“hq ur hm at n ' hm u5 5 $55 u5 hm u5 5 5‘155 u5 5 or playing or reporting is patience but at this moment as we wonder whether this five day test match will become four days i will symbolically and positively lower at my umbrella because there is just a sense of sunshine over this corner of london! for hundreds of clubbers on board a cruise ship the dj was — quite literally — out of this world. let's see if you can go sideways like me. italian astronaut luca parmitano has become the first dj in orbit — after playing a set from the international space station. up up with your hands! he trained as a dj before going into space. he didn't have a playlist — he used the "shuttle" option. time for a look at the weather. susan powell is

the forecast almost as painful as your jokes! the forecast almost as painful as yourjokes! for the cricket i'm not sure we will see any play today. it is still summer, but the outlook is so is still summer, but the outlook is so autumnal it is pretty depressing. very wet and windy weather through the rest of the week. some of the west is still to come. this is the low pressure delivering this bout of wet and windy weather. we have a breather tomorrow and then on friday another area of low pressure. widespread strong winds and heavy rain and the wind will be a feature through the weekend. this afternoon we have some of the wettest weather possibly still to come across the welsh borders, the midlands and east anglia with showers for the south—east. a little brighter to the west and possibly some drier weather later on in the day for the ashes.

but fingers crossed i think it best. further north rain across northern ireland through the evening and into scotla nd ireland through the evening and into scotland over night. much milder to the north—east with an overnight low of double figures. some cloud around on thursday but a much drier day in the making and most areas are seeing some sunny the making and most areas are seeing some sunny spells developing. some showers across england and wales but looking much better for showers across england and wales but looking much betterfor the cricket. and for all of us it will feel warmer without the wind and the rain, high teens up to perhaps 23 in the south—east of england. but here comes that low pressure for friday and this is the sort of thing you would see in awesome. widespread heavy rain sweeping west to east on friday. eastern counties helpfully staying dry until later in the afternoon. but the rainfall totals adding up all the while. we already

have seen around three quarters of the august rain by the start of this week soaked more rain is not good news and those gusts of wind enough to cause some disruption. and then some pretty disappointing temperatures in the high teens at best. at the moment that weekend looks comparatively dry. there will be showers around but the wind is likely to be a big player through the weekend especially on sunday where we have gusts of up to 50 miles an hour. it is still summer but you might need to remind yourself! a reminder of our top story: the prime minister has hit back at mps seeking to block a no—deal brexit,accusing them of engaging in a "terrible collaboration" with the eu. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon, i'm sarah mulkerrins,

it'sjust after 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. there's been no play so far, on the opening morning of the second ashes test at lord's. the rain has been unrelenting and the toss has been delayed. this was the scene at the famous old ground this morning. grey clouds, plenty of rain, the covers on, and the prospect of play any time soon looks very remote indeed, according to simon king from the bbc weather centre. heavy rain at the moment and it does not look great if i am honest. the heaviest of the remotely away during the afternoon so there may be some drier spells and a few dry interludes later this afternoon if i was to clutch at straws. we may get a bit of straw but it depends on how much rainfall falls between now and then. they would have to do a lot of work to get it ready. i suggest

perhaps not. so whether it's today or tomorrow...or the weekend...these two men, steve smith and jofra archer, will surely have a big say in the final result of this test match. the former england intertnational, isa guha, is now part of the test match special team, she says archer's inclusion could be huge for england. he brings so much to the team. his energy and confidence is incredible to see the amount of confidence exudes at the age of 24. we saw it here just exudes at the age of 24. we saw it herejust a exudes at the age of 24. we saw it here just a few weeks ago when he was happy to take the ball for the super over and ended up winning the game for england. so a fantastic player to have within this group of players but also just as ability and his skill with the red ball. he has spoken about the fact that he loves the red ball. he has already taken a bucketful of championship wickets. he will come into the side looking to get the ball moving but also the place that he brings. steve smith has admitted that he will pose a

threat because of the way that he just ambles in and suddenly it is in yourface. so just ambles in and suddenly it is in your face. so looking forward to that contest in particular. but it will be a good move to bring him into the site. elsewhere, it was a bad night for celtic last night. they won't play in the champions league this season after being beaten by romanian side cluj. it was one—all after the first leg and celtic led twice on the night, but cluj scored two goals late on to go through 5—4 on aggregate. celtic will now go into the play—offs for the europa league. we'll see a bit of football history later, as a female referee takes charge of a major european men's match for the very first time. here's stephanie frappart refereeing the final of the women's world cup earlier this summer, and tonight she's in charge as liverpool play chelsea in istanbul in the super cup — the assistant referees are both female too. there's another first about that match in istanbul this evening, it's the first all—english european super cup. it pits the champions league winners, liverpool, against chelsea, who won the europa league.

it's important as a club like chelsea that we give everything to try and win it, because yes, it does mean something, it means something for us as another trophy, as a club, and for me it would be a really nice start for me personally. but more than that, a feeling for the players with the season coming up that we can compete against liverpool, win a cup in our name that goes down in our history and go on from there. everything is prepared for a final, obviously, so we have to make sure we're ready for a final. we have to make a few decisions about lineup and stuff like this that can be kind of a little bit unpredictable, probably for the opponent as well, because we don't know how they play, why should they know how we play? andy murray says he's had some second thoughts about turning down the opportunity to play singles at the us open. he lost his first match back in singles tennis at the cincinnati masters this week, and said no to a wildcard for flushing meadows

because his body's not ready to play five set matches yet. but he forgot that the qualifying matches are over three sets, but he's now missed his chance. i'll have more for you in the next hour. climate change activist greta thunberg will to set off from plymouth shortly, and spend two weeks sailing across the north atlantic in a boat with no toilet, kitchen or privacy. the 16—year—old is due to attend a crucial climate conference in new york, and has stopped flying for environmental reasons. let's cross to plymouth where a press conference is taking place. you have been on the boat? she faces a really tough journey. you have been on the boat? she faces a really toughjourney. it you have been on the boat? she faces a really tough journey. it is an incredible boat, fantastically exciting to sail. it is basically a

huge sale attached to a superlight hull. it jumps forward huge sale attached to a superlight hull. itjumps forward but what huge sale attached to a superlight hull. it jumps forward but what that means is that it crashes against the waves and essentially is a giant drum, banging against the waves as the swell gets higher, the captain told me, it cuts straight through the waves. so it will be crashing through every wave and the wave will break over the boat and into the cockpit where the crew set. so greta can expect not only to get very wet but for it to be very noisy. it seals 24 hours a day so it could be really, really very hard to get any sleep at all. you have listed the other creature comforts missing. but if you are going to make a zero carbon journey to new york, there are few more glamorous ways you could go than a kind of absolute state—of—the—art racing yacht. it looks absolutely incredible, it is an amazing statement to make about the optimism of tackling climate change. there are amazing low carbon

things we can do, look at this boat it is kind of what she is saying. so it is kind of what she is saying. so it is kind of what she is saying. so it is an amazing statement that she is making. and yet there are those saying what will the action of one young lady on a trip, what real difference will it make? that is exactly what i said to greta. i said ina exactly what i said to greta. i said in a world of 8 billion people, one person stopping flying doesn't make any difference. she said it is not about the individual action but what you are saying to your friends and family. friends and family who she persuaded to live more carbon friendly lifestyles. it is about persuading your wider community and saying i have made this decision because i see that there is a sense of urgency and if you happen to be greta thunberg, a world's leading climate campaigner, you are speaking toa climate campaigner, you are speaking to a huge world community. all of us watching this broadcast. so for her it does have a resonance but i think you're absolutely right in essence, objectively, it is a drop in the ocean and doesn't make any difference but it is all about

messaging and so for her, she would argue for all of us as well, it is a statement that you could make that says i am engaging in what she believes and the scientists tell us is an urgent challenge. we are expecting a news conference any moment. should i stay chatting or shall we come back to you later? you can say for a little while because i think it is one minute, i am being told it is about one minute until she supposed to be coming to join us. she supposed to be coming to join us. it will be greta her father, who is making the journey with her, us. it will be greta her father, who is making thejourney with her, she will also be with the skipper of the boat. are they coming? my team keeping me informed. she should be here any moment. it was incredible privilege to go out on the boat. i can't tell you, it was very, very exciting boat to sail on my collea g u es exciting boat to sail on my colleagues would agree that i was thrilled to be on. i think boris could see that i was really excited. we took it up to 23 knots which for

a sailing vessel is incredible fast. boris said nonchalantly this is the beginning of what it can do but it is truly the most amazing kind of boat. literally designed for speed, designed for racing as we have discussed, no creature comforts on board whatsoever. there is also really interesting thing to say about the symbolic value of the decision to sale here from plymouth, we are implement, this is called the mayflower key in memory of the mayflower key in memory of the mayflower which of course sailed with the pilgrim fathers, the founding fathers of the united states in 1620? founding fathers of the united states in 1620 7 correct founding fathers of the united states in 1620? correct me if i am wrong. so just states in 1620? correct me if i am wrong. sojust one states in 1620? correct me if i am wrong. so just one year of the fourth centenary so i kind of powerful symbolic thing, greta thunberg making this journey across. . . thunberg making this journey across... i think she is coming any

moment now. just as the pilgrim fathers did over 300 years after the dead. here she is, let's have a look. —— after she did. this is the tea m look. —— after she did. this is the team and there is greta and boris. how are you doing? he will be skippering the boat. just on how well she come back? we know how she is going, how will she come back? that is a question i have asked... i have asked greatest team. she is absolutely adamant that she does not fly and they have spent a bit of time with her, she does what she says. so i believe she will not fight back. they have not decided about how she gets back. i know that earlier on they were considering taking up cargo ship. the logic being that, despite the fact that a cargo ship uses diesel, the idea is

that, or heavy fuels and fossil fuels, the idea is that travelling ona fuels, the idea is that travelling on a boat like that has no additional effect because the boat would be making thejourney additional effect because the boat would be making the journey anyway. soi would be making the journey anyway. so i think that is a possibility. if the team is around with the boat, maybe people want to sell back but let's see because it will be challenging. great to talk to you. let'sjoin challenging. great to talk to you. let's join the conference as it gets under way. you will be able to get all the footage and boat will be circling out the back behind us and then we will sell out past the cliff edge. so that is all from me. if we could start with questions please? should i do my thing first? i want to just give should i do my thing first? i want tojust give a should i do my thing first? i want to just give a statement. you can

ask ina to just give a statement. you can ask in a minute. can you hear me like this? i would like to thank you for coming here, hopefully you enjoyed the english weather this morning. this was the cold front just passing through with the rain and the little storm. and it is now cleaning up and this is what we waited for to leave so we want to leave with the wind after this cold front. we are all here today because of this great girl. either way, i don't know if you have noticed, each time in the team we write on the phone and we write the word great, the spelling correction puts it to greta. did you notice that? i would like to thank you greta for her leadership and relentless fight to wa ke leadership and relentless fight to wake us up, to listen to the

science. i have been very touched when i listen to greta speak in front of our magnificent town hall in hamburg early march of this year. according to the native science humanity is in a race against time to reduce co2 emissions drastically. to change a global economy which is almost entirely based on fossil fuel. this voyage symbolises two things. it is not easy to replace fossilfuel, things. it is not easy to replace fossil fuel, but it is absolutely possible. and it can be a great adventure, i hope. it also offers the opportunity to bring us closer to nature. each other and ourselves. this voyage will be difficult and challenging. 3500 nautical miles over the north atlantic, at least two weeks of noise, humidity and a

sacrifice of any comfort. dealing with nature means that we have to accept our limitations. we cannot know exactly how long it will take us know exactly how long it will take us and if we will even make it as planned. technology has enabled us to achieve remarkable things. without using any fuel. our ship is able to sail faster than the average motor got our cargo vessel. the longer the trap the more this is true as we could even circumnavigate the planet nonstop. which would be impossible for any motor vessel. and we can do this without leaving any trace, by using only wind and solar power. 150 years ago, the immigrants from europe to america have already sailed without leaving any trace. when they left they basically sailed west into the unknown, their fate

was in god's sands. —— hands. but today technology allows us to return today technology allows us to return to nature without the fear of the unknown. we don't pray to neptune any more but rather to the computers and global weather models. reliable forecast and the speed of modern sailing vessels allows us to find smart routs through the storms most of the time. i hope so... if everything has to change, then we have to take a great leap into the unknown. just like sailing across an ocean. i would like to thank greta for her remarkable courage. i could not have been that courageous at her age. we cannot ask anyone to be that courageous but we could all embrace the unknown and challenges lying

ahead of all of us as something positive and exciting, rather than a threat. i would also like to thank oui’ threat. i would also like to thank our amazing team. and partners from monaco and germany, to lend us this boat for this special symbolic trip. the solidarity with better is not at all limited —— with greta, is not limited to activists. we are aware that not everyone can sail across the atlantic on a high—tech racing yacht. but we would like to motivate eve ryo ne yacht. but we would like to motivate everyone to look for alternative forms of transport, than the ones based on kerosene, diesel and heavy oil. everyone can start making changes in their own backyard. and many small steps could ultimately change everything. but we need these changes and climate actions now because this is a race against time. a race we must win. thank you.

applause tom clark, itn. the founding fathers left from here, they did not get a sendoff like this. what is your reaction to this? a reaction to all this attention and...i a reaction to all this attention and... i mean it is great that the media wants to write and are interested in climate —related subjects. even though there are many others who are more relevant than this, but yeah. what should the rest

of us do? not everyone can go across the atlantic as boris said. what do you say to the rest of the world? the atlantic as boris said. what do you say to the rest of the world ?|j am not telling anyone what to do or what not to do. i am just doing this because i want to do this. myself. and i am one of the very few people in the world who actually can do this so i think i should take the chance to do this. the guardian. you have come a very long way. how big a challenge is this? notjust crossing the ocean but going to those climate conferences. how big a

challenge as that? what else will you do in the americas because you are there nine months. two climate summits. will you go to brazil? of course this is about challenge. i don't think, i am not the one who is going to take us there. —— a big challenge. boris is taking us. of course it will be challenging. for eve ryo ne course it will be challenging. for everyone on the boat. that is what you have to expect. and i mean there are always going to be people who don't understand or don't accept united science and i willjust ignore them. because i am only

acting and communicating on the science and if they do not like that then what have i got to do with that? i am then what have i got to do with that? iam not then what have i got to do with that? i am not going to the united states, i am going to north and south america, so i am going to travel around on both continents. of course. you're going to the us as well as the rest of the world, you have done off a... and off a lot... are you concerned... inaudible iam not i am not concerned about reactions, iam i am not concerned about reactions, i am concerned about whether or not the people in power will react. and act with necessary force. and...

where was i? and of course there are people who want climate to layers —— delay to shift focus to something else automate people question the science. and i am not worried about that, i am just going to do as i wa nt to that, i am just going to do as i want to do and as i think will have the most impact. i greta. hi greta. what kind of welcome have you had in the uk? i had a very warm welcome. i have not been public about where i'm going, so... but i have been welcomed by people who i know and who are helping me. and so yeah.

the times. i know you want to attend to conferences. people say you could have attended. is, spoken at them by video link. without travelling and then you could have saved yourself then you could have saved yourself the journey. and set an example that you can attend these things virtually. what do you see to that? of course i can do that. and i have attended several conferences and meeting by video link. but u nfortu nately, meeting by video link. but unfortunately, my experience is that those attendances do not get any attention. at all. and i have been invited there to speak, i have not been invited there to speak unlike andi been invited there to speak unlike and i think it will do more. —— on link. and i think it will do more

good if i to the young people were there instead of video link.|j wonder where do you get your strength from, the well to go forward ? strength from, the well to go forward? is it anger, worry, what drives you and gives you the courage? i think i get drives you and gives you the courage? i think! get my drives you and gives you the courage? i think i get my energy from that i know this is a very big problem and i have read a lot of... and i sort of understand the problem ina way, and i sort of understand the problem in a way, in many ways and i have decided i am going to do everything ican. decided i am going to do everything i can. and i think that is what keeps me going, just the dedication.

i know i will do everything i can and also the fact that some things are actually changing. i think that is especially the mindset of many people is changing, even if that is not enough and even if this is not fast enough, it is at least something. so it is not for nothing. you have met with many world leaders. donald trump is one of the only people who doesn't seem to listen. do you think that maybe you of all people have the power in person to maybe make him reconsider what he thinks? no. as simple as that? yes. i don't see if anyone else, iam not

that? yes. i don't see if anyone else, i am not that special, i cannot convince everyone. and instead of speaking to me, and the school striking children and teenagers, they should be talking to actual scientists and experts in this area. two questions greta. inaudible what is the thing you think about most spending two weeks at sea? as i said before, i don't tell people what to do, i don't tell anyone what to do or what not to do. i willjust leave it there. people can do what they want. what i am... how i am

thinking about this trip? i think it will be very... quite an adventure. it will be a very new experience. for me at least. and of course i expected to be challenging, sometimes. but also good most of the time. what would be some of the challenges? i don't know, seasickness? of course, many things. but i will have to manage that. it is not a lot, more people in the world a re is not a lot, more people in the world are suffering a lot more than that. so... the united nations appealed to... i wondered what

message you would give to who... the same thing that... the oceans are crucial in, i mean both, it is, of course as every other ecosystem but also in regulating the climate and it gives us much of the air we breathe and. so, i mean, we are in a crisis, not only a climate crisis, but lots of the climate crises happen in the ocean as well. the ocea ns happen in the ocean as well. the oceans are impacted by that. we are also facing an ecologically crisis which affects not only the climate and weather patterns, but

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