hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. today at 2.00. the summer of 2018 — the hottest ever in england. and the joint—hottest in uk weather records. britain will get "diddly squat" from the brexit talks because it's already flying the white flag, says boris johnson — but downing street and critics say he offers no new ideas. this isn't a strategy, it's not a plan. once again, it's a case of leap before you look. there's absolutely no proposal here. we must keep them safe: the home secretary says there are up to 80,000 paedophiles in the uk who pose a threat to children online. good evans: shock in the broadcast world as radio 2's breakfast show presenter chris evans says he's leaving after eight years — to front the rival show on virgin radio. coming up on afternoon live — all the sport with hugh. a great test cricketer calls time on his international career with england. former england captain alastair cook

will retire from international cricket after this week's final test against india. he departs as their highest ever run scorer. and the weather leading the news. it looks all right out there. not bad. the story today will be about the summer the story today will be about the summer records, but in the short term it's actually looking like the weather is going downhill this week. we'll talk about the summer for the rest of the programme. thanks. also coming up — i'll be talking to the step—sister of anne frank who — like her — as a child in amsterdam was sent to a concentration camp by the nazis. a new documentary charts 0tto frank's desperate attempts to get his family refuge in america — years before the holocaust. hello, everyone.

this is afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. we knew it was hot this summer — but confirmation from the met office that 2018 will go down in the record books. it was the hottest summer on record in england — and the joint hottest for the whole of the uk. figures just out show that the dry, sweltering conditions we all remember injune and july actually gave way to a much more average august. the record—breaking figure for england narrowly beat the temperatures during the summer drought of 1976 — with the uk experiencing its hottest june day in 41 years, when a temperature of 34.5 celsius — that's 94 degrees fahrenheit — was recorded at heathrow. our environment correpondent matt mcgrathjoins me now. it's not a huge surprise because we all went through it. we knew it was hot but now we know how hot. in some respects it is a surprise it's not breaking more records. if you look at the figures the met office have put out, they say that 2018's

summer, the average mean temperature was 15.8 degrees. 2006, 15.70 eight, 2000 and statistically speaking they say you round these up to 15.8 and it's too close to cool between any one of them. as for england, england slightly ahead of 1976. of course, we had the beast from the east and a terrible winter. is this what we are now looking at is the norm? everyone is going to talk about global warming. there is a climate element but this is essentially weather. what's interesting is if you look at the amount of hot days, in 2018 we had 80 days above 29 degrees. compared

to the very hot days we only had 12 of those. people really remember those scorching days. we had a lot of very hot days but not enough to break the record. and tomasz is here too. it felt a lot hotter than that, didn't it? to be honest there's not a lot to add. i remember 2003, that was a really, really hot here and that's also among the joint years with 76. that year we had temperatures up to 38.5. that felt like the middle east in london, it really did. this year we didn't have the high temperatures but it was still a very persistent, hot spell and enough tojoin still a very persistent, hot spell and enough to join the record still a very persistent, hot spell and enough tojoin the record back with 76. you're going to be looking

forward in 20 minutes. we'll talk about it all over again! these temperatures, i mean the temperature of 94 fahrenheit at heathrow, how exceptional is it? it's hard to give a perspective on all of the years. scientists this year have talked about the question of climate change, as it made it more likely will have a hot summer? they say it doubles the chance across europe. the met office are looking forward to the next 30 years and, be specific about any one particular summer specific about any one particular summer but they save by the 2040s we may have every second summer like the summer we've just had. they say it's building on the question of climate change. those who remember 1976, it was a drought. this year there were no water bans in place. are we better prepared? it's

possible that it was such a surprise in 1976. we had some of that this year but not all of that. if you look at the contrast between england, scotland, northern ireland and wales, they had their sunny days backin and wales, they had their sunny days back in the 1990s but not this year. perhaps the overall impression can bea perhaps the overall impression can be a bit misleading by focusing on england's. we would be foolish to read much more into these figures in terms of weather this is the pattern for the future. scientists would say it's likely to be warmer in the future, they can't give any predictions. next year it could be com pletely predictions. next year it could be completely soggy. the understanding is over 15 years the chance of this type of summer happening again would increase. thank you. borisjohnson has brutally attacked the prime minister's brexit strategy — saying the uk will get "diddly squat" from the negotiations, and accusing mrs may of going into battle with the "white flag fluttering".

victory for brussels, says the former foreign secretary, is inevitable. downing street hit back — saying his article contained "no new ideas" and that "serious leadership with a serious plan" was needed. here's our political correspondent, susannah mendonca. the former foreign secretary has never been a fan of the prime minister's plan for brexit. he resigned over the issue injuly and now he is taking aim yet again. writing in his newspaper column, borisjohnson said the check is plan meant to going into battle with the white flag fluttering. he said it would lead to victory for the eu while leaving the uk lying flat on the canvas, and that the government would be handing over taxpayers' cash for two thirds of diddly squat. it comes as the government prepares to get set for what is likely to be the toughest period yet in the brexit negotiations. a spokesperson for number 10 said boris johnson had offered no new ideas on brexit and that the country needed serious leadership. that was a view echoed by the former home secretary, speaking with the bbc‘s

politics live earlier. i don't think it's helpful, all of this kind of fervent but short—term approach to brexit which just has two or three words to try and some up a strategy. this isn't a strategy, it's not a plan. once again, it's a case of leap before you look. there is absolutely no proposal here. the best shot we have, i feel, for brexit that will work for the uk, is the chequers deal the prime minister has. other comments will be seen as a rallying call for conservative brexiteers. jacob rees—mogg and others are gearing up to put forward an alternative to the plan forged at chequers, which has also met opposition from tory remainers, who want a closer relationship with the eu. we have been negotiating that long term free trade agreement along the lines of canada. we are not going to be able to get to nirvana in one step. the prime minister has one plan for a transition which is much worse than my plan. the government insists its brexit strategy is precise and pragmatic, but opposition is mounting in tory ranks and that is before the prime minister even tries

to get her plans passed parliament. a national campaign pushing for a people's vote on a final brexit deal has been gathering cross—party support from some mps. labour doesn't support a second referendum, and says theresa may's chequers plan is finished. i think the conservatives will fall apart. i don't think they will secure a deal that will protect jobs and the economy. that is why the government should move aside and let us get on with the negotiations. those negotiations are continuing, but things could be rather awkward after the eu's chief negotiator said he was strongly opposed to key parts of the prime minister's plans. susannah mendonca, bbc news, westminster. let's talk to our political correspondentjessica parker at westminster. the summer the summer recess the summer recess is over. yes, it's strange. there's quite a feverish atmosphere in westminster and

parliament hasn't officially returned yet. that is tomorrow when mps will return to the chamber. it's true to say there is a difficult situation for theresa may to deal with. she's got the long—awaited checkers plan which emerged injuly but it seems not only are tory brexiteers deeply unhappy with her ideas such as a common rule book with the eu on goods and agricultural products but also remainers are now voicing opposition. but automatically leads to the question as to whether she can possibly get this plan through, if indeed the eu eventually endorses it as well. looking to the labour party, they obviously aren't offering any guarantees either. the labour party saying they want a general election. they think that is the best way to resolve things. looking back to the last one, some people might question that. perhaps one comforting thought for theresa may is while her party might seem

deeply divided in terms of what to do with brexit, there is probably no majority for a no deal scenario although a number of brexiteers are relatively comfortable with the idea. the wrestling match over what to do continues. the home secretary sajid javid says he's shocked at the scale of online child abuse and has vowed to make it his personal mission to tackle it. the national crime agency says up to 80,000 people in the uk pose a threat to children online. it also says there's been a 700% rise in the number of child abuse images reported to it over the last five years. 0ur correspondent duncan kennedy reports. the images are horrific. the numbers are chilling. the challenges are daunting. 0nline child abuse is the grim curse on the internet, and the scale of it can be hard to take him. today's figures from the national crime agency show that there are now around 80,000 paedophiles in britain who pose a threat to children online.

they say they are making 400 arrests every month and that 500 children are being safeguarded every month. the nca says internet companies must do more. 50% of the images that were referred to us during a week earlier this month were known to us. if an image is known, that means that technology companies are in a good position to block access to that image. so, we want proactive and aggressive blocking to make sure people can't access these images. we also want those images taken down as quickly as possible. in just one recent week—long operation, the nca arrested more than 130 people, including teachers, a children's entertainer and a former police officer. today, the home secretary spoke of the horrors of this bleak reality now coursing through britain's online world. do not think that you can satisfy your vile perversions

from behind a computer screen or on a smartphone. do not think you can hurt our children or support or encourage others to do so. do not think that you will get away with it, because we will make sure that you don't. our children deserve to have their innocence and their futures respected and protected and to grow up without fear. the home office is already funding one technology project which automatically trawled through the internet to capture images of child abuse. but this is a cross—border business, involving money, paedophiles and the exploitation of vast numbers of children. duncan kennedy, bbc news. chris evans, one of the bbc‘s highest paid presenters, is leaving radio 2 at the end of the year. evans, who's been with the station for 13 years, presents the breakfast show, currently the uk's most listened to radio programme. he's going back to work

for virgin radio instead. lizo mzimba reports. one of the uk's biggest broadcasters, minutes after telling his millions of listeners the unexpected news. i'm going to leave. i'm going to leave radio 2. i'm leaving radio 2. i've been here for 13 years. and i've been on the breakfast show for eight years, taking over from the great sir terry wogan. a brilliant time, a fantastic time. an amazing time. i have loved every single minute. why is the show so special, the radio 2 breakfast show? because it was sir terry's show. well, because it was sir terry's show. it was very important. it is an important show. it is a useful show. it can do many great things and i am sure it will continue to do that. you must have been touched by the reaction on social media from the listeners. massive, massive. but four months to go. he is returning to the virgin radio brand on their relatively new digital station. he had previously hosted breakfast on what was once virgin, now rebranded as absolute radio. many believe his successor should be a woman. there will be a number of women

who will be considered. there are many women who work across radio 2 and bbc radio and indeed the bbc and beyond. they are very able and of course we will be considering them. there are many able men. the most important thing that we do is to select the best and the right person and that is what we will do in the fullness of time. his loss is a big blow to the bbc. he was named as its second—highest earning presenter, with a salary of around £1.6 million, but he brings in more than 9 million listeners. an increase compared to his predecessor sir terry wogan, and his breakfast show is the most listened to radio programme in the uk. and he has used the popularity of the show to launch initiatives like the 500 words storytelling competition for children, which has been supported by figures like the duchess of cornwall. he'll still be on the air until the end of the year when a new presenter will move behind the microphone. so,

listeners won't be saying goodbye just yet. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. the met office says this summer was the hottest on record for england — and the joint—hottest for the uk as a whole. the national crime agency estimates that up to 80,000 people in the uk pose a threat to children online. no new ideas of his own — theresa may hits back at boris johnson following his criticism of her brexit plan. and coming up — following a warning over the number of iconic animals at risk of extinction, we speak to tv wildlife presenter michaela strachan about the implications. in sport, there's nothing left in the tank. that's the assessment former england captain alastair cook as he retires from international cricket. after an incredible career, his final test will be at the oval later this week. while some fans are unhappy with the state of play at manchester united, jose mourinho has defended edward wood after they beat burnley for three points in the

premier league yesterday. and british teenager calls it a dream come true as it's announced he will be stepping up to take one of the main seats that mclaren in formula 1 next season. i'll be back with more just after half past. a bbc investigation has uncovered evidence of a thriving black market in controlled prescription drugs helping to fuel britain's addiction to opioid based painkillers. one of the most popular is tramadol, which the tv star ant mcpartlin was taking. now, as gps restrict supplies, illegal traders are filling the gap as jonathan gibson reports. i'm in birmingham to do a drugs deal. but the opioids i'm buying aren't street drugs, they're someone's prescription. how much was that again? 20 quid, yeah? yeah. cool lawrence is trading in tramadol. it's a controlled prescription—only painkiller. it's also highly addictive. last year, it was linked to 185 deaths. so you've got quite a good

trade in this going? yeah, not too bad. as more gps restrict supplies, black market traders like lawrence are plugging the gap. is it people like me that can't get them from the doctor's? yeah. and he doesn'tjust sell tramadol. i've got some codeine, ritalin. xanax, i can get that guaranteed almost every single month. it's an imported prescription, so if someone from america's got it, they'll bring it through. lawrence sells what he can get on an ad hoc basis. so the next time we meet, he has a different selection. so what's that? if you're supplying controlled drugs, you can go to prison for 14 years. even if you're possessing a medicine like that, you're committing a criminal offence if you don't have a prescription for it. so you need to be very careful, because this is a serious business. but does lawrence know that?

0h. bleep. what the bleep is this about? it's about you selling controlled prescription drugs illegally, the ones that you've got in that bag there. 0h! no! am i under arrest? you're not under arrest. then go away, please. you don't want to talk about you've been doing? no. do you want to defend what you've been doing? there's no way of defending it. i have my reasons. it is still of course something that's not defendable. so do you intend to continue selling drugs in this way? to be honest, after that embarrassment, no. but lawrence is just illustrative of a much wider problem, small—scale opioid dealers feeding what's become a british addiction. jonathan gibson, bbc news. if you live in the west midlands, you can see that investigation in full on the new series of inside out which starts tonight at 7:30 on bbc one. it will also be available for other viewers on the bbc iplayer. new research reveals that 46 animals that are iconic symbols in their countries, are at risk of extinction and could disappear entirely within the next 50 years. tigers, lions and the giant panda are some of the animals

on this international list of threatened species. tv presenter and animal expert michaela strachanjoins me now. 0n the face of it this is very disturbing. why publish the list u nless disturbing. why publish the list unless something is being done? i've been working for the conservation of kiwis which is the national icon of new zealand. so much so that people in new zealand are called kiwis. they thought it would be interesting to do the survey to see what other national icons are on the endangered list and it turns out there are 46. some of them people have heard of, some of them you've never heard of. if we stop with china, china's national icon? the panda. yes. i wasn't expecting a test! cambodia is

an animal i've never heard of, the forest ox, which is thought to be extinct. another one in mexico which isa extinct. another one in mexico which is a type of porpoise. that's down to 12. when you look at those animals, if it's down to 12 there's not much help. they put millions of dollars into it in mexico. numbers have got so low because it saved by catch —— because it is a by catch. when it gets that low there is very little hope. if you go back to the kiwis, in new zealand there are 50,000 of them left. they've gone down 99% but the work by doing in new zealand is making a positive difference. what are they doing? they are trying to make the whole

country predator free by 2050. a lot of their indigenous wildlife isn't used to predators. man came with predators. so stoats, weasels, dogs, cats and rats were brought and as soon as they arrived in new zealand than birds like the kiwi which is a flig htless than birds like the kiwi which is a flightless bird really struggled and that's when their numbers dropped. the assumption is always that its man responsible. most of the time it is! so what can man do to stop this? that's why this is a positive project, it has made a massive difference. i'd been particularly involved in predatorfree islands for getting these islands where they are getting rid of the predators and the indigenous animals can really thrive. we are looking at tigers, we being told about the threat to them for a long time. i know. there are certain animals that don't seem to

be getting that much better for. i'm not on top of the figures for tigers right now but we've been trying to co nse rve right now but we've been trying to conserve tigers four years and you read depressing stories all the time about them. more than half of countries analysed have a national animal at risk of extinction. you're not offering a huge amount of hope. it's one thing to say here are the figures but we are into a state where there's not much we can do no. if you can do something about an animal, like the kiwi, and the conservation projects are working, let's supported. what about the panda? that would be a whole different debate on china and what they are doing for their wildlife. i think numbers have gone up a bit, i think numbers have gone up a bit, i think it's gone from... i'm not sure but it might have gone from threatened to vulnerable or the other way around. the national bird

of wales is the red kite. it is on the threatened list but the red kite is actually doing pretty well now. it was almost extinct for many parts of the uk and then they had a huge reintroduction programme and now we've got 1600 pairs. that was where conservation really got behind wildlife and made a difference. i think that's the thing, we as humans only really react in a crisis. sometimes a crisis is too late to do anything. but sometimes it's not too late and i think when we find those points, when we've got 50,000 kiwi birds left and we can make a difference, it doesn't matter they are in new zealand, we should care about all wildlife, then let's do something to make a difference. that's a positive note on which to end. thank you. an investigation by bbc scotland's disclosure team has found a top surgeon harmed patients for years and that the health board didn't have the systems in place to pick up on his mistakes.

the former head of neurosurgery at nhs tayside was allowed to continue operating even after an external investigation found that he was injuring patients. dozens claim they have been harmed. nhs tayside says it has changed its practices as a result. 0ur correspondent lucy adams has this exclusive report. jules rose was a keen runner, but, in 2013, she was told she had a brain tumour. she was nervous but reassured because her surgeon, sam eljamel, was the head of department. he had even featured on the bbc. she had surgery and was told by mr eljamel it had gone well. but there was bad news. the surgery would have to be done again. later, she found out the explanation she had been given for the second operation was not true. he had removed her tear gland instead of her tumour. it's atrocious for nhs tayside to allow this surgeon,

who had blatantly made a mistake the first time, to allow him to perform another complex operation. it is unthinkable. she is one of at least 55 patients who complained after surgery by mr eljamel. we asked an expert neurosurgeon to review some of their records. in one case he found mr eljamel overstated the operation's chances of success and in two others, he believes that surgery was not done. that was negligent. there is no other description. it is completely unacceptable. it is dishonest. we know nhs tayside asked the royal college of surgeons to investigate mr eljamel. and its review is damning. it talks about a surgeon who failed to supervise his trainees, who regularly got his juniors to do his operations for him, and who rushed surgery.

mr eljamel no longer works at the health board. his lawyer told us he has no comment to make. nhs tayside told us there has been much learning by the organisation and many improvements made. but for patients likejules rose, that is not good enough. lucy adams, bbc news. and the full programme — harmed by my surgeon — will be on bbc one in scotland tonight at 7.30, and on the bbc news channel at the weekend. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz. that skies suggests summer isn't over yet! this is a picture from yesterday. i took it myself. i was walking around, it was a beautiful day. i think this picture of london

sums up the summer in the south. look at the palm trees, i'm sure the vegetation has been loving it and so many other parts of the uk had record—breaking temperatures. northern ireland saw temperatures around 30. it really is going to be the summer of our generation i think. that came on the heels of the beast from the east, we've seen some extremes and that's what we are talking about. it's the difference. yes, and we were talking about it throughout the whole year and thinking about what is this some are going to bring. this was the first day of meteorological autumn. it looks like spring. there's another one. you've been everywhere this weekend! going back to what we've just been discussing, we had the beast from the east earlier in the year, we had a lot of cold dry weather coming from eastern parts of

europe. we were looking at all these g rafts europe. we were looking at all these grafts and the blue arrows coming from siberia. when we got around about march and april, we were wondering if this pattern more or less is going to hang around and we start to see these persistent dry spells of weather coming in from continental europe, are we in for a hot summer and indeed, that's exactly what happened. the beast from the east brought the cold weather in the winter but to a similar effect, a similar weather pattern brought us warm weather in the summer. is that now a pattern we need to expect? is each winter going to get tougher as well? it's interesting. the point about the summer interesting. the point about the summer is that the met office is explicitly saying this is consistent with global warming. 0bviously, with

global warming continuing we are more likely to see spells like that. i think with global warming it's also the extremes we talk about. we have seen some incredible extremes so have seen some incredible extremes so far this year and we are really interested in what the next few months are going to bring. is the second half of the year and the next season going to bring any extremes? that would be a whole year of up and down. let's talk about the here and now. the story is the record breaking some ben summer, join record—breaking, this week things are turning cooler, as we head towards friday, it will turn more and more unsettled. we are starting to see signs out in the atlantic, the weather systems are starting to be pushed towards the uk, being pushed by the jet stream, which be pushed towards the uk, being pushed by thejet stream, which is overlaid here on the satellite image, you can see coming out of eastern parts of canada you can just

about see these arrows, and then moving up towards scandinavia. so progressively we will see more weather fronts coming in, progressively we will see more weatherfronts coming in, we have a weatherfronts coming in, we have a weather front across the uk right now, not a particularly active one. what is that mean? itjust means it is not bringing an awful lot of rain, mostlyjust cloud. the weather front is moving through the uk, which means across the north—west and western parts of the country are in that slightly fresher atlantic air. around 15 to maybe 18 degrees. the weather fronts, if you squint you will notice bits and pieces of light rain, that is pretty much it. then ahead of it across the south—east, we still have that warmth, the remnants of the warmth that we had during the course of the weekend when temperatures got up to 26, today we will probably get 24, 205 26, today we will probably get 24, 20 5 degrees. there is very little wind and the atmosphere so it is not moving things around much, so that means this weather front, rather than scooting away to the east, it is just kind of going to than scooting away to the east, it isjust kind of going to hang around our neighbourhood and then die a

death. so a bit of cloud across in central and southern areas, the cool air is days of the north west tonight, relatively mild dish in london, 13 degrees. tuesday, not much left of the weather front, from norway through to newcastle, that is the weather front, so ahead of it, still relatively warm, temperatures around 22 degrees or so behind the weather front, with that fresher atla ntic weather front, with that fresher atlantic air coming weather front, with that fresher atlantic aircoming in, weather front, with that fresher atlantic air coming in, we have temperatures of around 16 degrees. that is in belfast. then the jet strea m that is in belfast. then the jet stream for the second half of the week will keep on shunting more weather systems in our direction. the breeze will pick up a bit as well, the weather will be more changeable. there will not be a deluge, we are not expecting rain every single day of the second half of the week, but i think the trend is by the time we get to friday, this low—pressure has sort of parked itself across the uk and that can only mean cloud swirling around here, a bit of a breeze, and also

some outbreaks of rain, but there are hints that as we head into next week, sometime next week, not quite sure when exactly, but the weather is going to settle down once again. perhaps we will get temperatures back into the 20s. traditionally summer back into the 20s. traditionally summer ends on the equinoxes which is on the 21st, i think of september, or 23rd, is is on the 21st, i think of september, or23rd, is it, i need to check. i really should know this! let's not write summer offjust check. i really should know this! let's not write summer off just yet, we could get some spells of warm weather yet. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. officially a scorcher — this year's summer was the hottest on record for england, and the joint warmest for the uk as a whole, according to the met office. no new ideas — downing street has hit back at borisjohnson, after he dismissed the prime minister's brexit proposals as giving britain less than "diddly squat". home secretary sajid javid has demanded that technology firms do more to prevent child abuse, after it was estimated that up to 80,000 paedophiles in the uk pose a sexual threat to children online. and commercial radio beckons for one of the bbc‘s highest paid presenters, chris evans,

who has announced he's leaving radio 2 after 13 years. sport now on afternoon live with hugh. that news that alastair cook is retiring, effectively. how will he be remembered? he will leave an incredible legacy, but i guess his style, to build a slow lead, is petering out in international cricket, we see players playing short form who like to hit big scores quickly, that may well change in the future. in a statement, cook said his decision to retire from international cricket had come after "much thought and deliberation over the last few months". he added: "although it is a sad day, i can do so with a big smile on my face knowing i have given everything. he has captained england a record number of times, record test run maker as well, a fantastic career for him. it brings to an end, his

decision, a glittering international career. he made his test debut in 2006, and became test captain six years later, taking overfrom andrew strauss. he led england for a record 59 tests, winning ashes series in 2013 and 2015, and became england's record run—maker in tests, when he surpassed the mark of 8,900, set by graham gooch, in may of 2015, before becoming the youngest cricketer to reach 10,000 test runs a year later. he resigned as test captain, making way forjoe root, in february of last year, saysing it was "an incredibly hard decision" taken at the "right time" for the team. cook will still continue to play for his county, essex, but after a dip in form for his country over the past couple of years. our cricket correspondent jonathan agnew says cook isn't the type of player to hang around when he's not performing to his best. he hasn't had a very good year, his averaging well below what he would

wa nt to averaging well below what he would want to be everything himself, and i think when you have achieved all that you have and you are struggling to get that form back again, then you start to look at where you are, and the hard work that will be required to try and back into form again. and i think he's looked at that, he knows the hard work that's required to keep playing at that level, and a lot of sportsmen do this, they suddenly look, or they talk about going to the welcome and that well—being empty, anything that is where alastair cook is gone. he has simply decided hasn't got that jenny morecambe and 160 test matches, opening the batting, taken on the world fozz asked as bowlers time after time, sometimes there is half an hour to go before play ends, how you go, go and face that lot again. it does wear you down, and thatis again. it does wear you down, and that is why i think his resilience, as well as his fitness and his skill, but particularly that resilience will be what they lot of people admire about him the most. indeed, simon, 33 years old, alastair cook, but he just says

there is nothing left in the tank. let's look at the premier league, not tottenham amongst them. difficult week for manchester united and their manager, jose mourinho. so much criticism of them. if you want to be in the big time those are the kinds of stories that will happen to you. well, for a few seasons there has been a high expectation that spurs, with stars such as harry kane, christian eriksen and dell alli should be challenging for major honours. they began the pl season with three wins, including a 3—0 win at manchester united a week ago that really had people, rightly or wrongly, discussing their title credentials. but that has changed after a 2—1 defeat by watford, in what manager mauricio pochettino called a ‘wake—up call‘ for his players. theirformer midfielder jermainejenas was on match of the day two last night and believes spurs have to learn how to win ugly if they're to challenge for the title. i've still not watched spurs played poorly and manage to win a game of

foot ball poorly and manage to win a game of football can and that's something you have to do. i watched liverpool do this weekend against leicester, they were poor throughout and won they were poor throughout and won the game, i thought city were pretty average against newcastle, still managed to win the game. they have been too many moments, the semifinal la st been too many moments, the semifinal last year against chelsea, didn't manage to dig in and get the result, it cost them getting to the final. ten minutes against juventus it cost them getting to the final. ten minutes againstjuventus in it cost them getting to the final. ten minutes against juventus in the champions league, where things started to fall apart, and juventus sensed something. that is exactly what happened today. andrew robinson has been named as the new scotland captain, his first games as captain will be a friendly against belgium and then the nations league tie against albania in a week. and british teenager lando norris is to join mclaren next season. the 18—year—old has been the team's reserve driver, and took part in first practice sessions in spain and hungary this season. he'll race alongside carlos sainz, who's replacing the retiring fernando alonso.

that is all the sport, more in the next hour. an update now on a story that broke earlier today — in the last few minutes, the new united nations high commissioner for human rights michelle bachelet has called for the immediate release of two reuters journalists jailed in myanmar for seven years for violating state secrecy laws. she said she was shocked by the verdict and called the trial a travesty of justice. the two young journalists say they were framed by police, because of their reporting of a massacre of rohingya muslims by the country's military. just keeping you updated on that story. you are watching afternoon live. a new documentray has revealed the previously untold story of anne frank's father's desperate attempts to secure asylum for him and his family during the early years of nazi persecutuion. the film ‘no asylum' focuses on letters from otto frank, which were uncovered at the archive of the yivo institute

forjewish research, and reveal that anne's father made numerous pleas to countries across the world, before the frank family was forced into hiding. tonight sees the documentary‘s uk premiere, and joining me are the documentary‘s director paula fouce, and eva schloss, stepsister to anne frank who also wrote of her experiences during the holocaust, and who contributed to the film. thank you both for coming in. first, we can take quick look at the documentary itself... this cash of materials from otto frank is of truly, truly, remarkably important historical value. these we re important historical value. these were letters that otto frank sent for the purpose of gaining safety for the purpose of gaining safety for his family, but he wasn't alone in this, he was among all the other

millions of other people who were sending letters to the american government to be allowed in. otto tried to escape, and he had correspondence with friends of his, and they tried everything they could to get otto and hamley out of holland. but it is letter after letter, turn down to turn down that is so disheartening, it is the realisation that otto frank comes to that he is doomed. in the end of course it wasn't, he survived. many of us are familiar, most of should be familiar with the story of anne frank. this is different, because this is what he tried to do, her father, different, because this is what he tried to do, herfather, to protect his family for the persecution. absolutely true. otto frank struggled to save his wife and his daughters and it is heartbreaking that he was not able to obtain visas and get asylum for them. he finally

managed to get one these are only into cuba, and he would have had to leave his wife and his daughters behind, so he knew he couldn't do that, and it would have been taking a great chance. but the words of anne frank are so important and alive, even today, 70 years after her death, and she is a great icon of tolerance and respect, especially for young people. so this film, the making of no asylum is so important. you met your stepsister, anne frank, asa you met your stepsister, anne frank, as a young girl. you both were in amsterdam, you both shared similar experiences in the early period of the war. what do you remember about her? well, we were both 11 years old when we met, and i had experienced already persecution in austria and belgium, but she hadn't because she

left germany when she was four years old. she was much freer, she had no scruples about anything, she was not shy, she was a big chatterbox, already at 11 very interested in boys. i was much more withdrawn and shy. i admired boys. i was much more withdrawn and shy. iadmired her. ithought boys. i was much more withdrawn and shy. i admired her. i thought she was really outspoken, and she was a big chatterbox, and she wrote already at 11 in school little stories, so she was lee had a great talent for writing. you both then went through the hell of the holocaust. you survived, she of course did not, her sisters and her mother did not, herfather, your father did. and ijust want to know what he's said to you about his frustration, which he must have had, having written all these letters to try and get out of this horror? you would be surprised that he never ever spoke about this. this came to me as ever spoke about this. this came to measa ever spoke about this. this came to me as a completely new revelation,

because i think he just wanted to try to forget this, because i think he thought he failed his family. he felt that the diaries of his daughter in some way kept him in touch? oh, definitely, definitely. the diary, to publish it and promote her message was for him the most important thing. ijust her message was for him the most important thing. i just wonder how it felt for you to look at these letters in hindsight, all these yea rs letters in hindsight, all these years later, can see what your father had written, and the responses he got? he was rebuffed again and again and again. well, i must say i was really very, very sad, to see it was impossible for him to get out of europe and save his family. but this was the tragic story of millions of people who tried to get asylum anywhere in the world and couldn't really. it was really china who was really the only country where people could go, and i knew several people who did go, but

you can imagine that that time, in 38 orso, to you can imagine that that time, in 38 or so, to go to china, and without taking any money, how the full did manage this, i don't know. paola, the comparisons with what is going on with syria i know is something the programme you have looked at in the past. i am just wondering what the reasons were, the letters from america, the nearer otto thought perhaps it was getting close to getting a visa, there was another reason why it wasn't going to happen, it must have been deeply frustrating, but what do you think was behind it? historians say there are a few reasons why the united states was closed to immigration at the time. one was that the depression, they were coming out of a depression and the were worried aboutjobs. another, a depression and the were worried about jobs. another, of a depression and the were worried aboutjobs. another, of course, anti—semitism and then the third reason is that the united states government was worried that if you we re government was worried that if you were let into the country you may be a spy, were let into the country you may be a spy, so they will carefully at that, and the franks had been in

germany and in amsterdam, so there was suspicion, and it kind of mirrors what's going on today, in the way that our political systems in so many countries, we need a way to deal with refugees that's fair and that can be helpful. even cover your father, as i and that can be helpful. even cover yourfather, as i say, again and again and again was told no, you can't come, and then, well, we all now know what happened to his family. what happened to your family, because you went to two concentration camps. well, that's right, yes. we were as well in hiding for two years in the same time as hiding as the frank family first up my brother and sister got the call noticed to be shipped to germany and that is what our parents did not want to, of course, didn't trust the germans, so we went into hiding for two years, and we were

betrayed in may 1944, and the frank family in august 44. both families betrayed, do you know who betrayed you? we do know, it was a dutch nurse, who was a double agent, she really worked for the nazis but pretended to be a member of the resistance. anne frank in her diaries, she speaks of humankind and how there is always kindness, before she knew what was going to happen to her. i'm just wondering if you think she would felt that if she knew what was going on in the outside world?|j a lwa ys was going on in the outside world?” always think she did know a little bit because she could listen to the radio, the bbc, she was not allowed to, but the full did of course, so we did know. but of course with no images, like now you see it in your own house, on televisions, so you can't say you don't know, but at the time we thought it is propaganda, you know, it can't be that bad. it

was too impossible to imagine that the germans would guess living people, you know? children and all that —— would gas living people. u nfortu nately that —— would gas living people. unfortunately it was true. the yukon in 1945, the russians liberated birkenau. correct. and you are freed. i was lucky with my mother to have stayed in auschwitz. that sounds a bit of a controversial statement, but if we had been deported to germany or austria, especially the death marches, we would not have survived. and anne frank and her sister were taken out of auschwitz in january, so frank and her sister were taken out of auschwitz injanuary, so nearly before the borussia, and sent to bergen—belsen. and of course those camps were overfilled, and it became winter, and they were still sleeping outside, and there was no food for those people, and many, many, many people perished, thousands of them.

paola, the film goes out tonight. yes. you have just explained how we can see it. the premiere in the uk is tonight at conway hall at 7pm. and then it will be going all over the world community, streaming on many of the online platforms, such asi many of the online platforms, such as i choose, amazon, google play. many of the online platforms, such as i choose, amazon, google playm is fascinating, great pitcher to beat you. very welcome. eva schloss, thank you. you're watching afternoon live. a golfer with a prosthetic leg is suing a local authority for refusing to allow him to play on a public course using a buggy. paul horton, whose right leg was amputated after he contracted a deadly tissue—eating bacteria, claims brentwood borough council discriminated against him. the council denies this and is defending the claim. our legal correspondent clive coleman reports. you've got a, what,

120—yards‘ carry to the green. 120—yard, all carry, into a very, very stuff breeze. paul houghton is lucky to be alive. in 2000, while working as a roofer, he knelt in contaminated water and contracted a deadly bug, which can eat muscle and body tissue at a rate of 2cm an hour. well, you got over. paul's right leg was amputated above the knee, and he received the last rites in hospital. my swing isn't very orthodox. golf has become an important part of paul's life, and a buggy enables him to get around a standard five—mile course. he's represented england 13 times, and played in europe. in august 2016, paul had arranged to play a round at this golf course in essex, owned and operated by brentwood borough council. but on his way to the tee, he claims he was told he would not be allowed onto the course without a letter from his doctor justifying the medical need for a buggy. i couldn't believe it, i really couldn't believe it,

to be told that i couldn't play because i was disabled. what sort of message do you think that sort of response sends out to disabled golfers, disabled people? it sends the message out that we're not welcome, that we're not part of society, and that we're not included. and that we can'tjoin in a sport that is accessible to everybody because we need to use other equipment to play the game. in refusing to allow him to use his buggy, paul claims that brentwood borough council were discriminating against him because of his inability to walk around a golf course. in effect, he says that the council were applying a policy that indirectly discriminates against all disabled people who need a buggy to play golf. brentwood borough council is defending the legal action, and denies any discrimination. that's a really good shot.

golf is sometimes seen as elitist. paul houghton is determined that, by playing it and pursuing his action for discrimination, the sport will become ever more inclusive. clive coleman, bbc news. we will be bringing you all of the business news in a moment. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. the met office says this summer was the hottest on record for england — and the joint—hottest for the uk as a whole. the national crime agency estimates that up to 80,000 people in the uk pose a threat to children online. no new ideas of his own — theresa may hits back at boris johnson following his criticism of her brexit plan. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. the treasury and the bank of england are in discussions about mark carney staying on as governor beyond his term which ends in june next year. more on this in a moment. output from britain's manufacturing sector fell to its lowest level in more than two years in august following a collapse in overseas demand.

the markit/cips uk manufacturing purchasing managers' index showed a reading of 52.8 last month, lower than analysts expectations. water companies have set out plans to cut bills for millions of consumers in england and wales. severn trent and united utilities said they would cut the average bill by 5% and 10.5% respectively. thames water said bills would be unchanged. south west water said it would offer customers a stake in the business. we are talking about the living wage. the living wage and the real living wage, two very different things. what we have heard today is a survey that shows if a quarter of employees in the country were paid a real living wage, which is higher than the legal living wage, just very slightly, that would make a big difference to the economy both locally and nationally. joining us now is tess lanning,

director of the living wage foundation. what you are advocating is a real living wage, higher than that, and what you are saying is that if employers pay a real living wage, we will see benefits beyond just the employees? yeah, that's right, so the government introduced a higher minimum wage for over 25 euros, just £7 83 an hour, compared to the real living wage of £8 75 and £10 20 in london. this research looked across ten major british cities to see what would happen if you moved low—paid workers up onto a living wage, and it found not only that those workers would get a pay rise of about £1700 a year each, but also it would deliver real economic benefits. what kind we talking about? those are

driven by employment in productivity and consumer spending, but they also deliver savings to the treasury, in the form of higher tax receipt and lower benefits, which we are suggesting to be shared with local areas. so across suggesting to be shared with local areas. 50 across those suggesting to be shared with local areas. so across those cities if that was done you could see a benefit of over £1 billion to the uk's benefit of over £1 billion to the uk's top major cities. but employers have been saying paying a real living wage, but is difficult for them because their margins are being squeezed, they are paying higher rents, money is tight? yes, some sectors are facing a tough situation, but i think what you see generally is that there is this assumption that an increase in staff wages has to eat into profits for business, and be a cost to them. but there are now 4500 employers who have voluntarily committed to pay a real living wage, not just a government minimum, and they tell is there a real business benefits, in terms of improved staff motivation, improve relationships with staff and managers, and they are the things that underpinned productivity

improvements for businesses. thank you. and that's the business. more than an hour. let's ketchup with the weather forecast. tomasz schafernaker that. many of us had a fine weekend with lots of sunshine, very warm too, up to 26 degrees in one location. but over the next few days it is going to turn a bit cooler, there is a chance of rain as well. not every day, but some of us will need our brollies from time to time. but for the time being it is still beautiful, looking across the channel in guernsey, clear blue skies, stunning picture. but much more cloud around across other parts of the country. he is a picture from wales. there is a weather front moving across the uk as i speak, you can see it here, around five the just off the coast of scotland and north—east england. that cloud stretching further south too. the other side of the weather front as

is often the case, the weather is much better, more sunshine around, but it is fresher, temperatures around the highlands, 16th glasgow, 17 in belfast. spots of rain across parts of yorkshire and one or two spots of rain down into wales, the midlands and the south—west. for the time being, east anglia and the south—east, still warm, quite sunny, temperatures quite possibly in the mid—20s. through this evening, a very slow—moving weather front. essentially speaking that weather front will hang around off that north—east coast of the british isles, to the south a bit of cloud around. in the north of the country it will be quite chilly tonight, temperatures down to single figures, whereas in the south—east after that one day around 13, the overnight low. tomorrow, variable amounts of cloud and sunshine. that looks like this more central area of the uk and further south will be at times

further south will be at times further cloudy but elsewhere across the country there will be very little in the way of wind, some pleasa nt little in the way of wind, some pleasant sunny spells but not terribly warm in the north—west, 16 degrees possibly in belfast, we might nudge up to 22 degrees in london. and then the outlook for the next few days, variable amounts of cloud, some sunshine from time to time too but also a chance of catching a few spots of rain, notably those temperatures are dipping away as well. as we had through the rest of the week into the weekend, looks like low—pressure sitting on top of us and the weather turns again. hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. today at 3.00. britain will get "diddly squat" from the brexit talks because it's already flying the white flag, says boris johnson — but downing street and critics say he offers no new ideas. this isn't a strategy, it's not a plan. once again, it's a case of leap before you look. there's absolutely no proposal here. the hottest on record — the met office confirms

england's sweltering summer was record—breaking, and that 2018 was the joint—hottest for the uk as a whole we must keep them safe: the home secretary says there are up to 80,000 paedophiles in the uk who pose a threat to children online good evans: shock in the broadcast world as radio 2's breakfast show presenter chris evans says he's leaving after eight years — to front the rival show on virgin radio. coming up on afternoon live all the sport with hugh. former captain alastair cook says "there's nothing left in the tank" — he's announced he'll retire from international cricket after this week's final test against india. tomasz has all the weather. this week it's going to turn cooler and there's a chance of rain but it won't be raining everywhere. thanks.

also coming up — marking 25 years since the release of the first world war novel birdsong, i ll be talking to its author sebastian faulkes. hello, everyone. this is afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. good afternoon. it's boris johnson's most ferocious attack yet on the prime minister's brexit strategy. the former foreign secretary has said the uk will get "diddly squat" from the negotiations, and accuses the prime minister of going into battle with the "white flag fluttering". victory for brussels, says mrjohnson, is "inevitable". downing street has lashed back — saying his article contained "no new ideas" and that "serious leadership with a serious plan" was needed. here's our political correspondent, susana mendonca. the former foreign secretary has never been a fan

of the prime minister's plan for brexit. he resigned over the issue injuly and now he is taking aim yet again. writing in his newspaper column, borisjohnson said the chequers plan meant to going into battle with the white flag fluttering. he said it would lead to victory for the eu while leaving the uk lying flat on the canvas, and that the government would be handing over taxpayers' cash for two thirds of diddly squat. it comes as the government prepares to get set for what is likely to be the toughest period yet in the brexit negotiations. a spokesperson for number 10 said boris johnson had offered no new ideas on brexit and that the country needed serious leadership. that was a view echoed by the former home secretary, speaking with the bbc‘s politics live earlier. i don't think it's helpful, all of this kind of fervent but short—term approach to brexit which just has two or three words to try and sum up a strategy. this isn't a strategy, it's not a plan. once again, it's a case of leap before you look.

there is absolutely no proposal here. the best shot we have, i feel, for brexit that will work for the uk, is the chequers deal the prime minister has. the comments will be seen as a rallying call for conservative brexiteers. jacob rees—mogg and others are gearing up to put forward an alternative to the plan forged at chequers, which has also met opposition from tory remainers, who want a closer relationship with the eu. we have been negotiating that long term free trade agreement along the lines of canada. we are not going to be able to get to nirvana in one step. the prime minister has one plan for a transition which is much worse than my plan. the government insists its brexit strategy is precise and pragmatic, but opposition is mounting in tory ranks and that is before the prime minister even tries to get her plans past parliament. a national campaign pushing for a people's vote on a final brexit deal has been gathering cross—party support from some mps. labour doesn't support a second referendum, and says theresa may's chequers plan is finished. i think the conservatives will fall apart. i don't think they will secure

a deal that will protect jobs and the economy. that is why the government should move aside and let us get on with the negotiations. those negotiations are continuing, but things could be rather awkward after the eu's chief negotiator said he was strongly opposed to key parts of the prime minister's plans. susana mendonca, bbc news, westminster. let's talk to our political correspondentjessica parker at westminster. no love lost with borisjohnson and theresa may. no, boris johnson logging something of a political hand grenade into proceedings today with his heavy criticism of theresa may's brexit strategy. the prime minister's spokespeople were quick to point out that his opposition to the chequers plan is well known and

say he hasn't come up with any new ideas of his own, and what the country needs is a sensible leader going forward. even if the prime minister's spokesman is hitting back at borisjohnson, there's no doubt ahead of mps returning tomorrow as the summer ahead of mps returning tomorrow as the summer recess ahead of mps returning tomorrow as the summer recess finishes that she faces a lot of challenges in terms of pushing the chequers plan through. it's not only brexiteers who appeared to be deeply dissatisfied but some remainers say they don't think it's a go either. the arithmetic not looking that promising for theresa may. the labour party are not promising support of any kind at the moment. they say they want a general election to try and resolve things. some people would look at the last general election and wonder whether a general election could resolve the matter. certainly lots of challenges for theresa may ahead. she'll be hoping that perhaps some people who support her plan and sticking their head above the parapet as much as critics. i think the prime minister

and her team critics. i think the prime minister and herteam might point critics. i think the prime minister and her team might point to the fact there have been a number of occasions in recent months and years where it's looked like she is facing a huge challenge and has managed to survive and live on to fight another day. certainly theresa may facing huge divisions within her own party and it seems the eu will take a lot of convincing as well. it's notjust the conservatives who have these problems. the labour party is divided on brexit as well. there's a lot of pressure onjeremy corbyn to clarify his position, this idea the labour party are pushing but they wa nt labour party are pushing but they want another general election won't be enough for some supporters. we know there are those within the labour party who are passionately for remain and a number who want to see a people's vote which would be a referendum on the final deal. a lot of pressure on both political leaders. i think it reflects divisions in westminster and across the country as well. thank you. the home secretary sajid javid says

he's shocked at the scale of online child abuse and has vowed to make it his personal mission to tackle it. the national crime agency says up to 80,000 people in the uk pose a threat to children online. it also says there's been a 700% rise in the number of child abuse images reported to it over the last five years. our correspondent duncan kennedy reports. the images are horrific. the numbers are chilling. the challenges are daunting. online child abuse is the grim curse on the internet, and the scale of it can be hard to take in. today's figures from the national crime agency show that there are now around 80,000 paedophiles in britain who pose a threat to children online. they say they are making 400 arrests every month and that 500 children are being safeguarded every month. the nca says internet companies must do more. 50% of the images that were referred to us during a week earlier this

month were known to us. if an image is known, that means that technology companies are in a good position to block access to that image. so, we want proactive and aggressive blocking to make sure people can't access these images. we also want those images taken down as quickly as possible. in just one recent week—long operation, the nca arrested more than 130 people, including teachers, a children's entertainer and a former police officer. today, the home secretary spoke of the horrors of this bleak reality now coursing through britain's online world. do not think that you can satisfy your vile perversions from behind a computer screen or on a smartphone. do not think you can hurt our children or support or encourage others to do so. do not think that you will get away with it, because we will make sure that you don't.

our children deserve to have their innocence and their futures respected and protected and to grow up without fear. the home office is already funding one technology project which automatically trawled through the internet to capture images of child abuse. but this is a cross—border business, involving money, paedophiles and the exploitation of vast numbers of children. duncan kennedy, bbc news. we arejust we are just hearing that frank field, labour mp as was has decided he will not trigger a by—election following his decision to resign the party whip. the mp from birkenhead said he had huge support from his constituency who stressed he should simply get on with the job therefore will not be calling a by—election.

this comes after his decision to quit the party whip over the party's approach to anti—semitism. we'll get more from our westminster correspondence a little later. we knew it was hot this summer — but confirmation from the met office that 2018 will go down in the record books. it was the hottest summer on record in england — and the joint hottest for the whole of the uk. figures just out show that the dry, sweltering conditions we all remember injune and july actually gave way to a much more average august. the record—breaking figure for england narrowly beat the temperatures during the summer drought of 1976 — with the uk experiencing its hottest june day in 41 years, when a temperature of 34.5 celsius — that's 94 degrees fahrenheit — was recorded at heathrow. our environment correpondent matt mcgrathjoins me now. let's speak to michael le page, a reporter covering climate change for new scientist. give us an idea of how we are

unusual disses. as you said, it's only happened twice in the last century. the big difference between 1976 and this year is in 1976 it was mostly the uk that had a hot summer. this year we've seen heatwaves across the northern hemisphere, japan, canada, the us. this is what we expect on a warming planet. it becomes more likely to have these temperature extremes and for them to be widespread across a whole hemisphere. is this a pattern now? absolutely. we've seen it getting steadily warmerfor absolutely. we've seen it getting steadily warmer for decades, this absolutely. we've seen it getting steadily warmerfor decades, this is pa rt steadily warmerfor decades, this is part of the trend. we can't say this heatwave was caused by climate change but we can say climate change makes it more likely and especially to have the widespread temperatures we've seen. the important thing to realise is it's going to get a lot hotter. next year might be colder, may be the year after that we'll have a cold summer but in a decade

or so have a cold summer but in a decade or so this sort of summer could be seen as or so this sort of summer could be seen as normal. if you decades after that it would be seen as a core mac pro summer that it would be seen as a core mac pro summer for the uk. that it would be seen as a core mac pro summerfor the uk. —— a cool summer pro summerfor the uk. —— a cool summerfor the pro summerfor the uk. —— a cool summer for the uk. we've pro summerfor the uk. —— a cool summerfor the uk. we've set in motion huge changes, warmer summers are part of those changes. i don't know about most of your viewers but i found the heat very, very unpleasant. my house got hot at night, it was difficult to sleep. for some people it was more than an inconvenience, there were probably about 1000 deaths that could be attributed to hot periods like this. as it gets hotter and hotter that is going to be more of a problem. we are going to start taking seriously the idea we've got to prepare and changed our houses and buildings and adapt to this kind of weather. only in march we had the beast from the east. we had a very cold snap earlier in the year, does that even

things out? no. the temperature averages take into account the temperatures across the entire planet and we can see those temperatures are getting warmer. what's interesting about the beast from the east is its evidence the warming in the arctic is disrupting the jet stream which briefly means we are more likely to see temperature extremes. when it does get hot we get the same weather for a period of weeks which means it dries out, gets hotter than it would do. equally in winter, if we getjet strea m do. equally in winter, if we getjet stream is bringing cold airfrom the arctic and that persists for weeks it could get even colder. what we've seen it could get even colder. what we've seen is there's no doubt the planet asa seen is there's no doubt the planet as a whole in the northern hemisphere is getting hotter but within that we might be seeing more extreme weather. those of us who remember the drought of 1976, they appointed a drought ministerfor heaven's sake. does it suggest we

are already getting better prepared for this sort of weather? well... it's hard to know what to prepare for, if we are going to have more extreme weather. i think we had a bit of luck in that the end of the hot weather was broken by significant rainfall. next we could have rain all summer but an even worse drought. we have to prepare for extremes. for instance, we are still building on flood plains in this country which is crazy. anyone who gets the tube in london knows it gets ridiculously hot even in a normal summer. this summer it's been particularly unbearable. we've got to change our infrastructure to cope with these extremes and prepare for extremes. we are never going to be able to predict the summer. but

we've got to prepare for extremes and those extremes could become more extreme in the future. thank you. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines no new ideas of his own — theresa may hits back at boris johnson following his criticism of her brexit plan the met office says this summer was the hottest on record for england — and the joint—hottest for the uk as a whole. the national crime agency estimates that up to 80,000 people in the uk pose a threat to children online drivers who fail a roadside eye—test in three areas of england this month will have their licence revoked immediately, i'll be i'll be talking to a road safety charity to find out why. in sport: "there's nothing left in the tank." that's the assessment former england captain alastair cook as he retires from international cricket. after an incredible career, his final test will be at the oval later this week. andrew robertson has been named as

the new scotland football captain. he takes over from scott brown who retired earlier this year. his first game as captain will be against belgium ina game as captain will be against belgium in a friendly on friday. and british teenager lando norris calls it "a dream come true" as it's announced he will be stepping up to take one of the main seats at mclaren in formula 1 next season. i'll be back with more just after 3.30. an investigation by bbc scotland's disclosure team has found a top surgeon harmed patients for years and that the health board didn't have the systems in place to pick up on his mistakes. the former head of neurosurgery at nhs tayside was allowed to continue operating even after an external investigation found that he was injuring patients. dozens claim they have been harmed. nhs tayside says it has changed its practices as a result. our correspondent lucy adams has this exclusive report. jules rose was a keen runner, but, in 2013, she was told

she had a brain tumour. she was nervous but reassured because her surgeon, sam eljamel, was the head of department. he had even featured on the bbc. she had surgery and was told by mr eljamel it had gone well. but there was bad news. the surgery would have to be done again. later, she found out the explanation she had been given for the second operation was not true. he had removed her tear gland instead of her tumour. it's atrocious for nhs tayside to allow this surgeon, who had blatantly made a mistake the first time, to allow him to perform another complex operation. it is unthinkable. she is one of at least 55 patients who complained after surgery by mr eljamel. we asked an expert neurosurgeon

to review some of their records. in one case he found mr eljamel overstated the operation's chances of success and in two others, he believes that surgery was not done. that was negligent. there is no other description. it is completely unacceptable. it is dishonest. we know nhs tayside asked the royal college of surgeons to investigate mr eljamel. and its review is damning. it talks about a surgeon who failed to supervise his trainees, who regularly got his juniors to do his operations for him, and who rushed surgery. mr eljamel no longer works at the health board. his lawyer told us he has no comment to make. nhs tayside told us there has been much learning by the organisation and many improvements made. but for patients likejules rose, that is not good enough. lucy adams, bbc news.

and the full programme — harmed by my surgeon — will be on bbc one in scotland tonight at 7.30, and on the bbc news channel at the weekend. motorists stopped by police in some areas will have their licences revoked immediately if they fail a roadside eye test. motorists will be asked to read a number plate from 20 metres. the crackdown aims to catch drivers who get behind the wheel each day despite having defective sight. in 2012, a study claimed poor vision was causing almost 3,000 casualties a year. the forces operating the test are thames valley, hampshire and west midlands. samuel nakjoins me now, he's from the road safety charity, break. i'm guessing you approve of this. we offer 100% supportive of this measure. we are working with the police to set it up and we want

people to recognise that they need to get their eyes tested. i help is crucial to good driver safety and that's why we are calling for mandatory eye testing. just to be clear, motorists who need to wear glasses are allowed to wear their glasses are allowed to wear their glasses when doing the eye test. yes, you're allowed to wear glasses. does this go far enough? we're talking about 3000 casualties a year because of this particular issue, is more action called for?” because of this particular issue, is more action called for? i think the pilot is a start. we want to get some good data because at the moment there's a of underreporting and how much driver eyesight causes crashes that happen. it's often unreported because sometimes they are unable to do an eye test. i think it's more of an issue than it appears to be. we did a survey recently and 1.5 million drivers have never had them official eye test. they are on the

roads and could have had underlying eyesight problems. it's all about safety, we want to get these people who can't see off the roads. at the moment you get your license at 17 and your eyes needn't be tested ever. it's absolute madness. at 17, 18 you do the 20 metre license plate check to get your license but that's it. that's it for your entire driving career. you want mandatory eye tests ? driving career. you want mandatory eye tests? absolutely. we want them at the beginning and then every ten yea rs at the beginning and then every ten years when you renew your photo card id. will that happen? we hope so, that's what this pilot is about. it's about getting the data to show to the government this is an issue. thank you very much. a bbc investigation has uncovered evidence of a thriving black market in controlled prescription drugs helping to fuel britain s addiction to opioid based painkillers. one of the most popular is tramadol which the tv star ant mcpartlin was taking. now, as gps restrict supplies,

illegal traders are filling the gap as jonathan gibson reports. i'm in birmingham to do a drugs deal. but the opioids i'm buying aren't street drugs, they're someone's prescription. how much was that again? 20 quid, yeah? yeah. cool lawrence is trading in tramadol. it's a controlled prescription—only painkiller. it's also highly addictive. last year, it was linked to 185 deaths. so you've got quite a good trade in this going? yeah, not too bad. as more gps restrict supplies, black market traders like lawrence are plugging the gap. is it people like me that can't get them from the doctor's? yeah. and he doesn'tjust sell tramadol. i've got some codeine, ritalin. xanax, i can get that guaranteed almost every single month. it's an imported prescription, so if someone from america's got it, they'll bring it through. lawrence sells what he can

get on an ad hoc basis. so the next time we meet, he has a different selection. so what's that? if you're supplying controlled drugs, you can go to prison for 14 years. even if you're possessing a medicine like that, you're committing a criminal offence if you don't have a prescription for it. so you need to be very careful, because this is a serious business. but does lawrence know that? 0h. bleep. what the bleep is this about? it's about you selling controlled prescription drugs illegally, the ones that you've got in that bag there. 0h! no! am i under arrest? you're not under arrest. then go away, please. you don't want to talk about you've been doing? no. do you want to defend what you've been doing? there's no way of defending it. i have my reasons. it is still of course something that's not defendable. so do you intend to continue selling drugs in this way? to be honest, after that embarrassment, no. but lawrence is just illustrative of a much wider problem,

small—scale opioid dealers feeding what's become a british addiction. jonathan gibson, bbc news. if you live in the west midlands, you can see that investigation in full on the new series of inside out which starts tonight at 7.30 on bbc one. it will also be available for other viewers on the bbc iplayer. firefighters have spent hours tackling a huge blaze at the littlewoods pools building — one of liverpool's most famous landmarks. the building has been empty for 15 years, but was due to be turned into film studios. a short while ago our correspondent dave guest gave us this detail. 17 hours on from when they first arrived, you can probably see firefighters are still here, the flames are long since out — but there is still smoke rising from this building. as you say, it's one of the most famous buildings on the liverpool skyline. it was opened in 1938 as the headquarters of the littlewoods football pools organisation. it's been empty for the past 15

years, but a few weeks ago came this exciting prospect of opening it as a film and tv production centre. of course, the fire in the west wing behind me has caused extensive damage to the roof and the interior of the building. speaking to the owner a short time ago, he says they are hoping that the structure of this art deco building will still be intact. he said they can rebuild the interior and sort out the roof, as long as the structure is intact then that project should go ahead. firefighters in the meantime are saying they aren't sure how long they'll be here. they're still dampening down to make sure the fire is completely out. but this landmark building certainly looking sorry for itself this lunchtime. chris evans, one of the bbc‘s highest paid presenters, is leaving radio 2 at the end of the year. evans, who's been with the station for 13 years — presents the breakfast show, currently the uk's most listened to radio programme. he's going to work for virgin radio instead. lizo mzimba reports. one of the uk's biggest broadcasters, minutes

after telling his millions of listeners the unexpected news. i'm going to leave. i'm going to leave radio 2. i'm leaving radio 2. i've been here for 13 years. and i've been on the breakfast show for eight years, taking over from the great sir terry wogan. a brilliant time, a fantastic time. an amazing time. i have loved every single minute. why is the show so special, the radio 2 breakfast show? well, because it was sir terry's show. it was very important. it is an important show. it is a beautiful show. it can do many great things and i am sure it will continue to do that. you must have been touched by the reaction on social media from the listeners. massive, massive. but four months to go. he is returning to the virgin radio brand on their relatively new digital station. he had previously hosted breakfast on what was once virgin, now rebranded as absolute radio. many believe his successor should be a woman. there will be a number of women who will be considered. there are many women who work across radio 2 and bbc radio and indeed the bbc and beyond.

they are very able and of course we will be considering them. there are many able men. the most important thing that we do is to select the best and the right person and that is what we will do in the fullness of time. his loss is a big blow to the bbc. he was named as its second—highest earning presenter, with a salary of around £1.6 million, but he brings in more than nine million listeners. an increase compared to his predecessor sir terry wogan, and his breakfast show is the most listened to radio programme in the uk. and he has used the popularity of the show to launch initiatives like the 500 words storytelling competition for children, which has been supported by figures like the duchess of cornwall, one of its honoraryjudges. he'll still be on the air on radio 2 until the end of the year when a new presenter will move behind the breakfast microphone. so, listeners won't be saying goodbye just yet. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz hello. let's see what's in store

this week after that beautiful week end that some of us had. it's going to turn cooler especially towards the end of the week but today temperatures managing to get up to around 25 degrees this afternoon in the south—east. a lot fresher across some of these north—western areas. a bit of cloud and some spots of rain through the evening and overnight, maybe across northern areas. overall it's going to be a dry night for most of us. 13 in the south, a lot fresher in the north. temperatures down to figures. tomorrow, variable amounts across central areas but the weather is looking particularly dry for most of us. maybe a chance of a few spots of rain in the far south—east but that's pretty much it. temperatures still in the low 20s in the south but mid or height wea ns 20s in the south but mid or height weans further north. —— high teens. this is bbc news —

our latest headlines. borisjohnson says theresa may's brexit plans would leave the uk with "diddly squat" — but downing street responds by saying that the former foreign secretary had "no new ideas". breaking weather records — this year's summer was officially england's hottest, and thejoint warmest for the uk as a whole, according to the met office. home secretary sajid javid has said the government will bring in new laws, unless technology companies do more to tackle child abuse, after it was estimated that up to 80,000 paedophiles in the uk pose a sexual threat to children online. and chris evans is to return to commercial station virgin radio, after 13 years as bbc radio 2's breakfast show presenter. sport now on afternoon live with hugh woozencroft, and, hugh, england are going to have to do something? they will have to do

without the former england captain, alastair cook. he has decided to retire from international, which means the search is on for a brand—new open and it has not been a great area for england over the last couple of years. cook will stand down with a record—breaking career, he will play his final test against india at the oval on friday, but at the age of 33 thinks it is time together but his record holds up against any batsman in history. he has scored 12,254 runs, made 32 centuries, played in 160 test matches, all of those are england records. he captained his country a records. he captained his country a record number of times, 59, and as it stands he is sixth on the all—time list of test run scorers. ina all—time list of test run scorers. in a statement today as he announced his retirement, he said there was nothing left in the tank, that his decision to retire came after much thought and deliberation over the past few months, and although he

says it is a sad day, he says he retires with a big smile on his face, knowing he has given ever thing. let's take a quick look at cook's career. he made his test debut in 2006 and became england's test ca pta i n debut in 2006 and became england's test captain six years later, taking over from andrew strauss in 2012. he leading them for a record 59 tests, he won an ashes series in 2013 and 2015 as captain and became england's record run maker in tests when he surpassed graham gooch in may 2015. that was before he became the youngest cricketer to reach 10,000 test runs a year later, so a remarkable career for him. test runs a year later, so a remarkable careerfor him. he resigned as test captain making way forjoe root in feathery last year, calling that an incredibly hard decision at the time, but it was taken for the benefit of the team. cook will still continue to play for his county, essex, but after a dip of form over the last couple of yea rs, of form over the last couple of years, our cricket correspondent jonathan agnew says cook was not the sort of player to stay around in a tea m sort of player to stay around in a team when he's nosy is not the volu nteers team when he's nosy is not the volunteers best. —— when he knows. he hasn't had a very good year,

his averaging well below what he would want to be everything himself, and i think when you have achieved all that you have and you are struggling to get that form back again, then you start to look at where you are, and the hard work that will be required to try and back into form again. and i think he's looked at that, he knows the hard work that's required to keep playing at that level, and a lot of sportsmen do this, they suddenly look, or they talk about going to the welcome and that well— being empty, anything that is where alastair cook is gone. he has simply decided hasn't got that jenny morecambe and 160 test matches, opening the batting, taken on the world fozz asked as bowlers time after time, sometimes there is half an hour to go before play ends, how you go, go and face that lot again. it does wear you down, and that is why i think his resilience, as well as his fitness and his skill, but particularly that resilience will be what they lot of people admire about him the most. andrew robertson has been named as the new scotland skipper. the

liverpool full—back takes over from scott brown who retired earlier this year from international games. his first matches as captain will be against belgium and then the nations league tie against albania in a week. and british teenager lando norris is to join mclaren next season. the 18—year—old has been the team's reserve driver, and took part in first practice sessions in spain and hungary this season. he'll race alongside carlos sainz, who's replacing the retiring fernando alonso. that's all the sport for now. thank you very much. the first world war novel birdsong is one of the best selling books of the past two decades, being adapted for stage and screen, and making its author sebastian faulkes one of the best known writers in the country. it was voted among the top 20 best—loved books in a 2003 bbc survey. this year marks 25 years since the book's original release. now the book's author, sebastian faulkes, is back with a new novel paris echo, and hejoins me now.

we will talk about that in just a moment, but 25 years, birdsong was your fourth novel? it was coming yea rs. your fourth novel? it was coming years. there were lots of people around you saying being a novelist isa around you saying being a novelist is a tough gig. and particularly writing a book set during the first world war. i had a new editor, and she took me up for a drink and said, what are you working on, and i told her, she lowered her head into her hands and said nobody is interested in that stuff. i said, i am afraid i've got to do it, she said we will do the best we can. anybody that has read it, new finished that book, some people finish it in shock, others shaking. it delves into so much, but the issue of mental health features in many of your books, doesn't it, and that is about that, too. well, i suppose so, it is really about the trauma of what happened not just really about the trauma of what happened notjust of the main

character in the book, stephen, but toa character in the book, stephen, but to a whole generation of men. i don't particularly explore in birdsong what life they lead afterwards but obviously you are happierfor readers afterwards but obviously you are happier for readers to infer what they will. were you happy with the way it translated onto the screen? first of all i think it was brilliantly acted, eddie redmayne, you can't ask for more than that. but you write a novel for it to be a novel, it is a reading experience, and you pasted and you use certain words, and you reveal certain things about characters as it goes along, and translating one, a book into a film or a play, it is a really hard thing to do. 25 years on, difficult to think it is, if you go back, was there anything in that book you would have changed?” there anything in that book you would have changed? i would have changed everything, i wouldn't write that book at all now. i wouldn't ta ke that book at all now. i wouldn't take it in such a head—on way. i mean, iwas take it in such a head—on way. i mean, i was 39 when i read it, and take it in such a head—on way. i mean, iwas 39 when i read it, and i suppose i have the confidence of

having published three novels, but i also had a certain sort of headstrong, sort of billions of yea rs, if headstrong, sort of billions of years, if you like, and ijust thought —— the ebullience of you. i thought —— the ebullience of you. i thought there was something urgent here that has not been understood and only to tell people, so buckle up, this is it. and there are no punches pulled. it was like playing a game where every time you said you wa nt to a game where every time you said you want to buy for one, you buy the two, you know, i raised the stakes all the way through. now, knowing what i do, i would approach it in a very different way. but you do certain things at certain ages. very different way. but you do certain things at certain agesm did all right, to be fair.” certain things at certain agesm did all right, to be fair. i think it was a legitimate way of doing it, as it turned out. bring us up to date, paris echo, the clue is in the name, it is based in paris. did you already love paris, was that a place you just thought you could write a bookin you just thought you could write a book in comedyjuno what the plot would be, how did that work? paris,

i know quite well, i have been there many times but i don't really share the view that a lot of english and indeed american people have, oh, paris, it is so wonderful, the patisserie, sidewalk cafes and so on, i have always found it a very difficult city, very beautiful, far more so difficult city, very beautiful, far more so than london i think but i found the people hard to get to know, i am found the people hard to get to know, iam not found the people hard to get to know, i am not a found the people hard to get to know, iam not a huge found the people hard to get to know, i am not a huge fan of the cuisine. so a lot of the superficial stuff doesn't really work for me. but it is a very intriguing place, it is relatively small, and what i love about paris, i think, is the way that its history is so open. all the names of the metro stations, all the names of the metro stations, all the street names refer to famous people, inventors, scientists, chemists, soldiers, discoverers. but it is also secretive, and there's a sense particularly in the last hundred years that bad things have happened in paris, the german occupation, and then... well, that isa occupation, and then... well, that is a central part of this because it looks into an american historian who is researching the nazi occupation. that's right, the first main

character hannah comes, angie is very well—informed about history, she is a professional historian that wa nts to she is a professional historian that wants to get to grips with what was it actually like day by day for brizzi and women to be living under the nazi occupation? how do they cope, how do they deal with it, what compromises did they make? the other main character is a boy of 19 who comes from tangier in morocco, tariq, and he knows nothing about anything really. he is of a generation who are the need to know anything they just generation who are the need to know anything theyjust consult their phone. they have outsourced memory toa phone. they have outsourced memory to a piece of hardware. and he lives very much in the moment. paris to him is continually supposing. he has never been on an underground railway system before, he has never thought about anything, he knows almost no history. so these two characters come at the city in completely different ways. for you as a writer, you had a blank sheet, you are walking around, then what happened?

ijust had this hunch that there was something for me in paris, and it turned out what was for me, after i had walked in one out several pairs of shoes and both my knees, which i had to have replaced afterwards! it turned out that what there was was this to me very fascinating and very timely question of if you are very well—informed about the past, about history and culture and your country and other people's cultures, does it mean yasir severally live a more valuable and worthwhile life than the way someone is lived by characteristically someone much younger who has been educated very differently? so paris echo is really i hope a lively and dramatic way of looking at these questions. when you are walking around the street and you see a name or something engraved in the stone with 1943 written in it, did you then go and find out, what was that about?” it, did you then go and find out, what was that about? i did quite a lot of reading and research, i covered quite a lot of the occupation in a previous book,

charlotte grey, but i go into more of the algerian situation. taricco works in a shop in st they are rather hidden in paris. there is the sense of mystery. and trauma that has not been not fully understood and that is i think what makes paris a exciting place to go. is there any other city where you could have end that american historian and a young algerian come together in this book? possibly not, andi together in this book? possibly not, and i think paris works but i am also fascinated by the way that americans love paris, and the resumes hate americans! it is a very unrequited love affair really. it is a generalisation of course. the french are not that keen on presumed either. yes, and paris is not

france, as every frenchman and french woman will tell you, they are very different places. how are the knees? they are brilliantly replaced and working fine, thanks. good to see, your new book, paris echo, out now. thank you. a golfer with a prosthetic leg is suing a local authority for refusing to allow him to play on a public course using a buggy. paul houghton, whose right leg was amputated after he contracted a deadly tissue—eating bacteria, claims brentwood borough council discriminated against him. the council denies this and is defending the claim. our legal correspondent clive coleman reports. you've got a, what, 120—yards‘ carry to the green. 120—yard, all carry, into a very, very stuff breeze. paul houghton is lucky to be alive. in 2000, while working as a roofer, he knelt in contaminated water and contracted a deadly bug, which can eat muscle and body tissue at a rate of 2cm an hour. well, you got over. paul's right leg was amputated above the knee, and he received the last rites in hospital.

my swing isn't very orthodox. golf has become an important part of paul's life, and a buggy enables him to get around a standard five—mile course. he's represented england 13 times, and played in europe. in august 2016, paul had arranged to play a round at this golf course in essex, owned and operated by brentwood borough council. but on his way to the tee, he claims he was told he would not be allowed onto the course without a letter from his doctor justifying the medical need for a buggy. i couldn't believe it, i really couldn't believe it, to be told that i couldn't play because i was disabled. what sort of message do you think that sort of response sends out to disabled golfers, disabled people? it sends the message out that we're not welcome, that we're not part of society, and that we're not included. and that we can'tjoin in a sport that is accessible to everybody because we need to use other equipment to play the game. in refusing to allow him

to use his buggy, paul claims that brentwood borough council were discriminating against him because of his inability to walk around a golf course. in effect, he says that the council were applying a policy that indirectly discriminates against all disabled people who need a buggy to play golf. brentwood borough council is defending the legal action, and denies any discrimination. that's a really good shot. golf is sometimes seen as elitist. paul houghton is determined that, by playing it and pursuing his action for discrimination, the sport will become ever more inclusive. clive coleman, bbc news. maryam is here — in a moment she will be telling us what's hot and what's not in the business news.

first a look at the headlines on afternoon live. no new ideas of his own — theresa may hits back at borisjohnson, following his criticism of her brexit plan. the met office says this summer was the hottest on record for england — and the joint—hottest for the uk as a whole. the national crime agency estimates that up to 80,000 people in the uk pose a threat to children online. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. argentina has announced austerity measures in a bid to tackle the "emergency" created by the country's currency crisis. in a televised address, president mauricio macri said argentina could not keep spending more than it earned. taxes on exports of some grains and other products would rise and "about half" of the nation's government ministries will be abolished. he did not say when the taxes would be altered or give other details. the treasury and the bank of england are in discussions about mark carney staying on as governor beyond his term which ends in june next year. more on this in a moment. output from britain's manufacturing

sector fell to its lowest level in more than two years in august, following a collapse in overseas demand. the markit/cips uk manufacturing purchasing managers' index showed a reading of 52.8 last month, lower than analysts expectations. so the long goodbye for mark carney, perhaps. the bbc understand the treasury and the bank of england are in discussions with mark carney about possibly extending his tenure by another year. he is due to leave by another year. he is due to leave byjune 2019 but the argument, the bbc understands, is that with brexit still being rather unsure, it would not be particularly fairto geta unsure, it would not be particularly fair to get a new governor of the bank of england in who was not clear exactly what the eu's relationship with britain will be. so they are hoping, or discussing, him staying longer, and apparently according to the word on the streets, it is that

he is amenable to that. it remains to be seen. earlier we spoke to chris roebuck, visiting professor at the cass business call about this. if you look at any organisation where the person in charge leaves after five years, there will be issues about instability, if you then add to that that it is the central bank and the bank governor, and then you add onto that the fact that this is in a brexit period, one of the most critical periods for our economy and country in the last 50 years, this is a critical moment to have stability. now let's move on the water because the water company has been telling the regulator what the price is. i have bought a prop. to reflect the fact water costs us a

lot of money and ofwat, the regulator, has been under pressure to find out what their financial plans are, their business plans in the coming years are. we have had quite a few bringing us their plans, seve tranter told us it will be cutting the average bill —— seven trend. united utilities said they would cut the average bill by 10.5%. and thames water, they have said bills will remain unchallenged but it will spend more money on the structure and cap pay—outs to investors. westwood talk to steve robinson, chief executive of thames water, joins us now from our newsroom. we have had these business plans being set up by a number of companies, if companies like united utilities and seven trend can cut bills for customers, why can't you? we have

spent the last few years talking to over a million customers and what they have told us is that their priority is making sure we have a resilient service. we saw the story about this being the hottest summer on record and what we need to do is to look after our customers and the service they have asked for. that is what i have asked us to do. they have asked you to do that by possibly one could argue that the infrastructure has issues. you have big issues with leaking, you have been fined the leaking, because no money has not been put in the way it should be over the last few years and this is effectively too little, too late. we need to look forward, we can't rewrite the past by what they can do is learn from the past and make sure we are doing the right thing going forward. our investors are taking no dividends for the next three years, in the next five years there will be very modest dividends to allow us to maximise investment in dealing with the issues we need to deal with. in dealing with the issues we need to dealwith. so looking

in dealing with the issues we need to deal with. so looking ahead if you do end up as you say giving assurances this money will go towards infrastructure, towards helping combat the huge problem of lea ks, helping combat the huge problem of leaks, will you helping combat the huge problem of lea ks, will you then helping combat the huge problem of leaks, will you then perhaps be able to tell us that prices will go down eventually? i think eventually that may be the case, but we should not underestimate the challenges we have got, not only the challenges of climate change but the population is growing at twice the rate of anywhere else in the uk. we have to invest ina anywhere else in the uk. we have to invest in a big new reservoir, invest in a big new reservoir, invest notjust in leakage, but also to look after more vulnerable customers, so this money isn'tjust the pipes and treatment works, it is also to help the customers who find it difficult to afford to pay their bills. ofwat says it will publish an assessment of every company's plan injanuary, assessment of every company's plan in january, how assessment of every company's plan injanuary, how hopeful idea that you will get something for this?” am hopeful. this is a plan that has

been built on the priorities that our customers have given us. we have spoken to our customers really closely over several years as we have built this plan, and we believe we have support of our customers, support of the board of a company, and the support of our investors so lam very and the support of our investors so i am very hopeful that ofwat will support us too. thank you very much for stop hillock of the markets? absolutely, i can't get over your wonderful new haircut. you look good, you look lovely. the ftse 100 good, you look lovely. the ftse100 is currently in positive territory, severn trent, one of the companies announced it is going to be cutting prices, the market is not liking that. the pound interestingly, if you look there, has weakened against both the dollar and the euro. that is off the back in part to those manufacturing figures that came out, which shows exporters are having issues with orders from foreign countries, despite the fact the

pound is weak, which would help exporters but it has weakened off the back of that news. you didn't comment on my haircut. compliments area comment on my haircut. compliments are a two—way thing. comment on my haircut. compliments are a two-way thing. not always. deal with it. no dear, she is all huffy. you are watching afternoon live. petrol and diesel cars will be banned from nine roads in east london from today, in an attempt to tackle air pollution. only electric or hybrid models will be allowed on selected roads during the weekday rush hour. it's said to be the first scheme of its kind in the uk.. john maguire has more. london's dirty air is blamed for around 9,500 premature deaths every year. air quality is monitored constantly across the city and scientists have a good idea of what causes pollution, when it is at its worst, and who is most at risk. air pollution is like passive smoking the whole time. i mean, the effects of air pollution are very similar to the effects of smoking.

you have increases in... obviously, it aggravates lung disease, it causes asthma and aggravates asthma. it causes heart attacks and strokes and it causes lung cancer. just a street away from the diesel and petrol ban zone, is a main road where dr rick thomas from the university of birmingham is using a hand—held monitor to track nitrogen dioxide levels. they are high but well within the legal limit. there are all sorts of pollutants that we can measure from cars. this is just one of them, n02. we are getting about 119 micrograms per metre cubed. this is pretty typical of what we would expect next to a road, next to all these vehicles coming past. the legal limit is 200 micrograms per metre cubed over the course of one hour. and that has already been breached in various places in london throughout the year. walking away from the main road, this is the area where the rush—hour ban will take effect. it's really important

that we actually start with the streets that are the most polluted. at peak times, surrounding a very important school where air pollution is significantly high, the highest in london in terms of our measures for air pollution. so it's important that we look at the streets that surround this particular area, work with our neighbouring borough of hackney and find a solution that really will make a big difference. around the world, targets are being set for electric or vehicles with extremely low emissions. there is no doubt that pollution levels are often dangerously high. it's now up to local authorities, governments, industry and consumers to decide how best to clean up the air that we breathe. john maguire, bbc news, east london. time for a look at the weather. here's tomas. guernsey, clear blue

skies, stunning picture, like small cloud around across other parts of the country. this is a picture from wales and there is a weather front moving across the uk as a speak. you can see it here around 5pm, just off the coast of scotland and north east england, that cloud stretching further south too. the other side of the weather front as is often the case, the weather is much better, more sunshine around, but it is fresher. look at that cloud, spots of rain across parts of yorkshire and one or two spots of rain down

into wales, the midlands and the south—west but for the time being, still warm, still quite sunny, temperatures still quite possibly in the mid—20s. a very slow—moving weather front, essentially speaking that weather front will just hang around of that north sea, a little bit of cloud around. in the north of the country will be quite chilly, temperatures down to single figures whereas in the south—east after that warm day around 13 the overnight low. then tomorrow i think variable amounts of cloud and sunshine. it looks as though this small central area of the uk and further south will be at times fairly cloudy but elsewhere across the country there will be very little in the way of wind, some pleasant sunny spells but not terribly warm in the north—west here. 16 degrees possibly in belfast, we might nudge up to 22 degrees in london. and then the

outlook for the next few days, variable amounts of cloud, some sunshine from time to time too, but also a chance of catching a few spots of rain. notably those temperatures are dipping away as well, as we had through the rest of the week into the weekend, low pressure sitting on top of us and the weather turns more unsettled. hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. today at 4.00. britain will get "diddly squat" from the brexit talks because it's already flying the white flag, says boris johnson — but downing street and critics say he offers no new ideas. this isn't a strategy, it's not a plan. once again, it's a case of leap before you look. there's absolutely no proposal here. the hottest on record — the met office confirms england's sweltering summer was record—breaking — and that 2018 was the joint—hottest for the uk as a whole. "we must keep them safe" — the home secretary says there are up to 80,000 paedophiles in the uk who pose a threat to children online. good evans: shock in the broadcast

world as radio 2's breakfast show presenter chris evans says he's leaving after eight years — to front the rival show on virgin radio. coming up on afternoon live all the sport — with hugh. former captain alastair cook says "there's nothing left in the tank" — he's announced he'll retire from international cricket after this week's final test against india. he's scored more than 12,000 runs. more later in the hour. thanks, hugh. we've just heard it was a record—breaking summer. the weather is turning cooler, we'll all need our brollies. also coming up — in news nationwide at 4.30 we'll be going to liverpool to find out the latest on the landmark former littlewoods pools building ravaged by fire. hello, everyone.

this is afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. it's boris johnson's most ferocious attack yet on the prime minister's brexit strategy. the former foreign secretary has said the uk will get "diddly squat" from the negotiations, and accuses the prime minister of going into battle with the "white flag fluttering". victory for brussels, says mrjohnson, is "inevitable". downing street has lashed back — saying his article contained "no new ideas" and that "serious leadership with a serious plan" was needed. here's our political correspondent, susana mendonca. the former foreign secretary has never been a fan of the prime minister's plan for brexit. he resigned over the issue injuly and now he is taking aim yet again. writing in his newspaper column, borisjohnson said the chequers plan meant to going into battle

with the white flag fluttering. he said it would lead to victory for the eu while leaving the uk lying flat on the canvas, and that the government would be handing over taxpayers' cash for two thirds of diddly squat. it comes as the government prepares to get set for what is likely to be the toughest period yet in the brexit negotiations. a spokesperson for number 10 said boris johnson had offered no new ideas on brexit and that the country needed serious leadership. that was a view echoed by the former home secretary, speaking with the bbc‘s politics live earlier. i don't think it's helpful, all of this kind of fervent but short—term approach to brexit which just has two or three words to try and sum up a strategy. this isn't a strategy, it's not a plan. once again, it's a case of leap before you look. there is absolutely no proposal here. the best shot we have, i feel, for brexit that will work for the uk, is the chequers deal the prime minister has. the comments will be seen as a rallying call for conservative brexiteers. jacob rees—mogg and others are gearing up to put forward an alternative to the plan forged

at chequers, which has also met opposition from tory remainers, who want a closer relationship with the eu. we have been negotiating that long term free trade agreement along the lines of canada. we are not going to be able to get to nirvana in one step. the prime minister has one plan for a transition which is much worse than my plan. the government insists its brexit strategy is precise and pragmatic, but opposition is mounting in tory ranks and that is before the prime minister even tries to get her plans past parliament. a national campaign pushing for a people's vote on a final brexit deal has been gathering cross—party support from some mps. labour doesn't support a second referendum, and says theresa may's chequers plan is finished. i think the conservatives will fall apart. i don't think they will secure a deal that will protect jobs and the economy. that is why the government should move aside and let us get on with the negotiations. those negotiations are continuing,

but things could be rather awkward after the eu's chief negotiator said he was strongly opposed to key parts of the prime minister's plans. susana mendonca, bbc news, westminster. let's talk to our assistant political editor norman smith at westminster. words like diddly squat, the gloves are off. we are in a fight to the finish over mrs may's checkers plan. although downing street this evening saying the prime minister is still hopeful of getting the measure through parliament, i'm not sure many of her colleagues share that opinion which in part probably explains the bruising put—down of number 10 by explains the bruising put—down of number10 by mr explains the bruising put—down of number 10 by mrjohnson. explains the bruising put—down of number10 by mrjohnson. it underlines how bitter and close this tussle is going to be. i'm joined by conor burns a close associate of mr johnson. theresa may has been in

tight corners over brexit before. despite the dire predictions she finds a way through. why will not she be able to find a way through with her chequers plan? as we've watched the sun flow of this debate, the prime minister has survived by aligning herself either to the remain campaign orthe aligning herself either to the remain campaign or the brexiteer camp. what chequers has managed to do is bring both remainers and levers together in believing this offer, they call it a deal, it's not a deal but this check is offered to the eu is the wrong one for britain. it is united remain and leave.“ the deal goes down does mrs may also go down? there is an interim step which is the period by which many of us want to try and persuade the

prime minister to return to the policy she eloquently outlined at lancaster house, uniting the cabinet and the party and which had the potential to unite the country. that's the policy we've been lawye rly that's the policy we've been lawyerly upholding. and then along came chequers. let's try and get her back on track. how is that credible? she'll have to go back to brussels and say she meant something else altogether. you would have to have a different leader with another plan and would that be borisjohnson? different leader with another plan and would that be boris johnson? you say it's not credible. michel barnier has been pretty stark in his analysis of the prospects of chequers surviving engagement with the commission and the remaining 27. when you've got the leave and remain camps in britain and the commission in the eu saying chequers isn't a flyer i think it would be sensible to take it off the table and take another look at it. she happens to

have the excellent speech and contents of which she outlined brilliantly at mansion house, manchester house and florence.“ maybe your preference for theresa may to carry on but you are prepared for the price of getting rid of chequers for the fall of mrs may? we wa nt chequers for the fall of mrs may? we want to change the policy not the person of the prime minister. the period we are about to enter into is the period to try and persuade her to think again. the accusation you face is that for all your criticism you have failed to come up with a credible and detailed alternative. at least mrs may has a plan.” credible and detailed alternative. at least mrs may has a plan. i hear that all the time. we started off saying we wanted a proposal that respected the result of the referendum and we camp eight under the slogan of take back control. that was summed up by david davis's canada plus plus. that's what we

thought we should have been pushing but myself and other tory mps in the coming weeks will be setting out in great detail what an alternative looks like, what canada plus plus looks like, what canada plus plus looks like, what canada plus plus looks like in detail. thank you. i'm sure that will be scrutinised closely by number 10 because their co re closely by number 10 because their core argument at the moment is that mrs may has put forward a plan which they still believe she could be able to get through parliament.” they still believe she could be able to get through parliament. i hope you've had a good holiday because you've had a good holiday because you aren't going to get one now for many months! maybe even years, who knows? see you later. we knew it was hot this summer — but confirmation from the met office that 2018 will go down in the record books. it was the hottest summer on record in england — and the joint hottest for the whole of the uk. figures just out show that the dry, sweltering conditions we all remember injune and july actually gave way to a much more average august.

the record—breaking figure for england narrowly beat the temperatures during the summer drought of 1976 — with the uk experiencing its hottest june day in 41 years, when a temperature of 34.5 celsius — that's 94 degrees fahrenheit — was recorded at heathrow. joining me now from exeter is mark mccarthy — he is the manager of the national climate information centre at the met office. it's not a huge surprise because it was hot! yes, it was. i'm sure we will all remember it has quite a remarkable summer for the long, hot, persistent, warm, sunny and dry weather. is the joint hottest summer for the uk weather. is the joint hottest summer forthe uk and weather. is the joint hottest summer for the uk and record along with 2006, 2003 and 1976. is this something we are going to have to get used to? is this going to be the pattern? well, heatwave events, here

in the uk we have quite a variable climate so we are at the whims of weather systems and air masses from the arctic and the continent, ocean and tropics. there is quite a strong aspect of the variability of the conditions setting up a persistent high pressure over europe and the uk this summer. those weather patterns are something we expect to continue. the difference being that we see these weather patterns superimposed ona these weather patterns superimposed on a background warming climate. the uk has warmed byjust under a degree in the last 50 years or so. we are seeing that play out across the world as well as the globe is warming. we expect this trend to continue. these heatwave patterns we see will be playing out on a warmer climate. you know there are those people out there saying let's not

forget at the beginning of march we had the beast from the east, perhaps this is just how things are and it all levels out. sure, we had some quite remarkable late winter early spring weather as well. that's part of the variations we get in the uk climate. but the difference is we are seeing that under a changing climate then the cold events aren't quite as cold as they once would have been in the warm events are that bit warmer than they used to be. thank you. the home secretary sajid javid says he's shocked at the scale of online child abuse and has vowed to make it his personal mission to tackle it. the national crime agency says up to 80,000 people in the uk pose a threat to children online. it also says there's been a 700% rise in the number of child abuse images reported to it over the last five years. our correspondent duncan kennedy reports. the images are horrific. the numbers are chilling.

the challenges are daunting. online child abuse is the grim curse on the internet, and the scale of it can be hard to take in. today's figures from the national crime agency show that there are now around 80,000 paedophiles in britain who pose a threat to children online. they say they are making 400 arrests every month and that 500 children are being safeguarded every month. the nca says internet companies must do more. 50% of the images that were referred to us during a week earlier this month were known to us. if an image is known, that means that technology companies are in a good position to block access to that image. so, we want proactive and aggressive blocking to make sure people can't access these images. we also want those images taken down as quickly as possible. in just one recent week—long operation, the nca arrested more than 130 people,

including teachers, a children's entertainer and a former police officer. today, the home secretary spoke of the horrors of this bleak reality now coursing through britain's online world. do not think that you can satisfy your vile perversions from behind a computer screen or on a smartphone. do not think you can hurt our children or support or encourage others to do so. do not think that you will get away with it, because we will make sure that you don't. our children deserve to have their innocence and their futures respected and protected and to grow up without fear. the home office is already funding one technology project which automatically trawled through the internet to capture images of child abuse. but this is a cross—border business, involving money, paedophiles and the exploitation of vast numbers of children. duncan kennedy, bbc news.

nick newman is a security expert at pa consulting, a founding partner of we protect — that's a global alliance led by the uk government working to stop online child sexual exploitation. i'm guessing unlike the rest of us you are not surprised by the level of the problem, the number of children at risk. not at all. we worked with the global alliance to put together the global threat assessment which was unveiled in sweden earlier this year. the purpose of that report was to take the lid off the scale of how this crime is evolving. we all understood there was a vulnerability of the online threat to children, but what hadn't been revealed was the sophistication, the organisation of these paedophile networks and how they are operating beneath the radar. i want to talk about youngsters in a moment but in terms of offenders how do you deal with

that? sajid javid talking about facebook, google, microsoft. he wa nts to facebook, google, microsoft. he wants to see more action. what can be done? there are a couple of areas to tackle. the first is how the law enforcement community are given powers to go after the offender community. this is where we've got to up the ante against persistent threat. i think wed the technology providers and social media and gaming companies can do more is to help children understand the risk by facing, empower them with better information to understand the risk and keep themselves safe online.“ you've got a youngster in front of a computer, there are those of us of a certain age who have never had to face this, how safe are my with what i'm about to do? one of the ways is when children are interacting with people they believe our other children, there is so much more that

can be done to alert a child if something is not right. the best way this was explained was as adults when we use our credit cards in odd places the credit card company will saveis places the credit card company will save is this a fraudulent transaction? we don't have the same for children. when they are engaged in an online conversation there is currently nothing making them aware that perhaps the conversation might be exposing them to risk. what do they do? we've been working with a number of partners looking at how you can use artificial intelligence. you can produce online alerts. you can produce an online green cross code for children. when i was growing up my parents taught me how to keep myself safe when crossing the road. we believe ai can spot strange language being used, it can spot the images these paedophile groups are using to make children think they are talking to another teenager. it can spot anomalies like

anon an eye ‘s asian techniques and encryption. if the companies can spot those anomalies and alert the children that gives them a pause before they share the inappropriate image or get involved in a conversation they might regret. image or get involved in a conversation they might regretm an ideal world you would want pa rents to an ideal world you would want parents to be on top of this, to know what their children are doing and the children to talk to them openly. that would be ideal but we aren't there. that's part of the solution. i think it's really important parents engage with this and understand what the threat is. it was pointed out to me this morning that if i had thought of sending an inappropriate image to a girlfriend when i was a youngster i would have had to got my father's camera, photograph myself in the mirror, taken the photograph to be developed, posted it. children today can share and image globally at the click of a button, before they've had that moment to stop and think i

sure i want to do this. anything that helps children understand that risk, helps parents understand, helps that conversation happen has got to be a good thing. thank you. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. the national crime agency estimates that up to 80,000 people in the uk pose a threat to children online no new ideas of his own — theresa may hits back at boris johnson following his criticism of her brexit plan. one of the bbc‘s highest paid presenters — chris evans — has announced that he'll no longer host the radio 2 breakfast show after december and will leave the station. drivers who fail a roadside eye—test in three areas of england this month will have their licence taken away immediately, in a moment i'll be talking to a man whose daughter was killed by a motorist with poor eyesight. former england captain alastair cook

has announced his retirement from international cricket after more than 12,000 test runs. his final test will be at the oval later this week. andrew robertson has been named as the new scotland football captain. he takes over from scott brown who retired earlier this year. his first game as captain will be against belgium in a friendly on friday. and british teenager lando norris calls it "a dream come true" as it's announced he will be stepping up to take one of the main seats at mclaren in formula 1 next season. i'll be back with more just after 4.30. in brazil, the country's oldest scientific building, holding 20 million items of historic interest, has been destroyed by a massive blaze. the museum director says it's nothing short of a cultural tragedy. katy watson is in rio dejaneiro. brazil's woken up to these scenes of devastation. what was once the portuguese royal family's residence is now just a burnt—out shell. this was the most important natural history museum in brazil,

arguably one of the most influential museums in the region. it had 20 million items in its collection, most of those are thought to have been destroyed. firefighters came on the scene around 7:30pm on sunday evening. it took until the early hours of monday morning for the fire to be put out. the firefighters' jobs were made much harder because two fire hydrants were dry. they had to access water from a nearby lake to be able to put the fire out entirely. president michel temer says this is a tragic day for all of brazil. 200 years of knowledge, archives and research lost. presidential candidate for the elections in october marina silva said this was a lobotomy of the brazilian memory. there has certainly been a lot of soul—searching going on since the fire broke out and a lot of tears. people are trying to understand exactly how this could have happened, and a lot of blame is being pinned on austerity measures, public spending cuts. certainly, people want answers as to how such a massive fire could have destroyed such an important using. motorists stopped by police in some

areas will have their licences revoked immediately if they fail a roadside eye test. motorists will be asked to read a number plate from 20 metres. the crackdown aims to catch drivers who get behind the wheel each day despite having defective sight. in 2012, a study claimed poor vision was causing almost 3,000 casualties a year. the forces operating the test are thames valley, hampshire and west midlands. joining me now are phil and rachel clarke — whose three—year—old daughter poppy arabella was killed in 2016 by an elderly motorist who had refused to give up his driving licence despite being told he was unsafe to drive by two optometrists. thank you forjoining me. this isn't easy for you to talk, it's very recent this happened. the particular thing about your case was the driver

who shouldn't have been driving a nyway who shouldn't have been driving anyway but he wasn't even wearing his glasses at the time. that's correct. he had actually failed his eye test by two optometrists and on that day he wasn't even wearing his glasses when my daughter was killed. when you heard that the driver was in that sort of state, that condition, what went through your mind? i was devastated, condition, what went through your mind? iwas devastated, iwas condition, what went through your mind? i was devastated, i was angry. i was shocked, very shocked.“ there is... if this works, if this pilot works, does it go far enough just having people on the road who at least can see properly?” just having people on the road who at least can see properly? i think firstly recognition for those police forces at thames valley and hampshire and west midlands, it's a fantastic initiative and what it does do is for people who are

failing and! does do is for people who are failing and i test, if they are stopped doing this pilot it as an incentive for them not to go out in the car. but it doesn't do is have a change in the loss over optometrists, clinicians and gps who know these people are unsafe to drive, but actually their licences taken off them so they aren't a danger to themselves and others. the trouble is you can pass your test at 17 and technically go on driving until you're 18 without ever having an eye test. that's correct and it's quite shocking when you realise that. when this happened to us, this tragedy, we were stunned that this is the current situation in this country so we is the current situation in this country so we are is the current situation in this country so we are striving really ha rd country so we are striving really hard to try and get this put in as an actual law and as my husband

said, the initiative that's been put in place is excellent. it is making progress in the right direction. but we need to do more, we need to try and get this put in place as a law. how would that work? would you expect optometrists to report anything abnormal that they see in anything abnormal that they see in any ofany anything abnormal that they see in any of any age straight to the dvla or how would it happen? what we are talking about is people who are deemed medically unfit to drive. in the case ofjohn place, he was deemed medically unfit to drive which was documented. the problem is you are only told to hand your license in which isn't acceptable. if you decide not to then u nfortu nately you if you decide not to then unfortunately you can cause such terrible harm to families. you find yourself in prison which i'm sure nobody would want. so, sensibly, the

point is to give the clinicians controlled to say this person is unfit to drive therefore we are going to make this simple decision. your license will be removed so you wa nt your license will be removed so you want a danger to yourself or others. so many people believe that's what happens anyway, it has been a shock to people who thought that wasn't the case. you were seriously injured in the crass in which poppy—arabella was killed. —— in the crash. i wonder how you felt when you heard this driver was doing what he was doing? he was out on the road, and fit. -- doing? he was out on the road, and fit. —— and fit. doing? he was out on the road, and fit. -- and fit. he had failed his eyesight test three weeks prior and then he didn't put on his glasses on then he didn't put on his glasses on the day. obviously my daughter died later that evening and i was injured. it wasjust... it was

later that evening and i was injured. it was just... it was a complete shock to everybody. we don't want anybody to go through the same catastrophic situation that we we re same catastrophic situation that we were put through and our daughter who was three and a half. it's very good of you to come and talk about this. a word about poppy. your memories of her? she was... she was beautiful. she was a really, really kind girland beautiful. she was a really, really kind girl and beautiful. very, very lovely girl. it's important we talk about her. i'm grateful to you for joining us. i know it's a difficult subject. thank you, both. chris evans, one of the bbc‘s highest paid presenters, is leaving radio 2 at the end of the year. evans, who's been with the station for 13 years, presents the breakfast show, currently the uk's most listened to radio programme. he's going back to work

for virgin radio instead. lizo mzimba reports. one of the uk's biggest broadcasters, minutes after telling his millions of listeners the unexpected news. i'm going to leave. i'm going to leave radio 2. i'm leaving radio 2. i've been here for 13 years. and i've been on the breakfast show for eight years, taking over from the great sir terry wogan. a brilliant time, a fantastic time. an amazing time. i have loved every single minute. why is the show so special, the radio 2 breakfast show? well, because it was sir terry's show. it was very important. it is an important show. it is a useful show. it can do many great things and i am sure it will continue to do that. you must have been touched by the reaction on social media from the listeners. massive, massive. but four months to go. he is returning to the virgin radio brand on their relatively new digital station. many believe his successor should be a woman. there will be a number of women who will be considered. there are many women who work across radio 2 and bbc radio

and indeed the bbc and beyond. they are very able and of course we will be considering them. there are many able men. the most important thing that we do is to select the best and the right person and that is what we will do in the fullness of time. his loss is a big blow to the bbc. he was named as its second—highest earning presenter, with a salary of around £1.6 million, but he brings in more than nine million listeners. an increase compared to his predecessor sir terry wogan, and his breakfast show is the most listened to radio programme in the uk. and he has used the popularity of the show to launch initiatives like the 500 words storytelling competition for children, which has been supported by figures like the duchess of cornwall, one of its honoraryjudges. he'll still be on the air on radio 2 until the end of the year when a new presenter will move behind the breakfast microphone. so, listeners won't be saying goodbye just yet. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz.

you out with your camera at the weekend. i was, it you out with your camera at the weekend. iwas, it was you out with your camera at the weekend. i was, it was a stunning weekend. i was, it was a stunning weekend. technically according to meteorologists we are into autumn but it still feels really pleasant. this is coming off the back of a record—breaking summer, joint record with 2003, 2006 and... 1976. that's the one! we won't forget this summer for yea rs the one! we won't forget this summer for years and years but they might become more frequent. what's happening now? it was like a summer's day yesterday. it was. these are the pictures i took yesterday. did you take that one as well? i did. this is hyde park. not a cloud in the sky. it was mid—20s yesterday. i think now we are seeing things cooling off a bit. there are

indications that next week warm weather could be back again and we could be seeing a spell of settled weather developing across the uk especially in the south. let's talk terms here, i have been reading one use paper at least, a possible indian summer. we are ways misinterpret what that means, don't we? yes, and people very frequently mention that this time of year, so if it ends up being a very warm september, is that an indian summer? in short, no. indian summer happens in october, november, and usually, just to be absolutely technically spot on, but it usually has to be preceded by a spell of slightly cooler weather, maybe some frosts. but you know what, the first thing doesn't matter, if you get low 20s and clear blue skies and a sustained speu and clear blue skies and a sustained spell of lovely weather, then october november is your indian summer, yes, but not september. we

are still very much in the summer months, not even in the equinox. when is the equinox? any time between the 20th and the 23rd, it varies, i know! between the 20th and the 23rd, it varies, i know i can remember last time. what is in store for the next few days? it is certainly cooling off, some of us feeling the cooler airover off, some of us feeling the cooler air over the next few days. a weather front is currently moving across the uk. you can see it on the satellite image, stretching all the way from the very south—west of the neighbourhood right the way through the uk all the way into scandinavia as well. there are more weather systems out there in the atlantic and they are being pushed by this jet stream coming just about out of canada. you can see that wind stream and then loops all the way to scandinavia. the jet stream will start sending more weather systems in ourdirection, if start sending more weather systems in our direction, if you want settled whether the jet stream needs to pull away way to the north and high—pressure don't build, but that

is not happening over the next few days or so. in the short—term, out in the north sea, we are in the fresher air across scotland and northern ireland, temperatures around 15 degrees. ahead of the weather front, just around lincolnshire into east anglia and the south—east, temperatures in the lower mid—20s, we just about nudged up lower mid—20s, we just about nudged up to 2425 degrees already today. at worst, we have that fresher at atla ntic worst, we have that fresher at atlantic air coming worst, we have that fresher at atlantic aircoming in worst, we have that fresher at atlantic air coming in so it is all very quiet on the weather front, a little bit of rain around in the north and east of the country overnight, but other than that pretty dry across the uk. a bit of cloud across central areas of the country, 13 degrees in the midlands and the south—east, fresher at atla ntic and the south—east, fresher at atlantic air in scotland and northern ireland around seven or eight celsius. then tomorrow, one thing you will notice, there's very little wind out there. some of us could be flat calm. that means the clouds will probably hang around

where they are. if you live in hull, leicester, down into birmingham, maybe bristol could be fairly cloudy through the day but the north—west is looking bright and possibly the extreme south—east hanging onto some of that warmth left over from today. this is the outlet, really difficult to summarise these days for any one city just with one to summarise these days for any one cityjust with one weather symbol. suffice to say there will be quite a bit of cloud in the sky, occasional rain. all of us i think we'll need a brolly at some point or another. friday, we don't like the look of this, low—pressure stuck over us and that will bring notjust this, low—pressure stuck over us and that will bring not just an this, low—pressure stuck over us and that will bring notjust an special —— unsettled spell of weather, we are thinking this weekend will not be anywhere near as nice to what we have just experienced, then after that it might be settling down, fingers. hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. downing street has hit

back at borisjohnson — who said theresa may's brexit plans would leave the uk with "diddly squat" — by saying the former foreign secretary has "no new ideas". 2018's long hot summer was recordbreaking, according to the met office — it was england's hottest on record, and the joint warmest for the uk as a whole. home secretary sajid javid has said it's his "personal mission" to tackle child abuse in a speech today, after it was estimated that up to 80,000 paedophiles in the uk pose a sexual threat to children online. and commercial radio beckons for the bbc‘s chris evans, who will leave the radio 2 breakfast show at the end of the year. sport now on afternoon live with hugh. we are talking about alastair cook, rather surprising announcement today. he is retiring from international cricket council i am still here at the bbc. he will be

playing his final test against india at the oval on friday. there will be the end of what has been a fantastic international career, 33 years old now, alastair cook, but his record in test cricket holds up against any of the world is not best batsmen, over 12,000 runs, he of the world is not best batsmen, over12,000 runs, he has of the world is not best batsmen, over 12,000 runs, he has made 32 centuries and played in a massive 160 test matches. let's have a quick look back at his career. he made his test debut in 2006, he went on to become the england test captain six yea rs become the england test captain six years later, he took over from andrew strauss before leading england for a record 59 test matches. they included two victorious ashes series in 2013 and 2015. there were individual accolades as welcome he became england does not record run maker in tests, moving past graham gooch, a year later he became pianist critic —— the youngest cricketer

—— the youngest cricketer to reach 10,000 runs. he said it was an incredibly hard decision taken at the right time for that team. cook will continue to play for his county, essex, but after that date in form for his country over the past couple of yea rs, country over the past couple of years, our cricket correspondent jonathan agnew says cook was not the type of player to hang around when he wasn't performing at his best. he hasn't had a very good year, he's averaging well below what he would want to be everything himself, and i think when you have achieved all that you have and you are struggling to get that form back again, then you start to look at where you are, and the hard work that will be required to try and back into form again. and i think he's looked at that, he knows the hard work that's required to keep playing at that level, and a lot of sportsmen do this, they suddenly look, or they talk about going to the well, and that well being empty, anything being empty, and i think

that is where alastair cook has gone. he has simply decided he hasn't got that edge any more, and 160 test matches, opening the batting, taking on the world's best as bowlers time after time, sometimes there is half an hour to go before play ends, how you go, go and face that lot again. it does wear you down, and that is why i think his resilience, as well as his fitness and his skill, but particularly that resilience will be what a lot of people admire about him the most. some of his colleagues have paid tribute. andrew robertson has been named as the new scotland captain. the liverpool full—back takes over from scott brown, who retired from

scotla nd scott brown, who retired from scotland earlier this year. his first matches as captain will be a friendly against belgium on friday, then a nations league tie against albania in a week. and british teenager lando norris is to join mclaren next season. the 18—year—old has been the team's reserve driver, and took part in first practice sessions in spain and hungary this season. he'll race alongside carlos sainz, who's replacing the retiring fernando alonso. that is all the sport for now. james pearce will be here in the next hour with more. now on afternoon live — let's go nationwide — and see what's happening around the country — in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. let's go to rogerjohnson in salford, where fire—fighters have spent the day damping down after a huge blaze at one of liverpool's most famous buildings. and in birmingham is nick owen, where a bbc investigation has uncovered evidence of a thriving black market in controlled prescription drugs helping to fuel britain s addiction

to opioid based painkillers. first, roger, this fire quite devastating, and such a landmark. yes, if you think of liverpool, there are buildings like the labour building on the waterfront, the two cathedrals of the city, but the littlewoods building, a big art deco building, very grand, it has been there 30 years. it has been derelict since 2003. overnight a blaze took hold of the west wing in the upper floor of the roof. it has caused considerable damage. as i will explain ina considerable damage. as i will explain in a minute a main be entirely catastrophic but firefighters really had their work cut out. structural safety inside

the building was in great so we had to pull out firefighters very early on into the incident and deal with external fire fighting only until we got for control of it. we have done a story on this before about the plans for this building, because it was going to be a big tv and film studio. what does it mean for those plans? speaking to the owners today hopefully it may not be entirely catastrophic because the structure of the building they think is still sound. they will tell you they had an awful lot of work to do internally anyway, so the plans are still going ahead, as far as we know, tonight, to turn it into a tv and film production centre in liverpool, which will be good news for many people. but the damage, 50 firefighters were there overnight, we have some aerial pictures as you can see now. it really did cause a lot of damage there overnight, 50 firefighters, a lot of hard work to get it under control, but perhaps

not entirely detrimental, as i was saying, to the plans ultimately to get the creative arts, tv and film production going there. i wouldn't say it has helped them or done them a favour but they had a lot of work to do, they had to rip a lot of stuff out, so as long as the building a sound they are confident they can still go ahead with the development. still but that iconic facade, the building, not you, roger! thank you for that. let's move roger! thank you for that. let's m ove o nto roger! thank you for that. let's move onto neck. tell us more, this is an inside out investigation, a black market for prescription drugs. that's right, we have a growing problem in this country with opioid —based drugs, powerful prescription only drugs, properly used to revere severe chronic pain. tramadol is probably the best— known severe chronic pain. tramadol is probably the best—known of them. the trouble is they can become addictive, that is why gps are becoming recruiting the reluctant to describe them. as a result, people who are addicted are turning to the black market where illegal traders are selling pills on a no questions asked basis either over the internet or from home. inside

asked basis either over the internet orfrom home. inside out asked basis either over the internet or from home. inside out west midlands tracked down one man called lawrence, who they secretly filmed offering a variety of drugs to reporterjonathan offering a variety of drugs to reporter jonathan gibson. offering a variety of drugs to reporterjonathan gibson. how much was that again? 20 quid, yeah? year. i have some dihydrocodeine. michelin, xanax, i can get that guaranteed nearly every month but it is imported prescription, so someone from america has got it, they bring it through. so notjust trading in one drug, it sounds like he is running his own makeshift pharmacy. exactly, it is all illegal, because most of the pills he is selling are controlled prescription drugs. that means you are not allowed to possess them without a prescription and certainly not allowed to sell them on. the maximum sentence is 14 years in prison, so serious time behind bars for what is viewed as a serious offe nce. bars for what is viewed as a serious offence. what about lawrence, did he have anything to say for himself when he was rumbled? this is the moment he discover the person he had

been selling drugs to the last six months was a bbcjournalist. been selling drugs to the last six months was a bbc journalist. what the is this about? it is about you selling controlled prescription drugs illegally. oh no! am i under arrest? you are not. then go away, please. there is no way of defending it, i have my reasons, it is still something that is not defendable. it, i have my reasons, it is still something that is not defendablem do you intend to continue selling drugs in this way? to be honest, after this, after that embarrassment, no. so what has been done to stamp down on this trade? the medicines and health products regulatory agency is leading the fight against the big black market suppliers who are running multinational operations and large website company selling pills on these no questions asked basis, but it also made clear anyone caught selling opioid drugs including the likes of lawrence are just putting the people's lives in danger but they all surface prosecution. more

on inside out, 7:30pm in your region. and on bbc iplayer after that. thank you very much. roger johnson, plenty more on that fire in your programme as well tonight, i know. gentlemen, that was nationwide, thank you. a golfer with a prosthetic leg is suing a local authority for refusing to allow him to play on a public course using a buggy. paul houghton, whose right leg was amputated after he contracted a deadly tissue eating bacteria, claims brentwood borough council discriminated against him. the council denies this and is defending the claim. our legal correspondent clive coleman reports. you've got a, what, 120—yards‘ carry to the green. 120—yard, all carry,

into a very, very stuff breeze. into a very, very stiff breeze. paul houghton is lucky to be alive. in 2000, while working as a roofer, he knelt in contaminated water and contracted a deadly bug, which can eat muscle and body tissue at a rate of 2cm an hour. well, you got over. we got over. paul's right leg was amputated above the knee, and he received the last rites in hospital. my swing isn't very orthodox. golf has become an important part of paul's life, and a buggy enables him to get around a standard five—mile course. he's represented england 13 times, and played in europe. in august 2016, paul had arranged to play a round at this golf course in essex, owned and operated by brentwood borough council. but on his way to the tee, he claims he was told he would not be allowed onto the course without a letter from his doctor, justifying the medical need for a buggy. i couldn't believe it, i really couldn't believe it, to be told that i couldn't play because i was disabled.

what sort of message do you think that sort of response sends out to disabled golfers, disabled people? it sends the message out that we're not welcome, that we're not part of society, and that we're not included. and that we can'tjoin in a sport that is accessible to everybody because we need to use other equipment to play the game. in refusing to allow him to use his buggy, paul claims that brentwood borough council were discriminating against him because of his inability to walk around a golf course. in effect, he says that the council were applying a policy that indirectly discriminates against all disabled people who need a buggy to play golf. brentwood borough council is defending the legal action, and denies any discrimination. that's a really good shot.

golf is sometimes seen as elitist. paul houghton is determined that, by playing it and pursuing his action for discrimination, the sport will become ever more inclusive. clive coleman, bbc news. members of the commons brexit committee have been meeting with the eu's chief brexit negotiator michel barnier in brussels today. at the end of that meeting we heard from jacob rees mogg. and from hilary benn. they had very similar verdicts on what they had heard from the shell bunny. let's listen to what he had to say. mr barnier was extremely charming and well—informed and he and i found that we are in considerable agreement, that chequers is rubbish, we should check it and have a canada free trade deal. he seemed to think that was the way forward and has published chart showing that. so interestingly, eurosceptics and murcia barnier are in greater

agreement than mr barnier and the government or eurosceptics and the government. it was very encouraging. ten one is here with all the business news in a moment. first the headlines. the national crime agency estimates that up to 80,000 people in the uk pose a threat to children online. no new ideas of his own — theresa may hits back at boris johnson following his criticism of her brexit plan. one of the bbc‘s highest paid presenters — chris evans — has announced that he'll no longer host the radio 2 breakfast show after december, and will leave the station. here's your business headlines on afternoon live. argentina has announced austerity measures in a bid to tackle the "emergency" created by the country's currency crisis. in a televised address, president mauricio macri said argentina could not keep spending more than it earned. taxes on exports of some grains and other products would rise and "about half" of the nation's government ministries will be abolished. he did not say when the taxes would be altered or give other details. the treasury and the bank of england are in discussions about mark carney staying on as governor

beyond his term, which ends in june next year. more on this in a moment. output from britain's manufacturing sector fell to its lowest level in more than two years in august following a collapse in overseas demand. the markit/cips uk manufacturing purchasing managers' index showed a reading of 52.8 last month, lower than analysts expectations. so the pound has taken a pummelling, hasn't it? absolutely and this is linked very clearly to that survey i just talked about, the purchasing managers index. this survey every month asks manufacturing bosses and leaders about their export orders, how exporter been going, they're out there generally. the month of august was disappointing, the level was

52.8 last month. they are expecting 53.8. anything above 50 isgrove, anything below 50 as contraction, so you may think that manufacturing is growing. however, disappointing figures show there are fears amongst manufacturing leaders up and down the country about brexit and in particular how brexit is impacting the way foreign companies buy from the way foreign companies buy from the uk. that has had an impact on the uk. that has had an impact on the pound, it is a lot lower than it was over the weekend. a lot of these companies have to book six months in advance are they going into that period. and this survey is a really good indicator of how the manufacturing survey is doing. this one really does get to the heart of the matter. more issues froede tsb customers. if you stuck with them after that the bulk of regarding online banking and the mobile app backin online banking and the mobile app back in april, you may have had a few problems. tsb has apologise once again puta few problems. tsb has apologise once again put a search and to online and mobile banking, it didn't say how

many customers are affected today, but 1.9 million of us use the digital banking facilities at tsb, which of course are still recovering from that fiasco back in april. tom stevenson is investment director at fidelity international, i want to talk to you first about the pound. we have seen a significant drop in pounds sterling today, talk me through why. a number of different reasons, the pound has fallen below a dollar 29 today, partly it is a reflection of those manufacturing figures. the significance of them is that for the last two years, exports have really made up for weakness in the domestic recovery. now we are seeing a slow down in foreign demand as well, so exponents are suffering. —— exports are suffering. it suggests that the global economy is slowing down. that is one reason why

the pound has fallen. the other reason is the uncertainty around brexit. we had just than about michel barnier and his comments and also comments from boris johnson michel barnier and his comments and also comments from borisjohnson in his newspaper column this morning. so on both brexit and manufacturing, really bad news for the pound. let's talk about water companies. i looked at severn trent's share price earlier, i'm not sure what it is doing now but it was down on the day. water companies have published their business plans for the year twe nty20 to their business plans for the year twenty20 to 2025 to the regulator, ofwat, and a few of them have plans to cut prices but the market is not liking the plans. an all of the water companies have been ordered to put in their business plans for the five—year period twenty20 to 2025, and all of them very sensibly are focusing on improving the infrastructure, on improving life

for customers, and paying for that by reducing the distributions to shareholders. i say sensibly, because ofwat, the regulator, is looking at these plans, it is going to comment on them injanuary 2019, and the industry as a whole has come under serious criticism for the lack of investment, and for the way in which it is perceived to be treating customers badly. tsb has apologise for the disruption to customers, once again they are facing disruption to the mobile app and online banking. absolutely, it is only four months now since the la st is only four months now since the last disaster when they had this big customer data transfer issue that shutdown the website for many people, they couldn't access their accounts for weeks in some cases. so for them to have another problem within four months is clearly embarrassing, and once again they have not handled it well, they said it was ok, they said there was a

problem, they said it had been fixed and then they admitted it had not been fixed, so not handled at all well by tsb. good to talk to you, thank you very much. let's go through those figures very briefly, thatis through those figures very briefly, that is the london market, a delay of data by 15 minutes but pretty much closing on high. a severn trent has said it is dropping prices by 5% and the market is not liking that. the pound is below a dollar 29, and against the euro below 1.11 euros. thank you very much. a quick line of news from the world of politics. the national executive committee have delivered a clea n swee p executive committee have delivered a clean sweep to the so—called jc nine candidates, supporter of the leader jeremy corbyn. peter plenty more on that to come in the bbc news at one appear in with huw

edwards. in the meantime that is it from your afternoon live team for today. let's look of the weather with tomasz schafernaker. hello. let's see what is in store this week after that beautiful weekend that some of us had. it is going to turn over all quite a bit cooler, especially towards the end of the week, but today temperatures still managing to get up to around 25 degrees this afternoon in the south—east, but already a lot fresher across some of these north—western areas of the uk. a little bit of cloud and sunspots through this evening and overnight, maybe across some northern areas, but overall it will be a dry night for most of us, 13 in the south, a lot fresher in the north, temperatures down to single figures and even colder than seven or eight in the countryside. tomorrow, variable amounts of cloud across central areas but again generally speaking the weather is looking particularly dry, for most of us. maybe a chance of a few spots of rain in the far south—east but that is pretty much it. temperatures in

the low 20s in the south, but made or high teens further north. today at five, the brexit debate intensifies with more conservative pressure on theresa may's grand plan. the former foreign secretary boris johnson says the chequers plan is a surrender — his view is backed by a colleague who spoke to eu negotiators today. mr barnier was, as you would expect, extraordinarily charming and well—informed. and he and i found we were in a considerable degree of agreement, that chequers is absolutely rubbish and we should chuck it and what we should have is a canada—style free—trade deal. the debate is heating up in the week mps return to westminster, as the brexit clock is ticking. we'll have the latest from brussels and from westminster. the other main stories on bbc news at five... a warning to tech firms, from the home secretary, saying they must make a bigger effort to tackle child sexual abuse online. the met office confirms that this summer in england was the hottest on record and the joint hottest