on the turning point, so much focus on the tournament? well, you are right, jane, so much attention. i think when england and scotland walk onto that pitch here at nice they will be taking part in one of the most eagerly anticipated women's world cups eagerly anticipated women's world cu ps yet eagerly anticipated women's world cups yet and that is because there is more investment, more sponsorship in the game, the standard is higher. phil neville has been speaking in glowing terms in the build—up to this tournament about the support his side have in terms of facilities, how they have the same preparation as the men's team. but thatis preparation as the men's team. but that is not the case for many countries here. there are still some big issues for countries around equal pay, around facilities, support from their federations, so equal pay, around facilities, support from theirfederations, so i think that is why it is important to remember women's football is still ina remember women's football is still in a journey remember women's football is still inajourney and remember women's football is still in a journey and that is why this world cup is so significant. thank you very much, katie gore knoll, in nice. let's turn our attention to the weather here. here's tomasz

shafernaker. yes, the weather here. here's tomasz shaferna ker. yes, the the weather here. here's tomasz shafernaker. yes, the weather will be throwing all sorts at us over the next 2a hours. southern rain across the uk this morning already and as far as this afternoon is concerned it looks as though we could see some thunderstorms developing across the south of the country, and that is at the end of it because this weekend we have gale force winds on the way gci’oss we have gale force winds on the way across the south and it is due to this nasty low—pressure location are affecting parts of france right now. that is why we had that soaking rain first thing in the morning across the south and that will also bring thunderstorms in the coming hours as well. pretty unusual for the time of the year, and that strong wind will be developing tonight and tomorrow gci’oss be developing tonight and tomorrow across southern parts of the uk, so if you have any plans outdoors take note. this is what we have right now. rain across parts of the midlands, wales, into north—western areas of england as well. thunderstorms out across the channel right now and they should be

reaching the south coast. scotland and northern ireland, you are laughing, ifine and northern ireland, you are laughing, i fine day with lots of sunshine, but you are not immune to the rain because it will eventually reach northern parts of the country later tonight as well. stronger winds around the south coast overnight and you can clearly see the rain here affecting northern areas and parts of wales as well. low— pressure areas and parts of wales as well. low—pressure spinning around the uk. temperatures tonight, ten, 11 degrees. tomorrow is a real mixture of weather, with sunshine and showers, and the shower is pretty much almost anywhere across england and wales, some in eastern scotland as well but the story of the day is the strong winds. on the south coast i wouldn't be surprised if they reach gale force, in excess of 50 miles per hour and inland a0 miles an hour, all those trees buffeted by the strong winds, but sunshine around too. showers across scotland, some in northern ireland and some in northern england, so really picking out so many things happening over the next 2a hours or so. the good

news, saturday night, things will be slowly calming down and then heading into sunday that windy low, approaching norway, and in the wake of that better weather, but not com pletely of that better weather, but not completely dry because still some showers dotted around scotland, some in northern ireland, one or two in the west of the uk, but it will feel better on sunday, temperatures reaching 20 in london, and if you are wondering about next week, no real sign of anything more settled. just a case of rain on and off. tomasz, thank you very much. thank you! just a reminder of our main story this lunchtime... a woman who killed her husband and hammer attack after decades of emotional abuse has had her murder conviction to manslaughter. she will not face a retrial. that is all from the bbc news at one. we nowjoin the bbc news teams wherever you are. have

good afternoon. your latest sports news. disappointment forjohanna konta knocked out in the french open semifinal. one court now, i! konta knocked out in the french open semifinal. one court now, 11 times champion graf an adult taking on roger federer. rafa nadal is —— took the first set. liddle has clawed it back, a—3 to federer with rain forecast over the next few hours in the french capital. 750 metres away, the women's world cup kicks off at the parc des princes. it is the eight tournament that has taken place, the usa are reigning champions and joint favourites. but there will be plenty of competition this time around.

the amount of teams that could possibly win this world cup is greater, the top eight teams have a chance. the usa, germany, japan have been there. not an easy task. we will see who pulls it off. the french papers have the team front and centre, everywhere in the newspapers, so much pressure. you know what it is like to play in front of a home crowd and indeed win. how can they cope? use it as energy and support, that is a better way. i remember playing in games and are used to support when we needed it, using that energy to bring a lift to the team. playing at home is wonderful. if you look at it as pressure it can hurt you. the french have great support here. the idea that this is going to be one of the biggest world cups is exciting. they need to worry about playing good

soccer. the usa are defending champions but have struggled in intervening years, the old guard retiring, new players coming in. i will always bet on the usa, i strongly believe in the players we have and the mentality we have, and they understand what it takes. but it won't be easy. they have to play each game is pretty much their best game, taking opportunities, staying healthy is a big part of this as well. it will be exciting. i am looking forward to some really great soccer. gareth southgate says his england side won't abandon their style — despite a couple of real defensive clangers ruining their chances of winning the nations league.

they lost their semifinal 3—1 to the netherlands in portugal. the it was tough to take in the end. you get to a semifinal, and other semifinal, it should be a positive. everybody leaves even more deflated. ican everybody leaves even more deflated. i can understand that. but i had to look at the bigger picture of what the players have given me, and the way they have tried incredibly for their country. coventry city have confirmed they will ground share with birmingham city next season. they have been struggling to agree a deal to stay at the ricoh arena which is owned by the wasps rugby club. the move to st andrews they say is essential for them to stay in the league. plenty more on the bbc sports website. and reaction tojohanna

konta going out in the french open semifinal. more from us later. much more sport to come. you're watching the bbc news channel. we will talk a little bit more about the news that has broken in the last hour. the case of sally challen whose conviction for killing her husband has been reduced to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. sally challen hasn't yet been formally sentenced but you may know she has already served more than nine years in prison. she killed her husband in a hammer attack after many years of suffering, as the court was told, suffering, as the court was told, suffering coercive control. we are waiting to hear much more from the old bailey. we are expecting a statement from the cps and hope to hearfrom

expecting a statement from the cps and hope to hear from family members of sally challen. it is worth reading out you a tweet from one of her two sons who have supported her throughout this long campaign. let us throughout this long campaign. let us show you this tweet from her son david. this is what he says. that has been the family's argument throughout, that sally challen who is now 65, suffered coercive control at the hands of her husband, for more than 30 years. we are keeping an eye on our cameras at the old bailey and as soon as we hear from otherfamily bailey and as soon as we hear from other family members or from the

crown prosecution service, we will be back there for more news. sally challen convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished this possibility. much more reaction to come to that case and the whole debate around coercive control. we will keep an eye on that this afternoon. also in the last hour, the news the high court has thrown out a private prosecution against borisjohnson who is one of those running for the conservative party leadership. it was brought in relation to the eu referendum, to do with those claims the eu, the uk gave the eu £350 million a week. let us gave the eu £350 million a week. let us go to the court, clive coleman is following this case. explain, what exactly has happened here, and what this means?

last week, a districtjudge in the magistrates' court decided there was a case to answer for borisjohnson in relation to effectively three cou nts in relation to effectively three counts of misconduct in a public office relating to his assertion that the uk was sending £350 million a week to the eu, that assertion made during the referendum campaign where borisjohnson was the mayor of london and an mp. it related to an offence called misconduct in public office, the allegation was mr johnson had mis—conducted himself within those two public offices in such a way he had abused the trust the public held in those offices. what was extraordinary about this case was it was brought up in court this morning was misconduct in public office has never been used in circumstances like this, never been used in relation to an assertion

within a political debate or political campaign. this morning, mr johnson's lawyers were arguing the districtjudge last week got the will all wrong, made much of this fa ct, will all wrong, made much of this fact, saying the assertion by mr johnson was put up for a challenge within the referendum campaign, it was batted about, it could be questioned, and this was not a proper use of the criminal law, to use this particular offence which had never been used in these circumstances, to seek to prosecute mrjohnson. they said parliament had had the opportunity to criminalise this kind of speech, this assertion within the offence of misconduct in a public office, and had failed to do so. we haven't had the final reasoned ruling from the court, but i have to say they gave pretty short shrift to lawyers acting on behalf of the gentleman who brought this private prosecution. this result

today will obviously give great encouragement to mrjohnson and his supporters who made it very clear they really felt this was a politically motivated private prosecution, echoed by his barrister in court today. we have had the decision, the summons quashed, mr johnson can proceed through the conservative leadership campaign and perhaps on to becoming prime minister now without the threat of a legal case, criminal case, hanging over, which would have taken up a considerable amount of time. enormous relief on his side, and many will feel, and indeed his lawyers said in court, you may think someone is doing theirjob badly, reprehensible lead, but this criminal offence is about the abuse of the powers that go with the office, and that was not the case here and that is why the decision made last week was unlawful and quashed today. thank you very much, our legal affairs correspondent.

large outbreaks of deadly diseases like ebola are a "new normal" according to the world health organisaiton. previous outbreaks have affected small numbers of people but the democratic republic of congo is dealing with its second largest outbreak, just three years after the world's biggest outbreak ended. the world health organization says the world is entering a new phase and countries need to be prepared for new deadly epidemics. dr oliverjohnson previously co—ran an ebola isolation unit in 201a in sierra leone, and he explained the current concern. the who is right to raise alarm. we have quoted bill gates saying there is a reasonable probability in the next 15 years, we could see more than 30 million people die of an outbreak. they are right to say these are getting worse. some of that is to do with the changing nature of the world particularly the climate change emergency, deforestation, where animals living, shifting the way humans and animals interact,

mosquitoes bringing new diseases to new geographies, an increase in antibiotic drug resistance, our outgoing chief medical officer has been raising the alarm many of the drugs we have been using for decades to protect us, are starting to no longer work because we have been overusing them. there may even be the end of modern medicine, we could see up to 10 million deaths a year by 2050 from drug—resistant antibiotics. better research and better use of antibiotics is needed. and the social side. we are seeing more and more populist governments coming into power who are playing fast and loose with science and the truth, often promoting an anti—vaccine movement. there is a political element. and a technological element. in previous decades, people got their information from the radio, from the government. but now people get a lot

of information from whatsapp groups. fake news, fears, conspiracies can spread very quickly, for example on whatsapp groups even in remote villages where there may not be running water, but people have mobile phones. rethinking how we engage with that changed information dynamic and saying we have to build trust. we have to build basic, strong health systems. the work my team has been doing is how do we make sure everyone can access a trained nurse, can go to a clinic that is open and that has drugs. that is our primary defence against these outbreaks, to make sure every community has a functional basic health system available for everyone. that is how you treat the start of the outbreak and the focus of your response. a generational investment in health systems, acknowledging climate change and trust are at the centre of any future response

and preventing the kind of pandemics being spoken about. in a moment, we'll have all the business news, but first, the headlines on bbc news. a woman who killed her husband in a hammer attack, after decades of emotional abuse, has her murder conviction reduced to manslaughter and will not face a retrial. an attempt to prosecute the conservative leadership candidate boris johnson for lying about brexit is thrown out by the high court. labour see off a strong challenge by nigel farage's brexit party winning the peterborough by—election with a slim majority. good afternoon. the business news

now. the uk financial regulator should have been awake to problems that neil woodford had with his investment fund. it has been called a failure to spot clear warning signs that things were going badly. mr woodford suspended his largest fund this week after rising numbers of investors asked for their money back. millions of households on prepaid gas and electricity metres could see prices rise after a review by the competition and markets authority. it wants to change the price cap introduced two years ago as a temporary measure.

bank overd rafts and bank overdrafts and fees are about to see a major shake—up. banks and building societies will not be able to charge a fixed, daily or monthly fees for overd rafts and to charge a fixed, daily or monthly fees for overdrafts and won't be able to charge higher fees for unarranged overd rafts. these able to charge higher fees for unarranged overdrafts. these rules should be in place by april next year. rachel springall is from moneyfacts. is there a problem? the biggest problem is customers were charged for a service but those charges were excessive. customers are being charged way too much for when they go into their overdraft. it was going to come around that the fco would do something and finally they have. unfortunately, tariffs have been changing over many years are so many customers would have been paying lots of money in charges. these are good, new rules but the actual ban on fees won't come in until april next year. this is an opportunity for any customer to look

at their account, compare it with others if they can but this is complicated, do it now and have a look at what you are being charged. the likelihood is if you switch somewhere else it may be a similar notion. it isa notion. it is a bit draconian say banks cannot impose fixed fees. it is surely the level of the fees rather, they are having their hands tied, it isa they are having their hands tied, it is a fairly major form of income, £2.5 billion a year. two years ago it was £2.a billion from overd rafts. two years ago it was £2.a billion from overdrafts. these costs will have to come from somewhere and be recouped somewhere else. it is likely they will look at benefits and other fixed fees. likely they will look at benefits and otherfixed fees. you can have and otherfixed fees. you can have an account management fee but you can't now have from next year and overdraft fee.

they might introduce things like the end of free banking. it could possibly happen, we have seen similar notion in the credit ca rd seen similar notion in the credit card market when the eu introduced in interchange fee. companies are a business. if they can't sustain deals because of other changes, they will cut them. thank you. preparing for brexit has cost the uk government £97 million in consultancy fees, the national audit office has revealed. the money has been spent on hiring external experts because government departments lack the staff and skills needed, the nao said. it criticised the government for a lack of transparency, saying details of contracts had not been published in a timely fashion. house prices rose 5.2% in may on an annual measure, according to halifax, the uk's biggest mortgage lender — which shows on a monthly basis, house prices rose by 0.5%.

the news from halifax, part of lloyds banking group, contradicts other house price surveys which show a stagnant property market. bad news from the factories of germany. industrial production was down 1.9% in aprilfrom the previous month — the biggest decline in four years. economists had been expecting a much more modest decline of 0.5%. it is worth looking at the markets asa it is worth looking at the markets as a result of that. the ftse up 0.5%. the oil price is looking fairly strong at the moment. a pretty quiet day. we will look at that more later in the afternoon. that is all the business news for now. a rather unusual court case in

france has been delayed in the hope the two sides can reach an agreement, it is all about a cockrell! my my clients just want peace and tranquillity. they are retired, they wa nt to tranquillity. they are retired, they want to sleep until in normal time in the morning and they would like the rooster in question are closed in at night as it is daylight usually that triggers the crowing. at the heart of the argument, the greeting is a little too early to allow a lion, not so says the owner. translation: -- allow a lie-in. it has been said he seems all

morning and night but it has been prove n morning and night but it has been proven to be false. on thursday, legal proceedings were delayed. the cockrell at home in his coop rather than in dock. the hope now is that both sides can settle out of court. it mirrors a wider issue across french society, the sense of a growing gap between urban and rural france. while the outcome of the lawsuit is still uncertain, if he wins, he will surely have something to crow about! a lot more animal stories before the weather! three new species of frogs have been discovered. one has been on its

figures —— fingers used for gliding. a third type that lives high in the cheese has been called the cheeky monkey frogs and researchers say they imagine this elusive amphibian is laughing at them as they searched for it in the forest! a border collie who was named britain's fattest dog has shed dozens of pounds and found a new home. bopper the whopper weighed eight stone in november last year, when she was taken into a rescue centre in plymouth. bopper has since dropped down to five stone and has been rehomed. she still has some weight to lose, but plenty of walks on the moors with her new owners are keeping her on the road to fitness. much more news coming up from 2pm.

here's a look at the weather. the weather has gone downhill today. a lot of us have had a good soaking, and thunderstorms lurking around. this weather front is expected to last through the weekend. saturday, gale force winds expected. due to this nasty weather system affecting france, damaging winds and heavy rain, and this northern edge is also affecting parts of the uk. that is the heavy rain today. over the next 2a hours, this low pressure will drift northwards, bringing some strong winds to southern parts of the country. unusual for the time of year, up to gale force. here is the rain this afternoon. heaviest around the midlands, wales, and thunderstorms affecting southern

parts of the country and the midlands. one minute sunshine, then later a downpour of thunder and lightning. this unsettled weather continues for the whole night, the wind is picking up especially in the south. coming in from a westerly direction and blowing out of the west for most of the day across england and wales. the strongest gusts along the south coast exceeding 50 miles an hour, possibly 55. in lund, a0. afew exceeding 50 miles an hour, possibly 55. in lund, a0. a few have exceeding 50 miles an hour, possibly 55. in lund, a0. afew have any plans outdoors on saturday morning, marquees, tents, that will be blowing around, there is a strong wins for the time of year. some sunshine as well. plenty of showers across northern parts of the country. saturday evening, the winds will die down and the weather will improve. heading into sunday, that low pressure is out of the way, moving

across scandinavia. the winds are much lighter on sunday. still a bit ofa much lighter on sunday. still a bit of a breeze and a few showers brewing. sunday is certainly looking a lot better, and temperatures could get up to 20 degrees in london. next week, in a word, unsettled.

you're watching bbc newsroom live — these are today's main stories: i woman who killed her husband in a hammer attack after decades of emotional abuse has her murder conviction reduced to manslaughter and will not face a retrial. there has been a significant campaign waged today by supporters of sally challen and they can feel some sense of victory today. she is still a convicted killer of manslaughter by diminished responsibility but she is not a murderer. i hereby declare that lisa forbes is duly elected memberof that lisa forbes is duly elected member of parliament. labour wins the peterborough by—election — seeing off a challenge from the brexit party