On the heroics of ben stokes after that historic innings at headingley yesterday. And coming up at half nine, weather world rounds up the planets recent and most significant meteorological events. A new plan to tackle huge wildfires in the amazon rainforest is expected to be agreed at the g7 summit of World Leaders today. Brazilian warplanes have already been dumping water on the burning woodland. This morning, borisjohnson has pledged £10 million in funding to help replace lost trees. Heres our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. The fires raging across the amazon in recent weeks have been devastating notjust for those who live there, but also potentially for the global environment. For president macron of france, they are a crisis the g7 was designed to fix a Common Threat that requires collective action by the worlds major economies. So today, he and other leaders will discuss and potentially agree a new plan to help countries first with the fires, and then subsequent reforest
To block the suspension of the uk parliament. The other main stories on bbc news at five. Ellie gould the 17 year old stabbed to death in may another teenager Thomas Griffiths pleads guilty to her murder. A warning to eat less red meat, cut down on transport if the uk is to meet emissions targets. And, the discovery of a four million year old apes skull in ethiopia that could change our understanding of how humans evolved. Its five oclock, good evening. Our top story is that mps opposed to a no deal brexit, are considering their response to the governments decision, to suspend parliament for five weeks. The formerjustice secretary, david gauke, said next week could be the only opportunity to make their case in the commons, today saw the first resignation from the government, over its plans. Lord young, a whip in the house of lords, says proroguing parliament, risked fundamentally undermining the institution. Ruth davidson has quit too, as tory leader in scotland. But while she says she
And englands batsmen are fighting to keep their ashes hopes alive at headingley, where theyre chasing an unlikely target of 359 to win. Good evening. Boris johnson has hit back at donald tusk after the European Council president said he hoped the Prime Minister wouldnt be remembered as mr no deal. Mr tusk was speaking in biarritz at the the g7 summit of World Leaders. In response mrjohnson said mr tusk would earn the same title if he ignored the uks demands. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young is in biarritz her report contains flashing images. Landing for his first summit, and it could be a tense one. Borisjohnson is determined to leave the eu but says britain wont be walking off the world stage. The Prime Minister wants to show hes got an Important Role to play and has strong views on global trade. Im very worried about the way its going, the growth of protections, of tariffs that we are seeing. The uk thrives mightily on being an open, outward looking, free trading nation.
Host so kate fazzini, what do a romanian teenager, a chinese dishwasher and a russian young man from russia raised by an alcoholic single mother have in common . Guest well, youll find all these people in my book of course, in kingdom of lies, but i think the ones they may have the most in common is a sort of dancing between good and bad. So you have people who have, you know, a woman in romania has very few computer skills. You have a gentleman in china, and gentleman in russia who had very good computer skills, but you see them going to work often on both sides of the equation, so someone can be a hacker forbade and be a criminal, but sometimes they can put those skills to good use. Sometimes they just go all the way down the bad path and use certain people who have a bit of a bent towards sociology going that way, as we see with our friend in russia. But in the end you have people who are curious, interesting, and people that we can learn from, which is what i was really going for.
First of all, i do welcome mr. Prez and his wife and we are very happy to have you here in biarritz, and displays, for the g7 and once again very happy to invite you. You are very special guest for us and now at this occasion, very important. On this occasion, a lot of crisis. We will discuss libya, syria, ukraine, north korea, and iran. A lot of these crises that we need a strong coordination of and partners on the table. And especially on iran, we have to fix the situation, and we had a lot of [inaudible] and we have to work very hard because i i see we do share the same objectives. First, being sure that iran dont get access to nuclear weapon. And second, stability of the region. We will discuss as well about the economic global situation, how to decrease tensions and fix the situation in terms of trade, because i think if he managed to fix the situation, seven of us, we fix a great part of the world. And this is a very important [inaudible] of our discussion as well, and obviously