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Two weeks later, simon thinks hes being followed again. Around the same time, simon receives an anonymous e mail. Its title chinese agents will find you and bring you back. Simon cheng is one of the leading figures in the hong kong democracy movement. Four years ago, he was working at the british consulate and was asked to monitor escalating protests. Weeks later, he vanished during a consulate trip to mainland china. Simon says the police used his visit to a Massage Centre to accuse him of soli...

iranians, be careful. warning if they move against the troops we had respond and they should be prepared. ive delivered the message to iran, they know not to do anything. iran does not want a war with us. >> john: expecting to hear from the white house and the pentagon shortly for the first time since an iranian-backed terror group turned deadly for american soldiers. hello, john roberts in washington and so begins another week on a tragic note. >> sandra: good to be with you. sandra s...

on the womens side, elena rybakina, roared past shelby rogers. other winners included andy murray, who maintained his record of never losing in the wimbledon first round. heres chetan pathak with a round—up of the best of the days play. rain here washed out play for most of tuesday, certainly on these outside courts, but on the show courts, underneath those roofs, play was completed as scheduled, and that saw elena rybakina, the womens defendant champion, in the end survive a scare a...

just two weeks ago he was leading an armed insurrection against vladimir putin. meantime russian state media reporting that police have allegedly found passports, wigs, cash, gold and guns during a raid on prigozhins homes stepping up an apparent propaganda campaign against prigozhin. lets bring in nada bashir from london. obviously a lot to unpack here. the reason this is so noteworthy of course is because we thought prigozhin was in exile in belarus. he has not been seen from or hear...

producer of them both. from next month, exporting these metals will require a licence, as michelle fleury explains. welcome to world business report, im ben thompson. us treasury secretary janet yellen is headed to beijing and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the worlds two top economies deteriorated earlier this year. her goal is to steady the relationship, but shes got her work cut out for her. ahead of her visit, beijing said it was imposing ...

official moves one step closer. house republicans holding a mark un of their impeachment articles against secretary mayorkas. theyre trying to hold him accountable over the migrant crisis. that hearing is only 60 minutes away and he is shrugging it off writing to the panels chairman i assure you your false accusations dont rattle me or divert me from the broader public service mission that i have devoted most of my career and i remain devoted. watch that story. first, however, the whit...

sport and for a full round up, lets go to the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre its only day one of wimbledon, but already play has been disrupted by the weather. the roof came on over centre court, where the reigning mens singles champion novak djokovic has begun the defence of his title against pedro cachin. chethan pathak is watching and chetan its going to plan so far for the number to seed? we had that sizeable delay in which novak djokovic was walking around centr...

with compelling video showing russian fighter jet maneuvers harassing u.s. drones in syria. that interrupted a mission against isis targets. pentagon officials are calling it reckless and unprofessional. another example of russian aggression against the u.s. and international skies. jennifer is live with the la latest. >> all day we have been following an incident in which three russian planes harassed three american drones over syria. we have learned of a second incident involving a r...

if you look at the headline numbers... it suggests that results are mixed. but actually when you look at the actual results and also what companies are telling, there are two factors that matter to us, monetisation and capital expense. they look at monetisation, for example, across the board, we are seeing revenue and contribution is almost like 5% for some of the companies out there. so that gives us comfort. in terms of graphics, clearly companies are spending on it, but in terms of ...

traveling 400 miles to the site of the title 42 for a ten-hour journey two miles below the ocean surface to explore the breckage. there were five people onboard. less than two hours after their descent they stopped communicating with the parent ship. the u.s. navy detected a sound that could have been an implosion in area and reportedly forwarded that information to the incident commander. that was not release olympicly. rescuers needed to find it quickly because it had 96 of ox. over ...