the world's most liveable city. it's the first time a european city has topped the rankings of the annual survey, by the economist intelligence unit. manchester saw the biggest improvement of any european city, rising by 16 places to rank 35th. manchester's rise puts it ahead of london in the rankings by 13 places, the widest gap between the two cities since the survey began two decades ago. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. what we are seeing this week is a typical weather pattern of this time of year, no big area of high pressure keeping it dry, hot and sunny, instead a strongerjet stream closer to the uk, the weather coming in from the atlantic, over the next few days some bands of clyde will bring rain down from the north—west. today we've had some rain it's been affecting northern ireland and here in scotland as well the rain continuing to push its way east so we are seeing improvement in the weather across western scotland with most of the rain in eastern parts

running into the far north of england. for most of england and wales it will be dry with a little bit of sunshine on what has been a cloudy picture across most areas. a lot of dry weather, the far north, bit damp over some of the hills of wales, highest temperatures in the south east, those temperatures similarto south east, those temperatures similar to those we had yesterday. by similar to those we had yesterday. by the evening in most places will be dry, but i think as we head to the night so we are going to find a bit more rain and drizzle coming back into northern ireland, the far north of england and aggressively —— especially across the west of scotland. for tomorrow we start drive for england and wales, sunshine here and there, we will start to see a bit more rain gathering from the north—west pushing into scotland, could be a burst of sunshine here and there, probably dry for most of the day no across northern ireland, rain crossing the irish sea into the north—west of england and wales with the highest temperatures further east where it will be further dry

with some sunshine. 25 maybe even 26. if you wonder where all the real heat has gone and it's across the channel and temperatures are 31 in paris. this weather will take brain size over night and into thursday and behind it we draw down a more north—westerly breeze and that will bring colour and fresher air. for thursday the rain more across the south—east of england and east anglia, but i get sunshine following, increasing number of showers as you head towards scotland and northern ireland in particular. across the board temperatures will bea across the board temperatures will be a bit more low on thursday, it will feel a bit more cold. another weather system coming in from the atlantic, bringing most of the rain from the north—west of the uk, most of england and wales away from the north—west, some sunshine, the best of that in the south—east and here temperatures are lifting just a bit again advertised 232a. a reminder of our main

story this lunchtime. a man from the birmingham area is arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after a car crashes outside the houses of the houses of parliament, injuring several people. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon, it's 1:30pm and here's your latest sports news: andy murray's comeback from injury suffered another setback last night. he lost in three sets to lucas poulle in the first round of the cincinnati masters. it's only his fourth tournament since he returned to the circuit and he says he just needs to improve by 10 or 15% to start winning tight matches like this. it's going to take a bit of time. i

need that consistency on the tennis courts, and right now, i'm having to balance the weeks when i'm off playing, i'm still spending 70, 80% of my time working on the physical side, the rehab, and it was less on the tennis. johanna konta also went out in the first round — she started really well against aryna sabalenka, taking the first set, before losing in three. it was another tight match, though — they were on court for almost two and a half hours. celtic must score tonight in the second leg champions league qualifier if they're to keep alive their hopes of reaching the tournament's group phase. 1—1 from the first leg at celtic park, they're in greece to face aek athens off the back of a defeat to hearts in the scottish premiership at the weekend. at stake later, a place in the play—off round. it's day two of the para swimming world championships in dublin. paralympian ellie simmonds qualifying from today's 200m individual medley sm6 heats

to reach tonight's final. kate grey has more. it was a busy morning for the british team, with 11 athletes qualifying through to this evening's final. three of which came from the women's sm6 childrenm individual medley, including paralympic champion, ellie simmonds. it as the first time she was competing in a british cap since the rio paralympics and she qualified in third position, with 15—year—old briton maisie summers newton qualifying fastest. when i caught up with simmonds at the end of her race, she admitted she was focused on her long—term targets. to be honest, i'm not really thinking about medals at the minute, i'm just rented about their own race tonight. like i say, me and my coach say "mission: 2020", that's our aim. this isjust... i was just so surprised to make the team, let alone be here and race tonight. i'm just going to see how it goes. the british s14s continued to dominate, this time in the 200m freestyle. jessica —jane applegate qualified

fastest in the women's event and world—record holder and commonwealth champion tom hamer qualified in second. but he reassured me there was more to come this evening with hopes to add to his medal collection. tiger woods was meant to be taking a non—playing role at this autumn‘s ryder cup but the usa captain jim furyk may yet consider him for a place in the team, saying his performances are hard to ignore. woods finished second at the pga championship over the weekend, following up on a good performance at the open last month. furyk will name his four wild card picks early next month what is important is how well tiger has played. sixth place at the open championship, a second place at the pga. his game, i think the word he used was "trending". his game is trending. it is great to see him playing well. for me, the numbers, they are nice, good to look at, but not always the most important. we want the players that are going to help us be successful.

commonwealth gold medallist serena guthrie will be returning to the uk for the 2019 netball season. she's been playing in australia for two seasons, but she's decided to come back for the build—up to the world cup. it was in australia that gurthrie helped england to a sensational victory over australia in the commonwealth games final. she plays at centre, but it's not yet know which club she'll be signing for when she returns. i'll have more for you in the next hour. our main story this afternoon: police have arrested a man on suspicion of terror offences after a car crashed into security barriers outside the houses of parliament this morning. the incident happened just outside the palace of westminster at about 7.30am as people were heading to work in central london. the car was travelling westbound past the houses of parliament when it swerved into eastbound

traffic, hitting security barriers. the whole of the area has been cordoned off by police, that's likely to stay in place for some time. several cyclists were hit — two people were treated at the scene — a woman is being treated at guy's and st thomas‘ hospital with serious but not life—threatening injuries. police arrested a 20—year—old man at the scene, they say they are questioning him on suspicion of terrorism offences but he's refusing to answer their questions and they‘ re haven't yet identified him. they say there's no intelligence at this time of any further danger to londoners. prime minister theresa may said her thoughts were with those injured in the westminster car crash and thanked the emergency services for their immediate and courageous response. a meeting of the government's emergency cobra committee will be held shortly at two o'clock this afternoon. the met police gave this update at a news conference a short time ago. at 7:37am, a silver ford fiesta was involved in a collision outside the

houses of parliament. that vehicle collided with pedestrians before coming to a stop. two people have been taken to hospital. one man has already been discharged and one woman remains in hospital being treated for serious but thankfully not life—threatening injuries. another man was also treated at the scene but didn't require hospital treatment. the driver of the fiesta, who was alone in the vehicle, was arrested at the scene by armed officers who were already nearby. the man is in his his late 20s and has been arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences and has been taken to a south london police station where he remains in custody. given that this appears to be a deliberate act, the method and this being an iconic site, we are treating it as a terrorist incident and the investigation is being led by officers from the counterterrorism command. officers are searching the vehicle and no other weapons have been found at this time.

at this early stage of the investigation, no other suspects at the scene have been identified or reported to police. there is no intelligence at this time of further danger to londoners or the rest of the uk connected to this incident. 0ur priority now is to formally established identity of the suspect and establish his motivation if we can. he is not currently cooperating. however, as you would expect, detectives from the counterterrorism command are making various other urgent enquiries to make sure that there is no outstanding risk to the public. the mayoral, sadiq khan, has been given his reaction. one person was treated at the scene, two were taken

to hospital. bank, the injuries are in serious, but this is scary. anyone will have seen how scary it must have been, but also the great response from oui’ must have been, but also the great response from our police officers who ran towards this car, not knowing who was inside it to catch the perpetrator. that is why i'm confident we have the best police service in the world and they are doing as much as they can to keep oui’ as doing as much as they can to keep our as safe as we doing as much as they can to keep oui’ as safe as we can doing as much as they can to keep our as safe as we can be. are you satisfied with the security measures in place? we'd is seen across the world major cities facing acts of terrorism looking to cause injury and death. as a city, we continue to evolve our response to terrorist attacks but also to keep us safe. i am reassured that our security services are doing everything they can to keep us safe. we will all

have seen over the last 18 months various have seen over the last 18 months various measures have seen over the last 18 months various measures taken across have seen over the last 18 months various measures taken across our city, from the barriers on the bridges. we now than design buildings to make them as safe as possible. through today and the next few days, londoners will see more armed police officers. they shouldn't be scared by that, they shouldn't be scared by that, they should remain calm and vigilance. if they see anything dangerous, they can ring 999 and our terrorist hotline. earlier, ben brown spoke with nigel evans mp and asked him where he was during the incident. the story broke out around 7:30am. i was with a labour mp jim fitzpatrick and we were able to see where the vehicle was so that we knew that normally there would be police there and that vehicle would have followed the route into the car park for the house of lords. well, clearly, at 7:30am in the morning

and we are in recess, i am not too sure whether there were any police there at that moment in time, but there were certainly there shortly afterwards because we saw the number of armed police who are constantly now around the parliamentary estate, they were onto the scene incredibly quickly. but it has led to chaos, clearly, for people who work in parliament today. my staff are now all working from home, which is quite right. safe for them to do it from home. but the only people who would be in parliament at 7:30am during a recess would be cleaners and people working in the restaurants. the chances of any members of parliament or any members of government being on site is particularly scarce, i would say. and also, when he rammed into the barrier, where was he going to go next? if this was a terrorist attack. because if he had got through that barrier, then the chances of him getting the vehicle any further is incredibly remote because there is further barriers all the way along that route. so the security that is there clearly worked today and i am really grateful for the security forces for doing what they did,

but clearly it is going to reignite debate as to the security of parliament for the people who work there and, i am sure that pedestrianisation of parliament square and which vehicles should be able to access so closely parliament will be reignited, i am absolutely certain about that. and security was tightened after last year's attack at westminster. this is the second of what appears, from what we know so far, the second attack in two years on the heart of british democracy. how worried are you about that? 0h, very worried, and i know it is something that the deputy speaker lindsay hoyle, the speakerjohn bercow and others constantly look at as to not just the security of our democracy, but you have to remember there are tens of thousands of people who work on the parliamentary estate, whether it is cleaners to people who are working in restaurants, to researchers, my own stuff, it has all got to be looked at to make sure that people are able to go about their normal duties and also for the british democracy, and that is the home of our parliament, the home of democracy in the united

kingdom, that that should be able to function properly. and i am absolutely certain that there will be meetings taking place even now where they are people looking at the security of parliament. nigel evans speaking to ben brown earlier. we are going live to the scene of the crash in westminster where a garda searching the vehicle that was used, a ford fiesta. the met police have put out a statement saying there in the process of removing the cordon around the area and they thank the public for their patience and understanding because there has been a lot of disruption in the area. the immediate scene is between our and square and horseferry road, the junction with

lambeth bridge, that remain cordoned off, they gave no indication for how long i could back in that immediate area, still cordoned off to traffic. a large section of a motorway bridge has collapsed in northern italy — with dozens of people feared dead. cars and lorries are thought to have fallen onto the train tracks below in an industrial area of the city of genoa. with me is our global affairs correspondent, naomi grimley. a catastrophe unfolding here, just bring us up to date. you can see from the pictures this is a serious incident. the italian transport minister is talking about it being an immense tragedy, he says he is following the news with great apprehension. so far, we have no indication of how many people have died, but the ambulance services are talking of dozens dead. it's told

there may have been around 20 vehicles on this span of bridge when it came down. it seems to have come down in an industrial section of genoa. the rubble is concertina across a river and also a well way. very serious indeed and the rescue services are now sifting through that wreckage of rubble and steel rods to try and see if it can rescue any drivers. police say this happened during a violent cloudburst is, torrential rain, that in northern europe you don't expect a bridge to collapse under weather conditions? it does seem there was torrential rain in this area in the last date. there is speculation the bridge was stuck by lightning. but this is within the european union where bridges and key bits of infrastructure are made to very high

standards and are supposed to be monitored all the time. there has been a quote on the wires from the motorway operators saying they were carrying out maintenance to this bridge, they were strengthening the road and asians of the bridge, but also that it was under constant monitoring. —— road foundations of the bridge. clearly, that reconstruction is going to be key to the investigation. and there is a rescue operation going on, we know 11 people have died, but the fear is there may be more? exactly. one of there may be more? exactly. one of the italian news agencies is saying one person has been rescued alive from the wreckage of below the bridge. it is a very large span of bridge. it is a very large span of bridge that has come down, over 100m. the interior ministry of italy

are saying 11 people had been killed, but we have already had an indication from emergency services it may be many more. thank you very much. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news: a man is arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after a car crashes outside the houses of parliament, injuring several people. a motorway bridge has partially collapsed in the italian city of genoa with dozens feared dead. the government says it fears an immense tragedy. england cricketer ben stokes is found not guilty of affray at bristol crown court. in the business news: unemployment fell by 65,000 to 1.3 million in the three months to june. that's the lowest its been in more than a0 years. but the growth in wages has slowed down.

they're about 2.7% higher than they were a year ago. we'll have more on this in a moment. homebase is expected to announce plans to close 42 stores, putting about 1,500 jobs at risk — that's abut 10% of its workforce. it's already closed 17 stores this year. mike ashley — the founder of sports direct — says he'll keep most house of frazer stores open. he bought the chain last week — just hours after it went into administration. he says he wants the shops to be the harrods of the high street. uk unemployment is at the lowest level since 1975 — that's more than a0 years. it fell by 65,000 to 1.3 million in the three months tojune according to official figures.

that's despite the number ofjobs created going up less than expected — by 42,000. the number of people from the eu working in the uk, fell by 86,000 — that's the biggest fall since records began in 1997. but the number of workers from outside the eu went up by 711,000 tojust over a million. there was a slowdown in the growth of wages — they went up byjust 2.7%. analyst anna leach says that living standards are still under pressure. households have remained, incomes have remained under pressure for some time now, so it doesn't do anything see is that pressure. it's worth bearing in mind the bank of england have been saying for some time they are expecting a temporary slowdown in wage growth, we can expect wage growth to pick up slightly in the months ahead. but underpinning the weakness in wage growth is the weakness in

productivity, and we have seen productivity, and we have seen productivity figures today, showing a bit of an improvement in gross, but the underlying picture remains a very weak. without any material improvement in the productivity story, we're not going to see any material improvement in wage growth and we can therefore expect consumers to remain under pressure for the foreseeable future. lacklustre trade on the ftse today. biggest faller is the copper miner antofagasta — it's disappointed investors with a 16% fall in profits. the insurance company esure is on the rise after announcing its going to be bought for more than a billion pounds. royal mail though is under pressure, that's after being fined £50 million by the regulator for abusing its market position. that's all the business news. a new study has found smoking

e—cigarettes may not be as safe as previously thought. researchers at the university of birmingham say vaping could cause long—term damage to the lungs, as our health correspondent james gallagher reports. scientists collected the vapour from a e—cigarette, cooled it and used to bathe cells donated form the lungs of healthy people. a study in the general thorax showed even low doses of vapour led to damaging changes in the lungs immune cells. the research team said there may be long—term consequences and these alterations could culminate in diseases that cause severe breathing difficulties. yet they have measured changes for only 48 hours in a disease that takes decades to manifest. it will take years of studying vapours to know the truth. the researchers said it was right to think sceptically about e—cigarettes. public health england said vaping was not risk—free, but was clearly much less harmful than smoking and it urged smokers to switch without delay.

ten premier league clubs could have played in front of empty stadiums during the 2016—17 season and still made a profit. that is the finding of a bbc investigation, which shows the clubs benefitted from a record £8.3 billion in global tv revenue. matchday income contributed to less than a fifth of all earnings. here's our sports reporterjo currie. fans — the lifeblood of football. cheering. and for decades, the main source of income to clubs. but not any more. tv rights deals mean more than half the teams in the premier league could remain in the top flight even if they played to empty stadiums. so how important are supporters these days? if clubs focus just on tv rights deals and not the fans, they're making a silly mistake, for the very good reason that we are part of the television product. if there wasn't full grounds

with a large away support and a good atmosphere, it wouldn't be nearly as attractive to the broadcasters. so with so many top—flight clubs making profit before a single fan has attended a match, like here at everton, should some of that money now be filtering down to supporters in the way of cheaper tickets? there's people on really low incomes that are working hard and just want to go to games, and they are priced out. for football, you pay the money — if music is your thing, you pay the money. so with a tv rights deal worth over £5 billion, many fans may be questioning if the money isn't going to them, where is it going? players and agents will be high on the list. but everyone agrees that a game without supporters isn't a game worth watching. time for a look at the weather. no

sign ofa time for a look at the weather. no sign of a heatwave any time soon, more to call weather pattern for this time of the year. instead of high—pressure, is from project soon because it to the uk, bringing weather in from the atlantic, bansal clouds coming down from the north at times. in scotland and northern ireland we have seen most of the rain, pushing eastwards, though the weather improving and northern ireland and scotland and moving towards the east. in wales, dry, a little sunshine, cloudy out there. still a fine day for most of england and wales, just the far right of england getting a little rain. some late sunshine in the north east of scotla nd late sunshine in the north east of scotland boosting the temperatures here. highest temperatures in the

south east of england, 25 degrees. this evening, most places dry, overnight more rain back into northern ireland and perhaps not england and western scotland. a mild breeze blowing in a lot of clouds, temperatures no lower than 1a. tomorrow dry to start, sunshine and outbreaks of rain pushing into scotland. a little sunshine between the rain, and lovely dry for most of the rain, and lovely dry for most of the day in northern ireland. some rain coming into western areas of the mainland, but dry in the east. it won't be too cold. things will change, all the heat on the other side of the channel, and we find cooler conditions on this weather front taking rain down across the uk. by thursday, some rain early on in the southwest, mostly affecting

the south east of england. sunshine following behind, but increasing showers the further north and showers the further north and showers in western scotland. temperatures lower than today for all of us, 21 the high. by the end of the week, back almost to square one, and other weather system coming end, mainly across scotland and northern ireland. sunnier skies towards the south east, temperatures lifting a little too 24. in the north, temperatures a good deal lower. hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. today at 2:00. dozens are feared dead as a major motorway bridge collapses near the northern italian city of genoa — a huge rescue operation is under way a man in his 20s is arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences — after a car crashes into barriers outside the houses of parliament. the ford fiesta car hit cyclists and pedestrians — before crashing into a security barrier protecting

the palace of westminster given that this appears to be a deliberate act, the method and this being an iconic site, we are treating it as a terrorist incident. i'll be reporting live from westminster. please say they are still questioning the man who they arrested here