40,000 troops begin a major operation to fight fires in the amazon. Will ben stokes century be enough to help secure an unlikely england ashes victory at headingley. And talking movies explores the role of the producer in both big hollywood productions and smaller independent films. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. Hello, good afternoon. Borisjohnson has told the bbc that its now touch and go whether the uk will leave the eu with a deal on october the 31st. Speaking at the g7 summit in biarritz, the Prime Minister said he had to be prepared to leave without a deal in order to convince brussels to scrap the current Withdrawal Agreement. The Prime Minister, who this morning had his first face to face meeting as Prime Minister with president trump, also admitted it would take more than a year to negotiate any future trade deal with the united states. He was speaking to our chief Political Correspondent vicki young. Side by side, the american president and the man he says is the ri
Fires in the amazon. From this vantage point, you get a sense of the scale of the disaster facing this region of the amazon. Hectare after hectare of pristine forest, just going up in smoke. And its the hottest Late August Bank Holiday weekend on record, with the top temperature reaching 33. 3 degrees in west london. It was one of the most astonishing innings in the history of test match cricket. With england heading towards a humiliating defeat which would have seen australia retain the ashes, ben stokes hit an amazing century to give england an unlikely one wicket victory. After collapsing forjust 67 runs in the first innings, this time england needed 359 to clinch the game. That looked a long way off when stokes was joined by the last manjack leach still needing 73 to win. Stokes then launched a stunning solo assault to win the game and bring the series level at 1 1. This is ben stokes in the dressing room after the match, reflecting on what hes accomplished. And afterwards stokes e
The coalition backed find a power sharing agreement with the military council on saturday before the military council was dissolved this morning ahead of the formation of the. Now he will be appointing an executive we can be made up of a majority of members which will be nominated from the Opposition Coalition from the forces of freedom and change with the exception of the minister of interior and. The military. People to back position but you can imagine he will have a Prime Minister you will be appointing member and he will be the policies of the government and the. Thing that body looks like the fate of the transitional period how it will be run will largely rest on the Prime Minister something that the Prime Minister who has been appointed. He landed the afternoon and upon landing he gave a statement saying that the focus in the next few months will be trying to what has gone wrong trying to be a transitional period trying to rebuild the dam and of the economy focusing on the econo
Yield down to basis points, the crude off 3 10 of 1 . Soggy is how i would put the market action. Time for your morning brief. Time for a look at the busy week ahead. Robert lighthizer and u. S. Officials travel to china for the first facetoface meeting since may. Tuesday, the bank of japan Rate Decision plus earnings from bp and apple and on wednesday we will get the fed Rate Decision followed by the chairs News Conference and earnings. Thursday we will get the bank of england Rate Decision as well as earnings from barclays and general motors. Friday it is jobs day for exxon and chevron earnings. Time for the bloomberg first. Ake the question is, the trade deal. On the agenda are still many things, from hallway to soybean huawei hallway wal to soybean buying. Low barthink that the for expectations is that they will agree to meet again, but no one is expecting breakthrough on the stalks and the best case is that they agree to continue them. Perfectly correct. The situation with the mee
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