attempting to block a no—deal brexit — opposition parties meet to draw up a plan for parliament. labour, the lib dems, and the snp sign a pledge to ensure the uk doesn't leave the eu without a deal. i will put forward a proposal which will make sure that parliament is able to debate a legislative way of preventing the government crushing us out with no deal. crashing us out with no deal. it comes a week before mps return to parliament after the summer break. also tonight: the future looks bleak for bury football club after hopes of a last—minute takeover appear to have fallen through. plans to build bigger phone masts across the english countryside to improve mobile coverage — without council permisison. as the fires in the amazon rainforest continue to blaze, indiginous groups tell us of their fears for the future. your dog's dinner?

people are being urged to feed their pets insects instead of meat and fish to help the environment. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, we'll have the latest from new york as the british number one kyle edmund get‘s his us open campaign underway. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. with just 65 days to go until the uk is due to leave the eu, the leaders of the main opposition parties have met today and agreed to work together to stop britain leaving without a deal. jeremy corbyn says opposition mps will take the first steps towards trying to pass a law blocking a no—deal brexit when parliament returns next week. the parties including the greens, the snp and the lib dems also said

a vote of no confidence to bring down the government remained an option. but the government accused them of tyring to create chaos, delay and uncertainty. our political correspondent, ben wright, reports from westminster. the pace is slow and the parks are full. around parliament, there is little sign of the storm to come. but with boris johnson little sign of the storm to come. but with borisjohnson prepared to ta ke but with borisjohnson prepared to take the uk out of the eu without a deal, the heat is on opposition parties trying to find a way to stop him. i will put forward a proposal which will make sure that parliament is able to debate a legislative way of preventing the government crashing us out with no deal. for two hours, jeremy corbyn held talks with other opposition parties in his office. green mps should try and force borisjohnson to delay brexit again —— agreeing mps. mr blackford, how was your meeting?” again —— agreeing mps. mr blackford, how was your meeting? i want to congratulate colleagues because

there is a real spirit that we have to work together, we have to stop no—deal brexit. to work together, we have to stop no-deal brexit. boris johnson decides to pursue a no—deal brexit, there's pretty much nothing mps can do to stop it. oh, yes there is. in the uk it is a parliamentary democracy, parliamentary sovereignty. parliamentarians have the power to stop this. there was a consensus around the power to stop this. there was a consensus around the room of people recognising that the best way forward is a legislative route. and i think that made for a very positive start to the meeting and very constructive discussions. you've got almost no time to pull this off, have you? time is very short and we need to get cracking with it, absolutely. but there is no clear decisive route for parliament to block or delay a no—deal brexit and the government does not need mps' approval to leave the eu without an agreement. as a democrat myself, i will be fighting tooth and nail to not allow a group of opposition and democratic members of parliament to try and prevent the government from fulfilling the

democratic wishes of the people. but this afternoon, 160 opposition mps signed a pledge that they would do whatever they can to stop a no—deal brexit. extraordinary is the new normal in politics. 0pposition parties putting aside their differences to try and stop a no—deal brexit. here, mps are vowing to thwart borisjohnson if he attem pts to thwart borisjohnson if he atte m pts to to thwart borisjohnson if he attempts to suspend the house of commons before brexit day. while just a few doors away, a meeting of the insurgent brexit party, planning for a general election and piling pressure on for a general election and piling pressure on the government to make sure brexit happens. proving again just how polarised the argument now is, nigel farrar said leaving the eu without a deal is the only a cce pta ble without a deal is the only acceptable brexit —— nigel farage. if mrjohnson you insist on the withdrawal agreement, we will fight you in every single seat up and down the length and breadth of the united kingdom. cheering but he said if mrjohnson summoned

the courage to pursue a no deal, the brexit party would work with him. the question of how britain leaves the eu is once in a generation stuff. as the days shorten, expect a two month struggle between government and parliament, rougher than anything ever seen so far. ben is in westminster now. the mps who want to stop a no—deal brexit, they agreed on the tactics? i think they are now. only a week ago, jeremy corbyn said he wanted to crack on with a no—confidence vote to try to bring the government down that way and blocked a no—deal brexit. now, after these discussions, the priority seems to be to try and seize control of the parliamentary timetable, pass a law that would then compel the government to seek a further delay to brexit. it's a strategy that did work back in the spring where theresa may was sent to ask the eu for more time. there is an agreement around tactics but the big question is whether any of this is going to work. crucially, it is the

government that controls the timetable in the house of commons. there are only 22 sitting days left, once mps comeback on tuesday before brexit day. there is very little time to try to pull this off. interestingly, today, there were no tory mps and westminster. three or four signs that pledge about stopping a no—deal brexit but many tories are reluctant to join this effort while boris johnson tories are reluctant to join this effort while borisjohnson is still trying to get a new deal with the eu. the fundamental position remains that the legal default is for the uk to be leaving eu at the end of 0ctober, whether there is a deal or not, regardless of what mps are saying today. thank you. the future of two of the countries oldest football clu bs of two of the countries oldest football clubs hangs in the balance. the proposal fell through two hours before the proposal. bolton wanderers also had until 5pm this afternoon for a sale to be agreed but no word yet on a possible deal.

our sports editor, dan roan, has the latest. after 134 years of history, the news bury‘s fans were dreading, as a last—ditch rescue deal collapsed. as news last—ditch rescue deal collapsed. as news filtered through, tension turning to anger towards the current owner as the threat of expulsion from the football league loomed. it's just absolutely devastating, honestly, devastating. yeah, we are heartbroken, honestly. i've been coming here since i were about three months old, my first day my dad brought me to. my mum tried to get me to old trafford and i was having none me to old trafford and i was having none of it, i wanted to be a bury fan. the mascot, travelled to 60 odd grounds watching them, just gutted, gutted. earlier, volunteers arrived amid optimism a deal could be done, working to get the stadium ready for the weekend, should they finally be allowed to play for the first time this season after a series of suspended matches. bury had been

given until 5pm this evening to com plete given until 5pm this evening to complete a takeover all be thrown out of the league but the prospective buyers, data analytics company, announced they would be pulling out because of complexities they had encountered during due diligence. the deal has collapsed. these lads came forward, they wanted to get the deal done. they tried to get a deal done on the stadium but sadly they couldn't do. without a stadium, they couldn't continue. but bury aren't the only club fighting for survival, a few miles away, bolton wanderers, one of the football league's founding members also had until 5pm to complete a ta keover also had until 5pm to complete a takeover or face liquidation. just imagine what the great matt lofthouse, one of the game's most legendary players, would have made on legendary players, would have made on the peril his old club faces.|j have stood beside nat's statue and none have stood beside nat's statue and none of us are seeing this. we just wa nt none of us are seeing this. we just want a football club to support, that's all we ask. seven years ago, bolton were premier league regulars

that emit relegation, debts spiralled out of control and this year, they fell into administration. players and staff going unpaid. tonight, the club said talks with a possible buyer were continuing but many believe this must serve as a warning against spending beyond one's means. i think there's so much competitive pressure in football, as in any sport, it's hard—wired into being a sports franchise. everyone wants to succeed every year and the temptation to spend and spend beyond budget to reach your targets at the end of every season is huge. matt lofthouse charges in and their's bolton second goal! whatever the reasons, to night, two clubs with hundreds of years of history between them remain on the brink. it's important to remember these clu bs it's important to remember these clubs aren't just any it's important to remember these clubs aren'tjust any other business, hugely important to their communities, which is why emotions are running hyper stop in a statement this evening, bury appealed for their —— appealed to theirfans for calm.

appealed for their —— appealed to their fans for calm. they and bolton are saying talks are continuing and they are appealing for even more extra time but in truth, they are deep into injury time now at time is very much running out. these crises will only serve to highlight what is a growing concern within english football at what appears to be this great financial imbalance between the haves and the have—nots, the premier league, of course, buoyed by record tv deals and the english football league. they are far from the only two clubs that are struggling financially. there will be scrutiny of that imbalance and the way that the efl scrutinises prospective owners. whatever the reasons, dismay at the predicament of these two clubs face will extend well beyond these two towns in the north—west. dan, thank you. police in county antrim, who are investigating allegations of abuse, at a hospital for people with learning disabilities and mental health needs, have said cctv footage has revealed 1,500 crimes on one ward. the incidents happened over a period of six months, at muckamore abbey hospital. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page is outside the hospital. what sort of crimes

are we talking about? well, sophie, police won't go into the details of individual incidents they have seen on that cctv but in they have seen on that cctv but in the past, some families have spoken about how patients were treated here at muckamore abbey hospital. 0ne man, for example, said his son was punched in the stomach by a nurse. another woman said her daughter had been dragged up a corridor by her hair. the scandal became public about two years ago, whenever families first started to speak about these allegations of mistreatment. police have been viewing more than 300,000 hours of cctv. to put it another way, that amounts to more than 34 years of footage and they have identified, they say, 1500 crimes in one ward, they say, 1500 crimes in one ward, the psychiatric intensive care unit, ovei’ the psychiatric intensive care unit, over the course of six months between 2017 and 2018. that gives you an idea of the scale of this investigation, the biggest of its

kind in northern ireland ever taken. suspended staff currently standing at 20, police are expecting that to rise. the home secretary, priti patel, is to meet her french counterpart this week, to discuss the number of suspected migrants crossing the channel illegally. this morning three more boats were intercepted by border force officials off the kent coast. around 150 migrants have been stopped trying to cross the channel since last thursday. documents seen by the bbc show the government knew the hs2 rail project was over budget three years ago. the documents were written in 2016 — before mps had signed—off the first phase of the project — which raises questions over whether parliament was given the whole picture. the high—speed line will link london, birmingham, manchester and leeds. 0ur transport correspondent tom burridge has been speaking to a former hs2 manager, and has this exclusive report. this is the story of a former manager at hs2, the public company building britain's high—speed railway, who says he was fired just as he was about to reveal an uncomfortable truth.

andrew bruce says his task was to work out how much the land and property needed to build the first stretch of the railway between london and birmingham would cost. it was a crucial part of the project's budget, the figure hs2 was using at the time was £2.8 billion. i knew that the figure was wrong, i knew that it was manifestly wrong. he knew because thousands of properties and plots of land which had to be bought or compensated had been given very low values. what's more, hs2's estimate of £2.8 billion was based on 5500 properties, when in reality more than 12,000 would need to be bought or compensated along the route. andrew bruce worked out that in reality hs2 would need an extra £2 billion to compulsorily purchase all of the land and properties, but he said that he was fired half an hour before he was due to present his work to senior figures at hs2 and the department for transport. i was told that my information, my data, the whole of that programme, the whole of that six months worth of work, was never used again.

it was as if i had never existed. hs2 said it doesn't recognise andrew bruce's version of events. it strongly rejects the idea that mr bruce was dismissed because of a desire to hide the true cost. ministers and bosses at hs2 have until recently insisted the project was on a budget and on schedule. but in this letter written in 2016 to the then chancellor george osborne, the transport secretary at the time, patrick mcloughlin, admits the project was £1 billion over budget. that figure, i'm told, did not include andrew bruce's high cost estimate for the land and property and it was all before phase one of hs2 was signed off by parliament. i think parliament was misled. i think we are now having to spend far more public taxpayers money on hs2 in parliament thought was going to be required. on hs2 than parliament thought was going to be required. hs2 knew that and they knew that months if not years before.

last year, the national audit office found that hs2 wasn't required to submit an improved property cost estimate to parliament so it cleared hs2 of any wrongdoing. hs2 said it had also faced extensive scrutiny from parliamentary committees. but with the team appointed by the government to review the scheme set to begin their work tomorrow, it's hard to say how high speed 2 will evolve in the coming weeks. tom burridge, bbc news. the time is 6:15pm. our top story this evening: 0pposition parties attempting to block a no—deal brexit meet to draw up block a no—deal brexit meet to draw upa plan block a no—deal brexit meet to draw up a plan for parliament before mps return next week. we hear from the teenage girls praised for saving a toddler and his dad in difficulties at sea. coming up on sportsday in the next 15 miniutes on bbc news, we'll be live at league one clubs bolton and bury, as they fight the threat of expulsion from the league and also liquidation.

£18 million — that's what the world's richest nations have pledged to help brazil tackle the terrible fires raging in the amazon rainforest. but the brazilian government say it'll reject the offer from g7 countries. brazil's president, jair bolsonaro, says his country will not accept the money unless he gets an apology from his french counterpart, emmanuel macron. mr macron had accused him of "lying" about fighting climate change. satellite data shows the fires — mostly in the amazon region — are burning at record levels. sophie long sent this report from the city of altamira: the heart of the amazon, the world's lungs on fire. a chorus of condemnation echoed around the world and this ecological disaster became a global political issue. brazil's president did not strike the match that lit these flames but many say he might as well have. today, when state governors asked him for help, he told them to unite, so brazil can maintain

its sovereignty. and yet the world's largest rainforest continues to smoulder. we are just passing over an area of rainforest that is still burning. my guide tells me it's farmland but it's very close to indigenous land, home to a huge amount of wildlife, and also a tribe of people that has almost no contact with the outside world. it means they also have almost no means by which to put out the fires that are raging towards them. what is the greatest threat to the land where your community lives? in the forest on the banks of the xingu river, this man tells me it's brazil's leaders. translation: one of the biggest threats my people face today is our government. they are trying to destroy the amazon, to exterminate our people. they are the people trying to destroy our country, then the amazon. some fingers have been pointed at

farmers who want to raze the forest for their crops and cattle. but adelrado corner and his daughter who have worked the farmland here for more than three decades tell me farmers are not to blame, and nor is their president. translation: it's people acting illegally who want to claim the forest. farmers who own registered land don't burn and they don't deforest. we have to leave promptly. the community here are angry about the way their country and their president are being portrayed. a group of indigenous leaders say the fires are just one of many threats to the amazon. one spoke anonymously because he fears for his life. he says his community have been threatened and if they don't leave their land by wednesday they will be killed. translation: if the government don't send protection and get the illegal loggers to leave, there will be a massacre. white people will kill indigenous people and indigenous people will kill white people.

while miners and loggers continue to encroach on the scorched earth of the amazon, president bolsonaro says he will re—evaluate the laws surrounding indigenous lands to increase productivity. sophie long, bbc news, altamira in the amazon. as fla m es as flames are put out, hundreds of new as flames are put out, hundreds of new fires are sparked. sophie long, bbc news, altamira in the amazon. taller mobile phone masts could be built across the english countryside — without council permission — as the government tries to improve mobile coverage in rural areas and speed up the roll out of the new 5g networks. currently, masts on public land must be no more than 25 metres high but the government is looking at overhauling planning rules. here's our consumer affairs correspondent, colletta smith. finally surfing on high—speed, 4g has arrived in the village, butjust two miles away, and it still a nightmare to try and make a call. while the surrounding

area is still not spot, things improved dramatically in sabden two months ago. when the phone mast got put up, i was actually working and suddenly all the locals realised that they had signal. i think somebody got a call through, and everybody had a little mini celebration as finally we have a call. it had a big impact on everyone in the village. i didn't use to bring my phone out of my bag, usuallyjust stay in my bag because nobody could reach and they had to ring the landline but now i can put my phone out and get a signal. my son is with one of the major networks and has gone from one bar to five hours and taken walk around happily in the house on his mobile, not hanging out the back door trying to get a signal. that's still just a pipe dream for will. i don't even have one bar. we don't get 3g, and they are talking about 5g. just two miles down the road from sabden,

but the new mast has not helped connection here. we are a rural community and we seem to be ignored. the government say they want to make it easier to turn this into a taller, wider, stronger mast without extra planning permission. making masts taller and stronger gives it a better capacity, and that can only help because technology only gets better and better the more you invest it. but dan thinks it's only a not about improving what we got, but million more masts will still be needed. houses have to be coming more on site more and more but i think a lot of them are a bit careful and a bit worried about what it means politically, but what we have to realise is that the industrial revolution will be happening anyway. it's happening in other countries and it's happening really quickly and we have to get onside. there's a reason the countryside in the uk is so beautiful, and it's because tight planning regulations mean that things have to blend in and match the character of the area. for people living in rural areas, they have just as much demand and need for the latest technology. it would only bother you if you looked at it, and

if you just kind of turned a blind eye to it and obviouslyjust reap the benefits, i think that would be better. it's a tussle that will continue as long as technology advances. colletta smith, bbc news. two teenage girls have been praised for rescuing a toddler and his father from the sea off the coast of aberdeenshire. isla and eilidh noble, who are 15 and 14, swam out on a lilo to help them. lorna gordon has more. they are the two teenage sisters whose quick reactions saved a man and his young son from drowning. we were just swimming and we were, like, into knee height, and we heard the little boy screaming. so we thought his dad was dunking him under the water and wetting him and stuff, but then the dad started shouting "help!" and we realised he was in trouble. the beach here is known for its undercurrents and with the water cold, the man was tiring quickly. isla swam out and lifted the toddler onto an inflatable lilo before getting the man to lie his head

across it as best he could. to be honest, i wasn't thinking. i wasjust like, i need to get on it, because i saw him going under the water and then trying to come up for breath, but because his son was on top of him and he was trying to keep him up, he wasn't getting any breath, so it was like, get out of there as quickly as you can. bystander keith gray, who spotted what was happening, joined in to help. when all were safely back on shore, the sisters phoned 999. before being airlifted out, the father was able to thank his rescuers. the teenagers, though, don't think they are heroes, they said theyjust did what had to be done. but the local lifeboat team said their presence and actions made all the difference, and they all deserve medals. lorna gordon, bbc news. vets are urging pet owners to consider feeding their cats and dogs with insects, instead of more traditional food. 20% of the world's consumption of meat and fish is eaten by our pets. and it has a considerable impact in terms of land use, water,

fossil fuels and pesticides. here's our environment analyst, roger harrabin. would you feed your dog or cat on these? the larvae of soldier flies are high in protein and edible fats. the british vets association says they are ideal for your pet. there is a fantastic opportunity here to look at insects as providing an alternative source of some of the nutrient ingredients that we use in our pet food diets. the ingredients are produced in this vast insect farm in southern holland. its uncomplaining workers are black soldierflies, chosen because they are not fussy what they eat and the grubs that hatch from their eggs are highly nutritious. these little marks on the perspex are actually black soldier fly eggs. this is a little demonstration pod, and the main breeding centre is way behind me. it's top secret, it's an industrial process and we aren't allowed there, but i can say it is bigger than an olympic swimming pool

and is absolutely full of black soldier flies. the idea of farming flies for pet food is to reduce the impact of meat production on the earth and on the climate. if we are heating up the planet and eating everything, we are going to have to start giving something back, so we have to reduce our land use, but we also have to feed people, nutritionally. so we need alternatives, and this is our prime focus — to lower the footprints of this society. the larvae eat food waste and use a fraction of the land and water of cows, and produce much lower greenhouse gas emissions. ground—up larvae are fed to fish, pigs and chickens. dogs and cats are a growing market. but do pets actually like insect—based food ? it's breakfast. oh, she definitely likes it. she's usually quite a fussy eater, so i'm surprised she's eaten it all,

so it must be good. it appeals to me, because i'm a vegan and i have to wrestle with the fact that i have to literally kill animals to feed big animals, to feed my dog and big animals that are eating a lot of grain are causing all the problems, so an insect—based diet makes a lot of sense to me. in fact, most pet food is based on offal such as heart and lungs that people in the uk don't like, but the vets say if dogs eat insects instead, it will free up the offal to be exported to people who do like it. roger harrabin, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's susan powell. the warm weather is coming to an end? pushing into the uk. the heat is behind a cold weather from that war

crosses in the next 24 hours but the heat across europe has made things lively today, 45 millimetres and an inch and a half a brain for ibiza airport in one hour and germany has issued the highest level of warning for thunderstorms and now, here we 90, for thunderstorms and now, here we go, they are heading in closer to home and that is what will start to break down the heat as the cold weather front comes in and we see some rain clearing the atmosphere. quite a rough night for some of us though due to the warmth and humidity but also some rattling showers across central and eastern areas in the next few hours, but then progressively across northern england and eastern scotland as we get towards midnight and we could see similar rainfall totals to ib so, maybe an inch of rain in an hour and flash flooding is possible. into the west by the end of the night, thick cloud and outbreaks of rain, that's the colour —— cold front trying to get in and you can see it does not get overnight because it is a warm and muggy night with lows of 17 degrees. wednesday looks different from the get go, more

cloud because the front is nearby and rain around the west that could be heavier and the rain clearing in the south—east. brighter in the east later in the day and also to the west of the front. the biggest changes the temperatures, 23 or 24 degrees, so nine or 10 degrees down on degrees, so nine or 10 degrees down on today and once the cold front clears east at the end of the week we are clears east at the end of the week we are back into a fresher regime and we open up the door for areas of low pressure coming in from the atla ntic low pressure coming in from the atlantic so quite wet for western scotla nd atlantic so quite wet for western scotland and northern ireland and windy at times, but for some, a sense of relief as the heat breaks. a reminder of our top story... opposition parties try opposition parties try to opposition parties try to beat opposition parties try to beat a opposition parties try to beat a plan to stop brexit.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. opposition parties say they have agreed to try to block a no deal brexit by passing

legislation in parliament. the meeting was called by labour leaderjeremy corbyn. i will put forward a legislative proposal to prevent the government from crashing out without a deal. and that was something all the parties agreed this morning. the deadline to save both bolton wanderers and bury football clubs has just closed with the firm aiming to buy bury pulling out. police investigating alleged abuse at a hospital in county antrim say cctv footage has revealed 1500 crimes committed on one ward. documents discovered by the bbc suggest the government, and hs2, knew the high speed railway was over budget and behind schedule years ago. brazil's president poulsen aaron has told local media he may reverse a decision to reject a