john maguire, bbc news, switzerland. let's go to the us now where memorials are being held in new york and in washington to mark the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. nearly 3,000 people died and thousands more were injured when the two world trade center towers collapsed after hijackers crashed planes into them. at ground zero of the world trade centre, a remembrance ceremony is taking place. you can see american service personnel carrying the american flag at the service. always an emotional day in the united states. as the victims of 9/11 are remembered. #so # so broadly we hailed. she sings american national anthem # o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? # in new york city, a bell of hope rang at st paul's chapel to mark the moment the first plane hit the world trade center on september 11, 2001. we bring it on every 9/11 and on time there is a terrorist attack. i would like to invite you to take a few minutes of silence and the ringing will start at 8:46. bagpipes bell rings the bell of hope being

john maguire, bbc news, birmingham. ina in a moment of the business news. first, the headlines. the prime minister defence plan to take britain out of the eu, saying her current strategy represents the only alternative to a no—deal brexit. the head of the international monetary fund warns that many critical issues are unresolved, six months ahead of britain's scheduled exit from the european union. major rescue and clean—up operations are under way across the philippines, china and hong kong, following typhoon manghkut. at least 65 people are now known to have been killed in the philippines. they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 0ne south korean artist is taking that to heart. let's take a look. that is an interesting take, isn't it? let's return to brexit. how do they feel about brexit more than two years on from the vote in burnley? christian fraser has been to find out. it's one of the oldest stadiums in england. in the smallest town ever to field a premier league game. this burnley squad looks to upset the established order, with players that seem to reflect the

john maguire reports. baby leo is blissfully unaware he hasjust been born into the joint—hottest summer on record. but during her pregnancy, his mum, cassie, had to keep her cool. i managed to work earlier, and avoid the hottest parts of the day, which was ideal, and also avoid public transport, and avoid walking too much in the heat of the city. that was really important. temperature—controlled birthing pools have been very popular here at the chelsea and westminster hospital. summer is always busy, but this year's extreme heat saw an increase in visits. things like swelling can sometimes mask other, more serious conditions with pregnancy, so it's difficult to exclude those when women phone in and say they've got swelling of their feet and hands. so, again, we recommend that women come in and be assessed. and the government says, during july, thousands more people were seen in a&e within four hours than the same month last year. it was even busier than the winter. usually summer is the time when the w

john maguire, bbc news, east london. a man with a prosthetic leg is suing a local council because he wasn‘t allowed to play on its golf course using a buggy. paul houghton claims brentwood borough council discriminated against him, but it denies that and it‘s defending the claim. it‘s a case that could have implications for many other people with disabilities. our legal correspondent clive coleman reports. you‘ve got a, what, 120—yard carry to the green. 120—yard, all carry, into a very, very stiff breeze. paul houghton is lucky to be alive. in 2000, while working as a roofer, he knelt in contaminated water and contracted a deadly bug that can eat muscle and body tissue at a rate of 2cm an hour. well, you got over. paul‘s right leg was amputated above the knee and he received the last rites in hospital. my swing isn‘t very orthodox. golf has become an important part of paul‘s life, and a buggy enables him to get around a standard five—mile course. he‘s represented england 13 times and played in euro

john maguire reports. archive: it brings all the horrors of total warfare to three of the fairest and cleanest neutrals in western europe. despite that neutrality, the netherlands was dragged into the war by the german invasion of may, 1940. a year later, at 18, bram grisnigt fled his country, eventually ending up in london, where he was recruited by british intelligence. now, exactly three quarters of a century later, he's come to the dutch resistance museum in amsterdam, and, at 95, is dusting off his morse code to communicate with britain once more. through the crackle and the white noise, the distinctive dots and dashes are picked up at duxford, now part of the imperial war museum, but then an raf base where the messages were received. he says, "it's all still in my head, all still in my fingers." it was exactly 75 years ago when bram took off from raf tempsford, just half an hour down the road from duxford, to be flown back over holland and parachute down, home once again on dutch soil, but this time

john maguire went to see them at their laboratory in switzerland. when tim peake spent six months on board the international space station, regular exercise was vital. floating in zero gravity means astronauts stop using their muscles to stand and those muscles then start to waste away. now, a team of scientists from british universities is working to find out more. they've come to switzerland and, on the shore of lake lucerne, this lab that specialises in space biology. we're hoping to prevent muscle loss with astronauts when they go into space, so this will allow them to undergo really long space flight and then this will translate to people on earth. as well, so if we can prevent muscle loss in astronauts we could potentially prevent muscle loss in the elderly population. this will be the first uk—led experiment on the space station. these bags contain thousands of microscopic worms suspended in fluid. they're called sea elegans and, by sending them up into space, the research team can determine how their muscle structure is affected. perhaps,

john maguire, bbc news, east london. more now on the announcement by the met office that 2018 was the joint hottest summer on record for the uk. figures show the highs forjune to the end of august were tied with those of 1976, 2003 and 2006. england however saw its hottest summer ever, with an average temperature of 17.1 celsius recorded across the three months. that narrowly beat the average of 17.0c recorded back in the balmy summer of 1976. the hottest day of the year was recorded in july, when temperatures reached 35.3 celsius in faversham in kent. tomasz schafnaker from the bbc weather centre explained that a pattern of more hot summers could be emerging. we have been seeing hot years close to each other so 2003, 2006, 2018, very close together we are getting these kind of heat waves? is this a pattern? they looks like it is odd according to the met office it is consistent with global warming. and who knows, we may have a hot summer next year but we may not have one for another ten years but the indication is we wil

john maguire, bbc news, hampshire. time for a look at the weather. let me gather my thoughts. so today not looking bad at all, quite a bit of sunshine around across western parts of the uk but also a weather front approaching and that is bringing some rain into the west of scotla nd bringing some rain into the west of scotland and northern ireland. so here at some point we will need the umbrella but for most of the country not looking back. england and wales, in the sunshine and temperatures up to around 25 degrees in london. more like the high teens for most of us and still above average for the time of year. tonight a lot of clear whether around, some rain possibly moving across parts of england and scotland.

john maguire, bbc news. what an extraordinary story! in amongst it, the amazing marriage, 73 yea rs ? amongst it, the amazing marriage, 73 years? brilliant. still to come on breakfast: we'll be exploring the issue of parental leave, as firms are encouraged to be more upfront about the work—life balance they offer to new families. time for the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news, i'm sara 0rchard. the london fire brigade commissioner is expected to give evidence at the g re nfell tower is expected to give evidence at the grenfell tower enquiry later today. dany grenfell tower enquiry later today. da ny cotto n grenfell tower enquiry later today. da ny cotton follows a grenfell tower enquiry later today. dany cotton follows a number of other firefighters who've already addressed the hearing, including seniorfire addressed the hearing, including senior fire commander andrew rowe, who said yesterday delays in getting the building plans of the tower to firefighters was a major deficiency in the rescue

john maguire reports. archive: it brings all the horrors of total warfare to three of the fairest and cleanest neutrals in western europe. despite that neutrality, the netherlands was dragged into the war by the german invasion of may, 1940. a year later, at 18, bram grisnigt fled his country, eventually ending up in london, where he was recruited by british intelligence. now, exactly three quarters of a century later, he‘s come to the dutch resistance museum in amsterdam, and, at 95, is dusting off his morse code to communicate with britain once more. through the crackle and the white noise, the distinctive dots and dashes are picked up at duxford, now part of the imperial war museum, but then an raf base where the messages were received. he says, "it‘s all still in my head, all still in my fingers." it was exactly 75 years ago when bram took off from raf tempsford, just half an hour down the road from duxford, to be flown back over holland and parachute down, home once again on dutch soil, but this t

john maguire, bbc news, switzerland. the inquest into the deaths of five people killed in last year's westminster terror attack has entered its second day. we can bring you the latest. we had trouble hearing you earlier. bring us up to date. we have been hearing from the wife of kurt cochran, the american tourist killed in that attack on westminster bridge last month. the couple were on the bridge at the time and had been in london ona trip at the time and had been in london on a trip around europe, they had been sightseeing that day. she gave evidence around ten minutes in the witness box. she says she remembers hearing revving and then the car being driven by khaled massoud coming towards them. she went on to say it was all very sudden, she said, she also then went on to say that she did not remember her husband pushing her out of the way of the car to safety, but she said that was typical of her husband. kurt cochran died at the scene after being hit by the car. we also heard evidence from a teacher called kylie smith

john maguire, bbc news, birmingham. in a moment it‘s time for the one 0‘clock news. but first, the weather. hello. it looks like being a really windy week ahead. this afternoon is probably what you would call the calm before the storm. more sunshine pushing from the south east living the temperatures —— lifting. in the north—west the cloud is thickening all the while. rain moving in. it will turn wet through the rest of today. across scotland the rain pushing into northern ireland. england and wales f51winds breaking the cloud up, warm sunshine. as we run through this evening we see the winds picking up in the south west. this area of low pressure contains re m na nts of this area of low pressure contains remnants of hurricane helene. the winds picking up later as the rain arrives into the south west and wales. still more rain to come from northern ireland and northern and western parts of scotland. many eastern parts will be joined with clear skies. for all of us it would bea clear skies. for all of us it would be a one night. 1a to 16 degrees. we have got som

john maguire reports. baby leo is blissfully unaware he hasjust been born into the joint—hottest summer on record. but during her pregnancy, his mum, cassie, had to keep her cool. i managed to work earlier, and avoid the hottest parts of the day, which was ideal, and also avoid public transport, and avoid walking too much in the heat of the city. that was really important. temperature—controlled birthing pools have been very popular here at the chelsea and westminster hospital. summer is always busy, but this year‘s extreme heat saw an increase in visits. things like swelling can sometimes mask other, more serious conditions with pregnancy, so it‘s difficult to exclude those when women phone in and say they‘ve got swelling of their feet and hands. so, again, we recommend that women come in and be assessed. and the government says, during july, thousands more people were seen within a&e within four hours than the same month last year. it was even busier than the winter. usually summer is the time

breakfast‘s john maguire is at the river severn in gloucestershire this morning. how do you microchip and he'll?” think you need a bit of drainpipe. —— an eel. think you need a bit of drainpipe. -- an eel. drainpipe with a tape measure at the bottom, and that is how we will measure the eels. emma, what are we doing here and why? we are measuring the eels in this lake, and what we don't understand is how they are moving between the various water bodies and when they are choosing to return to the sea. what we are doing today is we have nets out in this and the number of lakes across the site. we will be bringing in the eels, measuring them, by getting their length we can work out how heavy they are and then we will be tagging them, like you take domestic cats and dogs, and then using our microchip readers, both in hand but as we exit the site as well, to see it when they leave and spawn. because a brief work -- word on what they do. they will have come from the sea about 7000 kilometres away, they will have spent three years drifting as larvae, they will have

john maguire, bbc news, switzerland. worms in space. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning. a mild start of the day, temperatures up in the mid to high teens, some heavy rain across northern parts of and wales, moving southwards. behind it excels sunny spells and shall was, the showers quite heavy and blustery across the west of scotland, this band of rain pushing south into east anglia. it will be quite windy this afternoon, particularly in northern parts, gusts in exposed areas in the north—west of 60 miles an hour. temperatures for many 15—18d, holding on to someone in the forest south of england, why is of 23 degrees in london. the rain affecting southern counties of england, showery rain spreading in from the north, temperatures in southern parts pretty high tonight, further north beneath clearing skies a little bit chillier. wednesday, tuesday, sorry, cooler conditions in northern parts separated by this cold front, warmer conditions in the south, gradually this cold front pushing south and e

john maguire is at st katherine's docks in london where they'll unveil maiden today. morning, sailor. hello, sailor, that is not what you want to hear at this time of the morning. the paint is still fresh on maiden down below. it was a sorry state when we first saw it but it has been refurbished and ready to go on this round the world voyage. a very different role in life. the galley on that side, the navigation station there, and it will have a crew of nine as it goes around the world over the next few yea rs. around the world over the next few years. it promises to do what it did those decades ago, and that is to change bubbles lives. —— people's lives. the last time maiden sailed out of the hamble boatyard after a major refit, she was about to circumnavigate the globe and become a record breaker. her all—female crew was the first to complete the whitbread round—the—world yacht race, and her skipper, tracy edwards, became a household name. that was 1990. then last year, tracy discovered maiden was abandoned in the seychelles, and made plans to bring her ba

john maguire reports. baby leo is blissfully unaware he hasjust been born into the joint—hottest summer on record. but during her pregnancy, his mum, cassie, had to keep her cool. i managed to work earlier, and avoid the hottest parts of the day, which was ideal, and also avoid public transport, and avoid walking too much in the heat of the city. that was really important. temperature—controlled birthing pools have been very popular here at the chelsea and westminster hospital. summer is always busy, but this year‘s extreme heat saw an increase in visits. things like swelling can sometimes mask other, more serious conditions with pregnancy, so it‘s difficult to exclude those when women phone in and say they‘ve got swelling of their feet and hands. so, again, we recommend that women come in and be assessed. and the government says, during july, thousands more people were seen in a&e within four hours than the same month last year. it was even busier than the winter. usually summer is the time when

john maguire went to see them at their laboratory in switzerland. when tim peake spent six months on board the international space station, regular exercise was vital. floating in zero gravity means astronauts stop using their muscles to stand and those muscles then start to waste away. now, a team of scientists from british universities is working to find out more. they‘ve come to switzerland and, on the shore of lake lucerne, this lab that specialises in space biology. we‘re hoping to prevent muscle loss with astronauts when they go into space, so this will allow them to undergo really long space flight and then this will translate to people on earth. as well, so if we can prevent muscle loss in astronauts we could potentially prevent muscle loss in the elderly population. this will be the first uk—led experiment on the space station. these bags contain thousands of microscopic worms suspended in fluid. they‘re called sea elegans and, by sending them up into space, the research team can determine how their muscle structure is affected. per

john maguire, bbc news, east london. time for a look at the weather. here's tomas. guernsey, clear blue skies, stunning picture, like small cloud around across other parts of the country. this is a picture from wales and there is a weather front moving across the uk as a speak. you can see it here around 5pm, just off the coast of scotland and north east england, that cloud stretching further south too. the other side of the weather front as is often the case, the weather is much better, more sunshine around, but it is fresher. look at that cloud, spots of rain across parts of yorkshire and one or two spots of rain down into wales, the midlands and the south—west but for the time being, still warm, still quite sunny, temperatures still quite possibly in the mid—20s. a very slow—moving weather front, essentially speaking that weather front will just hang around of that north sea, a little bit of cloud around. in the north of the country will be quite chilly, temperatures down to single figures whereas in the south—east after that warm day around 13 the overni

john maguire reports from east london. london's dirty air is blamed for around 9,500 premature deaths every year. air quality‘s monitored constantly across the city, and scientists have a good idea of what causes pollution, when it's at its worst and who is most at risk. just a street away from the diesel and petrol ban zone is a main road where doctor rick thomas from the university of birmingham is using a hand—held monitor to track nitrogen dioxide levels. just a street away from the diesel and petrol ban zone is a main road is using a hand—held monitor to track nitrogen dioxide levels. they are high, but well within the legal limit. there are all sorts of pollutants that we can measure from cars, of course. this is just one of them, n02, and we're getting about 119 micrograms per metre cubed. this is pretty typical of what we'd expect next to a road, next to all these vehicles coming past. the legal limit is 219 micrograms cubed over the course of one hour, and that has already been breached in various places in

you can see john maguire speaking wherejohn is this morning you can seejohn maguire speaking with his camera. a strange world we live in! you're watching breakfast. plenty more to come on the programme this morning, including some good news on british manufacturing from steph. good morning. good morning to you, good morning, everyone. i'm at the hitachi railfactory here, i'm surrounded by lots of parts of trains. the blue ones you might recognise, they ask at rail. the green one behind me, great western. it won't be long until you see these on the lines —— they asked scott rail. they will get these cars brought overfrom rail. they will get these cars brought over from japan, that's where they are made —— they are scott rail. what these guys do is put everything inside of them. for example, cabling. they have about 400,000 miles of cables in every single train. let's look underneath. there's around 1000 people working in this factory and also what is key to them is trying to get as many parts as they can from the local area. 70% of what goes inside these trains are components t

breakfast‘s john maguire is at a wildlife sanctuary in somerset where they're asking for help to care for sick and injured animals. 0h oh my goodness, you have been on feeding and snuggling duty. oh my goodness, you have been on feeding and snuggling dutym oh my goodness, you have been on feeding and snuggling duty. it is cute. this hedgehog, along with something like 50 others that they have got here at the animal century has had a bit of a hard time. do in a much about what has happened to this one? this is one that got caught ina this one? this is one that got caught in a drain. it was caught and we had to go and get it out. he has been with us for a couple of week 's. they don't like the modern world. we said before we came on air, i remember as world. we said before we came on air, i rememberas a kid you world. we said before we came on air, i remember as a kid you would see them every day but i cannot see the last time i saw one. we are doing everything that is wrong. roadkill was large thing when there we re roadkill was large thing when there were more of them. slug pellets, a

breakfast‘s john maguire reports. baby leo is blissfully unaware he hasjust been born into the joint—hottest summer on record. but during her pregnancy, his mum, cassie, had to keep her cool. i managed to work earlier, and avoid the hottest parts of the day, which was ideal. also avoid public transport, and avoid walking too much in the heat of the city. that was really important. temperature—controlled birthing pools have been very popular here at the chelsea and westminster hospital. summer is always busy, but this year's extreme heat saw an increase in visits. things like swelling can sometimes mask other, more serious conditions with pregnancy, so it's difficult to exclude those when women phone in and say they've got swelling of their feet and hands. so, again, we recommend that women come in and be assessed. the government says, during july, thousands more people were seen within a&e than the same month last year. it was even busier than the winter. usually summer is the time the wards are less busy. it's an

john maguire, bbc news, hampshire. that's it from your afternoon live team for today, next the bbc news at five with huw edwards. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz shafernaker. for most of us today will turn to be a decent day with plenty of sunny that's our forecast the second half of the afternoon and it's raining across the western isles and some of that rain is moving through belfast where is the rest of the country has dry weather with those sunny spells. tonight there will be a bit of rain moving through the lake district and parts of northern england but that's pretty much it and a few showers in the western isles. cool in the north, and double figures across the cell. tomorrow watch the weather go downhill across wales and the south west with increasing cloud, rain moving in and we expect showers across scotland and into the lake district. some of them could be heavy and it will feel cool with wind coming in from the north, 15 degrees, but dry in the south—east, up degrees, but dry in the south—