party in another major blow for boris johnson's government. it's the combination of the fact that there is not enough work going into actually getting a deal, which i think is not what the prime minister signed up to try to do, and secondly the expulsion of 21 of my colleagues, who are good, moderate conservatives. she'll be replaced as work and pensions secretary by therese coffey, mp for suffolk coastal. business secretary, andrea leadsom, says the conservatives will break with precedent and field a candidate against the commons speaker, john bercow, at the next election. peace talks between the taliban and the us are called off. president trump blames a deadly attack in the afghan capital, kabul. ships and aircraft evacuate thousands of people from islands in the bahamas worst hit by hurricane dorian. aid agencies say the situation is desperate.

now on bbc news, an inside out west climate change special, with exclusive access to the campaign group extinction rebellion. exclusive interviews with the people behind extinction rebellion. i know it sounds a bit odd but i did know since being nine that something was going to come. and i've been preparing. plus i meet the curry king who wants to ditch plastic. i'm no expert but that is not going to be very environmentally friendly. that's definitely not. that's why we want to get rid of it. and what impact is climate change having on birds in your back garden? tonight, we're tackling the hottest story right now — the future of our planet. so first up: anarchists or saviors? whatever you think of extinction rebellion, you will have heard of them. but did you know it all started in a small town right here in the west country?

whose streets? our streets! it's been a summer of disruption. cheering. chanting. people from all over the country arejoining in. humanity is on the brink of extinction. united in a common goal. our vision is of a world where love and kindness are the fabric of life. their methods are extreme but not everyone‘s on board. i know it is ridiculous. ijust want to go home. making an attempt to grab publicity. you're being totally honest about that. that's part of the process. there's no two ways about it. our system is toxic to life on this planet so it needs to change. we need to transform it. and it all started in the quiet cotswold town of stroud. but how? it's 9am.

gail bradbrook and some friends are on their way to an extinction rebellion demo in bristol. i'm dr gail bradbrook. i have a phd in molecular biophysics. i'm one of the co—founders of extinction rebellion. i've always been interested in how things change, in social change. i was involved in the animal rights movement as a young woman. i've been involved in thinking about, you know, gender and issues around racism and so on. so i've done lots of things. yeah, it's just some updates on the police situation. they've let a delivery truck through. but now agreed that only emergency vehicles are through. one of the mainjobs i do is around finance, trying to make sure that teams have got access to money and i suppose for other people, it feels quite magic where the money

comes from but from my side of things it's a bit of a sweat. i'm just trying to get gail to the boat because she's talking now. i've been focused on trying to start civil disobedience since 2010. and i've tried many things and they didn't work. so i actually went off on a retreat and prayed in a deep way with some psychedelic medicines. it was a really intense experience and i actually prayed for something i called the codes for social change. i thought there must be something i don't understand. within a month my prayer was literally answered. i know it sounds a bit odd but i did know since been nine that something was going to come and i've been preparing. there's ourgirl. welcome, everybody. you look gorgeous. you look so beautiful. we started this thing in my house, it was like 12 of us or something. saying, "let's do this thing" and then within a year this movement's gone global. it's been an incrediblejourney. we've got about 100,000 people

on the database in the uk. we reach about a million people with social media. we've got 130 groups across the uk. we're in 59 countries and it's growing all the time. this is taking just a wee bit from each stalk and stem. simon bramwell is another of the co—founders of extinction rebellion. he's gail's ex—partner and also from stroud. i love nature very deeply. i get out in nature as much as i possibly can. and i also feel a huge sense of responsibility to pass on a better planet to our children, to my niece and nephew. this is the nature reserve on the somerset levels, a place he says is injeopardy. and this is also one thing worth noting, and you might not be able to pick it up on the camera, but the sheer lack of insect life. i mean, it's like a gunshot. just the sheer absence

of insect life at the moment. it started for me in 2015 when i was part of a campaign in bristol to try and save land. they basically wanted to build the metrobus system and destroy some allotments up at stapleton road in bristol. and we took to the trees and for eight weeks during the winter we tried to raise as much public awareness as possible of it. we tried to challenge the mayor at the time, ferguson, and unfortunately we were evicted from the land, trees were cut down and the sense of loss from that was absolutely acute for me and i realised there's got to be a different way of doing this so that saw me meeting up with gail bradbrook to use the research on how to build mass movements and campaigns and how to dovetail that into a campaign of mass non—violent civil disobedience. stroud is at the centre of this global movement. it's where it started. the local group still meets regularly to discuss strategy.

first of all, just to say that this is our weekly meeting. i know there's quite a few new people here. just feel yourself sitting in your chair. feel your feet on the floor. take a big, deep breath. and remember that your planet is holding you up. so i'm going to read the vision statement. our vision is of a world where love and kindness are the fabric of life. depending on the group, we'll have prayers. we've got a lot of christians and quakers involved in extinction rebellion. rebellion is the greatest gift you have to give. the courage of your heart and the knowing of your truth. people are starting to feel the grief and the fear of what's happening and the meetings are a great way to actually admit this to one another.

feels like the first big realisation to me. like a really big one. crying. simon's not at the stroud meeting but he shows up in bristol at what they're calling 0peration mushroom, a five day mass protest in cities across the uk. for people to get inspired, for people to take on board what we're doing and why and for that to spread in any way possible whether it's blockading a road or more shutting down of the system that's basically destroying the planet at the moment. extinction rebellion have three demands. they want the government to be transparent about climate change, make the uk carbon neutral by 2025, and to set up a citizen's assembly on environmental policies. whose streets? 0ur streets!

in bristol, tempers are flaring as protesters block major roads. think about it before doing this stupid thing. i'll leave my car parked there and start walking for my medication if you do not let me through to get my medication. left at 7am this morning and i work for nhs and i can't even get to the hospital. you're allowed to speak in public but don't block the main city road when people are trying to get places. i've got a toddler at home i'm trying to get back to. police move in after the motorway is blocked, claiming the protesters have crossed the line of what's acceptable. 0ne driver says his father died in hospital before he could get there because of the jams. my mum's quite ill. she's in a lot of pain, she's disabled. i know how i'd feel if i didn't make it to her bedside before her death.

i can't communicate with any degree of real depth how sorry sorry i am that happened. i mean, i wasn't there that day. but again trying to communicate to people what's the alternative? we've become so siloed in the way we think where the media will pick up on something like that and yet we've got a situation where tens of thousands of people are dying each year in britain from air pollution. we've studied in great detail the literature about how to help things to change. you have to be disruptive. unfortunately you can do it respectfully and peacefully but it's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about the issue. we are killing life on earth. we're in the sixth mass extinction event and it's possible that human beings will go extinct. we're in a culture that doesn't want you to think about that.

it's keep your head down, keep working, keep stressing about making ends meet. wake up, folks. it's an end of the world message that's definitely not shared by everyone but they believe their tactics are making an impact. we've seen such a huge change in the way that the public and especially the media has been talking about climate change. it has literally gone global. i don't think any of us thought that it would have happened this quickly but we certainly dared to dream it, yes. so what do you think of that? or do you have an opinion on our new look? come on, do let us know. we're on facebook or twitter or you can email me direct at seb@bbc.co.uk. when it comes to saving the planet, our use of plastic packaging is a massive concern. so what do you do if you're a takeaway owner whose business depends on it?

# food, glorious food. welcome to takeaway heaven. fish and chips, kebabs, pizza, noodles, burgers, curry, pan—asian, vegan. there's something for everyone. but all these delicious meals are creating a mountain of waste. so is there a way for hungry westerners to have their takeout and eat it without contributing to our plastic disaster? moslek uddin runs chutney‘s, an indian takeaway in weston. he's desperate to wean his business off its plastic boxes. hello, sir. hello, nice to see you. nice to see you too. how are you? yes, it smells good in here. yeah. it's cooking nicely. what are you making?

i'm making a little jalfrezi. 0h. do you like hot food? yes, i do. that's good. that's delicious on a plate but most of these go out in the plastic boxes. i'm no expert but that is not going to be very environmentally friendly. that's definitely not. that's why we want to get rid of it. recently noticing everything happening in the world, plastic is going to be a major issue which is going to affect our children's future. so you really want to change? i want to change at least for my children. at least i can show that i've done my bit or i'm trying my best. that's a good idea. he's got his 11—year—old daughter maisha to thank for his recent change of heart. it was when i watched blue planet and it said about how much plastic was going into the sea life and how it harms animals and actually got me thinking.

so i went to my dad and i told him. so you really want to save the planet by doing this? yeah. it's going to be a big challenge. moslek uses 700 plastic containers a week. so how about we try and help you find a solution? definitely up for it. we are definitely up for it. that was so encouraging. moslek‘s got such a great attitude about this. i think he really wants to change. let's see if we can help him. sonya devi opened vegetable diva on bristol's harbour—side in march, selling vegetarian food to a lunchtime crowd. but there's one big difference. this place has a zero—waste policy, using reusable tiffin tins — standard fare in india for more than a century. hello.

i brought moslek to have a look. hi. hello. it's very much bring your own container, rent one of our containers which involves paying the full price and then you get a full refund when you return it or buying one which you keep. when i read that a whale has died with kilos of plastic in their stomach, itjust really touches my heart and ijust sort of think something has to be done. and if i'm in a position as a business owner to have influence then i'd like to use that influence in a positive way. ijust wanted to run a business where i could sleep at night. so what do you think of that? i think it's a great concept. it's really been a learning curve coming here and seeing that there is no plastic. and i think that needs to be something that we need to adopt slowly and change over to. sonia's lending moslek some of her tiffins to try out on his customers. but will they be prepared to pay a £10 deposit on top

of their food to avoid plastic? i'm going to catch up with you in a little bit, so go and give this a try. thank you very much. all right. at chutney‘s, it's nearly opening time — the kitchen is a—buzz. there you go. moslek‘s customers have got wind of his experiment and many seem happy to cough up the extra £10 deposit for a tiffin. i will see you later. do you think it's a good idea? i do think it's a good idea. it stops the containers. keeps it warm. it's good. you going to have it in a tiffin? yeah, definitely. i've never seen one before actually. yeah, looks good.

thanks. well, thank you. cheers. i'm going to figure out how to open it first. it looks authentic. yeah. which is quite exciting. do you reckon this is the way to go? it's a forward step. obviously i got a plastic bag in my other hand. i feel a bit guilty about that. one step at a time. you can't do it all in one day. if i don't do it, i'm in trouble. good! are you proud of your dad? definitely. it's gone very well. i think all the customers really liked the idea. so i'm hoping with a little bit more work we can actually adapt to it. it's a start. that's the biggest thing, it's a start and it's looking exciting. so how does it feel? it feels really good. i mean my little daughter who's really pushing me behind, she likes the tiffins. it's good. do you know what? i'm really blown away by all of this. moslek‘s customers have really taken to the idea of the tiffins

and the best thing is he really didn't have to do a hard sell. they went for it straight away. if things carry on like this maybe it could be the end of all that plastic. good on moslek and his daughter. now in ourfinalfilm we're exploring the impact of climate change on wildlife where you live. using exclusive data, nick baker can reveal the latest picture. a classic bristol suburb. a refuge for commuters of all sorts. i'm here to visit mark and jane granville. they run a sanctuary for swifts. oh my good grief! when they said you had a few swift boxes i was not expecting that.

swifts call. mark's swifts have been coming here for 15 years. it's like having an airshow in your garden, forfree. because they come back to my house i treat them like my birds. and they become part of the family. you look forward to when they come. you are like a parent and you worry about them. some arrived late, some not at all. this year has been a weird one. a strange year this year. people were e—mailing me saying where are they?

what happened was an onslaught of unseasonable weather. in may in southern europe they had the worst weather for about 50 years and loads of swifts, they came up exhausted from africa and when they got back to us, we had a terrible june and it was cold and wet. the swift population has halved since 1995. a big factor is the loss of nesting spots. most modern homes are not as accommodating as the granvilles'. they are concerned about the impact of climate change. garden birds like rob the robin here, they are doing 0k and they roll with the changes that the climate is throwing at them but the problem starts with migrant birds, ones that travel to us from other countries because they time their arrival specifically to make the most of the natural bounties such

as an abundance of caterpillars. shifting seasons mean the juicy insects are hatching earlier which are fine for birds that live all year round, but long distance species are arriving too late. mark keeps careful notes about his swifts and then sends them to the british trust for 0rnithology. this citizen science has given the trust an insight into how climate change is affecting the natural world. they analysed 50 years of data for inside out and found in the west some long—distance birds like the swift, cuckoo and the warbler are especially vulnerable and in decline. many garden and woodland birds such as the goldcrest and and nuthatch are benefiting

from the milder winters. 0ne species really struggling is the curlew. it needs wet and boggy places to breed but some farming practises are drying this landscape out and there are concerns climate change can make things worse. in the south of england the plight of the curlew is desperate and in some places like dartmoor and devon they are close to extinction. but here they are just about hanging on. i'm meeting james pierce higgins and he is saying that birds are moving north to find the conditions they need to survive. they are impacted by warmer temperatures among other things and we are seeing bird communities around us shuffling because of the things we have seen. the distribution is shifting

at a pace of about three or four kilometres a year and these impacts are real. what the curlews need are a fighting chance. phd student leah is working on a plan. this is what the coalface of curlew conservation looks like. i am measuring the soil and this is because curlew probe it to find their insects and worms they feed off so i look to see how hard the soil is because if it is too dry they will not get in to feed. so this is basically a curlew. so what is here for curlew to feed on? turns out, not much.

so you lose a key part of a dinner for the curlew. this will help another bird charity, rspb, work with farmers to restore a part to make patches of land so it is more like this. packed with worms. if we can try to make the habitat as good as it can be for them in the face of climate change we give them a better chance to survive. and that is exactly what they have done west sussex, on a huge scale. once an intensive crop or dairy farm it now looks more like an african scrubland. an english safari, no lions but plenty of turtledoves. i do not think anyone would predict that we would get turtledoves back here. the conservationists and the owner work hard to make sure that the struggling species of all shapes and sizes could thrive.

it can offer food resource for a turtledove with tiny legs like that and then you have the other extreme of a stork with legs like that and they are both finding their niches here and all the food they need. 17 years ago, isabella and her husband, stopped draining their exhausted soil and quit their struggling farm and returned the land to nature. we are trying to bring back dynamism into the landscape and being very hands—off so you're letting nature perform and do its thing really. free—roaming animals like tamworth pigs and exmoor ponies keep trees and foliage from taking over and they spread seeds. we need to have breeding hotspots like this one so that our wildlife can be

resilient into the future. there are now a growing number of similar re—wilding projects across the country. nep and the other projects we have seen are helping to prop up threatened birds and other species in the face of a rapidly transforming world. but for how long? birds are incredible creatures. they are adaptable and resilient but only to a point. their sensitivity to changing habitats and changing weather and a changing climate sounds a warning to us all and we need to listen to that. that's it for tonight. hope you enjoyed the show. see you next week.

hello. it is a dry and settled today at the across most parts of the country. not everywhere. but quite a lot of blue sky and sunshine for the rest of the day. this is the picture in aberdeenshire at the moment. there weather and cloud drifting around at the moment with more cloud building this afternoon. sunny spells and most of us staying dry with light winds. some weather fronts are bringing in some range of the north west. for the great north run today it is looking great. 16 degrees and dry with a light breeze so degrees and dry with a light breeze so not too hot for the runners and spectators. we have a warm front pushing across parts of scotland and into northern ireland and some cloud as well. a cold front working in tonight bringing a soggy start to

tomorrow. the rest of today there is a lot of dry weather out there. england, wales and the rest of northern scotland seeing beautiful dry spells are just the odd shower around east anglia and possibly north wales. some rain into northern ireland and scotland later on. in the sunshine, 1a to 19 will feel pleasa nt the sunshine, 1a to 19 will feel pleasant with light winds as well. we keep the largely dry theme into the evening but overnight the rain in the west moves into the uk. northern ireland, scotland and western parts of england and wales seeing a soggy start to the morning. further east we have clearer skies with temperatures down to five or six but not as cold as last night. monday dominated by this weather fronts that is moving in from the west. it looks like it. for a while over the uk, probably bringing the heaviest rain for south—west england and wales and also northern england and wales and also northern england and scotland seeing some of the rain. it is clearfrom northern ireland with a return to sunny

spells later on and eastern england might be dry for a good part of the day. it all that cloud and outbreaks of rain and the breeze picking up from the west, it will not feel very warm. 1a to 17 perhaps. an autumnal feel to the weather on monday. an u nsettled feel to the weather on monday. an unsettled theme through the week ahead. we have the remnants of ex—hurricane dorian. this low pressure is moving up towards iceland and the tail end of that could bring wet and windy weather to the uk especially during the day on wednesday. it looks like we are likely to see dry and warmer weather, particularly the further south you are, as we look toward the end of the week. you can find a full forecast on our website.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 11am. after her resignation from the cabinet and the conservative party — amber rudd attacks borisjohnson‘s handling of brexit. it's a combination of the fact that there is not enough work going into actually getting a deal which i think is not want to take back what the prime minister signed up to do. and secondly, the expulsion of 21 of my colleagues who are good, moderate conservatives. moderate conservatives. she'll be replaced as work and pensions secretary by therese coffey, mp for suffolk coastal. business secretary, andrea leadsom, says the conservatives will break with precedent and field a candidate against the commons speaker, john bercow, at the next election. peace talks between the taliban and the us are called off —