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 we are going to do a fantastic deal once we clear up some 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

fires in the amazon. we report from a rainforest in crisis. it's a huge task for the troops who are supposedly reaching this region. this is a global crisis because these are considered the lungs of the world. england continue their uphill battle — now without captainjoe root — to try to pull off an unlikely ashes victory at headingley. in dateline,... the g7 summit, the amazon in flames, and china. all discussed in dateline london in half an hour's time, here on bbc news. the prime minister has told the bbc that the chances of the uk striking

a brexit deal with the eu before october 31st are ‘touch and go'. he was speaking ahead of a meeting with eu council president donald tusk at the g7 meeting of world leaders in biarritz in southern france. the prime minister had previously said the chances of a no deal were a million to one. in the last few minutes he's been speaking to our chief political correspondent vicki young. she began by asking what the time line was for a trade deal with the us. the americans want this done as fast as possible and they want results within a year, by nextjune orjuly. we are keen to go as fast as we can, but we want this to be a really big, thoroughgoing, 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's not where the real advantages are for the uk. i have been telling donald trump about some of the barriers that british service industries experience, whether transportation, shipping, lawyers, architects. they face all sorts of nontariff barriers getting into the uk market, to say nothing of the restrictions that america still has on british lamb, british beef, pork pies, cauliflower. getting it done in one year, that's not realistic, is it?” will be honest, i have watched america's trade negotiations over many years and these are tough guys. i have a great deal of respect for the way the americans do it. have you made any further steps towards this apart from a meeting this morning because my there is a group up morning because my there is a group up and running already, but we will accelerate that massively. when will

we see the first fruits of this? something concrete? you are pushing me to make a commitment to a date, which i am reluctant to do because i have bitter experience. the experts say it can't be done in a year. years and years is an exaggeration, but to do it in a year will be tight. to be honest, 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, but that doesn't mean... five years? faster than that. we need to do it fast, but to get the whole done from soup to nuts within a year is going to be a big ask. lets turn to a possible deal closer to home with the eu. do you think now that leaving without a deal is more likely than it was?” think that it all depends on our eu friends and partners. actually, in the last few days, i think there has

been a dawning realisation in brussels and other european capitals that what the shape of the problem is for the uk. i think everybody gets it by now. it's to do with that withdrawal agreement, to do with the fa ct withdrawal agreement, to do with the fact that under the current terms we would be kept locked in the eu legal order, locked in the trading system, and without any say on those things. that can't work for an economy in a great country like the uk. you said repeatedly, a million to one. great country like the uk. you said repeatedly, a million to onem depends on their willingness to cooperate and the common sense of oui’ cooperate and the common sense of our partners. i'm an optimist. i do think they understand that there is an opportunity to do a deal,... so it's more likely than it was, do you think was mike i think it's going to be touch and go, but the important thing is to get ready to come out

without a deal. i was going to ask you about that. the element that greatly assist us in a couple of ways. it means that it helps us to convince our friends and partners of the necessity to do a deal. but it also minimises any disruption there may be on october the 31st. talking of disruption, you have in the past said it will be a bit bumpy. people wa nt to said it will be a bit bumpy. people want to know what that means. the more we prepare, the deeper... the greater the efforts we make, and we are reaching out right now to businesses and consumer groups across the country trying to explain what is necessary, whether it is smes to get them ready for the forms they may have to fill, talking to they may have to fill, talking to the hospitals. matt hancock has the nhs ina the hospitals. matt hancock has the nhs in a good stare of —— state of preparedness. i do not want at this

stage to say that there won't be unforeseen difficulties, because thatis unforeseen difficulties, because that is the nature of this. you said you are willing to take the country in that direction. it is two months away, potentially. people want to know what it will mean in retail —— real terms. it is entirely the right thing to do, and what it will mean is that we are prepared for coming out without a deal, and just to explain why that is so valuable, under any circumstances, even if we did geta under any circumstances, even if we did get a deal, even if we had an arrangement where we had a complete standstill on october the 31st, then at some stage or other in the course of the negotiations on the fta, there would be a moment when we would have to disentangle ourselves from the customs union, from the arrangement of the single market. do you see what i'm saying? the

preparations we are making now are under no circumstances going to be without value. they need to be made anyway. let's get them done fast and ina anyway. let's get them done fast and in a professional and confident way. you are meeting donald tusk. will you say to his face that you will not hand over the billions of pounds that have already been agreed because my i think you know is that the reality is, if we come out without a deal, then clearly the 39 billion is, is, is part of that deal. are you willing to pay any of it? what i have said repeatedly is that we will have substantial sums from the 39 billion, a substantial residue... you are willing to pay some? 8 billion? a substantial residue to pay, whether to support oui’ residue to pay, whether to support ourfarming residue to pay, whether to support our farming businesses or all types of investments to get britain ready for the world beyond brexit. the

other thing about the world beyond brexit that we don't talk enough about are the opportunities to do things differently, to regulate in a different way, to have free ports and do free trade deals. to put our country on a different path, a less bureaucratic path. we have been talking about growth and what is wrong with the global economy, and so wrong with the global economy, and so much of it is to do with overregulation, the economy don't have high productivity, that aren't 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. one more question about prince andrew, do you have confidence... i don't want to get into commentary about royal matters. it's not really myjob. this morning president trump promised a ‘very big trade deal‘ with the uk, saying its departure from the eu will be like losing

‘an anchor round the ankle‘. he was speaking this morning during their first face to face meeting since borisjohnson became prime minister. president trump said the two sides would be able to reach agreement very quickly. do you know who this is? does everybody know? he is going to be a fantastic prime minister. we have been very good meetings. we will have a fantastic deal once we clear up have a fantastic deal once we clear up some of the obstacles in our path. good many deals. it's going to work out very well, so thank you very much. ros atkins is in biarritz for us. 0n on what we were hearing from mr

trump and mrjohnson there, a lot of focus on the possibility of a trade deal, but not really a matter for the g7 itself. that‘s a direct one—on—one issue. how the g7 itself. that‘s a direct one—on—one issue. how has boris johnson fitted in with a wider dynamic of the g7? is he in the trump camp orthe dynamic of the g7? is he in the trump camp or the european camp?” think he is having to have a foot in both, isn‘t he? 0n think he is having to have a foot in both, isn‘t he? on one level, not just the americans but the canadians in japanese as just the americans but the canadians injapanese as well, these countries are crucialfor a injapanese as well, these countries are crucial for a post brexit britain. these are countries the uk wa nts to britain. these are countries the uk wants to sign new trade deals with, and as such, it is understandable that the prime minister would focus on creating some good mood music around those love relationships —— around those love relationships —— around those love relationships —— around those relationships. clearly, their relationship with the eu matters. first, we first have to resolve brexit. and once that is

done, we will have to have some kind of trade deal. at one stage, boris johnson said it will be easier for the uk to negotiate —— donald trump said it will be easier for the the uk to negotiate —— donald trump said it will be easierfor the uk the uk to negotiate —— donald trump said it will be easier for the uk to negotiate a trade deal once you no longer have the anchor around your ankle. boris johnson has longer have the anchor around your ankle. borisjohnson has been two borisjohnson, most ankle. borisjohnson has been two boris johnson, most people ankle. borisjohnson has been two borisjohnson, most people would say, has fitted in. he has appeared co mforta ble say, has fitted in. he has appeared comfortable and confident, has given lots of interviews, has appeared at lots of interviews, has appeared at lots of interviews, has appeared at lots of meetings. the proof of the pudding will be in the policy agreements that come from the summit, and thejury is still agreements that come from the summit, and the jury is still out on that. the wider agenda, we had from president macron yesterday that he wasn‘t drafting a final communique because he wasn‘t hugely optimistic about the ability to get everybody to sign up to pretty much anything, and yet despite that, the agenda

itself sounds a pretty ambitious one. the agenda is really ambitious. 0n the high profile issues, relationships with iran and russia, there was no hope of finding common ground. even though we have had state m e nts ground. even though we have had statements that president macron will initiate new talks with iran and president trump said they have a good talk about whether russia should rejoin the g7, the reality is, the americans and the eu do not agree on either issue. there was no point inajoint agree on either issue. there was no point in a joint communique. there may be progress on other subjects, particularly the relationship with africa. there are big meetings this afternoon and the g7 may commit significant political will and funds towards health care, education and gender equality in africa. i think president macron is confident he can line up on that. as i‘m talking to you, borisjohnson line up on that. as i‘m talking to you, boris johnson is line up on that. as i‘m talking to you, borisjohnson is with donald tusk. this is almost like round two

at the g7 for those two. yesterday they were calling each other mr no deal, but today they are sitting down opposite each other to thrash out some details, and there remains a gulf between them on how to resolve the issue of the irish border and the backstop that is within the current withdrawal agreement. for all the prime minister is saying he feels optimistic that there can be a breakthrough, we still have the same conundrum that has existed since 2016: both sides want to avoid a ha rd 2016: both sides want to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland. the uk wants to leave the single market and the eu wants to protect it. the uk wants the whole of the uk to be treated as a single entity. it is hard to balance those things, and until someone comes up with an idea on how to do that, it remains difficult to get these two sites on the same page, which would then lead us to a brexit deal and

avoid a no deal come the end of 0ctober. avoid a no deal come the end of october. thanks very much. police in hong kong have used tear gas and water cannons to try to disperse pro—democracy protesters. its been reported that demonstrators refused to move on at the end of a planned march , and have been throwing petrol bombs from behind makeshift barricades. 0ur china correspondent stephen mcdonell spoke to us from the scene in hong kong. the truce, if there was one, between hardline pro—democracy activists and the riot police, whom you can probably see forming behind me, is now well and truly over. there are dozens of riot police and now more coming. i can see them filling in the ranks. we‘ve hada large pitched battle here

for a round about an hour. molotov cocktails, bricks, metal poles, and the police are responding with non—lethal projectiles of their own. and it is not deterring them. you can see they keep charging in, these protesters. firing their own projectiles at the police and the police then responding with tear gas, with rubber bullets, and the strange thing is, it has taken them so long to clear these protesters. this sort of thing was happening weeks ago but hadn‘t been recently, and we are now back to something like the pitched battles we were seeing. there are thousands of protesters here and it gives you an idea of how many of the city‘s youth have been radicalised by this process. they are prepared to come out with the threat of arrest and the police firing rubber bullets and tear gas at them, and still you can see how

they are preparing here for battle. there is talk that the reason the police have taken so long to clear them is that they are preparing to use water cannon. they have acquired water cannon vehicles that they haven‘t used yet, and that is a possibility. there is an attempt by some in the pro—democracy movement to return to peaceful protest. there are a majority, i would say, in the pro—democracy camp sticking to that, but there is a very solid hardcore here who think peace is not the way to go. they say hong kong‘s leader, carrie lam, has done nothing to meet any of their demands, including fully withdrawing this very unpopular bill allowing extradition to mainline chinese courts,

including having an enquiry into all of this, into the police, the protesters, and funnily enough, we had another rally today, family members of the police, strangely you might think, also calling for an enquiry. the police force and the unions have been distancing themselves from these families, in their hundreds. they feel that the police have been caught in a sandwich of this crisis. they want a political solution, much like these protesters. you can see how many of them are here. they want a political solution, but their version of a solution is full democracy, one person, one vote democracy, universal suffrage, and it is not something beijing is

stephen, there was concern expressed by some of those sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here‘sjohn watson. plenty of football in the offing today, but there is only one place today, but there is only one place to start, and that is headingley,. england‘s ashes hopes in the balance, but they continue to dig in despite losing captai joe root early on day three of the third test at headingly where they‘re chasing 359 runs to win. joe root resumed on 75 and only added two more before going off the ball of nathan lyons. joe denley made 50, steadying things for england yesterday. stokes now won

17. jonny bairstow, in to replace joe root, on 22. if england do manage to chase down that total, it will be their highest successful run chase in test history, with one day remaining. the anti—discrimination body ‘kick it 0ut‘ has decribed abuse directed towards manchester united striker marcus rashford as "vile" and said "decisive action" needs to be taken. rashford was subjected to racist abuse online after missing a penalty during united‘s defeat to crystal palace yesterday. twitter have said they‘ll meet manchester united to outline what they‘re doing to tackle it. it's it‘s unheard—of, and we need to stop it. it to stop, because i‘m just lost for words. if it keeps going. we keep having these campaigns, no to racism, and they still keep

hiding behind fake identities, so it‘s just crazy that we talk about this in 2019. there are three premier league fixtures today. champions manchester city will be looking to return to winning ways after being held to a 2—2 draw at home to spurs last weekend. they are at bournemouth for a two o clock kick off. they set up deep, five tomorrow. they set up deep, five tomorrow. they attack really well the channels, set pieces. always it is tough. three wins out of three for liverpool. there are two more games today — both kick off at 4.30 wolves host burnley, while tottenham are at home to newcastle united. spurs have 4 points from 6 so far while newcastle have lost their opening two matches. we need to be competitive. we showed

that we are going to improve. i think it‘s going to be good to try to finish that period bullying against newcastle and after arsenal, andi against newcastle and after arsenal, and i think it will help these two weeks to work, and when the transfer window closes in europe, i think it‘s going to be very helpful for a tea m it‘s going to be very helpful for a team like us. two matches in the scottish premiership with the top two sides both in action. second place rangers are at st mirren, just getting underway, while champions and leaders celtic host hearts at three o‘clock. reigning champion marc marquez will start in pole position for today‘s moto gp british grand prix. but home favourite cal crutchlow has work to do. he will start from ninth after crashing during qualifying yesterday. thankfully he wasn‘t injured. no such problems for marquez as he held off valentino rossi to claim pole for today‘s race at silverstone.

play had to be suspended at golf‘s tour championship in atlanta after a number of people were injured by lightning strikes near a fan zone. six fans were treated, all were ok after they were hit by debris from the strike. only two groups had completed the third round prior to the weather delay — with justin thomas at the top of the leaderboard. that‘s all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. england are 212—4 at the moment. just one wicket down today, that of captainjoe just one wicket down today, that of captain joe root. i‘ll just one wicket down today, that of captainjoe root. i‘ll be back with another update at around 1:30pm. new 3d baggage scanners will be introduced at every airport in the uk by 2022, under government plans announced today.

ministers say the technology will cut queues, boost security and will mean passengers will no longer have to remove laptops and liquids from their luggage as it‘s screened. our business correspondent katy austin has more. a familiar sight to air travellers — clear plastic bags to put your small liquids in while you go through airport security. laptops must be put in a separate tray. airports in some countries, particularly america, are already starting to use new, high—tech scanners for hand luggage. heathrow in london is investing £50 million in similar equipment, saying it could remove the needs for liquids and electricals to be taken out. it will be much quicker, less disruptive, not having to take things out of bags, and people will be able to get on their way much more quickly. but it will also bring more security, which is really important. now, all uk airports are being told they must have advanced 3d scanners by 2022.

it is important we are using the best technology, we will have the best in the world once this is rolled out. 0ne travel expert says passengers will notice a difference. imagine this: you are at security, you have forgotten to take out all your stuff, so that means your bag full of liquids, then you have your computer, and maybe a telephone. you have to take it all out and put each one and a separate tray. all of that takes time. even though we say to ourselves, "i'm ready", by the time we get to security most of us realise that we are not ready and there is a lot of faffing that takes place. heathrow believes the new technology could make going through security up to 60 times faster. but introducing it could be a challenge for smaller airports.

an update from british airways in response to yesterday‘s problems they had, or it really started on friday night when passengers were told their flights were cancelled. they are stressing that people who have made alternative tragic that it might travel arrangements will be compensated because they were unable to run the flights they intended to. 38,000 calls and 33,000 tweets were received from customers asking for help in the first 24—hour since those e—mails went out. the peak was last night, when the rate was nine times higher than a normal friday night. these were figures for friday night. these were figures for friday night into saturday morning. 127,000 hits on the company‘s frequently asked questions page on their website. they said more than 500 customer relations staff work this weekend to help customers, and the contact centre stayed open 2a hours

to help. ben, who had his honeymoon cancelled and has been trying to get through all weekend, despite those extra staff, the problem persists. there wasn‘t a communication back—up to help with what was going on. it seems ba now acknowledge they made a mistake that those e—mails and at least some of the flights people thought were cancelled weren‘t. 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 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.