotland later but for most of us, a dry day. more in 15 minutes. our top story. england could have an opt—out system for organ donation by 2020 under plans being published by the government today. a similar system has been in place in wales since 2015, and scotland also has plans to introduce a scheme. currently, less than 40% of adults are on the nhs donor register. catherine burns reports. she was always bubbly there, weren't she?

hayley louisejordan‘s parents say she was always fun but liked to plan ahead so she was in her 20s when she signed up to the nhs organ donor register. her family thought nothing of it. she's gorgeous there, ain't she? but when hayley was 32, she had a brain haemorrhage. doctors pronounced her brain dead and asked her parents about donation. i didn't have no hesitation. we walked hayley to theatre, said goodbye and ijust kissed and said, "go save some lives, hayley." public support for organ donation is higher. it's thought about 80% support the idea but only 37% have signed up to become donors. in reality, only a tiny number of deaths are suitable but the government thinks changing the system could generate hundreds of extra transplants a year. last year, just over 1,500 people donated organs after their death, and that is a record high, but still, there are just over 6,000 patients on waiting lists for transplants so, under

the new system, all adults would automatically be considered as donors unless they actively opt out. scotland is planning to do this too and wales already has an opt—out system but critics say it's too early to say whether or not that is working yet. some claim a better idea would be to hire more specialist nurses to identify potential donors and work with their families. catherine burns, bbc news. police searching for a missing midwife in staffordshire have launched a murder investigation. detectives investigating the disappearance of 28—year—old samantha eastwood found a body near stoke yesterday. 0ur correspondent simon ward is in stoke. what's the latest update? well, although there has been no formal identification of the body, this is what people feared most. 0fficers searching for samantha

eastwood made the discovery further down this lane in this rural part of staffordshire. she went to work at the royal ‘s —— the raw stoke hospital. it was later that evening when colleagues of the hospital raised the alarm when she didn't turn upfor raised the alarm when she didn't turn up for her makeshift and police had been investigating her disappearance ever since. 0n the day she went missing, samantha's neighbours reported hearing screams and on friday, her sister made an appeal and she said samantha was warm and generous with a great sense of humour. police have arrested a 32—year—old man and he was rea rrested 32—year—old man and he was rearrested this time on suspicion of murder. a 28 of man and six—year—old man were arrested on suspicion of assisting a murder. police have asked anyone with information to come forward. labour's deputy leader, tom watson, has said the party faces eternal shame unless it immediately

stops "the damaging" arguments over anti—semitism. he's made the comments in an interview with the observer newspaper. 0ur political correspondent tom bartonjoins us now from westminster. this is quite outspoken from the deputy leader, isn't it? strong language this morning from jeremy corbyn's second—in—command, warming these damaging arguments risk rendering the party fit the government, saying they could disappear into a vortex of eternal shame and embarrassment. he argues the party's disciplinary code should include the full example, full definition of anti—semitism. including all the examples included in the internationally accepted definition. at the moment, for those exa m ples have definition. at the moment, for those examples have been left out. the labour party says they have changed

and expanded those definitions and the consultation on the code of conduct has been reopened. now, we've been looking through the papers this morning and was seen on the front page that liam fox is saying he would bet on a no deal. it is likely to cause a bit of a stir in westminster. liam fox saying the likelihood of britain leaving the eu is more than 50— 50. he blames the intransigence of the european commission. this really is part of a strategy, it is the unusual language perhaps but would have the foreign secretaryjeremy perhaps but would have the foreign secretary jeremy hunt travelling around europe, france and austria, warning the likelihood of no deal by accident is increasing by the day. this is part of an attempt to persuade eu leaders that no deal would be just as persuade eu leaders that no deal would bejust as bad persuade eu leaders that no deal would be just as bad for european economies as it would be for the

british one. liam fox says if that message is resonating, britain's negotiating hand is getting stronger by the day. more than 700 firefighters are battling a major wildfire in southern portugal's algarve region, as the european heatwave continues. aircraft have been used to drop water on forest fires and further heat warnings have been issued across the iberian peninsula. temperatures are expected to reach forty—six degrees celcius today, close to the all—time european record. the venezuelan president says he has survived an assassination attempt involving drones carrying explosives. nicol s maduro was speaking at a military event in caracas. live footage showed the president suddenly — startled — and hundreds of soldiers running away. he was unharmed but seven soldiers were injured. the us first lady, melania trump, has expressed

her support for the basketball player lebron james, hours after her husband made insulting remarks about him on twitter. in an interview the basketball star had said the president was "divisive" and had "emboldened racists". however, a spokeswoman for mrs trump later said james was "working to do good things" with a new school he opened in his hometown. there were chaotic scenes in brighton last night after police prevented crowds of people attending the city's pride event from entering the railway station. thousands of people trying to leave the parade and a britney spears concert were held on the street after gates outside the station were padlocked. a spokesman for govia thameslink said they acted under police advice and train services were resumed in the early hours of this morning. a family in mexico got a bit closer to nature than they expected on a trip to a drive—through

safari park. footage shot by another visitor to the park shows a male rhino chasing and then ramming the door of an suv, it then goes on to try to overturn the vehicle. a spokesman for the park said the aggression was an "isolated case" caused by the presence of a female rhino nearby. no one in the car was hurt and the family even told a local journalist that the incident was "a good experience that they will never forget". it is do determined! plans to make everyone in england a potential organ donor unless they decide to opt out will be set out by the government today. currently, less than 40% of the population have signed up to the nhs register, but it's hoped the new system of consent could save up to 700 lives a year. we'rejoined by fiona loud from kidney care uk and mark smith who received a kidney transplant in 2009. let's start with some of the

statistics. more than 80% of people in england support the idea of donation but less than 40% have actually signed up. why is there this disconnect? it's one of those things people just don't get around to. we know there is a warming support but getting around to putting your name on a register isn't something that people think of but we think whatever system with god, the most important thing is that your wishes should be unthinkable. a very difficult time, families should know what their loved ones are thinking. you had a kidney transplant, how did you end up kidney transplant, how did you end up getting one? i had a kidney and

pancreas transplant in 2001. a lot of damage and being in renal failure. i was waiting seven months a transplant. in the end, the double transplant, everything has been great since. how did you personally feel about organ donation before this had happened to you? i've a lwa ys this had happened to you? i've always been a supporter anyway, i think it is such a noble thing to do to the people to give that gift. it's something i was very keen on anyway. it is an amazing thing. it's amazing you say gift, a noble gift, something people are able to do. doesn't this get to the heart of an t doesn't this get to the heart of an opt out system. you don't really have much choice about it. you still

retain the choice because it will be a soft opt out. it means you can sign up to the organ donor register we can let your family know what your wishes are. you do retain the right, your family retains the right, your family retains the right, so that system remains. it's not a hard opt out, it is saying you area not a hard opt out, it is saying you are a donor unless you have chosen not to be but it's still seen as an amazing and wonderful thing to do to be able to debate your organs because there are thousands of people walking around in this country today give benefited and had their lives transformed. a lot of people say it's about education, having those conversations in the first place and so interestingly, initially, donations went down initially. in a way, it's lucky we are doing this seven years down the line. something we think is great. in order to make this thing work, it

mustn't be a tick box exercise. it's not the only thing to do. we must have a consistent public education system. if we don't have that alongside, we're not going to get what we want which of is increased opportunities for people to receive those precious transplants. opportunities for people to receive those precious transplantsm opportunities for people to receive those precious transplants. it looks like england may go down this route as well and scotland may as well. how does that affect the national tra nsfer of how does that affect the national transfer of organs because of course, what might happen in one pa rt course, what might happen in one part of the country effects elsewhere. how efficient is the system ? we elsewhere. how efficient is the system? we have opt out in the three nations, we will start to see the increase across the country and all the way through the system. that's what we will start to see because having one thing in one place and another in another place, it works. there have been some amazing increases in organ donation but while people keep dying every day, we probably know of the 400 people

dying last year were awaiting transplant and the hundreds of suspended from the list because they would have been too poorly to receive one so while it's happening, we need to look to do more and this is part of the step but it is only pa rt is part of the step but it is only part of it. we need that education in that capacity talking about earlier. mark, you contacted your donor's family. and wanted to get in touch anyway to say thank you to their generosity. my donor was only 24. having lost a younger brother myself, i wanted 24. having lost a younger brother myself, iwanted him 24. having lost a younger brother myself, i wanted him to know that i could empathise, although i don't know what it's like to lose a child to know what it's like to use lose somebody so young and wanted to express my gratitude to their son's gift so we got in touch and had been in touch several times and we had three lots of ivf and coincidentally, we went back and it worked and we have an eight—year—old daughter and we also wrote back to tell them the gift meant we could go

on to have a daughter as well. reaction in meant quite a few times. and how do they respond you telling them that? they were amazed and gobsmacked and we have become really good friends. they keep coming in and talking to us. here's chris with a look at this morning's weather. hello, good morning. we have been talking about the heat in spain and portugal quite a bit. how hot did it get? we got close to the spanish record, just seven tenths away from the record. this figure in portugal could still yet be revised because we will get more information as the morning goes by. the national records didn't go yet, but it was very hot. the heatwave is not moving on yet. we will see 47 today across the far west of spain and into

portugal as well. temperatures will be easing in the week ahead. king at us be easing in the week ahead. king at us today, some hot spells of sunshine, not that hot, just into the low 30s. the heat across the south of england. western parts, we started with mist and fog first thing in the morning and we have extensive cloud across wales, midlands and east anglia. that will be around for most of the morning before fading away later this afternoon. the sun will come out and it will be a hot day in southern england. temperatures well into the high 20s to low 30s will stop similar temperatures for wales and the midlands. 27 for cardiff, so it should be hotter vivacity. thicker cloud get through the day. a cloudy day in scotland, light rain for the western isles, highlands and into aberdeenshire. we could see more

rain as we go through the rest of the day as well. 0vernight tonight we will see a more active weather moving in here bringing some heavy rain to western scotland and through the night, the band of rain will move south to bring some weather into northern ireland. not amounting to huge amounts at further south, a dry night, temperatures similar to those last night to another rarely warm one of the sleeping. tomorrow, quite cloudy for scotland and north island, showers entered the north of england. the south have a dry day with easy, sunny spells. temperatures up to 32 in the capital, quite a contrast further north where high teens and low 20s. cloudy weather still with us for scotla nd cloudy weather still with us for scotland and northern ireland. in the week ahead, we will lose the heat and replace it with unsettled weather. we will see low pressure systems moving in bringing cloudy, wet and windy weather as the week goes by and temperatures will be

significantly dropping as well. the hot weather we have seen over the last few days across southern england are coming to an end, temperatures back to normal as it turned windy. there will be some heavy rain around in the north and western areas. that is good news for the gardens, they could do with some extra rainfall. back to you. thank you very much. talk about good news for gardeners. a planned hosepipe ban was called off just days before it was set to begin. but the water company involved, united utilities, is now facing criticism for asking to extract waterfrom lakes in the lake district. mark 0wen from the angling trust joins us now. thank you the joining us today. what impact it is having on the environment, this unprecedented run of hot weather? it has a huge impact across the spectrum of wildlife. not just fishing. as water levels

shrink, rebel levels shrink, invertebrates, the basic food chain, that starts decreasing, dying off, it impacts on fish throughout the whole range, really. the lower the rivers gets, the hotter they get, the less oxygen varies, we get fish kills, we see the spawning seasons that fish can't prove that —— move through rivers. we have queues of famine waiting for the rivers to rise so they can come up and spawn. —— use of salmond. —— queues of salmon. i saw in switzerland they are trying to move fish that is the water levels are so low, so this is happening right across europe. we have been speaking to united utilities about this and they have teens working 24 hours a day to sort out leaks

teens working 24 hours a day to sort out lea ks and they teens working 24 hours a day to sort out leaks and they are working closely with the environment agency so they say they are doing everything they can. is it not enough. the secretary of state would disagree. they have been hauled over the coals are not meeting their leakage target, every water company has those targets and they are not meeting them basically. i'm sure they are working 24 hours a day. to start doing that now is not good enough. that should have been started yea rs enough. that should have been started years ago, that kind of investment and money. at about the idea, asking for these drought permit where they are asking permission to take, which they have been granted, they are not doing it yet, but it is an option. how unusual is that? as it happened before? it has happened before. probably going back to 76, but precautionary ones brought in since then. the issue with these as well is we certainly feel that you should

have been bringing in hosepipe bans as well. people talk about water and what comes out of your taps. this is drinking water we are talking about, just water. it is processed, it has been gone through processes to make it good for your consumption. why should we use it on lawns and flowerbeds? at that expense. doesn't that go to the heart of this? is it actually, yes, the water companies are doing their bit, but we should be doing our bit as well. it is up to us. the owners surely has to be on the public to use water responsibly. yes, we have been doing a lot through our partners, the community comes together on this point and we tried desperately to get the message to the public, there are programmes on how you should be having plants and growing things in this kind of weather, there are guidelines, the public, yes, needs

to learn. we drink and use far more water per head than any other country in europe. it has to change. i will let you know what the environment agency has said. they are working with water companies to ensure they are following robust drought plans to conserve water and supporting farmers to protect food supplies and livestock. thank you very much thejoining supplies and livestock. thank you very much the joining us this morning. thank you very much. you're watching breakfast from bbc news. time now for a look at the newspapers. the sunday times northern correspondent david collins is here to tell us what's caught their eye. you have all the details in a moment. but we will have a quick look at the front pages. let's start with the sunday times. no deal brexit is odds on, says the trade

secretary liam fox. he says britain is odds on to crunch out of the european union without a deal. that is the warning from liam fox. they are going with this photograph of meghan markle which is on a lot of the front pages today. she attended a wedding yesterday with prince harry. it was also her 37th birthday yesterday. at the back way, meghan markle. three stories that are interesting and we are covering on the programme. this little one of tom watson has been talking in the 0bserver tom watson has been talking in the observer today about what he calls the eternal shame by the anti—semitism. we have been talking to our correspondence in washington about that, sorry, in westminster about that, sorry, in westminster about that. this picture, not britney spears, however she was performing in brighton last night. blot of revellers at brighton pride yesterday. a lot of trouble at the railway station when it was closed. we were showing pictures of the

queues. and the nhs has been told, give trans— patients equal access to fertility services. we will look at that more later on in the show. the front page of the sunday express. we have been reporting live this morning and missing midwife, body found. police searching for the missing midwife found a woman's body yesterday. police officers were looking in an area, had disused quarry ten miles from the hospital where she worked when they announced the discovery yesterday and shortly afterwards, a 32—year—old man who was previously arrested was detained on suspicion. two other men had been arrested as well. let's bring david back in. they can this story. lost a victorian poet is new literary star. tell us more. that's right.

incidentally, i wrote it. tell us more. that's right. incidentally, iwrote it. i tell us more. that's right. incidentally, i wrote it. i love that we are starting with your story. at least i know about it. the university of exeter have an academic team, a professor of victorian poetry there and what he has done is he searched through hundreds of newspapers in lancashire in1800, hundreds of newspapers in lancashire in 1800, the 1860 to 1870 and uncovered this fantastic cash of forgotten lancashire dialect poets and they are incredible, they say that these poets are up there in terms of the standard of poetry with anything that has been seen before around that time, the star of the show is a guy called william cunliffe who basically was a wool is sought and so hisjob cunliffe who basically was a wool is sought and so his job was to sort the quality of different types of

wool. as it came in for the docks in liverpool. but he would write and the subjects he would write about would be the american civil war. in lancashire at the time, a lot of cotton came from the south, so the confederate south, and what happened is the north blockaded the south so we have this big cotton famine in lancashire and that caused a lot of problems in lancashire occurs suddenly cotton workers who are fairly well off apparently for the time were very impoverished.” fairly well off apparently for the time were very impoverished. i like some of the words they had used here from lancashire dialects. you want to run through them? i was going to quiz them, but have you read them?” have. vettel, to mend. snig is that eel. clem means starving. moving on.

what have you picked up?” eel. clem means starving. moving on. what have you picked up? i have this here ina what have you picked up? i have this here in a sunday express. yes, this is the story, so last week, we had a supreme court ruling which was basically called the right to die rule, and it was a decision by the judges that in cases where a loved one relative was in a vegetative state where they could not be re cove red, state where they could not be recovered, in the past what has happened is you would have a judge deciding on whether or not to turn off life—support. now what we have got is the ability, according to this ruling, that the family can decide which the dock is, as long as the doctors agree, they can turn off life—support. this has been hugely welcomed by families that have been

through the really tough situations, and this was as remarkable, i thought. christopher and andrew watson was 16 when they were in a car in april 2006 when they hit another vehicle. christopher wasn't wearing a seatbelt, they were twins. chris was not wearing a seatbelt and we nt chris was not wearing a seatbelt and went the window and he ended up in a vegetative state in hospital. the twin was injured but not as badly, but what happened if he had to watch his brother thought of fade away, essentially, in hospital, until eventually when they went through a legal process in 2010, the brother, they decided to turn up his life—support, but the situation like that, it really does drum home the fa ct that, it really does drum home the fact that i do think that this is a really good decision by the supreme

court, and these decisions should be made by families and loved ones, the people that know that person best, not a judge who doesn't know the person and doesn't know perhaps what they would have wanted, and ijust hope that this law that is being passed is then —— if enacted and doctors listen to it and it will help a lot of families overly. amazing story. stay with us. come back and we would talk about more papers. back in an hour and we would talk heatwaves and all sorts of other things. thank you. stay with us. the headlines are coming up. hello, this is breakfast with victoria fritz and tina daheley. good morning — here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. plans to make everyone in england a potential organ donor unless they decide to opt out will be set out by the government today.

it's hoped the system, which is similar to the one that already exists in wales, could save up to 700 lives every year. currently less than 40% of the english population have signed up to the nhs organ donor register. police searching for a missing midwife in staffordshire have launched a murder investigation. detectives investigating the disappearance of 28—year—old samantha eastwood found a body near stoke yesterday. a 32—year—old man, who was detained last sunday, has been re—arrested on suspicion of murder while two other men are being held on suspicion of assisting an offender. the body is yet to be formally identified. the nhs has been threatened with legal action if it does not offer transgender patients access to fertility services before they start transitioning treatment. the equality and human rights commission says patients should be given the opportunity to store eggs or sperm before starting their treatment, as it can cause infertility. local commissioning groups currently decide whether to provide fertility

services but it's claimed many choose not to for transgender people. an nhs spokesperson said the criticism is ‘misplaced' and policy responsibility lies with ministers. labour's deputy leader, tom watson has said the party faces what he calls "eternal shame" unless it immediately stops its "damaging" arguments over anti—semitism. he's made the comments in an interview with the observer newspaper, in which he urged the party to accept the definition of anti—semitism set out by the international holocaust remembrance alliance. yesterday jeremy corbyn sought to reassure thejewish community in an article for the guardian, in which he promised again to root out anti—semitism from labour. more than 700 firefighters are battling a major wildfire in southern portugal's algarve region, as the european heatwave continues. aircraft have been used to drop water on forest fires and further heat warnings have been issued across the iberian peninsula. temperatures are expected to reach 46 degrees celcius today, close to the all—time european record.

the venezuelan president says he has survived an assassination attempt involving drones carrying explosives. nicol s maduro was speaking at a major outdoor military event in the capital, caracas. live footage shows the president suddenly looking upwards — startled — and hundreds of soldiers running away. he was unharmed but seven soldiers were injured. the us first lady, melania trump, has expressed her support for the basketball player lebron james, hours after her husband made insulting remarks about him on twitter. in an interview the basketball star had said the president was "divisive" and had "emboldened racists". however, a spokeswoman for mrs trump later said james was "working to do good things" with a new school he opened in his hometown. there were chaotic scenes in brighton last night after police prevented crowds of people attending the city's pride event from entering

the railway station. thousands of people trying to get to a pride event and a britney spears concert. they were held on the streets after gates were padlocked. a spokesman for govia thameslink said police requested the railway station be closed and train services suspended shortly before midnight to help them deal with growing crowds. sport now. starting with hockey. the first irish team, male or female to reach a major world final. they were underdogs throughout an incredible to think they had to fundraiser sensually over the last 2—3 years. and they are amateurs. here you are into the final. the dream continues

in ireland. ireland's unlikely heroes, their women's hockey team the first irish team male or female to make a world final in any sport. their semifinal against spain was already uncharted territory and they could have been forgiven for letting nerves get the better of them. but anna 0'flanagan got them off to a dream start, putting them ahead within three minutes however they were pegged in the second half by alica magaz to send the match into penalties. it takes nerves of steel to score in a shootout but gillian pinder took it to another level, scoring for the second time in sudden death to take her team into the history books. the journey has been an incredible one, a team of amateurs have turned the hockey world cup on its head and will now face netherlands in this afternoon's final. it is safe to say this is going to go down in history and i don't know if i will ever play with a better bunch of girls. they deserve this, they deserve it so much and maybe the fact that we are amateur makes us take it a wee bit deeper and ijust hope that this gets the credit it

deserves because we are in the world cup final, like, it doesn't really get much better than that. so it's the world's number one side against the second lowest—ranked team in the whole tournament. ireland will begin as huge underdogs but with this fighting spirit, they will be dreaming of doing the unthinkable once again. jo currie, bbc news. adam peaty really brought the european championships to life last night. this multi—sports event needed something to put it on the map — and peaty provided that, when he broke his own record, in winning gold in the 100—metres breaststroke in glasgow. 0ur sports correspondent joe wilson was watching. there was one reason to take your eyes off adam peaty in glasgow — to watch the clock. the world record 57.13 he was chasing was his own. on tv, a red line marks the pace he needed. for context, britain's james wilby an excellent second was over 1.5 seconds behind. he's broken the world record, 57.00! peaty looking in disbelief

looked to see his time. the crowd already knew. well, you can hear the crowd's roar. that's notjust the result but a record. remember, adam peaty referred to these championships as a kind of mini 0lympics. what he's done is given the whole thing status. peaty‘s performance was unmissable. but look past his physique, try, and the mind really matters. i've learned a bit lesson this season, just enjoy it. be me — i'm not trying to pretend to be anyone else and because i do. and the crowd definitely got their money's worth tonight. there is more of peaty to come here but if people make cities, world records make championships. joe wilson, bbc news, glasgow. there was more gold in the velodrome, with britain's ethan hayter claiming his first major title. the teenager came from fifth place

to first with a superb performance in the last of the four disciplines, the points race. he beat a really strong field, including the the reigning 0lympic, world and european champions — but hayter‘s mother might not be welcomed at future events — hayter said "my mum normally comes but they've gone on holiday, so i've done better being on my own." no invite for mum next time. england all—rounder ben stokes said he hoped their victory over india in the first test would "close some mouths". it came to a thrilling climax on the fourth morning, india needing 84 runs to win, england needing five wickets. when stokes removed the india captain virat kohli, the win looked possible — and he took four of those five wickets for a 31—run win. a match which really was a great advert for test cricket. well, what a game of cricket, from start to finish, it swung both ways throughout. three and a bit days, it made a fabulous spectacle. it was great to be involved in, great with india to play some fabulous cricket along the way and i am so proud of the group. all i wanted to see was the desire and the belief that we showed in the previous days.

celtic began the defence of their scottish premiership title with a comfortable 3—1 win over livingston. and can can you believe it's only 11 weeks since chelsea won the fa cup at wembley? they're back there this afternoon to take on manchester city in the community shield. eden hazard was the match winner back in may. he's still with chelsea despite plenty of talk about a move away from the club, but they do have a new man in charge, antonio conte replaced by maurizio sarri as manager. always chases big rival so antonio was, with maurizio before with another manager, so with maurizio, it will be true, but i am delighted to play with this style of play, the way we want to play, i think it will be perfect for english football. i'm so happy he came here. i want to win because it's very important to have immediately a trophy. but i think in this moment of the season, is very important to the performance.

we have to improve, of course. leeds rhinos have won the women's challenge cup for the first time, coming from behind to beat castleford. they won by 20 points to 14, a late try from leeds skipper lois forsell settling the match. they're coached by adam cutherbertson, who's expected to line up for the men's side this afternoon in their challenge cup semifinal against warrington. more medals of the european championships, fingers crossed. the number of people following a vegan diet has more than doubled in the last year. according to the vegan society, 500,000 of us are now avoiding eating meat or any other animal products.

restaurants and shops have been quick to embrace the trend with health store holland and barratt this week becoming the latest chain to launch exclusively vegan stores. joining us now are dietician nichola ludlam—raine and louise davies from the vegan society. cani can i start, is it healthier? eating more plant —based food is definitely a good thing because you are getting more fibre and whole grains and eating less meat is also good because you are likely to be getting healthy things from nuts and seeds and olive oil. from a health point of view it's not necessary to cut out meat and fish altogether. are you "and my crime not. i don't really like labels. i eat lots of

legumes, lentils. why are more people turning to the guinness or flexitarianism, as we call it. it is perceived that a vegan diet can be healthier and the main reason is animals. most people come to veganism because they are concerned about the exploitation of animals. you don't need to any more, it's completely unnecessary. the other reason is the environment. animal agriculture is hugely damaging. more are realising that. people are turning to the didn't ——a vegan diet for their impact on the planet. its grace that the vegan is better catered for and they have options but are they cashing in on what they see as a trend? there is part of that, it would be fantastic to think

all these retailers are coming to veganism for compassionate reasons but they are responding to demand. it's fantastic. we can get vegan products, most restaurants will have a vegan option. it's difficult. i am a vegan option. it's difficult. i am a mother of a young child. very difficult to get that sort of nutrition you think you need fewer children particularly when it comes to protein and healthy fats without dairy. that's really tough. as soon as you start cutting food out, it makes it more difficult. calcium, i dine. you mentioned protein. some vegans need to take a supplement. i would approach it lightly. from an animal welfare perth —— point of view, but the health point of view. it's difficult to get a balanced diet cutting out food groups. but it's not there to start imposing your ethical views on how you feel

about the production of meat and animal welfare on a child who really does need these things because they are growing. teaching children we should be eating for energy is a really good thing for what this is doing is making meat eaters question where their meat is coming from. if people can be buying free range eggs, that's more ethically produced, that is a good thing. there is a growing trend towards veganism, even if people are trying to have days without eating meat and dairy. what advice would you give them? there is a campaign out there called meat free monday and in the eye using the alternatives, make sure they are fortified with calcium and vitamin be. there are fantastic sources of vibrant proteins that would be my advice and just try and

cut down on your meat consumption but still have your fish. this seems like a new way of life. cisco is going to upend the whole meat and two veg that we are used to. the term vegan was coined in 1944 but many people have been on a diet like this for a long time. more people are realising we don't need animal products in our diets will start to see more innovations and products. thank you both. here's chris with a look at this morning's weather. hello. we are looking at some hot weather, we have been talking about this for a number of days across spain and portugal. the heatwave is ongoing. 46.6 in spain, just seven

tenths off the all—time record. not far behind in portugal, these figures could be revised upwards. we are not done with the hot weather. likely to get to 46, maybe 47 this afternoon. we will get close to the national records here. looking at the weather picture in the uk, and other dry day. the best of the hot and sunny weather will be across southern parts of the country, a lwa ys southern parts of the country, always more in them way of clouds further north and west you travel. the scotland and northern ireland some cloud, but quite a bit of cloud stretching into lincolnshire and east anglia. the cloud will stay here throughout the morning, actually pinning to allow some sunshine as we head into the afternoon. this stand stock patches clearing away and a lot of dry weather to take us through the rest of the day. —— a lot of fog and dry

patches. generally, temperatures are higher across the midlands and wales, parts of northern england than yesterday, getting some afternoon sunshine. and northern ireland and scotland, a lot of cloud. it will be thick enough to give us some spots of rain at times across the highlands and some rain in aberdeenshire as well, but that should clear away with time. this evening and overnight, rain will move into western scotland, turning heavier. the wet weather coming into northern ireland. amount of rain not here, some damp weather perhaps getting into galloway in the night. temperatures still a little on the high side were getting a decent nights sleep. monday, we start the day with mist and fog raptures across western areas again. a few showers across scotland, drifting southwards as we go through the day.

across midlands, wales, east anglia and southern counties of england, another hot day. 32 in the capital, temperatures in the high teens to low 20s further north. the hot weather moves away into europe and instead we start to see the atlantic waking up and that will spin areas of low pressure to bring us windy weather, cloudy weather and some rain in the forecast, quite heavy at times across north—western areas and the temperatures significantly easing in the week ahead. back down to average for the time of year in the south, so some big changes in our weather coming up over the next few days. back to you. thank you very much. we are all for the change. we'll be back with the headlines in a few minutes. but now, it's time for click. planet earth is changing — daily.

we humans are affecting its surface, its climate, its inhabitants. watching from ground level makes it difficult to make sense of it all, but these days, we do have the data and we can crunch the numbers. and when it comes to understanding the really big issues, those that have effects on a truly global scale, visualising that data can turn millions of figures into something that everyone can understand. maps like these created by carnegie mellon university's earthtime website combine nasa satellite imagery with a wide range of datasets to produce visualisations of environmental and geopolitical events

from light pollution, to refugee movement, to the effects of coral bleaching on areas such as the great barrier reef. one particular area where modelling such as this can display the starkest impacts is flooding. you can see how important that extreme weather research that we looked at in miami is. raise the global temperature by just 2 degrees and the sea engulfs the entire area. and this here is bangladesh, where rising water levels are putting many, many people at risk. in 2017, a third of the country was left underwater after monsoon rains, devastating crops and communities. but while technology can't prevent rainfall on this scale, it can make predictions to help those in remote communities to try and stay one step ahead of the weather. paul carter has been looking at how one insurance company has been

using its knowledge of risk to help the farmers fight back against the rains. like farmers the world over, in bangladesh, they have to battle the elements. but in their case, severe flooding could be a regular occurrence. given the impact floods can have, weather information and advice on what farmers should do with their crops is disseminated to communities through phone voice messages. 0r via call centres that farmers can ring in to. and for those who don't have phones or live in remote off—line areas, there are also weatherboards at district points where farmers can come to receive information. when floods destroyed this farmer's crops, it cost him about three months‘ wages. these initiatives were set up by the bangladeshi government

and an international charity that helps communities find sustainable solutions through technology. and now, an app being piloted is taking things even further. the sesame app uses machine learning to combine historical knowledge of crop patterns with weather forecasts so that farmers can make advanced decisions on when to plough the land, plant and apply fertilisers. this farmer is being advised to spray a fungicide to protect the crops. although these measures can be a big help, poor communities are often unaware of how vulnerable they actually are to extreme weather, or what they can do to lower the risks. another platform being used by the charity is setting out to assess just this — measuring the strengths and weaknesses of communities like those in this district.

using the frmt, or flood resilient management toolkit, representatives from the charity visit different communities to look at factors such as what crops are grown, weather patters, what large buildings exist, and the flood prevention measures that were already in place. in all, the technology looks at 88 different indicators to come up with a very holistic picture of how an area can cope with bad weather. it's quite a departure from traditional outlooks, which mostly considered factors such as dams and reservoirs. the thinking behind this technology, though, comes from another country altogether, where flooding could also be an issue. 7,500 kilometres away here in switzerland, a partnership between ibm and zurich insurance company has looked deeply into what makes a good flood resilient. in the last few decades,

flash flooding has cost switzerland hundreds of millions of pounds. resilience for us is notjust a new buzzword like sustainability or something else. the big challenge of resilience is that you don't see it until the event has happened. so what we want to have is a set of strong indicators that tell you something about what might resilience look like if something happens and then how can we strengthen those indicators, so it's all about not being derailed and not falling into a poverty trap despite that there are risks out there. the algorithm measures all the indicators and generates a numerical value on how resilient a population is. so this helps us use what we call engineering judgement, or expertjudgement, to start sorting and organising the data so you can come up with these numerical scores and i think that's a pretty unique approach that we have. technology has been pivotal, but also kept simple so it can be used off—line. you need to work with simple devices so you don't have the

most expensive hardware either. how easy is it to sell resilience as a concept? i think we need to move away from this, you know, what is my saving if i do this? to much more a point of trying to answer the question, what's the cost of doing nothing? back in bangladesh, for farmers in this area, the cost of floods has been very high. just how vulnerable the area is is being revealed by the researchers. waterlogging hampers people's livelihoods and leads to mass migration. by working together and making proper plans, it's hoped that the technology could help reduce the risks to their livelihoods when floods hit. and now, we're popping back to mit in boston.

this place is full of really creative people, but behind this door are three guys who are trying to make us all more creative by hacking our dreams. robot: you are falling asleep. so, what's happening here is we're taking these three bio—signals, your heart and your skin and your muscles, and we're looking for this state of sleep in between fully awake and fully asleep. what we're doing is, we're watching, watching, watching, and right as you descend into the next stage of sleep, we introduce a little audio from the robot. and that bit of audio knocks you, so you're not fully asleep. and then we see if whatever word we use will in fact enter the dream. by introducing the subject

of your problem into your dream and then listening back to a recording of your so—called hypnogogic mumblings, you mayjust find that you hit on a creative solution. specifically because in that moment, you're hyper—associative. your cognition is really elastic, it's really flexible. you don't have that same capacity to review and be critical of your thoughts, so you generate really weird, aberrant, divergent thoughts, things that come to you as dreams, but which you can later use as creative insights. robot: you are falling asleep. if, that is, you can bear listening to the weird conversations that you end up having, like this recording of one experiment. robot: you are falling asleep. think of a fork. a fork. tell me, what are you thinking? in tests, the students found that

people who'd used this method could think of more creative uses for objects and they wrote longer stories with more drawings. and, you know, something tells me that the sleep glove may have been used to come up with the concept for its own promo video. either that, or this is how adam likes to sleep most nights. that is it for the shortcut of click for this week. the full—length version is waiting

for you right now up on iplayer. and don't forget, you can follow us on facebook and twitter at bbc click. thank you very much watching. and we'll see you soon. good morning. welcome to breakfast with victoria fritz and tina daheley. 0ur headlines today: adults in england will automatically become organ donors unless they opt out, under plans unveiled today. the government says it could save 700 lives a year. police investigating the disappearance of a midwife from staffordshire find a body and arrest three people.

more than 700 firefighters battle a major wildfire in portugal, as southern europe continues to swelter in near record temperatures.