is something we are trying to figure out with omg. the icy environment can make it tough to drop the probes but does offer some perks — stunning scenery. so far, these missions have shown them how sensitive these places are to the ocean. they've also produced a better map of the sea floor so they can gauge which places are under threat. the answer, more than they thought. seth doane, cbs news for bbc news, greenland. 50 years ago, a russian sailor put a message in a bottle and threw it into the sea. well now, half a century later, his letter has washed up on the shores of western alaska. tyler ivanoff was gathering firewood when he made the discovery. he posted a copy of the letter on facebook, where russian speakers translated it as a greeting from a russian sailor, which included an address and a request for a response.

russian media tracked down the writer, captain anatoly botsanenko. now 86 years old, he's reported to have burst into tears when told his letter had finally been found. time for a look at the weather. here's susan powell. good afternoon, some dramatic sky escapes being sent in by weather watchers this afternoon. sunshine and showers the theme today, always trickier to pin down exactly where the showers are. they are separating around this low on a north—westerly breeze. there is a weather front end there as well pushing into the north—west of scotland. that will mean showers are merging into some more persistent rain through this afternoon. heavier downpours across the midlands drifting eastwards with some rumbles of thunder and flashes of lightning and some heavy rain to common places, but it is starting to ease for wales and the south—west for the afternoon. temperatures still disappointing, cool with a

north—westerly breeze, high teens and low 20s. that front move south bringing rain to northern ireland and southern scotland and comes to rest across northern england at the end of the night. to the south, clear skies, to the north, clear skies and becoming cooler. starting to feel a little autumnal first thing particularly for rural north—eastern scotland just around four celsius. here goes that one sliding further south but fizzling out tomorrow. a few showers and southern scotland and northern england, but overall a much drier and brighter day than today and a light breeze with the chance of some sharper showers for wales and northern ireland through the afternoon. cooler for aberdeen, northern ireland through the afternoon. coolerforaberdeen, in the mid—teens, temperatures 21 in the mid—teens, temperatures 21 in the south—east of england. then we look to the atlantic for wednesday's weather with another area of low pressure winding our way. so the winds will start to pick up once again, some heavy rain later on in the day pushing into northern ireland, into scotland and northern england towards the evening. what

also arrives as the south—westerly wind and that starts to change the way things feel, lifting temperatures to 22, 23 in the south—east and if we take a look at those temperatures as the week goes on, wednesday into thursday into friday and saturday, the beginnings of the long weekend, some real warmth a good way north across the uk. that is because the weather will start to settle down. high pressure building to the south. still some rain and showers for scotland and northern ireland, some dry weather at times, but across the board, a warmer feel by the time we get to saturday. we can expect that heat to taper off a little bit as we make oui’ taper off a little bit as we make our way into sunday and monday. potentially up to 27 in the south—east on saturday. so we are not quite done with summer, yet.

good afternoon, it's 1:30pm and here's your latest sports news. cricket australia has defended the doctor who allowed steve smith to return to bat, after being hit on the neck during the second ashes test. the australian batsman missed the final day at lord's becuse of concussion after being struck by a delivery bowled from england's jofra archer at 92mph. cricket australia have confirmed smith will need to be fully free of symptoms for 2h hours before he can start training. marnus labuschagne came into the match for smith, and went through his own concussion assessment after being hit by a bouncer. you just want to make sure you are ready and follow their instructions, thatis ready and follow their instructions, that is the key. i think 98% of the time, they are going to make great decisions and if you have to come

off, it is obviously because you are not all right. and obviously in my case i was all right and i felt fine, ijumped the gun a bit on the question is, i where i am, i know how many i am on! that is how it goes. after a summer of speculation over his future, phillipe coutinho has found a way out of barcelona. he's moving to bayern munich — initially on a season—long loan, but bayern have the option to buy him forjust short of £110 million at the end of that loan spell. coutinho says the move "represents a new challenge in a new country at one of the best clubs in europe". the manchester united manager ole gunnar solskjaer says wolves can expect a much tougher test this season. harry magure and aaron wan bisaka have been added in defence at a cost of £130 million. wolves beat united at molineuax twice last season in the league and fa cup.

towards the end of last season, we we re towards the end of last season, we were mentally tired as well. now we are all mentally fresh, so i am looking forward to the first hurdle, because you want to see the resilience, the robustness that we can bounce back as a team when the going gets tough, and i am sure it will be on monday because wolverhampton will give us a very, very ha rd wolverhampton will give us a very, very hard challenge. jimmy white has finally won a title at the crucible theatre, a venue of so many near misses for the snooker legend. after losing six world championship finals there "the whirlwind" won a world seniors event that was being held in sheffield for the first time. white said if felt "strange" to be named world champion at the crucible but clearly enjoyed the moment. we've got some live sport going on right now at the eurohockey championship. england's women are playing germany in the belgian city of antwerp,

which happen every two years currently 1—1. both men and women sides from the eight best team around the continent and competing. germanyjust around the continent and competing. germany just ahead at the around the continent and competing. germanyjust ahead at the moment. 1-1 at germanyjust ahead at the moment. 1—1 at the moment if england can win. the winner of this tournament will qualify for the olympics. you can watch it live via the bbc sport website right now. and there was an enormous crash in the indy 500 in the united states. it happened at the pocono track in pennsylvannia. the track is known as the tricky—triangle, an unusual tri—oval, and it caught out the 2017 winner takumo sato on the first lap, five cars got caught up in the crash. driver felix rosenqvist was sent to hospital as a result but later cleared. a driver was paralysed in a similar incident, and the circuit has been heavily criticised. the race was won by the australin

driver will power. i'll have more for you in the next hour. thank you very much indeed. labour leaderjeremy corbyn has promised to do everything necessary to step in odile brexit. —— stopped a no—deal brexit. giving a speech in northamptonshire, he accused the conservatives of "lurching to the hard right" and provoking a "political and constitutional storm". mr corbyn said he will table a vote of no confidence in borisjohnson and again called for a general election. labour will do everything we can to protect people's livelihoods. we will work together with mps from across parliament to pull our country back from the brink and i will bring a vote of no—confidence in the government and, if we are successful, would seek to form a time—limited caretaker administration to avert no deal and an immediate general election so the people can decide our country's future.

applause and cheering if mps are serious about stopping a no—deal crash out, then they will vote down this reckless government and it falls to the leader of the opposition to make sure no deal does not happen and the people decide their own future. that is our responsibility and we gladly accept that responsibility and will carry it out in parliament. applause and cheering labour believes the decision on how to resolve the brexit crisis must go back to the people and, if there is a general election this autumn, labour will commit to holding a public vote to give voters the final say, with credible options on both sides,

including the option to remain. three years of tory failure on brexit have caused opinions to harden to such a degree that i believe no outcome will now have legitimacy without the people's endorsement. meanwhile, while visiting the royal cornwall hospital prime minister borisjohnson said he would be ready to come out of the eu on october 31st, deal or no deal. i'm not going to suggest that there won't be. as i said on the steps of downing street, there may well be bumps in the road, but we will be ready to come out on october the 31st — deal or no deal. of course, our friends and partners on the are showing a little bit of reluctance at the moment to change their position. that's fine, i'm confident that they will, but in the meantime, we have to get ready

for a no—deal outcome. i want a deal. we're ready to work with our friends and partners to get a deal, but if you want a good deal for the uk, you must simultaneously get ready to come out without one. the prime minister speaking earlier on. the uk has been stripped of its "measles free" status by the world health organization after a fall in vaccination rates for the second of the two mmr jabs. the news comes as a government campaign launches to increase the numbers of children who are vaccinated against measles. nhs england also plans to write to all gps urging them to promote "catch up" vaccination programmes. doug brown from the british society for immunology has been explaining more about the challenges due to the recent outbreak. we were declared measles free just three years ago by the world health organization, so it is shocking that we have just lost that status.

without doubt, childhood vaccines at the most effective and safest way to protect against these devastating diseases, so we need to do a huge amount more to reverse the downward trend in uptake in recent years. how possible has it been to work out what is going on and why the uptake has fallen away? it isa has fallen away? it is a really complex issue, as you can imagine, and there is not one single reason why we see the reduction in uptake in recent years, but the government announcement todayis but the government announcement today is a really positive announcement and a good step in the right direction and it does seem to set out some proposals to tackle some of the multifaceted issues that are there in terms of the reduction we have seen the stop we are looking at improving the understanding and the knowledge that young parents have said there children. we are looking at these services and how

they are delivered in their community as well and there are proposals from the government on how we can tackle that. then potentially the use of technology and personnel on the ground to make sure that these services are set up in the right way and are conveniently delivered for people in the community. finally, briefly, it seems to be the second of the two jabs that is far and away. if there are people sitting at home with little ones that think they have missed it, are they too late? what is your advice to people who think they are behind? it is never too late to have that vaccination, but the first or the second one as well. so we encourage people to go to their gps to talk about vaccination in their children. if they are not sure whether they have been vaccinated, have that conversation. we welcome the government announcement was about what we would like to see is funding to make sure these services are delivered in the best way so we can

look at these measles outbreaks as historic, return to our status and stop the measles outbreaks in their tracks. an explosive device has detonated in co fermanagh as police and army bomb disposal officers were searching the area. no one was injured in the blast at wattle bridge close to newtownbutler this morning. bomb disposal officers had been in the area at the weekend responding to reports that a device had been left there. iran is wining the united states not to try to detain an iranian tanker which was seized in gibraltar on suspicion of supplying oil to syria. a herd of cows have mooooved into europe's busiest port. it's nothing to do with brexit, they are the stars of a pioneering project to fuel the dutch city of rotterdam with dairy products

that have a low—carbon footprint and high sustainability factor. anna holligan sent this report from on board the world's first offshore dairy farm. fresh milk — within touching distance of the city. these cattle have been recruited as part of an experiment to show rapidly growing urban populations how to produce our meals closer to home. peter believes this is the future of milk and cheese. we see a huge migration from the countryside toward cities, and the other thing is, we have climate change going on. so we are looking also for what we call a climate adaptive location, so no matter how much rain falls, no matter how high the sea level goes, can always produce our life essential healthy food. the floating pontoon

is built on three levels. in the basement they are growing fruits to flavour the dairy products, which are processed in the middle and on top, 32 native dutch meuse—rhine—issel cows. aside from the copious amounts of hay, these cows are also fed on grass trimmings from local football pitches, golf courses and parks. plus commercial food waste. we are told the brewers' grain is a particular favourite. these leftovers would otherwise be thrown away. the cows are milked by robot machines. their manure is collected by pooper—scooping robots. they are fed by robots to, although they are still perfect in this technology. the farmer lives nearby, but he can keep an eye on his herd remotely via apps on his mobile phone. the cows appear to be adjusting

to this hands—free approach. modern methods, the owners hope, will help to convince younger people to consider a career in what is sometimes seen as an old—fashioned industry. and on the question of animal welfare... we try to make them happier on the floating farm than in a regular stable. this living lab will help to determine whether floating farms make enough environmental and commercial sense to expand and export them. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news... footage emerges of prince andrew at jeffrey epsteen's mansion — after the billionaire had served a prison sentence as a sex offender. the prince says he's appalled by allegations of sexual abuse surrounding epsteen.

the government says the rules allowing eu nationals to live and work freely in the uk will end immediately if there's a no—deal brexit at the end of october. jeremy corbyn says an autumn general election would be the change in political direction that britain needs to stop a no—deal brexit. i'm susannah streeter. in the business news... donald trump has downplayed fears that the world's biggest economy could go into recession soon. investors have become increasinly nervous about the trade war between the us and china and by a movement on government bond markets which has historically indicated that a recession is on the way. but president trump said the us economy is doing "tremendously well". the supermarket chain lidl has warned its suppliers here in britain that it expects them to cover the cost of any tariffs which could be charged on their goods which enter the republic of ireland after brexit. lidl says the "duty paid"

clause is already part of it supplier contracts. industry sources have told the times newspaper that suppliers to other supermarkets in the eu fear that similar demands will be made of them. there's been a surge in house sales over the past month with analysts at rightmove saying that buyers are trying to conclude transactions before the brexit deadline of october 31st. there's been a fresh reprieve for the controversial chinese telecoms giant huawei. the us commerce secretary wilbur ross has given the firm another 90 days to buy supplies from american companies to service its existing customers. the company was blacklisted in may — and even yesterday president trump still said it posed a natural security threat. but temporary exemptions were granted to minimise disruption to huawei's clients — some of whom operate networks in rural america. stephanie hare is

a technology analyst. this exemption has been extended? it was expected in that we only had 90 days from this ban are being introduced in may, and that has not been enough time for us companies to adjust and for the rural carriers that depend on huawei to provide their 3g and 4g network capability, so their 3g and 4g network capability, so right now the united states needs to keep doing these extensions in order to protect the us economy whilst still being seen to be tough on huawei as part of the bigger picture over us — china trade talks. it is all integrated? even though yesterday president trump said it he doesn't fancy doing business with huawei and sees it posing a national security threat. why are there concerns about the technology that

huawei is introducing? the president raised an interesting point when he said it is difficult to tell what kit supplied by huawei we can allow in the united states and not because it is part of the same company, which i think is what he is trying to say is wow a is one of the biggest builders of smartphone technology in the world but it also has the 5g capability which is world leading. these act to make separate issues as far as the us is concerned. the smartphone business is one that makes my way lots of business, that is not a national security concern. the one thatis national security concern. the one that is a concern is 5g, and i think that is a concern is 5g, and i think thatis that is a concern is 5g, and i think that is where we could expect to see the us maintaining a hardline indie toxic negotiations. president trump is starting hard and when he walks back to craft a deal with china, we can expect him to show generosity on the smartphones aside, but not on sg. there have been concerns in other countries about 5g and the implications for national security of not what is the situation in the

uk? here we have had a number of reviews that keep being punted, postponed, revisited because of the changing political situation here, so as we are currently in uk weather we have are currently in uk weather we have a general election in the art, i think we can expect to see this decision continually pushed down as far as it decision continually pushed down as faras it can decision continually pushed down as far as it can be until we get political stability where someone can makea political stability where someone can make a decision. thank you very much. time for some other business news in brief now. the soon—to—be new owner of british steel has warned of job losses. there was relief when the turkish army pension fund agreed to rescue british steel — which employes 5,000 people — from insolvency. but in an interview with the financial times, the new owners say they plan a productivity drive which could lead to several hundred job losses. apple's chief executive tim cook has warned donald trump that new tariffs on chinese imports are undermining the american tech giant in its competition with samsung.

most apple products are built in china and now carry extra taxes when they enter the us whereas samsung devices — mostly built in south korea — do not. president trump described it as a compelling argument and said that he's thinking about it. and did you eat a cheeky chinese or curry over the weekend? or maybe you went forjerk chicken or something middle eastern. those cuisines are becoming more popular according to new industry figures from cga and alixpartners, at the expense of indian, italian and chinese. and the restaurant industry's woes continue with a net figure of 18 establishments closing every week. that's all the business news. do you want to hear a joke? it is thejoke of do you want to hear a joke? it is the joke of the year, it is about vegeta bles the joke of the year, it is about vegetables which has made it to the top of the menu as this year's funniestjoke at top of the menu as this year's funniest joke at the top of the menu as this year's funniestjoke at the edinburgh fringe. the swedish comedian, olaf falafel, won dave's "funniestjoke

of the fringe" award with the niche culinary pun. rather than attempt it myself, i asked olaf to give us a rendition. here we go. are you ready? drum roll... i keep randomly shouting out broccoli and cauliflower... i think i might have florets. and you are trending on twitter, as are the words "broccoli" and "cauliflower". huge congratulations to you. how surprised were you to hear that you had won this, given there are thousands of acts at the fringe? yeah, it was a great honour. an absolute honour. but to be honest with you, i've got form. i was in the list a couple of years ago and i was number nine the list two years ago with a joke... i wasn't that close to my dad before he died... which was lucky because he trod on a landmine. and then, last year, i was number three in the list with a joke... i took out a loan to pay for an exorcism...

if i don't pay it back, i'm getting repossessed. so i was on the way. you certainly were. you have been working your way up solidly to get to the number one position. how much rivalry is there between comedians in edinburgh? you know what, very little. there is a lot of solidarity... solidarity, that word. you know the one that i was trying to grasp there. great with words, i am. no, we're all such great friends and it's such a great honour to become part of a list that has been populated by people who i consider like heroes and good friends. yeah. and in terms of the mood at the fringe this year, what kind of comedy do you think is attracting people's attention? because these things sometimes go in waves, don't they? but yours is a bit surrealist and, obviously, that's tickled people. well, mine's very stupid. there's lots of stupid stuff, but there is a bit of brexit in there, though, but i've done it in my own stupid way. i have a performance art piece called brexit jiffy bag — which is very stupid.

i've got a little puppet of phil collins who provides a little drum roll at the end ofjokes that don't quite work. i do a bit of a thing called fishing for insults — i have a little hat with some ducks on it and each duck relates to an insult and i get a member of the audience to fish one of the ducks off my head and then i direct the insult towards them. it sounds suitably weird and wonderful and i guess that kind of escapism is what we need at the moment, isn't it, given the state of british politics? yeah, exactly. i know that brexit is the big thing on everyone's agenda and, to be honest with you, i don't care how you voted, i am quite looking forward to brexit, mainly because of the straight bananas that brussels have imposed upon us. i went to the supermarket the other day. i got one of those straight bananas, it was awful. it was like... it wasn't even ripe, it was like green. it didn't taste much like a banana, it tasted more like cucumber. and you are originally from sweden. is swedish comedy any different or are the same things making people

laugh around europe? i think it's universal, isn't it? if you get a good sillyjoke, it's pretty universal. i actually live any wonderful town called luton — oh, there's my badge there, there we go. so i've been here for ages. it's great. he was there for a little bit longer than he expected. now time for the weather. good afternoon, our forecast for the rest of the day is something of a mixture. sunny spells for many areas, but also some heavier showers to contend with too. still pretty breezy as well. we are still under the influence of this area of low pressure that bright wet and windy weather through the weekend. there isa weather through the weekend. there is a weather front as well, that will bring persistent rain into the north—west of scotland through the afternoon. showers tend to ease

towards the south—west, heavier ones in the midlands and east anglia. maybe some thunder. up to 20 degrees in the south—east, looking at 20 in the north—east of scotland. feeling quite cool in the north—westerly breeze for the time of year. overnight, the front side down into northern ireland, scotland and comes to rest across northern england the first thing on tuesday. to the north and south, clear skies make a cool start, already feeling a bit like art is getting closer, particularly in rural scotland. for tuesday, art is getting closer, particularly in rural scotland. fortuesday, in comparison today, in light breeze, more sunshine, fewer showers. some of closer than scotland and northern england, some heavier ones in northern ireland and south wales later in the day. top temperatures up later in the day. top temperatures up to 16 in aberdeen, cooler than today. we head towards the middle of the week and we cast our ice to the atla ntic the week and we cast our ice to the atlantic once again, another low rolling in, the ice by squeezing

together, the wind will strengthen and we will see a weather front advance ringing heavy rain into northern ireland in the second part of the day and eventually into scotla nd of the day and eventually into scotland and northern england. also switches is rounded to the north—westerly wind and that will move things up to 22 in london, perhaps some places in 23 degrees. we continue to feed the warmth in from the south as the week progresses. by the weekend, we are looking at perhaps temperatures up to 27 in the south—east. the reason being high pressure tries to build in the south and squeeze the weather fronts away. looks like there will be some rain in scotland and northern ireland for the rest of the week and the rest of the weekend. much drier story for the south across england and wales and some warmer weather to come, though that will taper off through the weekend.

hello, you're watching afternoon live. today at 2pm. rules allowing eu nationals to live and work in the uk will end immediately, says the prime minister, if there's a no—deal brexit in october. jeremy corbyn says an autumn general election would be change election would be a change in political direction that britain needs, to stop a no—deal brexit. if mps are serious about stopping a no—deal crash out, then they will vote down this reckless government. and it falls to the leader of the opposition to make sure no deal does not happen. new images of prince andrew atjeffrey epstein's mansion after the financier‘s conviction, as the prince says he's appalled