india nor the weather could make england wait. and finally, tiger woods, who hasn't won a major for 10 years, is three off the lead in the final round of the uspga championship in missouri. you can follow that on the bbc sport website. tributes have been paid to the writer sir vs naipaul, after his death in london at the age of 85. born in trinidad, he made his home in the uk and was awarded the nobel prize for literature for books including a house for mr biswas, a bend in the river and in a free state. today, both salman rushdie and paul theroux called him one of the greatest writers of their time. our arts correspondent david sillito has been looking back at his life. the bookcase had been made at short hills by an out of work blacksmith, who wished to show his gratitude to mr biswas... a house for mr biswas, in 1961, truly established vs naipaul‘s reputation, and also reflected his own complex life story. born in trinidad, educated

in oxford, his roots, the indian workforce of the caribbean plantations. he was, he said, a writer without a home. i think we now all of us, all of us can carry five, six, nine, ten, even 20 ideas of who we are. because the world is no longer, and probably has never been, that tribal a world. that background helped bring a new voice to the story of end of empire. 1971's in a free state won the booker prize. its journey from india and the caribbean to africa combined beautiful writing and some brutal observations. in 2001, he was awarded the nobel prize for literature, but sir vidiadhar could also be gruff, prickly — he was not afraid of upsetting people. he didn't try to keep the worst aspects of his earlier behaviour away from the sight of the biographer. in the end, it's not

the personality traits, rather it's the books, the works of literature, that will endure. the writer, salman rushdie, said even though they'd disagreed all their lives, he felt he'd lost a beloved elder brother. this scholarship boy from trinidad, who'd arrived in oxford in the 50s was always something of an outsider looking in. his gaze could be unforgiving, but it was almost always worth reading. to understand me, you've got to know that writing is the most important aspect of my life. so, it's a kind of magic. it's a kind of magic. sir vs naipaul, who's died at the age of 85. a first look at tomorrow's newspapers is coming up on the news channel, but now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. goodbye. there have been spells of sunshine

around, parts of wales, south—west england and northern ireland, but the lion's share has been shetland and 0rkney, because they've been to the north of these grunts, which continued their slow process eastwards. further spells of rain and also some locally heavily and thundery showers pushing east through wells and into england. behind them, we'll see a few clearer spells developing across parts of wales, south—west england and northern ireland. the chance we could catch the peak of the perseid meteor shower. some clearer spells for the far south of scotland but meanwhile, across central and northern scotland, that rain will continue to fall, and it won't be a cold night — temperatures falling to between 10 and 15 celsius as the overnight low. speaking of low, here's our area of low pressure to start monday morning. still lingering along the eastern coast of scotland and england, and still generating some showers,

maybe some longer spells of rain and still a rumble of thunder. slowly, they'll start to ease away eastwards and, for most, it's a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers, which could still be heavy and thundery if you catch one. different story for scotland. still a lot of cloud, outbreaks of rain trying to work their way northwards, but tending to fizzle out as the day wears on. the best of the sunshine once again across shetland — temperatures here 15 celsius, 16 to 19 for much of scotland, 20 for northern ireland and 20—23 for england and wales. it's central, southern and eastern parts of england which will see the best of the sunshine on tuesday. further north and west, more cloud. some showers likely for northern ireland, western and northern parts of scotland, maybe for northern england as well. where you've got the showers and a noticeable breeze, temperatures only getting up to 18 or 19 celsius, but 25 or 26 in the sunshine across south—east england. here's how it looks tuesday into wednesday. we still have that influence from off the atlantic and still this front lingering, bringing further showers and longer spells of rain into northern ireland, scotland and northern england. so always quite cool and breezy, with a chance of some showers

here through wednesday and thursday. drier further south and east, but eventually something fresher arriving through thursday and into friday. so, for much of this week, it's going to be windy at times. some showers along with spells of rain, but warmest and driest in the south—east. bye— bye. hello. this is bbc news with chris rogers. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment. first the headlines. saudi arabia defends its airstrike on yemen as action against houthi rebels. the un has called for a credible inquiry into the deaths of a0 children who were on a school bus. a shooting at a street party in manchester's moss side area is being treated as attempted murder after 12 people, including two children, were wounded. police believe a shotgun with pellets was used in the incident. nasa's daring solar probe mission has successfully launched from cape canaveral in florida, after the launch was called off yesterday. the mission will analyse the sun's atmosphere for the first time.

and the click team meet france's very own rocket man. that's in 15 minutes here on bbc news. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are anne ashworth, associate editor of the times, and john rentoul, chief political commentatorfor the independent. nice to see you both again, regular faces. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the financial times leads with the situation in turkey, and that photo shows the parker solar probe launch launching from cape canaveral. the i has a warning from the head of a higher education watchdog

who says more should be done to protect the mental health of students. the metro shows forensic officers combing for clues in the south of manchester yesterday after 12 people were shot at by a gunman. the express reports that new research shows the death of the high street is being speeded up by the growing tide of bank closures. and the daily telegraph leads with borisjohnson calling for theresa may to slash stamp duty. plenty to talk about tonight, isn't there, a real mix of stories. turkey leads in the financial times. some people would say its economic crisis, which it blames america on, isn't for us to worry about, it's tu rkey‘s isn't for us to worry about, it's turkey's problem, giving us cheaper holidays. it can affect all of us, and the crisis is deepening, and president erdogan seems to be in a state of denial. why? he thinks it's

going to sort itself out, he doesn't wa nt to going to sort itself out, he doesn't want to raise interest rates, which he should do to stop the plunging currency. it's great if you are going on holiday in turkey, but it's down 40% against the dollar since the beginning of the year, which is some slight. this is largely because of the tariffs imposed by america. and a huge number of corporate and companies in turkey have dollar—denominated debt, which they have to pay back. his short—term debt and its costing them a lot of money to repay that, and it's causing a great deal of nervousness and, of course, the stand—off with trump, who was friendly with erdogan and now we seems to be alienated from him, and what should happen is they should put up interest rates. erdogan doesn't want to do that, and once upon a time in turkey somebody would have taken that decision

independently, but now he's put his son—in—law in charge of the central bank, which is responsible for such things. he is centralising power in an extraordinary way. particularly since the election victory. the ta riffs have since the election victory. the tariffs have been imposed particularly on turkey because of this pastor that was arrested for his alleged involvement in the coup. he is pretty much arresting anyone that was involved. yes, and there is a clash between the two strongmen, president trump and president erdogan. they both sort of have big egos, want to be seen to be defending their countries, but they are getting into precisely the sort of things that led to the depression in the 305, competitive tariff5 of things that led to the depression in the 305, competitive tariffs and defying, a5 anne was saying, plain economics. let's remind ourselves, turkey has always been referred to

as the gateway to asia or europe. it's an important trade centre. yes, idid wa5 it's an important trade centre. yes, i did was on track to become a memberof the eu i did was on track to become a member of the eu once. it was obviously quite a long way from it, but over the last decade it has been moving in the wrong direction, and that'5 moving in the wrong direction, and that's quite 5eriou5, because it means that it's moving away from the orbit of 5en5ible economics and progre55. orbit of 5en5ible economics and progress. the express reports on financial news closer to home, our own high street. it says that banks are in the firing line over high street crisis. it's often amazon and other internet outlets that are blamed for retailers closing on the high street in the express saying that if the banks. how did they get to that conclusion? the closure of bank branches mean5 to that conclusion? the closure of bank branches means there is less traffic. fewer people coming into the high street and the town centres... it'5 mainly about market

town5 centres... it'5 mainly about market towns and smaller place5. if you don't coming to bank your earnings. .. don't coming to bank your earnings... what don't coming to bank your earnings. .. what group don't coming to bank your earnings... what group and post offices, they've closed. librarie5 have close. there is a knock—on effect on retail and people are no longer coming to the town centre to go to the bank, so they don't visit other shops, and there is a cost to the high street. what they focused on rather well here is the town of burslem, a proud potteries town, which is becoming a wasteland. in a more affluent place, a gorgeous victorian bank branch gets reopened asa victorian bank branch gets reopened as a private members club or a nice restau ra nt, as a private members club or a nice restaurant, but is that going to happen? no. it seems to me that there are big questions to be asked here, a decade after the financial crisis. we bailed out the banks as taxpayers, and people are going to start to look to them for, perhaps,

a bit more help. if you close the bank branch, you kill the high street. it's interesting, i was in spaina street. it's interesting, i was in spain a couple of weeks ago and they seemed to have more bank branches opening in town centres, bank branches that are rather different, with a kind of cosy, almost kind of drop in feel with a kind of cosy, almost kind of drop infeelare with a kind of cosy, almost kind of drop in feel are encouraging people to come into their bank rather than feeling... maybe they've got to come up feeling... maybe they've got to come up with whatever attractions to the high street. where i live, there was a farmers market on the saturday, there are events. we have to rethink how the high street works. 0xford street, the busiest high street in europe, with tourism, we've got big retailers closing down. they can't operate. there are not enough people coming to any high street. operate. there are not enough people coming to any high 5treet.|i operate. there are not enough people coming to any high street. i think it'5 coming to any high street. i think it's a classic daily express campaign, a sort of sad campaign, in defence of how things used to be,

trying to hold the tide of change. it doesn't have to be the death of the high street, wejust it doesn't have to be the death of the high street, we just have to rethink it for the and these places could be housing for the maybe you could be housing for the maybe you could turn that branch which they picture in the express, a rather gorgeous building, into flats. and there was a lot of that going on, but they are so expensive. will it happen in places with blight spreading down them? let's take us away from it all, back to the ft for the let's take ourselves a long way away, towards the sun. i think this is an exciting story, and it's amazing these probes can take us anywhere in the universe. do you get excited by its face stuff? god, yes! set the controls to the heart of the sun! all of this extraordinary... kids are excited about it. people

wa nt to kids are excited about it. people want to read good news, and we are going to find out about the winds around the sun... i hope it's good news. i hope the sun isn't going to kill us off sooner than we think! they will be getting a lot of data. and donald trump is setting up his owfi space and donald trump is setting up his own space force! quickly, we've got 40 own space force! quickly, we've got a0 seconds, borisjohnson is on the front page of the daily telegraph. don't give him any more publicity! he wants to cut the housing disgrace, and he sticks to move on from the burqa row, nobody else is moving on, but the telegraph are keen to give him a chance, no guesses why! the daily boris graf! it's a clever device to have a go at the housing crisis as soon as he isn't in government and responsible for it and anne and john will be back at 11.30 for another look at the papers. next on bbc news, it's click.

the sun is shining, the temperature's soaring and the robomows are mowing. the science says we are going to have more and more of this weather in the future and fortunately the uk heatwave is less punishing than in much of the rest of the world. so we've done the typically british thing of dressing inappropriately and letting our robots get on with the work. they do know this is astroturf, don't they? and stephen beckett has been cooling off the only way that he knows how. welcome to therme erding. nestled in germany's bavarian countryside, this one of the largest thermal baths in europe, the perfect place to relax, have a drink, maybe even do a little pool yoga. oh, and did i mention, there's also 27 waterslides?! there's a water slide, there's another one, that's a water slide too.

yes, this is also europe's biggest waterslide park. but with a,500 people visiting here every day, is 27 slides enough? what if you could change the slides at the flick of a switch? it's time to get my swimming trunks on for some serious journalism. to go on one of the newest rides in the park, i will need more than my togs and a tube, though, i will need one of these. i'm going backwards! it was actually amazing. i was a bit sceptical.

i think i need a bit of practice, i was going backwards, i was going forward, i didn't feel totally in control. essentially, i went down that slide with my eyes shut. i am no slide connoisseur but that was a pretty good slide. and because it's a vr slide, how about sliding through the snowy mountains, outer space, or this alien planet? that's four virtual slides all packed into the twists and turns of one real slide. sometimes people, especially older ones say, i like it more without glasses, because they are overloaded with the system, but the young people, the kids and the young people and families we have here, about 10—29, they like it and they love it and they say it's the best thing they ever did in their life and so now we get about more than 50,000 visitors used the vr. normal landblubbing vr headsets have already got a bit of a rep for being complicated to use so getting the aquatic version to work well every day was a big challenge. yes, it was very difficult, the first thing we have to convince the owner that we want to do it. and we made the first tries,

and then the owner of the therme erding tried it and after two tries, he was sick and he said, no, i don't like this, i don't want. because the difficulties, if you go on the slide on the left side, and in virtual reality, you go on the right side, you get this motion sickness. and to see how they solved that problem, first we need to get rid of some of this water. all along this slide are these sensors and that is so the virtual reality headset knows exactly where you are, at exactly the right time, because you want what you're seeing to be the same as what you're feeling. get it wrong and you could end up feeling a little bit sick. stephen greenwood and his team spent months building and, crucially, testing the system. we did hundreds of tests going down the slide, each one of us has ridden the slide hundreds of times, because we had to make sure that we got it right. just off for a dip. stephen's next plan is to take the vr off the slides and into the wild. so this is a diving mask version

of the same thing i tried earlier. there's a phone in there, so you've got a virtual reality headset. you can also dive. the idea with this is that people who need to practise diving, like equipment repairers or even astronauts, can train in one of these, but i'm just going to go to a shipwreck. when you combine that sensory feeling of being in a different environment, with a completely virtual world over your eyes, it's a powerful combination. i think there is huge potential for military and marine technician training. these prototypes still need some work. for me, the image wasn't perfect and, more importantly, the waterproof phone that is hidden inside only knows where you're looking, not where you're moving. solving that problem is the next big challenge and, in terms of the slide, well, they've got plans for that too. we are considering adding more features, like sound

and other sensory elements. i think there is a big therapeutic factor. i think that there is a lot that we can do with physical therapy, meditation, rehabilitation, and some of the psychological benefits that you can have from just floating in water and having a relaxing experience in front of your eyes. it sounds like this could just be the start of aquatic vr. until then, though, i think the best i can do is just help out with the testing. wow, steve, that seemed like a really tough assignment. it was hard, i went low, it was difficult, i did it for you guys. well done, yes. so you've done a lot of work with vr over the last two or three years and it seems at the moment we are talking more about vr coming to these theme park areas than to the living room. the thing is, headsets are still quite expensive, they are getting cheaper but they are quite expensive and are still difficult to use so in a themepark environment, it can be controlled and managed and this is the thing, not everyone has a rollercoaster or a waterslide in their home. that's true, yeah. it does seem that adds to the experience, doesn't it?

it adds to the senses because vr doesn't do that at the moment. the promise of vr that we see in sci—fi films and all that sort of thing is that vr will totally immerse us, it will fool every single sense of our body, but at the moment vr only fools two senses, oui’ eyes and oui’ ears, and it doesn't do that particularly well so maybe this is a way, the first step to fooling our other senses, our sense of motion, and our sense of touch. did you enjoy it, stupid question? i did enjoy it. i had reservations about going down down the slide with my eyes closed but once you get over that, it's fun, it's good. well done, take a long deserved break, it was arduous. it's been hard. we've been in the water — time to go for a bike ride now. gone are the days when you could just slap on a cycling helmet, and pootle around the roads and the cycle paths. these days you have to load up with the latest cycling tech. it's the law, and that's what lara lewington has been doing with the help of click‘s own boss, simon. meet simon — a regular cyclist

and the editor of click. first off is the coros smart cycle helmet. it connects your mobile phone via bluetooth and, thanks to bone conduction technology, you can hear any sound that you want from your phone — that can be directions or music — without blocking out the sound of the road around you. be safe. thank you. it can be controlled via a remote or its app, which allows you to save routes and share data with friends. it also has a wind—resistant microphone designed for calls, if you consider chatting on the phone while cycling is a good idea, that is. we had a nice chat on the phone there, the sound was amazing. it was so clear. definitely the best thing i've tried on a bike like that, just in terms of the quality of the call. with this, you've got the added dimension of making sure

that the bone conduction things are in exactly the right place. it's quite a feeling. getting jawbone right is always a difficult one and with this, really after a couple of weeks of trying to perfect it, to get the perfect signal, you kind of have to get it so tight you are almost garrotting yourself. when i'm in the middle of london and there is loads of traffic, it's kind of difficult to hear, i suppose, but i guess some people would say, it's better to hear the traffic than it is the music anyway. this is r—pur, an antipollution mask for cyclists and motorcyclists. the replaceable filters claim to keep pollution, pollen and viruses and bacteria at bay and, based on where you've been cycling, the app will access pollution data and figure out when you need to replace the filter. you looks slightly menacing in that. it's also 30 degrees in london today. it's pretty hot, yeah. it's better than some i have tried,

i have to say, in that regard. it's a lot more comfortable than some i've tried before. and it's a slightly nicer design, perhaps. that said, it's very expensive compared to other masks. how about the idea that it connects to an app and aims to track the pollution that you're going to be encountering? to me, that sounds like a classic bit of tech overdesign. really, i think you can use commonsense a little bit to know when to change filters. finally, we have blinkers which are claimed to be the next generation of bike lights. they can shine a laser light in the street and they also provide the normalfunctions you'd expect from a light but the question is, are they any better? they are all yours to give a go. so the conclusion? you've got the brake light, which lights up as you slow down, presumably because it's got an accelerometer, which is really impressive and, when you're a cyclist, you do worry that people not noticing when you're coming to a halt.

left—right indicators — there are so few cyclists who use that as a method of indication. i don't think i've ever seen any, to be honest, and the instructions say, don't rely on this on its own, you've also got to use your arm. i'd worry that i'd have too much stuff to think about, almost. that would concern me. they are very, very bright lights. there is almost an arms race in cycle lights today — they get brighter and brighter — and these are very impressive even in daylight. that's it for the short cut of our summer sizzler for this year. i hope you've enjoyed it and don't forget the full—length version is up on iplayer for you to watch right now, if you fancy. we live on facebook and on twitter. after such an intense summer of sport, next week we are going to look back at some of the new tech that's been brought into play in the last few months.

and we will leave you with one more thing which we hope illustrates the perils of filming someone going down a vr waterslide. enjoy this, our cameraman, nick, certainly did. laughter. heavy and locally thundery showers tonight, particularly in parts of england and wales, slowly working their way eastwards. behind it, clearer skies in northern ireland,

wales, south—west england and a chance to see the perseid meteor showers. further north, cloudy with outbreaks of rain. it will not be a cold night. still some showers or longer spells of rain around tomorrow morning, particularly in central and northern scotland, gradually pulling north. some heavy and potentially thundery showers on the east coasts in the morning. they pull away, with sunny spells and sharp showers behind. temperatures up sharp showers behind. temperatures up to 23 in the best of the sunshine and a cooler feel in scotland, 15 to 19. through the week, the outlook is for further showers and spells of rainfor for further showers and spells of rain for scotland and northern ireland. driest and warmest in england and wales. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11pm. this is bbc news. i'm chris rogers. the headlines at 11:00pm: saudi arabia defends its air strike in yemen, after the un calls for an independent investigation into the attack on a school bus in which dozens of children died. police in manchester say a shotgun was probably used in a shooting in the city's moss side area last night.

12 people, including two childern, sustained pellet—type injuries. two, one, zero. lift—off. nasa's space probe begins its ambitious seven—year journey to the sun, after it finally takes off from cape canaveral. hundreds of british troops arrive in kabul to support the afghan army in its conflict with the taliban. a remembrance service is held to mark the 20th anniversary of the 0magh bombing.