Beween britain and iran. Simona halep is the wimbledon champion and simona halep stuns centre court as she wins her first wimbledon title crushing Serena Williams hopes of a grand slam record. Good evening. Borisjohnson and jeremy hunt have both defended the right ofjournalists to publish leaked government documents after Police Warnings that it could be a criminal offence under the official secrets act. Scotland yard is investigating the leak and publication of secret dispatches by Sir Kim Darroch britains ambassador in washington which were highly critical of the trump administration. Sir kim subsequently resigned. Heres our political correspondent, nick eardley. The leaking of kim darrochs e mails about President Trump has caused diplomatic chaos political controversy and led to the ambassadors resignation. Now its caused a furious row about press freedom and what papers should be able to publish. Scotland yard has warned publishing further leaks could be a crime, last night urging
Hello and welcome. Senior politicians in hong kong have been celebrating the moment the city returned to chinese rule 22 years ago. Led by chief executive carrie lam and joined by officials from china, they attended a reception a few hours ago. Outside, a flag raising ceremony was held at the harbour front. In her toast, carrie lam wished success to the motherland and to the stability and prosperity of hong kong. Away from this, though, the mood is quiet different. This is the scene live as crowds of activists have been gathering from early this morning. Theyre now in a peaceful stand off with police. There were a few skirmishes and clashes reported earlier, but we believe this is protesters just outside the entrance of the Hong Kong Convention centre where that ceremony to mark the 22nd anniversary of the handover took place, and you can see a number of protesters in hardhats, and that was because those protests last month did turn violent, there were some altercations with Police Off
Hello and welcome to sportsday. Hello, this is bbc news, time for the latest headlines. The British Ambassador to washington quits. Sir kim darroch says it was impossible to do hisjob kim darroch says it was impossible to do his job after president trumps very public attacks on him. Some say he resigned because Boris Johnson refused to back him in last nights debate, but the tory front runner rejects that claim. All sites are currently suspended at Gatwick Airport due to a fault with the air Traffic Control systems. Passengers are arrived advised to check their airline directly for updates. Lifting the lid on how labour has dealt with accusations of anti semitism was in a bbc investigation has told mr corbyn as office interviewed in the independent process. Its a scathing report says the government has a ramshackle, dads army approach to climate change. Ina army approach to climate change. In a moment, time for sports day. First, a look at what else is coming up first, a look at what e
The fairytale for coco gauff continues here at wimbledon. At the age of 15, shes now into the third round and she says she canbeat anyone. The son will continue to shine in wimbledon all day. The sun. The further south you are, you will hang onto the sunny conditions but further north, cloud will build with heavy and persistent rain in the north west of scotland. We will be back with more later. Its thursdayjuly the 4th. Our top story patients lives are being put at risk because of delays in treatment for sepsis, referred to by experts as a hidden killer, because it is hard to spot. Its estimated 50,000 people in the uk die from sepsis every year. Hospitals are meant to put patients on an antibiotic drip within an hour when its suspected, but research by the bbc suggests a quarter of patients in england are waiting longer. Lauren moss reports. A father remembering his son as a bright student with ambition of becoming an accountant and taking ca re of becoming an accountant and taking c
If you want some in the garden, not necessarily a bad thing. Targeting Northern Ireland and western scotla nd Northern Ireland and western scotland tomorrow with occasionally heavy rain and may be rumbles of thunder, pushing over scotland during the day and into wales and western parts of england and the midlands, but much of Eastern England will remain dry. The further south you might not see much rain at all. Still warm in the hazy sunshine in Eastern England but elsewhere it will feel cooler with the rain and the breeze. The big picture again, wednesday night into thursday, the weather system approaching its way south and it will have some rain across parts of the eastern and south east of england, clearing two sunny spells, and behind that the showers following to Northern Ireland and into scotland, heavy and possibly thundery, baby a few of those reaching towards north west england, may be. Another wet weather system coming our way on friday into friday night and for the weekend a