superstar, tom cruise is filming in the british lake district. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a summer heatwave which has triggered devastating forest fires across southwest europe shows no signs of easing. firefighters in france, portugal, spain and greece are battling forest blazes. and new temperature records look to be on the way. the heat is thought to have claimed many lives possibly hundreds. our correspondent, bethany bell has this report from malaga. fire crackles. wildfires are raging in spain after days of intense heat. firefighters battled the flames in extremadura in the west of the country. in the south near malaga, a popular tourist area, at least 3000 people have been evacuated from their homes. when we arrived, a new fire had just broken out in the woods. helicopter whirrs. 0verhead, helicopters carrying water returned again and again to try to put out the flames. fires keep breaking out in these hills, and it is a real
translation: the measurements at l the moment have not shown anything. nonetheless, instability in the field was observed. in other words, intense smoke and heat, as well as a white substance that we do not recognise. a special armed forces team has to inform us of what it is and whether we can enter the field. 0ur balkans correspondent, guy de launey, has been telling us more about the plane and its cargo. nebojsa stefanovic, who is serbia s defence minister, says there were 11.5 tonnes of weapons on board the plane, which were produced by, or at least owned by a private company, and they were meant to be on their way to bangladesh. the plane was due to make various stops injordan, saudi arabia and india. but as you say, it got into trouble over northern greece, requested an emergency landing, but never made that emergency landing. now, the plane itself