this is bbc news, i'm rebecca jones. the headlines at 8:00. a fire destroys a primark store in a historic building in belfast, the fire service says there has been huge structural damage. we have concerns that building will colla pse we have concerns that building will collapse that we need to ensure our firefighters are fighting in a safe and effective way and not impacted by the collapse of the building. the former chief rabbi says jeremy corbyn‘s recently reported remarks about zionists are the most offensive by a senior politician since enoch powell's ‘rivers of blood' speech. also coming up, the prime minister puts her best foot forward in africa. theresa may promises the £4 billion investment in the continent will be a step in the right direction after britain leaves the eu. police appeal to the public to help them find janbaz tarin a 21—year—old man wanted after his former partner and her mother were stabbed to death.

this is the high school i went to. and ed sheera on why schools should stop cutting back on funding for the arts. a devastating blaze has ripped through an historic building in belfast that housed the city's primark store. flames and thick black smoke engulfed the entire five—storey building, which has been in the heart of belfast for almost two hundred and fifty years, and recently had a multimillion—pound refurbishment. primark shoppers and staff were evacuated in time from the building. assistant chief fire officer michael graham,

from the northern ireland fire & rescue service, gave an idea of the scale of the operation. we received a call at approximately 11 o'clock this morning. ourfirst responders were here within five minutes and the second one about two minutes after that. currently we have m fire plants attending with three our high reach plants. we have over 100 firefighters and we have been here now for six hours. we think we'll be here for another three or four hours dealing with the fire, plus also potentially keeping an eye on it for the rest of the night. we need to keep an eye on the structural integrity of the building as well so we have concerns that the building may collapse so we need to ensure our firefighters are firefighting in a safe and effective way and ensure they're not impacted by the collapse of the building. our expectation is that the internal floors will collapse where the fire has been burning with great intensity, and we hope that may well help the overall structure, but can't guarantee the structural integrity of the building at this time. our correspondent chris page is in belfast with the latest on this. dramatic and disturbing pictures,

first of all is the fire out now? no, it's not, spent several hours of the scene of the fire in belfast city centre and firefighters as you heard saying they been battling since 11 o'clock this morning, so they have been on the go now for nine hours or so and several times during the course of today it look like they managed to put the fire out, but sporadically there have been what sounded like small explosions within the store its and every time that happens, claims seem to have reignited, so certainly a few hours or so before six o'clock, the fire was at its fiercest it had been all day though it has in terms of intensity come and gone as the day has progressed. more than 100 firefighters are still there and they expect probably to be there through the night, they will do even

if they do, get the fire properly extinguished, at sometime this evening they will have to watching until tomorrow evening —— morning and you think the work will begin to how the fire started we don't know more than that. also whether it can be saved, the exterior of the building will be able to stay standing, there will be in the future some sort of reparation to restore the building. as you say, it's a historic building and an important part of the architectural heritage of the city, is there any hope of saving it? well, the fire service said they expected the floors to collapse and that has now happened, one by one the floors have collapsed leaving just the exterior sheu collapsed leaving just the exterior shell you like of the building, and we thought the disintegration of the interior of the building might mean the exterior of the building would be more secure, in the medium to

long—term so certainly i think there is still hope though there will be up is still hope though there will be up to be significant were carried out to determine just how possible thatis, out to determine just how possible that is, there's also damage to neighbouring shops, supermarkets next to it which i'm told is damaged, and another senior business leaders said that he thinks of millions of about the stock written off, and the area around the building probably close for some time while the building is secured if that is indeed possible so you can expect the retail district of belfast, that means shopping street to ta ke belfast, that means shopping street to take a significant financial hit because of the. crisp air, our correspondent with the latest, thank you. the former chief rabbi, jonathan sacks, has said remarks byjeremy corbyn about zionists are the most offensive made by a senior british politician since enoch powell's rivers of blood speech. in an interview with the new statesman magazine, lord sacks accuses the labour leader of being an anti—semite who, he says, has "given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate".

sacks was the most senior rabbi in the uk from 1991 until 2013, and is a crossbench peer in the house of lords. mr corbyn has insisted his remarks were taken out of context. well, we can speak now to our political correspondent, tom barton, who's covering this story for us from westminster. how significant is this intervention? it is pretty significant i think not least because jonathan sacks significant i think not least becausejonathan sacks is such a senior figure, becausejonathan sacks is such a seniorfigure, a becausejonathan sacks is such a senior figure, a well—known of boys from the jewish community senior figure, a well—known of boys from thejewish community —— boys, talking to the rest of the country 110w. talking to the rest of the country now. the comments that he is talking about were made byjeremy corbyn in 2013 when he was a backbencher. there is a speech in which he spoke about an event a few days earlier during which he said a group of pro

israeli activist in his word operated the palestinian liberation organisation representative to the uk. now he described the group of people as zionists and said that despite perhaps having lived in the ukfor despite perhaps having lived in the uk for very long time, maybe all their lives, did not understand english. to date he has told the new statesman that he believes those comments imply that however long they lived in britain, jewish people are not fully british, he described it as the language of classic prewar anti—semitism and he drew the comparison as you said with the infamous rivers of blood speech, and he said thatjeremy corbyn was an anti—semite. he said thatjeremy corbyn was an anti-semite. tom, what has been the reaction of labour party to his comments? frankly everyone around jeremy corbyn are furious, and they say this comparison between jeremy corbyn, a man they talked of as a

life long antiracism campaigner and in their words race baiting enoch powell, is offensive and absurd and they sayjeremy corbyn use the word zionist to talk about a particular group of pro israeli activist, he was using it they say in the purely political sense of the word. not as a synonym or code forjewish people, and they say the labour party is a lwa ys and they say the labour party is always determined to tackle anti—semitism both within its ranks and within the wider community. now, this isn't going to help, i don't think their attempts to drop a line under the row under anti—semitism and the response to it, which has been raging over the last few months, there is another opportunity to do for them next week to draw a line under this row when the parties national executive committee meets. at that meeting to have an

opportunity to do what the party has not done so far, which is to accept all of the examples of what constitutes anti—semitism, which form part of the internationally accepted definition of what anti—semitism is. like i said, they have not included those examples and their code of conduct so far, there is an opportunity to do so next week it is not yet clear whether they will necessarily do so. thanks tom, oui’ will necessarily do so. thanks tom, our political correspondent in westminster. the prime minister has arrived in cape town at the start of a 3 day trade mission to boost economic ties with africa. she's pledged four billion pounds as part of plans to boost britain's investment in africa after brexit. it's her first tour of the continent since becoming prime minister. in a speech in cape town she said she wanted britain to be the g7‘s leading investor in africa by 2022. 0ur political correspondent ben wright is travelling with mrs may. upbeat, certainly.

0n the beat? perhaps not. but theresa may arrived in south africa eager to talk trade, development and economic growth. the prime minister began her trip to cape town at a school, symbolising, she said, the youth and dynamism of many african nations. and it is jobs for these young people and millions like them the uk wants to help african economies create. so, this was a trade mission underpinned by a promise, the prime minister pledged an extra £4 billion in direct uk government investment which she expects to be met by the private sector. i want to see strong african economies that british businesses can do business with in a free and fairfashion. whether through creating new customers for british exporters or opportunities for british investors, our integrated global economy means healthy african economies are good news for british people as well as for african people. to that end, the two countries

signed a new trade agreement. prime minister theresa may and i and our various delegations have just concluded discussions that were characterised by a renewed commitment to forge a closer partnership between our two countries. theresa may sees benefit flowing both ways, using uk companies' capital and government help to invest in african countries in the hope of keeping them politically stable later on. this is about a partnership, it is no longer about colonial relationships where the master would come and give you the instructions of what needed to be done, but it will understand what africa needs and how then we work with britain. mrs may also said that the uk would fundamentally shift the way it suspends aid money, towards building private enterprise.

for the uk, of course, brexit is now a spur to expand trade beyond the eu, which is, by far, our biggest market. but with brexit talks seemingly stalled and time to do a deal running out, i asked the prime minister how she planned to break the deadlock. first of all, we are working for a good deal, we have put forward our proposalfor a good deal and i believe that that deal is to the benefit not only of the uk but also for the european union, but it is absolutely right that as a government, we take the common—sense approach of saying, we do not know what the outcome of the negotiations will be. that is why we make the preparations for no deal and we have stepped up those preparations. theresa may will need some nifty political footwork to get through the autumn but, for today, the troubles of brussels and westminster seemed far away. ben wright, bbc news, cape town. i'm joined from nairobi

by kiprono kittony, who is the chair of the kenyan chamber of commerce. delighted tojoin delighted to join us many thanks. i know you're part of the delegation that will be meeting the british later this week, ijust that will be meeting the british later this week, i just wondered what it is you're hoping to get out of that meeting? thank you very much, we are looking at situation where there will be greater traitor investment between britain and kenya affecting kenya is an anchor and important cannot meet in the shoreland and we have a growth rate of 5%, very good workforce and labour force, lots of emerging industries, the uk and kenya have international partners for over a century and we think there's a huge opportunity for greater trade

investment. are you able to get a sense of how much trade is done between the two countries at the moment? at the moment, there is slightly under 700 million us dollars of trade. with a slight advantage to kenya, but about 31 million nine —— $300 million worth, $270 million of imports and primarily kenya exports agricultural produce and we import technological scenery produce and we import technological scenery from the uk. am i right to assume that the trade between your country and they uk is the last that between kenya and the eu and certainly less than that between kenya and china? that is correct despite the fact that the uk and great britain were remains a significant investor in kenya, it has a share of investment in east

africa particularly has reduced compared to china. in the stock exchange among the companies, there are still significant investment by british firms and we do hope that this is particularly by the fact that there are lots of smes as well, we'll forge more partnerships and greater partnership. we'll forge more partnerships and greater partnershiplj we'll forge more partnerships and greater partnership. i suppose what my question is can the uk really compete especially with china which i know has invested in some big infrastructure projects particularly in kenya has and it? well, we cannot predict what britain is going to do it on this visit, but we have seen yesterday that in south africa to raisonn —— theresa may announced investments. i think it may not be able to compete with china, but i think there is greater scope for participation, and opportunities for investment and we also believe the

traditional ties are enjoyed by both nations and will have an advantage in terms of being able to negotiate for additional play and as you know if researchers along play and we do think there is also room for britain to come in and take a part in this investment. do you think there might be more opportunities for the uk in kenya and indeed wider africa, onceit uk in kenya and indeed wider africa, once it leaves the eu? beating the european union definitely presents a greater opportunity notjust european union definitely presents a greater opportunity not just kenya but africa and particularly nations that are in the commonwealth at the great opportunity for newly divined relationships under the scope of commonwealth. also can you now having defined its agenda for the next buyers being affordable housing, universal health care manufacturing and food security, that also presents opportunities for

british friends to come and invest in these four areas as kenya seeks to elevate itself into a new industrialised nation and i think this visit is timely because by the year 2050 is arguable the population in will be great. ex—illini time visitor look forward to receiving them. we must leave it there, pleasure to talk to you. thank you for your time. and we'll find out how this story,and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are the journalists lynn faulds wood and michael booker the headlines on bbc news... a fire destroys a primark store in a historic building in belfast — the fire service says there has been huge structural damage. the former chief rabbi describes jeremy corbyn as an anti—semite who has given support to "racists,

terrorists and dealers of hate". theresa may has announced plans to boost britain's investment in africa post brexit, promising 4 billion pounds to support the continent. sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's chris mitchell. good morning evening. to the us open, where british number onejohanna konta says she's in a better place mentally ahead of the final grand slam event of the year. 0ur tennis correspondent russell fuller is at flushing meadows. after the frustration of wimbledon, johanna konta made a spectacular start to the us hard court summer, beating serena williams and dropping only one game in the process in california. she has had some standout results by beating victoria azarenka and jolene 0stapenko. but she needs to string together a sequence of wins in the same week

if we see her recapture the sort of form but became commonplace up until last yea r‘s wimbledon. caroline garcia is a horrible start. it is the first timejohanna konta has not been seeded in a grand slam for the last ten events. so to play the world number six in the opening round is not ideal. she does have a record against the french player and has won three of their first five matches. victory today open up a more palatable route into the second week of the us open. but that seems a long way away. she has a tough start on another very hot and very humid new york day. that game getting under way, she loses the first game but going a served there. could we be in for a shock in the second round of the carabao cup? 21 ties being played tonight.

and afc wimbledon of league one took a very early lead against premier league west ham. joe pygott with the goal afterjust two minutes. leeds united being beaten by preston north, and leicester city against the wood. queen's park rangers had a miserable time to nil. full list on oui’ miserable time to nil. full list on our website and all those games, its early stages still in the first half there. the leicester strikerjamie vardy and chelsea's gary cahill both effectively announced their retirement from international football today. cahill made his england debut in 2010 and captained the side on several occasions. he was part of gareth southgate's squad for the world cup this summer, but only played once, in the group match against belgium.

he bows out with 61 caps and five goals. it seems jamie vardy‘s decided that his priority is prolonging his cloud career. ian stringer, who commentates on leicester city for bbc radio leicester, says age is catching up with the striker. he's in his 30s and looks to me like he's not getting any slower, he's trying to preserve what he has left the guy scored seven international goals not bad retiring on the world cup, it was something we all thought bringing him over the summer with harry kane, but he looked at it in the euros in a few tears he's still going to be quick or prolific, 20 goals a season in a primarily to the last two campaigns, probably wants to focus on his time at leicester city his game is different that we see when he plays here, likes to play on the shoulder of his opponents, trying to break away from defensive, but international

football, that does not seem to be utilised by gareth, my understanding is that he understands and is ok with it, and is not too concerned and he understands the direction that he is going in, and appreciate that he is going in, and appreciate that so he is stepping aside he has not retired as yet as it is said, there was a real injury crisis than he probably would be available not a bad option to have. england bastman jonny bairstow says he hope to keep wicket for the fourth test against india, despite fracturing a finger in the third test at trent bridge earlier this month. the fourth test will get underway on thursday at southampton. india won the last game but england lead the 5 match series 2—1. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in sportsday at 10:30. a large police operation is looking to find. after his former partner

mother was stabbed to death in the early hours of yesterday morning. neighbours say they were woken up by a lot of screaming and shouting. and simon driving away in a van. forensic tents still up and a police cordon continues to surround the area where two women were murdered in the early hours of monday morning. a huge manhunt is under way as police look for 21—year—old janbaz tarin — the ex—boyfriend of raneem 0udeh, the 22—year—old stabbed to death along with her mother, 49—year—old khaola saleem. today police confirmed that the two women who were fatally stabbed behind me were from syria, while the suspect is an afghan national who was living in this country legally. it's believed he worked in a local supermarket. a friend has described him as warm. he is a very nice guy and usually quiet. and always smiling and very kind.

i go to the shop usually and everyone who is working there is nice. i never could imagine something like this about him. he absolutely always looks one of the nicest guys in this area who i know. more details have emerged about the women killed. 0fficers said raneem 0udeh had a two—year—old sun. but the suspect was not the father. while khaola saleem was the mother of six. police have raided three properties in birmingham while looking for the man, including a house on this street. tonight the manhunt continues. sima kotecha, bbc news, solihull. a large police operation is looking to find. air pollution may cause a drop in intelligence, that's according to new research in china. the four year study found that the longer people were exposed to dirty air, the greater the damage to their cognitive abilities. and it seems men are affected more than women as our science editor david shukman reports.

a wave of pollution rolls into the centre of beijing. dirty air is a reality of life for many in china. in fact, for billions of people around the world. and scientists now know how it can damage the lungs and the heart, how it can shorten lives. some of the pollution we breathe in gets trapped in the nose. but tiny particles can slip into the lungs. and then make their way into the bloodstream. and there's evidence they can even reach the rain. so pollution may not only have a physical effect, but a mental one as well. to explore what pollution might be doing to the mind, scientists in china embarked on a massive investigation. people's mental abilities can be affected by so many different factors that this task was never going to be easy. this was one of the largest studies of its kind. it looked at levels of air pollution in dozens of cities across china. and at the results of tests

of verbal reasoning and maths taken by 25,000 people in those places. the researchers conclude that long—term exposure to air pollution impedes cognitive performance. that is a bold claim. and it doesn't provide direct evidence of cause and effect, but it does follow a few other studies that have also suggested that polluted air may affect the rain. so a link is thought to be possible. we asked one of britain's leading pollution scientists to look at the chinese research and he says it's another red flag warning that pollution may undermine mental ability. what they find is that older men were more susceptible. other studies have shown older women. so there's a few things that we need to resolve. but certainly those red flags, there's more of them, and itjust adds to the weight of evidence that air pollution has a wide range of effects in your body. this matters because most

of the world's population lives in air that's polluted. india, for example, has some of the dirtiest conditions. and as the research into pollution advances, it may well be that the implications won't only be physical, but mental as well. and may only become obvious in decades ahead. david shukman, bbc news. thousands of fans of the legendary soul singer, aretha franklin, are turning out today to file past the body of aretha franklin in her hometown of detroit. the star, who died just over a week ago at the age of 76, will lie in an open casket for two days at the city's african—american history museum before the funeral on friday. the bbc‘s rajini vaidyanathan is in detroit among some very vocal fans. # find out what it means to me.

fans have been lining out here outside of detroit african museum for nearly the hours of the morning as a way to see aretha franklin, the queen of soul light in state. i love aretha. this is historic and everybody no matter what race you are has aretha song or memory. we drove from atlanta, georgia just to come here, just to see the queen. louisiana to detroit her music took me everywhere. always back in the 60s up until now. another icon gone. she was not afraid to be herself, unapologetically. what was that like to see the queen of soul? it was heart wrenching, and this is an iconic moment. she looked fantastic,

it's a wonderful feeling to share. she had on red, they took their time with her hair, herfewer cross, she had on red patent leather shoes, she looked really nice. really beautiful and at peace. it was fantastic, she's beautiful in there as she always has been. i hate to see her in this steep, because i've never seen her before like in concert but it was really nice. her music will always be with us, even though she is gone. #a # a little respectful for the queen of soul, aretha franklin, miss aretha to you. there among the fans in detroit there among the now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. good evening, despite some rain in the forecast it's not going to be particularly significant. over the next few days it looks like it will stay quiet. tomorrow a little bit of a rain, but also some sunshine as well. now here are the details,

the weather front set out across scotland drifting its ways steadily south and east over the next few hours so tomorrow morning by dawn it'll be sitting at the border north of england and wales. south of that, quite a mild start behind it, somewhat fresher conditions. it'll look likely we'll continue to see the weather front pushing its way south east weakening all the time a band of cloud the odd spit and spot of rain as it goes through the midlands towards east anglia by the afternoon. behind it sunny spells scattered showers into the northwest, pressure here, 1a—70d highest values for wednesday afternoon of 22 celsius, not that much in the way change either for the next two days, good deal of dry weather in the story, take care. hello this is bbc news with rebecca jones.

the headlines. a fire has destroyed a primark store in a historic building in belfast, which has been in the city for nearly 250 years. the former chief rabbi has compared some ofjeremy corbyn‘s remarks to those of enoch powell's in the 1960s, mr corbyn says his comments have been taken out of context. theresa may has called for a new trading partnership with africa after brexit, saying she wants britain to become the g7‘s leading investor in africa. police have carried out raids in birmingham as part of efforts to trace a 21—year—old janbarz tarin — who they want to question in connection with the murders of his former partner and her mother. and coming up. what happens when you type ‘trump news' in google? the us president claims the search engine is rigged to make good news stories about him hard to find.

google of course denies that. russia has defended plans to hold massive war games involving 300,000 personnel next month — its biggest military manoeuvres since a cold war drill in 1981. kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov said the drills were justified given "aggressive and unfriendly" attitudes towards his country. units from china and mongolia will also take part in the exercises at military ranges in central and eastern russia. the manoeuvres come at a time of rising tension between nato and russia. dr yarchek bartoshak is the director of the war—gaming studies and simulations programme at the casimir polaski foundation, and inidpendant polish think—tank specialising in security and international relations. hejoin me now from 0lsh—stin,

just south of the polish border with russian enclave of kaliningrad. we are very grateful for your time. thank you forjoining us. i wondered what your reaction was, first of all. to news of these military maneuvers? it is a little bit disconcerting in terms of this time he seems to be very massive. the most concerning aspect of it is a really russians have the capability to move the troops in such numbers, far away from their zones along internal lines of communication. this huge land empire, you know, long land borders. which itself is a great achievement. and that would signify that they would be capable

of quickly mobilizing and moving the troops closer to the eastern flank, threatening the security of this region. so this is the most upsetting conclusion from what the minister of defense of russia has announced. and the second thing that is worth considering is how deep the russian— chinese relationship in this particular drill will be, given the fact that on surface it seems that they can be rather foals politically in the long term rather than collaborators. i wonder how deeply they will be working during this exercise. if not deeply than this exercise. if not deeply than this would only mean that this is for a show. it will be monitored closely. yes, i understand and i apologize for interrupting. i did wa nt to apologize for interrupting. i did want to pick you up on that point

about china. we know that china will be involved with these maneuvers. as you say, we don't know exactly how. what do you make of chinese involvement? i think in terms of grand strategy of both china and russia this is a signal to the united states that 0k, americans, you are now the stop is power in eurasia and you are being ac power out of eurasia and failure ships around eurasia, but in land and these landmasses we are still dominating powers. at least on paper and in numbers. and because the us power and position of the supremacy of the world is depending on its power projection capabilities deep into eurasia, both in europe and in asia from both sides of this supercontinent, with a free access from both the pacific and what atla ntic ocea ns from both the pacific and what atlantic oceans on the continental base of the united states, then any

sort of anti—access area denying capabilities, this is a military term, comes to describe this sort of capability that russians and chinese have against the us forces. it will ma nifest have against the us forces. it will manifest or at least my signal that the certain era has ended, that the us cannot freely choose where it deploys its forces without an management. this is a signalfor other enabling countries in the grey zones, like japan and south korea and taiwan, philippines and others in the western pacific, which is nowadays the main area of attention between major powers, being japan and united states of course, china and united states of course, china and russia. and of course for a country like poland, the baltic states, ukraine and others here between the atlantic coast of europe and the empire of russia. most

russia and china are trying to phase out the us influence in eurasia. which was sort of the backbone of the system and later the post—cold warera. the system and later the post—cold war era. we must leave it there. i am so war era. we must leave it there. i am so grateful for your time war era. we must leave it there. i am so gratefulfor your time in your explanation has been fascinating. but dr yarchek explanation has been fascinating. but dr ya rchek ba rtoshak, explanation has been fascinating. but dr yarchek bartoshak, for now we must leave it. many thanks. thank you. rallies are being held in northern ireland to demand the restoration of devolved government after stormont equalled the record today for having the world's longest peacetime period without a properly functioning government. there has been no assembly in place for more than 18 months after the power—sharing arrangement between the dup and sinn fein collapsed in january last year. 0ur ireland correspondent emma vardy reports. two years ago, northern ireland won the bid to stage the 2021 commonwealth youth games. but the devolved government collapsed before ministers could agree the funding.

now northern ireland has been stripped of the chance to host the event. i was annoyed because it would have been a good opportunity for people here. i was quite shocked. how come we're not sticking together, not helping each other? as well as losing the games, £1—2 billion worth of infrastructure projects have now been put on hold. a new transport hub for belfast, a cruise ship terminal for the harbour, just a couple of the developments being left in limbo. the corridors of power remain empty at stormont, where northern ireland's government collapsed last year. a row over a mishandled renewable energy scheme caused the break—up and since then talks between the dup and sinn fein have repeatedly failed. it's been 589 days since northern ireland had a functioning assembly and civil servants say that while there's no cliff edge, what they are seeing is stagnation and a slow decay across public services.

schools and health care are suffering. northern ireland has the longest hospital waiting lists in the uk and has no politicians in place to help tackle the problem. today, at stormont, the dup accused sinn fein of prolonging the deadlock. there is only one problem party and let's call it out — it's sinn fein. they need to end their boycott and allow government to happen here in northern ireland. sinn fein insists it is up for a deal but says the dup won't compromise. we want to intensify discussions and we're not meeting any reciprocation from either the dup or british government. power—sharing in northern ireland is a legacy of its troubled past but it is in danger of becoming a barrier to a betterfuture. emma bardy, bbc news, belfast. president trump was up early this morning bemoaning the political bias of social media. he accused the internet platforms

of being against convservatives, and him in particular. and donald trump made the accusation on his favourite social media platform twitter. google search results for trump news shows only the viewing/reporting of fake new media. in other words, they have it rigged, for me and others, so that almost all stories and news is bad. fake cnn is prominent. republican/conservative and fair media is shut out. illegal? 96% of results on trump news are from national left—wing media, very dangerous. google & others are suppressing voices of conservatives... well, we can speak now to our north america technology correspondent, dave lee, whojoins us live from san francisco. dave, why is president trump decided to speak out about this now? well,

he is echoing in many respects some of the concerns that have been voiced by the conservatives, the right—wing media in the us, suggesting that silicon valley companies run by people who they say as being the tech elite are inherently biased against conservative views and they are using those platforms in order to push those of use. as you mentioned, it was very early in the morning, just after 5am in washington went from apparently set up presumably in his bed and treated and all capital letters that the system was rigged, that google had been hiding results from right—leaning publications in favour of those on the left. he has been talking a little bit more about those concerns in the last few moments at the white house. here's what he had to say. we have literally thousands and thousands of complaints coming in. and you just can't do that. sol think that google and twitter and facebook, they are really treading on very, very troubled territory and

they have to be careful. it's not fairto large they have to be careful. it's not fair to large portions of the population. 0k? still there are, of course furthering those threats i guess you can call them against google. it follows a pattern i think of basically telling many americans that they can't often believe their own eyes and ears when it comes to what they see, both in the news media but now of course on google as well. dave, is the president right? that he actually have a point? well, i guess one way to check is to simply search for the phrase he was using. apparently the phrase was "trump news" and if i do a search on my own fault for that the results that you get to come from some of those outlets that trump might not be too pleased with, cnn, the new york times and others, the bbc, they are all there. however of course a google search is often constructed of many, many different things. google says more than 200 factors go

into deciding what is in the results, each individual person gets what is tailored to that individual. google has said very strongly that it does not let political ideology get into that process. the data that trump has been quoting, it seems, has come from a right wing media blog and even in that blog, the person who raised it there set their process of discovering their data which showed apparently right—wing voices were being silenced, they describe it is as being not very scientific. i think at that point in particular the idea that this is dated to be used to question the technology companies, i think that is going to come under a lot of close scrutiny. dave, for now many thanks. for more than three weeks this summer, these flames devoured moorland across parts of north west england at the height of the summer heatwave. some 6000 acres were affected. 100 soldiers were drafted in to help firefighters but it was long time before they finally put the fires out. 0ur correspondent danny savage has

returned to the scene near stalybridge in greater manchester to find out how local farmers have coped since and to see what effect it all had on the wildlife there. the desperate days of high summer on the roof of england. several square miles of pennine moorland burned for days. it was difficult to contain and left a thick wall of smoke hanging over vast areas of greater manchester. in the thick of it, farmers took dangerous risks to rescue their livestock. dodging the flames to find their animals. the survivors now graze on the lower slopes, their owners are still working out where to go from here. it was quite shocking at the time because the fire was raging worse than any fire i've ever seen before in my life. clare says the sheep ran for their lives and ended up scattered over a huge area.

we had a team of farmers come from miles and miles away to come and help us get the sheep off at the time. and still now we are getting phone calls from farmers miles away saying, we've got a few more of your sheep, they are turning up in various places! just devastation. nine weeks on from the fires, the gamekeeper here has lost most of the moorland he manages. very depressing. yes. i mean, to pick yourself up and go forward on it you know, so sad. the only thing that's keeping me going at the minute is this is all coming back. you know, the heather is re—shooting. you know, if we can get it all back together again it would be good. how many years will it take to get back to where it was? some bits four years, other bits probably 20 years. that long? yes. it's estimated that about seven square miles above stalybridge was destroyed. the rspb manage part of the area and are seeing rejuvenation on the fire boundary. the minute you go to these damper gullies actually the fire just

jumped over these areas and they are really still growing green. so there has been quite a patchwork of areas unaffected, actually. a few days of fire changed the look of this countryside for decades to come. the great scars no longer smoulder, they now have to heal. danny savage, bbc news, stalybridge. the headlines on bbc news... a fire destroys a primark store in a historic building in belfast. the fire service says there has been huge structural damage. the former chief rabbi describes jeremy corbyn as an anti—semite who has given support to "racists, terrorists and dealers of hate". and theresa may announces plans to boost britain's investment in africa post brexit, promising £4 billion to support the continent. an update on the market numbers for you. here's how london's and frankfurt ended the day. and in the the united states this is how the dow

and the nasdaq are getting on. celebrity chef gordon ramsey has said he'd offer work to a teenager, who has dwarfism, and has been told by his local college that he'd get under the feet of other students. 18—year—old louis makepeace, who is three feet ten inches tall, applied for a place on a catering course at heart of worcestershire college. he says he's being discriminated against, because of his height. the college denies that. ben sidwell has the story. when louis makepeace applied for a cookery course at his local college, he was stunned by the reaction he got when he went for an interview. the first thing he said to me when we're alone was why would you apply to this course, you'll never get future employment from this industry. and that really hit me in the gut. he said i would get under people's feet and be a health

and safety risk. i've never been treated in such an appalling way before. louis, whose 18, has a condition that is a form of dwarfism and is three feet ten inches tall. louis has had lots of prejudice against him all of his life. i've been fighting for years for everything for him, and this is just another challenge, but we will keep fighting. the heart of the college based in worchester say it prides itself on being inclusive and a diverse organisation that endeavours to offer opportunities to all because they had previously worked closely with louis in 2016—17 when he attended a performing arts course here. when he applied for this latest course, they undertook a review process to make sure adjustments could be made to check that he could safely commence this course. they state that at no point did they say he could not attend and the final decision will be made by the end of the week. but while some of the college seem

reluctant to welcome him, one of the most famous chefs in the world, gordon ramsay, says he be more than happy to help him tweeting. .. "disgusting attitude. i'd offer him an apprenticeship any day. the guy at the catering college said i would get no future employment, but for gordon ramsay to say he would employ me as an apprentice, this is remarkable and shows people are nice out there and will give me a chance to become what i want to be. louis says whatever he's offered, there's no way no he'd accept any course at the college. and intends to follow his dream by teaching himself cookery. he's sold 26 million albums and 100 million singles worldwide, making him one of the world's best selling music artists of all time. but ed sheeran says he would have not made it in the industry, without school funding in arts and doesn't understand why money to creative subjects is being cut. he's been chatting with our entertainment

correspondent chi chi izundu. the thing that i always get is... you know, people... billy bragg said it the other day, i heard in an interview, where he was like, i'm not... i'm not a big fan of ed sheeran's music, but what i do like is that kids can look at him and think, well, if he can do it, i can do it. # my pretty little galway girl... its you're in's and humble man. —— ed sheeran's. i went to a comprehensive high school in suffolk and lived in the middle of nowhere and ended up being here and it isjust through writing loads of songs and doing loads of gigs and you can get to that. i didn't start off being able to sing or play guitar, i had to learn to do both. and that learning he credits to a

new documentary songwriter to a teacher in his school. there were a lot of teachers who didn't quite get it. he says he can't understand why lessons like ours, trauma and music are decreasing in focus and a number of secondary schools. the thing that confuses me about it is most of the wealthiest people in england, who stay in england and pay taxes, are musicians and artists, you know, paul mccartney, damien hirst, all those people who have, like, tens and tens, hundreds of millions, stay in england and pay their taxes and half the people that don't pay their taxes are the people, you know, who have nothing to do with music, so what i don't understand is, if you are cutting art, drama and music from schools, that isn't going to happen any more and you're not going to have home—grown talent. at all. and the music industry in england has always been one of the most powerful things in the world and it just makes no sense that you would take that off the school curriculum. music: ‘the shape of you' — ed sheeran. ed says he is now funding creative

a rts ed says he is now funding creative arts funding at his school and suffered because he believes it is an investment in the future of the uk's creative industries. with us now to discuss the issue of funding for creative arts at school is pipjamieson, the founder and ceo of the dots, a website that has been described as linkedin for creatives, by forbes magazine. thank you so much for coming in. thank you so much for coming in. thank you so much for coming in. thank you for having me. thank you so much for coming in. thank you for having melj thank you so much for coming in. thank you for having me. i assume you agree with ed sheeran. tell us a little bit more about why you think a rts little bit more about why you think arts education is so vital. well, i think people underestimate how valuable the creative industries are to be british economy. just shy of 10% of the uk workforce record in the creative industries and nearly 996 the creative industries and nearly 9% of people in the uk work in the creative industry. can i stop you there? i sometimes think people don't know what we mean what we say creative industries. what are the?

it spans everything from the bbc. tv, media, film, technology. they really spans, it is an ecosystem of people creating content. 0k. really spans, it is an ecosystem of people creating content. ok. so i interrupted you, i apologise. eurozone why they were so valuable. i think the other really valuable point is since 2011 the gdp growth rate of the creative industries actually doubled the size of the economy as a whole. it is a hugely valuable section of our economy, but it is also growing faster than the rest of the economy. i think if we are not investing in the future workforce we are really shooting ourselves in the foot. is there any evidence that there has been a drop in the number of children studying say creative subjects and gcsc level? there has been a 2896 say creative subjects and gcsc level? there has been a 28% job and thatis level? there has been a 28% job and that is off the back of one of the reasons is the government is increasingly obsessed around science maths and technology but what they are forgetting his creativity. there

has been a corresponding drop in the amount of teachers are especially teachers and design career, creativity and arts which has led to a corresponding drop in people taking gcsc. so a 28% chop. you know the difficulty is there is both time and money is finite and the government feels that in this technological world that we all live in now it is more important and probably more valuable to focus on those stem subjects. yes, but we all know the robots are coming and we are red domain entering an age of automation but three things the machines don't do very well, they don't have empathy, common sense and they cannot mimic the human capability to be creative. we are entering an age where the coating by rule, we are going to be able to automate that. what we need is people that come up with creative ideas and that includes in the technology space as well. so the future is creative and we have to invest in that feature. pip jamieson, i'm really sorry. we've got to leave it there. but pip

jamieson from the dots. thank you. an aircraft enthusiast in norfolk has spent 10 years painstakingly building a replica of a german fokker. it was immortalised by the fighter ace, baron von richthofen, also known as the german red barron during the first world war. alex dolan has the story. from the german airfields and france, the german machines are faster and more numerous than the ally. the enemy squadron were hard to beat. baron von rick tobin also known as the red baron became one of germany's most jack brett fighter pilots during world war i. flying his distinctive red plane on dozens of combat message. today this brings us of combat message. today this brings us back to that time. it has been recreated by this doctor. it was a big challenge. it took about ten yea rs. big challenge. it took about ten years. you have to order a few thanks, like an engine which is quite a bit of. 0r thanks, like an engine which is quite a bit of. or you have to spend a lot of time working on it. is the exact size of the original, but has a modern, more reliable engine. and

this version has breaks. so what is it like to fly? it's very scary. i remember my first flight here because i am so used to be tighter flying, i thought this aircraft is probably more similar. but when i was hitting it ijust could not believe it. suddenly i was putting power on. it lifted off nicely and suddenly the whole thing veered over to the right. i said what on earth is happening here. and ijust remember people saying what you have to do, what is different to this aircraft, and then ijust changed things. and be the first half an hour when i actually flew and had to learn to reply it again. that is it. i'm in. fantastic. the original aircraft were all destroyed or lost, so technical drawings created in the 70s were used for the build. it wasn't i doubt formidable brain, but it's life span was short. —— it was an agile, formidable plane. they came out in july 19 17.

an agile, formidable plane. they came out injuly1917. and already april 18 this aircraft was obsolete. the red baron remains one of the best—known fighter pilots of all time. his career in the cockpit was shut down matt kuchar in april 2019 when he was killed over france —— april 19. we have to when he was killed over france —— april19. we have to remember when he was killed over france —— april 19. we have to remember that when they were trained almost every day won't pilot was killed by training to fly an aircraft. you feel very close to these people because you realise how difficult it must have been. and that was alex dunn linda reporting. now let's catch up with the weather. thank you very much. bring on his way, but not that much really is the story for the next 24 hours. moving in as we speak across northwest scotla nd in as we speak across northwest scotland and northern ireland. at the same time some sharp showers pushing up across the channel coast. somejust built into pushing up across the channel coast. some just built into the southeast corner overnight. with cloudy conditions here, temperatures will stay up perhaps into the mid—teens. at the same time our web front

gradually moves its way out of scotla nd gradually moves its way out of scotland into the north of england and wales. behind is something a little bit fresher. it looks as though for the most of scotland on wednesday, it can be sunny spells and battered showers. 0ur weather from a week of there by then, just pushing them into the north of england and the midlands. 0dd spot or two of england and the midlands. 0dd spot ortwo of rain england and the midlands. 0dd spot or two of rain with it. to be south of that front we still keep some warmth, 20 or 21 degrees, a little bit fresher. behind it is some sunshine. looking ahead, dave predominantly dry. in the south will warm—up for the second half of weekend. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. we begin with the rohingya crisis, the un security council is holding an emergency session after its damning report on torture, rain and genocide in myanmar. we'll be live in new york. we take you inside the greek refugee camp branded the worst in the world by a leading charity. there's violence, overcrowding, and children as young as ten attempting suicide. they lost their life in the war and

they come here and they lost their life become to another camp and they lost their mind. as millions continue to flee the crisis in venezuela, colombia, peru and ecuador meet to discuss how to handle the huge influx. and we're in detroit where fans of aretha franklin are queuing up to pay their respects.