Attacked pro democracy activists last weekend. Good afternoon. The Prime Minister has pledged to fund a new high speed rail route between leeds and manchester. Borisjohnson says it will turbo charge the economy. It is thought the new route is part of the governments wider investment commitment to the north of england set to cost around £39 billion. But labour have cast doubt on the plan, saying mrjohnson failed to deliver on infrastructure when he was mayor of london. Tom barton reports. In manchester, theyre expanding the tram network, spending millions on improving public transport. But the new Prime Minister says he wants to go further, promising to build a fast railway line between this city and leeds, 35 miles away. I want to be the Prime Minister who does with Northern Powerhouse rail what we did for crossrail in london, and today, im going to deliver on my commitment to that vision with a pledge to fund the leeds to manchester route. But while local leaders have welcomed that promise, the chief executive for transport for the north told the Prime Minister that the proposed line doesnt go nearly far enough. We want to have liverpool, sheffield, hull and newcastle all getting the benefit, as well as leeds and manchester. Well, there you go, barry, 39 billion, a number to conjure with, i dare say. But youre absolutely right, barry, and youre writing your aspiration and we support that. Labour says todays announcement is just reheated promises, pointing out that improvements to Northern Rail services have been on the table for years. Jeremy corbyn, though, said he would go much further. When the government set up its powerhouse for the north, they had an office in whitehall to administer it. We are moving the treasury to the north, were moving an awful lot to the north, in order to ensure that that fairness of National Investment begins to be a reality. Both leaders are promising that they are the man to rebalance the british economy, as they target northern voters ahead of a possible election later this year. Tom barton, bbc news. With me is our political correspondent, jonathan blake. Just on this announcement, from the Prime Minister, we have heard it before from joyce was born when he was chancellor. What is it this time that gives this downing street confidence that this can be built and act as a catalyst . From george osborne. It comes down to whether you believe them or not because this is part of the bigger ambition to improve railings in the north of england and the north and south and this is between manchester and leeds and one for 85 mile or so section of that which Boris Johnson has committed to delivering and committed to funding. So who knows what will happen in the months and yea rs what will happen in the months and years ahead that this is a thing downing street would say part of the biggerfocus on downing street would say part of the bigger focus on producing downing street would say part of the biggerfocus on producing Economic Investment and towns across the uk, not just investment and towns across the uk, notjust in the north of england at that as part of let borisjohnson had to say with this new town find which would go towards transport projects and other things to reinvigorate areas which the Prime Minister today described as having been left behind and People Living in them feeling a certain helplessness about their prospects. But we should not lose sight of this that it but we should not lose sight of this thatitis but we should not lose sight of this that it is not a wholly new projects such as how much it will cost and when it will be delivered we will have to wait and see. They will get more details in the autumn. We have aby more details in the autumn. We have a by election coming up in wells in the next week and desperately hoping to hold onto that seat there but it looks like we may be in for another by election not long afterwards. And independent after having click the labour party over some trouble he got himself into shortly after taking his seat in the house of commons in 2017, you might have remembered it was a bed to make big election, it was nick cleggs seat and he was ousted by hand and he had and he was ousted by hand and he had a majority of a couple thousand or so, and a big win for labour but it was a short career in politics for omara who was initially suspended from labour and over comments he made online that were sexist and homophobic and he sat, he found himself in a attention for being absent for long periods of time and 110w absent for long periods of time and now his former chief of staff quit and dramatic fashion and he accused him of not being fair and his constituents and wasting opportunities and we have a Statement Today from omara saying he will resign as an mp when Parliament Comes back from its summer Parliament Comes back from its summer break in september and he says he is not well and is receiving medical help and it would not be right for him to continue and he has apologised again to his constituents. Thank you. Us President Donald Trump has said talks are under way to agree what he says will be a very substa ntial trade deal with the uk after brexit. Speaking after a phone call with the new Prime Minister yesterday, the president said borisjohnson would do a greatjob. Boris and i just spoke and boris and ijust spoke and i congratulated him and he is all set to go. He is going to do a great job. We are working already on a trade agreement and i think it will bea trade agreement and i think it will be a very substantial trade agreement. We can do with the uk, we can do three four times and we we re can do three four times and we were impeded by their relationship with european union. We were very much impeded on trade. That was the us president speaking to us correspondence yesterday. Lets talk to stephanie noel, an International Trade lawyer, who has advised governments at the world trade organisation. She joins us from in saint malo. Let me ask you first of all let you make of the president s remarked that this will be a very substantial trade deal that he can enact with the uk . Well, i thinkl have to tell you i was not surprised at all by this announcement and thinking that was expected. It was a few years ago, if you rememberand was expected. It was a few years ago, if you remember and as he said the uk was still in the european union, and try to negotiate a trade deal with the eu. Now we are heading to know deal, at least i think we are very close to the brexit date. And it is very likely there will not be any deal. Said there is i think nothing on the way now. So it is not surprising, also when it is talking about substantial agreements, i think that is the point is to include agriculture and also to get to some kind of regulatory harmonization or at least an agreement on regulatory measure is. On agriculture there will be a certain nervousness on the Farming Community about it let miami and what it might mean if the country was receiving exports from the United States, fresh and agricultural products. There has been discussion in the uk about whether the americans will insist we accept some of their product that we are not keen on light chlorine treated chickens. It is part of the negotiation, right so on one side you have the uk and on the other side the us so it is not made in the negotiation is not really balanced. The uk, if you negotiate as a block with the eu, you cannot become this, so with the eu, you cannot become this, so that means of some leverage but what can you do when the uk, if you give away this against what . In just a trade off, my understanding is the uk does not want to go that far. So it is just uk does not want to go that far. So it isjust a uk does not want to go that far. So it is just a matter of the negotiation. And so i do not know why, i really think that the uk should really think on this because my understanding is that many people think it isjust my understanding is that many people think it is just a very good solution to brexit and it will make up solution to brexit and it will make up the loss of the eu to have an agreement with the us but you know at the same time it depends on the terms of the agreement, what the uk has to gain from a trade agreement. Because as you know, it is a very large export market for the uk but it does not depend on what you mean by british exports to the us, what does the uk look for in terms of Market Access to the us because most exports now include components from the eu because it is very integrated in the market. In terms of the practicalities of that, presumably the negotiation can be quite fraught not least because of all the friendliness donald trump shows towards Boris Johnson friendliness donald trump shows towards borisjohnson and his country, as he always says his ambition is to make America Great again and america stronger and not necessarily to strengthen his bilateral partners. Exactly i think it is very offensive, the uk will no longer be in the eu, i think it is going to concentrate on products and exports that are actually distinct to you kate markets because so far you have a lot of export, to the uk that were not finished products in the uk it was sent to the uk to be further processed to be sent to other eu markets. And in certain sectors, so as i said this would be, the problem would be mostly agricultural products, best into the uk. So there will be negotiation but as you said most importantly, the rules, will be uk be willing to allow at . An intriguing question, thank you for talking to us. Britains thriving science sector would be put at risk by a no deal brexit. Thats the warning from the head of the Wellcome Trust the uks biggest charitable funder of scientific research. The trust spends around a billion pounds a year supporting research most of it in the uk. Katy austin has more. Jasimin is a scientist from germany, researching sex chromosomes at the Francis Crick institute in london. Shes not sure whether to stay in the uk, though, because the countrys leaving the eu. My feeling is that over the next 10, 20 years, if brexit actually happens, especially if it happens without a deal, which seems likely now, that uk science is on a decline, with regards to, yeah, funding opportunities, positions that are available, attractiveness of living here. You could see this place as a symbol of britains status as a science superpower europes largest Biomedical Research facility under one roof, with 1200 researchers working here from across the globe. The director here warns continued success relies on collaboration that he says is incompatible with a no deal brexit and notjust because millions of pounds in funding would be at risk. Its our reputation, its being able to attract people. Its making them feel comfortable here. All of this is injeopardy if we are turning our back on europe and saying, we dont really care about you. And what it will mean is, is we have to follow the rules and regulations that weve had no role or impact on in setting up ourselves. So, in fact, we lose power, we lose freedom, rather than gaining it. Now britains biggest science charity has written to the Prime Minister, praising his vision for a thriving science sector but describing no deal as a threat. Were already a science superpower, but there are some clouds on the horizon, which if we dont banish them, could erode that position. What we are anxious about is that the science that is done here goes on being excellent, and to do that it requires both more investment and support from the government, it also requires an immigration policy that welcomes to this country the best researchers in the world, and their families. In a statement, number 10 said the Prime Minister is committed to supporting the uk science sector, to take full advantage of opportunities outside of the eu, so it can offer the best environment for Cutting Edge Research and the best global talent. Katy austin, bbc news. Rail passengers between london st pancras and nottingham and sheffield have been urged not to travel, as disruption caused by hot weather continues and train conductors go on strike. The extreme heat earlier in the week damaged overhead line equipment, causing long delays. Train companies have told customers to expect a reduced service until monday. Police in hong kong have fired tear gas at an unauthorised protest involving thousands of demonstrators. The march was in response to attacks on pro democracy activists by armed masked men last week. Protests began seven weeks ago against a planned extradition law. Our china correspondent Stephen Mcdonnell was there. This violent day of street clashes has finally come to an end. The protesters were here in their thousands, tens of thousands, at the height, they have finally been pushed by riot police, block by block towards the train station and they have left. Behind me, i am sure you can see that the riot police are resting, sitting down, after a full day of battles with hardline protesters, throwing bricks and other projectiles at them. They have responded by firing rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, and itjust shows yet again that these protests are escalating in terms of the level of violence. A few weeks ago, we saw the odd projectile being thrown at the police, but today, there were a lot. Protesters came here geared up for battle. Some had home made shields, gas masks and helmets. They knew there was going to be a big series of clashes. The response has also been lots of tear gas coming back the other way. There is no sign of an end to this. We are in the second month of this political crisis, the protesters have expanded what they are calling for. Initially, they were demanding that this unpopular bill be withdrawn, allowing people to be extradited to mainland chinese courts controlled by the communist party. That bill is politically dead, those mass street rallies featuring hundreds of thousands of People Killed it, but emboldened, bolstered by that victory, they have decided to accelerate and they are going in harder, attacking the authorities. They believe the peaceful path does not work, and for many they think that this is it, this is the fight for hong kong that had to come, and they are hoping somehow or other that this will lead to genuine democratic elections here but there is no sign that the government in hong kong or especially beijing will be prepared to grant them that. Potentially it could go the other way, imagine the Politburo Standing Committee in beijing, watching this rebellious city, where tens of thousands of people are prepared to attend what is essentially an illegal gathering. The Nuclear Option for them would be to send out the Peoples Liberation army who are garrisoned in the city to take back control of the streets. That would be the end of hong kong as we know it. The headlines on bbc news. Prime minister borisjohnson pledges to fund a new high speed rail route between manchester and leeds. President trump praises borisjohnson and says talks on what he calls a very substantial us uk trade deal are underway. The mp for sheffield hallam, jared o mara, says he is to resign as a member of parliament to deal with personal issues. In just under a year, athletes from around the world will descend onjapan for the Tokyo Olympics. The baseball competition will be held in the city of fukushima, where a Nuclear Accident occurred in 2011. It was the worlds second Biggest Nuclear disaster, after chernobyl. The decision to host the sport there has attracted controversy, as david mcdaid has been finding out. Translation this is my home. I can never go back there. These photographs are all mr kumagami has to remind him of the house he lived in for a0 years. Like 160,000 others, he was evacuated in 2011 when the great east japan earthquake devastated parts of fukushima prefecture. 19,000 people lost their lives and the radiation that spread when the Daiichi Nuclear plant exploded sealed off whole towns, including mr kumagamis. Now he has a new home, but his family in tokyo dont visit any more. Ive lived here for eight years now, but theyve not come to see me once. I ask him why. Theyre afraid of the radiation. It makes me quite sad. In a region damaged and tarnished by that radioactive association, sport is trying to help. The fukushima red hopes Baseball Team is run by a former american major leaguer with no prior link to the area. Translation after the disaster, i felt a lot of sympathy for people trying to get on with life and i thought is there anything i can do . So i thought we could bring a smile to peoples faces through baseball. And when they come to the games, we can help them forget about any stress they have. And even though its 300km from the capital, the organisers of the Tokyo Olympics have also seen an opportunity by staging baseball and softball here. Translation we want to use the olympics being staged in order to demonstrate how far fukushima has come since the disaster. We want people to see that fukushima is an appealing place to visit. This is the azuma stadium just outside fukushima city, where theyre getting ready to host seven olympic baseball and softball matches next summer. Butjust about 50 miles in that direction lies the damaged Daiichi Nuclear power plant and exclusion zone. And so, the question of personal safety does remain for many prospective visitors. This is azuma stadium in fukushima city. Here at safecast, theyve monitored radiation levels since 2011. Places where the olympic events are going to be held, like azuma stadium and fukushima city, the radiation levels are pretty much normal. Its not very different to tokyo, or and even lower than a lot european cities or other parts of the world so in that sense, people should feel confident that its ok to be there. With such assurances in mind, mr kumagami hopes the games can have a positive impact. I think if people from lots of Different Countries come to fukushima and enjoy themselves, then it could be really helpful for our recovery process. And if outside perceptions can change, perhaps those closer to home might, too. David mcdaid, bbc news, fukushima. Authorities in india say they have rescued more than 900 passengers from an express train trapped by torrential rains near the indian city of mumbai. Helicopters, boats and diving teams were deployed after the train became stranded close to the town of vangani. Passengers were told to remain on board, but were left without food or waterfor 15 hours. Police in russia have detained more than 500 demonstrators who gathered in moscow to demand free and fair local elections. Thousands of people attended the protest which was called for by the jailed Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny to pressure authorities into allowing opposition candidates to run in a local vote in moscow, which they are currently barred from. Six people were assaulted on board a p o cruise ship in the early hours of friday morning. The britannia was on route from bergen to southampton when the incident happened. Two men in theirforties from essex are currently in Police Custody the Us Supreme Court has ruled that the us president can use military funds to build sections of his promised border wall with mexico. The Supreme Courtjustices narrowly voted to allow 2. 5 billion to be diverted from the military budget to strengthen existing barriers in border states. Meanwhile, the us says its reached an agreement with guatemala to help stem the flow of migrants reaching its southern border. Chris buckler in washington reports. The long border between the United States and mexico has been at the centre of a long battle between President Trump and his political opponents. In congress, democrats have consistently blocked his attempts to secure funding to build more and bigger barriers between the countries. Prompting the president to declare a national emergency. He has repeatedly argued that the surge of migrants making their way to the us has created a crisis at the border. And he said that left him in a position where he should be able to redirect billions of dollars from Defence Department funds to pay for the wall. And now the Supreme Court has agreed, overturning a decision from a lower court. On twitter, President Trump said it was a big victory for the wall and a big win for Border Security and the rule of law. Its not the only success he is claiming. Guatemala has now agreed to a deal where migrants who travel through the country to the United States will have to claim asylum there before they reach the us border. That will apply to huge numbers of people fleeing violence and poverty in el salvador and honduras. The president oversaw the signing of the new deal in the white house. In return, mr trump has dismissed threats of sanctions and tariffs and agreed to more visas for farm workers from guatemala. Its going to be terrific for them and terrific for the United States. This landmark agreement will put the coyotes and the smugglers out of business. These are bad people, these are very, very bad, sick, deranged people. But its not clear if the new measures will substantially reduce the numbers trying to get from Central America into the us. Translation you dont know how i feel. I want to cross over to give my son a better life. The money ive been spending to get here is not a small amount. Build that wall donald trump is a president preparing to seek re election. He promised his supporters tougher immigration policies and a border wall. He believes he is making progress. But theres still a chance of more barriers being put up by the courts and politicians in the us congress. Chris buckler, bbc news, washington. The summer heatwave has broken records across the world, and not even the arctic has escaped the dramatic rise in temperatures. There have been hundreds of wildfires within forests in the arctic circle, including siberia, alaska and greenland. Plumes of smoke from the fires can be seen from space. Ramzan karmali has more. Wildfires are ravaging the arctic. Areas of northern siberia, northern scandinavia and greenland have been engulfed in flames. Lightning often triggers fires in the region but this year, they are lasting longer. This fire at grouse creek in alaska has been burning since the 10th ofjuly. So far, over two million acres of forest land have been scorched in the state. The temperature was much higher than the average, and also things like the soil moisture and the amount of precipitation is much lower than the average. What this means is its much drier, much warmer, so when there is an ignition, then the fires have been able to persist and spread quite quickly, and endure. Arctic fires are common between may and october but higher temperatures, blamed on climate change, have meant the fires this year have been more intense. Global satellites are now tracking a swathe of new and ongoing wildfires within the arctic circle. Smoke is affecting large areas, engulfing some places completely. Cities in eastern russia have noted a significant fall in air quality, with many people seeking medical help. Translation smoke is a horror. Youre choking and feel dizzy because the smell of the smoke is very strong. The fires are releasing copious volumes of carbon dioxide, which Scientists Say will make our planet even warmer. That means wildfires like these will become even more common. Ramzan karmali, bbc news. Now its time for a look at the weather with susan powell. Hello. You do not need me to tell you that the heatwave across the uk has now broken. Things will remain fresher through this weekend, and on into the week ahead. Also some quite wet weather to come for some of us, too, showery into next week. This weekend, heavy and persistent rain in places. Thursdayjust gone could potentially have set a new all Time Temperature record for the uk, 38. 7 recorded in the Botanic Garden at cambridge university. Obviously that is a very important temperature so it is going to be closely verified, but a very different story in cambridge on saturday afternoon. Umbrellas up on the punts on the cam. The reason for the umbrellas, a weather front which stretches from north to south across the uk, and it is only moving very, very slowly, in fact, hardly at all through the remainder of saturday daytime. The rainfall totals will really tot up. Quite breezy across the uk as well, wet weather for the south west of scotland, parts of Northern England and into the south east through the evening and overnight as well. By the end of the night, the front starts to pivot out of scotland into northern ireland, so scotland somewhat drier by the end of the night. It could be misty and murky with all the moisture behind the front. Still quite a humid night as well, lows in the mid teens, obviously much fresher than it has been recently. Sunday, and more sunshine for scotland will burn off most of the mist quickly, look out for showers in the afternoon. A wetter story to the north and east of northern ireland, hopefully some sunshine in the south west, the south west of england and wales doing well with the sunny weather on sunday. Hopefully the rain becoming more confined to eastern regions of england, allowing more brightness. Highs of 23 in the south. Then onto the week ahead and quite a deep area of low pressure approaching the south west on monday, strong and gusty winds, particularly for coastal resorts and the low starts to fill and the winds weaken on tuesday and wednesday but with lighter winds, where we get showers, they could linger, so for some there could be quite a bit of rain around. A pretty unsettled outlook to take us into the middle of the weekend. You can see it is also much fresher with temperatures in the low 20s, perhaps a little more settled and warmer by the end of the week. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Prime minister borisjohnson pledges to fund a new high speed rail route between manchester and leeds. Donald trump praises borisjohnson, and says talks on what he calls a very substantial us uk trade deal are under way. The uks biggest charitable funder of scientific research, the Wellcome Trust, says a no deal brexit threatens the uk science industry. The mp for sheffield hallam, jared omara, says he is to resign as a member of parliament to deal with personal issues. Riot Police Fire Tear gas at protesters in hong kong after tens of thousands march through the town where gangs attacked pro democracy activists last weekend. Sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres karthi. Good evening. Good evening to you. As is tradition. He has a one minute 11 second advantage over his team mate. Todays stage was won by vincenzo natalie, finishing 17 seconds further back. Stop by on top of the mountain and on top of the world, egon burnell, a 22 colombian dust 22 year old colombian will become the third youngest winner in the history of the tour de france. He was followed all the way to the top of his countrymen who had never seen a top of his countrymen who had never seen a colombian win this race. His job was to stay in yellow and maintain his lead. Last years winner and the rest of the team playing wing man, protecting him from threats. Like the man in blue behind him, frenchman julian from threats. Like the man in blue behind him, frenchmanjulian a la philippe was the chaser, but that ta kes philippe was the chaser, but that takes its toll on these punishing slopes. This is the moment frances first bid for a win in years took a puff. He effectively handed the title over to his team mate. They will ride together again tomorrow in paris. All egan bernal has to do is stay on his bike, he is claimed is now in already. Patrick gouiri, bbc news. Confirmation of the general classification, 22 year old egan bernal set to win his first tour title with thomas there in second and steve and chris vick and Stephen Chris vick in third. Julian ella philippe is set to finish in fifth place. Captain will start tomorrows grand prix on pole position despite having been l this week. Hamiltons Mercedes Team with valerie bought and third, it was a miserable day for ferrari. Both had technical problems and will start near the back of the grid. Craig tabled in reports. Homecoming for sebastian vettel, and ferraris pacing practise created an air of expectation. On his over qualifying lap, there was clearly something wrong, and the pit stop back in. Despite ferraris efforts, they were unable to get him back on the track, and he will start tomorrows ways debacle race from 20th place. Verse 80s home track is celebrating 125 yea rs of 80s home track is celebrating 125 years of racing this week, and revision in the car and there is higher. It may look different, but Lewis Hamilton remains the same driver. And one fastest in the second and third rounds. Charles auclair is also looking quick, but for aris look went from bad to worse with another mechanical issue. Well worse with another mechanical issue. We ll start worse with another mechanical issue. Well start tent. Hamilton couldnt improve on his earlier time, but it didnt matter as neither valerie bodice max or stop could best him. The story of ferraris misfortune, the story of mercedess dominance. Greg templeton, bbc news. On the by greg templeton, bbc news. On the rugby league now, and he will check. 22 points to 1a to return to Wembley Stadium for next months final, as austin hells reports. For warrington and hall, the challenge cup was almost in reach. After 23 rounds of super league, the science is split by two points. Again too close to call, but it was the wolves who bit first. The fumble from whole let bryce and goodwin creep into the corner. But with six wins from their last eight, they are filled with confidence. So much so they try things like this. A pinpoint cross kick from albert kelly into the arms of beretta for remo, and into the corner. Theres been nothing between the sites this season, and warrington show that anything hole can do, they can do to. Ben curry rising high to give the wolves the lead into the break. In the second half started in just the same way, with warrington going to the sky, this time toby king rising highest score. Hole continue to bat the warrington defence, but in the end it was the wolves who had the final say. A chip, chase, and a spot in the final. Joe philbin, the man to ta ke the final. Joe philbin, the man to take the wolves to hampton. Warrington dont know who they will face in that final at wembley on august 24. St helens and halifax are playing their semi final at the moment. St. Helens are leading 8 2. The womens challenge cup final was won by leeds rhinos for the second year in a row. They beat castleford tigers 16 points to ten in a tight final, played at the university of bolton stadium before the first mens semi final. A triple bill for rugby league fans there today as imran sidat reports. Ina in a repeat of last years finals, the rhinos were on the hunt for back championship titles. Standing in their way where the League Leaders who handed a debuted a 16 year old holly dart. And it was the tigers who came flying out of the traps as Rhiannon Marshall powered through to score against herformer Rhiannon Marshall powered through to score against her former side. It didnt take long for leads to respond, as friend gold port was the quickest to react here. A brilliant take sue perfect but make the rhinos went further ahead, but castle third show why they are unbeaten this season with tams and runoff going under the posts. The game was poised at 10 0 when moment of defiance from Courtney Hill proved defiance. Sprinting 60 yards for a crucial tried to put leads on the brink. We were waiting for a gamebreaker, and there it is she failed with this drop goal attempt. It didnt matter as leads held on and the celebrations could begin. Its been an incredible week leading up its been an incredible week leading up to this. We knew we had it in us, it wasjust whether we up to this. We knew we had it in us, it was just whether we could bring it was just whether we could bring it today. And we sure did. Thats the beauty of finals, it brings out the beauty of finals, it brings out the best in everyone. What a great match for this part of rugby league. A second consecutive challenge cup for leads and the party will go along into the evening in bolton. England have today named their squad for the first ashes test match, which starts at edgbaston on thursday. And as expected, world cup winner jofra archer has been called up to the squad for the first time. Archer took 20 wickets in englands world cup campaign, but has been struggling with a side strain recently. He has been picked alongside fellow bowlers, james anderson, stuart broad, chris woakes, olly stone, sam curran and spinner moeen ali. All rounder ben stokes has been restored as vice captain of the team. He was stripped of that honour for his part in an incident outside a bristol nightclub in 2017. The under fire batting line up will continue into the first test with rory burns, joe denly and jason roy selected alongside captain joe root. With wicketkeeper batsmen Jonny Bairstow and jos buttler also in the squad. Here are the thoughts of former england spinner Monty Panesar anglin have been good in terms of showing the faith in the players that played against ireland england. Everyone was thinking about changing the batting order, may be changing the batting order, may be changing the batting order, may be changing the bowling as well. Some people felt that this was a perfectly balanced squad. And i think that when youre choosing a squad, especially for the ashes, you wa nt to squad, especially for the ashes, you want to keep that faith in the players in their mindset, itjust allows them to be free and clear about their game plans, knowing that the selectors are showing a lot of faith in them. And thats the best way to be, and in them. And thats the best way to be, and i think that really puts the players and a good frame of mind on the first test that starts next week. Football and arsenal have reached an agreement with lille to sign the ivory coast winger nicolas pepe. The deal worth just over 70 Million Pounds is still waiting for personal terms to be finalised but is expected to be completed over the course of the weekend. Pepe scored 23 goals for lille last season. Meanwhile it looks like gareth bale has played his last game for real madrid. The 30 year old played in a friendly against city rivals atletico last night but is expected to join the Chinese Super league side, jiangsu suning. Its a move that will apparently see him earn a Million Pounds a week. Well, real were thrashed 7 3 in that friendly in the unted states. Former chelsea striker diego costa had an eventful evening, he scored four goals for atletico. But he then let his temper get the better of him, and he was sent off after a tangle with dani ca rvajal. The real right back was also red carded. South africa fought back against new zealand to claim a 16 all draw in the rugby championship. Thanks to a herscheljantjies try in the 80th minute followed by a Handre Pollard conversion. South africa are now top of the table after the second round. This years competition was shortened to three rounds due to the world cup in september, meaning south africa can win for the first time if they beat argentina in the final round next month. In the other round two game, australia bounced back from their heavy first round defeat by south africa, beating argentina 16 10 in brisbane. A reece hodge try was converted by christian lealiifano, who scored 11 points in his first test for three years after being diagnosed with leukaemia in august 2016. A day after breaking Michael Phelps ten year old world record in the butterfly, americas Caeleb Dressel has been making the headlines once again at the world aquatic championships. Dressels won three gold medals including two in half an hour. He set a new championship record in the 50metre freestyle, finishing in just over 21 seconds. Britains ben proud came fifth. Dressel then won the 100 metre butterfly and was part of the usa team that won the mixed four by 100 metre freestyle relay. History was made in the womens 50 metre butterfly event as swedens Sarah Sjoestroem won gold. Its her third successive victory in the event which has never been done before. South korea are dominating at the evian golf championship, the fourth womens major of the year. Hyojoo kim is currently top of the leaderboard going into the final round, and shes joined by some of her most decorated countrywomen. Kim enjoyed a 6 under 65 in todays round, with world number one sung hyun park just one shot behind. Englands bronte law is in 16th. Thats all the sport for now. Now on bbc news, its time for click. Its the hardest problem in technology and one that could change everything. This week were in arizona, the self driving capital of the world, to ride in the latest robotic vehicles, and to find out what happens when the tech goes wrong. When california told uber that there were going to be some new regulations that they needed to adhere to, governor ducey, in a public announcement, said. California may not want you, we want you to know that arizona does. We are a state that is open for business. Welcomes business and new people and technology. Our governor, governor ducey, had basically opened wide the arms of our state to welcome them there and it was a no brainer. Chandler is a hub where Autonomous Vehicles are growing and having more miles mapped on our roads than any place else in the galaxy. Its kind of great to be the centre of that. Well, chandler, i believe, was chosen because it has very wide streets, very clean streets, theyre on a grid, and the people would be very accepting of this kind of technology. And so it was that the technology that will one day change our society, our landscape, and our lives, found a home in arizona. The makers of self driving cars have flocked to the town of chandler, which has fast become the industrys testbed. Today, im taking a ride in one of the most prolific types of self driving cars here, made by google subsidiary waymo. Now, self driving cars come kitted with loads of sensors so they can see in every direction, and sometimes in ways that we cant with our eyes. On top weve got loads of normal cameras looking in every direction. And the fact that theres loads of them means that they can judge distances by seeing how different objects move in relation to each other. Now, theres also radar, four of those, one on each corner, and these spinning things, these are the interesting things, these are lidar sensors. There are five round and a big one in the black bump on the top, which can see three football pitches ahead and behind. Right, lets go for a ride. Ooh, we have our safety driver. 0k. And away we go. Computer please remember to buckle your seatbelt. Weve just pulled out in front of quite a fast moving car there. We made it. I call that quite a human manoeuvre. Companies like waymo are experimenting whether their technology can avoid hitting you. I mean, thats the experiment. When you go out on the streets, when you cross on the crosswalk, and theres the waymo, waymo is actively testing whether or not its cars can avoid an accident, and avoid an accident with you if you happen to be on the roads. And some people also are clearly offended by that notion. And last year, the fears of the community became a reality. A self driving uber vehicle failed to detect her crossing an empty road at night and the safety driver failed to hit the brakes. It was the first case of a pedestrian being killed by a self driving car. The uber was, the vehicle was a volvo again. It was a self driving vehicle. It was in the autonomous mode at the time. And our investigation did not show at this time that there were significant signs of the vehicle slowing down. The uber vehicle hit Elaine Herzberg at 38 mph. This was a huge moment for the burgeoning industry, which led to uber having to immediately halt their self driving programme. So what exactly happened and whose fault was it . We went to the site of the crash in tempe, arizona, with the news editor of the phoenix new times, ray stern, to find out more about the incident. Ok, its on the other side. She took her bike from this area, walked it across this lane, and then entered this lane. The uber vehicle was in this lane. And itjust kept staying in this lane even though the pedestrian is here. It should have swerved. It had time and place to swerve, but it didnt. So before she made it to the sidewalk it impacted her. I absolutely would have seen elaine as she started to cross the road. And i would have braked for her. Most reasonable drivers would have. And, in fact, any driver who was paying attention would not have hit Elaine Herzberg. In order to entice uber and other companies into arizona, governor ducey relaxed regulations, which meant companies faced no requirement to disclose anything about their programmes, including crashes. Basically the governor invited uber in. That was one problem. They were operating here without any Real Transparency in terms of what they were actually doing, when the vehicles were in autonomous mode, what their criteria were for it. And so the vehicles were doing whatever they wanted. And uber had free reign. Tempe Police Called the crash entirely avoidable after investigations found that the safety driver was watching television on her phone at the time of the fatal incident. Ms vasquez could still face charges of vehicular manslaughter. She looked down, they estimate, 160 times during the circuit that she was doing. The evidence showed that she was streaming the view, which is a tv show, on her phone at the exact time of the impact. So what exactly went wrong with ubers Self Driving Technology on that night . It cant really be to do with poor visibility, can it . One of the messed up things about the whole incident has been the video released by uber after the accident. And if youve seen this video, it looks like this street is very dark and then at last second the woman on the bike suddenly pops out of the darkness right before the impact. In fact, this area is not as dark as this video shows. This drive through at night follows the same route as the uber vehicle. It shows that the Street Lighting makes the road clearly visible far into the distance. The New York Times reported that uber were not living up to expectations before the crash. As of march 2018, uber was struggling to meet the targets of 13 miles per intervention in arizona. As a comparison, gm owned cruise reported to california regulators that they went more than 1200 miles per intervention and waymo said that their california test cars went an average of nearly 5600 miles before driver intervention. Reports said that the uber vehicle actually detected Elaine Herzberg six seconds before the crash, but the perception system got confused, classifying her as first an unknown object, then as a vehicle, and finally as a bicycle. Those volvos came from the factory with an accident avoidance system, one of these new semiautonomous systems that a lot of the new cars have. 1. 3 seconds before impact, the self driving system realised emergency braking was needed. However, uber had disabled the emergency braking system on the volvo to prevent conflict with the self driving system. Nevertheless, prosecutors have determined that uber were not criminally liable in the death. If uber hadnt disabled the technology, then potentially the vehicle would have detected the pedestrian even without the uber autonomous technology, just with the Volvo Technology and stopped the vehicle. But uber disconnected that because apparently the vehicle was being a little too jerky in its motions, and it didntjibe correctly with the Autonomous Vehicle system that uber had in there. A safety driver supervising an imperfect system should ensure its overall safety. However, that only works if theyre paying attention. With self driving cars being tested live on busy streets, accidents are inevitable. So this may not be the last incident that we see on the road to a driverless future. But the number of accidents involving self driving cars is very low for the millions of miles of testing that have taken place. While the advancements weve seen in the last few years are more than impressive, getting a computer to fully understand the real world, and drive safely through it, will be a monumental achievement. Theyre not saying its done, because its not. This not a solved problem, it is a hard problem, it is many years before you can buy a car that has no Steering Wheel and you can say, ill have the car with no windscreen, and it has the same functionality as your car now. To start with, they will have subhuman capacity and superhuman capacity in other things. Subhuman in their ability to reason, about all the extraordinary things that can happen on a road that has nothing to do with driving. Superhuman in their ability to concentrate and never ever, ever get distracted. To see in ways that humans dont see with radar and laser, to sense distance, extraordinary things and above all, the ability for these vehicles to share and acquire competencies, not because of their own experience but because of the experience of all the other vehicles everywhere else in the world, thats an extraordinary thing and that is the compelling reason why these vehicles are coming. They will be better than us, because there is nothing in our evolutionary history that makes us good at controlling 1. 5 tonnes of metal at 70 miles an hour. Here in arizona, ive seen the benefits of and the resistance to the idea of the machines taking over another part of our lives. So i think the question is not if or when this will happen, but will we let it . Hello. You do not need me to tell you that the heatwave across the uk has now broken. Things will remain fresher through this weekend, and on into the week ahead. Also some quite wet weather to come for some of us, too, showery into next week. This weekend, heavy and persistent rain in places. Thursdayjust gone could potentially have set a new all Time Temperature record for the uk, 38. 7 recorded in the Botanic Garden at cambridge university. Obviously that is a very important temperature so it is going to be closely verified, but a very different story in cambridge on saturday afternoon. Umbrellas up on the punts on the cam. The reason for the umbrellas, a weather front which stretches from north to south across the uk, and it is only moving very, very slowly, in fact, hardly at all through the remainder of saturday daytime. The rainfall totals will really tot up. Quite breezy across the uk as well, wet weather for the south west of scotland, parts of Northern England and into the south east through the evening and overnight as well. By the end of the night, the front starts to pivot out of scotland into northern ireland, so scotland somewhat drier by the end of the night. It could be misty and murky with all the moisture behind the front. Still quite a humid night as well, lows in the mid teens, obviously much fresher than it has been recently. Sunday, and more sunshine for scotland will burn off most of the mist quickly, look out for showers in the afternoon. A wetter story to the north and east of northern ireland, hopefully some sunshine in the south west, the south west of england and wales doing well with the sunny weather on sunday. Hopefully the rain becoming more confined to eastern regions of england, allowing more brightness. Highs of 23 in the south. Then onto the week ahead and quite a deep area of low pressure approaching the south west on monday, strong and gusty winds, particularly for coastal resorts and the low starts to fill and the winds weaken on tuesday and wednesday but with lighter winds, where we get showers, they could linger, so for some there could be quite a bit of rain around. A pretty unsettled outlook to take us into the middle of the weekend. You can see it is also much fresher with temperatures in the low 20s, perhaps a little more settled and warmer by the end of the week. This is bbc news. The headlines at 6pm. 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