let's return new to charlie gard, whose parents have delivered a petition to great ormond street hospital in london, calling on doctors to allow their son to travel to the us for experimental treatment. the petition has been signed by more than 350,000 people. the ii—month old boy's case is due to return to the high court tomorrow. our correspondent anisa kadri spoke to charlie's parents chris gard and connie yates — and they told her what they have been going through. well, i'm in a square right down the road from great 0rmond street hospital, and it's the square where charlie's supporters have been gathering all day today, people who signed that petition that you've mentioned. charlie's parents, chris and connie, they thought they'd run out of legal options. tomorrow there will be a fresh hearing at the high court about whether their young 11—month—old son can get treatment abroad in america. a lot hangs on that hearing. joining me now is chris and connie, charlie's parents. thanks so much for agreeing to speak to bbc news. so, you'vejust handed in a petition to great 0rmond street hospital. can you tell us what you hope

that would achieve? well, i think itjust shows the amount of support we've got behind us. i believe it's 370,000 signatures. you know, we've got support from around the world that believe in charlie and believe he deserves this chance. you thought your son's a life—support machine would be turned off. how worried are you about tomorrow's hearing? tomorrow is the first hearing, and there'll be another one later in the week. i think that will be the scary one, or the day we get the result. we've got to stay hopeful, hope that the judge listens to the seven experts we've got now that are saying that this has a chance of working for charlie. they all agree that he should have this opportunity. we agree he should have this opportunity. all our supporters do, as well. we just hope we get this chance. did you think that your battle had come to an end? explain what was going through your head at that time. yeah, we did. it was very close. very close.

but, you know, he's still fighting up there, so we are still fighting. we said months and months ago, we'll never give up on him. we believe he deserves this chance, and he does deserve this chance. so, we'll keep going. is this fight taking you away from being with charlie? no, we spend all our time with charlie, literally 24 hours a day. there's someone up there with him now, while we are doing this. we'll go straight back to him afterwards. we want to thank everybody who is supporting us. the world's most powerful men, as well, tweeting about our little boy. we've raised 1.3 million, over 1.3 million now, for his treatment. there's a lot of people that agree with us. parents know their children best. it's not just about what we think, it's also about what other doctors think as well. we're not slating great 0rmond street. we've seen amazing things happen in there. them children are on treatment, and our son is not on treatment. that's all we want. we want him to have a chance. i think he deserves it. doctors had said that treatment may not make a difference to charlie, so how relieved are you that great 0rmond street hospital put

in this request at the high court for another hearing? we are relieved it's going to be looked at. theresa may made a statement that if any new evidence comes to light, she hopes it will be looked at. charlie's best interests would be re—evaluated, basically. not word for word, sorry. i hope that they do take into consideration that there are now seven doctors. there are 18 children currently on this medication. they are all getting stronger, they are all getting better. it's a miracle, what happens. there was one girl on a 24—hour ventilator like charlie, a year later she is riding a bike. it's only oral medicine, with no major side—effects. it's not even an operation or anything. yeah, there's nothing to lose. president trump has come out in support of you and there have been people from america here today, including a reverend. tell me what it means to you to have that support from america, from lots of parts of the world? it's amazing, absolutely amazing.

there's a lot of people that agree that what we're doing is right. this could happen to anyone. we are just two normal, everyday people. we are not strong people, but what is strong is the love for our little boy. you know, he's kept us going through all this. if he was lying there in pain and suffering, we wouldn't be standing here now. we are with him 2a hours a day. people say i couldn't sit there and watch my child suffer, nor could we. have parents got in touch with you, going through similar things? we spoke to the kings, ashya king, previously. they ended up being right, they wanted to take their child to another country for treatment. that treatment is now coming the nhs, i believe it's this year. so, the same thing could happen to charlie. he could get the treatment, it could work and then they might bring it here. how are you preparing for the hearing tomorrow? i don't think you can prepare, really. the last months it's been

an absolute roller—coaster. i just want to say again, we are not slating great 0rmond street as a terrible hospital, it's a fantastic hospital. there are specialists in many, many areas, the nurses that looked after charlie for the past nine months are truly amazing human beings. they are so caring and they have looked after him fantastically. what we are asking to do is take our son from great 0rmond street to another hospital which has specialists in charlie's disease. we've been blocked from doing that. so we hope, finally, after this long fight, we get to do that and charlie gets the chance he deserves. thank you so much forjoining us, chris and connie. charlie gard's parents there, speaking about their hopes to take charlie to america for treatment. now on bbc news — sportsday. coming up this evening: this

captaincy business comes easily as the england side when it first test against south africa. england's women also wind their first match against australia. rooney returns home to everton after a13 rooney returns home to everton after a 13 year stay away at manchester united. he re—signed for his boyhood cloud. and the tour de france can be a brutal business. heavy crashes. thank you very much forjoining us. england's caterers have won the first test against south africa by 211 runs in emphatic display outdoors. despite a acting collapse

and the swiss was watching the action. a day which ended so perfectly and yet began so poorly for england. the batting collapse straight from the bad old days using seven wickets before lunch. liam dawson was the most spectacular. no one saw that coming. 0nce most spectacular. no one saw that coming. once again, a key man slipped through south africa's fingers. burstow dropped early on. he went on to frustrate them with a half—century. south africa's target three had shown 31 and burstow was back to haunt them, this time brilliance behind the stumps and from their south africa capitulated. but there was no doubting the start of the show. ali. his six wickets and south africa spinning. they simply had no answer and it was all over with a day to spare. the captain's first over with a day to spare. the ca ptain‘s first game over with a day to spare. the captain's first game in charge was

one to remember. a dramatic and emphatic victory for england. the new era and a new captain is off to the best possible start. with the very good throughout the four days. i thought the wayjohnny and woody took them on to watch the back—end of our innings was exceptional but i think a lot of credit has to go to the top three for the way that they played last night. they made that we could look a lot easier than actually was. it is happening me with my mindset a lot. i have the license to come on and just take wickets. which i probably when i first came to international cricket, that was my mindset to try to just attack and ta ke mindset to try to just attack and take wickets, don't worry about the runs. that gave me a lot of confidence. didn't try to look after my figures are anything like that, it was about coming on and didn't get wickets all the time. a great day for him. there was a

great win for the england women todayis great win for the england women today is the beach the world cup favourites australia by three runs. it is their first victory over the aussies in a world cup for 2h years. then watched this one. england happen pretty good fresh off the back of three big wings. that selection deserted against australia. england's all—rounder stepped in to send the ball travelling around bristol. england sent the defending champions 260. australia would have to punch her in any team in world cup history. it did not look promising. at least perry smashed 70 to keep australia bike in it. this was a tense one. perry picked but shotjust by but when she tried a few overs later the result was markedly different. australia have some middle order strikers around and left them with six to win off the final ball.

bristol held its breath. they could only manage two. the first world cup win over australia in 2a years, england picked their moment well. wayne rooney has returned to everton from manchester united 13 years after leaving the club. the former england captain is the record goal—scorer for club and country but he had becoming creasing the sidelined in recent seasons. the 31—year—old rejoins his boyhood club for free 31—year—old rejoins his boyhood club forfree on a 31—year—old rejoins his boyhood club for free on a two—year deal. he is one of england's rates and manchester united's record goal—scorer. but with his playing time increasingly limited at old trafford wayne rooney has gone back to the club he has always called home. the first game back obviously, it will be an emotional day for me, i think. i'm looking forward to it but i think overall i'm looking forward to the season is getting back playing regularly and trying to help this club move forward. there was talk about him moving to

china or maybe even america but in the end he has opted to come back to where it all began for him as a young boy. the band will be walking through these gates at the start of the new season knowing that he is backin the new season knowing that he is back in the blue of everton. the man who discovered rooney is a major role to playing for a junior team in liverpool says he remembers a boy who simply loved to score goals. just the strength of them. you know, he was only a little lad, like. but that was younger wayne. welcome home. with some critics believing rooney to be a shadow of the player he once was, everton fans will hope this move will inspire a turn to his very best. wayne rooney back in blue. it was a dramatic day at the tour de france in the high mountains. chris crim kept the leader's yellow jersey and

his team—mate and the race favourite crashed out on stage nine. preparing to ta ke crashed out on stage nine. preparing to take on the harder stage of the tour so far it certainly did not disappoint for drama but bands of welsh cycling might prefer to look away now. thomas had started the day in second place but after winning stage one and wearing the yellow jersey forfour stage one and wearing the yellow jersey for four days, stage one and wearing the yellow jersey forfour days, his stage one and wearing the yellow jersey for four days, his race was finished by a broken collar bone. croom will have to do without one of his key team—mates and soon had issues of his own. a mechanical problem on the steep slopes. the italian champion attacked, which usually is not done when the yellow jersey is in trouble but cycling has its own sense of fair play and his other main rivals insured that they waited. and astrology is resumed the race leader held his own. the pre—tour of it crashed on the final descent. he was conscious when taken to hospital. a dramatic day finished with a dramatic sprint. the race

lead now 18 seconds. the latest on that awful crash involving richie port is that his tea m involving richie port is that his team said he did not lose consciousness and could remember everything that happened. the official medical bulletin said he had a blow to the head and bruising to his pelvis. he has been taken to hospitalfor to his pelvis. he has been taken to hospital for x—rays. secondly, to his pelvis. he has been taken to hospitalforx—rays. secondly, if you have ever wondered whether it is worth wearing a cycle helmet, look at this. this is what is left of his. martin rejoined the race having lost over one minute and slipped from fourth to seventh overall. bottas has won the austrian grand prix. sebastian vettel extending his

lead. we did a tonne with this rain in the closing laps. it was not a scintillating race. there was very little overtaking. but it could yet prove to be a pivotal grand prix in this year's was championship fight. nick reports. there is no mistaking where you are when formula 1 comes to austria. although lewis hamilton looked like he would rather be somewhere else. and who could blame him? stranded down an eighth on the grid thanks to a penalty for changing his gearbox it was a day for damage limitation. up front his mercedes team—mate made the perfect start to stay ahead of the championship leader sebastien vettel. behind him, chaos. hamilton kept out of trouble, protested down and was soon up to fifth. pit stop strategies saw him gain another place and on the penultimate lap he

had a golden opportunity to snatch third from someone else. that chance was lost but all hope wasn't. bottas fought off a late attack from vettel to claim the second win of his career and it sees the then join the challenger battle that the german now leads. in the beginning i could control the pace but in the end the backmarkers made it quite tricky but i'm really happy. it is only my second win in my career. thank you guys or this report. under massive thank you to the team making this possible. they had a really good pace. i was catching little by little but then he obviously struggled to the last laps it was getting really close but i think needed one more lap because he was really struggling to get up the hill. but i wanted to win but a good result. satisfied with their day's work and particularly bottas for that and slating start. lewis hamilton when he spoke