aberdeen way, 22, possibly 2a degrees and a lot of dry weather for communication satellites and cause power failures here on earth. solar orbiter's journey isjust beginning. now it will start to fly even closer to the sun. 00:00:27,152 --> 2147483051:36:58,291 scientists say today's images 2147483051:36:58,291 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 are just a hint of what's to the rest of scotland. northern ireland, glimpses of sunshine, of wales, eventually clearing northern ireland. behind it things are fresher, even muggy are perhaps towards central and southern parts and a glimpse of sunshine, 2a—25 could well be yours. it is the same weather front as far ahead as i take you into saturday whereby this stage

it's straddling the heart of the british isles to the south, it's still close, a bit of early sunshine but you may be robbed by that is the front come down from the north with the odd piece of rain on it. to the north of that it's a much fresher field, a better chance of some sunshine and there will be some sprinkling some showers on a noticeable breeze across the north—western quarter of scotland. it's not until the early part of sunday where we eventually elbow aside the muggy weather that you will have enjoyed across the south over the past two or three days by this stage, off it goes. eventually the sun comes out in the south and then we are all in this fresher regime forget 25 or 26, its teams to the low 20s but at least it's dry if you are out and about. a reminder of our top story... judges rule a woman who went to syria as a schoolgirl to join the islamic state group should be allowed to return to the uk to challenge the removal of her british citizenship. that's all from the bbc news at one.

in the past hour the foreign secretary dominic raab had announced that it's almost certain that what he called russian actors sought to interfere in last year's general election. that's all from the bbc news that one. it's goodbye from me. good afternoon. it's 1:30pm, and here's your latest sports news. play in england's second test against the west indies, at emirates old trafford, is under way — more on that in a moment — but we won't be seeing jofra archer in action. the england bowler‘s been dropped because he broke bio—secure rules by going home to brighton in between the first test in southampton and this match. england only found out about the incident last night. he's now in self—isolation for five days and will undergo two covid—i9 tests — which must come back negative before he can rejoin the squad.

in a statement, archer admits his actions put himself, his teammates and management in danger. he says he accepts his punishment, and has apologised for what he's done. he adds that it "deeply pains" him to be missing the match, and he says he's let both teams down. one thing that surprised me about this is that there is such a strict level of mild security, so why when the players transported by a bus altogether. maybe there's some type of facility is legal for them to go to the toilet if they want to. but for all of this level of security, why players were allowed to drive themselves, i do find a bit surprising. as for the second test — england lost the toss and they've been put into bat. rory burns dismissed

by roston chase lbw for 15. if the west indies win at this, they will have won their first series in england since 1988. england captain owen farrell will remain at saracens, despite their relegation from the premiership for breaking salary cap rules. farrell's won five premiership titles and three european champions cups since his saracens debut 12 years ago. he's made 199 appearances in all, plus 83 for england. world number one golfer, rory mcilroy, admits playing the sport without fans is impacting his game. he's played three events in the past few weeks in the usa — but failed to break into the top ten at any of them. later, he tees off alongside tiger woods at the memorial tournament. it's very hard for me to keep focus out here. you know, i feel like, when there's fans and there's that energy and the atmosphere, it's easy to get into that mind set that you need to get into. like, that's what we're used to, that's what we do. but when you don't have that,

i felt the first three weeks, my mind was wandering a little bit, sort of easy to lose focus, easy to lost concentration. i think some of the mistakes that i was making was because of that. british gymnastics says its stepping aside from an inuiry into widespread allegations of bullying and abuse to remove any doubt over the integrity of the process. uk sport and sport england will not co—commission the independent review. several gymnasts have came forward in recent days, outlining mistreatement. a confidential helpline‘s been set up for british who say they need support — — it'll be run by the british athletes commission and the charity, the nspcc. formula one continues this weekend as racing moves to hungary. lewis hamilton won the last race and is six points behind his mercedes team mate valtteri bottas in the standings.. valtteri bottas in the standings. hamilton's won six world titles — and isjust one behind michael schumacher‘s all time record. former champion alain

prost had this to say when he was asked how many titles he thinks hamilton could go on to win. i would say eight, easy. i cannot see anybody winning this year. maybe about about tasks, because he is very it depends on how many races he mrs. i cannot see another car winning against mercedes. and, finally, a football line to bring you — let's hear some more now from the scottish education secretaryjohn swinney, who laid out the new rules for children and teachers going back

to school in scotland. i would like to express my thanks to teachers, parents and children for their engagement teachers, parents and children for theirengagement in teachers, parents and children for their engagement in learning over their engagement in learning over the period of lockdown. i know it's beena the period of lockdown. i know it's been a tough and demanding time, and i'm grateful to everyone for their extraordinary efforts that have been put in place to support our children and young people. i would also like to extend my thanks to the outstanding child care staff of scotland. the in and day out, you work incredibly hard, providing a loving and nurturing environment thatis loving and nurturing environment that is a fine addition for a positive future for our young children. childcare has carried on during the pandemic. key worker childcare was at the heart of keeping scotland going during lockdown, without it, scotland could not have responded to the pandemic the way that we did. i extend my warmest thanks to you for your efforts. in phase one of the relaxation of lockdown, all childminders and fully outdoor childcare provision were able to reopen for supper last week, it was announced that from the 10th of

july, informal child care and the use july, informal child care and the use of nannies could resume. from yesterday, all indoor learning and child care settings were able to open. looking ahead, i expect childcare settings will reopen and childcare settings will reopen and childcare settings will reopen and childcare settings were able to open. looking ahead, i expect childcare settings will reopen outline with skills in x1. this will be welcome news to parents, families, the childcare care workforce and most importantly, children. it is important to remember this reopening is not a return to normal. childcare will look and feel a bit different. some public— health restrictions will remain in place at that time. these are about giving children, staff, parents and the wider community safe. at their heart, is the need to reduce the overall number of contacts that we each have an order that we can suppress the virus. we haveissued that we can suppress the virus. we have issued guidance for the safety reopening of early learning and childcare, and childcare services that was created in collaboration

with the sector. this approach means that providers have had to adapt their approach. it will have had an impact on how many children can attend a setting and maiming settings have to spend money to reopen safely. i want to make clear that i do not want to keep these restrictions in place any longer than is necessary. i am pleased therefore to say that we have now received further scientific advice oi'i received further scientific advice on these issues, and we will be developing fresh guidance. if the widest continues to be suppressed, if we stay on track, then we can start to ease these restrictions. the fact if the virus continues to be suppressed up we will work of the early learning childcare sector to issue guidance by the end ofjuly to ta ke effe ct issue guidance by the end ofjuly to take effect in august. this will not bea take effect in august. this will not be a return to normal childcare operations, but we now expect at the bubbles model that restricts children to small groups will not be needed. we will be able to easily complete ban on mixing or blending

different types of czechia, such as childminding and nurseries. i hope this will be welcome news for the sector and parents. —— different types of childcare. i know it has been difficult for the private sector during covid—19, i know that the transition to a new way of working, increase cleaning, additional equipment, developing outdoor space and adaptation to support the physical distancing of adults, will all make more financial pressure. the childcare sector is essential to our economic recovery, lam essential to our economic recovery, i am therefore announcing that we will create a transitional fund for the childcare sector to the value of {11.2 million to financially support the reopening of childcare services. lam also the reopening of childcare services. i am also delighted to announce that any work full support fund for childminders is opening for applications. it will see the scottish government and the scottish childminding association jointly provide grants to childminders to help them adapt to the reality of

the virus. turning to schools, work is ongoing to plan for the safe resumption of full—time schooling for all pupils in august. this morning we have published the scientific advice that will inform the approach that is taken to plan for this the approach that is taken to plan forthis aim. the approach that is taken to plan for this aim. this advice remains conditional on general community factors, such as reductions in infection rates, confidence and surveillance measures, and a process for handling local outbreaks— all of which will be informed by the advice of the covid—19 advisory group on education and children's issues. the advice we have now received however sets out that no physical distancing is required between children and young people in primary and secondary schools. the advice also states that school transport, dedicated services such as school buses, also do not need to have physical distancing within them as long as infection rates remain low. we will continue to work with

councils, professional bodies, trade unions and parents to develop the guidance that schools need to successfully reopen next month. subject to parliament's agreement, i plan to make a further statement to parliament next week on this vital component. the chancellor of the exchequer rishi sunak visited ajob centre plus in london this morning and gave his reaction the unemployment figures released this morning. we announced last week i plan for jobs worth up to £30 billion, we said very clearly the exact costings for those will come in due course, but that is a company supplying a pretence, and creates jobs across the country. we are seeing part of that plan in action today here, we are doubling the number of work coaches this year, that is new, incremental activity. our other initiatives will make a difference, for example, the kick—start scheme, a new project to help the youngest and our society most at risk of long—term unemployment. these are new initiatives with new funding, andi

new initiatives with new funding, and i do believe they will make a difference for what will be a difficult time ahead. )the health secretary, matt hancock, is expectd to make a statement in the house of commons at five o'clock this afternoon. the statement is expected to be about the local lockdown in leicester. we'll be carrying that live here on the bbc news. there appear to be fresh tensions between the white house and america's top infectious diseases expert, anthony fauci. dr fauci, a key figure in the white house coronavirus task force, has given an interview to the magazine — the atlantic. in it, a journalist asks: "you are the government's top health adviser, and the government you're trying to advise is actively trying to discredit you. how do you work like that?" doctor fauci responds, "well, that is a bit bizarre. "i sit here and just shrug my shoulders and say, "well, you know, that's life in the fast lane." dr fauci has been the head of the governmental agency the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases for over 35

years, working under six different presidents. on wednesday, president trump was asked for his view on doctor fauci. we're all on the same team, including dr fauci. i have a very good relationship with dr fauci. and we're all on the same team. we want to get rid of this mess that china sent us. so, everybody‘s working on the same line and we're doing very well. we're doing well in a lot of ways and our country's coming back very strong. when you look at those job numbers — we've never had job numbers like we have right now. so it's coming back very strong. laura podesta — from the us network, cbs — told us that dr fauci is alleging that the white house is conducting a smear campaign against him he is accusing them, and rightly so, of a sort of smear campaign and attack on his credibility which he is calling, quote, "bizarre". as you mentioned, the present's top adviser, peter navarro, he published a scathing op—ed in usa today and said that fauci was wrong

on the benefits of mask wearing. he's been wrong on nearly everything, navarro says, that fauci's ever told him. and he also believes that fauci was wrong in closing the borders in order to prevent the spread of the pandemic here in the us. in that interview with the atlantic, fauci said that, you know, he really didn't have a comment on navarro, but that, quote, "navarro is in a world by himself, so i won't go there." police are scrapping controversial forms which warn victims of crimes — including rape — that their cases might be dropped if they don't hand over mobile phones to officers. the so—called "digital consent forms" asked victims for permission to view data — including messages, photographs, emails and social media accounts. police are now reviewing what could replace it. victims' groups say the policy — introduced last year by forces in england and wales after a series

of cases collapsed due to disclosure failings — amounts to a "digital strip search." scientists say they've found "unequivocal evidence of the impact of climate change on the planet." a record—breaking heatwave in siberia over the past six months has seen temperatures in the arctic circle reach as high as 38 degrees celsius — and five degrees above the average for the region. a team of scientists led by the uk met office say the average temperatures would have been "almost impossible without man—made global warming". professor martin siegert is co—director of the grantham institute for climate change at imperial college london — he explained to my colleague, annita mcveigh, what's been happening. the arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet. we've experienced about one celsius of warming since 1850 and that's due to humans putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. but the article is warming at twice that rate so we now have 2 degrees, more than two degrees warming in the arctic.

is this one of the strongest pieces of evidence that you've ever seen for man—made climate change? certainly, people i've spoken to when we found out about the weather event in the arctic, were immediately linking it to climate change because it's so unusual, it's so extreme. but of course, having a hunch is not good enough, what the people in the met office have done is crunch the numbers and demonstrate it is virtually impossible to get this type of heating without the level of co2 in the atmosphere that it is right now. it's incredibly striking that this period of high temperatures lasted for six months? indeed, that's what makes it particularly frightening, it's notjust a short—term event, this is something that's gone on for an extended period in time. the arctic is a fragile place and if we change it, and we will all see the effects of that. it's a real problem for us, we are very close to the arctic in the united kingdom, we are the most northerly non—arctic state, when you look

at your weather map on the bbc, just above the screen, that's in the art, when conditions that's in the arctic, when conditions change their we should expect our conditions to change also. which leads me to my next point about the consequences of this warming in the arctic for the rest of the world and more specifically, the uk. we know we've had extreme weather events before, linked to conditions in the arctic. the "beast from the east" people remember from a few years ago, very cold arctic air it moved southwards and then westwards across us for several weeks and people will remember storms earlier this year, but also a few years ago where a blocking height situation in the arctic caused a storm after storm after storm to come over us and not go further north. so we know that we are affected by the situation in the arctic. what we are less certain of is precisely how a changing arctic will affect us. it stands to reason that it will, but in fairness,

we don't know the details of how a changing arctic, which we know it's happening, is going to change us. it's a big gap in our knowledge at the moment. and it's something we think the uk has a strategic need to find out about. because in the arctic, in this biome, you have the permafrost which traps a lot of greenhouse gases. if that is affected, it melts, we can all do the equation, can't we? indeed, the methane that would be released from permafrost is a potent greenhouse gas and that will do a lot of damage but it's more serious, even, we know the arctic sea ice, the very thin layer of sea ice across the arctic ocean is reducing at something like 4% a year and has been since we have been able to measure, since the 19705, and that's really important. at the moment it is a reflective white surface, the sun's energy simply bounces back into space, reflecting off the surface but if it melts its replaced by a dark service, absorbing surface

of the more sea ice we lose, the more the arctic heats up and it's a feedback process, that takes into account. but there's another reason that's important, the arctic sea ice is essentially a lid on the arctic ocean from the winds above it. you think about the north sea, you have waves generated and the winds whip up the ocean, that doesn't really happen in the arctic because of this very thin layer of ice acting as a lead thin layer of ice acting as a lid but of course, if that is removed, as it is slowly becoming removed, you start to mobilise the water masses in the arctic and the frightening thing, there is a lot of warm water in the arctic ocean, 100 metres or so beneath the surface and it starts to get whipped up, coming to the surface, we will see a lot more warming. eu leaders are meeting for a summit in brussels this week to try to work out a common response to the economic damage from coronavirus. significant differences among member states remain on key issues, including whether the recovery fund will be based on loans or outright grants to those in need. it's the issue holding up the deal.

the so—called frugal countries, the netherlands, austria, denmark and sweden, say the fund should be used to issue loans, since grants would have to be repaid by all eu taxpayers. bethany bell reports on the mood in austria. this man tends his vineyards in eastern austria. the lockdown here has eased in recent weeks, but he has lost half his yearly income. he says it is important for austria to help other eu countries, but he says they should be given loans, not grants. people will say, why, we are working so hard, nobody is giving us money, we have been working so hard, we have our children, we have our next generation. we will help, but they should give us the money back. not tomorrow, but there should be a plan that the people who got the money, they have to pay back. he says he supports the tough position taken by the austrian chancellor sebastien kurtz in negotiating the eu's

recovery fund. sebastien kurtz is doing well in the opinion polls and his message about being careful with austrian taxpayers money and bargaining hard with the eu is popular. but observers here say there will be a deal. the austrian government knows that in the end europe is about compromise and that there will be a compromise. that is how europe works. it is easy for them to be tough in negotiations and then come home with a victory, because in the end they know there will be a compromise, which will be also beneficial for them. other austrians say that sebastien kurtz‘s rhetoric is too hardline and nationalist. this translator says austria should show more solidarity. i think it is populist and egotistical and, frankly, a quite stupid position, because austria, while being a rich country, is dependent on its neighbours and the eu and the euro and it is a common currency and we should finance countries together.

he said he is preparing to go to italy to train a winemaking business there. many here realise that help is needed throughout europe, but when it comes to money, the devil is always in the details. bethany bell, bbc news, in eastern austria. a ceremony has been taking place in the spanish capital, madrid, to remember the country's 28,00 victims of the coronavirus pandemic. the royalfamily and political leaders — all wearing face masks — attended the memorial at the royal palace, accompanied by senior world health organization figures. spain's king felipe vi paid this tribute to those who had lost their lives and the families left behind. translation: i would like to start by remembering those who have passed away, and i would like to share our condolences, deep and sincere condolences, with them.

i would like to share with them our affection and great emotion. they are not alone in their pain — it is a pain that we share. their mourning is our own. and here it is visible before all the spanish people, this is pain and mourning that we all recognise ourselves in. now it's time for a look at the weather with phil avery. hello once again. at its best, there really hasn't been too much wrong. we see a lot of dry weather across the british isles, but a lot of cloud as well. the favoured few have seen some brightness, particularly so to the eastern side of scotland, parts of the eastern side of england too. come further south, it comes to something when the bright spot on the south coast is the beach hut on the hastings seafront. the reason for all the cloud is a moist flow trapped between two weather fronts. a cold front closing

in on the north—west quarter of scotland as we get into the latter part of the evening and during the course of the night. further south, the odd gap in the cloud, a lot of dry weather to be had across england and wales. as you will see from the temperatures, it is every bit as close as it was last night, with some of the temperatures never lower than 1a, 15, perhaps even 16. that weather front is slowly easing its way down and across scotland as we start the new day on friday. eventually the rain transferring across the border into the north—west of england and north—western wales. following on behind the weather front, at least things turn a good deal brighter for the north—western quarter of scotland, but there will be quite a significant breeze as well, so 15 degrees or so in fort william. the rain eventually pushes through northern ireland, but probably not getting away until about tea—time from those eastern shores. it gets across the irish sea into anglesey around the same time. further south than that, a lot of cloud to be had, but it won't stop the temperatures,

getting up to around 2a or 25. the same weather front is still a nuisance across the heart of the british isles as far ahead as saturday. saturday itself is a game of two halves — where we have the brighter, fresher weather, with some showers up and across the north and west of the british isles, then the weather front slowly easing its way further south, so robbing you of a wee bit of sunshine perhaps down across the southern midlands, east anglia and the south—east later on in the day. the last of the really mild air associated with the front and ahead of it eventually being elbowed off into the near continent. as we get on into sunday, there is something a bit cooler and fresherfollowing on behind. but a better chance if you were stuck under the weather front on saturday of seeing some sunshine on sunday. some cloud will bubble up, there will be some showers on the western side of scotland. temperatures just feeling that tad fresher, with a high of 21.

the harsh toll of the lockdown onjobs — new uk figures show the number of people on company payrolls fell by nearly 650 thousand between march and june. england bowler jofra archer is dropped from the team for the second test against the west indies — for breaching coronavirus rules.