you next time. until next time from me and the rest of the travel show team, it's good morning welcome to breakfast with tina daheley and ben thompson. our headlines today: president trump holds talks with borisjohnson and says a very substantial trade deal could happen after brexit. a warning of more closures at house of fraser as sports direct says it regrets rescuing the troubled department store. huge areas of the arctic are ablaze as firefighters struggle to contain unprecedented willdfires. gareth bale looks set to move to china, the welsh star, is close leaving real madrid and agreeing a 3 year deal,

with club side, jiang su suning, with the reported wage, a million pounds a week. it isa it is a cooler and cloudier weekend for all of us. there will be some rain around as well but it is not going to be a complete wash—out. join related for all the details. it's saturday 27th july. our top story. donald trump says the uk and united states are working on what he called a "very substantial" post brexit trade deal. the president spoke with borisjohnson on the phone yesterday and claimed trade could be worth up to five times higher than current levels. boris and i just spoke. i congratulated him and he's all set to go. he's gonna be — i think he'll be — do a greatjob. we're working already on a trade agreement. and i think it will be a very substantial trade agreement. you know, we can do with the uk — we can do three to four times — we were actually impeded by their relationship with the european union.

we were very much impeded on trade. let's get more on this now from our political correspondent tom barton who's in our london newsroom this morning. president trump is obviously a fan of borisjohnson and brexit but trade deals can be tricky to negotiate? yes, big promises there from donald trump and of course the two men have agreed to start negotiating this trade deal soon as they are allowed to, which is as soon as britain has led the eu. but these trade deals can led the eu. but these trade deals ca n prove led the eu. but these trade deals can prove very difficult. negotiations have not even started yet and we've already had controversy yet and we've already had c0 ntrove i’sy over a ccess yet and we've already had controversy over access to the nhs for american companies, questions about the quality of american meat

to be imported into the uk. both men clearly hope to build a strong working relationship as a starting point but trade negotiations are very technical things and can often fall or survive on a much more than just the relationship between two heads of state. or international leaders, i should say. boris johnson is out and about in manchester today, promising more on the domestic front, what can we expect? this is an attempt by borisjohnson to say, yes, i have campaigned on brexit, brexit is my focus but i also have other things i want to do. we've heard from him talking about the promise for extra police officers. today he will reiterate his promise to get that new rail line improved fast rail line built

between manchester and leeds. he has also promised to improve what he calls unglamorous parts of public transport network, things like bus services to make more funding are billable for those. that has been welcomed by business groups like cbi and the northern powerhouse but andy burnham says this has all been promised time and again over the last five years by previous conservative leaders and he questions whether borisjohnson has the ability to deliver it. sports direct says it regrets rescuing house of fraser and warned that there will be more store closures. sports direct boss mike ashley said the problems at the department store were "nothing short of terminal." andy moore reports. for house of fraser staff worried about their future, there's little reason for optimism in this set of results. the chain of stores employed around 17,000 people went mike ashley rescued it last year,

and saved 31 of its 59 stores from closure. a handful of shutdowns since, but now, there's the prospect of more closures to come. the smaller stores are especially at risk. mike ashley said about the house of fraser buyout: mr ashley said some stores were still losing money, even though their rent had been cut to nothing. sports direct results were due to be published 11 days ago, but they were delayed time and time again. the reason for that now appears to be this huge £605 million tax bill demanded by the belgian authorities. the company believes it's unlikely it will actually have to pay that full amount. and there's also been a loss of £55 million at house of fraser since that company was taken over. mike ashley said with the gift

of hindsight, he might‘ve made a different decision about stepping to rescue the chain. andy moore, bbc news. two people have died, and a number of others have been injured, after a balcony collapsed at a nightclub in the south korean city of gwangju in the early hours of this morning. earlier our correspondent laura bicker told us the injured include several athletes competing at the world swimming championships being held in the city. this was a two tier nightclub. according to eyewitnesses, about 2am in the morning, it is seems that one of the balconies has totally given away. according to one of the members of the new zealand men's water polo team, he said one minute he was dancing, the next, he fell five or six feet. he said the team did what they could. two south

koreans were ta ken did what they could. two south koreans were taken to hospital and they sadly later died from their injuries. what we knew is, 17 people in total were injured, nine of whom appear to have been athletes competing at those national aquatics championships. when it comes to the athletes themselves, four were from the united states and two appear to have been from new zealand. the injuries at this stage do not appear to be serious. railway passengers planning journeys between london and nottingham and sheffield have been urged not to travel as disruption caused by hot weather enters a third day. east midlands trains customers have been told to expect a significantly reduced service to and from st pancras due to repair work on overhead lines damaged by the heat. a revised timetable will also operate on several local routes because of industrial action by the rmt union. the summer heatwave has broken records across the world, and not even the arctic has escaped the dramatic rise in

temperatures. there have been hundreds of wildfires within forests in the arctic circle, including siberia, alaska and greenland. plumes of smoke from the fires can be seen from space. ramzan karmali has more. wildfires are ravaging the arctic. areas of northern siberia, northern scandinavia and greenland have been engulfed in flames. lightning often triggers fires in the region but this year, they are lasting longer. this fire at grouse creek in alaska has been burning since the 10th ofjuly. so far, over two million acres of forest land have been scorched in the state. the temperature was much higher than the average, and also things like the soil moisture and the amount of precipitation is much lower than the average. what this means is it's much drier, much warmer, so when there is an ignition, then the fires have been able to persist and spread quite quickly, and endure. arctic fires are common between may

and october but higher temperatures, blamed on climate change, have meant the fires this year have been more intense. global satellites are now tracking a swathe of new and ongoing wildfires within the arctic circle. smoke is affecting large areas, engulfing some places completely. cities in eastern russia have noted a significant fall in air quality, with many people seeking medical help. translation: smoke is a horror. you're choking and feel dizzy because the smell of the smoke is very strong. the fires are releasing copious volumes of carbon dioxide, which scientists say will make our planet even warmer. that means wildfires like these will become even more common. ramzan karmali, bbc news. drivers in the u.s state of newjersey has a lucky escape when a runaway tyre caused a motorway crash. the tyre can be seen rolling along the road

after coming off the back of a lorry. after going over the barrier, it struck a car in oncoming traffic. thankfully, no one was seriously hurt. those pictures to look very traumatic. no one was hurt and all of that. it was a wheel. thank you for the twitter messages! down the right—hand side, jacob rees mogg has issued some rules for his

staff. he expects style guide of things they should and should not do. things that are basic programmer but he also talks about where to put phil stops. also making clear, they should check their work and use imperial measurements, not metric. the front page of the daily mail, this will be relevant to you if you're about to go to holidays in europe. the plans of the holiday pound, i'm afraid. a blow for families as sterling hits the lowest rate ever. last night the pound was worth just 1.11 rate ever. last night the pound was worthjust 1.11 euros. sterling has not been lower against the euro and any midsummer since the currency‘s launch in 1999. currently worth less against the dollar than in any late

july 15 years. with been talking a lot about that this week, it means your holiday will be more expensive and you get your spending money, will be more expensive and you get yourspending money, it's will be more expensive and you get your spending money, it's going to cost you more. you'll have seen all the headlines about the trouble caused by the heat this week. that continues. eurostar and also at the airport as well. thousands of holiday—makers were stranded yesterday after storms sparked travel chaos. that's a selection of some of the pages, we will take more detailed look later. fresh demonstrations are expected to take place in hong kong later, in protest at the police response to attacks on pro—democracy campaigners by alleged gang members. more than a0 people were injured in the assault last week. it's the latest escalation in weeks of clashes between police and protestors. let's join our correspondent stephen mcdonell in hong kong now.

the scene there is getting busier. explaining the significance of all the black t—shirts. explaining the significance of all the black t-shirts. yes, all these black clad activists have turned out here but this illegal march. it is only a small area here, there are 110w only a small area here, there are now thousands of people gathering here for an illegal march. the police told them not to come, they have defied those orders from the police and they have turned out to march anyway. they are saying, of course we are not going to listen to the police because we want an inquiry into the police. they are saying at least some officers couuded saying at least some officers colluded with triad gang members asked weekend and apart from their general calls for democracy, this specific march here at the scene of those clashes last week is targeting that violence. they want the government to explain why it took so long, white there have been so few arrests, why you see these images of

the police seeming like they are chatting with those triad gang members, other than arresting them. despite the possibility of violence, many people have turned out here today for this gathering and there is actually quite a lot of support in the community for it. just remind us in the community for it. just remind us what sparked these protests in the first place. it touched on how long they've been going on for and tensions on both sides but remind us what sparked on of this in the first place. it started as a mass movement against this very unpopular bill allowing for extradition to mainline china by the commonest party. protesters have had something of a victory. these people in black, the government has caved in, bolstered by that, this movement has morphed into something else. although that

bill has not been officially withdrawn altogether, it's effectively dead but now they want democracy here given that there after one person, one vote, general elections for the government of hong kong, given that beijing is not going to give it to them and yet they will not give up without something approaching that. we have this escalating crisis here with no sign of it ending. here's stav with a look at this morning's weather. i've been starting with this scene all morning but i think it's important to reiterate about this temperature in cambridge university on thursday which was the peak of

the heat wave. 38.7 degrees was recorded. the met office are going to verify this and in the next couple of days, we should get a result back and if it stands, that is the highest ever temperature recorded in the uk. back to today, it is looking much cooler and much wetter with outbreaks of rain. it is going to feel cooler and more refreshing for many of us. we got this weather front travelling to eastern part of the country. to the west of it, a lot of dry air here with light weapons as well, so not a bad day for northern ireland and parts of wales. also for the far north—east of scotland, some sunshine here and impressive temperatures to. along this weather front, some of the rain could be quite heavy and thundery. there was temperatures, 19 or 20 degrees. the

weather front is still with us during tonight. it looks like it will produce further thundery downpours from scotland through central england. a dry story for the south—west. still quite humid across central and distant parts under that rain. tomorrow, a similar day. this weather front shifting west and it will arrive in northern ireland in the afternoon. where you get the rain, it could be quite heavy and thundery. something may be drier further east and the best of the conditions for parts of wales and into the south—west. we could see some brightness with temperatures higher towards 25 degrees. monday is looking like a better day. that weather front weakens as it moves northwards. it could produce some hefty showers in parts of scotland. more cloud in the northern part of the uk. further south, a lovely day

but we have another area of low pressure starting to push into the south—west that could bring in more showers. temperatures up to 26 degrees. a mixed week coming up, we will see areas of low pressure moving in of the atlantic to bring spells of showers and some of them could be heavy and thundery but in between there should be some sunshine as well. in all that hot weather, you might wa nt to ta ke in all that hot weather, you might want to take alternative transport. the use of electric scooters has become increasingly popular in many european cities and in the us. they're now available for hire in more than 100 cities across the world. but after the recent deaths of riders in london and paris, how safe are they? tom edwards has been investigating. rush hour in islington and a handful of e—scooter riders are getting stopped by police. here, they're getting a warning, but officers have given out fines.

for riders like david, who bought his electric scooter last week, it's frustrating. i think it's really hard because they are such a good vehicle for the city. they're reducing congestion, they're reducing pollution. you really want to be able to have something like this to use. i think because the law is old, it is, it's a bit of a grey area, it's just falling between two stools. i think we really need to resolve it because this is the thing you want to have in the city rather than all this traffic. e—scooter safety hit the headlines after the death of the presenter emily hartridge here in battersea three weeks ago. even though they are illegal on public roads and pavements, thousands are used every day in the capital. it's really important that we just make sure that people do understand that it is illegal now, that there are risks associated with using e—scooters in public, they are not intended for the roads or the pavements. so we will educate the public and where we need to,

we will take enforcement action. their supporters say they are cheap, convenient, and have no emissions. and transport for london want new laws introduced quickly to help regulate them. let's keep the pavements clear. let's put specifications around the scooters, if they're going to be allowed, to mean that they're safe, for example, limited on the speeds. but also, let's have an ability to prevent clutter, so they can't just be left everywhere, particularly on a rental scheme. the met says around 100 riders have been stopped this week. other countries have regulated e—scooters. the government says it's reviewing their use, but for many, that's taking too long. tom edwards, bbc news, london. let's talk now to peter rodger from the road safety charity iam roadsmart, and michael quintana from the organisation rideables, which promotes "micro—mobility" vehicles including e—scooters.

good morning to both of you. peter, we saw in that both report, we see how fast these things go, we see they are on roads alongside big trucks and heavy vehicles and of course we've seen those often deaths recently, you want to see these band, don't you? not in those terms. they are currently illegal in the first place but they are an attractive and the attractions are obvious in terms of space and so on but we need to be really careful how we introduce them. at the moment, if you were to put them in amongst the traffic, drivers don't want the additional hazard of these small, very fast relatively difficult to see items moving around in the traffic. cyclists don't won them in the cycle lanes and pedestrians don't want them on the pavements so we need to find a way to integrate them into our systems carefully and safely rather than just letting this and taking whatever the consequence

may be. michael, the case laid at their peter, yes, they need a separate space. the reality is, that is not going to happen, is it? how do you make these things save on the roads? they are already pretty much safe. the protocols and places we have put in place are related to the devices themselves and with the current electric scooters that you see, these guys are able to occupy the bicycle lanes in the same manner asa the bicycle lanes in the same manner as a bicycle. they are able to go to similar speeds as a bicycle. typically even slower than professional writers on their daily commute so we would all love separate lanes, that would be ideal, but ina separate lanes, that would be ideal, but in a lot of different countries, they have created lanes that are multi use lanes so it is one giant lane accommodating scooters and

cycles. we a re lane accommodating scooters and cycles. we are all ready to share the lanes as they are now. we are looking at these pictures of scooters being used. very popular in european cities but the fact is, people are having to break the law in the uk to use them because they cannot go on the pavement, they cannot go on the pavement, they cannot go on the pavement, they cannot go on the road and it is that doubt, that were eight that means people are using them unsafely. the reason people are unsafe is usually because of their behaviour. you are extremely vulnerable, as a cyclist 01’ extremely vulnerable, as a cyclist ora extremely vulnerable, as a cyclist or a motorcyclist is on a device of this general nature. you got no protection around you and you are physically smaller so difficult to see so you physically smaller so difficult to see so you have that set of issues which we need to overcome in order to make it safe, not only for the users of them but for the people around them. i don't think that is accurate because as an electric scooter, there are lights already on

the back of them as a standard so if you compare that to your average cyclist who might have a light, electric scooters, whenever you break, the light flashes red and there is an indicator light on the front as well. because we are in an upright decision, er upright and more visible to traffic, just by the nature of the riding position you have. chances are, people are going to be more familiar with a bike and we know higher schemes around the world a re we know higher schemes around the world are hugely popular. there were a lot of concerns when they were introduced about wearing helmets and peoples proficiency on a bicycle but the chances are, people will have been on a bicycle before in the life and they have not been on an electric scooter. that is the issue? i have cycled, i have also written a regular scooter. the convenience of these devices is that you can them up these devices is that you can them up and take it with you. if you go

to work, charge it and it is there in your office when you needed. if you are on a bicycle, which is and healthy as well, you're also subject to leaving that outside and the rates of theft are huge but really, what we want to say is, electric doubles, there is the innovation, the new industry sector that is waiting to open up, there is a company in australia who have blown up, they have been legalised over there and that is a huge economy thatis there and that is a huge economy that is moving of their and we like to bring that with all the austerity and difficulties here. peter, i wonder what you want to see changed now to make this saver, is just about a change in the law about where you can write these? no, we need to be careful about how we do it, we need to work out where the safe place is and we need to work out what other constraints it would be sensible to apply. in synthetic

terms, michael has been talking about having it light on the back? there are a series of things that we need to sit down and work out carefully before we just pull the plug and say, the law has now changed. it is not something to do overnight, it needs thought and care. good to talk to you. we are grateful for your breathing the weather there in central london, not scooter weather by any means! vicky gosling, chief executive of gb snowsport — is here to tell us what's caught her eye. much drier in the studio here thankfully! let us start of with a story i'm sure many people had seen in daily mail, mind your language. this is jacob rees mogg, his guide,

his grammar guide. absolutely. very strict. it is a long list of banned words and phrases and he orders the use of imperial measurements. it is fascinating. ijoin use of imperial measurements. it is fascinating. i join the use of imperial measurements. it is fascinating. ijoin the military in 1994 and we had strict guidelines on service writing so you spend so much time of the cussing on servers writing to make sure you got it right, you may miss the main point andi right, you may miss the main point and ijust right, you may miss the main point and i just thought, right, you may miss the main point and ijust thought, it is almost like saying, about the elephant in the room syndrome. the more pressure you had to get something grammatically correct, you wonder about the impact on the staff. what i quite about the impact on the staff. what iquite like, about the impact on the staff. what i quite like, there are some words he has banned, there was very vague words that politicians are fond of using to get themselves out of corners. in some ways, that might be quite helpful to us.

corners. in some ways, that might be quite helpfulto us. you're absolutely right. it might be helpful but it depends on how much emphasis is put on there. the reality is, if such a complex and fast—paced world, how easy is it to do that? some of the grammar guidelines, i get. that is understandable. he is very clear on not using a, like the word ammo —— and. he also talks about using imperial measurements. the word, equal, is banned. iam not imperial measurements. the word, equal, is banned. i am not sure i would make it onto his staff! onto the daily express and we know this is interesting but we knew about the power of sport to bring people together. this is a story suggesting that anthonyjoshua, prince harry, talking about using sport to help vulnerable people. it is great, they have a vulnerable people. it is great, they havea campaign vulnerable people. it is great, they have a campaign that they will be bringing out which is a four year campaign and it is using sport as a

hook and talking about how sport health lives but can change lives. we saw this with the invictus games and having been in sheffield recently, the impact that has had on the power of sport on recovery but it is religious to my heart because i think using sport as a hook to get people into sport and change habits, we are looking to do something with snow sport where we go and find kids who want to do skateboarding and find your balance because it is a similar skill set so let's get kids in who take risks and are excited by that edgier environment. let us find them from the outskirts and bring them from the outskirts and bring them in and find the talent. them from the outskirts and bring them in and find the talentm them from the outskirts and bring them in and find the talent. it can help you in so many ways, obviously health benefits but also a distraction technique, people living in disadvantaged areas, it can be so transformative. i like the fact that

it talks about sport teaching skills that last a lifetime. speaking of kids taking risks, explain this for us. £24 million for winning a computer game. this weekend we are going to see the first world cup ever going to see the first world cup everin going to see the first world cup ever ina going to see the first world cup ever in a flushing meadows in the game, fortnight. with ashley got two british children being a part of the 100 kids competing in this, aged 14 and 15. there are 40 million entrance, that is staggering. they've done extremely well clearly to get where they got with the top prize being 2.4 million. what i found interesting is that these children are now home—schooled so they can spend eight hours a day playing the game. you wonder about the commercial benefits of playing it, i spend

the commercial benefits of playing it, ispend my the commercial benefits of playing it, i spend my time telling my child to get out and get time of the computer. if he winds 24 million credit, i might be dragging him back stay with us, headlines coming up. hello, this is breakfast with ben thompson and tina daheley. coming up before nine, stav will have all the weekend weather. but first at 8.30am, a summary of this morning's main news.

donald trump says the uk and united states are working on what he called a "very substantial" post brexit trade deal. the president spoke with borisjohnson on the phone yesterday and claimed trade could be worth up to five times what it is now. boris and i just spoke. i congratulated him and he's all set to go. he's gonna be — i think he'll be — do a greatjob. we're working already on a trade agreement. and i think it will be a very substantial trade agreement. you know, we can do with the uk — we can do three to four times — we were actually impeded by their relationship with the european union. we were very much impeded on trade. the prime minister will announce plans this morning for a new high—speed rail link between manchester and leeds as part of what he describes as efforts to "rebalance power, growth and productivity across the uk". borisjohnson will also promise to improve what he calls "the unglamorous local services which

people use every day". the plan has been welcomed by business groups but labour said it didn't go far enough. sports direct has warned that it will have to close more branches of house of fraser. the retail chain bought the department store, which had gone into administration, last year. sports direct‘s full year results show profits have fallen by 6 per cent. fresh demonstrations are taking place in hong kong, in protest at the police response to attacks on pro—democracy campaigners by alleged gang members. more than 40 people were injured when masked men stormed a train station in the border town of yuen long last week. it's the latest escalation in weeks of clashes between police and protestors. a balcony and a staircase have collapsed at a nightclub in the south korean city of gwangju killing two people. at least 17 were injured, nine of them competitors in the world swimming championships being held there. the injured athletes are from the us, new zealand,

the netherlands, italy and brazil. the two people killed are understood to be south koreans. railway passengers planning journeys between london and nottingham and sheffield have been urged not to travel as disruption caused by hot weather enters a third day. east midlands trains customers have been told to expect a significantly reduced service to and from st pancras due to repair work on overhead lines damaged by the heat. a revised timetable will also operate on several local routes because of industrial action by the rmt union. the summer heatwave has broken records across the world, and not even the arctic has escaped the dramatic rise in temperatures. there have been hundreds of wildfires within forests in the arctic circle, including siberia, alaska and greenland. plumes of smoke from the fires can be seen from space. drivers in the us state of newjersey has a lucky escape when a runaway tyre

caused a motorway crash. the tyre can be seen rolling along the road after coming off the back of a lorry. after going over the barrier, it struck a car in oncoming traffic. thankfully, no one was seriously hurt. we have watched that several times this morning and it still doesn't get any easier to watch. no one was hurt, but the speed it picks up. so alarming if you would see that coming towards you. it was actually a car on coming towards you. it was actually a caron the coming towards you. it was actually a car on the back of the trailer being carried away and the whole windscreen came away, and it hit my winter and windscreen came away, and it hit my winterandl windscreen came away, and it hit my winterand i was windscreen came away, and it hit my winter and i was driving once. you have nowhere to go. you can't slow down either. let's talk sport. it's

all about this man. not a surprise he is leaving real madrid, things have not been going too well for him due to injury hampering his number of starts. but the big change is he's going to china. he could have a big impact like when david beckham went to the us. and chinese teams have big pockets. there was speculation that he would be coming back to the premier league but he is 30 and he has gone to china. his future has been one of the big stories of the summer, and it looks like gareth bale has found a way out of real madrid. he's set to leave the spanish giants, and join the chinese super league side, jiangsu suning, a move that will apparently see him, earn £1 million a week. it's all yet to be confirmed, but sources close to the welshman say the move is very close. sir bradley wiggins says he's never seen a tour de france as open as this year's, and he's never seen weather as crazy as it was yesterday. stage 19 had to be abandoned, 20 kilometres from the end

because of a hailstorm. today's penultimate stage will be significantly shortened because of a severe weather warning, and the threat of landslides. the chances of geraint thomas defending his title are all but over, however his ineos team—mate egan bernal now has the overall lead and is the favourite to win the title. joe root criticised the pitch at lords, after his england side skittled out ireland for the lowest ever test score at the famous old ground. root says the wicket was too much in favour of the bowlers as a topsy turvy test ended very badly for ireland, asjoe wilson reports. it's the hope — that's the problem. the beautiful, horrible hope. ireland were here to gate—crash cricket's establishment to win at lord's. 182 runs — that's all they needed. and every one of them would be cheered and celebrated in a way lord's was just getting used to. commentator: hello! trouble was, there were only 38

of them — runs, that is. oh, what a catch! england recovered their intensity. while stuart broad has swept through teams before, here, chris woakes was his arch companion in accuracy. the overhead conditions, the pitch conditions suited bowling. the english fielders caught everything and ireland suddenly looked like a team playing their third test match ever. 0h! defend it, hit it, anything! well, it is easy from the seats. batting sometimes seems impossible when you are actually doing it. decades of development and dedication and... ..38 all out. england's world cup spirit endured. well, this test match will serve as a preparation of sorts for england as they look ahead to the ashes — that's next week. as for ireland, the chance to play on a stage like this, well, who knows when that will come again. i guess they must try to remember the hope, rather than the missed opportunity of today.

joe wilson, bbc news, at lord's. i thought that it wasn't a fair... not even close to a fair contest between bat and ball. throughout the whole game, i thought it did get a little bit easier and better to bat. and we were not at our best by any stretch. whilst the men were humbling ireland, england's women were on the receiving end yet again. australian captain meg lanning scored the highest ever t20 score in the women's game and they posted their highest ever total in the format. england lost by 93 runs, their biggest ever t20 defeat, and it means australia win the ashes outright. ferrari look in good shape ahead of today's qualifying for the german grand prix. they dominated practice yesterday although the session wasn't without drama, with red bull's pierre gasly involved in a crash. charles leclerc was fastest, coming in a tenth of a second quicker than his ferrari teammate sebastian vettel who was second quickest. championship leader hamilton

was third fastest in his mercedes. england's netballers have a new coach. she's called jess thirlby and she replaces tracey neville who stepped down after leading the roses to a bronze medal at this month's world cup. thirlby is a former england international herself, and left her role as head coach of team bath in january after 20 years as a player and coach. i love netball, um, and it's quite surreal to think, you know, aged 13, i had a phone call the eve of my first england trial to say there had been an administration error and i was too young to trial, and 26 years later, i'm finding myself in the role of roses head coach. i mean, what a journey that is, so, yeah, i'm really privileged and i absolutely adore this sport and i will give it my all. there was a big new world record set at the world swimming championships in south korea. this is the american caeleb dressel knocking 0.3 of a second off michael phelps record in the 100m butterfly. that might not sound very much,

but in swimming over such a short distance that is massive. it wasn't even a final, it was the semis, so he's odds on for gold. meanwhile britain's luke greenbank won his first senior international medal. he took bronze in the men's 200 metres backstroke fighting back from sixth place at the halfway stage to set a new personal best. and before i finish, do you ever wonder how fans fill their time at the tour de france as they wait for the peloton to arrive? here's your answer. this is so good. they have got the crowd all in time! nearly! these are beefeaters having some fun in the mountains. they arrange the dancing and get the party going before the cyclists arrive. wait for it! you know there is the dinosaur coming. and a

banana! walk the dinosaur, remember that. any second, i promise. he doesn't seem to know where he is going, or she, the doesn't seem to know where he is going, orshe, the dinosaur. the dancing continues. this is on one of the bends in the alps. they will be out in force today on the penultimate day. here he is! that is the south african flag, isn't it? doesn't really know, doesn't able to dance, and you are worried that they're going to walk off the edge of the mountain? i think enough people are around to shepherd them away from the edge! we need to find out the identity of the dinosaur. thank you, mike, nice to see you. more from him a little later. leaving the eu without a deal is a threat to the science sector, according to the head of the uk's biggest charitable funder in a letter to borisjohnson, the chair of the wellcome trust, baroness eliza manningham buller, says immigration policy needs to be

"more welcoming" to attract top scientists. katy austin has more. yasmin is a scientist from germany, researching sex chromosomes at the francis crick institute in london. she's not sure whether to stay in the uk, though, because the country is leaving the eu. my feeling is that over the next ten, 20 years, if brexit actually happens, especially if it happens without a deal which it seems likely now, that uk science is on the decline with regards to funding opportunities, positions that are available, attractiveness of living here. you could see this place is a symbol of britain's status as a science superpower. europe's largest biomedical research facility under one roof, with 1200 researchers working here from across the globe. the director here warns continued success relies on collaboration that he says is incompatible with a no—deal brexit and notjust because millions of pounds in funding would be at risk.

it's our reputation, it's being able to attract people, it's making them feel comfortable here. all of this is injeopardy if we're turning our back on europe and saying, we don't really care about you. and what it will mean is, we have to follow the rules and regulations that we had no role or impact on in setting up ourselves. so in fact, we lose power, we lose power, lose freedom rather than gain it. now britain's biggest science charity has written to the prime minister praising his vision for a thriving science sector but describing no deal as a threat. we are already a science superpower. but there are some clouds on the horizon, which if we don't banish them, could erode that position. what we are anxious about is that the science that is done here goes on being excellent. and to do that, it requires both more investment and support from the government, it also requires an immigration policy that welcomes to this country the best

researchers in the world and their families. borisjohnson has insisted he would prefer leaving the eu with a deal, but that the uk must plan for a no deal scenario. scientific institutions are hoping the health of their sector can be protected. katy austin, bbc news. here's stav with a look at this morning's weather. it's pretty much all we have talked about this week. there is some relief if you have not been able to sleep, it is getting cooler but also wetter. a bit changeable at the moment? it is, yes, a big difference to what we had earlier this week. we have had extremes from one week to the next. a few days ago on thursday we saw the peak of this exceptional heatwave, 38.7 celsius recorded at cambridge university's botanic

garden. if this stands after verification, it will be the highest ever verification, it will be the highest ever recorded uk temperature so we are waiting on this because it could be pretty incredible from this amazing heatwave. big changes this morning, cloudy skies, in cumbria, outbreaks of rain, it could be heavy in central and eastern areas this week and it will feel much cooler thanit week and it will feel much cooler than it has been this week. we have this weather front, a than it has been this week. we have this weatherfront, a bit than it has been this week. we have this weather front, a bit of a complicated setup, some warmer air tried to move in on the eastern side so it's going to feel quite humid despite the cloud and rain. further west, more dry air to hear the rest of the brightness. tomorrow, much of northern ireland and the south—west will see dry spells. also dry and sunny with warmth coming of the continent for the north—east of scotland. we could make the low 20s here and in the south—west. in the

heavy rain in central and eastern areas, 1920 degrees, some will be heavy with rumbles of thunder. 19-20d. the heavy with rumbles of thunder. 19—20d. the rainfall totals will be mounting up so there will be some met office warnings in force for minor flooding, met office warnings in force for minorflooding, from heatwave to flooding in one week. overnight, a muqqy flooding in one week. overnight, a muggy feel in central and eastern areas, clearer skies west and south. the rate will be coming then in parts tomorrow, it could push westwards into northern ireland. the rest of the england and maybe places in the south—east will see some sunny spells, it will feel a touch warmer there. the north—east, drier weather but where you have the rain, 18 or 19 degrees. the weather front will be fizzling northwards, so monday, cloudy in the northern half of the uk, some heavy showers into the afternoon across scotland but further south, a glorious afternoon,

sunny, dry wood light winds and not as hot as it has been, almost perfect summer weather. this feature is another area of low pressure which will sweep in mainly across england and wales on tuesday and wednesday so we could have some heavy showers and thunderstorms in places. some sunny spells as well, allowing temperatures to be around orjust above allowing temperatures to be around or just above seasonal average. allowing temperatures to be around orjust above seasonal average. you will notice quite a mixed bag through the week. keep tuned to the weather forecast for all the details. thank you, we will stay tuned. it is a bit stormy and wild out there, but a bit stormy and wild out there, but a welcome relief. carry your umbrella at all times next week. the charity action on elder abuse has issued a warning about the dangers of direct debits being fraudulently set up in the name of vulnerable victims. it says loopholes and a lack of transparency can result in tens of thousands of pounds being stolen from the elderly. it's one of the issues in this week's edition

of money box on bbc radio 4, let's talk to its presenter paul lewis. good morning this is a horrible story. thousands of pounds all down toa story. thousands of pounds all down to a loophole. explain how this was discovered. it was a lady who came to money box and said that after her mother died, a couple of years ago, she looked at her bank statement and discovered she was paying very large amounts of money, £600 per month in some cases, to a mobile phone company, vodafone. this was obviously not her phone. the total paid was around £14,000 overfour yea rs. paid was around £14,000 overfour years. when she complained about this to her bank, lloyds, lloyds said that they thought that the direct debit had been legitimately set up. lloyds did not know about the lady's dementia which she had before that, but they rejected the complaint on the grounds that of his legitimately set up. when we

inquired into it, when a direct debit is initially set up, a lot of checks are done, who you are, your income and your credit record, but after that, you can say to the supplier, vodafone in this case, by the way, can you now send that bill to another bank account, move the direct debit to another bank account? at that stage, it seems, no further checks are made except to confirm the bank account exists. so this is a loophole that this case has identified and action on elder abuse is very concerned. when we talk about such huge sums, was the money refunded ? talk about such huge sums, was the money refunded? it's a bit of a long story. so, the action —— the daughter who discovered this, had a 20 month battle with lloyds and vodafone trying to get something done about this. it was only when as a result result she came to money box that we looked at the story and

we thought, this should not have happened. within a week or two, lloyds said, we have made a mistake in 2017, they apologised and refunded all the money and paid interest on it and some bank charges. so she got all of it back. but as she told us in a rather to tea rful but as she told us in a rather to tearful interview, she thought she was letting her mother down because she was not able to get the money back but now she does not have that feeling. it's astonishing that you had to go two due to get a response. i wonder what —— get to money box to get a response. i wonder what vodafone said, to rack up such a big phone bill. we imagine that this person was perhaps making a lot of foreign calls or renting it out, we don't know. but vodafone says it followed all the procedures but it

would welcome initiatives to strengthen the direct debit procedure and it does say that it has identified the present —— the person and passed it the police. because they could not tell sue to the phone was poor because of data protection reasons. but they have now passed the details on the police. thank you for explaining all of that. money box on radio four at 12p today. if you thought that thumb wrestling only took place on school playgrounds, or was a way of children passing the time on a long journey, our next story shows just how wrong you were. the world thumb wrestling championships takes place this weekend — yes, there is such a thing. phil daley went to see how final training sessions were going. music plays. with less than 24 hours to go until the 2019 world championships,

the final training sessions were under way, a warm weather training camp for the current world champion and one of the most experienced warriors around. and just because the championships are held locally, it's internationally renowned. i have faced people from india, norway, japan, america. they all come in thinking they've got the best thumbs. a british thumb's the best thumb. no—one's ever been three times world champion. so i've done that. and i want to go again. i want this number four title. i'm going to get this number four title. but if you think this sport will bring you fame and fortune, it's not quite there yet. at one point i was the only professional thumb wrestler in the world. and so, yeah, i was taken out to china and was treated with great respect as a result of that. got to thumb wrestle a lot of chinese celebrities, all of whom beat me, every single one. one, two, three, four, i want a thumb war. 0h! this year a big—name sponsor is on board, giving viewers around the world a chance to watch the action. this year's a particularly big one. i mean, we usually have a good

crowd, a few hundred people. the aim for us has always been to raise the profile of the sport, here and globally. let's get ready to thumble! age, gender, background don't matter in this sport. there's just one then you can't compete without — and that's a thumb warrior nickname. phil daley, bbc news. so, tina is to have an zero up in the competition. yes, —— you are too high for zero up. —— 2—0. the competition. yes, —— you are too high for zero up. -- 2-0. one, two, three, four, i declare a some more. you have got really long thumbs! if you would like to challenge her, test her. it's not strength or size,

its tactics and flexibility. that would be my advice to anyone who is an aspiring some wrestler. you should write a guide. more from that a little later. it is 8:55am. you are watching breakfast. wildfires are ravaging parts of the arctic, with areas of northern siberia, northern scandinavia, alaska and greenland engulfed in flames. fires are quite common in the region, but they're worse this year because of higher than average summer temperatures. let's find out a bit more from catherine brahic who's environment editor at the economist and joins us now from central london. good morning, thank you forjoining us. as i said, these fires are not uncommon so why us. as i said, these fires are not uncommon so why are us. as i said, these fires are not uncommon so why are they unprecedented this time? they are just much larger this year than they have been in the past. they started earlier, and all of this is as a result of really warm temperatures

as you mentioned. in some regions, we are seeing between six and 10 celsius above what is normal. so that's just created a lot of dry tinder, and the entire region has gone up in flames. can we categorically say that this is linked to climate change? categorically say that this is linked to climate change ?|j categorically say that this is linked to climate change? i think there is undoubtedly some role for climate change to play in this. it's difficult to say whether this would have happened incompletely in the absence of greenhouse gas emissions, but it is extremely clear that temperatures worldwide are warming and we also know that the arctic is the canary in the coal mine, it is warming much faster than any other pa rt warming much faster than any other part of the planet. to be difficult to argue with the argument that there is some role for change. the pictures look very dramatic, the satellite pictures of the fires, but

can you give a sense of how much carbon dioxide they are releasing? the numbers are the ones that have led to these statements about it being unprecedented. every year, forest fires in the arctic sent some carbon dioxide up into the atmosphere but this year at the levels are much higher than before so we are looking at 100 million tonnes of co2 emitted since the beginning ofjune, and that is more thanis beginning ofjune, and that is more than is normally emitted in a whole year. we are not through to the end of the fire season yet. trees and grasses are burning but also there are indications that the pete is burning as well. that is really concerning from china —— from climate change perspective because they store thousands years worth of c02 they store thousands years worth of co2 so to relieve that into the atmosphere is worrying. what impact is that having on the environment on the ground ? is that having on the environment on the ground? where did the fires

start and are they likely to spread further than they have done? yes, i think so. the problem is that russian authorities are not particularly interested at the moment at putting them out unless they are anywhere near human settlements. so under current conditions, they would be very likely to spread. you're seeing huge amounts of smoke and pollution being spread by the winds across the region. what is being done to stop them? that's a very good question. they are being battled on the ground when they get close to settlements. i know that in alaska in the us, there is a huge effort to put a lot of the fires out. but it's not dealt with on the same level as when they are with on the same level as when they a re close with on the same level as when they are close to human settlements. beyond the fires, long term, what can be done to prevent them in the future, to reduce temperatures?m the very long—term, we need to cut

emissions to avoid this, it's clearly going to see more and more of this is the planet warms and it's extremely important that governments around the planet get together to cut emissions much faster and to a greater degree than they have been going so there are targets for that, we are hoping to see increased ambition next year so it's important that everyone pushes government to do that. thank you forjoining us. stay with us, headlines coming up.

good morning welcome to breakfast with tina daheley and ben thompson. our headlines today: president trump holds talks with borisjohnson and says a very substantial trade deal could happen after brexit. a warning of more closures at house of fraser as sports direct says it regrets rescuing the troubled department store. huge areas of the arctic are ablaze as firefighters struggle to contain unprecedented willdfires. gareth bale looks set to move to china. the welsh star, is close leaving real madrid and agreeing a three—year deal, with club side, jiang su suning,