They are indeed. Steady progress for england on the second day so far of that first ashes test at edgbaston. They have had a bit of luck along the way but rory burns has just passed 50, england 88 1. Thanks, hugh. And louise has all the weather a bit quieter out there. It certainly is. Im pleased to say that we have got sunny skies, and the showers are few and far between today, a much better picture in parts of derbyshire. Ill have the Bigger Picture coming up in half an hour. Thanks, louise. Also coming up is this your aircraft, sir . The plane that landed on a busy street and had the police to answer to. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live im martine croxall. Raf helicopter crews are trying to save a dam in derbyshire amid fears it could burst and engulf much of the town of Whaley Bridge. The chinooks are dropping bags of sand, gravel and stone to shore up the dam wall. Experts say the situation is critical. Around 1500 residents were moved out of their homes yesterday. The Prime Minister has said his thoughts are with them and the governments Emergency Committee cobra is meeting this afternoon. From Whaley Bridge our correspondent laura foster reports. The rain has gone, but the hard work goes on. Chinook helicopters have been flying in every 10 minutes since 5. 30 this morning, each armed with tonnes of sand, and gravel. They have moved 200 tonnes so far, but engineers say they need to move at least double that to shore up the dam wall. All of the gravel coming from local quarries. Its a really difficult task for crews, we are being asked to get a real precision drop. Weve got to get as low as we can, you can see behind us that the guys and girls are taking a bit of time to get in there. Also we have got to make sure its done not too high, so we dont put more stress on to the dam itself. But also we have got to get them into sort of centimetre square areas, so its a bit like a big lego block were building. We have got a foundation in there and were carrying on building each on top of each other. The problem is this spillway, damaged after a months worth of rain here fell in a single week. Its putting the hundreds of homes that lie below it in jeopardy. The plan really for the fire service is to stop water coming into the reservoir. We are using the chinook and the raf co ordinated to dam up these inlets and at the same time get as much water out of reservoir as we can to take pressure off the dam wall. Because theres still a real risk that it could collapse . Yes, the Structural Engineeron site, hes very concerned about that and basically the information we have had is we have to do something here, because its not going to go away on its own. Meetings like this have been happening throughout the night and all through this morning. Its a really joined up operation here. Right now the engineers are trying to clear land so they can put more water pumps in. The idea is if you can reduce the amount of water in the reservoir, it reduces the pressure on the dam. After the dam spillway partially collapsed yesterday afternoon, People Living in Whaley Bridge were told to evacuate as the town could be flooded. Most stayed with friends and family. Some were put up in hotels. 0thers used camper vans. Our house is about 30 feet from the river, so its pretty risky really. So, i dont know if the dam went, i dont think wed have a house, to be honest. The Prime Minister has called an emergency cobra meeting this afternoon to discuss the situation. Engineers are still assessing what exactly caused the dam to partially collapse, but all the people who live here care about is that the warm sunny weather continues and if and when they may be able to go back home. We can speak now to plymouth Sutton Devonport mp luke pollard, who is the shadow fisheries, flooding and water minister. Thank you very much forjoining us. What are your thoughts when you see these pictures from derbyshire . The initial focus needs to be to ensure that all of the resources the Emergency Services need are being provided to the rescue effort to make sure the dam can be saved and there is no potential breach of the dam. We need to look at the adaptations that we need to cope with Climate Change because we know we will get more extreme weather in the future, which means more water at certain times of the year, less water at other times, and that means we will need to look at all of our infrastructure, to look at whether we have a truly resilient water system, because at the moment, we are not ready for Climate Change, not ready for the 2 degrees rise thatis not ready for the 2 degrees rise that is predicted by some now, let alone the four degree rise in Global Temperatures that the committee on Climate Change is suggesting that the uk needs to brace itself for. We have known about the risks from Climate Change for decades, so why are we not better prepared . Climate change for decades, so why are we not better prepared . |j Climate Change for decades, so why are we not better prepared . I think the country has been far too slow to adapt, but we are starting to take those steps. Parliament agreed a few months ago to a labour motion declaring a Climate Emergency. That motion said we are on the cusp of an emergency, and if we dont act quickly, we wont be able to stop irreversible Climate Change. That means we need to see a different type of activity from the government. The Environment Agency have said that they need £1 billion a year to avert catastrophic flooding not only in coastal areas but around our rivers as well. They are not funded anywhere near that level at the moment. I think we need to be more honest and say we need transformative to be more honest and say we need tra nsformative change in to be more honest and say we need transformative change in our economy and how we run it, to cope with Climate Change. More extreme weather, as we have seen in derbyshire and around the country, is going to be the norm in the future, so we need a much more resilient infrastructure both for water, transport, housing and Everything Else as well, and we are going to have to find new ways of paying for that. That is why labour has said we want to bring the water industry back into Public Ownership and use the dividend is currently leaking out of the system to pay for private shareholders to invest in that Climate Change mitigation. We are on the cusp of a Climate Emergency and we cant keep going on as we have in the past, so we need swifter action by ministers notjust to look after our Water Infrastructure but to look after those vulnerable areas that will be affected by Climate Change, and that is right around the United Kingdom. What about some of the Planning Decisions that get taken . Some residents are saying they are baffled by the fact that a school was built at the base of this dam. Many properties have been built over the years on flood plains, and then we wonder why they flood. What will change locally in terms of Planning Decisions . We have made bad decisions . We have made bad decisions as a country over the yea rs, decisions as a country over the years, and that means we have to look again at some of those. Steps have been taken in wales, where there is the first town in the United Kingdom with an evacuation plan to cope with Climate Change. We wont be able to protect it from rising sea levels in the future. That is an extreme case of the adaptations that we will need to put in place, but we need to spend more on flood defences. Some of those will be big steel and concrete barricades, and others will be a greater focus on planting, barricades, and others will be a greaterfocus on planting, changing the way that agriculture uses land to hold more water in the event of heavy rainfall, but we need a com plete heavy rainfall, but we need a complete system change. We wont be able to cope with Climate Change are full we wa nt able to cope with Climate Change are full we want to do is continue the way that we currently lead our lives. We will need to reflect on the fact that Climate Change needs a transformative the fact that Climate Change needs a tra nsformative change in the fact that Climate Change needs a transformative change in the way that we all run our lives and regulate the country if we are to fight it properly. That is reducing carbon and also preparing for the baked in temperature rises we see because of the amount of carbon we have emitted in the past. There are big challenges ahead, and i am still concerned that the government isnt grasping that in putting the resources where they are needed the most. We know we will need to spend more on flood defences, but the government is still not spending anywhere near the amount of money that their own flood Defence Agency saysis that their own flood Defence Agency says is needed to be spent, so there are Big Questions to be asked. Finally and briefly, i must ask about the poor showing by labour in the brecon by election last night. How do you account for it . It is a seat that labour is not normally competitive in, so i can understand why they came forth. It was a good win for the lib dems and showed that the message that borisjohnson is taking to the country isnt one that is already popular with voters. I wa nt to is already popular with voters. I want to see a general election, to see the chance to put the labour ma nifesto to see the chance to put the labour manifesto to the people and change the course of the government we have got. There are big challenges for all Political Parties at the moment, but i think the best way of approaching those is not to hide away but to face up to them and say, look, we will need to have those conversations with voters, keep going, and now we move onto another by election the one we have seen in wales. Luke pollard, thank you very much joining wales. Luke pollard, thank you very muchjoining us. Boris johnsons working parliamentary majority has been cut to just one after the liberal democrats won the by election in brecon and radnorshire. The party overturned a conservative majority of 8,000 to clinch the seat byjust over 1a hundred votes. Labour were beaten into fourth place by the brexit party. The new mpjane dodds said voters had chosen hope over fear. 0ur wales correspondent tomos morgan reports. In a brexit voting area, a remain party coming out on top. I do hereby declare thatjane dodds is duly elected member of parliament for the said constituency. The clear message from the constituencys new mp to borisjohnson. My very first act as your mp, when i arrived in westminster, will be to find mr borisjohnson, wherever he is hiding, and tell him it loud and clear, stop playing with the future of our communities. It was celebrations all around in brecon this morning. The liberal democrats victory means the party finally has a seat again in wales and it is a first boost for their new leader. This result sends the message that liberal democrats are winning again. And it comes off the back of her local election success, our best ever European Election results, and it is clear that people dont have to settle for either Boris Johnson orJeremy Corbyn. The liberal democrats are providing a positive alternative and here in brecon and radnorshire people have voted for that in their droves. This by election was triggered following conservative chris davies conviction in march of submitting false expenses. The result means the tories have a narrow majority of just one in westminster. It is never easy having a tiny working majority but the broader point is it will not distract us from what we have explicitly promised to do. That is deliver brexit so we can seize the opportunities it provides. This constituency lies within the county of rural powys, where the brexit party came out on top in the european parliamentary elections. It comes as no surprise that the brexit party came third. And brexit was no doubt a hugely contributing factor amongst constituents. We voted to come out and that is the reason we are here. It is driving us up the wall. I have heard too much about brexit, yes. I voted liberal alliance. The narrow victory for the lib dems was helped by the other remain parties, plaid cymru and the greens, choosing not to stand, handing the victory to jane dodds with just over a thousand votes. Labour suffered a significant blow, falling to fourth, prompting further questions about its stance on brexit. Constrtuctive ambiguity has not helped us in the last few years. We have tried to say to brexit voters, we are in favour of brexit, but we are in favour of remain. Without a doubt this is a blow for the new Prime Minister. He was in wales only on tuesday and came to the constituency to try and gather support for his man, but that just wasnt enough. His first Electoral Task failed. Boris johnsons task of getting any future brexit vote through parliament has become trickier. 0ur political correspondent, peter saull is at westminster. The lib dems really had this seat in their sites, didnt they . Yes, they used to have an mp there. It was a lwa ys used to have an mp there. It was always going to be a two horse race between the lib dems and the conservatives. The lib dems did particularly well because of this remain alliance that they have formed with applied camry and the greens, the two other pro remain parties. It was the first electoral test for that remain United Initiative they are pushing forward now. In a general election, it would be interesting to see where the lib dems would be willing to repay the favour, so to speak. 0verall, leave parties did better than remain parties. The share of the brexit party and the conservatives was bigger than that of the lib dems, but that is an issue for Boris Johnson, just over a week into his premiership. He has not been able to see off the brexit party even if he did not lose quite as many votes to them as some people expected. In the last few moments, Jeremy Corbyn has been giving his reaction to the labour partys fourth place finish. I thank our team for the work they put in. The liberal democrats one might get after doing a deal with plaid cymru and the greens. We will continue to put forward our message of anti austerity, something the lib dems cannot do. Labour came behind the brexit party was that down to leadership or labour plus s confused position . I think the majority of people wanted to get rid of the conservatives and voted accordingly. Jeremy corbyn. Thank you forjoining us this afternoon. The conservatives are saying that you played the system and did a dirty back room deal. What is your response . That is pretty rich coming from the conservative party, who made a £1 billion bung to get the dup on site and have been playing second fiddle to do the dup to keep them happy for the rest of the time. That should have been equivalent to wales and scotland and wasnt. They were crawling out as best they could from the desperate position in which they found themselves. I am sure they would say that this is how confidence and supply agreements work. Where does this leave your party, if it has formed this alliance with the lib dems and is prepared to stand back and in effect you have not allowed your supporters the chance to vote for you and have a full choice of candidates . It is difficult for any party to behave in a different way, and parties in the uk are used to being adversarial. You might consider whether that is actually one of the problems of the politics of the United Kingdom that it is adversarial in Party Interest first in every case. That is the problem we pays for we face for labour and the tories. This was difficult for plaid cymru and we have supporters who were disappointed they couldnt vote for a plaid cymru representative in brecon and radnorshire. We did this for a reason, which was that brexit is the worst threat facing wales. 0ur communities, our culture, our language and our economy, and if we call ourselves the party of wales, then we put wales first, before the party. In this instance, in order to ensure that remain had the best chance of winning, we stood back, took the initiative. We are one of the leading voices of this in the first instance. We took a step back for wales. If we hadnt done that and set that tone, we could be facing another brexit mp back in place, back in westminster doing the damage to our economy and our communities, which well for your. You have put yourselves in an alliance with parties that are anti brexit, not just no alliance with parties that are anti brexit, notjust no deal, and yet, overall, wales voted to leave, so yet, overall, wales voted to leave, so what do you tell those leave voters when you are trying to frustrate that vote in 2016. My party has behaved since the referendum to try to explain to people as best we can have damaging the lies and the falsehood and the fantasies and ideology being presented through brexit will be to wales. It is not a matter of reflecting, it is a matter of doing our best to lead. What we have done is uncomfortable politically, it is not what politicians normally do, but we have gone out on a limb to do what we believe to be the best for wales. 0ne what we believe to be the best for wales. One of the interesting points which your political spokesman didnt make earlier on, he was saying that if you put the brexit votes together, they were higher than the remain vote, but that brexit vote was almost 5000 votes less tha n brexit vote was almost 5000 votes less than it was in the last general election. The momentum in brecon and radnorshire is for remain. The momentum for every other constituency in wales virtually is for remain also might, because people have been singing that they have been lied to. People have been saying that the economy will be fine but people realise that is just not the case. This is real politics in action, notjust ideologies and the tories playing games with themselves that they have been trying to resolve since the 70s, labour living in this fantasy world where people are talking about austerity over brexit, this is real politics. And real vote rs, brexit, this is real politics. And real voters, when thinking about how best to use their valuable vote, they wont be doing that on a party basis but on base but based on the best effect. I hope this is the politics of the future or not the old tribal party politics. Thanks very much. With a magnitude of 7. 4 off the southwest of the island of sumatra. 00v 0fficials said the quake had the potential to generate a tsunami. Tremors were felt in many cities, including the capital, jakarta. There are no reports of damage or casualties. These are pictures from sumatra. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre didnt issue a tsunami warning or a watch or an advisory after the earthquake. It is the indonesian authorities themselves who have issued their own, suggesting there could be this three metre tsunami. People are puzzled and confused as to what to do. A mother who murdered her two young daughters after they got in the way of her sex life has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 32 years. Louise porton was found guilty yesterday of killing three year old lexi draper and 17 month old scarlett vaughan, less than three weeks apart, last year. Ajury at Birmingham Crown court convicted her of both murders following a five week trial. Jailing porton this morning, mrsjustice yip described her actions as evil and calculated, and told her these were blameless Young Children who were plainly vulnerable and ought to have been able to rely on their mother to protect and nurture them. |nstead you took their young lives away. More than 50,000 people are facing disruption to their travel plans, after the collapse of two package holiday firms. Super break and late rooms dot com are both in administration. Our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz reports. Yes, it is the holidays and a terrible time for a holiday provider to go under. Super break has 400 people has 400 people overseas and many bookings, many in the uk. And many customers have but hotels via laterooms. Because the payment go straight to the hotel, they should be ok. The stories have been emerging on social media are people who think their breaks might be ruined, including winter bookings in iceland, for instance. We have researched the company thoroughly before we paid out the money and there was no hint at that time, just a month ago, that there was any Financial Difficulties at all. Super break was drumming up business close to its end, never too late to visit manchester, it said. And in a statement after its failure, it added that hotel only bookings can be cancelled and people might be asked to pay twice. This is a massive worry for thousands of people who might have booked tickets to shows in londons west end or entries to a theme park, along with the hotel rooms to put the family up for tonight. And the concerns are, well, there hassle factor, trying to sort it all out, whether they will be allowed in and whether they will lose their money. There is some reassurance, the deep, the aquarium in hull, would honour any bookings. Legoland said they would charge 50 of the gate price. Travel body abta says people should be able to get their money back later. A rail ticket plus a theatre ticket is a holiday which will be protected by abta. If you have a package holiday plus a light, that will be protected by atol. If you have accommodation only, Hotel Booking on its own, that will not typically be protected. Abta advises those on a break paying for the hotel should get receipts and if it is a package, they will be reimbursed after making a claim. Well lets speak to the editor of travel Industry Trade magazine travel trade gazette pippa jacks. Tell us about these companies that are in trouble in the number of people they would normally employ. They are relatively significant employers, about 250 at super break, matt, i believe. What is different about this collapse versus 0thers matt, i believe. What is different about this collapse versus others we have seen is that super break didnt sell lots of holidays, so we are not seeing thousands of holiday makers stranded in greece or spain. They specialise in overnight trips, a lot in london. Although it is significant and lots of people are left confused and possibly out of pocket in some ways, it is not as severe as some of the colla pses we not as severe as some of the collapses we have seen in peak Holiday Season in previous years. What efforts are being made to sell these businesses will prop them up . I believe there are conversations going on in the background. It is quite an unusual circumstances. It is not that super breaks and like rooms have not been managed properly, it is a particular circumstance where the Parent Company was hoping to have found somebody to come in and buy it, and saveit somebody to come in and buy it, and save it and keep it going, and u nfortu nately save it and keep it going, and unfortunately that didnt happen, so it is quite last minute and everybody will be disappointed that it wasnt able to be saved in its previous form. When you are on a particular type of trip, it can be that you are protected or unprotected, and sometimes you get more help than others can you explain the difference . It is hugely complicated, and the Consumer Protection site is very tricky. If you book a package that includes a flight, you book a package that includes a flight, that will require at all protection atol protection. If you have an atol protected package, you have an atol protected package, you can claim money back through the caa. If you havent booked a package that includes flights, if it includes rail plus a theatre ticket, for example, or a hotel plus very, if the company is an and abta member, abta is able to help you get your money back and bring you back if need be from overseas. The real problems come when you book with a company that has neither of those protections, or if you have booked an element of travel on its own that means that you dont merit that protection. That is the consumers that will find themselves most out of pocket here, and particularly those who have booked accommodation only with super breaks, it has just transpired overnight that super breaks transpired overnight that super brea ks accommodation only transpired overnight that super breaks accommodation only bookings, just a hotel, that wasnt abta protected and those customers will be feeling the most agreed, i would imagine. That is where your travel insurance might come in. Pippa jacks, thanks for talking to us. Time for the weather forecast, and louise is here. Some records have been set, first in terms of temperature . Ba rely barely over a week ago we were in the midst of a heat wave, and it has now been confirmed that last thursday was the hottest we have ever experienced across the uk. The highest temperature, 38. 7 celsius, in cambridgeshire. We are a bit more prepared for extreme heat when we talk about global warming, but something that is quite interesting about the summer weve had so far, these are statistics from the met 0ffice, above average rainfall. Anywhere with white or blue through june and july so far this summer have seen above average rainfall, and some areas, like cheshire, have seen twice their Monthly Average rainfall injuly, seen twice their Monthly Average rainfall in july, and seen twice their Monthly Average rainfall injuly, and most of that was in the final week ofjuly, so thatis was in the final week ofjuly, so that is something that i think might surprise people. They are more prepared for getting hotter summers, but we could see wetter summers, and evidence is now showing us that that is what is happening. Last thursday was almost intolerable, and we were showing pictures showing the impact that rain has had. But to what extent that rain has had. But to what exte nt ca n that rain has had. But to what extent can these phenomena be explained by Climate Change . I think scientists are now confident the sciences there to back these issues that weve got. The globe is 1 degrees warmer than it was in the preindustrial era, and that warmth now has a direct impact that we can see on the weather, particularly across the uk, as we have been seeing in the last few months. We have to be prepared to see warmer and wetter summers. It will be interesting, i think. And wetter summers. It will be interesting, ithink. I often and wetter summers. It will be interesting, i think. I often do talks at schools with children, and i say, put your hand up, when do you think the wetter months are . And lots of them will say january, february, the winter months. But january and august can have equal amounts of rainfall, so it is not unusual to see thunderstorms in august, but i suspect they will become more of a regular occurrence and we will see these extreme rainfall totals potentially, and we will have to learn to cope with that. What can we expect in the next few days . We still have weather warnings, but the weather is quieter this afternoon. There is a risk in the next hour of a few showers. These are where the showers have been so far today, just to the east of the pennines. They are drifting further south, so there is the risk maybe parts of derbyshire and through north west england of catching a slow moving shower. But they shouldnt be particularly extreme and this is the story for the rest of the afternoon. There is some decent spells of sunshine. It is a quiet theme across the uk at the moment and it is reasonably pleasant. Tonight the showers will fade away and we will see some mist and low cloud and fog and overnight lows of 11 to 15. Tomorrow starts off quiet. Any mist and low cloud will tend to lift away. We will keep some fair weather cloud through the afternoon, but a pleasant day. Some showers in the north and west. Temperatures up to 25 degrees. That is 77 fahrenheit. If youre lucky enough to be heading to edgbaston, there is a risk in the afternoon of a shower. Sunday we could see some thundery showers, because we have a series of fronts that will push in and squeeze that High Pressure to the continent and things turn more u nsettled. The continent and things turn more unsettled. So the met office has issued a yellow warning, it means you have to be aware that some areas could see some heavy, thundery down pours. Sunday lunch time and late into sunday evening. So, a frequent rash of showers could develop across the north of england. But the south and east should stay dry and warm. 27, that is 80 fahrenheit. But that u nsettled 27, that is 80 fahrenheit. But that unsettled theme will continue for the early half of next week. Low pressure will be never too far away. That does mean that the theme of sharp and possibly thundery showers will continue into next week. If you have outdoor plans, it is worth keeping abreast of the forecast. This is bbc news our latest headlines the governments cobra Emergency Committee is meeting as raf crews race to shore up a collapsed dam wall thats put a derbyshire town at risk of severe flooding. There is a risk it could collapse . Yes the Structural Engineer is very concerned about that and basically the information we have had is we have to do something here, because it is not going to go away on its own. The lib dems win the brecon by election, reducing borisjohnsons working majority to just one. Scientist say the july heatwave that hit europe was made more likely and more intense by human induced Climate Change. Two holiday firms with bookings from more than 50,000 people have ceased trading. Indications from a ballot of thousands of workers at Heathrow Airport on whether to accept a pay offer, point to an overwhelming rejection that according to the union unite. Planned strikes by more than 4,000 members of the unite union were suspended while the workers voted on the offer. Security guards, engineers, Passenger Service operatives and Passenger Service drivers are involved in the dispute. Industrial action planned on dates throughout august will remain until the result of the ballot is known. Heathrow would be affected on 5th and 6th august and 23rd and 24th august. We will keep on eye on this and bring it to you when we find out. Sport now on afternoon live with hugh and england are slowly making progress but the days not been without drama has it . Yes englands batting has had too much drama in recent years, so they will be pleased it has been in shorter supply today. It is day two of the first ashes test, replying to 284 from australia. They did, as is typical, lose an early wicket. Jason roy out for just typical, lose an early wicket. Jason roy out forjust 10 on his first ashes innings. England responded by playing a bit of test cricket and proceeding slowly and steadily and vital is the captain and joe root has had a bit of luck. He was given out, caught behind by the umpire. He knew he hadnt hit it, but the umpire did heara knew he hadnt hit it, but the umpire did hear a sound. But that sound was the stump with the bails remarkably staying put. Joe root survives an extraordinary occasion he is still there. As is rory burns, who is under pressure for his place. He has passed his half century. He had some fortune. Australia didnt review an lbw decision that would have showed burns was out. But turning it around for a half century and burns the main stay of this england innings so far. Here is the score card with a hundred partnership for the second wicket. Joe root is 38 not out. It is going quite well. It is the most peculiar game, cricket, many times. Any news onjames game, cricket, many times. Any news on James Andersons injury . Not officially. He injured his calf yesterday and the contexted is he was out for almost a month with a similar problem just prior to to the series and there was concern he may miss the rest of it. He arrived at the ground today, which is the first good thing to say. He went out and did somejogging. He was running at about 50 . He will we understand bat if needed. So that the news is at least some, somewhere approaching positive on james anderson. Least some, somewhere approaching positive onjames anderson. Less encouraging is news about another bowler, mark wood, he has had knee injury and he is out of the whole series. To the womens open golf and theres plenty of british interest at the top of the leaderboard. The defending champion georgia hall shot a second round of 69, including four birdies to finish on 6 under par. Meanwhile bronte law produced a storming round to put herself into contention, shes just one shot off the lead on 7 under. And charley hull, whos playing on her home course, has started her round well. This birdie on the second hole leaving her also just one shots off the lead which is held by american Lizette Salas and japans Hinako Shibuno french referee Stephanie Frappart will lead a team of mainly female officials who will take charge of the super cup clash between liverpool and chelsea later this month. Frappart took charge of the womens World Cup Final between the United States and netherlands last month. This will be the first time that a female official has taken charge of a major uefa mens competition event. The assistant referees will be Manuela Nicolosi of france and michelle 0neal from the republic of ireland. The domestic football season in england and scotland gets under way this evening. Dundee take on dunfermline in the scottish championship, while in efl, well get a first look at Jonathan Woodgates middlesbrough. The former england and real madrid defender has taken over from tony pulis at his boyhood club. Its woodgates first job in management. His side take on newly promoted luton town tonight. Really excited. We prepared properly. We have worked as hard as we could over pre season. Me and me staff have been organised. When i was a young kid i dreamed about playing for middlesbrough, but since i was 30 playing for middlesbrough, but since iwas 30 i playing for middlesbrough, but since i was 30 i wanted to manage a club. Thats all the sport for now. July may have been the hottest month the world has ever had. Provisional figures suggest Global Temperatures last month were 1. 2 degrees above pre industrial levels. The uk recently experienced its highest ever recorded temperature 38. 7 degrees in cambridge and this summer has seen weeks of sweltering weather across europe. Heres our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. It is not water theyre walking through, but a heat haze injapan. It has been the same story across many parts of the world. Record temperatures in finland and three week heat wave in china. Now, it is official, july is one of the hottest if not the hottest on record. And july isnt alone. 2019 has been very warm globally. Each month is among the four warmest for the year in question. This time has been very warm, but this is not the main point. Last month was very warm. All months during 2019 were very warm in terms of compared with other years and that trend is not likely to stop u nless we and that trend is not likely to stop unless we do something about curbing Greenhouse Gas emissions. The results are based on billions of measurements across the world. These latest figures are part of a long term trend in rising Global Temperatures and computer models predict more summer temperature records will be broken across the world more often. The separate assessment by the World Weather attribution group shows the fingerprint of temperature change and temperatures are three degrees hotter than they would have been because of Greenhouse Gases. This record shows that the average temperature around the world injuly was about 1. 2 degrees above its preindustrial rate. That is getting very close to the 1. 5 degree threshold that the countries signed up threshold that the countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement and will put pressure on governments do they really have to act urgently and set a plan to cut their emissions down to zero by the middle of the century. Individual heat waves cant be pinned to human created global warming, but the increase in extremes warming, but the increase in extre m es of warming, but the increase in extremes of weather that we are seeing is in line with the predictions made by Climate Change experts and they say theyre likely to get worse and more frequent. The bbc has analysed data from 1,000 cities to measure how temperatures are changing. With me are the journalists who did that research Nassos Stylianou and Clara Guibourg from that team why did you choose to do this analysis . There is a lot of conversation around Climate Change and that one degree rise globally, but what we thought would be an interesting way to help our audience understand it is to actually find the temperature increase for their particular city and this features a thousand cities around looks not at how temperatures have increased so far, but using data from climate models, looks at how they could continue rising. Tell us more about what the data shows. It is striking, it shows thatjuly what the data shows. It is striking, it shows that july temperatures in almost every place on the planet have increased since 1900. We, something that is interesting, a lot of areas that already have hot summer temperatures of areas that already have hot summertemperatures are of areas that already have hot summer temperatures are seeing also the biggest increase injuly temperatures. So a lot of cities in the middle east. Take tehran or baghdad, both have seen an increase of 2. 5 degrees since the turn of the la st of 2. 5 degrees since the turn of the last century. That may not sound like a huge amount f you talk about it in Global Climate terms that is significant. In impact that those increases can have on whether patterns on climate and wildlife, plant life, all the adaptations that, if youre a species that lives ina marginal that, if youre a species that lives in a marginal range of temperatures, youre going to struggle. The trend is one of warming and that will have wide ranging impabts. If you look at the temperature increase, as well as looking at the temperature increase so farand looking at the temperature increase so far and how its going to go look in the future, we are talking about even higher temperatures, depending on the climate models and how we can limit the rate of Greenhouse Gases. Youre able to extrapolate on this, we can see what the future plight look like . We can see what temperatures might look like until the end of this century. And what that might look like is based on climate models that are a crystal ball, they are computer simulations that play out different scenarios and we can see what sort of temperatures we can expect. And we can see what sort of temperatures we can expectm and we can see what sort of temperatures we can expect. It makes a big difference, when you can see it, rather than just reading numbers. Thank you very much for joining us. The authorities in indonesia have recorded an earthquake with a magnitude of 7. 4 off the southwest of the island of sumatra. Officials said the quake could spark a 10 foot tsunami. Tremors were felt in many cities, including the capital, jakarta. There are no reports of damage or casualties. Lets speak to the bbcs mehulika sitepu, whos in jakarta. Tell us what people are reporting when this quake struck. Yeah, up until now we havent heard any reports of damage or a tsunami. But in social media, we can see people flee high rise buildings, because even like in the bbc bureau in the 15th floor, it was swaying. A lot of people panic and left the building and rushed and we also see people in the coastal areas, where the tsunami warning is in place, was jamming the streets, trying to leave the low land into the high areas. And a lot of people basically panic over around one minute, 7. 4 quick, that is felt in jakarta, where around one minute, 7. 4 quick, that is felt injakarta, where the centre is. For the moment, thank you very much. In a moment the latest business news. First a look at the headlines on afternoon live. Raf crews race to shore up a collapsed dam wall thats put a derbyshire town at risk of flooding. The lib dems win the brecon by election, reducing borisjohnsons working majority to just one. Scientist say the july heatwave that hit europe was made more likely and more intense by human induced Climate Change. Heres your business headlines on afternoon live. Some disappointing news from the construction sector. 0utput declined for the third month running injuly. Ihs markit cips which did the survey said confidence in teh sector was at a seven year low, reflecting lower volumes of work across the board. Two package holiday firms have collapsed, affecting more than 50,000 travellers. Malvern group, which incorporates manchester based late rooms and york based superbreak mini holidays, known as super break, has ceased trading. A no deal brexit would result in an instant shock to the uk economy, the governor of the bank of england, mark carney, has warned. In an interview with the bbc the governor said items such as petrol and food would become more expensive if the uk leaves the eu without an agreement. A lot happening in the Us Employment numbers and mr trump increasing the tariffs on chinese imports. The employment figures are not out of ordinary. Unemployment is steady, which means no unemployment. There are people unemployed, but it is considered to be as good as youre going to get. For employment, the economy seems to be going well. However, the tariffs, the increase in tariffs, putting 10 tariffs on more chinese imports as donald trump ratchets up this trade war, is worrying. He is leaving himself some extra room in order to put more pressure on the chinese. It is only 10 . The 250 billion worth of goods which he has already put tariffs on, that was 25 . So hes put it on and said, this is bad, if you want to continue this trade war, it will get worse. We can go to michelle in new york. This should be putting a frightener on the markets and it is . Yes, im looking at the dow, down 150 points. There is a sea of red today. I think the markets s have re cove red today. I think the markets s have recovered from the initial shock after donald trump outlining the 10 additional tariffs. The reason it had such a Chilling Effect here is that you were talking about effectively putting a tax on the remaining chinese goods that come into america. And those are going to be in some ways the products that American Consumers are most familiar with. Everything from smartphones, commuters and is to and this will happen in the run up to christmas, as somebody put it, it is a tax on christmas. It is an incredibly worrying just in political terms for donald trump, why is he doing this . Well, look, there is. A sense that trade talks between the us and china have been rocky. There had been signs of progress and donald trump did praise how negotiations had gone. This doesnt come into effect until septemberand so gone. This doesnt come into effect until september and so there is time for china to make concessions before negotiations restart in washington at the start of next month. Thank you. Come back in an hour. I will do. Now the derbyshire and the latest live pictures. This is an raf chinook helicopter flying yet more aggregate to the, to Whaley Bridge where this reservoir is in danger of flooding the town. 300 million gallons of water are usually stored in the reservoir. Water is having to be pumped up and to shore up the damaged reservoir wall, the raf, pa rt damaged reservoir wall, the raf, part of a big team of people, including engineers and people from the local authorities, are dropping in 400 tonnes of aggregate around the wall to try to shore it up. 1,500 people have been evacuated from their homes, because of this risk that the dam could collapse. It isa risk that the dam could collapse. It is a critical situation, but the weather has improved and the water levels have reduced by 20 centimetres. But theyre doing everything they can to try to get the water level down, reduce that pressure on the wall and allow the repairs to begin. That is the latest consignment of aggregate that is being brought in by raf crews. Police in the us state of washington are used to stopping motorists but they got the shock of their lives when they saw a plane racing down the road. And when the light aircraft finally came to a halt, of course the officers had to knock on the window and have a word with the pilot. Richard lister reports. Is it a bird . No, its a plane caught on a police dash cam, buzzing low over the morning commute. I thought, from a far distance, it was a remote controlled plane. As it continued going north, it got bigger and bigger and bigger. To the point of, 0k, thats really close to the ground, i think hes trying to land it on state route 7. Trooper thompson immediately turned around, braced for what could have been a disaster. I see him getting closer and closer to the ground. The wheels hit the ground. Kind of wobbles a little bit. He was able to hit the brakes, to bring it to a stop in the centre turn lane. It wasnt a conventional landing, but no one was hurt. The pilot even managed to stop at the red light. It may be the most bizarre traffic stop of trooper thompsons career. The pilot, david acklam, had been flying to work when he reported a fuel problem with his kr2 aircraft. Amazingly, the incident barely interrupted the flow of traffic. He didnt even get a ticket. Tomorrow, though, hell be driving richard lister, bbc news. The weather now with louise. The weather behaving itself at edgbaston. Some cloud coming, through there are a few showers. The good news is theyre not that extreme and we still have the severe Flood Warnings out for Whaley Bridge. There is the chance of an isolated shower in derbyshire in the next few hours. They will continue to drift their way southwards. If we catch one, they will be isolated and light and most should stay in the north east. Any showers through this evening, they will fade away and through the night it will be quiet. Some low cloud and mist forming. Lows of 11 to 15 degrees. We will start off saturday relatively quiet, and relatively dry. Any mist will lift. We will see some fair weather cloud on saturday. But largely dry. Any showers will be isolated and mostly likely to be the further north and west you are. So sheltered eastern areas seeing the best of the sunshine and warmth at 25 degrees the high. And for edgbaston another pleasa nt the high. And for edgbaston another pleasant day a similar chance of a shower in the afternoon and some thundery showers sunday afternoon as low pressure starts to move in from the atlantic. The high that we start the atlantic. The high that we start the weekend off, that will be squeezed off to the near continent and things will deteriorate. But they will take their time. It is worth bearing in mind the met office hasissued worth bearing in mind the met office has issued a warning from Northern England into scotland and areas which have seen intense rain fall, we could have further showers. Not eve ryo ne we could have further showers. Not everyone will see the showers and in fa ct everyone will see the showers and in fact again the further east you are and into that south east corner, it will be dry and actually pretty hot. 27 degrees is 80 fahrenheit. As we move out of sunday into the start of the week, low pressure never too far away, it is across the country and there are further showers likely in there are further showers likely in the forecast and it if you have got outdoor plans, you will need to stay abreast of forecast and we will give you further updates throughout the weekend. Hello, youre watching afternoon live im martine croxall. Today at three raf crews race to shore up a collapsed dam wall thats put a derbyshire town at risk of flooding. There is still a real risk that it could collapse. Yes, and the Structural Engineer on site is very concerned about that, and basically, the information we have had is, we have to do something here because its not going to go away on its own. The lib dems win the brecon by election, reducing borisjohnsons working majority tojust one. Scientists say the july heatwave that hit europe was made more likely and more intense by human induced Climate Change. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. You live, all the sport. A bit of drama for england at the you a bit of drama for england at the test in edgbaston. A century stand forjoe root and rory burns. They got themselves into a nice position on the second afternoon of the first ashes test. Currently 1431. Ill the first ashes test. Currently 143 1. Ill have more later. The first ashes test. Currently 1431. Ill have more later. Louise is obliging with an appropriate picture, or more to the point, one of our weather watchers is. Lucky old peter, he is enjoying a dry story for that cricket match. Thundery showers are forecast as we move into the second half of the weekend. All the details coming up. And coming up is this your aircraft, sir . The aircraft that landed on a busy street and had the police to answer to. Raf helicopter crews have spent the day trying to save a dam in derbyshire amid fears it could burst and engulf much of the town of Whaley Bridge. The chinooks are dropping bags of sand, gravel and stone to shore up the dam wall. Experts say the situation is critical. Around 15 hundred residents were moved out of their homes yesterday. The Prime Minister has said his thoughts are with them and the governments Emergency Committee cobra is meeting this afternoon. From Whaley Bridge our correspondent laura foster reports. The rain has gone but the hard work goes on. Chinook helicopters have been flying in every ten minutes since 5 30am, each armed with tonnes of sand and gravel. They have moved 200 tonnes so far, but engineers say they need to move at least double that to shore up the dam wall. All of the gravel coming from local quarries. Its a difficult task. We have to get as low as we can. You can see behind us the guys and gals are taking a bit of time to get in there because we have to make sure it is done not too high to put more stress onto the dam, but we have to get them into centimetre square areas. It is like a lego block we are building, put a foundation in there and carry on building on top of each other. The the problem is this spillway, damaged after a months worth of rain fell in a week. It has put hundreds of homes injeopardy. The plan for the Fire Services to stop what is coming into the reservoir using the chinook and the raf coordinated to dam up those in lights, and at the same time to get as much water out of the reservoir as we can. There is still a risk it could collapse . Yes, the Structural Engineer is very concerned about that. And basically, the information we have had is we have to do something here because it is not going to go away on its own. Meetings like this have been happening throughout the night and all through this morning. It is a joined up operation. Right now the engineers are 21 more water pumped in. The idea is if you can reduce the amount of water in the reservoir, it reduces the pressure on the dam. After the dam spillway partially collapsed yesterday afternoon, People Living in Whaley Bridge were told to evacuate as the town could be flooded. Most stayed with friends and family. Some were put up in hotels. 0thers used camper vans. My house is about 30 feet from the river, so it is pretty risky, really. I dont know, if the dam went, i dont know if we would have a house, to be honest. The Prime Minister has called an emergency cobra meeting this afternoon to discuss the situation. Engineers are still assessing what caused the damage to partially collapse but all the people who live here care about is that the warm, sunny weather continues and if, and when, they may be able to go back home. Laura is in Whaley Bridge now for us. Laura, tell us what is happening there today. In the last hour and a half, there has been a big meeting over here at the Football Club of the Emergency Services, the raf, the council, everyone has been involved, and they are having a briefing. The idea is to work out where we are now, what are the challenges, are we where we should be, and also what do we need to do next . The priority, we are told, is still the helicopters. They have been coming since around 5am. You will soon see it coming into vision. They have been loading this mixture of sand and gravel down onto the spillway of the dam. They are taking longer to do this than this morning because now every single placement is a little more delicate. They are more targeted, rather than before, when there was a big area and they needed to fill it. We are told that the priority is still this should look. They are lowering down gently, as you can see. Each bag is about one tonne, and they have done about 200, and they have another 200 to go. Things may change, still a big threat that this dam may flood the town. We hope to learn a little more about what is needed to ensure the safety of this town after the briefing has been completed. We understand there will bea completed. We understand there will be a residents meeting and then a press co nfe re nce. Be a residents meeting and then a press conference. While the helicopters are here, the firefighters cant do the otherjob they need to do, which is to build water pumps on the south side of the reservoir. You can seejust water pumps on the south side of the reservoir. You can see just how big just a small section of the pump is. The idea is that if we put more pumps in, we can reduce the water levels and reduce the pressure on the dam itself. For safety reasons, while the tune up is here, none of that can happen. It is toing and froing between the two methods of trying to preserve this dam. We understand we will find out more about the situation, and residents who have had to evacuate will be keen to find out when they come back, and we hope to find out more about that within the next few hours, later this afternoon. About that within the next few hours, laterthis afternoon. In about that within the next few hours, later this afternoon. In the meantime, weve had some visitors from the manchester sso, who have brought curry, crisps and drinks to the Emergency Services, which has gone down very well. Although this is still a critical situation, the teams are working very hard to try and sort things out for everyone. Laura, thank you very much. Laura foster, with a good rundown of all the work that is having to be done to stop that damn all collapsing any further. That dam wall. Boris johnsons working parliamentary majority has been cut to just one after the liberal democrats won the by election in brecon and radnorshire. The party overturned a conservative majority of 8,000 to clinch the seat byjust over 14 hundred votes. Labour were beaten into fourth place by the brexit party. The new mpjane dodds said voters had chosen hope over fear. 0ur wales correspondent tomos morgan reports. In a brexit voting area, a remain party coming out on top. I do hereby declare that jane dodds is duly elected member of parliament for the said constituency. The clear message from the constituencys new mp to borisjohnson. My very first act as your mp, when i arrived in westminster, will be to find mr borisjohnson, wherever he is hiding, and tell him it loud and clear, stop playing with the future of our communities. It was celebrations all around in brecon this morning. The liberal democrats victory means the party finally has a seat again in wales and it is a first boost for their new leader. This result sends the message that liberal democrats are winning again. And it comes off the back of our local election success, our best ever European Election results, and it is clear that people dont have to settle for either Boris Johnson orJeremy Corbyn. The liberal democrats are providing a positive alternative and here in brecon and radnorshire people have voted for that in their droves. This by election was triggered following conservative chris davies conviction in march of submitting false expenses. The result means the tories have a narrow majority of just one in westminster. It is never easy having a tiny working majority but the broader point is it will not distract us from what we have explicitly promised to do. That is deliver brexit so we can seize the opportunities it provides. This constituency lies within the county of rural powys, where the brexit party came out on top in the european parliamentary elections. It comes as no surprise that the brexit party came third. And brexit was no doubt a hugely contributing factor amongst constituents. We voted to come out and that is the reason we are here. It is driving us up the wall. I have heard too much about brexit, yes. I voted liberal alliance. The narrow victory for the lib dems was helped by the other remain parties, plaid cymru and the greens, choosing not to stand, handing the victory to jane dodds with just over a thousand votes. Labour suffered a significant blow, falling to fourth, prompting further questions about its stance on brexit. Constrtuctive ambiguity has not helped us in the last few years. We have tried to say to brexit voters, we are in favour of brexit, but we are in favourof remain. Without a doubt this is a blow for the new Prime Minister. He was in wales only on tuesday and came to the constituency to try and gather support for his man, but that just wasnt enough. His first electoral test failed. Boris johnsons task of getting any future brexit vote through parliament has become trickier. And tomos is in brecon for us. To what extent were local issues and influence here . This is a rural constituency with agriculture at its heart. When borisjohnson came to wales on tuesday, he was trying to allay any fears farmers had. Across the United Kingdom, whatever happens, potentially if there was a no deal scenario, dont worry, they would be able to get a better and stronger trade deal in future, even though at the time, farming unions we re though at the time, farming unions were saying that there could be civil unrest if a no deal scenario we re civil unrest if a no deal scenario were to happen. No doubt, potentially that played a part in the voting that happened yesterday. The other factor was something i alluded to in the piece how this by election came around in the first place. Chris davies, found guilty of false expenses back in march, triggering a recall petition here. 20 of the people here signed that petition, leading to the by election, so no doubt there was a feeling of needing a change here. The majority of the lib dems have is still quite small, so if there was a prospect of a general election in the near future across the whole country and there was a full campaignfor country and there was a full campaign for all sides, could they hold own . We will have to wait and see. We will also have to wait and see. We will also have to wait and see whether plaid cymru and the greens would be standing in future. Their decision not to stand in this by election was clearly a big resounding help to the liberal democrats. As i say, they have a small margin, and that significantly help the margin they got to win the seat. We were speaking to liz savill roberts from plaid cymru, and she said this is a new way of doing politics. You have to wonder how often parties will really want to stand aside like this. Brexit has been such a divisive issue, notjust in wales or in this constituency, in the county of powys, an area that voted to leave. In mays eu parliamentary election, the brexit party came out on top in those. And i think potentially if there was a general election in the nearfuture, there is a possibility, with how things have gone here, that remain supporting parties may consider doing a similar thing so that another remain supporting party would come out on top. Interestingly, if you look at the numbers from the results last night, you will see that the tory party in the brexit party added together would easily have beaten the lib dems, so potentially, would those sides seek to do something similar to how the lib dems, greens and dam wall acted in this election . Thank you. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn has been given his reaction to his partys fourth place finish in the brecon and radnorshire by election. It was obviously disappointing, and i pay tribute to our team for the work they put in. The liberal democrats won it after doing a deal with plaid cymru and the greens. Well continue to put forward our message of anti austerity, which is something the liberal democrats cannot do. Labour came fourth, after the brexit party, its that down to dissatisfaction with your leadership or labours confused position . I think a lot of voters were determined to get rid of the conservatives, and they voted accordingly, so we were squeezed, but it is a place that we have not held for a very long time. The area has changed a great deal. Youre watching afternoon live these are our headlines raf crews race to shore up a collapsed dam wall thats put a derbyshire town at risk of flooding. The lib dems win the brecon by election, reducing borisjohnsons working majority to just one. Scientists say the july heatwave that hit europe was made more likely and more intense by human induced Climate Change. In sport, the best conditions of the match so far helped england make Good Progress on day two of the first ashes test. Rory burns and joe root both have half centuries. The current score is 154 1. Stephanie for a power will become the first woman to be to referee. More than 50,000 people are facing disruption to their travel plans, after the collapse of two package holiday firms. Super break and late rooms. Com are both in administration. Our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz reports. Yes, its the holidays and a terrible time for a holiday provider to go under. In this group, super break has has 400 people overseas and 53,000 forward bookings, many of those within the uk. Then there are customers who have booked hotels via laterooms. The advice is, because the payment goes straight to the hotel, they should be ok. The stories have been emerging on social media of people who think their breaks may be ruined including winter bookings in iceland, for instance. Weve researched the company thoroughly before we actually sort of paid out the money and there was no hint. No. At that time, just a month ago, that there was any Financial Difficulties at all. Super break was drumming up business close to its end. Never too late to visit manchester, it said. And in a statement after its failure, it added that hotel only bookings could be cancelled and people might be asked to pay twice. This is a massive worry for thousands of people, who might have booked tickets to shows in londons west end, or entries to a theme park, along with the hotel rooms to put the family up for the night. And the concerns are, well, the hassle factor, trying to sort it all out, whether theyll be allowed in and whether theyll lose their money. There is some reassurance. The deep, hulls aquarium, said it would honour entry vouchers from affected families, saying it wasnt their fault. The owners of legoland and alton towers said theyd charge 50 of the gate price. But the travel body abta says many should be able to get their money back later. If youve got rail tickets plus a theatre ticket, for example, that is a package holiday, which will be protected by abta. If youve got a package holiday which involves a flight, that will be protected by atol. So, if youve got what we call accommodation only so, for example, a Hotel Booking on its own, that typically wouldnt be protected. Abta advises that those on a break having to pay again for the hotel should get receipts, and if its a package, theyll be reimbursed after making a claim. Simon gompertz, bbc news. Its awful to have to interrupt him, but simon calderjoins us now, the independenfs but simon calderjoins us now, the independents travel editor. Thank you forjoining us. What should you do if you are on a trip with one of these companies . If you are on a trip, you are in quite a good position if you have done the standard super break arrangement, which is a package holiday, whether abroad or more commonly within the uk, where you are typically getting a train and a hotel, and basically, you just stay there. I have been hearing reports of people in hotels who have been asked to pay again. The big problem for an awful lot of people is that they thought when they saw the apter mark that they we re they saw the apter mark that they were getting a holiday that was protected by abta, but i have been on the phone to them and they say, yes, the standard package is covered but the rest isnt. If you are in that position, talk to your travel agent if that is who you are booked through, but it is, im afraid, a bit of a mess, and exposes the problem is that there are with protecting travel bookings. What if you are about to take a trip with either of these companies . Yeah, thats the question that thousands of people are facing. Most of them, its actually, i hope, going to be quite straightforward, because the business that super breaks have been infor business that super breaks have been in for the last 36 years, doing very good stuff, is usually putting together train tickets, may be a trip to london, york or edinburgh, and a hotel. The train and a hotel room are still there, and it may be that if you booked through a travel agent, they will be able to get you the same thing. It also applies for overseas trips. They are covered by the Civil Aviation authoritys at all atol the Civil Aviation authoritys at all atol bone, so you can either have a refund or keep the flight and book the hotel separately. As you say, coming right at the start of august, this is the last thing that anybody wants, and it does of course raise questions about the health of other travel providers. A very busy time of yearfor this other travel providers. A very busy time of year for this to be happening. We cant let you go without you doing a bit of show and tell. Do you recommend where you are . This is the Beautiful Island of that source thassos. It is looking lovely. I havent been in this sea so far. It is about 5 20pm, soi this sea so far. It is about 5 20pm, so i think i shall probably have a dip before maybe having some dolmades. You call that work . Somebody has to do it enjoy the trip. The authorities in indonesia have recorded an earthquake with a magnitude of 7. 4 off the southwest of the island of sumatra. 00v 0fficials said the quake could spark a 10 foot tsunami. Tremors were felt in many cities, including the capital, jakarta. There are no reports of damage or casualties. This footage was taken in a tv station. There are no reports of casualties or damage. A mother who murdered her two young daughters after they got in the way of her sex life has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 32 years. Louise porton was found guilty yesterday of killing three year old lexi draper and 17 month old scarlett vaughan, less than three weeks apart, last year. A jury at Birmingham Crown court convicted her of both murders following a five week trial. Jailing porton this morning, mrsjustice yip described her actions as evil and calculated, and told her these were blameless Young Children who were plainly vulnerable and ought to have been able to rely on their mother to protect and nurture them. Instead you took their young lives away. July may have been the hottest month the world has ever had. Provisional figures suggest Global Temperatures last month were 1. 2 degrees above pre industrial levels. The uk recently experienced its highest ever recorded temperature 38. 7 degrees in cambridge, and this summer has seen weeks of sweltering weather across europe. Heres our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. It is not water theyre walking through, but a heat haze injapan. It has been the same story across many parts of the world. Record temperatures in finland and a three week heat wave in china. Now, it is official, july is one of the hottest if not the hottest on record. And july isnt alone. 2019 has been very warm globally. Each month is among the four warmest for the year in question. This time has been very warm, but this is not the main point. Last month was very warm. All months during 2019 were very warm in terms of compared with other years and that trend is not likely to stop unless we do something about curbing Greenhouse Gas emissions. The results are based on billions of measurements across the world. These latest figures are part of a long term trend in rising Global Temperatures and computer models predict more summer temperature records will be broken across the world more often. The separate assessment by the World Weather attribution group shows the fingerprint of temperature change and temperatures are three degrees hotter than they would have been because of Greenhouse Gases. This record shows that the average temperature around the world injuly was about 1. 2 degrees above its preindustrial rate. That is getting very close to the 1. 5 degree threshold that the countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement and will put pressure on governments that they really have to act urgently and set a plan to cut their emissions down to zero by the middle of the century. Individual heat waves cant be pinned to human created global warming, but the increase in extremes of weather that we are seeing is in line with the predictions made by Climate Change experts, and they say theyre likely to get worse and more frequent. Time for a look at the weather. Heres louise. Some incredibly high temperatures, and records set. Just a week ago, did you cope with the extreme heat . It was horrendous, and i dont mind the heat. It has been confirmed by the met 0ffice it has been confirmed by the met office that it was the highest recorded temperature, 38. 7 celsius in cambridge. Across europe, we saw temperatures in excess of 40 celsius. 0ver temperatures in excess of 40 celsius. Over the last couple of days what has come out that his surprising is that the amount of rainfall we have been seeing, as you can see, these colours, the white and blue, denote above average rainfall, and this is forjune and july, so it has been wet, and this is one of the things that will happen with global warming. We know that summers will get warmer, but they will also get wetter because more heat and energy in the atmosphere, like last week, that extreme heat, and now we have seen extreme heat, and now we have seen extreme flooding as well. Parts of cheshire had twice their Monthly Average of rainfall forjuly, and most of that fell in the last week injuly. Most of that fell in the last week in july. How confidently can Scientists Say that what we are seeing is attributable to Climate Change . They are saying you cannot pinpoint one specific weather event, like the heat wave last week, and say it is categorically to do with Climate Change, but they know that the planet has warmed by1 degrees since the industrial revolution, and they know that is contributing to Climate Change, so we do have to prepare ourselves for more extreme events. The wettest summers we have seen, six out of ten of them, have happened since 2003. We have had some extreme hot summers, the last eight out of ten. We will have to get used to and be able to prepare for extreme weather events are little better. Tell us about what is heading our way this weekend. Youll acquire tougher a couple of days, but Stormy Weather to come on sunday. So, we still have a Flood Warning out across derbyshire. We have had quiet weather today. It is not looking too bad tomorrow, but there are sharp thundery downpours expected for sunday, and the met 0ffice expected for sunday, and the met office has issued a weather warning. This is the last few hours. Sharp showers coming from the north sea, mostly to the east of the pennines, but a threat of one or two just pushing into derbyshire in the next hour or so. Generally speaking, a better day today. It is pleasant out there, quite warm as well for some. And the showers we have got, they will start to ease away this evening and overnight. We could see patchy mist, low cloud, fog forming in places overnight stop we start tomorrow morning on a reasonable note. If you are early, you should note. If you are early, you should not be disappointed. We will see the mist lifting, and showers will be fairly isolated, one or two in the north and west. High temperatures of 25 celsius in the south east. If you are heading off to watch the ashes at edgbaston, the weather will be fair. Slim chance of a shower in the afternoon, may be a thunderstorm on sunday, worth bearing in mind. The reason for that is that low pressure sta rts reason for that is that low pressure starts to move in from the atlantic, squeezing the High Pressure we have at the moment over to the near continent, and the thundery showers could be quite frequent and heavy. This yellow warning just means you need to be aware. Areas that have seen localised flooding and sharp showers could see some pretty intense showers through the day. Those showers will continue to drift north and east. Not too bad for central and southern england, not too bad for Northern Ireland into the afternoon. Temperatures will peak at 27 celsius in the south east, 80 fahrenheit, so for some, a pleasant summers day, if you like those kind of temperatures. The low pressure will stay with us and influences the weather story into next week, meaning we will continue to see a frequent rush of sharp possibly thundery downpours, and if you have outdoor plans, you will need to keep abreast of the forecast over the weekend. We will keep you updated. This is bbc news our latest headlines. The governments cobra Emergency Committee is meeting as raf crews race to shore up a collapsed dam wall thats put a derbyshire town at risk of severe flooding. Reporter there is still a risk that it could collapse . Yes the Structural Engineer is very concerned about that and basically the information we have had is we have to do something here, because it is not going to go away on its own. The lib dems win the brecon by election, reducing borisjohnsons working majority to just one. Scientist say the july heatwave that hit europe was made more likely and more intense by human induced Climate Change. Louise porton the mother who killed her two daughters because they got in the way of her sex life in the way of her sex life is jailed for life. Two holiday firms with bookings from more than 50,000 people have ceased trading. Sport now on afternoon live with hugh. Slow going at the ashes, but a critical period for englands bats men . Yes i tempted fate to say it was going well. But at that exact moment, joe root departed. But and this is the reason why the progress remains, rory burns is there in the middle. England put on more than 100 for the second wicket. But if the top order are going to find a basis for the middle order, they are crucial. Adam is there. This is an opportunity for the bats men to take advantage of the best conditions we have seen so far in the match . Yes, conditions very good. It is very humid, its hot and sticky and perhaps a little sticky period for england after dismissal of joe root. He has gone for 57. He was going along nicely. He had had a bit of luck earlier on, not least of which when the ball hit his stumps, it we nt when the ball hit his stumps, it went behind, caught by the wicket keeperand it went behind, caught by the wicket keeper and it was given caught behind, because the umpire heard a noise. Joe root referred it and was given not out. An extraordinary moment. A wry grin from him to the bowler. He survived that and he survived again after lunch when he was given out, but reinstated on appeal. But he has fallen to peter siddal. England still have rory burns at the wicket. The search for an england opener seems to have gone on for years, is rory burns the answer . He is playing nicely. He has had a few moments of luck and seen some cover drives edged through on more than one occasion. But he is going on very nicely and he is on 81. So closing in on his century. England i think will be delighted with the way things have gone, given their lost that wicket of roy so early. Caught for ten by steve smith. So far, englands work impressive and they are just 122 runs behind that australian total. Thank you. To the womens british open golf and theres plenty of home interest at the top of the leaderboard, with three english players within two shots of the lead at woburn. Bronte law hit a five under par round of 67 to move to seven under. Defending champion georgia hall is a shot behind after a 69 and charley hull is gonig nicely too. The leaders are hinak shubino, Lizette Salas and ashleigh buhai. A female referee will be in charge for the uefa super cup, marking the most significant mens match yet to be officiated by a woman. Stephanie frappa rt refereed the womens World Cup Final last month, and will lead a team of mostly female officials at the match between the Champions League winners liverpool and europa League Winners chelsea in istanbul. Frappart has also taken charge of mens League Matches in her native france. The domestic football season in england and scotland gets under way this evening. Dundee take on dunfermline in the scottish championship, while in efl, well get a first look at Jonathan Woodgates middlesbrough. The former england and real madrid defender has taken over from tony pulis at his boyhood club. Its woodgates first job in management. His side take on newly promoted luton town tonight. Really excited. We prepared properly. We have worked as hard as we could over pre season. Me and me staff have been organised. When i was a young kid i dreamed about playing for middlesbrough, but since i was 30 i wanted to manage a club. So im privileged to manage this fantastic Football Club. Pierre gasly has been fastest in qualifying in formula one. More on the web site. That is all the sport for now. Lets get more now on the liberal democrats victory in the brecon and radnorshire by election. The party overturned a conservative majority of over 8,000 to win back the seat they lost in the 2015 general election. The lib dems were helped in part by pro remain parties, including plaid cymru and the greens who did not stand candidates. Lets discuss this further with the co leader of the green party, jonathan ba rtley. Hes in our westminster studio. Thank you forjoining us, how democratic is it if you dont offer voters a full list of candidates from all of the parties who could field someone . It is not democratic ina field someone . It is not democratic in a system where you can get millions of vote and getjust one mp in parliament. It is the first past the post system that ham strings us. What was very clear was that when parties can operate in this new era of multiparty politics, all vying for seats at westminster strongly, when you have a hamstrung system, first past the post, that is designed forjust first past the post, that is designed for just two first past the post, that is designed forjust two party, you have to act in a different way and we have to be smart about it. Some of the parties in this alliance are not just trying to of the parties in this alliance are notjust trying to stop a no deal brexit, they dont want brexit at all. How candid were you with voters on the doorstep . We have been very candid, we dont think brexit is a good idea. We want to stop brexit. But more than that we want a peoples vote, we want real democracy, participation of people in the country, the more people who have looked at what is going on at westminster, the less they have liked it. Democracy is an ongoing process and we think brexit, the particularly the kind of brexit the Prime Minister is pushing forward, with no mandate, we didnt elect him to be Prime Minister, what he is pushing through deserves to go back to the people and let the people have the final say. But wales voted to leave, how can you. Could you pursue that sort of line with voters in wales when the majority didnt wa nt in wales when the majority didnt want that . Its democracy. There are a lot of people there that do want to stay. In an election you lay out our prospectus and say, is this what you want . People clearly last night vote ford a remain party. They voted very clearly. There is no hiding what that result was about. Very clearly. There is no hiding what that result was aboutm very clearly. There is no hiding what that result was about. If there was a general election called or when, how like lis is it that you would engage in an alliance of this type again . This wasnt a formal alliance, we decided not to field a candidate, because we felt it was a good thing. I spoke tojo swinson and we have discussed it, we would explore those options. But lets be clear, we are the least tribal parties, we have all reached out to party and we are looking for reciprocation from the other parties, for them to talk to us. The ball is in their court. We have done about much as we can. But we think the common good, the future of the country, the future of the our children and the Climate Emergency demands that we Work Together and we are prepared to put that foot forward. How do you grow the green party as a more visible presence on the National Stage within westminster, if you are prepared to do what you did this time . Precisely by inviting reciprocation. If there is some working together, a temporary arrangement around a general election if there is a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister, i think remain parties should and probably look to see how they can Work Together for the good of the country. We will beliking for a sizeable be looking for a sizeable chunk of green mps at westminster. We are polling in some polls at 10 . Others are coming down. We are in this multiparty democracy, it is only the system that stops that being reflected at westminster. These arrangements should give the green party, that would be representative of the vote we have. If two or three Million People want to vote green there should be dozens of mps. Thank you very much. More now on our top story this afternoon. Raf helicopter crews have spent the day trying to save a dam in derbyshire amid fears it could burst and engulf much of the town of Whaley Bridge. The chinooks are dropping bags of sand, gravel and stone to shore up the dam wall. Experts say the situation is critical. Around 1,500 residents were moved out of their homes yesterday. The Prime Minister has said his thoughts are with them and the governments Emergency Committee cobra is meeting this afternoon. Lets speak to Hanna Sillitoe who lives just a kilmetre down the road and has been through Whaley Bridge today. You went into town. What did you find . I was woken up at 5am by the chinook helicopter and i usually wa ke chinook helicopter and i usually wake up early and took my usual jogging wake up early and took my usual jogging route towards Whaley Bridge and assumed there might be a cordon stopping me going into the town. But there was no cordon. So i took it upon myself to have a look and see if there were any Emergency Services workers there to speak to and get some advice, because we are a bit out in the sticks here and the advice that has been a little bit conflicting between the Environment Agency and what the police are suggesting when we have rung the nonemergency line. So the strangest thing was walking into a village that even at that time in the morning is usually buzzing with people opening shops, the cafes are opening, people are going to work and obviously there was no traffic, everything was closed. It was very strange. It must be surreal, we have been showing pictures of raf 0f raf helicopter. It must be strange. Im a kilometre down the river in a small hamlet by the side of river and i usually sit outside working on a nice day, it was a beautiful morning, bright sunshine andi beautiful morning, bright sunshine and i sat outside working and for a short time everything peoples normal and then another helicopter comes overhead and the press helicopters are here, i know you guys have helicopters showing footage of dam. You see the press helicopters, the more you hear them, youre looking up, thinking is something happening . It is the not knowing and wondering how quickly that water is going to move when it does. So you say you are getting conflicting advice from different areas, different agencies, what are the different agencies tell you . Ifi what are the different agencies tell you . If i look at the Environment Agency map. At the moment we are in the orange zone. There isjust agency map. At the moment we are in the orange zone. There is just a warning to be prepared to take precautions. When i spoke to the police in Whaley Bridge this morning, they asked where i was and we looked at their maps and theyre saying you need to get out, that is an evacuation zone. We are a small hamlet down a farm track, it is not the sort of road that anyone would consider to be a road that is passa ble to consider to be a road that is passable to traffic and nobodys put any cordons or road closed signs where we are and nobody has come down knocking on doors. Im sure theyre dealing with a more significant threat up the road. So, sometimes i i guess it comes down to personaljudgment sometimes i i guess it comes down to personal judgment and we sometimes i i guess it comes down to personaljudgment and we have livestock to take into consideration andi livestock to take into consideration and i guess at the moment our judgment is that we are staying. But the neighbours have gone and we have five houses and out of those three of the neighbours have decided to leave already. Thank you very much. Its been more than 30 years since the devastating Nuclear Disaster at chernobyl, but families in the region are still suffering the effects of the radiation. This week a group of affected School Children are coming to the derbyshire town of glossop for three weeks of health and wellness activies to help them enjoy the outdoors and learn new skills. Fiona lamdin went to meet them. Right, everyone its pizza snack time everyone around the fire circle wash your hands first this is more thanjust an adventure in the woods. These children are here for a recuperative rest. All are in remission, recovering from cancer, likely to be as a result of chernobyl, the worlds Worst Nuclear Accident when, in 1986, a reactor at the Nuclear Power station in the ukraine exploded, sending a radioactive plume across europe. It happened 33 years ago but these children still live in radioactive environments in belarus. When there was the accident at chernobyl, the wind was blowing northwards so a lot of contamination fell onto belarus. Although much of it blew across europe, but belarus was the country that got most of the radiation so there are areas of contamination still all over belarus so even though some of the children may live hundreds of miles from the actual chernobyl reactor, theyre still breathing contaminated air and eating contaminated food every day. Were going to now demonstrate how to toast a marshmallow. And thats why, over the last two decades, a charity based in derbyshire has brought over 5,000 children to the uk to give them some respite. Doctors believe that these children spending time here in the fresh air, eating fresh food without contamination, can boost their immune systems for up to two years. So what difference do you notice in the children after theyve been to the uk . Translation after staying in the uk, our children have less colds and infections. Kristinas 12, milanas nine. Its their first time here in the uk. Do you both feel a lot better being here in england . Kristina says that she is enjoying staying here in the uk because she feels more energy, she feels cheerful, more energetic, more healthy. At the end of the summer holiday, these children will have to go back home, but its hoped that this clean air holiday will give these damaged young bodies a boost. Fiona lamdin, bbc news. In a moment the latest business news. First a look at the headlines on afternoon live raf crews race to shore up a collapsed dam wall thats put a derbyshire town at risk of flooding. The lib dems win the brecon by election, reducing borisjohnsons working majority to just one. Scientist say the july heatwave that hit europe was made more likely and more intense by human induced Climate Change. Heres your business headlines on afternoon live. Some disappointing news from the construction sector. Output declined for the third month running injuly. Ihs markit cips which did the survey said confidence in the sector was at a seven year low, reflecting lower volumes of work across the board. Two package holiday firms have collapsed, affecting more than 50,000 travellers. Malvern group, which incorporates manchester based late rooms and york based superbreak mini holidays, known as super break, has ceased trading. A no deal brexit would result in an instant shock to the uk economy, the governor of the bank of england, mark carney, has warned. In an interview with the bbc, the governor said items such as petrol and food would become more expensive if the uk leaves the eu without an agreement. Theres been some talk of starting up free ports in the uk. What are they . Free ports, we used to have them until 2012. They became irrelevant, they provide an area where you can import and export without taxes or tariffs, so you isolate an area, once in liverpool, you could take in goods, you could manufacture there and export them out. They consist of bonded warehouses and places, which as i say, are isolated from the rest of the economy. What it does, the problem with them very often is it can suck businesses from other parts of country. If you have a business making woodchips in one part of country and if i move there i will get a discount and i wont pay taxes, it is a free trade area, that is where i will go to. So it moves businesses around without necessarily having any added value. Theyre being talked about. With a view to after brexit. Yes, they became irrelevant once we were within the eu. Because of course once you have imported something into into the uk, you move it through the eu, because it is a single market. After the brexit they could become more useful. Now, lets have a look in alan winters. He is at the uk trade policy at the university of sussex. He joins us. What are the benefits of a free port . The benefits are exactly as your previous guest said, if youre not charging taxes, maybe there is more activity that goes on inside that area. And people who are there like that very much. The disadvantage, a lot of it gets sucked in from elsewhere. What does it look like . I get the impression you dont have barbed fences, it is more to do with bonded warehouses and you can do manufacturing within the area . I think that te pends very much on depends on the detail. If you have a large area, you need to put a boundary around it. The problem of having an area where you dont pay taxes, not only honest people want to avoid taxes, but other people come in as well. Unless it has a front door, you need to police it. We were told by the government that we werent allowed to do this, because we were in the eu. I know thats not strictly true, but the advantages of doing it within the eu were minimal. Once we are outside they become more useful. Can you explain why . Yes, because half the trade that britain undertakes was with the eu and there we re undertakes was with the eu and there were no further taxes or tariffs to pay once we were doing that. When we come out of eu, if we really are levying tariffs against the eu, part of our trade will face tariffs and we will have to levy tariffs. Not many tariffs in britain are high, the government is proposing lower tariffs than the eu has now, so the excitement about exemption from low tariffs can be done. Thank you. Jamie, who ate all the pies. |j tariffs can be done. Thank you. Jamie, who ate all the pies. I think this person may have done it is not strictly a business story. It is wigan athletic. It is their new mascot. Of course it is a business story, it is selling pies. The best pies arejust on story, it is selling pies. The best pies are just on the outskirts of wigan apparently. Dawsons, a p pa re ntly wigan apparently. Dawsons, apparently people still dream of dawsons pies. Im on dangerous ground, because there is a lot of competition for pies. They have the world pie eating championship in wigan. That sounds a bit messy. Is ita wigan. That sounds a bit messy. Is it a business story . They chose this, there was a competition to provide the best mascot and a lot of children came in. Half of wanted a pie as a mascot. They said, we love pies in wigan. Simple. It is a business story. You can sell pies. Yes. Police in the us state of washington are used to stopping motorists, but they got the shock of their lives when they saw a plane racing down the road. And when the light aircraft finally came to a halt, of course the officers had to knock on the window and have a word with the pilot. Richard lister reports. Is it a bird . No, its a plane caught on a police dash cam, buzzing low over the morning commute. I thought, from a far distance, it was a remote controlled plane. As it continued going north, it got bigger and bigger and bigger. To the point of, ok, thats really close to the ground, i think hes trying to land it on state route seven. Trooper thompson immediately turned around, braced for what could have been a disaster. I see him getting closer and closer to the ground. The wheels hit the ground. Kind of wobbles a little bit. He was able to hit the brakes, to bring it to a stop in the centre turn lane. It wasnt a conventional landing, but no one was hurt. The pilot even managed to stop at the red light. It may be the most bizarre traffic stop of trooper thompsons career. The pilot, david acklam, had been flying to work when he reported a fuel problem with his kr2 aircraft. Amazingly, the incident barely interrupted the flow of traffic. He didnt even get a ticket. Tomorrow, though, hell be driving richard lister, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather with louise. It is a quieter story at the moment. Just isolated showers. These have been largely spilling in off the north sea. The best of the brea ks the north sea. The best of the breaks across western and northern areas. So temperatures peaking at highs of 25 celsius for the rest of the day. Through the evening the showers that we have got will start to fade away and it will be a quiet night. Some patchy mist and fog, some low cloud as well, but temperatures, well, around 11 to 15 degrees. It will be a quiet start to saturday, with some sunshine coming through. A bit of fair weather cloud develops through the day and we have some isolated showers in the afternoon. These mostly in the north and west. Sheltered south eastern areas seeing the best of sunshine and highs of 25 degrees. Take care. Hello, youre watching afternoon live im martine croxall. Today at four raf crews race to shore up a collapsed dam wall thats put a derbyshire town at risk of flooding. There is still a real risk that it could collapse. Yes, and the Structural Engineer on site is very concerned about that, and basically, the information we have had is, we have to do something here because its not going to go away on its own. The lib dems win the brecon by election, reducing borisjohnsons working majority tojust one. Scientists say the july heatwave that hit europe was made more likely and more intense by human induced Climate Change. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with hugh with some breaking news regarding harry maguire. Yes, indeed. Manchester united have agreed a fee with £80 million with leicester for the england defender. That would be a world record fee for a defender. More details on that deal later on. Thanks, hugh. And well bejoining you for a full update just after half past. Louise has all the weather. Not too bad today, a relatively quiet story with decent sunny spells for most of us. But there are thundery showers forecast for the second half of the weekend. Ill have all the details coming up shortly. Thanks, louise. Also coming up is this your aircraft, sir . The plane that landed on a busy street and had the police to answer to. Hello. This is afternoon live im martine croxall. Raf helicopter crews have spent the day trying to save a dam in derbyshire amid fears it could burst and engulf much of the town of Whaley Bridge. The chinooks are dropping bags of sand, gravel and stone to shore up the dam wall. Experts say the situation is critical. Around 1500 residents were moved out of their homes yesterday. The Prime Minister has said his thoughts are with them and the governments Emergency Committee cobra is meeting this afternoon. From Whaley Bridge our correspondent laura foster reports. The rain has gone but the hard work goes on. Chinook helicopters have been flying in every ten minutes since 5 30am, each armed with tonnes of sand and gravel. They have moved 200 tonnes so far, but engineers say they need to move at least double that to shore up the dam wall. All of the gravel coming from local quarries. Its a difficult cry task. We have to get as low as we can. You can see behind us the guys and gals are taking a bit of time to get in there because we have to make sure it is done not too high to put more stress onto the dam, but we have to get them into centimetre square areas. It is like a lego block we are building, put a foundation in there and carry on building on top of each other. The problem is this spillway, damaged after a months worth of rain fell in a week. It has put hundreds of homes injeopardy. The plan for the Fire Services to stop what is coming into the reservoir using the chinook and the raf coordinated to dam up those in lights, and of the same time to get as much water out of the reservoir as we can. There is still a risk it could collapse . Yes, the Structural Engineer is very concerned about that. And basically, the information we have had is we have to do something here because it is not going to go away on its own. Meetings like this have been happening throughout the night and all through this morning. It is a joined up operation. Right now the the engineers are 21 more water pumped in. The idea is if you can reduce the amount of water in the reservoir, it reduces the pressure on the dam. After the dam spillway partially collapsed yesterday afternoon, People Living in Whaley Bridge were told to evacuate is the time could be flooded. Most stayed with friends and family. Some were put up in hotels. Others used camper vans. My house is about 30 feet from the river, so it is pretty risky, really. I dont know, if the dam went, i dont know if we would have a house, to be honest. The Prime Minister is called an emergency cobra meeting this afternoon to discuss the situation. Engineers are still assessing what caused the dam to partially collapse but all the people who live here care about is that the warm, sunny weather continues and if, and when, they may be able to go back home. Laura is in Whaley Bridge now for us. We are standing here next to the top of the reservoir, and in the last hour or of the reservoir, and in the last hourorso, of the reservoir, and in the last hour or so, the firefighters have been working hard to build a very big jigsaw puzzle. You can see the snake like thing ahead. That is a heavy volume water pump. The idea is to put eight of these in in order to pump more water out of the reservoir, reducing the pressure on this dam wall. The firefighters have stopped because a chinnock helicopter is about to come in and drop offa helicopter is about to come in and drop off a couple of tonnes of aggregate, a mixture of sand and gravel. That has been happening since around 5am, every ten minutes orso, since around 5am, every ten minutes or so, but this afternoon, it takes a little longer because they are fitting pieces in a delicate puzzle to strengthen the dam wall. There will be a big spray of water as the helicopter approaches the wall of the dam, then it will slowly lower in. They have done 200 tonnes so far, and experts reckon there was another 200 to go, at least. There has been a multi Agency Meeting in the last hour. Experts have been meeting to discuss where we are and what needs to happen next. The residents will be told more about the situation in the next half an hour, and the media will be told more about it after that. The priority is to support this wall. As you can see, hovering in place, and will gently lower down the aggregate, the ballast. Putting those tonnes of material into a very specific place. Of course, the teams who are working on the water pumps have to pause while the tune up is here, for safety reasons. Supporting the wall is still the priority but they are working very hard on the water pumps as well. While the chinnock is here. They have been doing this since very early this morning, stopping only to refuel. Hovering exactly where they need to in order to preserve the dam wall as carefully as possible. And all of this is because there is still a critical threat to the town, all the houses below the reservoir. 1500 people were evacuated last night, many choosing to stay with family and friends, others being put up in hotels. Some sleeping in their camper vans. Hotels. Some sleeping in their camper vans. There is still a very serious threat, and there is a worry that this dam may flood the town. Given that everyone has to stop working in orderfor the helicopter to come in, if you look around, all the firefighters, Emergency Services and helpers, are watching in all, because they know how important it is to get this right. All waiting for that to happen. So many Emergency Services have been here all night, and many of them havent eaten, but luckily, we have had people like the manchester sso come down with food. Guys, tell us about when you came down and why. |j down with food. Guys, tell us about when you came down and why. I got home late last night, and i saw the story unfolding thanks to you guys in the media, and i thought, we have got to go and help all those in pain and suffering. Initially, this morning when we woke up, we thought, lets go and help those who have been displaced, those i have been asked to evacuate their homes. Then we went to the school and saw that there were lots of organisations doing wonderful work. So we thought, where are the Emergency Services, these guys working tirelessly to repair this these guys working tirelessly to repairthis dam to these guys working tirelessly to repair this dam to ensure the town doesnt flood . We were directed here, and we have been serving food for the last three or four hours. Amazing. The helicopter hasjust dropped off the next round of aggregate and is now filing away. You will soon see a lot more activity on the water pumps. Tell us about what you have brought down and how people have reacted. We have rice and lentils, water, crisps, sweets and drinks. Honestly, they are acting like we are such a big help, but if it wasnt for all these guys here, this would be a lot worse right now. These guys are heroes. None of them will admit it but it is true. They are all so humble. What we are doing is nothing compared to what everyone else is doing. It is a humbling opportunity for me, because i was going to be sat at home on my playstation or something, but seeing all these people work is an amazing experience. When we were offering food when we first got here, so many of these wonderful guys were too busy to eat, and that is a testament to the Community Spirit we have here. Thank you so much for coming down. I imagine you wont stop handing out food all around the area. We understand we will learn more about the situation in the next hour, but the residents will be told first about what is happening here and what it means for their homes. Lots of people evacuated and wanting to know when they can get back. Laura, thank you very much. So, what of this operation to shore up the dam . We can speak now to dr Nicholas Howden a professor in water Environmental Engineering at bristol university. Thank you very much forjoining us this afternoon. Tell us what it is about this construction, how this dam is constructed, that has led to this problem. The dam is constructed in order to provide a water supply, to balance the flows in the peak forest canal. The dam holds a certain volume of water, and the inflows are controlled by a mechanism upstream. Normally the water flows on a bypass channel and down into the river, but given the huge amount of water that has fallen in the past week, that is now flowing directly into the reservoir, or was. That because the water level to rise and then to spill over the other side, as we saw. They are trying to reduce the pressure by extracting water further upstream. Where does that water gets stored . Do you mean where are they removing it to . Yes. They will be trying to pump the water out of the reservoir as best they can, and they will be discharging that to the river. 0h, thatis discharging that to the river. 0h, that is immensely frustrating, isnt it . Can we get him back . No. We cant. That was doctor Nicholas Howden from bristol university. Frustrating, because he was telling us some interesting stuff. We will try to get him back, and we will certainly be covering more on the situation throughout the afternoon here on bbc news. Boris johnsons working parliamentary majority has been cut to just one after the liberal democrats won the by election in brecon and radnorshire. The party overturned a conservative majority of 8,000 to clinch the seat by just over 1400 votes. Labour were beaten into fourth place by the brexit party. The new mpjane dodds said voters had chosen hope over fear. Our wales correspondent tomos morgan reports. In a brexit voting area, a remain party coming out on top. I do hereby declare thatjane dodds is duly elected member of parliament for the said constituency. The clear message from the constituencys new mp to borisjohnson. My very first act as your mp, when i arrive in westminster, will be to find mr borisjohnson, wherever he is hiding, and tell him loud and clear, stop playing with the future of our communities. It was celebrations all around in brecon this morning. The liberal democrats victory means the party finally has a seat again in wales and it is a first boost for their new leader. This result sends the message that liberal democrats are winning again. And it comes off the back of our local election success, our best ever European Election results, and it is clear that people dont have to settle for either borisjohnson orJeremy Corbyn. The liberal democrats are providing a positive alternative and here in brecon and radnorshire people have voted for that in their droves. This by election was triggered following conservative chris davies conviction in march of submitting false expenses. The result means the tories have a narrow majority of just one in westminster. It is never easy having a tiny working majority but the broader point is it will not distract us from what we have explicitly promised to do. That is deliver brexit so we can seize the opportunities it provides. This constituency lies within the county of rural powys, where the brexit party came out on top in the european parliamentary elections. It comes as no surprise that the brexit party came third. And brexit was no doubt a hugely contributing factor amongst constituents. We voted to come out and that is the reason we are here. It is driving us up the wall. I have heard too much about brexit, yes. I voted liberal alliance. The narrow victory for the lib dems was helped by the other remain parties, plaid cymru and the greens, choosing not to stand, handing the victory to jane dodds with just over a thousand votes. Labour suffered a significant blow, falling to fourth, prompting further questions about its stance on brexit. Constrtuctive ambiguity has not helped us in the last few years. We have tried to say to brexit voters, we are in favour of brexit, but we are in favour of remain. Without a doubt this is a blow for the new Prime Minister. He was in wales only on tuesday and came to the constituency to try and gather support for his man, but that just wasnt enough. His first Electoral Task failed. Boris johnsons task of getting any future brexit vote through parliament has become trickier. And tomos is in brecon for us. What were the local issues at play in this election . First, the reason why the by election was triggered, as mentioned, because chris davies, the mp, the tory mp, was found guilty in march of submitting fake expenses. That was one reason. Second, this is a rural constituency, agriculture is at its heart, and the farming unions here have strongly condoned a no deal condemn a no deal scenario. The farmers were concerned about how the negotiations were going and no doubt that has played a part. Of course, brexit was another issue, lingering in the background, as it is across the country. So divisive and people on different sides of the argument, giving their opinion in this vote. That was reflected clearly in the numbers. We can see the lib dems did win with the help of votes that came from plaid cymru and the greens. If you contribute the Brexit Party Vote to the conservative party vote, the conservative party would have clearly won, the two brexit parties would have clearly won. This is a constituency that voted to leave, so no doubt, at the end, brexit was a big issue for many people here, even though agriculture is a more local issue that impacts on peoples lives here. Lets return to the operation to shore up the plaid cymru that has partially collapsed in derbyshire. We were trying to speak to doctor Nicholas Howden, a tell it like an expert in Environmental Engineering at bristol university. Thank you for bearing with us while we reconnected the line. How soon will it be before engineers can properly assess what has happened and what needs to be done to properly repair this wall . Initially, they will concentrate on lowering the water level in the reservoir to such an extent that they can establish that it is safe. That will probably take a number of days to do at the current rate of pumping, soi days to do at the current rate of pumping, so i think they are estimating about three or four days to do that. Then once they have continued to add the bags of aggregate to the front of the dam, that should be balancing the forces and stabilising that side. Then the process of trying to understand what went wrong will begin, and i would have thought that would take a number of months. And the repairs how difficult a job is that . In essence, to make the repairs, they will need to draw down the level in the reservoir. They will have to do a full investigation and then decide what they are going to do in order to modify that structure. Looking at the dam structure itself, it has been the subject of repairs in the past, and these sorts of things have happened before. Once an investigation has established the cause, the engineers will be able to put forward the solution and repair the dam. How many other third nights in the country are constructed in a similar way in the country are constructed in a similarway and might in the country are constructed in a similar way and might be similarly at risk . I dont know off the top of my head, but a large number of dams in the uk are regularly inspected, and they are being looked after by qualified engineers who will be aware of where maintenance is required, and they will be actively looking at those and making sure that they are safe. Sometimes there are certain that they are safe. Sometimes there a re certain events that they are safe. Sometimes there are certain events that we cannot necessarily foresee but because some kind of failure. Looking at the background of this particular dam, the president of the British Dam Society was talking to the new Civil Engineer from society was talking to the new Civil Engineerfrom the society was talking to the new Civil Engineer from the institution of Civil Engineers yesterday and early today, and they were saying that they are not sure at the moment what exactly it was that caused this minor failure exactly it was that caused this minorfailure at the exactly it was that caused this minor failure at the top of this dam, whether it was a cavity underneath the concrete blocks or whether the water was moving the concrete blocks themselves. So, in each case, it tends to be a unique failure mechanism that causes the problem, and only the investigation that they undertake afterwards will be able to clarify what that was and put it right. A lot more work to still do, of course. Thank you for talking to us this afternoon. Thank you. More than 50,000 people are facing disruption to their travel plans after the collapse of two package holiday firms. Super break and laterooms. Com are both in administration. Our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz reports. Yes, its the holidays and a terrible time for a holiday provider to go under. In this group, super break has has 400 people overseas and 53,000 forward bookings, many of those within the uk. Then there are customers who have booked hotels via laterooms. The advice is, because the payment goes straight to the hotel, they should be ok. The stories have been emerging on social media of people who think their breaks may be ruined including winter bookings in iceland, for instance. Weve researched the company thoroughly before we actually sort of paid out the money and there was no hint. No. At that time, just a month ago, that there was any Financial Difficulties at all. Super break was drumming up business close to its end. Never too late to visit manchester, it said. And in a statement after its failure, it added that hotel only bookings could be cancelled and people might be asked to pay twice. This is a massive worry for thousands of people, who might have booked tickets to shows in londons west end, or entries to a theme park, along with the hotel rooms to put the family up for the night. And the concerns are, well, the hassle factor, trying to sort it all out, whether theyll be allowed in and whether theyll lose their money. There is some reassurance. The deep, hulls aquarium, said it would honour entry vouchers from affected families, saying it wasnt their fault. The owners of legoland and alton towers said theyd charge 50 of the gate price. But the travel body abta says many should be able to get their money back later. If youve got rail tickets plus a theatre ticket, for example, that is a package holiday, which will be protected by abta. If youve got a package holiday which involves a flight, that will be protected by atol. So, if youve got what we call accommodation only so, for example, a Hotel Booking on its own, that typically wouldnt be protected. Abta advises that those on a break having to pay again for the hotel should get receipts, and if its a package, theyll be reimbursed after making a claim. Simon gompertz, bbc news. Well, lets speak to abta spokesman sean tipton hes in our westminster newsroom. Just tell us how abta responds in a situation like this. When we get confirmation from a company that they are insolvent, we say thank you, put up notice to our members and pointed out to the press, and we ask them to give them a full list of customers affected for whom they are responsible. We have been going out to hotels saying, dont charge them again, we will pay you, because we know people havent budgeted for that. That is usually successful because hotels no who we are. There isa because hotels no who we are. There is a split responsibility between abta and the Civil Aviation authority, who are on the atoll scheme. The caa are responsible for packages involving flights, and there will be people who have gone overseas who will be doing the same, contacting their hotels. Then it is a question of dealing with people who are due to depart imminently. We tell them what to do and send them a claim form digitally so they can start processing the refund. It is not the best news. We are talking about tens of thousands of people affected, but as long as they get the process going for a refund for packages, and if they have paid for accommodation only, get that going with their Credit Card Company or bank, then Contact Hotels to say if you still want to come. They will cancel bookings pretty quickly if they think you are not going to come. Very disappointing for people who have saved up all year and were looking forward to their trips. In terms of the speed with which people can get refunds, and i hope they can rebook, how quickly does it happen . We try to do this as quickly as possible. You have to stop the claims process going, so have a look on our website if you have a package involving a railjourney, and for flights, go to atols caa website. I spoke to one woman who had had a payment already. It can happen quickly. This is not a particularly big travel company, which hopefully will mean we can get them done quickly. Sometimes the documentation required slows things down because people dont provide the right information to process. Is the coverage provided getting greater or fewer . Lots of people plan their own trips and dont necessarily enjoy this kind of detection. The number of people protected with packages is going up. As a proportion of the total number of holiday makers, i dont think it is quite as high as it was. 20 years ago, 90 of people we re it was. 20 years ago, 90 of people were going on package holidays, so it is not as high as that. If you have a bad holiday and it is a package, you can complain, so there is an extra level of protection, south something to think about as we are going through volatile times. Thank you very much. July may have been the hottest month since records began. Provisional figures suggest Global Temperatures last month were 1. 2 degrees above pre industrial levels. The uk recently experienced its highest ever recorded temperature 38. 7 degrees in cambridge and this summer has seen weeks of sweltering weather across europe. Heres our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. It is not water theyre walking through, but a heat haze injapan. It has been the same story across many parts of the world. Record temperatures in finland and three week heat wave in china. Now, it is official, july is one of the hottest if not the hottest on record. And july isnt alone. 2019 has been very warm globally. Each month is among the four warmest for the year in question. This time has been very warm, but this is not the main point. Last month was very warm. All months during 2019 were very warm in terms of compared with other years and that trend is not likely to stop unless we do something about curbing Greenhouse Gas emissions. The results are based on billions of measurements across the world. These latest figures are part of a long term trend in rising Global Temperatures and computer models predict more summer temperature records will be broken across the world more often. The separate assessment by the World Weather attribution group shows the fingerprint of temperature change and temperatures are three degrees hotter than they would have been because of Greenhouse Gases. This record shows that the average temperature around the world injuly was about 1. 2 degrees above its preindustrial rate. That is getting very close to the 1. 5 degree threshold that the countries signed up to in the Paris Agreement and will put pressure on governments do they really have to act urgently and set a plan to cut their emissions down to zero by the middle of the century. Individual heat waves cant be pinned to human created global warming, but the increase in extremes of weather that we are seeing is in line with the predictions made by Climate Change experts and they say theyre likely to get worse and more frequent. Now, its time for a look at the weather with louise. It isa it is a quieter story at the moment. Just isolated showers. These have been largely spilling in off the north sea. Temperatures peaking at highs of 25 celsius. Through the evening, the showers that we have got will start to fade and it will bea got will start to fade and it will be a quiet night. A bit of patchy mist and fog and some low cloud. But temperatures perhaps hovering around 11 to 15 degrees. A quiet start to saturday with some sunshine. Some fair weather cloud develops and we could have some isolated showers in the afternoon. Mostly in the north and west. Sheltered south eastern areas seeing the best of the sunshine and temperatures at 25 degrees. Take care. This is bbc news our latest headlines raf crews race to shore up a collapsed dam wall thats put a derbyshire town at risk of severe flooding. Reporter there is still a risk that it could collapse . Yes the Structural Engineer is very concerned about that and basically the information we have had is we have to do something here, because it is not going to go away on its own. The lib dems win the brecon by election, reducing borisjohnsons working majority to just one. Scientist say the july heatwave that hit europe was made more likely and more intense by human induced Climate Change. Louise porton the mother who killed her two daughters because they got in the way of her sex life is jailed for life. Two holiday firms with bookings from more than 50,000 have ceased trading. Sport now on afternoon live with hugh. Manchester united are splashing the cash on a new defender. They are indeed. £80 million worth of it. Harry maguire will become the most expensive defender in history. It has been a long pursuit of the England Centre back by manchester united, he was linked also with manchester city. But the the united manager made signing a defender a priority. All the other options went away. He likes his leadership qualities. The deal is £80 million, but it is subject to personal terms and a medical, which we understand will be over the weekend. The ashes england have lost another wicket. It is not you who has jinxed it. England have lost another wicket. It is not you who hasjinxed it. Joe denly is out, lbw by james paterson. Plum and given everything that has been happening about umpiring decisions, this was definitely right. Given the concerns about england were the top order, day two has gone well, mainly for a Century Partnership for the second wicket and rory burns has continued to go nicely and we can speak to adam at edgbaston. We have been talking for yea rs edgbaston. We have been talking for years about england being 30 3. 1893 is years about england being 30 3. 189 3 is a marked improvement . Years about england being 30 3. 1893 is a marked improvement . Yes, all things considered, england will be very satisfied with how things have gone. In the last few moments they have lost joe have gone. In the last few moments they have lostjoe denly. He was trapped lbw for 18. But england going along nicely. 193 3 currently. That is 91 lead for australia. Given they lost that wicket so early in they lost that wicket so early in the day, jason roy going in the first few overs, that Century Partnership between rory burns and joe root steadied things for england. Root fell for 57. Joe root steadied things for england. Root fell for57. He had joe root steadied things for england. Root fell for 57. He had a bit of luck before then. He had an extraordinary moment where, the ball hit his stump. He was given out, caught behind, because the umpire heard a noise. Replays showed you could hear his stump and the bails we re could hear his stump and the bails were not dislonled. He was dislodged. He had a bit of luck. He was out caught and bowled by siddal for 57. But rory burns has been the standout bats man and is closing in on his maiden test century. If you hear a roar on his maiden test century. If you heara roar behind on his maiden test century. If you hear a roar behind me, on his maiden test century. If you heara roar behind me, that on his maiden test century. If you hear a roar behind me, that will be him making the century. He has had a bit of luck and seen a couple of drives edged through the slip cordon, but he is doing very well. He could be the opener that england seemingly have been looking for for years. Despite the wickets, the two that have gone in the last hour and a half, england will be very satisfied with their days work here in the sun at edgbaston. Thank you. To the womens british open golf and theres plenty of home interest at the top of the leaderboard, with three english players within two shots of the lead at woburn. Bronte law hit a five under par round of 67 to move to seven under. Defending champion georgia hall is a shot behind after a 69 and charley hull is gonig nicely too. Leaders are hinak shubino, Lizette Salas and ashleigh buhai. Red bulls pierre gasly was fastest in a rain affected second practice at the hungarian grand prix. The frenchman came in less than a tenth of a second ahead of team mate max verstappen. Lewis hamilton, hoping to bounce back from his poor race at the german gp last weekend was third fastest. Finally, some history to tell you about from glorious goodwood. Battaash, ridden byjim crowley, became the first three time winner of the king george stakes with a third successive victory in the five furlong sprint. Thats all the sport for now. Now on afternoon live lets go nationwide and see whats happening around the country in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. Wejoin peter levy in hull, telling us about a hijab day. What is a hijab. It is a story about the hijab, it is a head covering worn by some muslim women. It is worn partly for retaining modesty and partly for freedom of choice. One woman wants to raise awareness of the hijab. This is after we have heard of women who wear the hijab being sworn at and hearing racist comments. One young woman who, wants to wear the hijab bgs but because of this is scared to do so. The idea is having more awareness, by having a special day when all people are invited to wear a hijab. It day when all people are invited to weara hijab. It is day when all people are invited to wear a hijab. It is the brainchild ofa wear a hijab. It is the brainchild of a woman called garda mohammed. She is from lincolnshire and she has been sworn at and faced abuse for wearing a hijab. Part of their personality, if they have been attacked or abused, it is not because other children are bad, it is because they dont have the knowledge of why you wear it. We will give them the opportunity to ask any questions. There is an Important Survey out today . Yes, i would say that the comments that women who wear the hijab have to put up women who wear the hijab have to put up is very disturbing and shocking. As you say, there is a survey out showing that nearly half of all british adults think islam is incompatible with British Values and says two thirds of public agree that most people in the uk have a negative view of islam. One muslim leader said it shows how misunderstood islam is in the uk. But the abuse that we have reported that some people face on a regular basis is very sad and that is why they want this wear a hijab day. Basis is very sad and that is why they want this wear a hijab daylj would how many people would take it up, for people to try it and see what the reaction was. |j up, for people to try it and see what the reaction was. I was thinking the same thing. I think some would. The goal is to break down the barriers and break down the prejudice and it is very sad to hear about one woman who is nervous of actually going out and leaving home because of comments she hears. A good question, i wonder whether it would work. If it takes off, we will have to come back and find out who took it up. Peter thank you. Always a pleasure. If you would like to see more on those stories, you can find them on the bbc iplayer. More now on our top story this afternoon. Raf helicopter crews have spent the day trying to save a dam in derbyshire amid fears it could burst and engulf much of the town of Whaley Bridge. The chinooks are dropping bags of sand, gravel and stone to shore up the dam wall. Experts say the situation is critical. Earlier i spoke to Hanna Sillitoe who lives just down the road and has been through Whaley Bridge today. I was woken up by the chinook helicopter at 5 oclock. I usually wa ke helicopter at 5 oclock. I usually wake up early any way and took my usual jogging route wake up early any way and took my usualjogging route towards Whaley Bridge and i assumed there would be a cordon in place. Along the canal there was no cordon. So i took it upon myself to have a look and see if there were any Emergency Service workers there to speak to, to get some advice, because we are a bit out in the sticks here and the advice has been a little conflicting between what the Environment Agency are suggesting and what the police are suggesting and what the police are suggesting and what the police are suggesting when we have rung the nonemergency line. So the strangest thing was just walking into a village that even at that time in the morning is usually buzzing with people, opening shops, the cafes are starting to open, people are making their way to work and obviously there was no traffic, everything was closed. It was very strange. It must be surreal, we have been showing pictures of raf helicopters flying in, it must be much busier there now. It is a strange feeling. Im a kilometre down the river from Whaley Bridge in a small hamlet by the side of the river goyt. I usually sit outside working on a nice day. It was a beautiful morning, bright sunshine and i sat outside working and fora sunshine and i sat outside working and for a short period everything feels normal and then another helicopter comes over and the press helicopters are there, i know you quys helicopters are there, i know you guys have helicopters showing some incredible footage of the dam. You see the press helicopters, the more you hear those, youre looking up, thinking is something happening. It is the not knowing and wondering how quickly that water will move when it does. So you say that youre getting conflicting advice from different areas, different agencies, what are the different agencies tell you . So ifi the different agencies tell you . So if i take a look at the Environment Agency map. At the moment we are in the orange zone. There isjust agency map. At the moment we are in the orange zone. There is just a warning to be prepared to take precautions. When i spoke to the police in Whaley Bridge this morning, they asked where i was and we looked at their maps and they said you need to get out. That is an evacuation zone. We are down a farm track and it is not the sort of road that anyone would consider is passa ble to that anyone would consider is passable to traffic. Nobodys put any cordon or road closed signs in place where we are and nobodys come down knocking on doors. Im sure theyre dealing with a more significant threat up the road. So sometimes i guess it comes down to personaljudgment. We sometimes i guess it comes down to personal judgment. We have sometimes i guess it comes down to personaljudgment. We have animals. At the moment ourjudgment is that we are staying. But the neighbours have gone. So we have got five little houses in the hamlet and three of the neighbours have decided to leave already. In a moment the latest business news. First a look at the headlines on afternoon live raf crews race to shore up a collapsed dam wall thats put a derbyshire town at risk of flooding. The lib dems win the brecon by election, reducing borisjohnsons working majority to just one. Scientist say the july heatwave that hit europe was made more likely and more intense by human induced Climate Change. Heres your business headlines on afternoon live some disappointing news from the construction sector. Output declined for the third month running injuly. Ihs markit cips which did the survey said confidence in teh sector was at a seven year low, reflecting lower volumes of work across the board. Two package holiday firms have collapsed, affecting more than 50,000 travellers. Malvern group, which incorporates manchester based late rooms and york based superbreak mini holidays, known as super break, has ceased trading. A no deal brexit would result in an instant shock to the uk economy, the governor of the bank of england, mark carney, has warned. In an interview with the bbc the governor said items such as petrol and food would become more expensive if the uk leaves the eu without an agreement. I would love to know what your favourite stories are. Royal rbs i would love to know what your favourite stories are. Royal r35 is a good story. They have announced a dividend and half a billion of that has to go to the government. Because theyre the 62 shareholder. They managed to give this dividend out, because it has been a good year, but theyre saying there are going to be tough times ahead and it is a lot to do with a slowing economy and Less Consumer spending and uncertainties over brexit. Ba . Ba is. Is facing a lot of challenges. Brexit of course. Dont have to talk about that. But also it has a fine on its doorstep, £183 million to do with data breaches and it will appeal against that. It has a pilot strike on its hand maybe. It offered them 11. 596 on its hand maybe. It offered them 11. 5 pay increase over three years. But they have turned it down. Suffering, it is facing that. But it is well spread out. It is a business called iag. It is a lot of airlines. All come into this group. Theyre well diversified and theyre well set in order to be able to face the future. But they have got a lot on their plate. And tariffs. Yes, ta riffs their plate. And tariffs. Yes, tariffs are, i mean when i was mentioning things like slowing economy, this has a big role to play. It is just an undermining economy, this has a big role to play. It isjust an undermining of confidence because of the tariffs being imposed by president trump. Lets just talk to jasper lawler. What do you make of tariffs thing . It isa what do you make of tariffs thing . It is a ratcheting up, theyre putting 10 on another 300 billion worth of goods from china into the us. It will slow everything down further isnt it . Us. It will slow everything down further isnt it . Yes, well i think the first thing to note, there was a shock to most people and that is why youre seeing severe reactions in financial markets, major indices down. We saw the oil price in the us drop close to 7 . All the German Government bonds were yielding Interest Rates of negative. So all these different factors showing that this is being viewed as a negative thing. I think it is not necessarily, as you said, this is not about the numbers so much, though of course it does amount to a multibillions of dollars, in comparison to the size of the us economy and even the chinese economy, it is small, but it does dent confidence and creates uncertainty when we thought actually we re uncertainty when we thought actually were heading towards a deal. We heard that the deal was 90 done. Now we see an escalation in the tariffs, it would suggest china cant reach a deal with the United States and global trade uncertainties continue. Closer to home, i no ethat does affect everybody, but ba, it is an interesting story. They have a lot of things going on. But actually their business, because it is so broad, actually seems to be doing well. Im talking about iag, the Holding Company that owns all these airlines. It is a stark contrast. We saw lufthansa reporting a 20 drop in profits. So by contrast, iig doing well. It that is diversification that is the saving grace and diversification that is the saving grace and i think it is specifically that short haul is facing a lot of cost, a lot of pressure for competition from the low cost budget carriers and so the more your business is orientated to the short haul, the more youre suffering, luckily we have ba and aer lingus and that is what is saving them in the long haul flights are more profitable and better for the business. And rbs, turned a corner, duch . Do you feel. It is a one off situation and it is as a result of largely the ab and amro deal that caused the fall of rbs. The bank is making progress. Again if you look at the other bank results that we saw this week, ba rclays for example, theyre results that we saw this week, barclays for example, theyre citing similar things, there is barclays for example, theyre citing similarthings, there is a barclays for example, theyre citing similar things, there is a general economic malaise, specifically with the Housing Market and mortgages are just not as profitable as they were. Interest rates have been low for a long time, but the difference now is that there is not much transaction volume to buffer up the low Interest Rates. Thank you. Do you want to have a look at the markets now . I do. You want to see where it go. U nless do. You want to see where it go. Unless you invested in international airlines. That is ba and aer lingus. Each time i look at it the share has gone up. The pound stuck near the bottom where it reached yesterday. It has not fallen further. But it is still weak. The dow is down 1 and the ftse down 2 . It is the talk about trade in the United States. Driving it down. Yes. Thank you. It has been a lovely. Thank you. The United States has formally withdrawn from a Nuclear Weapons treaty with russia raising fears of a new arms race. The agreement signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev banned intermediate range nuclear missiles. The Trump Administration has blamed russia for breaching the terms of the treaty an accusation moscow denies. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale reports. It was a crucial moment towards the ending of the cold war the moment, in 1987, when the leaders of the united and soviet union signed the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty. Ronald reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev promised to destroy all their missiles with ranges of between 300 miles and 3,400 miles, eliminating at a stroke an entire class of Nuclear Weapon. The mobile ground launched Nuclear Weapon hard to detect the mobile ground launched Nuclear Weapons were hard to detect and could strike anywhere in europe within minutes, but in recent years, russia has begun testing and deploying a new cruise missile, which the us says breaches the inf treaty. So theyve withdrawn from the agreement, much to the concern of the international community. The world will lose an invaluable brake on nuclear war and this will likely not reduce the threat caused by ballistic missiles. Regardless of what transpires, the parties should avoid destabilising developments and urgently seek agreement on a new common path for International Arms control. The us had given russia six months to comply with the treaty, but moscow denied its new missile broke the rules and blames the us for ending the agreement. The risk now is that the demise of the treaty sparks a new arms race between russia, china and the us. Nato leaders promised to ensure that the alliances defences remain credible, but said they would not mirror russia and deploy new land based missiles. We dont want a new arms race. We dont want a new arms race. Thats the reason why we will respond in a measured and defensive way. And thats also the reason why we continue to work for arms control, non proliferation and disarmament. Three decades ago, the leaders of the worlds super powers acted to reduce the Nuclear Threat in europe. Their treaty is now dead, and yet another part of the International Rules based order has been consigned to history. James landale, bbc news. Police in the us state of washington are used to stopping motorists but they got the shock of their lives when they saw a plane racing down the road. And when the light aircraft finally came to a halt, of course the officers had to knock on the window and have a word with the pilot. Richard lister reports. Is it a bird . No, its a plane caught on a police dash cam, buzzing low over the morning commute. I thought, from a far distance, it was a remote controlled plane. As it continued going north, it got bigger and bigger and bigger. To the point of, ok, thats really close to the ground, i think hes trying to land it on state route seven. Trooper thompson immediately turned around, braced for what could have been a disaster. I see him getting closer and closer to the ground. The wheels hit the ground. Kind of wobbles a little bit. He was able to hit the brakes, to bring it to a stop in the centre turn lane. It wasnt a conventional landing, but no one was hurt. The pilot even managed to stop at the red light. It may be the most bizarre traffic stop of trooper thompsons career. The pilot, david acklam, had been flying to work when he reported a fuel problem with his kr2 aircraft. Amazingly, the incident barely interrupted the flow of traffic. He didnt even get a ticket. Tomorrow, though, hell be driving richard lister, bbc news. Driving carefully i hope now its time for a look at the weather with louise lear. Parts of cheshire had twice their annual rain fall injuly. Many areas saw one and a half times their Monthly Average. Including Whaley Bridge, where we have the Flood Warning in place. The showers today have been isolated and they have been coming off the north sea. We are running the risk of a few scattered showers in wales. Tonight the showers will fade away. And we are looking at a quiet night ahead. A bit of patchy mist and low cloud as well from time to time. But a quiet night. And temperatures will sit at around 11 to 15 degrees. We start off our weekend on a quiet note. Dry with some sunshine. Early morning mist will lift. A bit of fair weather cloud and as we go through the afternoon a few scattered showers. They are widely across western areas. The eastern areas seeing the best of the weather and highs of 25 degrees. That does mean if youre heading to edgbaston for the cricket, it looks as though we could see a few scattered showers in the afternoon, threaten not too many. On sunday we could sigh some sharp thundery down pours later on in the day. That is because we have got these fronts pushing in from the west, low pressure starting to influence the story for the second half of the weekend. So the met office has issued a yellow weather warning. That means just be aware there is a potential where we have seen the down pours and the flooding rains in Northern England and scotland, we could see more heavy showers. Around lunch time and into the evening we could have a short, sharp burst of heavy showers and that will be a lot of rain in a short space of time. Shelt herred 26 degrees the high. But low pressure is likely to influence the weather into the start of next week and we still run the risk of further showers to come over the next few days. Do keep abreast of the weather forecast. Take care. Today at 5pm, the race to stop a reservoirfrom bursting, and engulfing a derbyshire town. Raf chinooks have been dropping bags of sand and stone the Emergency Services say there is a real risk the dam could collapse. The Structural Engineer on site is very concerned about that, and, basically, the information we have had is we have to do something here because it is not going to go away on its own. More than 1,000 residents have been moved out of Whaley Bridge experts say the situation is critical well have the latest from the scene and talking to a Structural Engineer about the task ahead. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. I do hereby declare thatjane dodds is duly elected member of parliament for the said constituency