hello, it's tuesday, it's 9am, i'mjoanna gosling. welcome to the programme. is it too late to save britain's high streets? as house of fraser becomes the latest big name to hit trouble, with over half its stores closing, have we reached a tipping point? and what can be done about it? this is the long—term issue because the changing consumer habits of what people want when they come into the town centre is changing rapidly and businesses, together, we have to work with them to understand what the change is. we have a group of people in the studio together and they have been thinking long and ha rd they have been thinking long and hard about how to save the high street and we will be debating what can be done. also today, he claimed that actors actually faked the sandy hook gun massacre, and that the 9/11 attacks were staged. now material from alexjones' controversial website infowars has been removed by several social media platforms, and he's not happy about it. this is the modern—day equivalent of

book burning, because their voices we re book burning, because their voices were becoming too loud and having too much influence, it is election meddling and collusion. should facebook, apple, youtube and spotify have done this years ago, or are their actions a dangerous move against free speech? and imagine reporting a crime to the police, and being told by them to go and solve it yourself. well, that happened to a carpenter from devon after he had £8000 worth of tools stolen. we'll be talking to him. hello, welcome to the programme. we're live until 11 this morning. what do you think can be done to breathe life into shopping areas around the country? or do you think it's too late? do you buy most things online now, and like it that way? what is the high street like where

you are? it is a mixed picture depending on where you are in the country. do get in touch about that and about all the stories we're talking about — use the hashtag #victorialive. if you re emailing and are happy for us to contact you — and maybe want to take part in the programme — please include your phone number in your message. if you text, you ll be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today — earth is in danger of tipping into a permanent hothouse state, according to a new report into climate change. scientists have warned that if global temperatures rise by more than two degrees celsius, extreme temperatures and rising sea levels could be irreversible, and that current plans to cut carbon emissions may not be enough to stop it. 0ur science editor david shukman reports. an image of apocalypse of the kind you might expect

hollywood to conjure up. but this was filmed on a real front line in california over the weekend. record temperatures and bone dry conditions are triggering dozens of wildfires in several american states. there are similar scenes in europe. in portugal, fires are a constant risk here, but the speed of their spread has been shocking. at the same time, there's punishing heat in asia. north korea, usually so secretive, allowed its shimmering streets to be filmed. the heatwave has been declared a natural disaster. a new report warns that we're still pumping out the gases that warm the atmosphere and that the earth may suddenly become much hotter. because natural features of the planet, like the rainforests, are under pressure, and they help to keep us cool. so if it were correct and if this was to take place, it would be very serious because there would be all sorts of impacts that would affect people in many ways. for example, some places would be very short of water, other places, deltas and places, would be flooded. and in japan, there's another challenge.

more than 100 people have died in the heat, but this is where the olympic games will be held in 2020. so they might shift the clocks by two hours so races can be in cooler conditions. a radical move as temperatures are set to rise. david shukman, bbc news. matt colejoins me now. how serious is this? with much of the historical debate about climate change, there is always disagreement and there is some about this too but the predictive modelling of the hothouse earth effect does have quite a lot of scientific backing which says this is pretty serious. at the moment, there are natural defences soaking up about 4.5 billion tonnes of carbon from the sphere every year, the rainforests absorbing c02, the global warming gas, polar ice caps keep the gases frozen inside, but the hothouse predictions suggest that if global

temperatures go 2% above preindustrial levels, at the moment, they are about 1%, if that were to happen, there could be a domino effect with one natural defence knocking at the next. if the forest get cut down, more c02 stays in the atmosphere, warns that there, melt theice atmosphere, warns that there, melt the ice caps, releasing more gases. the domino effect, the theory is that it would effectively take over and could run away with temperatures up and could run away with temperatures up pipe 5%, or ratherfive and could run away with temperatures up pipe 5%, or rather five celsius, and significant parts of the world could become uninhabitable, the seas could become uninhabitable, the seas could rise by up to 60 metres, with high—temperature is around the equator and beyond. the effects might not take place for up to two centuries so there is time yet. those behind the study say that if by 2050 we stop emissions, cut carbon burning fuels, plant more trees, develop technology sucking

c02 out of the air, there could be time yet, but it is a very stark warning. thank you very much. now an update on the rest of the day's news. rescue workers on the indonesian island of lombok are carrying out a search for survivors of the powerful earthquake, which has killed almost 100 people. the foreign office says it has heard from a number of uk holiday—makers trying to flee the devastation. keith doyle reports. thousands of tourists on the beach of one of the gili islands, trying to get to safety. the earthquake has caused widespread destruction and ma nifest caused widespread destruction and manifestjew caused widespread destruction and manifest jew left many dead caused widespread destruction and manifestjew left many dead and injured. —— and left many dead and injured. this was the moment it struck. measuring 6.9, which was strong enough to destroy 20,000 homes on the north of the island of

lombok. it was utterly, utterly terrifying. we just literally were sleeping off a bit ofjet lag when the whole room just... the ceiling collapsed, the floor cracked beneath us. the shower room, the glass smashed on the floor, tiles were falling off. we hid under a table within the room and just held on for dear life. this was the second earthquake to hit the area in just over a week. it was five times more powerful and was followed by over 100 strong after—shocks. power and communication lines have been cut to many parts of north lombok, where the authorities say as many as 80% of the buildings have been damaged. witnesses spoke of chaos and reported looting. makeshift hospitals have been set up to treat the injured. at lombok‘s main airport, tourists waited for flights to take them home. paradise holidays cut short. extra flights have been put on. the british foreign office has

advised against travelling to the affected areas, and says it's providing assistance to british nationals who been in contact via telephone or social media. keith doyle, bbc news. president trump's sanctions against iran have come into effect this morning. they were lifted by barack 0bama in 2015 in return for tehran agreeing it wouldn't develop nuclear weapons. the iranian government has condemned the move as psychological warfare. the sanctions will target iran's purchase of us dollars, the trade in precious metals, and its car industry. the labour party has dropped an investigation into mp dame margaret hodge over an anti—semitism row with the party's leader, jeremy corbyn. labour said dame margaret had expressed regret for her conduct prompting her lawyers to issue a denial and accuse the party of entirely misrepresenting her in a cynical attempt to save face. teenagers in scotland

are getting their results from their national and higher exams. more than 135,000 pupils will learn how well they performed in their national 4 and 5s, highers and advanced highers. all students will learn of their grades by post, but about 59,000 have also opted to receive them by text or email. 0ur correspodnent catriona renton is at a school in cumbernauld. good morning. we are at a high school and everybody in this room has done themselves proud this morning with their exam results. that means reduce you to fraser, he was doing his highers, important to getting into university, how did you getting into university, how did you get on? five as. in maths, english, chemistry, physics and modern studies. where does that take you next? now i have the grades,

studies. where does that take you next? nowl have the grades, i want to study medicine, i am now looking to study medicine, i am now looking to finalise my application. you were doing the year below fraser, before highers, how did you get on? seven as. english, maths, chemistry, biology, modern studios, history, p. incredible range of subjects. was it nerve—racking waiting for the globe? i was really nervous but really happy. i was really nervous but really happy--- i was really nervous but really happy. -- waiting for the envelope. you came in here especially to get your letters, but you also got a text message, what was that like?” was waiting for ages, really weird. the adrenaline hit me. as soon as it came, iwas the adrenaline hit me. as soon as it came, i was happy. what were your subjects and how did you get on?” got four as two cs and b. english,

maths, drama, music, . .. got four as two cs and b. english, maths, drama, music,... they ask a lot of you guys, don't they? yes. you have done brilliantly well, let me try to your headteacher. you must be so proud. delighted. very proud. huge amount of effort we have witnessed from pupils and staff. not everybody waking up this morning will have got results that they desperately wanted or pun not so well or better than expected, there is help out there. —— done that not so is help out there. —— done that not so well. social media has been excellent in the build up. schools development scotland and schools themselves, they offer lifeless to young people. it is not the end of the world if your results are not what you expected, staff are in schools and they can look at the options, if that is required. thank

you all so much for talking to us this morning. everybody here has done tremendously well but of course there is advice out there for anyone that needs it. congratulations to all of them. thank you very much. a seven—year—old boy has been found dead in a house fire in deptford in south—east london. london fire brigade say they're treating the fire as suspicious. retail sales slowed injuly, with sales in stores which have been open at least a year rising by 0.5% compared with1.1% injune. the warm weather boosted spending on food and drink, but sales of non—food items suffered. hollywood film star robert redford has said his next film will be his last. known for roles in butch cassidy and the sundance kid, indecent proposal and the horse whisperer, the 81—year—old actor won an oscar as a director in 1981. he will star in the old man and the gun, the true story

of a criminal who escaped from jail in a kayak before committing more heists. a student from texas has taken part in a graduation photo shoot with a difference, posing with a 14ft alligator named big tex. makenzie noland, who will graduate from texas a&m university on friday, says she struck up a bond with tex while interning at a rescue centre for alligators, crocodiles and other reptiles. makenzie says she's not scared of the alligator as she gets in the water with him every day, adding that he's one of her best friends at the centre. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9.30am. thank you very much. you are getting in touch with your thoughts on the high street with house of fraser the

latest of the big names in trouble. eileen says, giving permission for any old chap is not the answer, one food store, charity shop, when takeaway, not hundreds of the same shops —— old shop. another says, why is the high street struggling? job insecurity, economic uncertainty and the rise of online shopping. brian says, i like to use the high street, it helps to keep people employed. the attitude of a few retailers is ruining the high street, just as online stores are. dennis says, a poem, i will read you a brief extra ct, poem, i will read you a brief extract, the high—street seen or used to know has changed beyond belief, famous names have disappeared and many come to grief. empty shops, some boarded up, seen in every town, names we took for granted, gone or closing down. let us granted, gone or closing down. let us know what the high street is like where you are because it is a different picture depending on where

you are in the country and we would like your thoughts on what can be done to try to improve the situation. if you get in touch by text, you will be charged at the standard necks were rate, and do use the hash tag —— standard network rate. breaking news this morning about arsenal? this news breaking earlier this morning. arsenal's majority shareholder, stan kroenke, who owns 67% of arsenal, has made an offer to buy out the whole club. the announcement was made to the london stock exchange this morning. this isn't the first time he's made a bid like this. the latest was in october last year and before that, it was the second—largest shareholder, alisher usmanov, who attempted a takeover. and actually, the two have never really seen eye—to—eye, which isn't ideal for a club like arsenal. but a buyout like this could put kroenke in a position to squeeze out minority shareholders and presents the risk arsenal would become a privately—owned business.

but kroenke insists a buyout would benefit the club. serena williams has been posting on social media indicating she is struggling emotionally, what has she said and why is she saying it publicly? a lot of respect and empathy for serena's statement on social media last night. it's been a roller—coaster for her since returning to the tour after giving birth to her daughter, in september. she's probably had more pressure on her than most to regain her top form. and she had surpassed all expectations by reaching the final of wimbledon this year, butjust last week, she suffered the worst loss of her career in sanjose byjohanna konta. after announcing she would be withdrawing from the montreal tournament, citing personal reasons. she's now put a very honest statement out on instagram, admitting she's suffering

from postpartum emotions, she's been praised for emphasising that her feelings are normal — and it seems a lot of mums are finding her comments very relatable with many praising her honesty. we are all human and i am sure eve ryo ne we are all human and i am sure everyone can empathise with going through things like that. that's finish with swimming. adam peaty, but has he been up to? the medals just keep coming for the british team in glasgow, paticularly in the pool. and last night, the mixed medlay relay team were celebrating a new european record in the 4x400m. as well as a gold medal. the team made up of adam peaty, freya anderson, james guy

and georgia davies who led the team out. then adam peaty showed his sheer class in the breastroke leg to bring them back into third. class in the breastroke leg to bring james guy then with the quickest time out of the eight competing nations to give freya anderson a commanding lead which she maintained in the freestyle leg to see them finish ahead of russia and italy. and that gold medal puts great britain second on the medal table behind russia — with a 23 medal haul. adam peaty‘s back in the pool this morning — in the individiual 50 metres heats. that's all the sport for now. 2018 was predicted to be a bad year for the high street, with business owners and experts agreeing that it was likely we d see numerous store closures. and that's certainly how it's panned out. some of the uk's biggest high street brands have gone under — maplin, poundworld and toysrus.

and others have announced store closures, including mothercare, carpetright, and marks & spencer. restaurant chains prezzo, byrons and jamie's italian have cut outlets and jobs too. and now the department store house of fraser is on the brink of a potential collapse. it's closing over half its stores and is seeking a rescue deal. and new figures out today indicate that retail sales slowed injuly, despite the hot weather. our business editor simon jack is here. lots to talk about. the studio audience we will be talking to in just a few moments. let's start with house of fraser. what is the latest? it is pretty precarious. it has already agreed to close half the stories. some landlords wanted to stop that but they have settled so it has a plan to close over half the stories including flagship one 0xford stories including flagship one oxford st, in birmingham, around the

country. the amount of cash at the bank is dwindling and suppliers are getting edgy about giving products without getting paid upfront and without getting paid upfront and without further investment most people think the outlook for house of fraser looks pretty grim. a couple of people have looked as if they will put money in, the company was going to put in £70 billion. mike ashley was the next saviour in chief who came along and it looks like this interest has cooled. u nless like this interest has cooled. unless they find someone to stick some more money into that company a lot of people we have seen this time and time again, a company voluntary arrangement isjust and time again, a company voluntary arrangement is just a staging post to collapse. we hope that doesn't happen but the track record for this kind of process is not good.” mentioned some of the big names in difficulties. you look at some of those names, 8000 jobs from pound world and toys "r" us. if this was a car manufacturer we would see every night on the news. a lot of people

retail deal it is not taken seriously. figures through some of the figures. this has been the worst year since 2008 for store closures with 1374. the worst for ten years. then we were in the depths of the financial crisis and a lot of people shouting. a lot of people changing the use of stories. more nail bars. 22,000 job losses in total, if you put that into the car manufacturing industry people would get very worried indeed. if you look at the number ofjob worried indeed. if you look at the number of job losses in worried indeed. if you look at the number ofjob losses in those stores, it would create a big row if you don't have the chancellor coming out saying what are we going to do about it? here is the big reason, 18% of all retail sales in the uk online. nearly a fifth of everything we buy is done online and it makes sense in a way that there are fewer shops given the fact that 20% is

being done online. a lot of people say the big unfair advantage the online stores have, amazon page 38 million in business rates last year, tesco and sainsbury‘s paid over 700 million in business rates. a lot of people think there is an unfair advantage, business rate it a punitive tax which is very bad for people with physical stores and it doesn't apply to those online. those of the biggest forces producing this effect. thank you very much. a very difficult year on the high street for a lot of companies. so — how do we solve the decline of the high street? or is it a problem beyond repair? with me in the studio and around the country now are shop owners, retail experts and politicians. first we're going to discuss how we got here, and then we're going to move on to debating some potential solutions.

i will introduce people as we go. i will start with bill grimsley who was here with us. you are a former ceo of some prestigious names, iceland, wicks. he wrote a book called sold—out, who killed the high street? you did a review of the high street? you did a review of the high street a few years ago. and another onejust street a few years ago. and another one just recently. while it's done for us. who killed the high street? is it dead? the high street was killed by consumers because we are changing habits and we are not shopping there any more in the numbers were used it. the main driver that this technology and convenience. we are shopping more online as you just seen. 18% of sales online. by 2030 that number will rise to 30%. town centres and

high streets can no longer rely on retailing as the anchor for where you go there. you have to reinvent those for our communities for the future in a different way. that is what we said five years ago and that is what we have concluded now. the big message to central government and local government is we have to start looking at these bases of different way because out—of—town shopping convenience will continue and online will continue and they will work together in a different style of shopping. we used a shop in a linear way, wake up, style of shopping. we used a shop in a linearway, wake up, go style of shopping. we used a shop in a linear way, wake up, go to the shops, buy something, come home. now the research online with the decision three being wide, it is important that the powers that be are managing our communities and really concentrate on what the future town could look like and what the unique selling proposition is, what its heritage is, make it a

community centre with health, education, entertainment, leisure, and then guess what, if you get lots of people there you will get some shots. the final thing to say is that there are barriers to progress and the biggest one out there right now is business rates. it is not fit for purpose. we recommended that the review is done, i go one stage further, it should be abolished. it doesn't work. it could be easily replaced by a sales tax. when you talk about abolishing it, it is actually a tax that business rates bring in 30 billion a year to the economy. yes, but only 8 billion comes from retail and it is in retail where there is a problem. 400 billion of sales and retail, 2% sales tax would raise that 8 billion. that would take care of the level field. it would billion. that would take care of the levelfield. it would push prices billion. that would take care of the level field. it would push prices up more for consumers. if you believe in the free market and competition

that would flush through and might stabilise and it would have to work harder to get sales. but this business rates has become a mammoth thing in our country. there are lawyers, a whole industry. it is so complicated that people don't understand it. what i can tell you is in the high street, especially independent and small retailers, they are being caned right now and going out of business because of business rates. you are a former president of the british retail association and manager of the tool shop group, 11 stores across london. central london. 12 stores. you have a london centric perspective.” central london. 12 stores. you have a london centric perspective. i talk about tool shop which is doing fine in london, different football. when i talk about my membership it is

very difficult in market towns, as bill said, business rates is the biggest headache we have got. beginning to understand from landlords about rent so they are working with us quarterly, people moving away from shorter leases, the business rate of the biggest issue. explain, because you will understand and everyone here understands how business rates work but there was a big shake—up. explain the rationale. the idea was to blood red anomalies where some business rates had unchanged for years and years. everything was revalued, all the properties. 0ur everything was revalued, all the properties. our rates went up by £27,000. that is a hell of a lot. when you look at some industries, central london provides the majority of rates. was that across all your

stories? yes and we had to make a couple of people that time. independent retailers have been very proactive and looking at market value and we try and get help from suppliers and manufacturers and distributors just suppliers and manufacturers and distributorsjust to be suppliers and manufacturers and distributors just to be fair but it is very difficult. it is all the other things that kept pushing us back. every time we tried to but the head above the parapet we get knocked down. we have asset —— acid crime and knife crime, all this dangerous stuff is coming, retailers in my sector, the hardware sector... we are having to spend more money in policing, better systems into place in our shops. is it something that has increased? yes, we are as

selling offensive weapons, so it makes is difficult. for independent retailers it is another cost. doctor lisa cameronjoins. retailers it is another cost. doctor lisa cameron joins. snp retailers it is another cost. doctor lisa cameronjoins. snp mp and chair of the committee on textiles and fashion. it is a different picture depending on where you look but how would you see the issues that are affecting the high street and the big stores affected differently from independent, what is your view? firstly i think it is an issue that government needs to be taking seriously. i have been calling for that for some time and i think it is true from some of the people who have contributed already and have been saying that this has largely been saying that this has largely been overlooked almost as though it has been taken as read that people are shopping more online so therefore this will impact the high street. that is true that we need to be taking steps to protect and

support the high street to reinvent it has been said, business rates have already been discussed at length, car parking charges in towns, particularly new towns, market towns, i think city shopping isa market towns, i think city shopping is a different scenario and it tends to survive too much greater degree but it is market towns, new towns, we wa nt but it is market towns, new towns, we want government to be having a focus on these local high streets town centres and looking at how we reinvest and how we mean you them and what sort of leavers do we need to address in terms of making sure they are sustainable for the future. a lib dem mp is with us in the studio. there are lots of extra costs involved when you go shopping on the high—street compared with online, particularly when online retailers offer free postage, online, particularly when online retailers offerfree postage, easier and cheaper, what do you think the

issues are? clearly there is a trend where people are moving towards buying more online, that is without challenge, but i think there is also theissue challenge, but i think there is also the issue of economic uncertainty which the whole of the economy is affected by, principally the brexit issue, it affects the high street in the way it affects every other sector and the additional problem that comes with brexit is the government is focused, and all mp5 would agree on this, exclusively on dealing with brexit and therefore the ability it has got to focus on things like the high—street and the reforms in relation to business rates. we have supported the idea of land value tax, mentioned in the report as an alternative approach, but the capacity to government has got to bring forward those proposals, when it is focusing

exclusively from a legislative point of view one brexit, is extremely limited. when you talk about brexit, it is aspects i presume like the fall in the pound, 15% almost fall in the pound since the brexit boat, imported goods become more expensive —— brexit vote. what realistically can the government do about those factors ? can the government do about those factors? our solution is very simple, give people a final say on the deal and at least we take that uncertainty out of the equation. evenif uncertainty out of the equation. even if that were to happen, i acce pt even if that were to happen, i accept long—term for the high—street there are really big challenges and there are really big challenges and the grimsey review was very good at focusing on things like leadership. asa focusing on things like leadership. as a party, the lib dems want to see much more devolution, give local authorities, mayors, ifappropriate, significant powers to deal with things in their locality, without having to refer back to central government. some local authorities are grasping that effectively but

unfortunately most are not. let us bring ina unfortunately most are not. let us bring in a councillor, deputy chair of the local government association, how much power do individual authorities have is to effect change on the high—street? if you're running an authority and you can see the high street is struggling, what can you do? local authorities have got power and you can see across the country people doing things. my own little duty last week purchased the market, it was privately owned. —— my own authority. the council stepping in to say it is at the heart of the town centre, we are market town. the government's focus needs to turn to the forgotten towns. just going back to that, by an asset like that is a big step for an asset like that is a big step for a council to take, why did you think that was the better option than trying to get more private investment? and presumably, not all councils have the money to spend on that sort of thing? we listen to the

businesses and the residents. the crucial thing that needs to happen, time given by local leadership, community involvement, listening to businesses, and residents. in 2011, we introduced free parking. we have to our free parking. we introduced free parking. we have to ourfree parking. the we introduced free parking. we have to our free parking. the council took the decision it would not use parking as a revenue stream. i agree with tom, the government needs to give far more focused on the issue. it needs to get real on tax. we saw an increase in profits from 2016-2017 for an increase in profits from 2016—2017 for amazon and the tax stayed flat and we have small businesses on the high—street being hit by tax. the government has to get real on accountancy laws and tax to make sure the big firms are brought in line and there is a level playing field. a really good discussion about what the issues are, discussion about what the issues a re, lots discussion about what the issues are, lots more to talk about, and

before we go on to discuss more about how different areas are doing, i would like to have a look at the picture on one high—street in particular. as we have mentioned, some areas are struggling more than others. some places are managing to block the downward trend. 0ur reporter has been to bournemouth were chopper footfall has grown for the last three years running. —— we re the last three years running. —— were shopping footfall. it's a place that's going against the headlines. when other towns and cities are seeing fewer of us, it's a place seeing more. it's on the beach and it's hot, you might think. but other coastal towns are also seeing falls in the number of us shopping, but not here. hi, i'm catherine el murr, and this is el murrino woodfired kitchen and this is my restaurant. come and have a look inside. this is the kitchen, so it's a woodfired oven. this is our team of chefs providing neopolitan pizza, pasta, risottos. all this talk of the high—street falling apart... yeah. it's not the case for you? ultimately, it's about the energy you put into your business and making sure you've got

a good product. it's about really working with other local businesses. why bournemouth? why is bournemouth so successful and not other places? i think bournemouth's successful because we have such a mix of people here. we've got a massive student community at the moment. also, it is such a big tourist attraction and it is staycation at the moment where people are choosing to stay in the uk to holiday and we've got a beach, we've got the new forest, we've got premiership football and all mixed in, a really fantastic experience. even when things are going so well, what is the biggest thing holding you back? business rates are extortionate. it is central government that sets the rates. but it is very difficult for us to make ends meet at the end of the month when you know you have huge business rates to pay out. even when things

are flying? yeah, we have to make sure it is value for money. footfall has increased in bournemouth three yea rs on has increased in bournemouth three years on the run and in the last 12 months, figures suggest it is up 1796. months, figures suggest it is up 17%. how do other towns turn the tide like this one? what we have managed to do in bournemouth is work together first of all with the local authority, the business improvement district, the businesses and various other interested parties to understand it is now about experience rather than just buying something and disappearing. you may be seeing this footfall growth but are you turning that, is the town turning it, into sales? that is the biggest challenge we have got. most towns and cities in the uk are going, how do we get people to go into the town? i am not saying we have cracked it but we are doing extremely well in terms of doing that. the answer to your question is, partially, but this is a long—term issue because the change

in consumer habits of what people wa nt in consumer habits of what people want is changing radically. we need to help his mrs and work with them to help his mrs and work with them to understand what the change is. -- help businesses. bournemouth are still seeing store closures. 0ther areas may now look at bournemouth in belief that the high—street can still compete. that is one area. let us still compete. that is one area. let us bring injune cartwright, joining us us bring injune cartwright, joining us from one of our studios, she lives in the west midlands, the highest rates of empty shops in the country and she is part of a group trying to regenerate the local area. thank you forjoining us. i hope you could here the report. probably uncomfortable for you to hear her somewhere else is doing well when you are struggling to make it work in yourarea. you are struggling to make it work in your area. tell us what the high—street is like where you are.

we were the town with the most empty shops in the uk but that has all changed and we have had lots of shops opening up again. we have got new people and the footfall is going to expand. it went down when the banks started to close, they were all part of the town, and with that, the shops declined. you have mentioned some of the names that went, what sort of things have come in? we have still got a couple, the royal stafford and middle port pottery, and we have got steel might as well, steel light, the biggest manufacturing the uk and they sell all over the country. we have new shops opening, a bath and kitchen shop, equestrian shop open, a whole

block of shops going to be open shortly with new names. we have not got any big names, except home bargains in places like that. the little shops in the town are the ones that suffered but they are getting revived at the moment. we as a group... i was about to ask you about that. you have been instrumental in trying to help turn things around, what have you done that has been working? we hold events in the town which brings a lot of people altogether and we have proven that if there is something on, something worth coming to, people will travel and we need to become a destination town so that we get visitors from everywhere. we have beautiful fantastic buildings and most people who come here fall in love with it. it is a very loved

town. we have got the angel, looking down on the town. we are getting a welcome pack together that we give out to potential people that want to come into the shops so they can have a look at what is on offer and the secretary is working really hard on that. we just generally try to revive burslem. thank you. jonny hayesis revive burslem. thank you. jonny hayes is also with us and he is similarly focused on trying to make the high—street work where he is and it is thriving, in york. independent local councillor helping the high—street regeneration and he also owns a kitchenware shop. tell us, is there a before and after story where

you are? yes. the story runs probably over about seven years, in about 2010, the forward—looking scenario was a bit iffy, to be quite frank. but we all decided we needed to get together and we created a local traders association and there we re local traders association and there were about 40 shops in the area, we got together, created the bishop road traders association and we put on events. we had a street party. we hand illumination events. we had food festivals. and all of these things started to make bishop road the destination and in 2015, we won the destination and in 2015, we won the great british high street ‘s award for the best local parade and we we re award for the best local parade and we were the winner of winners that yearin we were the winner of winners that year in 2015. all of that has made bishop road very much a destination and a place that people love and

really value. sophia is in the studio with us, chief executive at a national charity supporting communities and organisations and networks to improve neighbourhoods. you are doing what we are hearing from them which is in order to make spaces work, there needs to be changing the way they thought about. and lots of community involvement. a lot ha rd and lots of community involvement. a lot hard work. it is. it is important to not think of the high—street only as places where people go to shop, they go there to interact and that i —— and casual interaction is very important. how do you make the high—street a place where lots of different things can happen? people can do different things, notjust shop and eat. how do you involve communities and thinking about solutions? notjust as commentators but as contributors and playing an active role in making changes. there is an opportunity

here with empty shops and opportunity sites which might not be attractive to developers or attractive to developers or attractive to developers or attractive to large retail, but with the right support from local government and central government, there is scope to bring new ideas to there is scope to bring new ideas to the high—street. small community led housing initiatives, for example. theatres, cinemas, there is a fantastic place in chester called the story house, bringing together different activities and serving about 130 different community groups. it lives because of the combination of life happening there. how do you create opportunities for cross sector collaboration and for people to have an active role in making them thrive? kate, you run a retail trend consultancy, we are hearing a lot about experience and people wanting different things from their high—street, from how it used

to be, how do you envisage the future of where we are, what the high—street will look like? will the big names have gone? is the high—street dead as a lot of us have known? it is facing a perfect storm from all of the things we have heard about. rates being the major one. there are practical issues that are hitting physical retailers, but also the fact that as of about next year, in most countries in the west anyway, millennials, they will be the majority of shoppers and they are different to the previous generations. they are extremely keen online shoppers, they like convenience, they like pure optimisation that you get online. if you are shopping through a website and it is artificially intelligent, it knows who you are, what you like, it knows who you are, what you like, it offers you things it knows you like and it make sure it has an infa ntry like and it make sure it has an infantry appropriate to its target audience. utterly optimised. you

compare it to the physical store experience, you find, no, we haven't got it in your size, we could get it ina got it in your size, we could get it in a week. or it is more expensive. and you will have to queue, smelly changing rooms. sometimes it is brilliant, but it is not always an optimised experience. aside from all of those issues about brexit and prices going up, plus we have a declining middle class in the west. 61% in the 70s and now about 48% of the population, have a middle income. these were the people shopping at m&s and house of fraser and now there are fewer of those people. more people at the upper income end and a lot more people at the lower income and in that hasn't been reflected in the changes in the high street which if you think about it, it pretty much looks the same

now as it did 30 or 40 years ago. we love it but it has to completely change and if there is one big thing from a futurist point of view it is data. there is a reason why data a nalysts a re data. there is a reason why data analysts are the new rock stars, because you can't do anything business without fully understanding the data and then applying artificial intelligence.” the data and then applying artificial intelligence. i have never heard they are the new rock stars before! what is it that is so loved about what they are doing by retailers ? loved about what they are doing by retailers? because you have to have full optimisation in the same way as the physical store as millennial ‘s who are the major shopping group expects to have online, for example what is happening in china which is way ahead anything that is happening for us in retail, they know from people's search online what will be popular within a five mile radius of a particular store. and then that store only stocks the things that

those people are likely to want to buy. but you go there and it obviously has digital operations so you could order anything from the massive stock they have got and have it delivered within an hour, but the physical things they can fit in that small space are things that they know those local people will want to buy. bill, that obviously makes a lot of sense but it takes money and new expertise that obviously a lot of the old independent store owners on behalf of trade would necessarily have. does that mean that some simply won't be able to keep up and it is part of natural evolution?” think it is part of evolution. nothing is forever and the graveyard of retail is full of big names that we would all have said at the time they would never went up that way. i think competition will enable in fashion the likes of a source to come through and the marks & spencer 's and top shop didn't keep up they will have a problem. but the most

important thing we have heard this morning is this issue of destination that was mentioned earlier is clear, but it can no longer be retail as the destination, it needs to be something different about the town, and experience related to its heritage and the activities going on. i really welcome what was said from the local government association. i am very keen to work with you guys to help most of the local authorities are they take the leadership. they don't currently do that. talk to each other, how could you work together?” that. talk to each other, how could you work together? i am writing a terms of reference which i will actually give to you, i will give it to you at the end of this programme, a project which will help create a model for local authorities to take the lead, because... what do

something that local authorities could do which would materially make a difference to small retailers? not too small retailers. look to the community. they will take the lead. business improvement district improve businesses. community improvement districts improve communities and the people that will lead the local authorities to bring all the stakeholders together. they are doing it in scotland, the scottish town partnership has already got under way. i would explode in england and work with you guys explode in england and work with you quys “ explode in england and work with you guys —— i would like to do it in england. where local authorities can have a model to create the vision and business plan and implementation plan and finances that supported, and then that will drive the spatial plans that people are using today. i don't know why they are using them because they are not aimed at an ultimate proposition. towns need to compete as products and they need to

compete as products and they need to compete for traffic. that is the most important thing. i will bring tom brake by ken. we are hearing the need for lateral thinking and there are so many factors that are driving this change. do we just all have to get used to the fact that things are changing and we are going for brexit, i know you said you would like to change that but this is the way we are headed and there are lots of complicated reasons behind the picture. yes, but i think all the contributors are highlighting the fa ct contributors are highlighting the fact is that when someone decides to grasp this even within the constraints we are parading within, someone who has drive can make these changes, i suspect that one of the fundamental things that we need to make sure happens in our towns and cities is that we make substantial investment in our public spaces. i think if you look on the continent very often what is different is they

are investing very heavily in public spaces. my wife and i had thisjoke when we drive on the continent for you see a roundabout in france, where they have recreated a fake roman ruin in the middle of it. it isa roman ruin in the middle of it. it is a bit ofa roman ruin in the middle of it. it is a bit of a joke but they are fairly interesting very heavily and the quality of their public spaces and the way that often unfortunately in the uk we don't and we should do. another thing i wonder whether bill and others who are experts herewith, don is whether in fact on the continent there is a far greater number of independents on the high street than we have here and whether they are much more flexible, fast moving, can offer better quality, that into the market perhaps more effectively than the large chains that tend to dominate in our high streets. we are getting so many comments on this as you would imagine because everyone is affected by it. let's run through some of them. lorenzo as we did... three of

many reasons. ridiculous rent rates, traffic wardens, like of parking spaces. that is what is going the high street but the online industry hasn't helped but it is down to the high street to reinvent itself to create a better shopping experience. kevin on e—mail, a common sense solution. 0nline trading, equalise pricing. not a popular option in the studio anyway! 0r only have the option of quick and collect. this situation stems from greed and look at the consequence. some people have no choice but i am sure they source an alternative if it allowed a well—established business to carry on trading. an anonymous e—mail from shaftesbu ry on trading. an anonymous e—mail from shaftesbury in dorset... excellent shops are still going especially the butcher, baker, chemist but lack of clothing makes the —— barking makes the one supermarket popular. i admit i sometimes use the supermarket for my weekly shop because of parking.

saving high street tax... the high street supports many jobs saving high street tax... the high street supports manyjobs and pensions. supportingjobs street supports manyjobs and pensions. supporting jobs in the high street,... the high street has suffered not just high street,... the high street has suffered notjust from online shopping. years ago there was a huge migration to out—of—town large shopping centres. this has been happening over time. i come back to the point of it is notjust about retail. retail is an important element and that is part of the glue that brings people together. i would like to come back on the point of leadership. local authorities can play a really important role not just in leading and creating strategies but also in enabling and connecting and helping different sectors work together, giving communities a space in the high street for activities, services, but

thatis street for activities, services, but that is really about thinking outside the box and what can we do differently that fits our particular place, that helps this high street connect with the community and the townscape around at? we can think of the high street in isolation. for some people to the destination, for some people to the destination, for some people to the destination, for some people it is a route through, some people it is a route through, some people it is a route through, some people it isjust some people it is a route through, some people it is just part of the cityscape the dubstep into so how do you make them step into at? johnny come at you are a business owner and you have other interests with being a counsellor helping the regeneration, but with your small business owner hat on, as stressful as it when you are running a business and it difficult because of costs going up and everything else going on? running a shop is a lot harder than it looks. you have got huge demands with rent and rates in particular. you have got lots of pressures. however the reality is

independents are bringing apart and they have really got to do their best to attract customers. it is very important for independence to work together and i think you may experience in york, with independents, we have a group called indy york, we have a map that drives people towards independents i think if they do group together and work asa if they do group together and work as a collective they are very important part of the high street. 60% of shops are actually independents. the vast majority of shops. just before we wrap up i would like to read a statement from the government because it is talking about the importance of high streets and businesses and seeing the high streets of the future, it has been echoing this. they will still be commercial centres but consumers now look for a wider range of

experiences from leisure to health services, our future high experiences from leisure to health services, ourfuture high street might feature more homes, childcare centres and gyms to make people come back and ensure they keep returning and a panel of experts has been appointed to look at what is going on with the high street and try to make things better. so what will make things better. so what will make the difference this time around, bill? i don't think it'll make any difference. i think this is exactly what governments do, they wa nt to exactly what governments do, they want to be seen to be doing something, another review and then absolutely nothing happens. i have had enough of it. i have done two of and thundered the myself and i want to say the government now is time to do things. we have lots of recommendations, other reviews with good recommendations, let's work together and make the difference. quick final thought from lisa cameron because she is on the all—party parliamentary group on textiles and fashion and is exactly as auto group that is looking at how to make things better. when you hear ill say nothing is going to change,

have heard a bubble or, what do you say? it has to change. this is the time we have to grasp the nettle and make a change. both in textile and fashion all—party make a change. both in textile and fashion all— party group make a change. both in textile and fashion all—party group and the new towns and market towns group in parliament that they could share, butting in recommendations to the chancellor this autumn to have a key focus on new towns and market towns because we must start to support the excellent work that we have heard is already going on in local authorities with the business improvement districts and with the communities to make this whole experience for people and attract communities to reinvest and reinvigorate their new town spaces, there retail spaces, and their wider spacesin there retail spaces, and their wider spaces in retail to reinvent it, but we have to come together at this point now and work on these issues or else i am afraid the high street will become a ghost town and we can't have that as part of our legacy. the work must start in combination with the fantastic

organisations and businesses that are already some way down the line in terms of making this happen. thank you all. it has been great having your input this morning. great avenue here to talk about that and thank you all at home for your comments. keep them coming because we would go back to the subject throughout the rest of the subject throughout the rest of the programme. let's get the latest weather update with carole kirkwood. good morning. for some of us it has been a beautiful start. a weather front through northern ireland. behind on one of these pictures it has brightened up. it has brightened up has brightened up. it has brightened up in northern ireland yet, it will, but not immune to some showers through the day. there is still quite a bit of cloud around. also damp. ahead of the weather front in norfolk, lovely blue skies. you can see here were the weather front is, eastern and southern scotland, northern england, wales and the south—west. this is the cloud patchy lead rain and drizzle. it will

wea ken lead rain and drizzle. it will weaken and not be more than a band of god. behind it we will see some —— band of cloud. ahead of it for the midlands, central southern england and kent it will be sunny and hot. temperatures climbing up to 33 celsius. as we had gone through the course of the evening we will start to import more cloud from the english channel and we will start to see some thunderstorms our way. where we think they will form will be across parts of sussex, kent, essex, southwark and norfolk. they could clip london under way past and they could also get into cambridge and also south east lincolnshire before the clear away. then we are all there for the largely dry note, some clear skies and still about bringing showers in northern ireland and western scotland. it will be pressure for most, temperatures lower than this in rural areas exceptin lower than this in rural areas except in the south—east where we have one more night of it being muddied. tomorrow where we have acquired it will break and again

they will be some sunshine around, a week weather front will bring in some cloud and is showery at breaks of rain as it continues to drifted words. many in the south—east will miss it and many of us don't see the rain but where we do you will see some have your bursts. 0ne rain but where we do you will see some have your bursts. one thing you will certainly notice tomorrow especially in the south—east is the dropping temperature. today we could see 33, tomorrow some parts will see 23 or 24. as we head on into thursday still a lot of dry weather around, afair thursday still a lot of dry weather around, a fair bit of sunshine. again we have a weather front in the west producing some rank and then it looks like we will import some rain funding are confident across parts of kent and also east anglia. this might drift further west something we are watching. in between while we are looking at the bus and they, not as hot or muggy and temperatures roughly about 17 to 21. hello, it's tuesday, it's 10am, i'm joanna gosling. dramatic pictures show a woman

being pulled alive from a collapsed building on the indonesian island of lombok, as rescue workers continue to carry out a desperate search for survivors after a powerful earthquake killed almost 100 people. absolutely unbelievable what just happened. 0ne absolutely unbelievable what just happened. one week after the earthquakes. all the time moving under us. i have been living here for yea rs under us. i have been living here for years and never had anything like this happen before. we'll be speaking to survivors and rescue workers in lombok in the next hour. scientists warn extremely dangerous levels of climate change risks tipping the world into a hothouse state, as they say some places on earth could become uninhabitable within decades. and we'll be speaking to a leading climate scientist to find out what's causing the change and what can be done about it. also, we'll be speaking to a carpenterfrom devon who had £8,000 worth of tools stolen and reported it to the police

and they told him to go and solve the crime himself. here's ben brown in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the day's news. scientists have warned earth is in danger of tipping into a permanent hothouse state. a new report found continuing carbon emissions and the destruction of rainforests is putting the global climate at risk of irreversible changes. researchers said current plans to cut emissions may not be enough to avoid extreme temperatures and rising sea levels. rescue workers on the indonesian island of lombok are carrying out a desperate search for survivors of the powerful earthquake which has killed almost 100 people. aid charities are scrambling to the stricken area to provide food, shelter and water, as anxious families await news. the foreign office says it has heard from a number of uk holiday—makers trying to flee the devastation. president trump's sanctions

against iran have come into effect this morning. they were lifted by barack 0bama in 2015 in return for tehran agreeing it wouldn't develop nuclear weapons. the iranian government has condemned the move as psychological warfare. the sanctions target iran's purchase of us dollars, the trade in precious metals, and its car industry. a fresh row has broken out between the labour leadership and the backbench mp dame margaret hodge, despite the party dropping disciplinary proceedings after she publicly accused jeremy corbyn of being an anti—semite. labour sources said both sides had expressed regret. but lawyers for dame margaret said the party had misrepresented her to save face. a seven—year—old boy has been found dead following a house fire in deptford in south—east london. two women jumped from the first floor of the property in deptford before firefighters arrived, and were treated at the scene.

police are treating the fire as suspicious. the trial of the england cricketer ben stokes resumes this morning. yesterday the court heard how he mocked two gay men and threw a cigarette butt at one of them, before knocking two other men unconscious outside a nightclub in bristol in september. ben stokes and two other men deny affray. teenagers in scotland have been getting their results from their national and higher exams. more than 135,000 pupils sat exams. all students learned their grades by post, but about 59,000 also opted to receive them by text or email. theresa may will discuss brexit with scotland's first minister during a visit to the edinburgh festival today. nicola sturgeon has called on mrs may to rule out a no—deal brexit, and what she calls a blind brexit where the future trading relationship hasn't been agreed. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 10.30am.

thank you. see you later. do get in touch with us throughout the morning. 0ur our main subject so far has been the difficulties on the high—street. lots getting in touch to say it is things like car parking charges that make you not want to go. keep your thoughts coming in and we will revisit some later. use the hashtag #victorialive. if you're emailing and are happy for us to contact you — and maybe want to take part in the programme — please include your phone number in your message. if you text, you'll be charged at the standard network rate. let's get some sport now. holly hamilton is at the bbc sport centre. we start with the news that... arsenal's majority shareholder, stan kroenke, who owns 67% of arsenal, has made an offer to buy out the whole club. the announcement was made to the london stock exchange this morning. kroenke's company kse has said alisher usmanov has agreed to sell his 30% stake. the move has been met with derision from arsenal supporters,

many questioning the timing of the offer — just three days before the start of the new premier league season. the arsenal supporters club have described it as a dreadful day. with just four days until the start of their premier league season, chelsea's goalkeeper thibaut courtois hasn't reported for training. he missed monday's session and the club say they don't know when the belgian will return. he didn't feature in their community shield defeat to manchester city on sunday either. now, courtois is likely in spain where he was pictured in a tenerife local supermarket with some star—struck staff members yesterday. spanish giants real madrid are rumoured to be interested in signing him. serena williams has posted a lengthy statement on social media revealing the reason she's decided to take

another break from tennis. since returning to the tour, she had surpassed all expectations by reaching the final of wimbledon this year, butjust last week, she suffered the worst loss of her career in sanjose byjohanna konta. after announcing she would be withdrawing from the montreal tournament citing personal reasons. she's now admitted she's suffering from postpartum emotions. she posted on instagram, "i just was in a funk. mostly, i felt like i was not a good mom. we have all been there. i work a lot, i train, and i m trying to be the best athlete i can be." many have praised her comments, describing them as relatable and honest. and in the european championships, adam peaty is on the hunt for yet another gold medal. following success in the mixed medley relay last night, he was back in the pool this morning in the individual 50m breaststroke. that was the event he lost at the commonwealth games, but he's through comfortably to the semifinals, along with his gb team—mate ross murdoch. coverage is over on bbc two and on the website. this is the swimming

from toll cross in edinburgh. the swimming is ongoing there. and this is the athletics in berlin. we have had the decathlon long jump, coverage continuing of course on bbc two if you want to catch the latest. back to glasgow. this is the mountain biking, which has got under way today. it's the same venue that was used for the commonwealth games four years ago. britain's annie last is among the favourites. that's all the sport for now. more on the bbc news channel throughout the day. see you later. there have been two powerful earthquakes in the space of a week on the indonesian island of lombok and the neighbouring gilli islands. the most recent 6.9 magnitude quake, which took place on sunday,

is now known to have killed nearly 100 people and left at least 20,000 people homeless. tourists on the island of have camped out at the airport in their desperation to find flights home. rescuers are using heavy machinery to search for survivors, as aftershocks continue to hit the area. witnesses have described scenes of chaos and terror, with thousands of buildings damaged, and power and communication lines cut. aid agencies say the priority was to provide shelter for residents. well, joining us now is luke turner who was on his honeymoon in senggigi — the main tourist strip of lombok — when the quake struck. injakarta is thomas howells, director of programme implementation at save the children. dr laura gregory — a geologist who lectures at leeds university. thank you forjoining us. look, you we re thank you forjoining us. look, you were on your honeymoon, what happened? we did not have a honeymoon. we arrived on the sunday,

after a long flight, we were on the third floor of the catamaran resort in senggigi. we were getting ready to go out for a meal and the whole of the resort shook, violently. it was just terrifying. me and my partner grabbed each other, hid under the table, as the ceiling collapsed, the floor cracked, the glass and the tiles smashed to smithereens. it was just for. people we re smithereens. it was just for. people were screaming —— it was just horror. people had shards of glass stuck in their legs. the staircase had gone. the whole of the hotel had been demolished. flattened in the earthquake. then everybody... at the back of the resort, we had to run up

a very steep hill because of the threat of the tsunami. sorry. people we re threat of the tsunami. sorry. people were crying, being sick, the locals that had lost most of their livelihoods, they were worried about their own families. a lot of poor people in lombok and everybodyjust help each other. people do not realise, this has been really... it has been really devastating. still hundreds of british citizens and those of europeans stuck in lombok airport. we managed to get, i don't know how, they flight to jakarta which is where we are now, but the flight which is where we are now, but the flight was just awful. locals on their fleeing the island

flight was just awful. locals on theirfleeing the island in flight was just awful. locals on their fleeing the island in floods of tears, the most eerie flight, the horror is not over. it is like a giant refugee camp. the whole of the island. they have evacuated 20,000 people from the north. me and my husband,it people from the north. me and my husband, it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, we have not had a honeymoon at all, we just want to go back home. loved 1's own family have been supportive —— loved ones and family have been supportive. we have managed to stay with the same two couples, six of us from the uk, and we are in the same resort and we stuck with one another all this way. it has just been an absolute nightmare and it still is, still ongoing. the indonesian news have reported 30 earthquakes in total in

the last seven days. in the last 48 hours, after the major earthquake, we had 14 after—shocks, and people do not realise, but they are as violent as the actual earthquake itself. 0n the richter scale, they have measured between vital one and 5.4 and we have not had sleep the four days —— between 5.1 and 5.4. people have been screaming, running out of the accommodation. it has been a nightmare, it really hurts. thank you. you have described very clearly what you have been through and what people are still going through. let us bring in thomas, with save the children. talk about theissues with save the children. talk about the issues the charities right now on the ground. thank you. i think luke described while the situation on the ground and in terms of agencies like save the children, the situation is trying to get to people

in the most remote locations to provide them with the support they need. i have been on the phone to members of my team in a subdistrict which is around two hours ride by car from the main city in lombok. he is telling me there is extreme devastation on the road on the way, schools are damaged, buildings damaged. there is 1000 people in a makeshift camp in that village alone. we spoke to the children there and the children are really distressed, so the situation is very difficult and the challenge for us is about reaching those people in the hard to reach places, getting them that aid they need. they are saying they need food, water, shelter, as you mentioned in the report, that is absolutely critical. and also, for us at save the

children, having spoken to the children, we need structured activities to ensure they can process what has happened, some sort of social support services to the children affected. laura gregory, you are a geologist who studies earthquakes. what we are hearing is when some people have experienced an earthquake there is not just the immediate experienced an earthquake there is notjust the immediate impact but the beer afterwards of what might come. is it a —— beer afterwards. is it possible to predict things from now? unfortunately not but we definitely know what to expect after an event like this. it is quite complicated. there were two earthquakes. the second bigger one, it is probably related in some weight of the first one, they were very close. we can't exactly say whether that might happen again, the after—shocks that luke was

describing, totally expected but we can't say when they will happen exactly. we know they will keep happening for days, weeks, maybe even months, we can expect some after—shocks that people will feel. five or 5.5 is normal for this. after—shocks that people will feel. five or 5.5 is normalfor this. we might expect up to six. we had a 6.9, we might expect one around the 96, ten around and 95,100 around 94, as you go down day number but those are much smaller, they are worried about the bigger events. briefly because we have lots of people who have experienced this who we wa nt people who have experienced this who we want to talk to, but the fear of a tsunami, people have seen the impact of tsunamis in that region, we had one previously, in that region, we would understand why people would be terrified of that,

why no tsunami? what are the factors ? why no tsunami? what are the factors? that is a really good question. the last really big earthquake that happened in this region, in 1992 it was to the east of where this one happened, that was 97.9, going up the scale, this was 6.9, that was 7.9, that killed many people, so look on the island went up people, so look on the island went up to higher elevation and i know that was a horrible experience and very scary for everyone involved but that was the thing to do because they can't forecast immediately whether there will be a big tsunami following an earthquake like this. 0ne following an earthquake like this. one of the reasons there wasn't a huge wave, there was a small wave on the order of ten to 15 centimetres high, this was a little bit smaller than what we would say could generate a really devastating tsunami like what happened on boxing

day or injapan, those were both huge earthquakes and the ocean floor literally moves quite a lot in those big earthquakes to generate a wave, here it was just a little bit smaller but we still wouldn't be entirely sure. there are other things that can generate tsunamis like land sliding off the coastal sheu like land sliding off the coastal shelf which could make another big wave, so we will be looking at the data and investigating even more thoroughly what happened and is earthquake in the coming months and we might be able to save wider wasn't a big wave. thank you. i want to go to maxine, holly and blanche, they were all on holiday in lombok, i will let you all introduce yourselves and tell us what happened where you were and where you are now of the hello. we were on the way back to our hostel, when we saw

people running out of shops screaming and a man holding a baby, we immediately run towards the beach, and crouched on the floor, and huddled each other until it was over. you managed to get on a boat but it was a bit of a scrum. we did eventually the next day, we were on the beach for about nine numbers. —— nine hours. there were loads of people climbing on, families had been separated. locals were trying their best to help but there were so many people crammed on the beach, they were helping me with my bikes but then holly and blanche went behind and they couldn't move. then two men helped them to get to the side of the boat and climb up the side of the boat and climb up the side but they lost all the cases and

although stuff, we just had to pull herself up. we didn't know where the boat was going. we just needed to stay together. very glad you managed to come through it. thank you all for joining to come through it. thank you all forjoining us and thank you to our other guests as well. coming up... the world is at risk of tipping into a "hot house state". we'll be speaking to a leading scientist about the warning extremely dangerous levels of climate change could make some places on earth uninhabitable within decades. cleaners have held a noisy protest outside the headquarters of a government department after staging a strike over pay. it's the first—ever co—ordinated strike action by cleaners who are walking out simultaneously across five different sites in london for three days. the cleaners are mostly migrants and work at the ministry ofjustice, kensington and chelsea council, and private health providers. they're striking because they want to earn the london living wage —

£10.20 an hour — which is almost £2.50 more than the statutory national living wage they get at the moment. they are all employed by outsourced companies, but today kensington and chelsea council have told this programme they will be taking back the services currently provided by the contractor, amey, which employs the cleaners at the council. we can speak now to willan arias bermeo, who's a cleaner at kensington and chelsea council, petros elia, founder of the united voices of the world union, who have organised the strikes, and emma dent coad, labour mp for kensington. thank you all very much forjoining us. first of all, willan, tell us why you went on strike and tell us what your situation has been. my situation is very difficult because

we can live with the minimum wage which is very difficult. in my case i have to work very hard to get a good life, i can't say here, every day from monday to saturday i work 13 or 14 hours a day. it is very ha rd 13 or 14 hours a day. it is very hard and difficult. and how much do you earn? the minimum wage. £7.83. what does that mean in terms of managing your outgoings and what you have left at the end of that?” managing your outgoings and what you have left at the end of that? i pay my room which is £600 per month. i have to pay my transport as well, bills, also i have my parents and my sister in my country, i send some money to support, at the end of the

month for me to live here in london it is around £100. petros, you organised a strike, tell more about the picture. strikes are against poverty pay which they are paying the cleaners kensington and chelsea council as is the ministry of justice. they are all migrants like willan and they are leading the way and showing what can be done if workers come together if they organise and unionise and make demands collectively and the strikes are unprecedented and coordinated, across government departments, local councils and they are demanding a wage they can live on, that is it. it is risible. they are not earning enough to get by and they deserve a living page. that is why there are striking, because the demand had not been met. we have had statements but from kensington and chelsea council and also amie, which is the private

contractor. kensington and chelsea said they always seem to get value for money for residents and taxpayers and are not paid to play more very taxpayers and are not paid to play more very protector contract which clearly has the resources to pay strap appropriately, they do not control how much amie pay their staff but they will be taking back control of the services that they contractor us. amie has said they are fully compliant with the national minimum wage, we have a number of agreement with london councils to pay the london living wage, the royal borough of council and chelsea make no such request and with contact currently receives the national marrow wage. the royal borough can verify the contract with us to accommodate the introduction of the living wage. i was at fault here? most cleaning contractors are

very unscrupulous and will always seek to cut costs off the back of the lowest paid workers but kensington and chelsea council said the price and they decide the cleaners wages and terms of conditions... do they or do they just pay a fee to the contractor and they don't know whether the workers are getting the national wage? that is not the case. they are lying and claiming that wages are set by the contractor and claiming it is out of their hands to increase the queen's they sat down with the contractor at they sat down with the contractor at the start of the contract and decided exactly how much. they are implying they are not happy with the situation by saying they will take the contract away. absolutely and thatis the contract away. absolutely and that is testament to the collective action because that would not have been made had the clear is not made the decision to go out on strike and so we will combust news but not

committed to what the will be paid and what the conditions will be and we all know they can hardly be trusted with those kind of ambiguous statements. emma, what they want to see happening? we have been waiting for this for eight years. i was a counsellor for 12 years. we have been arguing the case for london living wage for many years and every time we have bothered to the council the argument has been we can't afford that, it will cost many millions a year to pay all the contracted workers the london living wage, we only have a few, so they are very aware wage, we only have a few, so they are very aware of wage, we only have a few, so they are very aware of the situation and are very aware of the situation and are also very are very aware of the situation and are also very aware are very aware of the situation and are also very aware that some people can't afford on this wage. the last comment we had when we brought up the budget comment, it can always ta ke the budget comment, it can always take an additional job the budget comment, it can always take an additionaljob which is what willan has done. this is not an answer. what they are saying now they will take it back later and

they will take it back later and they will take it back later and they will see, that isn't good enough. we have been arguing this for eight years. the council can afford it. they choose to spend money on other things and subsidised opera and all kinds of other things are the same amount but they won't pay people a decent wage solid i... eight years as a long time to be having an argument like this. what points were you making? were you making it forcibly enough? absolutely because labour councillors and i am still a counsellor as well as an mp are a minority so they can say no and they can take additional job minority so they can say no and they can take additionaljob or they can't afford it or that is what benefits are for, it is not good enough. they have to step up and ta ke enough. they have to step up and take responsibility. this is a council as we know who is very happy to value engineer on social housing as we have seen at grenfell tower and they say there has been a culture change, they have to show there has been a culture change and pay people a decent wage so they have the dignity of being able to

look after their families or send money home because if willan had children he would be really struggling. some workers have children and they really struggled to put food on the table. it is not acceptable. it is still a rich council. they haven't committed and they have to commit to that themselves and do it now. they have to stand for election and these are issues that have been around for some time. people know what they're for. interestingly one of the commitments that the council made a few years ago was to give people back their council money and council taxes for election and that cost than £7 million in one year. this is something they have wasted. some of the conservative voters. the point is that people are voting for... they can actually change the councils mind and it has to be quite a big swing to make people commit to radical political change. but a lot of conservatives said we don't want this £100 and we're giving it to

local charities so people were quite shocked by even conservative voters by what the council had decided to do and we are hoping today that having bought this to national attention some of the voters across kensington and decent people with or without money will stand up and say to the council we have to pay people a living wage, a proper living wage. the council say they are going to ta ke the council say they are going to take away the contract from amey, are you hopeful things will change? definitely it is going to change for us. we are fighting for this because we wa nt us. we are fighting for this because we want to live better here. how long have you been trying to make the point and do you feel like going on strike is the only thing that has made a difference? in my case, sorry, i am working for the company for three years, and during this time, we're waiting for that, so it

is like if this is our chance now, otherwise if we do not fight now, i think there is no hope for us. thank you all very much. still to come... he's claimed actors faked the sandy hook gun massacre, and that the 9/11 attacks were staged. now material from alexjones' controversial website infowars has been removed by several social media platforms. is it right or an attack on freedom of speech? and we'll be speaking to a carpenter from devon who got told by police to solve the crime himself after he reported £8,000—worth of tools had been stolen. time for the latest news. here's ben brown. president trump's sanctions against iran have come into effect this morning. they were lifted by barack 0bama in 2015 in return for tehran agreeing it wouldn't develop nuclear weapons. the iranian government has condemned the move as psychological warfare. the sanctions target iran's

purchase of us dollars, the trade in precious metals, and its car industry. rescue workers on the indonesian island of lombok are carrying out a search for survivors of the powerful earthquake, which has killed almost 100 people. aid charities are scrambling to the stricken area to provide food, shelter and water, as anxious families await news. the foreign office says it has heard from a number of uk holidaymakers trying to flee the devastation. scientists have warned earth is in danger of tipping into a permanent hothouse state. a new report found continuing carbon emissions and the destruction of rainforests is putting the global climate at risk of irreversible changes. researchers said current plans to cut emissions may not be enough to avoid extreme temperatures and rising sea levels. a fresh row has broken out between the labour leadership and the backbench mp dame margaret hodge, despite the party dropping disciplinary proceedings

after she publicly accused jeremy corbyn of being an anti—semite. labour sources said both sides had expressed regret. but lawyers for dame margaret said the party had misrepresented her to save face. theresa may will discuss brexit with scotland's first minister during a visit to the edinburgh festival today. nicola sturgeon has called on mrs may to rule out a no—deal brexit, and what she calls a blind brexit, where the future trading relationship hasn't been agreed. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. as we've heard earlier, a report released today is warning that the world is at risk of tipping into extremely dangerous levels of climate change, which could make some areas uninhabitable. the study comes amid a record—breaking summer heatwave in the uk and massive wildfires in many parts of the world. a team of international scientists say what we do in the next 10 to 20

years will determine whether our planet remains hospitable to human life or slides down an irreversible path to hothouse earth conditions. let's speak now to climate scientist martin siegert, a professor from imperial college london. thank you for coming in. is this different from warnings we have had previously? we have known previously that earth has so—called tipping points in the natural system, so that earth does not... bits of the earth do not work in isolation. the oceanis earth do not work in isolation. the ocean is influenced by the atmosphere, the ice is influenced by all of those things, and what we have learnt in the past is if you change one, you change something else, the domino effect happens. that earth goes into a different state. that earth has a very natural cooling system. the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be taken up to a degree by the oceans,

by plants, forests, photosynthesis, and any heat coming from the sun can be bounced off by the ice. if we change those things, increased the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere too much, the oceans might not be able to take it up so much, we reduced the level of the ice content, it becomes less reflective, so that earth's cooling system is quite complicated, integrated cooling system, it becomes less good and starts to becomes less good and starts to become the heating system. you go over the threshold, the tipping point, that earth stops trying to pull itself and it is just heating itself. we are experiencing really unusual levels of heat at the moment, is it anything to do with global warming? really difficult to ascribe a weather eventer climate change. but what it is certainly able to do is under climate change, the scenario of warming into the future and the 1 degrees warming we have experience in the industrial

revolution, we would expect warmer summers and more extreme rainfall events globally and those are the sort of things we are starting to see right now. can it be stopped? there are lots of governments doing things to try to change what will happen. we have already done a lot of damage to the planet, we have to understand that. the level of carbon dioxide was 280 parts per normal, the normal amount, before the industrial revolution. it is now 400, a consequence of burning fossil fuels and more than half of it is taken up by the oceans and the forest, they do is a big favour. what the study is saying is in the future, the oceans and the forests will be less good at doing it. we must reduce our emissions of carbon dioxide. the sooner we do it, the easier it will be. the longer we leave it, the more difficult and expensive it is. this paper is warning call for all of us to take note that climate change is

happening, we are starting to see the effects and we must get on with reducing global carbon emissions. how much progress is being made to reduce carbon emissions? a good question. slow progress but there is progress. the uk, we have experienced a decade of reducing carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth to a modest degree as well. we have broken the idea you cannot have economic growth and reduce carbon emissions. the climate change act is ten years old now. we have been world leaders. we must use the evidence we have and many other countries as well and redouble our effo rts countries as well and redouble our efforts in business and industry and the way we live and transport to decarbonise our entire economy. we have to do that in the next 50 yea rs, have to do that in the next 50 years, go from a fossil fuel intensive economy to a zero carbon economy. those are policy decisions. atan economy. those are policy decisions. at an individual level, is there

much we can do? there are lots of things we can do. all of us have a carbon footprint and you can go online and work it out and many calculators to that. we can use less energy, turned down the dial on the thermostat. we can save energy, cheaper electricity and gas bills, what is not to like? we can use public transport, use less planes. and start offset. we can ask our pension providers to start investing in renewable and clean technology, innovation is. lots of things as individuals we can do. in the end, the big difference is the big strategic changes and changes in technology? technology, one thing will not save us, that is important. no silver bullet. there is not a technology to save us. the solution to this is complicated, it will

involve lots of different things, individual action, involve lots of different things, individualaction, multiplied by millions of times, that is what we need, and also government action and business. all of that is required. innovation has a small part to play as well, but on its own, it will not solve it. we need all of the things together. martin, from imperial couege together. martin, from imperial college london, thank you very much. facebook, apple, youtube and spotify have all taken action to remove material produced by american radio host alex jones and his right—wing website infowars. alex jones is famous for creating, or repeating, conspiracy theories, and counts donald trump as a fan. some of his theories have got him into legal trouble. he has repeatedly claimed that the sandy hook school massacre was faked, and the 20 children who died there were child actors. parents of the children killed have filed a lawsuit againstjones for making this claim. sandy hook is a synthetic,

com pletely fa ke sandy hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured. icould completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured. i could not believe it at first, i knew they had actors there, but i thought they killed real kids, just shows how bored they are they clearly used actors. —— how bold. they used photos of kids killed in mass shootings here in a fake mass shootings here in a fake mass shooting in turkey. 0r pakistan. in the build up to the us presidential election in 2016, he perpetuated a theory that senior democrats were involved in a paeodophile ring involving a pizza restaurant in washington dc, which became known as the pizzagate conspiracy. 0k, ok, so, this video was on the nightly news on thanksgiving, one of our journalists put it nightly news on thanksgiving, one of ourjournalists put it together, five minutes long, and the headline is, pizzagate is real. the only

question is exactly what is it cost a lot but something with codes is going on. —— what exactly is it? a follower of this conspiracy was laterjailed for firing shots into the restaurant in question. jones has since apologized for promoting pizzagate. since founding infowars in 1999, jones has built a vast audience. among the theories he has promoted is that the 9/11 attacks were staged. he also claimed that the american government was putting chemicals in the drinking water supply in order to turn the population gay. the basis for that theory was a study from the university of california which found that a species of african frog could change from male to female when exposed to a certain pesticide. butjones didn't just tell the story that frogs were changing gender, he claimed the us government was deliberately creating homosexual amphibians. he is also a passionate defender of his right to free speech, as we can now see...

iam animated, i am animated, i am alive, my heart is big, it has hot plug going through it fast. i like to fight too. —— hot blood. i like to eat, i like to have children. i am here. i have a life force. this is a human. this is what we look like. this is what everybody was like before us. i ama what everybody was like before us. i am a throwback, i am here, i what everybody was like before us. i am a throwback, iam here, i have the fire of human liberty and i am setting fires everywhere and humans are turning on everywhere. now all but one of the major online content sharing platforms have banned alexjones in the wake of apple s decision to remove five ofjones' podcasts. jones immediately took to twitter to hit back at the tech platforms, accusing them of election meddling, and claiming that both the eu and china are behind the move to have his broadcasts removed from social media. ido i do not think president trump has been compromised, but he is

compromising himself if they do not make this the central issue. this is the central issue. this is the heart of the matter. this is it. they are making their move. i am quite honoured i have been chosen as the first they want to take out, you would take out the biggest and strongest upfront. i want to see you defeat this. spread the links. they can't stop you. let's talk to robert sharp from english pen, an organisation that campaigns for free speech, and karin robinson from democrats abroad, which is the overseas body for members of the us democratic party, and we can also talk to neil heslin, whose six—year—old son was killed at sandy hook. he is suing alexjones for defamation because of his claim that the deaths were faked. thank you all very much forjoining us. how do you feel when you hear what alex jones says about sandy hook? it is disturbing. it is

hurtful. it is disrespectful for my son, disrespectful... but the lies and the remarks and comments that are made, you are targeting people at their most vulnerable and at the lowest ti me at their most vulnerable and at the lowest time in their life, when they have lost a child under such publicised event. it is totally wrong. there is nojustification at all for it. it is bullying. it is hateful. it is just not right. all for it. it is bullying. it is hateful. it isjust not right. we have heard about families who were caught up in sandy hook being harassed as a result of what he has said. have you or yourfamily been directly impacted ? said. have you or yourfamily been directly impacted? yeah, there are a broad range of harassments that i am

aware of. be it online harassment, e—mail, blogs. personal confrontations. the list goes on and on and on. there was a woman in florida who was a follower of alex and she acted out with death threats towards individuals, family members of the deceased from sandy hook. the propaganda of the conspiracy theory, it is just propaganda of the conspiracy theory, it isjust a propaganda of the conspiracy theory, it is just a dangerous propaganda of the conspiracy theory, it isjust a dangerous practice. he has now been banned by lots of online platforms. what do you think about that? i think it is something that should have been dealt with by

the social media platforms and online platforms long ago. the damage has already been done, the damage has already been done, the damage is there. much of it is a reversible. —— a reversible. ifeel these social media platforms have a responsibility and obligation to uphold the standard ought to have a standard, and to allow bullying and conspiracy theories or hatred and that on their platform, it shouldn't be tolerated and it is just not alex's show, there are many other people out there who peddle their lies and propaganda, but he is definitely one of the major, major players out there. stay with us because i want to bring in our other guests now. karin, alexjones has

perpetuated several conspiracy theories about democratic figures in washington. how significant figure is he? a few years ago i would have said he was a nonentity but he has the ear of the president of united states unfortunately so we have to ta ke states unfortunately so we have to take him seriously. the important thing about alex jones's holy offensive conspiracy mongering and rhetoric, it is entirely untrue and not factual and not just controversial, provably untrue. we have plenty of evidence that none of these conspiracy theories is to place anything like what he is talking about, invented, developed very, they are attacking individual people, extremely disturbing allegations that are untrue, pizza gate being one example which was

completely made up, they took the idea that e—mails are people going toa idea that e—mails are people going to a pizza restaurant and turned that into a coded cancerous seat suggesting it was a paedophile ring, there was no basis. the third dangerous element is that he publishes the personal details of individuals he is attacking and his followers have been lodging death threats and showing up at people's homes. 0ne threats and showing up at people's homes. one of my —— one of the sandy hook families, my heart goes out to kneel, i don't know how they make their voices heard after being the victims of so much violent attacks against family and then being bullied and harassed on top of that, one of them has had to move home seven times since their son was killed in sandy hook because every time their move their address gets busted and they get harassed. they haven't been able to visit the grave of their son since they buried him

so this is real damage caused to real people. it is, alexjones was in violation of these platforms' terms and conditions for many years so it is not a change in policy. what is happening is they are now enforcing their policy and i welcome it. robert sharp commit your organisation campaigns for free speech, how do you see him being barred from these platforms?” speech, how do you see him being barred from these platforms? i think where we draw the line with free speech, or at least whether censorship is permissible is when it starts to violate other human rights. it is clearly what is going on here. alexjones and infowars is violating neal's right to a private life, he is dangerous, people are becoming violent because of what he says and so this is one of the occasions where i don't think we would defend the right to free speech in this case. the concerns i think that i would have, and i

should say should back the fact that i absolutely abort everything that alexjones stands i absolutely abort everything that alex jones stands for and says, i absolutely abort everything that alexjones stands for and says, but the concern is the implications and long—term implications of social media companies, executives sitting in silicon valley deciding who gets to participate in public debate and there could be a slippery slope when there could be a slippery slope when the principles applied to alex jones start getting applied to a wider group of people. he is saying we are now alex jones all of us because this is an attack on free speech.” guess he is harking back toje suis charlie. he says if you support free speech you support alex jones. yes

and it is really annoying first free speech activists that we have to talk about this. i don't think we are all like alexjones. talk about this. i don't think we are all like alex jones. they don't think he is comparison to other free activists who english pen work with around the world who are bravely standing up against some really powerful totalitarian forces in this country, what alex jones powerful totalitarian forces in this country, what alexjones is putting out is quite cowardly, sol country, what alexjones is putting out is quite cowardly, so i don't think that we should slip into that kind of language. but does they say, there is this concern —— as i say, one thing that is really important to emphasise if this isn't legal censorship, the us government had not been involved, this is private companies enforcing their own terms and conditions which as karin was saying that

—— you're concerned about having the right to censor is here. but presumably they have taken so long to do it because of the sensitivities around free maybe they should step in more quickly and not worry about that. one thing that would be really good is if this social media companies had much better clearer, less ambiguous terms and conditions, that goes for governments as well, the british governments as well, the british government has on our statute some very ambiguous laws around offence and what constitutes extremism which creates a kind of ambiguity in the law and a huge grey area where fake news can flourish, extremism can flourish, and it would be good if the first thing that social media could do is clarify their terms and conditions a bit better i think. thank you all very much. thank you

especially to neil heslin joining thank you all very much. thank you especially to neil heslinjoining us from the united states. now, if you have thousands of pounds worth of stuff stolen, the first thing you'd do is report it to the police, isn't it? how would you react if the police then told you to go and solve the crime yourself? well, that's what happened to carpenterjulian lory after he had tools worth £8,000 stolen from a community hall in devon while he was fixing a roof. the police gave him a crime reference number, but because there was no cctv or witness and he wasn't deemed vulnerable, he didn't meet the threshold to send an officer out. instead, julian says he was told to see if he could generate a line of inquiry himself by going door to door. this is julian's first tv interview about the incident. he'sjoining us from our exeter studio. thank you very much, julian, for joining us. run us through exactly what the police said when you cold. they just said they weren't going what the police said when you cold. theyjust said they weren't going to send an officer out. they would give mea send an officer out. they would give me a crime reference number and the

fight went banging on people's stories in the local area and generate a line of enquiry myself that they would try and see things further, i can do that because there is no one that lives there. how did you feel about the idea of having to go door to door anyway? not really overly keen on it to be fair. you might geta overly keen on it to be fair. you might get a bad reception of someone or something, it is not my idea of fun. you might not on the door of the person that had taken the stuff. yes, very possible. i should imagine it was someone local but for them to know we were there in that short space of time. what did you think about the police saying to you want to knock on the door is and you don't what you're going to get.” wasn't overly impressed to be honest but there is not really a lot i can do about it. did you feel it was putting you in a position where you might be vulnerable?”

putting you in a position where you might be vulnerable? i am in a sense, because i can't feed my family properly at the moment. i had to save just because i can buy the type —— by the tools back that were stolen. he didn't get it on insurance because they window had been left open. the insurance company said i was essentially letting them have my tools even though i didn't have a key to lock the property. obviously then someone got into the building. what they could have done to generate a line of enquiry is dusting for finger prints, was there any suggestion that be done? there was no suggestion of that. i don't think they were interested to be honest. could you have dusted to fingerprints? do you think you might have suggested that? well... there was no suggestion of it. it was brought up in a meeting i had at the village hall but nothing has gone any further. it was suggested

locally that you might take it into your own hands and dust for fingerprint is? not ourselves because we don't know how to do it but we did to a police officer the phone. and what did they say? they said it is not going to happen. the police have said they were working to national guidelines because there was no cctv and witnesses and the victim was not vulnerable and the crime did not think the threshold foran crime did not think the threshold for an officer to investigate. what would you do next time if your stuff gets stolen? i don't know. i'm trying not to let it get stolen again. it isjust one of trying not to let it get stolen again. it is just one of these things. there are so much of it happening around this area. if you look on social media in the local area it is thousands and thousands getting stolen. 0bviously area it is thousands and thousands getting stolen. obviously the police aren't doing anything about it and it is just getting it worse because it is just getting it worse because it is just getting it worse because it is basically punish pernicious crime. —— here is something to cheer

us all up. a fin whale was beached on isla contoy near cancun in mexico before some people came to its rescue. take a look at this. heart—warming. a couple of quick comments on the comments about free—speech. 0ne says regarding social media blocking infowars censorship by the establishment, and poll on facebook says this man is spewing lies and conspiracies from his evil puppet. thank you for your company today. have a good day. bbc newsroom live is coming up next. good morning. temperatures across

the south—east of england will once again rise above 30 celsius. we could see 30 to 33 in the south—east. much pressure conditions the further north and west you go. beautiful abbess their so far this morning in the south—east, sunshine continuing into the afternoon across those south—eastern areas. further north and west we have got more cloud at the moment, so is affecting scotla nd cloud at the moment, so is affecting scotland and narrow and into northern england and wales. here there was to be some sunny spells this afternoon. temperatures about 17-23 but this afternoon. temperatures about 17—23 but we hold onto the hedonism teased. 32 or 33 this afternoon. this evening showers moved through a fully across the south—east of england before clearing away into wednesday morning. temperatures overnight low across northern areas but it will turn fresher for all of us during wednesday even across the south—east. a dramatic drop in

temperatures. by about 10 celsius in the south—east of england. 23 on wednesday. elsewhere a mixture of sunny spells and showers. highs in the high teens and low 20s. this is bbc news. i'm these are the top stories developing at 11:00. iran's president condemns sanctions reimposed by the us overnight as ‘psychological warfare'. rescuers search for survivors in a mosque on the island of lombok — following the powerful earthquake that killed almost 100 people. a northern california wildfire has been declared the largest in the state's history, as president trump blames environmental laws for its spread. and the heatwave has given plenty of opportunity

for enjoying the outdoors, but what about the impact on our parks? concerns are raised over the rise of littering in public spaces as people make the most of the hot weather. and a warning to young men to be careful at the seaside — the rnli says they're more at risk of getting into trouble in the water