Fires in the amazon. From this vantage point, you get a sense of the scale of the disaster facing the region of the amazon. Hectare facing the region of the amazon. Hecta re after facing the region of the amazon. Hectare after hectare of pristine forest, just going up in smoke. And coming up. The huge street party begins. More than a Million People are expected at Notting Hill Carnival this bank holiday weekend. Good afternoon. It was one of the most astonishing innings in the history of test match cricket. With england heading towards a humiliating defeat which would have seen australia retain the ashes, ben stokes hit an amazing centiry to give england an unlikely one wicket victory. After collapsing forjust 67 runs in the first innings, this time england needed 359 to clinch the game. That looked a long way off when stokes was joined by the last manjack leach, still needing 73 to win. Stokes then launched a stunning solo assault to win the game and bring the series level at 1 1. 0ur sports presenter, 0lly foster is in our sports centre. Try summing that up. How about the words from the former captain and test match great alistair cooke, who said it is the most extraordinary test innings played by an england batsman. Ben stokes was at the crease at the start of the day alongside his captain, joe root. Joe root was dismissed very early and australia simply took the wickets with great regularity. But the one co nsta nt at with great regularity. But the one constant at headingley was ben stokes, as partners came and went, he had a fairly Healthy Partnership withjonny he had a fairly Healthy Partnership with jonny bairstow, he had a fairly Healthy Partnership withjonny bairstow, but he had a fairly Healthy Partnership with jonny bairstow, but then, he had a fairly Healthy Partnership withjonny bairstow, but then, the last man standing alongside him, the number11, last man standing alongside him, the number 11, jack leach. They put on 76 runs together to win the match. Jack leach scored just one of those runs. It was an astonishing assault from ben stokes. Remember, just a few months ago, six weeks ago, he called his innings in the World Cup Final to beat new zealand and win the world cup for england, in the one day game, he said that was once in a lifetime stuff but 135 not out, with 11 boundaries, eight sixes, to keep the ashes alive and draw england back into the series at 11, this draw england back into the series at 1 1, this has got to go down as one of the greatest england test innings and one of the great test matches, i think this summer has breathed new life back into english cricket. Certainly on this test alone, test cricket as well, just when you thought it was a dying form of the game, and this from the england captain in the last couple of bits, talking about ben stokes, joe root says hes a freak, hes incredible. The message at the start of the day was to just keep believing, if we had two people out there, still breathing, then we had a chance is great. They certainly did and it was a record run chase for england to wina a record run chase for england to win a test match as well, needing 359, they looked down and out, especially as you said after the first innings when they were bowled out for 67 with ben stokes making a measly eight and only one batsman reaching double figures. Well, ben stokes has kept england alive and this ashes series is still alive at 11. In terms of the context of this, in the world of cricket, if you are not a cricket fan, if you get to the fourth innings and you need more than about 250, say, you very rarely get them, dont you . Yes, because the pitch has deteriorated and nathan lyon is one of the worlds top spin bowlers for australia, we expected the pitch at headingley to start doing things, acting a little bit peculiarly, the surface breaks up so the pace bowlers will be looking for the ball to act awkwardly. It should become a lot more difficult for batsmen when you reach days four and five, and remember this was only the fourth day of the third test. England were skittled so spectacularly in the first innings. Australia had all the time in the world to get me ten wickets but obviously, england had a lot of time to get the runs but the odds were always stacked in australias favour but my word, they we re australias favour but my word, they were absolutely shell shocked when ben stokes hit another boundary to bring up the victory for england by one wicket. It had echoes of edgbaston in 2005, that famous test victory when england won the game by two runs, remember Freddie Flintoff consoling a disconsolate brett lee out in the middle when australia fell just short. England just out in the middle when australia felljust short. England just got across the line and all the comparisons, because it was headingley, going back even further to another great england all rounder ian botham who was 140 odd not out in the famous headingley test against australia when they got back into it. This was even more remarkable because of the match situation. Ian botham just went for it but ben stokes knew that it was all on him today. Just as he did in the World Cup Final, he delivered yet again. But perhaps this is his greatest test innings, and in the words of alistair cooke, perhaps the greatest anyone has ever seen. Thank you forjoining us. More from you know that later in the hour. 0llie. 0n know that later in the hour. 0llie. On that remarkable test victory for england at headingley. Borisjohnson has told the bbc that its now touch and go whether the uk will leave the eu with a deal on october the 31st. Speaking at the g7 summit in biarritz, the Prime Minister said he had to be prepared to leave without a deal in order to convince brussels to scrap the current withdrawal agreement. The Prime Minister, who this morning had his first face to face meeting as Prime Minister with president trump, also admitted it would take more than a year to negotiate any future trade deal with the united states. He was speaking to our chief Political Correspondent vicki young. Side by side, the american president and the man he says is the right person to deliver brexit. Borisjohnson says there are massive opportunities for british businesses, if a trade deal can be done, but critics say it could take years. We are going to do a fantastic deal. The us and british teams sat down for a working breakfast donald trump promising a very big trade deal that could be done very quickly. A very big trade deal, bigger than we have had with the uk. When i spoke to the Prime Minister, he was optimistic. The americans are very ambitious to get this done as fast as possible and they really want results, within a year, i suppose, by nextjune orjuly. We are keen to go as fast as we can, but we want this to be a really big, thorough going, comprehensive trade deal. There is no point having a deal just in agriculture, industrial goods and so on. That is not where the real advantages are for the uk. Experts say it cannot be done in a year, its going to take years. I think years and years is an exaggeration, but i think to do it all within a year is going to be tight. What about a deal closer to home with the eu . Borisjohnson also sat down with the president of the European Council today. I think that it all depends on our eu friends and partners. I think, in the last few days, that there has been a sort of dawning realisation, in brussels and other european capitals, what the shape of the problem is for the uk. Have you detected more of a willingness . Look, i think. I am an optimist, but i do think they understand it. Its going to take more than optimism, isnt it . I do think they understand that there is an opportunity to do a deal, but they also understand. Is it more likely than it was, do you think . I think its going to be touch and go, but the important thing is to get ready to come out without a deal. I was going to ask you about that. That greatly assists us in a couple of ways. As you know, it means that. It helps us to convince our friends and partners of the necessity to do a deal, but it also minimises any disruption that there may be on october the 31st. The main talks at this summit focus on the Global Economy and security, but brexit remains the most pressing issue for Boris Johnson. Vicki young is in biarritz for us. I asked her earlier what she would highlight from her conversation with the Prime Minister. I think its interesting he feels he detects a shift in the conversations with Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel last week. That he and downing street do feel those conversations about a new brexit deal, they might be ready to start. They could be meaningful and that has obviously come from a position where, for a very long time, the eu and brussels have said they are not opening the withdrawal agreement. But borisjohnson is an optimist as he says and thinks there can be a deal but wants to carry on preparing for no deal. That is still the interesting thing. We are talking aboutjust over two months time, borisjohnson made it clear he will leave with or without a deal at the end of october. But the prospect of that no deal and what it really means for people is still something that is hard to pin down. He wasnt really willing to explain what it might be. In the past, he has talked about it being bumpy and about there being bumps on the road. Does that mean job losses, does it mean fuel rationing, Food Shortages . It is very hard to know. I did manage to get a guarantee about medicines. Lots of people are concerned that if things are snarled up at the border because of customs checks, they wont be able to get the essential medicines they need. I said could he guarantee people will get access to them . He said it was a guarantee he could make, which is the first time he has done that. He believes the nhs and access to medicines will continue to run smoothly, even in the event of a no deal brexit. Those chances of a no deal brexit, not so long ago, coming out of his mouth, it was a million to one chance, but that has clearly changed in his view . Yes, they think the deal is still possible but going from a million to one where they think a deal with incredibly easy to get, he says we are now at a point where it is touch and go. He cannot be sure of that. Some people think parliament will stop it from happening. It is not entirely clear they are sure they can do that. His argument and downing streets argument is we continue to prepare for no dealfirstly, because they feel that as a negotiating position, it helps convince the eu that we are serious about it, as if we are ready to do it, it will give us some leverage. But we have to be ready for the disruption. He said that at some point we will disentangle ourselves from the eu, even if we get a deal so we need to make the preparations anyway and they wont be wasted. The Iranian Foreign minister, javad zarif, has made an unscheduled trip to biarritz, after the french president , emmanel macron, said g7 leaders meeting there had agreed a common stance on tehrans nuclear deal. French officials said mr zarif would meet his french counterpart, jean yves le drian, to discuss what conditions would de escalate tensions between washington and tehran. Ros atkins is in biarritz for us. This was somewhat unexpected . It certainly was, we started getting reports, first from a flight tracking website, telling us that an iranian plane had landed just a few hundred metres up the road from where i am standing in the g7 press enter. Everyone was thinking, who is it . Most likely to be the foreign minister but is it . After about half an hour, confirmation came through from the Foreign Ministry that javid zarif was in biarritz and when we had that, we thought it mail macro must have arranged it with president trump, maybe there would not be a meeting with the americans but at least it would be cleared with them because it might antagonise the americans and particularly the president. But it seems according to all the diplomatic sources, notjust speaking to the bbc but other media outlets, that the americans, extraordinarily, did not know this was going to happen. We await a reaction from donald trump on this. He was asked about it earlier, and very rarely, he does not say this very rarely, he does not say this very often, he said, no comment, so very often, he said, no comment, so im sure he will have one, given some time but we are di quite a move by president macron right now. Diejust in quite a move. What by president macron right now. Die just in quite a move. What about the other discussions on trade and the other discussions on trade and the fires in the amazon . What else can you highlight for us . |j the fires in the amazon . What else can you highlight for us . I can pull out a few things. 0n trade, the europeans, all of them, boyles borisjohnson, donald europeans, all of them, boyles Boris Johnson, donald tusk, europeans, all of them, boyles borisjohnson, donald tusk, emanuel macron, Angela Merkel, have all in different ways have expressed regret for the fact that donald trump is pursuing a trade war with china and being so aggressive in his language towards europe on trade. Mr trump denied he was being pressured by his european allies. But whatever language the leaders choose, there is no doubt theyjust simply dont agree on this. What i would emphasise, though, is there is no sign the europeans are going to start accepting the nature of this trade war and there are no signs the americans are going to change tack. So from that, they seem to be agreed to disagree. 0n the issue of trade between the uk and the us, theres been a lot of talk about that. There was a breakfast bilateral meeting between Boris Johnson was a breakfast bilateral meeting between borisjohnson and donald trump. Both of them in a very good mood, seemingly getting along very well. Donald trump actually said, we wa nt well. Donald trump actually said, we want to get this done in the yea r we want to get this done in the year, borisjohnson said that might bea year, borisjohnson said that might be a bit ambitious but they want to sit down and get stuck into negotiations very soon. It is worth emphasising, though, that despite the good atmosphere around the table, Donald Trumps headline sta nce table, Donald Trumps headline stance with all policies is america first. That is going to be front and centre in the minds of his negotiators when they sit down and work out a trade deal with the us and the uk. Those are the two main strands of the trade side of this summit, i will quickly mention the ra i nfo rest summit, i will quickly mention the ra i nforest in summit, i will quickly mention the rainforest in brazil as well, Emmanuel Macron today has said the g7 wants to do everything it can to support brazil with these fires but bearin support brazil with these fires but bear in mind a couple of days ago he was threatening to veto a big trade deal between south america and europe, andi deal between south america and europe, and i think we should bear in mind that when he says they want to help brazil, that may come in the form of a carrot or a stick. They have various devices they could use to try to get zille to be more about the fires and more about deforestation. To try to get brazil to do more. We have no idea what form that pressure might take. Thank you forjoining us. Talking about brazil, there. Brazilian troops are tackling the Record Number of fires in the amazon rainforest, with planes dropping water and chemicals in an attempt to extinguish the flames. President bolsonaros government is promising to ease austerity measures in order to find extra money to tackle the emergency. 0ur correspondent will grant has been on board a greenpeace plane and flown over some of the affected area. From this vantage point, you get a sense of the scale of the disaster facing this region of the amazon. Hectare after hectare of pristine forestjust going up in smoke. It must be thousands of hectares already, and its a huge task for the troops who are supposedly reaching this region and who are going to try to tackle the problem, sent by president bolsonaro. This is the reason for the protests taking place in the large cities of brazil in sao paulo, brasilia, in rio. And its also caused the international outcry. This is a global crisis, because these are considered the lungs of the world. And, just on a human level, on an emotional level almost, it is extremely upsetting, extremely disturbing, to see this kind of devastation unfolding in front of you. Now the forest has already been cut back for timber and is much weakened. So when the fires are started, they take very easily, particularly given this dry weather. But the activists say the problem is this is just the beginning of the season of dry weather, that things are going to get a lot worse before they improve. The headlines on bbc news. Batting brilliance from ben stokes leads england to a nail biting victory over australia and keeps the ashes series alive. Borisjohnson says the chances of a brexit deal are touch and go, ahead of his meeting with the Eu Council President at the g7 summit. President trump says a very big trade deal after brexit is on the menu as he holds a working breakfast with the Prime Minister. British airways has apologised after admitting it mistakenly told some passengers their flights were cancelled. Pilots are going on strike on the 9th, 10th and 27th next month, but some customers with flights on other days were wrongly asked to re book, or get a refund. British Airways PassengerCaroline Payne told me how shed had to book a second flight after she was told her flight was cancelled, only to be told her originalflight had been reinstated. We got an e mail, i think it came through in the early hours of the morning saying our flight had been cancelled. That was it. So yo