this is bbc news — i'm simon mccoy. the headlines at three: the international response to the devastating amazon fires — the g7 pledges £16 million to help tackle the crisis. as the fires continue to spread — brazil steps up its emergency response and deploys its military, after concern that not enough was being done. the largest earthquake thought to be caused by a fracking site in the uk — has been felt in lancashire. a 14—year—old boy has been arrested in connection with a fire overnight at a high school in dunfermline. the prime minister tells the bbc to "cough up" and pay for tv licences for all over 75s — notjust those on low incomes. today is the hottest late august bank holiday monday on record — with temperatures set to continue rising across the uk. and coming up — the travel show reviews some of its best trips this year. that's in half an hour, here on bbc news.

good afternoon. world leaders gathered at the g7 summit in biarritz in the south of france, have agreed to release more than £16 million to help tackle huge fires in the amazon rainforest. the french president said most of the money would be used to fund aircraft to help put out the flames, which the rest providing technical support. earlier, borisjohnson pledged £10 million to help restore the lost habitat. our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. the fires raging across the amazon, devastating thousands of acres of rainforest, prompting global outrage and now, potentially, global action. borisjohnson and his team arrived at the summit to join other world leaders to discuss what can be done. this morning, the prime minister promised brazil £10 million to help

reforest affected areas in the months to come. order. order! boris, order! around the table, some g7 leaders and others from around the world gathering to discuss common plan. the french president promising technical and financial help to stop the fires and protect the forests. but note this — donald trump was not there. we have a big emergency in the amazon. remember, they are the lungs of the world, so we have to help brazil and the other amazonic countries to control these fires. and that's something that has been discussed and we have already agreed that we will put a fund, and we are in contact with all of the amazonic countries to bring help now. basically, planes to get rid of the fires. but if the leaders here agreed that more should be done to help

countries in the amazon, there was less agreement on what trade penalties they might face if they themselves do not do more to tackle the fires themselves. this summit has been characterised as much by division as by unity, and much of it involved this man. donald trump has been warned by many at the summit about the damaging impact of his trade war with china. but today he sought to calm the markets by talking up the prospects of a deal. i think we will have a deal because now we're dealing on proper terms. they understand and we understand. today, mrjohnson continued meeting counterparts on what is still his first summit as prime minister, briefing them on brexit, trying to convince them it would not be stopped by parliament. some of the diplomacy, though, was easier than the rest. at least when it came to discussing the ashes with australia's prime minister. i want to congratulate you on the ashes. two to go. no, we're not taking anything for granted. james landale, bbc news, biarritz.

to brexit, and as it stands, the uk is due to leave the eu on october the 31st, without a deal. our chief political correspondent vicki young explains what the prime minister has been telling european leaders at the g7. a yesterday, borisjohnson told me live the chances of a new basic deal we re live the chances of a new basic deal were touch and go, but that is still his preferred option, that is what he's been telling eu leaders. he has been repeating that repeating that message that the uk will be leaving the eu at the end of october, with 01’ the eu at the end of october, with or without a deal. he wants to make sure that he wants to make sure the eu leaders are taken very seriously, he is saying to them that they should not be listening to the very wrong messages emerging from some parliamentarians who think they will stop brexit. a senior downing street official said it was incorrect to think that it could be stopped. there will be many who disagree with that tomorrow, the labour leader jeremy corbyn is meeting with other opposition party leaders to discuss

tactics, to try and find out if there is a way they can get together for a common cause, it may be changing legislation in order to stop a no—deal brexit. so far, though, they have been pretty divided on their tactics, but it's all in setting up a pretty big battle when parliament returns at the beginning of september. there's been a third earthquake in five days at a fracking site in lancashire — the strongest tremor thought to be related to fracking ever to be felt in the uk. the quake struck the preston new road facility near blackpool at 8:30am this morning, measuring a magnitude of 2.9. the british geological survey have plotted the epicentre just metres from the fracking site. well, earlier, our correspondent katy austin gave me more details about today's tremor. the british geological survey revised the magnitude of this from a 2.6 up to 2.9. that is a fair bit above other tremors we have seen recently. fracking had actually stopped since the end of the week because of other smaller tremors, now it will be suspended while an investigation is carried out by the oil and gas authority,

and by cuadrilla themselves to try and figure out what has happened. it looks like this might have been an after—shock, not directly caused by fracking that day, but something that's happened a bit later. it was one of a series of tremors which have caused some local concern. this site has had to shut down before for the same reason? yes, it hadn't been up and running again for very long since the last time it had to suspend its operations, following a number of tremors at the end of last year. people will want assurances from cuadrilla, who have been keen to reassure, today saying, they appreciate concerns, but they are downplaying it's actual effects, saying this is not big on the grand scale of things and people needn't worry. do we know what 2.9 would actually feel like, if you're sitting in your house? people were reporting that it was enough to wake them up this morning, as if it was like a piece of furniture had been dropped.

it is a very hard thing to quantify, but it was certainly something that people noticed, that is why it has caused a fair bit of concern today. a secondary school in fife has been forced to close on the fourth day of scotland's school year because of a large fire. firefighters worked overnight to tackle the blaze at woodmill high school in dunfermline. our scotland correspondent james shaw was at the scene. the first thing we should say is that someone has actually been arrested and charged in connection with this fire — a 14—year—old boy, who we expect to appear in court tomorrow. the police have also said today that they are grateful to the public for the information that they have had on this fire, also for the help that the public have given the firefighters, supporting them overnight. as you can see, although things have calmed down very much now, there's still a very big presence by the fire service. but the fire has been substantially put out, they're still damping down hotspots. so the fire service numbers have reduced somewhat, but i guess what happens now for them is that they have to

really get into the seat of the fire, and perhaps understand exactly how it has been started. that will presumably help the police with their enquiries as well. for the school itself, we're talking about a very large number of pupils, 1400, who should be at the school today, and are currently homeless. dunfermline is an expanding town, its schools are full, so it's quite difficult for the education authority to find alternative places for these children. but that is their top priority. the fact that this is going to cause — as well as damaging their school — this will cause severe disruption to their education. james shaw there. the mother of four children — killed in a petrol bomb attack on their home in greater manchester — has died more than a year and a half on from the fire. the blaze happened in december of 2017 in walkden, and it killed demi, brandon, lacie and lia pearson.

in april, ms pearson came out of the coma she had been in since the fire and was told of her children's deaths. zak bolland and david worrall were both given four life sentences for the children's murder in may last year. the bbc should "cough up" and pay for free tv licences for all over—75s. that's the message from the prime minister who's suggested the corporation has gone back on a deal to fund the licences, but the bbc said there was no such guarantee. injune, it was announced that only low—income households, where one person received pension credit, would be eligible for a free tv licence. earlier, i spoke to our political correspondent, tom barton. he says there's a disagreement between borisjohnson and the bbc. over whether or not the licence fee settlement, agreed back in 2015, require to the bbc to carry on funding tv licences for everybody, or simply hand over the control over whether or not free tv licences

were paid for to the bbc. like i say, this all dates back to that licence fee settlement. essentially, during those negotiations, the bbc agreed to accept responsibility from the government for funding these free tv licences given to people over 75. the government said it was a good settlement for the bbc? yes, absolutely. they said it was part of a settlement which would keep the bbc well funded up to 2020 and beyond. but, back in june, the bbc said that when the government's funding for these free tv licences ends next year, it would only fund licences for people who receive pension credit. that will mean 3.7 million pensioners who don't pay a tv licence now will become eligible for having to pay £154.50 a year.

the bbc says if it carries on funding tv licences for all pensioners, it would cost it an extra £495 million a year. but the decision has led to new protests, we have seen lots over the last few weeks. also, now, this political row with borisjohnson, using rather blunt language, saying the bbc should "cough up." saying it was part of the conditions of the licence fee settlement back in 2015 that the bbc will continue to find all of those free tv licences for over 75. downing street said to be bbc should honour that agreement. the bbc will say that they will be at it, if not, we'll have to find another way. they are saying what will happen if they have to cough up? that is exactly what they are

saying, they're saying that parliament give the bbc responsibility to make a decision on the future of the scheme, there was no guarantee at the time that the bbc would continue to fund free licenses. the corporation says it is a matter for the government if it wishes to restore funding for free licences for all over 75. it will take up a fifth of the bbc‘s annual budget if they were to carry on funding licences for the over—75s, and if they had to do that, they say they would have to close a number of services, not east bbc two, bbc four, radio five live, bbc news channel. essex police say they are trying to establish what caused a number of people to develop breathing difficulties on the seafront at frinton and clacton yesterday. one woman said her daughter was left "gasping" for breath. their symptoms are said to have improved when they moved away from the beach. beachgoers were advised not to go in the sea. the coast guard said there had been no reports of spillages from passing ships. our correspondent richard lister has been following the latest at frinton—on—sea for us and sent this update. the advice not to go into the water along as it may stretch of coast. as you can see, people

are ignoring that advice, and no problems so far. will lodge is from the council, he is with us now. no problems reported today? we've had no further reported incidents to the council or our partners. how big was the problem yesterday? there was a large number of people affected yesterday, they were treated by the ambulance service. i would stress that the vast majority of those were fine after having a bit of a rinse with water. a very small number were taken to hospital just a very small number were taken to hospitaljust for a very small number were taken to hospital just for further evaluation, nothing serious or worrying about their condition. looking at the beach today and the people in the water, are you regretting that you said yesterday that this advice should stand until you work out what the problem is? not at all, public safety has to come first. some water samples are being tested by our partners. until we are confident about what the

cause was fought yesterday, our advice remains for people to remain out of the water. of course, we are pleased that no one has suffered serious consequences as a result of it. some people were told yesterday it. some people were told yesterday it was green allergy, other suspecting there was a fuel spill, 01’ suspecting there was a fuel spill, ora ship suspecting there was a fuel spill, or a ship flushing out its tanks. do you have any idea what happened?- this stage, we are pursuing a number of possibilities. until we get results back from the laboratory, we don't want to jump to any conclusions. however, it does appear that whatever it was do seem to have disappeared with the tides, so far. local people think there may be fewer people or in the beach than i would have expected today. is that your perception? i think there is a slightly smaller number of people here today because of what happened yesterday, but it's still nice to see people enjoying our beaches, our beautiful sea front gardens and the promenade on this lovely bank holiday. the advice is still enforced not to go into the water.

as we say, those who have gone into the water today seem to have suffered no ill effects. the headlines on bbc news: the international response to the devastating amazon fires — the g7 pledges £16 million to help tackle the crisis. the largest earthquake thought to be caused by a fracking site in the uk — has been felt in lancashire. a 14—year—old boy has been arrested in connection with a fire overnight at a high school in dunfermline. sport, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre — here's jane dougall. good afternoon. bolton wanderers could go out of business in the next 24 hours and be thrown out of the league. a deal to buy the league one club fell through over the weekend and administrators say the "process of closing down the company will commence on wednesday". wanderers had been given until 5pm tomorrow by the english football league for the takeover to be completed or face the process of expulsion from the league.

paul appleton, say a deal had been in place but, the administrator, paul appleton, say it collapsed on saturday morning and they are not in a position to carry on trading. appleton says this will lead to the club's liquidation and the inevitable loss of over 150 jobs. remember, barre in a very similar situation. they also have a deadline for tomorrow afternoon. the former liverpool striker daniel sturridge has arrived the former liverpool and england striker daniel sturridge has arrived in turkey for the next stage of his career. he was out of contract this summer and surplus he has signed a three year deal last week, with trabzonspor. the 29—year—old scored four times in seven matches at the start of last season but couldn't force his way into the side. he last played for england two years ago.

iam very i am very excited for the challenge. it's very exciting to be here. i'm grateful for being allowed to come to such a great club. i will do my best for the team, and i hope to help the team be successful. that has the objective that everybody has talked about, being successful, and this is what i want to achieve. the us open gets under way in the next hour, the british number onejoanna konta due on court against russia's daria kasatkina. novak djokovic starts the defence of his title against spaniard roberto carballes baena. djokovic has already won two grand slams this year, victory in new york would take him to 17 major titles, one behind rafael nadal and three behind roger federer. more or less, everything is about grand slams, in terms of howl more or less, everything is about grand slams, in terms of how i see tennis. you now, no matter at the most. i will definitely try to play my best tennis, and aim to play my best tennis at these events.

rory mcilroy has won the pga tour championship for a second time — earning him more than £12 million in prize money. he finished four strokes clear in atlanta. so win at the fedex cup on it occasions a pretty big deal. the only other person to dine out as tiger woods, you know you're doing something right. it has been a wonderful season for me, i have played consistently, a lot of good performances and a lot of good performances and a lot of good performances and a lot of good performances and good golf. it is a pretty special feeling to get a second fedex title. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. i'll have an update for you on the

next hour too. all the highlights from the cricket on there, you can relive the final hour of that match on the website. hats off to jack leach at the other end, the last man end, madejust one run but he was crucial to keeping ben stokes on the strike. what an important one run from him. all the ben stokes did when he tweeted from earlier was suggesting that the sponsors should be keeping leach in spectacles for life. and they have agreed to do that as well. children going hungry over the school holidays because parents struggle to afford meals, are being trapped in a "cycle of despair", according to charities supporting families. mps say an estimated three million children are at risk of going hungry

during the summer break. the government says it's spent more than £9 million on schemes offering free meals during the holidays. our correspondentjudith moritz reports from bradford. i think about it 24/7. 24/7. money is on demi's mind all the time, especially when it comes to feeding her son. it's even worse in the summer holidays, when he doesn't get free school meals. so this is a real lifeline. a mini—market at the gateway centre in bradford, where you only pay what you can afford. it's about that little boy. i don't need to eat. my son does. i don't want to bury my son. have you ever had to go without food so he can eat? i don't eat at all. why is that? because my son comes first. i don't need to, it's not about me. i've lived my life. he's only six years old. how old are you, demi?

25. it's not about me. i'm a mother. all right, guys, who want sandwiches? the centre has seen a surge in demand this summer. for families who can't afford a holiday, this is the next best thing — packed lunches for 50p. and a couple of coaches to take them off the estate and to the seaside for the day. welcome to blackpool! this is the only chance for some on the trip to experience anything like a summer holiday. they've got their children at home, they're not getting their free school meals, so they've got to find extra money to feed them. and a luxury like a day out to blackpool? that is an absolute luxury, that would not happen. you know, most of the children, if you ask them where they've been, a lot of have not even been off the estate. the six weeks holidays is a case of, what are we going to do with the kids, how can we afford it? even for working families

like the towlers, it's difficult. dad david has a full—time job, but they still struggle to get by. is this your summer holiday? yeah, this is our summer holiday. it's our day away to relax and sort of get away from things. we barely buy anything for ourselves, like, clothes—wise, unless we absolutely need it. it all goes towards the kids. we've been lucky this last year — a lot of family and friends have donated clothes, school clothes for them, so that's a little money we don't have to spend right now. back at the centre, every family is offered a free meal every day of the holidays — vital for parents who are forced to make stark choices. basically, my gas and electric are getting paid and i'm putting food in my cupboards, but everything else is just on hold. i'll have to catch up after the holidays. it's taken courage for these families to talk about something so personal. but they speak from the heart to make people understand how hard it is. walk in our shoes. walk in our shoes and then you will know what it's like. judith moritz, bbc news, bradford.

hollywood producer harvey weinstein has pleaded not guilty to a new indictment against him. weinstein appeared at new york state court in manhattan. the producer's criminal trial has been delayed to january. he's already pleaded not guilty to charges, including rape and sexual assault. researchers in london are trying to learn how mosquitos communicate with each other. once they do, they plan to develop systems to lure them away from populated areas to reduce the incidence of malaria and yellow fever. our science correspondent, pallab ghosh, has this report. mosquitoes buzz. for us, the whining sound is annoying, but, for the mosquito, it's a love song. the buzz helps the insects find mates and reproduce. so, what if we could learn to talk mosquito and sabotage their love lives? malaria and yellow fever is spread through mosquito bites. the vast majority of

cases are in africa. in 2017, 200 million people had malaria and nearly half—a—million of them died. one way to defeat mosquito—borne diseases is to turn their buzz against them. for me, it is a sound of utter sophistication. we could simulate these sounds, use them for new technological devices to perform attraction of mosquitoes, to lure them away from the sites where they can transmit disease — for example, from populations, from households. or also to catch them, kill them — so catch—and—kill devices could be designed, which are much more effective than the ones we are using right now. the mosquito's buzz is created by the insect‘s wings. this is the sound of the female on the left. low monotone. look closely and you can see that her wing beat is slower than the male's and that is why the male's tone is slightly higher.

in a breeding swarm, there are around 500 mosquitoes all buzzing away. just five of them are female and, somehow, the males can hear and find them. mosquitoes can be lured away from populated areas. this swarm of males can be attracted by the buzz of a female. simulated mosquito buzzing. unfortunately, these audio techniques don't work on females, which are the ones that carry and spread malaria and yellow fever. so, in order to improve these audio traps, researchers here want to learn more about how mosquitoes communicate. if we magnify this mosquito's hearing antenna, we can see how it opens up at sunset, when it's time to swarm. marta andres is studying how it detects the sound of potential mates, so that she can find ways of disrupting the process. mosquitoes use hearing to detect their mating partners. we are trying to find new ways to stop mosquitoes from hearing, using different drugs that then can

be applied in the field to stop the mosquito populations from reproducing, and try to collapse them. by disrupting their communications, the researchers believe that eventually they can rid millions from the menace of mosquitoes for ever. pallab ghosh, bbc news. a vast "raft" of volcanic rocks stretching over 150 square kilometers is drifting through the pacific ocean, scientists say. the sea of pumice — the size of 20,000 football fields — was first reported by australian sailors earlier this month. experts say the mass likely came from an underwater volcano near tonga, which erupted around the seventh of august. tom whitehead and shannon lenz sailed their boat into the pumice field. about an hour out of tonga, we started running into a few of them,

patches of them. they're are kind of like a rule. there would be one real, with go through it, it would sound like tree branches or something, that was the first thing i thought of. so i came up on deck and we first thought it was well put —— a whale faeces. but it became obvious, there was more of it that any normal—sized whale could come up with. so we realised it was pumice. itjust seemed with. so we realised it was pumice. it just seemed very odd. with. so we realised it was pumice. itjust seemed very odd. it seems like we had entered into pirates of the caribbean. it wasjust bizarre.

we knew, we read briefly about pumice, it was obviously volcanic pumice. what i was worried about was that we might be running into volcanic activity. since we were going about 80 and a half, there was i'io going about 80 and a half, there was no way we could avoid it if we were going towards a volcano. it's officially the hottest august bank holiday monday on record. the new record of 31.2c was reached at heathrow this afternoon, beating the previous record of 28.2c, set in holbeach in lincolnshire, in 2017. andy moore reports on the scorching bank holiday weekend. over a million people are expected to attend what will be the hottest ever notting hill carnival this bank holiday weekend. temperatures approached 33 celsius yesterday and will probably hit a similar level today. those attending the festival are being urged to keep drinking water.

several revellers were treated yesterday for dehydration. at frinton, holiday—makers were back on the beach in their hundreds after that scare yesterday. today, there was no evidence of the problem — just lots of people having fun. even the sea water is warming up — 19 celsius in frinton today. that's pretty good for uk waters. if you could not get to a beach, this lido at brockwell in south london was the perfect place to cool off, so long as you had the patience to wait in the queue to get in. the reeth show is a traditional agricultural event held every year in the beautiful swaledale valley in yorkshire. there are plenty of events in the main ring and great prizes to be won at the funfair. in cambridge, a new ice—skating rink opened today — absolutely perfect timing for those who wanted to practise their moves and get away from the hot sun.

regent's park is the perfect green, shady place for londoners to cool off. it is forecast to be another hot day in the southeast tomorrow and then we are told, across the country, it will begin to cool down. andy moore, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with susan powell. i'm off to the carnival any minute now! let's take a look at what is happening out and about. st ives in cornwall looking gorgeous. we can ta ke cornwall looking gorgeous. we can take a look at the satellite and radar. coming into the southern tip of cornwall at the moment are some showers. this streak of crow cloud could be heavy rain on the way. still cloudy across the channel islands. but there is a lot of heat around. it is cooler today across scotla nd around. it is cooler today across scotland and northern ireland than

yesterday. for the rest of us,