this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the rivals for the white house clash about what's behind america's devastating wildfires. when you have years of leaves, dried leaves on the ground, itjust sets it up. it's really a fuel for a fire. to give a climate arsonist four more years the white house, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of america ablaze? borisjohnson‘s conservatives win the first vote in their the battle over the new uk internal market bill. american software giant oracle confirms it wants a partnership with the china's tiktok. and life on venus? we'll tell you about the discovery that's making astronomers excited.

hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world — and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. president trump and his rival joe biden have clashed over global warming as america's west coast is riven by wildfires. mr biden called the president a ‘climate arsonist‘ who would leave america ablaze if he was re—elected. but visiting california, donald trump said it would "start getting cooler‘ and blamed ‘poor forest management‘ for the fires. our correspondent aleem maqbool has the latest from oregon. it was like a journey into an eerie twilight zone. few have been allowed here since the fires swept in with such rage. and though most people had scrambled

to get out with whatever they could, it was in this area that lives had also been lost. there was some we found wandering and bewildered like larry. i lost everything except what‘s in that bag. everything. and i didn‘t have insurance. out of all the homes had insurance except for me. what made these fires so lethal and record—breaking is the high winds that came with them, accelerating their frightening, destructive passage through vast areas of this state. we keep hearing from those who said they felt they were fleeing for their lives, and it‘s only when you‘re on the ground and you see the destruction as we‘ve been able to and the warped landscape here, that you start to get a sense of the nightmare that they were running from. donald trump has been called the climate arsonist by his political opponentjoe biden. democratic governors of the states

affected say it‘s the fault on a visit to california to be briefed on the fire is the president himself said the blame lay elsewhere. this is one of the biggest burns we have ever seen and we have to do a lot about forest management. obviously forest management in california is very important. there has to be good, strong forest management which i've been talking about for three years with the state, so hopefully they'll start doing that. this family has just been thinking of survival. we found them in a displacement camp. they have now fled fires three times in three different locations in the past week. my mom had ten minutes to get out of her place and she got the clothes on her back and the cat and that was it, and her house is completely annihilated. it wiped out everything she owned. you know, and that's what we heard was the same with ours. we're not sure as of right now.

it was summerstown that i‘d visited earlier. the signs aren‘t good. for all the politics at the heart of this disaster are hundreds of thousands of americans who have faced fear, displacement and loss. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in gates in oregon. as we said, joe biden has condemned president trump refusal to acknowledge the role of climate change in the fires. this is what he had to say: if we have four more years of trump's climate denial how many suburbs will be burned in wildfires? how many suburban neighbourhoods will have been flooded out? how many suburbs will have been blown away in super storms? if you give a climate arsonist four more years in the white house, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of america ablaze? chris dicus is a professor of fire management at

california polytechnic state university. hejoins me from san luis obispo, north of los angeles. thank you forjoining us. how much truth is there in president trump‘s claim that these fires are at least in part down to court for stream management? what we have seen it's much work obligated in the simple sound bites that our politicians are coming outwith. there is an amalgamation of a lot of different things at the same time, climate change is playing part of it, lack of forest management is part of it and another is we just got absolutely overwhelmed. a lightning storm that thousands of lightning strikes all across our state and normally we don‘t have rain, we have not had rain for six months and all these factors are coming together to see the horrific pictures that you‘re seeing now. see the horrific pictures that

you're seeing now. climate change compounding the issue but what has changed over time and how these forests are managed because historically if you go back even 100 yea rs historically if you go back even 100 years ago the landscape with the com pletely years ago the landscape with the completely different. historically in the western us many of our indigenous peoples let fires as a way to just help manage land. we took that away from them and we also got really, really good at putting out fires when they were small. almost imperceptibly the forest has changed over the last 100 years where you have all of the small trees that would normally be taken up trees that would normally be taken up by trees that would normally be taken up by small fires growing up into what we call fuels and dumping all this portable vegetation onto the forest floor. 40 million people live in california, how realistic is it to think you can go back to having these small but prescribed fires as pa rt these small but prescribed fires as part of the management system?-

present it‘s almost impossible because we just have hundreds of thousands of hectares that are overgrown at this point. and we can do different settings or prescribed fires, but the fittings are very expensive because it‘s very small diameter materials that difficult to get off the forest and at the same time it‘s very difficult to prescribed fire. it‘s too dangerous 110w prescribed fire. it‘s too dangerous now and even if we dig a situation to come through the smoke goes uninvited and can travel hundreds of miles and impact people especially with impaired breathing. professor fire management at california polytechnic university, thank you for sharing extra time. in the last hour, the british government has won the initial vote on new brexit legislation. the internal market bill is controversial because it could breach parts of a divorce agreement with the european union. order. the ayes to the right 340,

the noes to the left 263. let‘s cross live to westminster and our political correspondentjessica parker. as with many brexit issues, this is rather complicated. can you briefly unpick it? yes it's a bit of a complicated one, but it goes back to the withdrawal agreement with the divorce settlement to the eu and the uk signed off on earlier this year. but borisjohnson, uk signed off on earlier this year. but boris johnson, the uk signed off on earlier this year. but borisjohnson, the prime minister says he‘s worried that extreme interpretations of that agreement could damage the integrity of the uk, the internal market, the movement of goods between all four nations and be a problem for the northern ireland peace process. that‘s his arguments of the government has put forward some legislation that could potentially give powers to override parts of that treaty in order to protect those elements that they say they

are worried about. a lot of people are worried about. a lot of people are crying foul over this, some people see it as a sabre rattling as the uk engages in trade talks, future trade talks with the eu. they think that northern ireland is being used as a political football by this government, some even suspect number ten ofjust government, some even suspect number ten of just try to blow government, some even suspect number ten ofjust try to blow up the talks altogether. both sides insist they wa nt to altogether. both sides insist they want to reach a deal over future trade, future cooperation but with this internal market bill it‘s proving pretty controversial moving through the comments. a big cloud hanging over those trade talks which have not gone long left to run. but the government did get the bill through this vote despite the fact that there were quite a lot of well—known leading conservatives, pa rt well—known leading conservatives, part of the governing party who were opposed to it. how did they manage it? what's important to note is the stage at which this legislation is going through the house of commons. tonight it passed what‘s called the second reading. which is a vote of

the principal of the bill, that will move on to later stages where amendments can be flung at the bell, those can be debated and voted on as well. i think quite a lot of conservative mps who do have concerns, and not all of the markets the government by any stretch of the imagination, as has been proved by ten nights vote, but those of their that do have concerns perhaps a sense that they might hold fire a little bit trying to get the government to move on their position, bob o‘neill a conservative mp that said there would be a distinct separate parliamentary votes on this legislation down the line. we will see how much support that goners. even the powder dry a little bit in terms of rebelling and try and fix a little bit later. the other thing to mention they are

fairly confident they could get the bill through the comments but could face resistance in the house of lords. we‘ve heard very senior conservative brexit supporters like lord howard the former conservative leader raised his concerns, and interestingly the prime minister has been speaking with tory peers this evening to try and assuage their concerns. done so evening to try and assuage their concerns. done so well at making that somewhat more palatable. thank you so much. let 5 get some of the day‘s other news. the poisoned russian opposition leader, alexei navalny, can now get out of bed, according to the berlin hospital treating him. he collapsed on a flight from siberia last month, and tests show he was poisoned with the nerve agent novichok. his supporters say he was poisoned on the orders of president vladimir putin — the kremlin denies any involvement. russian president vladmir putin has pledged 1.5 billion dollars in loans to belarus. mr putin made the offer during a sit—down with the president of belarus, alexander lukashenka, in the southern

russian city of sochi. it was their first meeting since mass protests broke out over last month‘s disputed presidential elections. mr putin also said he has a russian police force ready to intervene if the demonstrations get out of control. it‘s the question that‘s always asked — about the possibility of life beyond earth. well — a team of international astronomers have detected traces of a "gas" in the atmosphere of venus — that they believe, could be produced, by microbes in the planet‘s cloud. they say, that there could be another explanation for the presence of the gas — but so far, they haven‘t come up with an alternative theory. here‘s our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. venus. could it be home to extra terrestrial life? there‘s new evidence that it might be. astronomers have discovered a gas called phosphine in the planet‘s atmosphere.

they think it could have been produced by tiny microbes living in the clouds. i was really surprised, i was pretty shocked as well, and, at first, i didn‘t quite believe the detection, ijust couldn‘t believe that we‘d found it but then once we‘d set out and independently detected it through another telescope, that‘s when i knew we really had a solid detection of phosphine through two telescopes and that it was real. the discovery was confirmed by the alma telescope in the mountains of the atacama desert in chile. it is one of the most powerful arrays on earth. the discovery of life on another world would be one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever made, but the researchers aren‘t making that claim. at least, not yet. the discovery of life on another world would be one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever made, but the researchers aren‘t making that claim. at least, not yet. the gas could have been produced by some other means,

but its presence on venus is still a sensational finding. it‘s the strongest evidence that astronomers have ever had for the existence of alien life. but the big problem is that venus is hostile to life. a soviet spacecraft landing in 1982 confirmed scorching temperatures, and we have tried whether it‘s puffed up by volcanoes or having a chemical reaction none of those things work. we're excited because phosphine is really distinctive commits of we know life can make and we know other mechanisms cannot make on venus. but the big problem is that venus is hostile to life. a soviet spacecraft landing in 1982 confirmed scorching temperatures, up to 460 degrees celsius, and clouds of concentrated sulphuric acid, able to disintegrate any living thing in seconds. but some think that, even here, life could be possible.

there is a habitable zone, a range of altitudes, on venus where it is not too hot and not too acidic, that life that we understand here on earth, so called extremophile life, extremely hardy survival superhero type cells, could survive that environment in the venusian clouds. many scientists still think that the conditions on the planet are too harsh to support life and that there is another explanation for the presence of the gas, but, at this stage, it‘s hard to completely rule out the possibility that alien life might exist on one of our nearest planets. pallab ghosh, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come. together but apart. the new exhibition of uk photos — showing a slice of lockdown life goes on show at

the national portrait gallery. 30 hours after the earthquake that devastated mexico city, rescue teams still have no idea just how many people have died. one day there is people alive, and there is people not alive. we just can help and give whatever we got. a state funeral has been held for princess grace of monaco at the church where she married prince rene 26 years ago. it looked as though they had come to fight a war but their mission is to bring peace to east timor, and nowhere on earth needs it more badly. the government‘s case is being forcefully presented by monsieur badinter, the justice minister. he‘s campaigned vigorously for abolition having once witnessed one of his clients being executed. bells ring elizabeth seton spent much of her time at this grotto and every year, hundreds of pilgrimages are made here. now that she's become a saint, it's expected that this area will be

inundated with tourists. the mayor and local businessmen regard the anticipated boom as yet another blessing of saint elizabeth. this is bbc news, the latest headlines. the rivals for the white house clash about what‘s behind america‘s devastating wildfires. borisjohnson‘s conservatives win the first vote in their the battle over the new uk internal market bill. much of china has returned to a more normal pace of life after authorities began relaxing coronavirus lockdowns in late spring. but as many cities have found out, loosened containment measures can be short—lived. in june, beijing experienced a sudden surge of cases linked to a wholesale market leading authorities to immediately quarantine close contacts, lockdown nearby areas, and mass test residents.

the bbc‘s china correspondent stephen mcdonell explores the new "normal" in beijing, which has gone in and out of lockdown. anyone who has been to beijing and has had a look around this area of the city would not recognise this intersection. this is more like to beijing we are you still. plenty of life, and it‘s actually a bit hard to cross the road sometimes. when you talk to most people here there is an overwhelming feeling that the emergency is over.

and if you look around the city and see how bustling is becoming again, there‘s every reason to believe that that is in fact true. so, lessons. until we get vaccines, there‘s no killing the coronavirus, so don‘t take any recovery for granted. the authorities here are getting

pretty good at managing these outbreaks with targeted community control measures and mass testing. so for many is just a matter of accepting life as it is and getting on with it until we can all find a way out the other end. the american software giant, oracle, has confirmed it wants a technology partnership with the chinese—owned video—sharing app, tiktok. time was ticking down for the chinese—owned firm after president donald trump threatened to ban the popular video app unless its american operations were sold. tiktok is just the latest flash point between washington and beijing over the control of technology. the trump administration says chinese ownership poses a threat to national security. joining us in singapore for more on the us—china tech war is frank lavin, a former us undersecretary of commerce under president george w bush.

thank you very much forjoining us. how much merit is there in the united states being so hostile towards china over these tech matters? i think there is enormous concern on at least two fronts, any security find there is the concern that applications like tik tok or cubbies likewise way collect a lot of data and that could be used for other purposes. it‘s difficult to evaluate the full validity of the charge but i think skepticism or suspicion is warranted. do you want a foreign power without degree of insider control or awareness of your population? i think it‘s not a bad starting point for a question, and you don‘t want to find out the hard way, there were to put them everywhere and find out three years from there there‘s actually material that‘s going back to a, china which you wish was not going back to

china. have to act in a precautionary fashion to use the eu phrase. thank you. how likely is that though that china would retaliate? because they do have history, don‘t they, of 1—upsmanship. history, don‘t they, of 1-upsmanship. i think we have to expect some kind of response from china, not immediate, they might wa nt to china, not immediate, they might want to wait until the us elections are over because donald trump is also shown he does not have a problem with escalating conflict either. i wants surprised us firms. you ssestskhe you % done