while between washington and beijing and ina while between washington and beijing and in a new threat to the global economic outlook. the times leads with promising medical news reporting that a simple blood test could detect the onset of alzheimer's stop it's been developed by scientists in what has been described as a breakthrough for combating the disease. the male online looks at the criticism levelled at the tech giant google which has been labelled hypocritical, this is after reportedly more than 100 private jets were used to fly celebrities including prince harry to climate change conference in sydney sicily. —— sicily. and finally, is it closing time for being a god by a bartender? it could be for a buy in london. it's the first want to use facial recognition technology to serve people in the correct order when they approached the bar. it's funny, with friends as i was when it's their round sa oh sorry i

couldn't get served. with ms ian anderson, fan —— founder of the cicero group. we'll take these stories and turn as a should. let's start with the independent and we have the bank of england ‘s latest update, just over 2a hours ago. and it's interesting, even if there is an orderly brexit, even if there is an orderly brexit, even if there is a deal the governor of the bankers say this one in three chance of recession. some will say that it's a stark warning, some say it's project feel once again. the lens you view this by is really the lens on where you are in brexit to some extent. but underneath the numbers, the reason the bank is sort of pointing towards recession is actually before we get to brexit. because it's a very, very, very sharp slowdown in the uk from the first quarter of the year there was a lot of economic

activity, people getting ready for the 29 of march, stockpiling, lots of activity coming on and the justice, people storing stuff into the second quarter on the banks really pointing to that second quarter where there was, almost zero growth. so the factoring and the cumulative effect across the piece, to say that actually, there is a big chance that the uk slows really significantly on or about the 31st of october. this quite a lot of evidence of that. we are seeing in oui’ evidence of that. we are seeing in our own business, people are taking longer to make decisions, they are just being a lot more canny about how they go about the business activity. of course, we have seen the pound for quite sharply. and i wonder whether the by—election results and the vulnerability that that puts the government in, could

add to those concerns among investors. on the summit of 2016, people going on holiday from the uk definitely saw it was more expensive. they're saying — mixing is going to be more expensive yet again this summer. again, if you are not in favour of brexit, there's probably a hope that when holidaymakers come back from spending money in europe, the sentiment is going to move towards trying to block and no deal. certainly parliament may try and do that and my reading of what has happened in the by—election overnight is that it does make an early general election even more likely. given the concerns about the uk economy, thank goodness we can look to the world ‘s two biggest economies oh, no, hang on. the financial times tells us that that is just getting even worse with

potentially hit consumers directly. so the ft has a really good graphic, right at the heart of the story. just try and untangle for readers what is going on here. spring of 2018, trump starts the tariffs on china stop about a year into his presidency, and they have just continued to ramp up. 0verall, china has got about 113 billion tariffs on us products, up until yesterday's tweet by donald trump, america had a total of about 250 billion ‘s worth of tariff on chinese products. those products were agricultural, things like motorcycles, semiconductors, but just as you like motorcycles, semiconductors, butjust as you say like motorcycles, semiconductors, but just as you say trump like motorcycles, semiconductors, butjust as you say trump has now announced another 300 alien of tariffs. easily everything that's

coming into america, half $1 trillion he is going to slap another 10% on that. and there is consumer goods. inside the iphone, things like sneakers. i do so we will be speaking about that in the coming days, weeks and months. we believe that one for the moment. let's move onto a health story was not front page of the times will stop a potential breakthrough in the treatment of alzheimer's. this is really interesting isn't it? science never ceases to amaze at the minute. this is quite fantastic. basically, i think the old adage is true, early intervention can do a heck of a lot in order to potentially solve deep—seated medical robbins. no really, what this is saying is that it's not going to be able to do this test, it's not going to be able to do anything if you already got alzheimer's unfortunately. but in terms of early onset, it's really predicting that up to 20 years in

advance of getting full alzheimer's, this blood test may be able to detect whether or not you got the toxins building in your brain and potentially treatment that allow alzheimer's to be pushed back, so the tremendous story and again as i say, medical science never ceases to amaze me. still in the science them, this story on climate change stop get lots of people together, being high—profile conference, get them in on private jets, massive high—profile conference, get them in on privatejets, massive climate footprint. this is about as climate change event that apparently google held in sicily. we should say, this is the mail and other papers citing anonymous sources and google rather unhelpfully has not commented one way on the other about it. no

comment i don't think is an option these days. the tabloids in particular are salivating all over this. particularly tabloids that are quite climate change sceptical. so the male has a huge spread on a p pa re ntly the male has a huge spread on apparently 20 million being spent over a hundred private jets, apparently 20 million being spent over a hundred privatejets, people driving around in maserati ‘s, heading around on motorboats, over $100,000 being spent on a rock concert in the middle of all this, this kind of cave your, basically devalu es this kind of cave your, basically devalues the whole i hear. —— idea. they need to show leadership. they're getting together to have a conference about climate change, maybe you want to think about how you get there. indeed, very much so. and then let's turn to this one because this will resonate with many people, i'm sure was standing at the

bar she to be served, the person next year goes, then the next lesson, then someone else comes along and you are still waiting for i'm bad at this. i end up picking the worst spot and they never seem to get onto metal stoppers seven item pot facial recognition could solve the situation. but this is exactly why i stopped going to bars yea rs exactly why i stopped going to bars years ago. i was exactly why i stopped going to bars years ago. i was never exactly why i stopped going to bars years ago. i was never the guy to get the first point. i try and get it but i fail. it could work against you. if after a while they were gathered by a chief round, the facial recognition may actually say, we're not going to serve him at all. it is really interesting. this sort of technology becoming far more commonplace and i'm sure they will come a point lead will be so widespread that we will have forgotten what i was like before it. the next age, of course is at this no longer a bartender, there's a

robot making your drink. that's probably where it goes next. or, in some bars i know some friends of been to, they have their own little filter pump on the table where there sat and they just tap the filter pump on the table where there sat and theyjust tap the contact ca rd sat and theyjust tap the contact card and for their own drink. the b having to cook their own food next. ian, really good to see you, thanks for going through those headlines with us from around the world and the media. thank you for watching, we got plenty more coming up, do stay with us on bbc news. nice to see you. see you soon.

hello. well, the good news is that it's fairly quiet on the weather front but not completely because we are expecting a few showers to develop on friday across some northern parts of the country and that does include derbyshire. the good news is the chance of any heavy rain falling in the vicinity of that reservoir where the environment agency has a severe flood warning, well, the chance of any further rainfall is very, very low and it is looking like it's going to be a mostly sunny day so some good news there, as i say, at least on the weather front. not necessarily with the situation there. the forecast or the satellite pictures shows we are in between weather systems so clear skies across western and central areas. towards the east by the early hours of friday morning, we will probably have some thicker cloud so that means anywhere from aberdeenshire all the way down into east anglia, the weather is looking pretty cloudy first thing whereas in the west, i think sunshine pretty much from the word go. mild morning. 15, 16 degrees across the south of the uk.

here is the forecast for the rest of the morning. so a lot of sunshine. that cloud in the east should disperse and give a sunny day for places like hull and newcastle and a few showers there developing across scotland, northern parts of england, maybe one or two in the midlands, wales, and the south—west. the further east and south you are, i think you are in for a dry day. 25 in london. now, how about the cricket, the ashes? it's looking sunny, at least for the most part. at least bright, with temperatures in the low 20s, just the outside chance of one of those showers developing during the course of the afternoon. so that was friday. let's have a look at the weekend now and low pressure out there in the atlantic and a weather front heading our way. that does mean things are going to cloud over and turn, for some of us, at least wet through the course of the weekend. not immediately so. in fact, on saturday, a lot of bright weather around across england but notice in the west here, got increasing amounts of cloud and also some spits and spots of rain.

a warm day, 25 in london, 20 newcastle. and then as we go into sunday, it looks as though those weather fronts will be approaching, wedging a little bit closer so that does spell some rain for north—western areas and the thinking is that in scotland and northern england, during the course of the afternoon, and that does include areas a little bit further south into derbyshire, we could see some heavy, thundery showers developing. in the south of the country, it should be dry and very warm, temperatures maybe as high as 28 in london. bye— bye.

good morning. welcome to breakfast, with steph mcgovern and ben thompson. 0ur headlines today: the derbyshire dam at risk of collapse holds overnight. if it bursts, it could swamp the town below. an raf helicopter is helping emergency services divert water from above the town. we will keep you up—to—date with the latest on the evacuation. the conservatives lose the brecon and radnorshire by—election to the lib dems, reducing borisjohnson's majority in parliament to a single mp. a dramatic first day in the ashes, as a century from steve smith on his return to test cricket

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