and england s batsmen are fighting to keep their ashes hopes alive at headingley, where they re 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 wouldn t 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 uk s 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 won t be walking off the world stage. the prime minister wants to show he s got an important role to play and has strong views on global trade. i m very worried about the way it s going, the growth of protections, of tariffs that we are seeing. the uk thrives mightily on being an open, outward looking
sent to passengers telling them theirflights had been cancelled because of a pilot s strike were sent in error. england s batsmen show some resistance in the third test at headingley, but it s australia who still look set to retain the ashes. and in half an hour here on bbc news how a high school student from ohio received an email out of the blue that changed her life forever in my very extended family. good evening. the g7 summit in the french resort of biarritz is under way and borisjohnson has hit back at donald tusk after the european council president said he hoped the prime minister wouldn t be remembered as mr no deal . in response, mrjohnson said mr tusk would earn the same title if he ignored the uk s demands. well, a little earlier this evening mrjohnson was greated in biarritz by the president of france emmanuel macron and his wife bridget donald trump was also met by president macron though he had already enjoyed a lunch with mr macron earlier on a seafron
good evening. prince andrew has released a statement about his friendship with the disgraced financier jeffrey epstein, the first time the prince has spoken directly about his links since epstein took his own life in a new york prison cell earlier this month. prince andrew said at no stage did he see or suspect any criminal behaviour. epstein had been awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges when he killed himself. here s our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. what was prince andrew doing at the home of a convicted paedophile in new york in 2010, peering out through the door as young women came and went? the questions about andrew s friendship withjeffrey epstein have shown no sign of abating and so, from the prince today, a statement in which he says he is eager to clarify the facts. he states. i met mr epstein in 1999. during the time i knew him, i saw him infrequently and probably no more than only once or twice a year. i have stayed in a number of his residen
think boris is absolutely right. teresa reynolds had this response. well, we will certainly be returning to that argument in the next few weeks but in the meantime we have also had some response to the coverage of the notting hill carnival which took place last weekend. doctor childs felt that abc news approach story in the wrong way, e mailing. now, summer holidays for many people are positively defined by sunshine and heat and there was plenty of both around for most of the country on monday. it was the hottest late august bank holiday on record as the news at six reported. a day which ended for sunburn for some and plenty of sand in the car, too. but rank holidays don t get much better oi’ rank holidays don t get much better or hotter than this. richard lister, bbc news. so, is it going to last? let s ask philip avery. more pictures, if you can bear them, of people enjoying themselves at the seaside and with the sort of temperate as we have been seeing, no wonder people
and, record breaking weather, the hottest late august bank holiday sees temperatures hit 33 degrees celsius. the prime minister borisjohnson has said he is marginally more optimistic , on the chances of clinching a deal brexit deal with the eu, after talks at the g7 this weekend, but admitted it would be difficult. boris johnson was speaking at a news conference, in biarritz, in france, following this weekend s g7 summit, where he also rebuted the suggestion that president trump believes a no deal brexit scenario is now the most likely option. i didn t hear the president say exactly that he thought it would be a no deal brexit. i think what i heard him say what was that the eu were tough negotiators. that is true, but then so are the americans and so are the australians and new zealand, and everybody, everyone is a tough negotiator. you re a pretty tough negotiator, i expect. so, look, but that doesn t mean we won t do a deal. and we re working very hard do that. it will wil