this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm: the environment secretary, michael gove suggests the government could support a lifting of the 1% pay cap for public sector workers. italy calls on other european countries to let in rescue ships after more than 80,000 migrants arrive at its shores since the start of the year. plans to restrict foreign fishing boats‘ access to british waters as the government prepares to pull out of a key agreement. gatwick airport has confirmed that some flights have been disrupted this evening by a drone in the area. also in the next hour, stephen hawking takes donald trump to task over climate change. he warns the president's decision to pull out of the paris accord could lead to global warming becoming irreversible. wimbledon fans soak—up the sun as they set—up camp in the queue for tickets — ahead of the first day of play. good evening and

welcome to bbc news. there's growing pressure on the prime minister and the chancellor over public sector pay rises after another cabinet minister raised the prospect of the current 1% cap being lifted. the environment secretary, michael gove, said the recommendations of public sector pay bodies, which review pay increases, should be respected. one of those bodies has warned that the present cap is putting pressure on the health service. here's our political correspondent iain watson. for every year that there's been a pay freeze or a public sector pay cut, first under a coalition government and then under

the conservatives, there's been a demonstration. but since the government lost its majority, protesters as have become more hopeful. "not one day more" was the slogan this weekend as they marched to parliament square. there are signs that some in government are listening. today, the environment secretary said that ministers should accept recommendations on pay from independent review bodies. i think we should listen to pay review bodies who govern each individual area of public sector pay. these pay review bodies have been set up in order been set up in order to ensure we can have authoritative advice on what is required in order to ensure that the public services on which we rely are effectively starved and the people within them are effectively supported. around 5 million public sector workers have had effectively a 1% cap on pay rises since 2013. this is set to last until the end of the decade, meaning that by 2020, average public sector pay would be no higher in real terms than it was back in 2005. there are eight independent pay review bodies, which make recommendations covering teachers, police and nhs staff amongst others.

they can call for increases above 1%, but the government isn't bound by their recommendations. decisions on police pay and teachers‘ pay are expected to be taken later this month. theresa may's cabinet is split over the principle of whether to lift the public sector pay cap. but it could be dismantled bit by bit. it is widely expected that some of the pay review bodies will recommend increases above 1%. and a government minister close to the process has told me the government is prepared to accept those recommendations. but not everyone in government is convinced a pay gap should be eroded. it's very important that we keep budget discipline because it's impossible to pay for our public services without having the growing economy. a growing economy. but what we have done on public sector pay, actually by having that cap in place, we have saved around 200,000 public sectorjobs. lifting the public service pay cap entirely could cost around £6 billion.

but a former nurse, who is now a conservative mp, says the government could pay an even higher price if it keeps it in place. i know of colleagues who have left nursing. i know people who are taking early retirement, for example, because it's a tough job. and long hours. and they can get other jobs with less hours, less responsibility, for similar pay. you know, we've got to look at the pay structure across the public service. and labour said it would simply scrap the cap entirely. we're saying to the pay review bodies, get rid of the 1% cap and give a fair pay rise. in what context? well i think they should consider giving people a pay rise in line with earnings. these demonstrators haven't succeeded in ending austerity but they might give two cheers if the government eases the cap on public sector pay. ian watson, bbc news. earlier, i spoke with katy balls, political correspondent at the spectator who questioned how a lifting of the ban might be rolled out.

i think now it's a case of when, not if. with regards to this pay cap being dropped. i think what is up for debate is whether this will be done sector by sector or they're just going to get rid of the cap completely. also, are they going to hold out until the autumn budget or is she going to have to cave in to pressure before? you say cave in, there. we're seeing a lot of this, cave—ins, u—turns, standing down. there's this chip, chip, chipping away at theresa may's authority. what do you think this is doing to her and how long do you think she's going to last? i think there's a general feeling of disarray at the moment. especially, as we saw last week everyone talking about who will be the next leader. for now, all the conservatives seem to be focusing on is who can get more money for their department. really, theresa may is vulnerable, here. it means that if enough mps are annoyed about this, if enough mps are worried within her own party, she doesn't have the numbers. so, i imagine she will be fine for a few months. but she will look more and more weak

as she gives into these things. you are saying when, not a case of if. this must be a great win for labour. yeah, the optics are really good for labour. even with the public sector pay cap, the conservatives were never going to keep this forever. but it looks like this is... the reason this has been hastened or quickend is because of labour and the pressure they're putting on it. and we saw with the amendment they put in this week to the queen's speech on the public sector pay cap, it really put the pressure up. it made it look very bad when the conservatives did vote to get rid of the amendment, they all cheered. that wasn't a good look and it really plays into labour's hands and suggested the conservatives don't care about public sector workers. we saneremy corbyn yesterday at the anti—austerity march. he was speaking. there does seem to be a definite mood change towards austerity, not only by the british public but also by politicians as well. yeah, if you look back to david cameron, when ed miliband was labour leader, you couldn't really get back through a pmqs oi’ any common session without hearing about the five—year plan or they need to cut the deficit.

but the conservatives have really stopped using that argument. the deficit was only mentioned three times in the conservative manifesto. it has meant that corbyn has really been able to promise all the spending without being reminded of why it might not be such a good idea. now, lots of conservatives are really doubting themselves. they are looking at the election result and they are thinking all the previous need for fiscal discipline actually isn't popular and now they are second—guessing themselves. and i suppose for the tories, breaking down and undoing austerity is something of a vote winner. but is it too late for them? the conservatives pride themselves on their economic record. that's what has got the majorities in previous elections. not this one. it's a risky strategy if they look like they are just letting go of it completely. what's worrying is looking at the sunday papers today. every paper has a different ask for more money for a different section of the government. and i think that while they can relax on a few of those things, if they do it for everything,

their whole idea of the magic money tree and labour starts to not work. it looks like the conservatives do have a magic money tree for certain things like the dup. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30pm and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. i've got a political commentator james miller. and rachel cunliffe, comment and features editor at city comment and features editor at city am. more than 80,000 migrants, many fleeing war and poverty, have arrived in italy during first six months of the year. the united nations high commissioner for refugees has added his voice to those calling for italy to be given more support, as it deals with large numbers of migrants crossing the mediterranean. speaking a little earlier our correspondent richard galpin gave us this update. it's a huge challenge. it's been a

really big spike over the past week. in two days, more than 12,000 migrants were picked up. 0bviously, this is higher than what they had in the same period last year, so the figures have ready, a lot. and the italians are very, very worried. indeed, there's a meeting taking place today between interior ministers of italy, france and germany. we think it will start sometime later on this evening, in which this issue will be discussed. italy is saying it cannot cope any more. and it has to have much more support from all the other members of the european union. it feels very much isolated. it's not getting the support it needs. 0bviously, financially and logistically it is very burdensome and they need help. this meeting judy take place later today. also, another meeting this week in talin estonia in a broader group of interior ministers who will try to thrash this out. italy is saying it cannot cope. there is some

evidence and anecdotal evidence of this. i have been talking to a rescue ship organisation called sea watch. they have picked up in record numbers. they had far too many people on board the boat but obviously you have to rescue people, you can't just ignore obviously you have to rescue people, you can'tjust ignore them. it was beyond the safety limits of the boat and they needed to disembark those people onto a much bigger ship out at sea. normally from the italian coastguard or a big italian navy ship. they appealed for this, they went to the communications centre in rome, spoke to them over the radio and get a boat but nothing came. the worry is that this potentially, we don't know for sure, but the allegation is maybe this is deliberate. they don't want to bring more people into the ports. the other thing the italians threatened is that they may close airports to any ships from ngos bringing migrants into italy. richard galpin speaking earlier. the government has announced it's withdrawing from a 50—year—old convention that allows some other

countries to fish close to the uk coastline. it says the move will help britain determine its own fishing policy. but the european commission says the convention no longer exists in law. here's our business correspondent joe lynam. a fortnight after the formal brexit talks started, there's a new front in the negotiations — and it's fish. the uk is quitting a 53—year—old convention which allowed countries like france and belgium to fish right up to the british coastline. we are giving notice that we intend to quit that. it's a provision in the agreement that enables us to do that with a two—year notice period. this is important to give us the legal clarity. we're absolutely clear that when we leave the eu, we leave the common fisheries policy, and we will take control for managing fisheries resources in our own waters. that's right out to 200 nautical miles, or the halfway point, the median line. so what is the london fisheries convention? at the moment trawlers from france, belgium, netherlands, germany and ireland can fish to within six nautical miles of the british coastline.

boats from these countries catch 10,000 tonnes of fish in this area a year. but that's a tiny fraction of the more than 700,000 tonnes a year caught by british fishermen. almost all of that fish is caught in the much wider 200 nautical miles around the uk coast. but the decision has angered the irish government, which has the only land border with britain. its fisheries minister described the move as "unwelcome and unhelpful". and scrapping the convention could also be meaningless. the eu commission said today that the london convention had been superseded by eu rules covered by the common fisheries policy. but fishermen welcomed the action. what it does is make a strong commitment to taking sovereignty over our waters, which international law states is ours at the moment of brexit. this is just another statement of intent that that will be what happens. so some welcome the government

taking back control, others may view fisheries as a tiny part of britain's economy to be used as a bargaining chip in the frosty relations between britain and the eu. gatwick airport has confirmed that a number of flights have been disrupted this evening because of a "drone in the vicinity". the airport was closed for two periods of nine minutes and five minutes with flights being directed to stanstead and bournemouth. police are investigating. 0n the line is doug maclean, a former senior air traffic control manager in the uk and is now managing director of the consultancy dkm aviation. thank you forjoining us this evening, are you surprised by this news? sadly, i'm not. in the

propensity of drones now in the uk, it seems to be heading this way for. quite a while we started off with having a fewer incidents. and then some very serious incidents in the vicinity of airfields. and now the details are somewhat sketchy but it sounds as if there has been a drone spotted perhaps operating very close to the runways at gatwick. the aviation authorities really had no choice but to act on the safe side. and to suspend operations until they could find out what was happening. how are these drone spotted? are they spotted by air traffic control by the pilots? they are really very small. we are talking probably about one metre across. they are not designed to be seen on air traffic control radar. the air traffic

controllers a re control radar. the air traffic controllers are not going to necessarily be looking out for something so very small in the vicinity of the air drone. like gatwick, heathrow, they are busy places. there are lots of people who are aware of what a drone looks like. and as soon as anyone sees anything like that, i am sure there will be a very instant report to air traffic control. who would then have to make a judgment on how dangerous the situation was. we have heard from gatwick airport. they have put out a statement. i willjust take you through this very quickly. due to reports of a drone operation in the vicinity of the airfield, runway operations at gatwick were suspended between 18:10pm and 8019 pm. and again from 18:36pm to 18:a1pm, meaning some go arounds and diverts. 0perations have resumed and police are investigating. how easy or difficult is it for police to track

down the pilot of the drone? i would imagine it is pretty difficult. drones will operate within live site. the vast majority of these, and assuming this is some sort of amat and not a professional, drone operator, somebody will have been operating that drone within sight of it. -- operating that drone within sight of it. —— some sort of amateur. you're probably talking about some sort of half a mile at most from the point of which the drone was actually observed. but that is a very big area to search. for somebody who is operating a small console. and controlling the actual drone but the fa ct controlling the actual drone but the fact that it was observed twice seems to indicate that somebody was working in the area for quite some time. perhaps the police may have an opportunity to narrow it down and

look ina opportunity to narrow it down and look in a particular area. it could be operated from a house, it could be operated from a house, it could be operated from a house, it could be operated from a car, it could be operated from somewhere... discreet. that the police wouldn't obviously be able to see. to your knowledge, is this the first time that drone activity would have actually interrupted the running of a uk airport? gatwick is a very busy and large airport. i think it probably is. i know there have been an increasing number of serious incidents around airports and gatwick. 0n incidents around airports and gatwick. on an evening like tonight. early summer's evening. it will be a very busy place. it will have been a very busy place. it will have been a very disruptive occurrence that is actually happened today. i believe that the decision wouldn't have been taken lightly, that the decision wouldn't have been ta ken lightly, but that the decision wouldn't have been taken lightly, but at the same time, the aviation world is built on

prioritising safety first. if there's any thought that this drone was going to endanger life aircraft operations, the authorities at air traffic control would have shut down operations as quickly as possible. from the statement you read earlier, with a number of go arounds, the air we re with a number of go arounds, the air were obviously continuing their approach at some point and then air traffic control saying this is not safe to continue. ensure safety. go around and reposition. safe to continue. ensure safety. go around and repositionlj safe to continue. ensure safety. go around and reposition. i amjust reading here that early in the month, june three, we understand that some flights were briefly suspended at leeds bradford airport. why is there such a concern? you are saying these are quite small. small drones. what actually happens when a drone, or if a drone hits a plane?

that is a big danger. that is the unknown question. it goes for all of the aviation authorities. you are talking about a small machine, mainly made of plastic but obviously having some metal insert into it. for that to be ingested into an aircraft engine is the most dangerous thing. if it was to hit the fuselage of the aircraft, the aircraft would not be substantially damaged. if it was to be ingested into an engine, then you're talking about a serious issue. nobody wants to be in that position. as far as i'm aware, that has not actually happened yet. but it is definitely a fear now of the aviation authorities. that a responsible use of these drones is creating more problems. —— that irresponsible use. thank you for your insight.

the headlines on bbc news: ministers says the government is prepared to listen to the advice of independent bodies on public sector pay — suggesting the 1% cap on wages rises could be lifted. germany, france and italy's interior ministers meet for crisis talks as italy warns the influx of migrants into the country is unsustainable. the irish government criticises the uk's decision to withdraw from an agreement allowing foreign countries to fish in its waters as "unwelcome and unhelpful". sport now, and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. hi,james. good evening. a big fortnight of sport coming up. andy murray says he'll be fit to start the defence of his title at wimbledon. he's first up on centre court tomorrow against the world number 134,

alexander bublik from kazakhstan. murray goes into wimbledon fortnight desperately short of match practice. he's been struggling with a hip problem and pulled out of a couple of exhibition matches last week. the last few day practice has been good. i would the last few day practice has been good. iwould have the last few day practice has been good. i would have liked to have practised and get exhibition matches but the positive is that i'm fresh. i certainly haven't played too much tennis. but i'm certainly going to have to work my way into the tournament. i probably won't come out and play great straight off the bat. the women's british number one johanna konta also says that she's fit to play, after a very nasty fall at eastbourne last week. she's third up on court 0ne tomorrow against the woman who beat her in the first round of the french open — hsieh su—we from taiwan. she's a wimbledon champion on doubles on the grass, she can damage the play on this surface. the first timei the play on this surface. the first time i played to her i lost to her on the grass. i'm definitely going

into the match knowing that she will be playing very comfortable on this surface and she will definitely look to make things difficult for me. i'd like to think that i am also better prepared. i would like to think that i will be going into the match with a clear game plan and just trying to execute that as best as i can. we will see how it goes. but i'm looking forward to playing. britain's chris froome has had a lucky escape on the second stage of the tour de france. there were less than 20 miles to the finish in liege when the reigning champion was brought down by this crash. despite ripping his shorts and suffering a nasty graze he was able to re—join the peloton to finish alongside the yellow jersey of compatriot and sky team mate geraint thomas. the 126 mile stage was won by german sprinter marcel kittel with britain's mark cavendish fourth. thomas retained the overall lead. a big win for england's cricketers at the women's world cup. they eased to a seven—wicket victory over sri lanka in taunton. they were asked to bowl first and laura marsh took four wickets

as sri lanka set england 205 to win. captain heather knight led by example in the run chase, smashing 82 offjust 76 balls to accompany her century in the previous match. an unbeaten 7a from sarah taylor saw england home. they play south africa next on wednesday. the british trials for next month's world athletics championships have finished in birmingham. nethaneel mitchell—bla ke won the men's 200 metres to guarantee selection for london. he clocked 20.18 seconds to beat danny talbot on the line — talbot also qualifies. but some big names struggled, including adam gemili, who was sixth. after her season's best during last weekend's european team championship's, elidh doyle secured her spot in london with a comfortable victory in the 400 metre hurdles. her time, though, was a second slower than her run in lille last saturday.

imean, i mean, that was fairly rubbish from my point of view. it was just really messy. i shouldn't have jumped over hurdle five. i lost it over the last 200. but thejob hurdle five. i lost it over the last 200. but the job was to win today and get the competition out of the way but i really need to start the race out if i want to content with these girls in the world at the moment. the all blacks' centre sonny bill williams will miss the deciding test against the british and irish lions after a judiciary panel banned him for four weeks for the shoulder barge on anthony watson that saw him sent off in yesterday's second test. lions flanker sean 0'brien also faced the same panel after being cited for dangerous play, but he was cleared of any wrongdoing and will be available for the final test. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more throughout the evening. president trump has been accused of inciting violence against the media — after he tweeted a spoof video showing him wrestling with a man with a cnn logo super—imposed on his head.

in the short clip, the president is shown pushing the man — and the logo — to the ground and appearing to punch him. it is an altered version of donald trump's appearance at a wwe wrestling event in 2007. mr trump has repeatedly clashed with the cnn news network, which he calls "fake news". that latest controversy comes after president trump defended his use of twitter. "my use of social media is not presidential" — he tweeted, it's modern day presidential". earlier in the week, he drew criticism for tweeting crude, personal attacks on two us news presenters. let's speak now to michaeljohns, a former white house speech writer for george h w bush, and co—founder of the grassroots conservative organisation, the national tea party movement.

he is also one of the first major supporters of mr trump. lovely to have you with us mrjohns. modern—day presidential, what's modern—day presidential to you? modern—day presidential means that at least in the case of twitter, this is not a medium that existed as a mainstream communication vehicle for previous presidents. it was utilised by the prior president pretty extensively and more or less not at all before then. presidential in 2017 is as president stars. i think it would be very common sense to think that twitter and this sort of social media communication... is a very call piece of communication going forward for a president.

including obviously this one. it is a bit unconventional at the moment, people are getting academic to it. most people in the united states think to our great supporters of the president, they support it. but i will just president, they support it. but i willjustjump in, president, they support it. but i will just jump in, you president, they support it. but i willjustjump in, you do have a choice. wejust willjustjump in, you do have a choice. we just saw a clip of this video that president trump retweeted. you have a choice of what you post, yes? it's modern—day social media, it is here to stay. no one is forcing you to to it all back to message or communicate with people —— forcing you to tweet or. it is not something you see or expect of high office. the one thing to realise and i think maybe it is difficult if you are not in the united states, if you watch the networks that are coming under scrutiny by this president, he is ruthlessly attacked. minute by minute. 24—7 on these networks. in

ways that are possibly more personal, less objective and ethical. you could go on for hours about the extraordinary bias that has been presented by these two networks. by some estimates they are over 90% negative in their representation by both of them. in some respects, his reaction is a bit measured by the fact that he has taken quite a lot more than he has given. michaeljohns, thank you for your time. pleasure. tennis fans are queuing for tickets at wimbledon ahead of the first day of the championships tomorrow. hundreds are expected to camp overnight outside the all—england club for the chance to see britain's andy murray start the defence of his title. paul hawkins has been to meet some of those queuing. i'm told there's actually over 1000

people camping here tonight. as you can see. when it comes to queueing, nobody does it better than the british. this one is the first in the queue then, number two, three, four, five and all the way to the end before lea pfrogging four, five and all the way to the end before leapfrogging all the way back up to here. these people in the morning will be allocated number. they had been allocated ticketing numbers already. the stewards will collect them in the morning, they will be taken over there. they can put their left luggage, valuables, safely locked away and they will be walked through the golf course to the championships over there where they will buy their tickets. there isa they will buy their tickets. there is a code of conduct for queueing. this one is particularly important, queuejumping this one is particularly important, queue jumping is not this one is particularly important, queuejumping is not acceptable, not to be tolerated. i'd assume there will be excessive tutting. also, this one has to be respected, bedding down by 10pm so there is no chaos. let's speak to some of those who are queueing. sundeep and chia. you are experienced wimbledon queue was? it is not our first time. we

first came in 2010 before we were married. we thought, let's come down to wimbledon. we set off from manchester at midnight. we we re we were ba by—sitting we were baby—sitting my nephew, now, actually. we came down here. we got in the queue at 4am. we saw a lot of die—hard fans already here and we we re die—hard fans already here and we were quite surprised. we love the experience. it's an amazing experience, even to come to the queue and once you had been in the queue, to go in the actual tennis. you see it over time. you have made lots of friends to queueing at wimbledon. so many friends. they have added me to facebook and they say you have to go and see rafael nadal or kyrgios. these are friends we made in the queue years