breakfast at the g7 summit — with thepromise of "a very big trade deal" after brexit. a fantastic meal. we cleared up some of the obstacles in our power. as far as the uk and the united states, we are working on a very big trade deal and i think it will work out very well. the prime minister will discuss brexit later with the eu council president. the uk's biggest airports will install 3—d baggage scanners to make security checks quicker. 40,000 brazillian troops begin a major operation to fight fires in the amazon. we report — from a rainforest in crisis. now time for click.

this week, another chance to see our firefighting special when we tackle blazes from the air, on the ground and even on rails. in the summer and autumn of 2018, california experienced its deadliest ever wildfires. they claimed the lives of over 80 people and whole towns were destroyed. but as residents tried to escape, the firefighters did what they always do — they ran towards the danger. it is a profession that relies on courage, education and, increasingly, the latest science and technology to better understand how fires behave and how to beat back the flames. and if you want to be a firefighter,

this is where you learn the craft. the international fire training centre in darlington, in the north of england. this is where brave firefighters come from around the world to learn the latest techniques in fighting all kinds of blazes. they can simulate a huge variety of fire scenarios here, oil rigs, industrialfires. that is an overturned fuel tanker, and they can simulate any size of aircraft from the smallest to the largest. that is an airbus a380 and this is a boeing 747. and it is notjust about gearing up and grabbing the hose. every fire is different. and each needs to be treated intelligently to make sure you and the people you are trying to save have the best chance of survival.

wow! my goodness. they are using the water as a protective shield. so it keeps the two fires apart, using the water. keeping the left—hand one at bay and then extinguishing the right one before we deal with the left. the centre tries to make each scenario as realistic as possible, not just the fire, but the treatment of the casualties as well. it is fascinating to see the science behind firefighting. for example, in a kerosene fuel fighter, water will not put it out. this cone of water controls the blaze so that another firefighter can come in with a powder extinguisher. that is what finally tames the flames. and once they're gone, does that mean the job is done?

well, that is where this thermal imaging camera comes in to see what our eyes cannot. so once it looks like the fire is out, you still have to cover the area in waterjust in case there are hotspots. you can see here the vent on the top of this engine is still white hot according to this thermal imaging camera. and there are many other ways to detect and deal with fires. lara lewington has been looking at some of them. for the past two years, half of the uk's fire brigades have been deploying these drones. they focus on the safety of firefighters and their onboard hd and thermal imaging cameras can provide much greater visibility which means a better understanding of a fire and the way that it is spreading. using a drone we can get pretty much an instant overview of the entire

fire in underfive minutes and start moving our machines and our firefighters around just like chess pieces, really, all controlled by drone footage. it also brings us a massive benefit as we can see fires as they develop. the team have also used them for rescues and searching for missing people in quarries or in water. the hd camera is able to clearly zoom in on a face up to half a mile away. but of course when it comes to the spread of fires, what has happened recently in california is at the forefront of our minds. the university of westminster is researching a system that combines sensors on the ground and those in a drone. the aim, a solution for wildfires. these solar powered prototype sensors are tracking carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, oxygen, humidity, temperature, gps and altitude.

the aim is to combine them into one miniaturised cost effective version which could be deployed en masse in areas susceptible to wildfires, providing immediate feedback. if there is something it will alert all their neighbours also, form into a network, alert, take measurements, convey to the master node which then conveys it further up to the server which then alerts the drones that come up and get a visual. the plane comes with all the information that it has got from the drones, from the ground sensors and it knows what the windspeed is what wind direction is, what the temperature variation is. it knows where the fire will be when the plane rendezvous with it and then it makes a list from the air and then the heavens open with these lovely pellets flying in as they hit the target where the fire is and you can fight fires day and night, 2a a day with no visibility. meanwhile, this is the stinger.

it can pierce through metal and pretty much any roof, dramatically blasting foam or water into the heart of a blaze. the quantity and force of that water is pretty incredible. this pumps 1000 litres a minute, with an even more powerfuljet to the side, capable of 4.5 times that. it also has an on—board thermal imaging camera to assist with that precision. blackburn is currently the only uk fire service using this kit. i'm told it costs around £600,000. but maybe as costs drop and this technology evolves, this next generation of firefighting will become the norm.

idid think i did think it is going to be what i am used to when it comes to virtual reality. let's see. all the scenes in the training a scan from the real world. this arson hotspot in leicester is a good reference for investigators looking for clues. the inside of the destroyed smoke alarm. i'm standing on ash. it feels very real. teleportation. 0h, alarm. i'm standing on ash. it feels

very real. teleportation. oh, my gosh. there is a body down there. it has been proven that if you train in virtual reality environment the retention rate is 75% stock most of my toxic powerpoint. attention is about 5%. you can see why we are looking at this because our training is going to be enhanced so much. you can skip forward. as the stops we didn't show people putting out the fire. you get the ability straightaway to dive back in the scene and now you are in that same environment. ican same environment. i can see the impact of that fire and it is pretty remarkable.

pa rt and it is pretty remarkable. part of the reason this experience feels so intense as the realism behind it. for leicestershire fire and rescue this was important that they move away from games and into real life. the app and working with the company to make this happen. the scenes are created using cameras and lasers photographing real live 360 degrees scenarios up to thousands of times. we've seen her fire services using virtual reality but what about other first responders? here they are hard at work on how police might use virtual reality in their training. call the report of a violent disturbance. i can see some feet already. i den think people would expect but the police in virtual

reality together. why is it so important that the police are interacting with technology in this way? you can replicate one off event so a one—off event which could be hazardous environment you can actually recreate as a one off and people would never ever get the opportunity to rehearse that but in vr we can so we can give them that vehicle, we can give them that opportunity to do a one off scenario and do it safely. 0h, a one off scenario and do it safely. oh, my gosh. 0k, a one off scenario and do it safely. oh, my gosh. ok, i'm going to see if anyone is she has obviously taken some pills. there is a heartbeat here. i can definitely see already how it can be used to come in the way that a lot of games are, really, to open up your mind to possibilities around crime, why people may have committed criminal activities, those kind of questions are definitely there already. that was more enjoyable

than the fire one, i think. which shouldn't be my takeaway but, i could go back into that world where as the fire scene i just wanted to get out. that is it from the short cut of click. the full—length version comes highly recommended, trust me, and it is waiting for you on iplayer right now. some more amazing footage up on social media too. on facebook and on twitter. we live at bbc click. thank you for watching and we will see you soon. brazilian troops have begun a major operation aimed at putting out a record number of fires in the amazon rainforest.

the government has promised to relax its strict austerity policies and release extra funds for the emergency. official figures show more than 78,000 forest fires have been recorded in brazil so far this year — most of them in the amazon region. camilla mota is there and sent this report. this is what remains after a fire has run its course. large swathes of rainforest cleared to the ground, its wildlife dead or fled. parts of the world's biggest tropicalforest reduced to charred remains. and every day for the past few weeks, new fires start and die. across brazil, there have been more than 76,000 so far this year — the highest in nine years. under pressure from international leaders, brazil's president has said the army will help stop the blaze. mr bolsonaro has sent in the military to help put out the fires after coming under pressure from the international community, saying he wanted

to protect the amazon. military staff could be be deployed to nine different states. translation: we're setting up bases for our forest protection dorce to fight fires and enforce the law. a day after the president bolsonaro said he would send an army troops to help put out the amazon fires, local government here in this state, one of the most affected, has launched a special operation combining different forces, including army troops, firefighters and an elite group from the environment protection agency. the chief of operations told us the aim is to have the fire under control in the next few days. for some, this is not enough. at the weekend, many hundreds turned out to demonstrate in major brazilian cities and outside brazilian embassies all over the world. they say the government was slow

to act and that the president's rhetoric encourages farmers to burn down the forest, to clear land for agriculture. but the governor cast doubt on this. translation: we have always had blazes and they have always been intense, but this time there are bigger repercussions. i've seen farmers putting out fires, so something odd is going on, something other than what is supposed to be happening. fires in the amazon rainforest are nothing new during summer, but their scale and the speed with which they are spreading has alarmed brazil and the rest of the world. as you've been hearing, the brazilian military has begun a major operation to tackle the fires in the amazon rainforest. 0ur correspondent, will grant, was on board a greenpeace plane which flew over the area.

from this vantage point you get a sense of the scale of the disaster facing this region of the amazon. hectare after hectare of pristine forestjust going up in smoke. there must be thousands of hectares already, and it is a huge task for the troops who are supposedly reaching this region, and who are going to try to tackle the problem, sent by president bolsonaro. this is the reason for the protests taking place in the large cities of brazil, in sao paulo, brasilia, and rio. this has also caused the international outcry. this is a global crisis, because these are considered the lungs of the world. and just on a human level, and an emotional level almost, it is extremely upsetting, extremely disturbing, to see this kind of devastation unfolding in front of you.

a british man who's the mayor of a small german town is facing the sack — because of brexit. ian mcnab is the mayor of brunsmark, home tojust 170 residents — but he'll be out of a job once the uk leaves the bloc, because he won't be an eu citizen anymore. he's been speaking to glenn campbell. in a quiet corner of northern germany, there is a small community with a scotsman in charge. the saltire flies proudly at the home of ian mcnab, who will have to quit as burgermeister, or mayor, of brunsmark when the uk leaves the eu. the minute brexit occurs, that's me, that's end of my tenure. why? because i am no longer an eu citizen. no eu, no burgermeister.

elected burgermeister three times, ian oversees local services like the school, the play park and the fire brigade. 25 years in the fire brigade, so we are very lucky we have this excellent equipment. all the newest standards. viewed from brunsmark, ian thinks brexit is a bad move, and that staying in and driving reform would be far better for the uk. but he is not uncritical of the eu. i think it has to be completely rethought. it has to be much more an organisation which advises the rest, instead of imposing an amazing amount of rules and regulations. you could be mistaken for a brexiteer yourself. criticism is something that europe needs. any political body that is

so immense needs a lot of criticism, but it can live with criticism or it should be able to live with criticism. but you can only criticise it from the inside. ian has come a long way from the village of achiltibuie in the scottish highlands, where his parents ran the hotel and he won prizes for gaelic at the primary school. after 14 years in germany he is as attuned to the language and way of life here as he was in britain. he is concerned leaving the eu will reduce the rights of uk citizens here. leaving the eu means no longer automatically having the right to live and work in any eu country. here in brunsmark, that means they can no longer have a man from scotland as their burgermeister. unless he becomes a german national or claims dual citizenship.

things he is simply not prepared to do. i have been 70 years a scotsman and i will stay that way. he doesn't know whether he will stay here or move back to scotland. whatever he decides, it seems brexit will end his career as the elected mayor of a small town in germany. let's get more on our top story and the g7 summit in biarritz in france. the prime minister has been speaking in the last hour to our chief political correspondent vicki young. she began by asking him what the timeline was for a trade deal between the uk and the us. the americans really want results within a year, i suppose, by next

june orjuly. we are keen to go as fast as we can but we want this to bea fast as we can but we want this to be a really big comprehensive trade deal. there is no point in having a deal. there is no point in having a dealjust in agriculture, industrial goods and so on, that is not where the real advantages are for the uk. i have been telling donald trump about some of the barriers that british services industries experience whether it is transportation or shipping or lawyers or architects, they face all sorts of non—tariff barriers getting into the uk market to say nothing of the restrictions america still has on british lamb, british beef, pork pies. you are being ambitious but you think this can be done in one year. this cannot be done? i have watched america's trade negotiations over many, many years. these are tough guys. i have a great deal of respect for the way the americans do it. any first steps towards this? any

first steps apart from a meeting this morning? there is a group that has been up and running already but we are now going to accelerate that massively. when can we see the first fruits of this, do you think? something concrete? again, you are pushing me to make a commitment to a date which i am reluctant to do just because i have bitter experience. the say it can be done in a year, it will take years. i think years and years is an exaggeration but i think to do it all within a year is going to be tight. ru all within a year is going to be tight. i'll be honest with you, my own experience of the way the americans work and the size and complexity of the deal we want to do probably means we won't be able to do it within a year. five years? we would look better than that. we will do it fast, but i think to do the whole thing within a year is going to be a big ask. let's turn to a possible deal closer to home with the eu. do you think now that leaving without a deal is more likely that it was?

i think that it all depends on our eu friends and partners. i think actually, in the last few days there has been a sort of dawning realisation in brussels and other european capitals that, you know, what the shape of the problem is that uk. and i think everybody gets it by now. it is to do with that withdrawal agreement, it is to do withdrawal agreement, it is to do with the fact that under the current times we would be kept locked in the eu legal order, we would be kept locked in the and without any see on those things. i cannot work for a great country like the uk. it is still a million to one. you said it repeatedly. a million to one. it depends on the willingness to cooperate in the common—sense. . . have you detected more of a willingness? i am an optimist. it is going to take more than a bit of optimism, isn't it? i do think they understand there is an opportunity to do a deal.

so it is more likely than it was, you think? i think it is going to be touch and go. the important thing is touch and go. the important thing is to get ready to come out without a deal. i was going to ask you about that. that is something that greatly assists us in a couple of ways, as you know. it means that it helps us to convince our fans and partners of the necessity to do a deal. but it also minimises any disruption that there may be on october the 31st. talking of destruction you had in the past that it is going to be a bit bummed this want to know what that means. well, the more we prepare the deeper... the greater the efforts that we make. and we are reaching out right now to businesses and consumer groups across the country, trying to explain. whether it is to get them ready for the forms they may have to fill in, talking to the hospitals and matt hancock has got the nhs in a very good state of...

can you guarantee to people that they will be able to get the medicines? that is certainly a guarantee that we can make. but i do not this stage, to say that, you know, there will not be unforeseen difficulties because that is the nature. you said you are willing to contemplate it, you are willing to the country in that direction. it is two months away. people do want to know what it is going to mean in real terms. people do want to know what it is going to mean in real termsm people do want to know what it is going to mean in realterms. it is entirely the right thing to do and what it will mean is that we are prepared for coming out without a deal. just to explain why that is so valuable, under any circumstances, evenif valuable, under any circumstances, even if we did get a deal, if we did get a deal, if we had an arrangement, we had a complete standstill on october the 31st, then at some stage or other under the cause of the negotiations on the fta there would be a moment when we

would have to disentangle ourselves from the customs union, from the arrangements of the single market. do you see what i'm saying? so the preparation that we are making between now and october 31 under no circumstances will be valueless. they need to be done anyway. let's get them done fast and in a professional and confident way. you are going to meet donald tusk. are you going to say to his face that you're not handing over the billions of pounds that have already been agreed? i think he knows that the reality is if we come out without a deal then clearly be 39 billion is part of that deal. how much are you willing to pay? what i said repeatedly is that we will have substantial sums from the 39 billion, a substantial residue of... you are willing to pay some. 8 million? a very substantial residue to pay whether it is to support our rural communities, farming

businesses or types of investments to get britain ready for the world beyond brexit but the other thing about the world beyond brexit that we don't talk enough about the opportunity to do things differently. to regulate in a differently. to regulate in a different way, to have freeport, to be free trade deals, to put our country on a different path, have less bureaucratic power. we have just talking about growth, what is wrong with the global economy, so much of it is to do with overregulation, economies that don't have high productivity, that are not focusing on the real opportunities. and if we get brexit done properly i think it will be a big, big chance for us in the uk to have a change of direction and to boost growth and prosperity. 0ne prosperity. one question about prince andrew. do you have confidence... i do not want to get into commentary about royal matters. it is not really myjob. thank you very much. thank you.

an expression of hope for improved chances of a deal before the 31st of 0ctober. 0n brexit, though he then describes it as touch and go over the radio would be reached. we have just heard from our producers in biarritz that boris johnson and donald tusk have begun their bilateral meeting. it will be interesting to see. we will bring that to you in the next hour and before that a look at the weather. a lovely day out there. hazy sunshine to be had. sunshine today compared to be had. sunshine today compared to yesterday, scotland and northern ireland. a bit more cloud from the channel islands, parts of south—west england, west wales and edging towards west england to the afternoon. if anything, towards west england to the afternoon. ifanything, it towards west england to the afternoon. if anything, it is going to feel a bit hotter than it did compared with yesterday. when you have got cloud temperatures may be a

couple of degrees lower but for many of us, a few degrees more in temperatures. a few of us creeping to 30 or 32 in parts of south—east england. into tonight some areas of cloud across western parts and fog too. some areas of poor visibility developing into the bank holiday morning and temperatures around the mid—teens. the bank holiday for england or wales but into scotland it will have some rain edging into the western isles and it is this weather system as it moves east through the week which will eventually turn things cooler.

this is bbc news. the headlines at midday: borisjohnson says a no—deal brexit is a still a possibility — ahead of talks with the eu council president at the g7 summit. it's going to be touch and go, but the important thing is to get ready to come out without a deal. president trump says "a very big trade deal" after brexit is on the menu as the two men meet for a working breakfast. we are going to do a fantastic deal once we clear up some of the obstacles once we clear up some of the o bsta cles in once we clear up some of the obstacles in our path. as far as the uk and the united states, we are working on a big trade deal and i think it will work out really well. the uk's biggest airports will install 3—d baggage scanners to make security checks quicker. 40,000 brazillian troops begin a major operation to fight