The uk has recorded its second hottest day ever, with temperatures reaching over 38 degrees in cambridge. Forecasters are warning the heat could lead to heavy rain in some areas. Now on bbc news live to singapore for Asia Business report. Prime push heads and was on. It shares fall as earnings disappoint. And amazon and getting paid to play video games. We start with amazon as shares have fallen after its earnings disappointed investors. Revenues for the three month to the end ofjune came in at 63. 1; billion dollars. Up about 20 from a year ago, just over 2. 6 billion dollars was actually profit but the crux is it was less than expected. The company has been spending heavily, some 800 million alone in the past three months, to make one day delivery the norm but it is facing pressure of its size and power and facing an anti trust investigation as well as being probed in europe. Michelle flurry has more. The wave of record profits has more. The wave of record profits has a crested. By more than 3. 5 from a year ago but fell short of wall street expectations, worse still, the ecommerce giant want not to expect much improvement in the next quarter as it ramps up spending. Investors have been used to amazon the money making machine. They topped 10 billion for the first time. This was fuelled by the success first time. This was fuelled by the success of its Cloud Computing but its a services say cloud operations posted the slowest rate in more than five years raising questions about the continuing dominance in the field. Shipping costs alsojumped more than a third in part because amazon invested 800 million to make one day shipping the standard, instead of two days. The share price was quickly punished, folding news of its results. Staying with the tech giant. Shares Google Parent Company have left after trade. Quarterly revenue beat expectations. The 90 jump quarterly revenue beat expectations. The 90 jump in revenue helped ease concerns about short term growth challenges facing the company. Apple is buying chipmaker intel smartphone modem division. Theyve been used exclusively in iphones since last year. Intel shares have also risen after the outlook was raised. Starbuck shares are looking perky as well as the world s biggest coffee chains result wall street expectations. The 6 rise in Quarter Sales burst that earnings to almost 1. 1; billion. The sun shows of opened lower after it said it would cut 12,000 500 jobs around the world. Nissan. Net profits fell by almost 95 , one of the worst quarterly performances in a decade. Why were those results so bad . Was than expected. The ceo admitted so much 20 announced the 99 drop. It is really an implosion of sales in key markets such as the us. It used to be the profit engine for nissan but sales have of the cliff in recent yea rs. But sales have of the cliff in recent years. To what extent have all the scandals and allegations surrounding the former boss perhaps wade on sentiment . Wade. Surrounding the former boss perhaps wade on sentiment . Wadem surrounding the former boss perhaps wade on sentiment . Wade. It is not so much scandals but you see of philosophy between the two ceos. Carlos was pushing for volumes, buying volume with discounts and fleet sales and incentives that tended to undermine the brand value of nissan and undercut sales in the long term. The new ceo is trying to undo that by resisting the temptation to give incentives and fleet sales but in the meantime, volume is a dropping off because of that. Do you think the slowdown in sales for nissan is symptomatic perhaps of a global slowdown . Is it something other auto makers are dealing with . Nissan has its problems but it is fighting against the trend here. It is trying to undergo a tricky Structural Reform Programme at a time when the markets are not cooperating. It is much easier to do this when the markets are strong and expanding but right 110w are strong and expanding but right now were seeing a lot of softness in the us and china and if they should suddenly implode or go downward, it is going to make nissans restructuring efforts all the more difficult. The European Central bank has hinted it could cut Interest Rates to tackle a slowdown in the eurozone economy. A weak Manufacturing Sector and uncertainty about brexit and trade threatened to derail growth in the block. Markets have started to act in the face of a global slowdown with the us rate cut expected next week. The Global Economy is slowing and the eurozone is no exception. Trade tensions one of the major reasons why. European central which sets Interest Rates for the countries which use the hero is worrying. Its president mario draghi said things were getting worse and worse. Prolonged uncertainties related to geopolitical factors, uncertainties related to geopoliticalfactors, the rise of protectionism and vulnerabilities in emerging markets is dampening economic sentiment. Notably in the Manufacturing Sector. Interest rates have been kept on hold for now. They have been kept on hold for now. They have been kept on hold for now. They have been near zeros for years but it could change in september when the next policy meeting happens and another chance to simulate the resigning economy. The other option would be quantitative easing the total printing of money, for billion dollars has been pumped in since the Programme First began. Germanys factories are another major worry. Industrial production has been the slipping. Factories are worried about brexit and the ongoing uncertainty, as is the rest of the resigning, but also there are concerns about us tariffs on cars from the european union. Something we do not know whether it is going to happen or not. Earlier this week the imf cut its Global Forecast for growth and another body looking at it closely is the Us Central Bank which means next week to discuss Interest Rates and could well cut them for the first time in a decade. If youre thinking of a career switch, would you consider playing video games like the league of legends as a job . In brazil, is false and become so popular that professional teams do not just false and become so popular that professional teams do notjust train together but lived together with a whole lot of perks. Egames. Together but lived together with a whole lot of perks. Egames. We have already more than 100 employees to compete in these parts. And people that work in marketing and it. What we do is compete in games. In brazil, the players receive around 1000 10,000 but they increase more if they have promotion and their names and brands are bigger. In brazil. Around the world we have salaries that go to around 1 million per year. If you wish to be here, you have to be in the 0. 0 01 and Something Like 50 at most make it. It is a really good job but as many otherjobs, there are a lot of sacrifices. I left my family in another city. I miss them a lot. There are other sacrifices as well. You need to keep going, keep grinding, just to be on the top, you know. What an extraordinary thing, getting paid to play video games. That is extraordinary. Lets take a look at the market. Indicate taking its cues from wall street. Thats it for today. This is bbc news the top stories this hour scorching heat in europe, as the sweltering weather brings record breaking temperatures across the continent. The Usjustice Department has reinstated the policy to use Capital Punishment and schedules the executions of five federal inmates on death row. The nominations have been announced for this Years Mercury prize, for the best album by a british or irish artist. 0n the shortlist are bands including idles and the 1975 the singer songwriter anna calvi and the northampton rapper slow thai. Lizo mzimba reports. The Mercury Prize prides itself on recognising an impressive breadth of musical styles with its nominations. This year, there is the more commercial sound of the 1975. And the band foals. As well as the more reflective melodies of cate le bon. And ten piece jazz collective seed ensemble. Singer songwriter anna calvi has now been nominated for her first three albums, equalling coldplays record. It means the world for an artist like me, to kind of get your music out there, for other people to hear about you and to be among such amazing talent. Among much of that amazing talent there is a particular theme politics. Idles arent the first band to marry music and political protest. My blood brother is an immigrant. But theyve done it with a fresh power and energy. The whole point of us as a band is that were trying to articulate the personal and the political as the same thing. Everything isjust a heightened vision of welfare and well being in politics, and we just wanted to try and marry that and get people to kind of feel they have a voice, even through listening. Water it down like evian think that tyrons naive. While rapper slowthai has used his experiences growing up in northampton for his nominated album nothing great about britain. Im not trying to say i hate this country. I love this country, im proud. Ive got more pride in my heart for it than anything. Ijust feel weve lost value of what is important, and its community, and thats what im trying to do with this album. For artists who arent quite household names yet, like black midi or little simz, just the nomination can be a huge boost. Still, all 12 will be aiming to win in september. Lizo mzimba, bbc news. I will be listening to them all on the way home. Now on bbc news sport today. Hello, im Tulsen Tollett and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. Coming up on this programme Paula Creamer leads by a stroke after the first round of the penultimate womens major of the year, the evian championship in france. England battle back and lead by 181 runs heading into day three of the one off test match against ireland at lords. And Julian Alaphilippe closes in on becoming the first home rider to win the Tour De France since 1985. Hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with golf and the fourth womens major of the year, where Paula Creamer leads after the first round of the evian championship in france. She carded a seven under par round of 64 to lead by one shot from a group of four players that includes her fellow american brittany altomare, and kojin young, the winner of the years first major, the ana inspiration. Englands melissa reid is the leading european on five under par. The womens pga champion, australias hannah green, is eight off the lead at one over par but it was day to forget for the defending champion angela stanford