professor hawking said that he saw the nhs moving towards an american style insurance system. jeremy hunt said it was a pernicious falsehood and continued, is it too much to ask professor hawking to look at the evidence? jeremy hunt has never shied away from taking on the medical profession, and it seems he's not shying away from taking on arguably britain's greatest living scientist. floods have affected south asia. monsoon storms have been sweeping gci’oss monsoon storms have been sweeping across the region. it is facing its worst humanitarian crisis for many yea rs. us authorities in boston have imposed strict security measures

for what's been billed as a "free speech rally", featuring far—right speakers. while only a handful of demonstrators have turned out, an anti—racism counter—protest has attracted thousands of other people. it comes a week after one person died when a white nationalist rally in charlottesville, virginia turned violent. our north america correspondent, aleem maqbool, is in boston now. after last week, one imagines that things might be rather tense. it is looking pretty relaxed there. how is the mood? all the talk ahead of today was about the potential for violence, about that free speech rally. a lot of the speakers have also been involved in far right rallies elsewhere in the country. the real story of the day has been the thousands and thousands of stony and is who have flooded boston common to surround those very few free—speech protesters in the bandstand. they have been charting antiracism slogans, even andy trump slogans, very upset with the fact that their president did not unequivocally condemn the far right protesters from last week in charlottesville. protesters from last week in cha rlottesville. there protesters from last week in charlottesville. there has been a lot of discussion, a lot of shock about what happened in

charlottesville, about what happened in cha rlottesville, with about what happened in charlottesville, with the sight of swastikas and nazi salutes and the violence. of course, some on the right have been energised by that. today, boston, with thousands of people streaming through the city to get here, to show their feelings, the story has been about the city sending a statement that those kind of images are not the kind of thing that are present at this country. thank you. with all the sport, here's karthi gna nasegaram at the bbc sport centre. good evening. england are in complete control of the first test against west indies at edgbaston. playing under floodlights in a day—night test, england have forced west indies to follow on and have already taken two early wickets. joe wilson reports from edgbaston. flags can be waived in celebration or raised in distress. hope had gone in the first over today, one of them. anderson got kyle hope as a

bowler, and then in the next over dismissed powell as a fielder. run out. next, roston chase gone without a score. james anderson, the pink ball wiza rd. a score. james anderson, the pink ball wizard. within the first hour, the younger hope brother was out as well. toby roland—jones had struck and then struck again. no doubt. not from the umpire. it is hard to make the pink ball shine, they say. england were trying. whose turnout? roland—jones, meetjermaine blackwood. now, that's the west indies spirit, isn't it? kamara roach, but broad toogood. watch how blackwood played him. even in test matches, there is always something new. it was 168 all out, but they we re new. it was 168 all out, but they were batting again. the first man in

the second innings gone. the floodlights were on but they could make out the pink ball all the way into his hands. the west indies 60—3, over 280 behind, with the lights on and hours left to play. there must be a strong chance that england could win the match today, rather tonight. thank you. manchester united have beaten swansea 4—0 in their second match of the season, they've now scored eight goals in just two games. jose mourinho felt his team was "confident from the first minute" as they continued their impressive start to their premier league campaign. patrick gearey reports. if you believe in the power of patterns and signs in sport, then maybe this is manchester united and jose mourinho's year. whether he has beenin jose mourinho's year. whether he has been in his second season, he has w011 been in his second season, he has won the league. this division has a way of caman —— dismantling master plans. swansea felt the manchester

united should not have stayed on the pitch. they failed to act acknowledges presence. mourinho's philosophy has been backed with money. £75 million buys you reliability of romelu lukaku, a striker who rarely misses these. within minutes, the game was gone. 3-0, this within minutes, the game was gone. 3—0, this time park but the scorer. swa nsea 3—0, this time park but the scorer. swansea were helpless. two games, two 4—0 wins. a pattern emerging. that's it for now from the bbc sport centre. there's more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel. we are back with the late news at 10:05pm. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. goodbye. readers of alan judd's readers of alanjudd's spy stories first met charles thorogood when he was in the army, then a trainee in the secret service. i few years on, he has become chief of m16. he is

top dog. but whitehall doesn't work like that. in deep blue, he spent is much of his time fighting theocracy as the enemies. welcome. it might be thought by some people that when you reach the top of the tree, that the secret world, you know everything, you are in charge. the hero discovers that many of the battles he is fighting are not with the other side or some terrorist group of something, but with people around him. yes, that is not peculiar to the secret world either. most organisations, maybe even the bbc, you devote a lot of your

energies to problems within your organisation that stop you doing what you are there to do. that is pa rt what you are there to do. that is part of his dilemma, and i think in a way it is easier to write a spy novel if you have things going on on the home front than if you're just fighting the war abroad. that is life particularly in that sort of world, because there is so much that you can't say, even to fairly close colleagues. that might also be true of the bbc, who knows gretchen mike i couldn't comment. that is the way that it works. there is a necessary compartmentalisation. people in secret organisations cannot talk about their secrets to other people in the organisation ‘s and have different secrets. one of the things about that macro deep blue, and i will not go that deep into it because it might spoil things because it might spoil things because there is an old—fashioned nature to it. the sense of the

crises, the panic, does not change with the ages. there might be different technology, you might be intercepting phone calls in a contemporary way that you might not have done before, but the fundamentals are the same. the fundamentals are the same. the fundamentals of spying never change. it is the second oldest profession. you are dealing with intelligence, people telling other people secrets, 01’ people telling other people secrets, or not telling them secrets and tried to stop them. essentially, you are dealing with the same things. what is not set is often as important as what is said. indeed. what makes charles thorogood your central character, whom we met at the originally when he was training to be an officer in and what making good at his job? i'm not sure he is

away is good at is job. it was a bit ofan away is good at is job. it was a bit of an accident, his reaching the top. he never expected to. it was only because of treachery within the higher circles that he did. he is good at isjob higher circles that he did. he is good at is job because he higher circles that he did. he is good at isjob because he is determined to get to the truth of something. that is what marks him out. he is not too committed to it. he doesn't live only for that, he is a human being. that is an interesting observation, he is not too committed. sometimes people who are the best at that job, too committed. sometimes people who are the best at thatjob, they nonetheless keep it in perspective as just nonetheless keep it in perspective asjust a part nonetheless keep it in perspective as just a part of their lives? nonetheless keep it in perspective asjust a part of their lives? at think so. you're dealing with human beings. if you're not much of a human being yourself, you don't understand the human beings very well. you need that perspective, or ought to have it. anybody who reads this book who doesn't know anything about you and perhaps read a

biography says former soldier diplomat might suspect you have worked in the intelligence community. i have heard that. you've never denied it? i don't think so. you have talked about thorogood not letting this dominate his life. why is that a good thing?” letting this dominate his life. why is that a good thing? i think you've got to have a life outside what you do, or you ought to have. if your life is wholly in what you do, you become confined within it. if you're working in a secret world, which is cut of from other parts of society, it is good to have an idea of what the rest of society is doing and to see that you are only part of a

bigger picture, you are not the whole picture. you say cut off from the rest of humanity, an interesting observation, because it is inevitable, and we see this in your novels through thorogood and his friends, but you are engaged inevitably in deceit, perhaps benign deceit, of family and friends as well is the other side, whatever it might be at any moment. the question of deceit is really very interesting because, in a way, you have to be honest. for many people in the intelligent professions, honesty is the most important quality. they need to be ruthlessly honest in their deceit. you deceive the people you should deceive for the right reasons. you don't deceive promiscuously for the wrong reasons, and you have to be honest with yourself about who you are deceiving and why. promiscuous deceit must be and why. promiscuous deceit must be a hazard of the trade, though?” imagine it is. people learn techniques of deceit that would carry over elsewhere if they were

dishonest. perhaps enjoyed a little too much, that is a problem to? indeed. we all enjoy knowing a secret. it is a form of power. we also enjoy sharing a secret. so it isa also enjoy sharing a secret. so it is a hazard, yes. somebody once said to me, who has reason to know these things, that dealing with the secret world as thorogood does, having reached the top articulate, what you are dealing with in the end is the riddle of power. what you are dealing with is trying to work out why someone is doing something, how they are using the power they have, and perhaps how to stop them.” they are using the power they have, and perhaps how to stop them. i can see what is meant in that. if you apply to this british system of the intelligence agencies, they do not have a great deal of power in the british state, unlike in many more countries where they have more power. they advise the nations and

the government makes the decisions. within any organisation, there power structures. why do you enjoy writing about his world ? structures. why do you enjoy writing about his world? you have been celebrated for a series of remarkable short novels, some of them almost novellas, and yet to return to this theme. what does it allow you to do as a writer that you enjoy? i think that it allows for an element of humour which i quite like injecting. not to make them very funny books. you could do entirely humorous books about the secret world, but whenever people are trying to be secret, things go wrong. if you arrange to meet a man with red hair who is six foot seven at the bar, there will be four of

them in that bar. that is the nature of things. all carrying the daily telegraph under their left arm. indeed, yesterday's. once thorogood reaches the top cover does he survive as the top? can you tell us much amok i haven't decided. each was never written with a successor in mind. i have always had tojuggle what happens to him. i would never have made him chief early on if i thought i was going to go on writing. that, of course, is powered by another neighbour stop yes, that is powered by another name. alan judd, thank you very much. thank you. it's been another day of sunshine and showers. one of our weather watchers capturing this cumulonimbus cloud that brought a downpour into the highlands. there have been showers across northern and western

scotla nd showers across northern and western scotland today. they will continue overnight. some showers in england and wales this way, but fading away. the cloud will gradually break up and everything will become dry. cooler than that in the countryside. sunday's weather, i want to show you this. we had a hurricane travelling up this. we had a hurricane travelling up the eastern side of the united states were stopped since then, it passed under the jet stream where it was torn to shreds by the powerful system. but the remnants of that will be working in on this system. after a bright start of the day, we will see cloud encroaching across parts of wales and south—west england, but this cloud will arrive quite late in the day and we were stuck to see somehow breaks of rain working in, without turning heavier as we head towards the evening across parts of wales and south—west england. that leaves the majority of the uk with finance dry conditions lasting for much of the day. sunday

the better of the two days of the weekend. temperatures pushing nicely into the high teens or no 20s. cooler than that in scotland, but pleasa nt cooler than that in scotland, but pleasant enough in the sunshine, and with fewer showers as well. as we go into sunday night, the rain will get heavy across wales and southern counties of england, with heavy bursts mixed in with a tropical air. for northern ireland, the rain arrives late. the rain will gradually push further northwards. the hind the warm front, that is where the warm air is across wales and southern counties of england. if we don't see much sunshine, it will feel humid with temperatures in the low 20s. further north, the areas cooler. early next week, we will get that warm air moving in, with a south—westerly wind pushing our way. it will feel humid, and the temperatures will be surging upwards on tuesday. a bit of uncertainty about how much cloud there will be, but we could even see temperatures

reaching around 29 degrees across parts of southern england. that is the latest weather. goodbye for now. this is bbc news. the headlines at 7pm... the spanish government says the terror cell responsible for two van attacks has been dismantled as the hunt continues for the suspect who may have driven the van. spain's king felipe has visited the injured in hospital — 12 people remain in a critical condition. a british man is among those hurt in yesterday's finland terror attack — he tried to protect two women from a man wielding a knife. a war of words between professor stephen hawking and the health secretaryjeremy hunt over the state of the nhs. thousands of anti—racism demonstrators have gathered in boston to oppose a rally featuring far—right speakers.

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