Officer whod been married just four weeks when he died. Just hours to save Bury Football Club from being expelled from the English Football League for lack of funding. It is the Summer Bank Holiday but if you are travelling this weekend, bad news you could face disruption on the roads and railways. And england suffer a batting collapse to australia in the third test in leeds. And coming up on bbc news. The showpiece of rugby league the challenge cup final takes place at wembley tomorrow. But can st helens end their 11 year wait . Good evening. The fires which are currently ravaging the amazon rainforest in brazil have prompted the leaders of france and ireland to declare they wont support a major eu trade deal with south america unless brazil does more to bring the situation under control. Campaigners have blamed the Environmental Policies of brazils president , jair bolsonaro, for the spread of the fires, which are threatening a major source of the worlds oxygen. The blazes, which are scattered widely across the amazon, most notably in the north of brazil, are the most intense in the region for almost a decade. The issue is due to be discussed at the g7 summit in france this weekend, but the brazilian president has criticised foreign governments for interfering. Heres our diplomatic correspondent, james robbins. The fires in the amazon forest continue to rage. And as more and more trees are lost, the threat to this great carbon capturing region of the world grows. Reports suggest there may be 2500 separate fires in there may be 2500 separate fires in the brazilian amazon. Farmers and loggers are being widely blamed for lighting many of them. There has been a sustained pattern of clearing forest for cultivation, part of a drive to expand agriculture, encouraged by the countrys controversial, right wing president. Translation actually it is bolsonaro who is responsible for what is happening in the amazon. He encourages environmental crime which makes criminals feel comfortable. Several World Leaders are about to travel to france for a summit hosted by president macron, applaud his decision to put the amazon fires at the top of the agenda. He tweeted, oui the top of the agenda. He tweeted, our house is burning literally. The amazon, the lungs which produce 20 of the planets oxygen is on fire. It is an international crisis. I passionately share the view of Emmanuel Macron about what is happening in brazil. 0ne Emmanuel Macron about what is happening in brazil. One of the things i am going to be raising at the g7 is the horrific loss of habitats and species around the world. With protests in london and other capitals, all this has gone down very badly with brazils president bolsonaro. He is accusing g7 leaders of a colonial mindset and climate charities of interference. Translation those countries that send money here, they are not doing it for charity. They are doing it because they have a vested interest. They want to interfere with our sovereignty. They are looking for riches under the soil. The amazon rainforest is huge, not only in sheer geographical size, but also in its importance in sustaining life on earth. It covers about 2. 1 million square miles, about half the size of europe. It has billions of trees and is home to 3 million species of plants and animals. The amazon produces 20 of our planets oxygen and absorbs harmful c02 from the atmosphere. But the forest is under threat, with an average area the size of a football pitch being cleared every minute. And this year, the number of fires in the forest hasjumped the number of fires in the forest has jumped by 85 . The number of fires in the forest hasjumped by 85 . My the number of fires in the forest has jumped by 85 . My colleague the number of fires in the forest hasjumped by 85 . My colleague is in the west of the country. Firefighters in the state, one of the most affected by the fires have been working here for the past two weeks using blowers and water trying to put out the flames. Resources are an issue here as it is a vast area with few people on the ground and a tight budget. It is the Indigenous People of the amazon who are suffering most. Some have been attacked and killed. They see the entire world under threat. That is increasingly the view of much of the rest of the world also. But is there enough political will to change things . James robbins, bbc news. We can talk to our correspondent, daniel gallas, in sao paolo now. Is this outcry from the International Community going to sway the president in any way . President bolsonaro is quite an unpredictable character and a lot of people call him the trump of the tropics because of his brash manners. It is hard to see which way he will go from now. He has been very quiet today, which is very unusual, he likes to talk a lot, as we saw yesterday. Brazilian media reporting he is likely to go on television today to announce the measures his government is taking against the wildfires. But we dont know whether he will respond to france, to the g7 calls and that is what people are expecting to hear in the next few hours. Daniel, many thanks. Police forces across the country have held a minutes silence in memory of pc Andrew Harper, who was killed while investigating a burglary in berkshire last week. His mother said the familys lives and hearts had been torn apart by his death. Our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, reports. Pc Andrew Harpers family are still in the early days of coming to terms with his death. But today, just a week after he was killed, his mother, father and other close relatives came to the poignant ceremony organised by his force. We gather here one week from the tragic death of pc Andrew Harper, our dearly loved and respected colleague, friend and proud police officer, son, brother and husband. Were here to offer our respects and to acknowledge his passing. Pc harper, who got married just 28 days before he died, was killed responding to a burglary last thursday night. So in this moment, let us still busy hearts and minds as we remember our colleague and friend andrew, in silence now. Whistle. Pc harpers mother said the familys lives had been torn apart. We are devastated and bereft, she wrote. But as andrew always lived with dignity, honour and calmness, we intend to grieve in this way. In his hometown of wallingford, shops have put up ribbons to represent the thin blue line role that police play, protecting society from crime. Releasing more photographs, the family said Andrew Harper had been a funny, brave, compassionate brother and a generous, caring, loving son. Daniel sandford, bbc news. British Airways Pilots are to stage a series of strikes next month in a dispute over pay. The British Airline Pilots Association said its members will walk out on the 9th, 10th and 27th of september. It comes after they rejected a pay increase worth 11. 5 over three years, which the airline said is fair and generous. The bbc understands the mp for sheffield hallam, jared 0mara, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud. Its understood his chief of staff, gareth arnold, was also arrested. Both men were later released under investigation. Police are believed to have confiscated electronic equipment from mr 0mara, who sits as an independent mp. He ousted the former liberal democrat leader, nick clegg, from his long held seat, standing as a labour candidate in 2017. The Prime Minister has warned that people shouldnt get their hopes up too soon about the prospects of a brexit deal. Speaking while visiting a hopsital in devon about this weeks meetings in germany and france, borisjohnson played down hopes of a breakthrough in the brexit talks. He said that whilst progress was being made, he would caution everyone not to hold their breath that a deal would be done. Bury Football Club will be expelled from the English Football League at midnight tonight unless a last minute deal can be struck to save it. The league one side, which is 13a years old, have not played a match this season because of financial problems. Its owner, steve dale, has just hours to prove they have the funding to continue. 0ur north of england correspondent, judith moritz, is in bury for us. Yes, there are less than six hours until that deadline and the atmosphere here is a mixture of anger and resignation. Half of the fa ns anger and resignation. Half of the fans ive spoken to are convinced they will never see their team play again. The other half say they are still hopeful that a deal can be secured on what would literally be the 11th hour. It is the photo stunt they would rather not be posing for but these supporters have a point to make. The clu b supporters have a point to make. The club was founded more than 130 years ago but they know this could be its last day. Across the generations, the fans are feeling desperate. Amongst them, anthony and peter, both season Ticket Holder since childhood. It is in the family. You know, i can only describe it to losing a relative. It sounds silly but thats really what it feels like. Tough for you as well . Definitely, berry is a place that every saturday, you dont have to get in touch with your friends, you know they are going to be here. It is organic socialisation, meeting up with people and it is killing us losing this club, it is killing us. It isa losing this club, it is killing us. It is a contrast to the highs of last season when they won promotion from league 2. But the club has been dogged by rumours of financial trouble. It was bought for £1 in december, 12 point were docked and the team is yet to play a game this season. The team is yet to play a game this season. 0wner, steve dale has been given until midnight to provide proof of funds or cell. This afternoon he was touring tv and radio stations doing a series of interviews saying he regrets the day he bought the club. Worst thing i ever did. He bought the club. Worst thing i everdid. I he bought the club. Worst thing i ever did. I have never been in industry where you get vilified for saving something that you did, i didnt create this mess. All i have done is save and reduce that debt. Never taken a penny and all this, you are an asset stripper. How can you are an asset stripper. How can you strip assets of something that you strip assets of something that you dont own a stick in there. But the fans are unanimous, the fans wa nt the fans are unanimous, the fans want him out. He says he has a buyer but the Football League says there has been limited progress with any deal. If no solution is found by midnight, bury be the first club to be injected from the league since 1992. Others are watching on anxiously. 0ther 1992. Others are watching on anxiously. Other clubs with 2500, costs them money to put games on and they lose money putting a game on. This is now endemic right through the league. It is not, even the championship with the money in there, they are overspending. They are getting themselves in trouble. Bury is a club with a proud history, twice winners of the fa cup, it has had its glory days. Its faithful followers are praying it will have them again. Judith moritz, bbc news, bury. The time is 6. 1apm. Our top story this evening. International pressure is mounting on brazil to do more to tackle huge fires in the amazon. Coming up. The science of pig happiness how the latest technology is reaping benefits for britains farmers. Coming up on sportsday on bbc news. Its a repeat of the final four years ago as england take on the netherlands in the eurohockey championship semifinals in antwerp. Tokyo is preparing to hold the olympic and Paralympic Games next year, and much of what will be the olympic park is still under construction. But the British Paralympic Association says it has serious concerns about the number of Accessible Hotel Rooms available for athletes, spectators and media. The citys governor says tokyo is short of 300 suitable rooms but has pledged to adapt accommodation for those with disabilities. 0ur Disability Affairs correspondent, nikki fox, is in tokyo. Tokyos famous shibuya crossing. Its as crowded as the city itself, which will, next year, see thousands of athletes plus disabled spectators and media all arrive for the 2020 Paralympic Games. In the build up, many of the a,500 paralympians will come here to train and to acclimatise. But during that time theres no fully accessible athletes village. They will have to stay in the city. You want to Stay Together as a team. Canadian born and now japanese citizen josh grisdale, who runs the website accessible japan, says thats a problem. There are really not enough rooms for people with disabilities. Right now there are only about 0. A of hotel rooms in japan are accessible. This is one of the busiest hotels in tokyo. It has more than 1,a00 rooms butjust 13 are accessible. As it stands legally, a hotel this size is only required to have one accessible room. The law is changing to 1 for all new hotels, but the rooms themselves might not suit everyone. Only this space. Why is there a bath and not a shower . Its the japanese bathroom style. Yes, absolutely. That room was beautiful and beauty and accessibility dont always go hand in hand. Ive also never stayed in hotel with a height adjustable bed, so that was fancy. But that bathroom would be out of bounds for many wheelchair users. Theyll try but it would be difficult. This week, olympic and paralympic judo hopefuls have been getting used to their Training Facilities in tokyo. These are just a few of the more than 300 british athletes as well as support staff coming to japan ahead of the games. The Paralympic Association says they underestimated just how challenging it would be to find accessible accommodation. 0ur athletes are used to living independently and the last thing they want is to revert back to having to be helped in and out of a bath. Whats the situation like now with regards to Accessible Hotel Rooms . The tokyo government is giving subsidies to the Hotel Industry right now to arrange the rooms very free. So i hope people from all over the world can stay without problem. With a year to go, tokyo 2020 is on track. The organisers are hoping the problem with rooms will be sorted soon so that the focus can return to sporting achievement and changing attitudes. Nikki fox, bbc news, tokyo. The Care Quality Commission has forced the closure of a Childrens Mental Health unit at west lane hospital in middlesbrough where two 17 year old women died this summer. An inspection report published this week rated the unit as inadequate, with patients at high risk of avoidable harm. The boss of the Lorry Company Eddie Stobart has been forced to step down and trading in the firms shares has been suspended as it looks into accounting discrepancies. The business has also warned its results for the First Six Months of this year will be significantly lower than originally forecast. The company, known for its green and red lorries, revealed a £2 million error in its 2018 results last month. Scientists and conservationists in kenya say they have successfully harvested ten eggs from the only two surviving northern white rhinos in an effort to save the species from extinction. The eggs from the female rhinos will be fertilised using frozen sperm collected from the last male of the species, which died last year. The sun is out, the sky is blue, so inevitably there are predictions of travel problems ahead on this Bank Holiday Weekend. Millions of us will take to the roads and travel to trains and airports this evening. Sima kotecha is in 0xfordshire for the latest. As families headed for the weekend, thousands of cars are expected to clog up the motorways. 0ne survey suggests 8. 6 million of us will spend a night away this weekend. That is 1 spend a night away this weekend. That is1 million more than spend a night away this weekend. That is 1 million more than this time last year. On the motorways they are saying the worst time to travel is at the moment with congestion at its highest and the rac says the best time to travel is after 9pm this evening. Highways england says there are 50 sets of roadworks taking place across the country over the weekend which could cause severe delays. 0nto trains, operators urge people not to travel on the east coast mainline because Kings Cross Station in london is closed. They also say there is disruption on the west coast mainline. As the weather, any of us expect glorious sunshine and the temperature in the south east is expected to reach 32 celsius. The met office says if you are travelling in this heat, drink water regularly and if you are driving, ta ke regularly and if you are driving, take regular breaks. Many thanks. Artificial intelligence is transforming many sectors of the economy and farming is one of them. Its hoped that precision farming will help to reduce waste and improve welfare for example, using technology to track the Mental Health of livestock as well as their physical health and also helping to decide which crops are ready to harvest. 0n the concluding day of our focus on farming week, our environment correspondent, claire marshall, takes a closer look at farmings future. What are these pigs thinking . How do they feel . This scanner acts as an eye for a machine that is analysing their expressions. Soon, it should allow us to understand the pigs emotions. This technology, in its research phase, was conceived in the west country. The vision of the future of farming is one where the well being of the animals and their comfort is the priority. Just look at the facilities here. The cows movement is monitored to check its health. This tech is already on the market. The facial recognition is coming next. We will be able to see whether or not an animal that is lame, you can infer that its going to be an unhappy animal, and whether that animal has a different face to an animal that isnt in pain. So we are looking to try to tease out those differences between the faces. Heres another glimpse into the future. Watch this disease spore. It enters a sensor biologically engineered to mimic the crop. Like a kind of fire alarm, the sensor sets off an early alert. They can all be linked up, warning otherfarmers weeks before any damage is visible. And they can be 3d printed. Weve got some very clever, cutting edge engineering. But at the same time, theres cutting edge biology as well. And only by bringing those two together can we actually start addressing what will need to be done in the future. 1. 3 million broccoli plants are growing on this land near doncaster. We were given exclusive access to field trials of a scouting device that gathers data about each specific plant. Its the latest in precision farming. Most of us as consumers, we dont buy wonky veg. If its too big or too small or misshapen, the supermarkets wont accept it. We can know which plants are of saleable quality directly, and then if its too small we can leave it behind and if its just right we can harvest it. This could save millions of tonnes of food from being wasted and cut pesticide use. As the climate grows more unstable, scientists warn humans do need to take more care of the land. Claire marshall, bbc news. England face a huge challenge to regain the ashes after being bowled out for just 67 regain the ashes after being bowled out forjust 67 in the first innings at the third test at headingley. With three days left, australia lead by more than 250 runs. From headingley, andy swiss reports. So much hope, so much promise. After a good first day, england fans had arrived with a spring in their step, only to watch their ashes chances seemingly vanish before their eyes. Jason roys wickets sparking even by englands standards a jaw dropping collapse. Joe root gone for a duck and every time we thought it couldnt get any worse, somehow it did. Ben stokes horrible swish perhaps the low point. Dire, desperate you could pretty much pick your adjective. And when top scorerjoe denly went for a mighty 12, what followed was grimly inevitable as australia ripped through the rest a case of blink and you missed it. England blown away for 67. Their lowest test score against australia since 19a8. Surely there was no way back . Trailing by a whopping 112 runs, their bowlers now needed something special. And they did their best with stuart broad and thenjack leach making early breakthroughs. Could there be another twist . They would need to take every chance and they didnt. Root the culprit, and although stokes spectacularly accounted for travis head, australias lead was growing all the time. A chastening day for england. Their ashes hopes are fast slipping away. The latest i can tell you is australia are 153 four, which means their lead is already more than 250. If england lose this match then their hopes of winning back the ashes are over. And even their most optimistic fan must now be fearing the worst. 0h optimistic fan must now be fearing the worst. Oh dear many thanks, andy swiss, there. Time for a look at the weather. Heres tomasz schafernaker. A Bank Holiday Weekend. Hot temperatures . Can that we true . It is true and we are potentially on course for one of the hottest Bank Holiday Weekend is on record. The hottest was in 2001, 301. 5 degrees. We are forecasting 31, so close. This is not good news for everybody because some of us dont like it that hot and it will get excessive for some of us across the south east. Even across central scotland, temperatures into the mid 20s. We are talking about widespread warmth this weekend. At the moment there is a lot of cloud in the north west and it has been raining in the Western Isles but that is the exception because at the moment and tomorrow the hot air will be wafting in from the continent and it will be widely sunny and hot across europe and we will be feeling that warmth early on saturday morning. A lot of clear weather and maybe some best in the countryside but that is pretty much it. Temperatures around 13 or 14 much it. Temperatures around 13 or 1a degrees and i mention the High Pressure a cross 1a degrees and i mention the High Pressure across europe. Extending from ireland, across central europe, all away into russia and the weather systems, without rain, being deflected to the north. Much of the continent enjoying that a summer weather. Saturday, across england and wales there will hardly be a cloud in the sky but for Northern Ireland at west of scotland the possibility of a little cloud and light rain. 30 in london, 27 in yorkshire, mid 20s expected in central scotland. On sunday, perhaps a little bit of fair weather cloud and maybe the odd shower rain sparked off by the high temperatures across the pennines but again, 30 degrees in the south and the mid 20s further north. It never gets that hot in belfast but 21 degrees is still decent. The next few days. The bank holiday itself, temperatures could approach 30 degrees once again and even tuesday and wednesday in the south it looks as though the weather is going to hold so the summer is most certainly back thank you. A reminder of our top story. International pressure is mounting on brazil to do more to tackle huge fires in the amazon. Thats all from the bbc news at six. Its goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbcs news teams where you are. Hello, good evening. This is bbc news with me samantha simmonds. International pressure mounting on pressure International Pressure mounting on pressure brazil to do more to tackle firefighter wildfires and amazon. Firefighters in this state one of the most affected by the amazon fires have been working heres for the past few weeks using blowers trying to put out the flames but resources are an issue here as isa but resources are an issue here as is a vast area with few people on the ground. Calls for the fires to be on the agenda to be on this weekends g7 summit as ireland and france threatened to veto a massive trade deal unless britain brazil does more. Police forces across the country observe a minutes science to remember pc enter harper killed in the line of duty last week. Jared 0mara arrested on suspicion of
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