the labour leader wants mps to support a no confidence vote in boris johnson, and says he would stay in post for a strictly limited period. i hope that they will all support the motion of no confidence that i will put, and that will ensure that this government then cannot continue with its headlong pursuit of a no—deal brexit. the leader of the lib dems has rejected the idea, we'll have the latest live from westminster. also this lunchtime: drug deaths in england and wales soar to their highest level since records began 25 years ago. police in malaysia say there was no

foul play in the death of 15—year—old nora quoirin, whose body was found ten days after going missing. the number of a—level students getting the top grades has dropped to the lowest level for more than a decade. and, mission jurassic — the biggest british—led dinosaur hunt in decades hopes to uncover new species in the wyoming desert. these might look like lumps of rock, but they're actually dinosaur footprints. here we've got the front foot, and an imprint of a gnarly claw. here's the back foot, so you can see clearly defined toes. and coming up on bbc news... after a washout on day one, play finally gets under way in the second ashes test with england finding the going tough early on.

good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. jeremy corbyn has urged mps to install him as a caretaker prime minister until an election can be held, in order to prevent a no—deal brexit. he's called on opposition parties and conservative rebels to support a no—confidence vote in boris johnson's government and then install him as prime minister for what he said would be a limited period, in order to delay the uk's withdrawal from the eu. but his plans have been rebuffed by the leader of the liberal democrats, jo swinson, who said mr corbyn couldn't command mps‘ support. our political correspondent tom barton reports. could he be the next prime minister?

the man to bring parliament together to oppose and no—deal brexit? jeremy corbyn certainly thinks it is possible. writing to opposition party leaders and rebel conservative mps to say he wants to seek the confidence of the house of commons with the aim of calling a general election and securing an extension to the brexit departure date.” election and securing an extension to the brexit departure date. i hope they will support the vote of no confidence i will put and that will make sure the government cannot continue this headlong... there are plenty of mps inside parliament who are opposed to a no—deal brexit. quite how they achieve that though is farfrom quite how they achieve that though is far from clear. quite how they achieve that though is farfrom clear. jeremy quite how they achieve that though is far from clear. jeremy corbyn‘s idea of holding a vote of no confidence could see borisjohnson

setting an election date for after britain has left the eu unless mps can agree an alternative government and prime minister within a couple of weeks. that could be harder than jeremy corbyn hopes. the lib dems leader today dismissing the idea of him as prime minister is nonsense. she would like mps to come together to pass a law to stop a no—deal brexit, otherwise she says a backbencher should be installed in number ten. there is no way he can unite rebel conservatives and independentsjust boris unite rebel conservatives and independents just borisjohnson. it's not even secure he —— sure that he would secure all of the votes of labour mps. this is about having a plan that works. the scottish nationalists and plaid cymru have givenjeremy nationalists and plaid cymru have given jeremy corbyn‘s nationalists and plaid cymru have givenjeremy corbyn‘s letter a cautious welcome while rebel conservatives have said they are

willing to talk tojeremy corbyn about how to stop no deal. their collea g u es about how to stop no deal. their colleagues in government have accused the labour leader of trying to overturn the referendum result. jeremy corbyn seems intent on not delivering that verdict of the british people in the referendum and in fact reversing that decision. jeremy corbyn as prime minister would be a disasterfor our country. ifa would be a disasterfor our country. if a vote of no confidence was called, it would need a majority of mps to pass it but if they did boris johnson are an alternative government would have 14 days to pass a new motion of confidence and avoid an election. the second vote though can only be held if boris johnson resigns as prime minister, and some experts say he could refuse. he could say, particularly if this is a temporary caretaker government led byjeremy corbyn that doesn't say anything about what it will do, he could say i don't recognise that as a government.

will do, he could say i don't recognise that as a governmentm is clear all the mps who received the letter, and plenty more, are determined to stop no—deal brexit. getting them to agree on how to do it isa getting them to agree on how to do it is a different matter altogether though. tom barton, bbc news, westminster. our political correspondent nick eardley is in westminster. given all of that, how do you assess the overall response to this suggestion from jeremy corbyn?” think at the moment it looks like a tall order. his argument is a simple one. if mps bring down borisjohnson over his brexit strategy, the leader of the opposition is next in line to try to figure out something else and there are some open to it. the snp leader nicola sturgeon saying she would be prepared to putjeremy corbyn in number ten to stop no deal, but the numbers at the moment don't add up. we heard in tom's piece that the liberal democrats are not on board as things stand. there

are conservatives totally opposed to no deal who would be deeply uncomfortable in doing anything that would help mr corbyn get the keys to number ten. some hope this opens a door to further conversations about strategy. the one that many mps have been talking about over the last few weeks is to try to seize control again of the commons agenda at the start of september and pass a law designed to mandate the government to go back to brussels and ask for another extension if no deal is looming. the problem though is that opposition parties in the past have struggled to compromise. the danger they have now is differences over strategy could mean they fail and cannot stop no deal altogether. nick ea rd ley, cannot stop no deal altogether. nick eardley, thank you. drug—related deaths in england and wales are the highest they've been since records began more than a quarter of a century ago.

figures from the office for national statistics show there were more than 4,300 deaths from drug poisoning recorded in 2018. two thirds of those deaths were as a result of the use illegal drugs. of the use of illegal drugs. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. the number of people dying from drugs misuse has been climbing almost without stop for six years now. the largest number of deaths are from heroin and morphine, but cocaine deaths are becoming more prominent, as are deaths from drugs like spice — what were known as legal highs before they were made illegal. last year a record a559 people died from drugs poisoning. two thirds of those deaths, almost 3,000, were from drugs misuse — also a record. that figure went up by i7% since 2017, the highest increase in a single year. there are several reasons why drug—related deaths are increasing, including increased supply of both heroin and cocaine to the uk, but that's very hard for the government to control.

one of the things the government could control is the amount of money it spends on drug treatment services, and we know those services save lives. not only do they save people's lives, they actually save money because they reduce the cost to the nhs and also the amount of crime that is done in drug markets. statistics for deaths from drug misuse were first collected in 1993 and rose until 2001. they then stabilised for more than a decade, but have been climbing again since 2012. the worst region for deaths from drugs misuse is the north—east, where the rate is 96.3 per million people. the best figures are in southern england. in london the rate is 34.9 per million people. those who work with addicts say continuing austerity and cuts are contributing to the number of deaths. over the last five years a third of residential rehabs have closed, which is a really striking statistic because we know that residential rehab is a vital resource to help save lives,

change lives and save lives, and to see that these units have closed over the last five years really concerns me. last month figures in scotland showed that drug deaths there were also at a record high. daniel sandford, bbc news. a london teenager who's been found dead after disappearing from a holiday resort in malaysia had not been abducted, according to local police. they say a postmortem examination of 15—year—old nora quoirin showed she had died from internal bleeding, probably a result of hunger and stress. our correspondent howard johnson is on pantai hill close to the area where nora's body was discovered. yes, yesterday a senior pathologist travelled from kuala lumpur to carry out this postmortem examination. today the findings were released at

a state police press conference. they said the suspicion of foul play had been ruled out and said for the time being there is no element of abduction or kidnapping according to the state police chief. they said nora had died two or three days before they found her body on tuesday and the cause of death was a rupturing of her in testing and internal bleeding because of a prolonged lack of food and stress. the family have not responded yet to the findings, but yesterday the lucie blackman trust, the charity set up to help british nationals in crisis abroad, have been supporting the family throughout this ordeal and have issued a press release in which they said the trust and nora's family will not be making comments at this time. we urge an end to speculation, please let the family grieve in piece and let the police

do theirjob. thank you. the family of a woman from london who died after reportedly being set on fire in barbados have said they're shocked and devastated. natalie crichlow, who's 44 and from colindale in north london, was on the island taking care of her disabled brother when she was attacked by an intruder last month. she suffered 75% burn and died in hospital last week. she suffered 75% burns and died in hospital last week. according to her niece, the mother of three had survived cancer twice, and had two strokes in the last decade. it's results day for about 300,000 a—level students in england, wales and northern ireland. the number of students achieving the top grades at a—level has fallen to its lowest level for more than a decade. and for the first time, there were more entries for a—level science subjects from girls than from boys. chi chi izundu has been with students at a college in blackpool as they got their results. yes! elated, relieved, gobsmacked. that's how some of the students here at the blackpool sixth form college have described getting

their a—level results. i'm going to oxford! and of course there were tears, but mostly parents are proud, like ellie and her mum. my mum's really happy because i literally thought i'd failed maths, and i've got into uni, which i wanted to go to, so i'm just so happy. i've never seen anything like the commitment she's put in. she just deserved it. if effort was to be rewarded, it would be a—star, a—star, a—star, she just really deserves that. but despite this happiness, this year, across england and wales and northern ireland, 25.5% of students got a—stars and a's, but that's actually the lowest level since 2007. the figures released by the joint council for qualifications also show that for the first time the number of girls taking sciences has overtaken boys, at 50.3%. and while maths remained the most popular subject, there has been a decline in the number of entries for english literature, a fall of 7.8%. i got an a in english literature, b in history and a c in music.

and are you happy with those results? i am, yeah, i'm absolutely thrilled, yeah. three a—stars in physics, maths and computer science. wow, congratulations! thank you. so what do you plan for your future? i'm hoping to go to, well, i'll be going to st andrews to study physics. pass rates and those getting top grades have increased in northern ireland and wales. this year, clearing into universities is expected to be busier than ever, and that's partly down to the fact that students don't have to wait for their uni to release them to enter clearing. they can simply head online and decline their place and pick somewhere else to go. the government, however, has expressed concern over the rise in unconditional offers. that's where students are guaranteed a place, regardless of the grades they get. there's something like 8% of offers were unconditional this year, compared to under half a percent just six years ago. we need to make sure that the admissions system into universities is geared to delivering what's in the best interests of students, not simply filling places at university. hey! yeah, i didn't do bad.

whilst the number of those accepted on to university courses had dipped slightly, it's still a dream for those who didn't believe they'd get there. gobsmacked, to be honest, i don't really know what to do. the hospital said i'd never be able to do college, and i've done it, so i'm clearly trying. but you're really over the moon? yeah! the results of the college were exceptional, we are so pleased, and we've got more high grades for a—level, which obviously has bucked the national trend, so we're delighted. and so they should be. for some, it's back to work, while others are jumping into celebrating. one, two, three! woo! thank you very much. and chi chi is live in blackpool. there has been quite a lot of changes to some exams, and this seems to have resulted in considerably lower grades in some areas. indeed. if you haven't realised what the changes are, it is

now more examination heavy than it is coursework so previously it was half and half split. some students said with the music exam how they would have to now memorise 18 pieces of complicated classical music and ta ke of complicated classical music and take an examination of two hours at the end of their two—year course rather than splitting it into two pieces of music per year, and coursework they are now having to regurgitate and memorise a lot of information over there two years and sit down and take an exam. they said they found some of those processes difficult but overall across england, wales and northern ireland, a level results in comparison to last year have remained quite stable. the students here at blackpool sixth form college have done exceptionally well. they bucked the trend of that dip in a's and a

stars but ucas said there have been a record number of 18—year—olds accepted into university courses for this year. chi chi izundu, thanks. our top story this lunchtime: the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, urges mps to install him as a temporary prime minister in order to avoid a no—deal brexit. coming up, the sun shines thankfully on lord's, so the ashes resume. i'll have the details. coming up on bbc news... and coming up on bbc news, after a wash out on day one, play finally gets under way in the second ashes test, with england finding the going tough early on. one of the biggest dinosaur graveyards in the world is being excavated in wyoming in the united states. the dig, which has been dubbed "mission jurassic", has already discovered more

than a dozen fossils and footprints, and researchers think there may be more than 100 dinosaurs buried, including new species. the team believes the dinosaurs died en masse in a catastrophic flood, and say the site is so rich in bones it will keep them busy for at least 20 years. our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports. emerging from the rocks, the backbone of a huge dinosaur. in wyoming, scientists are unearthing the bones of some of the biggest creatures ever to walk the earth. we've got at least a dozen animals which are showing elements of their skeleton, poking out of the ground on multiple parts of the site, so it makes it a very large site to deal with, and, for the first time in my career, we're almost looking at an industrial scale excavation. i've never been involved in such a vast dinosaur dig in my whole career. excavating each bone is a painstaking process. they're from the jurassic period,

a golden age when dinosaurs exploded in shape and size. these might look like lumps of rock, but they're actually dinosaur footprints. here we've got the front foot, and an imprint of a gnarly claw. here's the back foot, and you can see two clearly—defined toes. and these were made 150 million years ago, when a giant long—necked sauropod sunk down into the mud. the scientists are working methodically. they've already found bones from at least a dozen different dinosaurs. every single time we find a new dinosaur, that adds to the sample that we already have and once we have a big enough sample size we can do really interesting studies like understand how they walked or understand why they got so big, and we can't do that if we just have one or two. we need loads of them. the dig is like going back in time. a meat eating allosaurus has been found here, and herds of plant—eating diplodocus also grazed on this landscape.

before that, there was a vast inland sea. marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs were abundant in these waters. paleobotanists are also sifting through the sandstone. victoria edgerton is hoping to solve a long—standing mystery. these dinosaurs were eating things that we would consider to be very nutritionally poor — things like conifers, ferns and cycads. and we would love to be able to understand how they ate this food and still got to be to the enormous sizes that we find them. altogether, there could be more than 100 different dinosaurs here but it will take at least 20 years to get them out of the ground. rebecca morelle, bbc news, wyoming. india's prime minister, narendra modi, has strongly defended his decision to strip indian—administered kashmir of its autonomy, in the face of criticism from neighbouring pakistan. in a nationwide broadcast to mark india's independence day,

mr modi said the region will be restored to what he called its past glory. the authorities in gibraltar are considering whether to release an iranian oil tanker after a last minute request from the united states to continue holding it. the grace 1 was seized by royal marines last month on suspicion of trying to breach eu sanctions against syria. a police investigation against the captain and crew has been dropped. the tanker was due to be released earlier today, but the decision has now been deferred. china's ambassador to the uk has said china will "use its power" to stop the protests in hong kong if the situation deteriorates. the territory has seen weeks of unrest, sparked by opposition to an extradition bill, and beijing has referred to some of the unrest as terrorism. our diplomatic correspondent james robbins is with me. what should we be reading into these

comments from china's ambassador?” think listening to him for over an hour, liu xiaoming was entirely uncompromising. he accused some protesters are showing what he called signs of terrorism, after the occupation of hong kong airport, and he warned them they could drag the territory of hong kong into what he called a dangerous ibis. now so far chinese forces, the mainland army, has not been used in hong kong, but there are significant numbers of units massing on the chinese side of the border and listening to the ambassador he did not rule out the possibility they could eventually be deployed. this is part of what he said. should the situation in hong kong deteriorate further into unrest, uncontrollable for the government of the hong kong special administrative region, the central government would not sit on its hands and watch. we have enough solutions and enough power within the limits of basic law to quell any unrest swiftly.

of despite that apparent threat there are reasons why china will be very loath to put its army onto the streets of hong kong and come into direct conflict with the protesters, not least because the autonomy of hong kong would surely then be com pletely hong kong would surely then be completely exploded and it would no longer be a reality, and that would affect the potential for foreign investment and trade. i also should say the ambassador was very clear that britain had been interfering in what it regarded, china regards as a purely internal affair, and has already been critical of the british government for demanding dialogue. james, thanks very much, james robbins, thank you. the second ashes test has finally got under way after yesterday's action was rained off. before play began, players and spectators at lord's paid tribute to ruth strauss — the wife of the former england captain andrew strauss, who died from a rare lung cancer in december. our sports correspondent

joe wilson is at lord's. yes, it's been a memorable morning here. you may remember after the first test wychavon england lost, joe root said he was expecting a big response from his players in this test match. england got to 76 for the loss of two wickets at lunch so the loss of two wickets at lunch so the captain may be thinking it could have been worse. certainly one thing we can say for definite it is we have had the weather here today to fit the occasion. andrew strauss took the applause here countless times as a player. today meant something entirely different. today, he had his sons with him and read was for his wife of their mum. ruth strauss died of a rare form of lung cancer. to turn lords read was to make it her day. this was about gaining awareness for the ruth strauss foundation to help people with rare forms of lung cancer and support those with terminal diagnoses. i'm hoping for very competitive day's cricket today, but

also some moments when all 22 players come together and go cricket is big, but it's, there are bigger things in life as well. strauss knows opening the batting is test cricket's toughest job. knows opening the batting is test cricket's toughestjob. australia's decision to bowl first had paid off immediately and jason roy's test career had continued with zero. australia had picked josh hazlewood for this match, another good decision. he struck again, lbw and joe root was out. england needed rory burns. he needed some luck. as man khawaja obliged. australia's field may never quite know why or how but he dropped the catch. now burns, recompose and take advantage. well, it is a lovely day for batting. clear skies above, clear mind at the crease. joe denly was showing australia what he could do too stop test matches are made of days and days are made by

partnerships. i hope that gave you some idea of how the morning session looked. burns and joe denly will resume after lunch. both of those players are making their way as english test match batsmen and although we've lost a whole day's play already i'm sure the captain will be telling them, look, no rush. joe wilson, thank you very much indeed. the weather forecast coming up indeed. the weather forecast coming up in indeed. the weather forecast coming upina indeed. the weather forecast coming up in a few minutes, of course. 50 years ago this month two of the world's most iconic music festivals took place. while hundreds of thousands of people gathered in woodstock in new york state, its most famous resident, bob dylan, wasn't there — he was instead performing in a field on the isle of wight — as part of one of the biggest music festivals britain had ever seen. david sillito looks back. newsreel: here come the hippies, the advanced guard of an invasion force expected to number between 100,000 and 200,000 from all over britain and the continent.

1969, the isle of wight and one of the moments of the ‘60s. on stage, dylan. in the audience, john lennon, george harrison and ringo starr, and at the press conference that launched it all, sitting here on the right of dylan, a slightly stunned 23—year—old ray foulk, who'd asked his idol to come to his little event, never expecting him to say yes. this is the field, this was the arena. 50 years on, we met at the site and the big question — why did dylan come here, and not woodstock, which was, after all, where he lived? the fact that woodstock was taking place in his back garden annoyed him no end. he was in a reclusive situation in an artist retreat. it was peaceful and quiet, nobody knew about. suddenly the woodstock festival is dumped on it. he resented it enormously. it compares to woodstock favourably,

because we had the biggest star. they didn't get their prize. we got their big star and that amounted to all the other stars put together, as far as i was concerned. and the organisers were a bunch of friends just out of school. peter harigan here was in charge of press. so this was just a sea of people. yes, absolutely, and so was the road coming down here. a sea of people. and all you lot were in charge. how old were you? iwas 20. did you know what you were doing? no — we were making it up as we went along. newsreel: on the edge of the 16—acre arena, where the concerts are being staged, fans queue for tickets at £2 and ten shillings for the two days. and they did rather well but it was all a bit mind blowing. especially for chris colley, who was told he was going to be bob dylan's driver. it was overwhelming. everywhere you looked, there was something new.

gallons of foam suddenly appearing and people swimming about in the foam. and as they prepare for their anniversary concert, it's a chance to reflect on a moment, a shared spirit that was reflected both here and in woodstock. # we are stardust...# it was about more than just music, wasn't it? oh, absolutely, yes. it was about other ways to make this world work. the counterculture being people who were coming on pilgrimages to the isle of wight festival. believing that there was a better world to be found. # back to the garden.# david sillito, bbc news, the isle of wight. fantastic. now is it festival weather? alina jenkins is here to

weather? alina jenkins is here to tell me. it's a quieter day, we have blue skies and sunshine here this afternoon, a very different data yesterday when many of us saw plenty of rain. the satellite picture tells a story, this is yesterday's weather, the band of cloud moving away, this is coming our way tomorrow, but in between a slice of something drier. there are one or two showers around this afternoon but few and far between, most having a dry day, some spells of sunshine. a fairly gusting westerly wind but despite that temperature is 20—23dc for england and wales, 16—19 for scotla nd for england and wales, 16—19 for scotland and northern ireland aren't clear skies through this evening before the cloud starts to gather in the west and that will bring outbreaks of rain into parts of scotland, northern ireland, the far western fringes of england and wales by the end of the night so further west temperature is not much lower than 13-14dc, west temperature is not much lower than 13—1lidc, further east we could see them dipping into high single figures across parts of eastern england and east anglia, but this is what we've got tomorrow, this fairly

deep area of low pressure. isobars are deep area of low pressure. isobars a re close