good afternoon. the firebombing of an immigration processing centre in kent was motivated by extreme right wing ideology and met the threshold for a terror incident, police have said. 66 year old andrew leak carried out the attack at the site in dover last sunday. two members of staff at the centre were left with minor injuries. he is believed to have later taken his own life. jon donnison has the latest. an act of terror. this is the moment andrew leak threw one of up to three makeshift firebombs in a drive by attack on a migrant processing centre in dover last sunday. today police said leak was motivated by terrorist ideology. in a statement, tim jacques, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, said. the suspect, andrew leak, is thought to have taken his own life shortly after the attack which police say was likely motivated by extreme right beliefs. it led to around 700 migrants being transferred from the dover processing centre to this one at mansto
u.s. and china deteriorated to their lowest point in decades. real tension, particularly over taiwan. secretary of state antony blinken speaking today with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov. as cnn learned exclusively of plans under way for a prisoner swap, trading convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout for detained wnba star brittney griner and marine veteran paul whelan. we re watching that closely. let s begin with the new gdp numbers, cnn chief business correspondent christine romans is here with more. christine, break down, a lot of numbers not just you but economists follow, this headline number is not good. this is gdp gross domestic product. it is the largest gauge of the size of the economy and it this rank 0.9% in the second quarter. this is a rear view mirror looking picture, and that s after the economy this rank 1.6% in the first quarter, that first quarter was blamed on the omicron variant and how much was going through the economy with supply chain pro
italy the leaders of france, germany and italy are in ukraine today in a show of european support for the country. the actor kevin spacey appears in court in london, accused of sexually assaulting three men. and hot and getting hotter britain s heatwave expected to peak tomorrow with temperatures of 3a celsius. and coming up in the sport later in the hour on the bbc news channel. the premier league fixtures have been released for next season. manchester city start the defence of their title against west ham. borisjohnson s ethics adviser who resigned last night has accused the prime minister of putting him in an impossible and odious position . in his resignation letter, lord geidt said the prime minister had asked him to consider measures understood to be on a trade issue which risked a deliberate and purposeful breach of the ministerial code . lord geidt s letter also says he came close to quitting over the partygate affair. in response, the prime minister said
from network rail who are advising you not to travel unless necessary and if you do have to travel to check before you do so. the impact of the disruption will continue on monday when there was due to be strike action and wednesday there was also due to be strike action. but network rail are hopeful that they can get a timetable running in time for services to be able to operate on wednesday. and we can get more now from nigel harris, the managing director of rail magazine, who we saw in that report. thanks forjoining us. the rmt calling off their strike, something has clearly changed. it calling off their strike, something has clearly changed. has clearly changed. it certainly has. it has clearly changed. it certainly has- it took has clearly changed. it certainly has. it took us has clearly changed. it certainly has. it took us all has clearly changed. it certainly has. it took us all by has clearly changed. it certainly has. it took us all by surprise i has clearly changed.
it works in past years at times but unsuccessfully. this caught a lot of people by surprise last night. zolan, thank you so much. and still ahead, lawmakers investigating the insurrection prepare to sit down with another trump cabinet official. what they could learn from former sent of state mike pompeo. that s up next. cnt of state mik pompeo. that s up p next. ynt of state m pompeo. ththat s up next. nt of state mi pompeo. that s up next. nt of state mike pompeo. that s up next. with best western rewards you get rewarded when you stay on the road and on the go. find your rewards so you can connect, disconnect, hold on tight and let go! stay two nights and get a fr night. book now at bestwestern.com.