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this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 11:00: michael gove, one of the front runners for the conservative leadership, says he deeply regrets his cocaine use more than 20 years ago, but it should not affect his bid to be prime minister. after 16 years on the run, one of europe's most wanted fugitives is arrested in malta, over a brutal murder in cheshire. president trump lifts the threat of tariffs on imports from mexico, after its government promises to curb illegal immigration. the queen isjoined by members of the royal family for the annual trooping the colour parade to mark her majesty's official birthday. england bounce back at the cricket world cup, with a convincing win, over bangladesh. and at 11:30 we'll be taking
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an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers lynn faulds wood and ruth lea — stay with us for that. good evening. the conservative mp michael gove, who's one of the top candidates to be the next party leader and prime minister, says he "deeply regrets" taking cocaine more than 20 years ago. he told the daily mail it happened at several social events while he was working as a journalist. mr gove says it was a mistake and he wants conservatives tojudge him on his record as a politician. 0ur political correspondent chris mason reports. if you see yourself as the face of the country's future,
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you can expect plenty of questions about your own past. i can confirm that i will be putting my name forward to be prime minister of this country. for mr gove recently, to here in the late ‘90s is about the time he now admits he cocaine. ..he told the daily mail. will, though, those who choose our next prime minister — conservative mps and members — agree? ultimately, this is an admission of illegality, but i guess the key question is, will it make any difference? times have changed, and this isn't the devastating blow for michael gove‘s campaign that it might once have been. having said that, he is in for some very awkward conservations with party members, who tend to be very socially conservative
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on this issue. and that will be a drag on his campaign. the flip side of that is that it's dragged boris back into the limelight over class a drugs. have you snorted cocaine? unsuccessfully, a long time ago. this was borisjohnson1li years ago. i sneezed. a very small quantity. it was a long, long time ago. i think it's probably a disgusting and ridiculous thing to do and what else can i say about it? three years later, he said it was simply untrue that he had taken cocaine. other candidates have had admissions to make. rory stewart has apologised for smoking opium at a wedding in iran 15 years ago. andrea leadsom said she smoked cannabis at university. dominic roberts said he had as well. —— dominic raabe. this afternoon in michael gove‘s constituency in surrey people
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appeared relaxed about their mp's past behaviour. to me, it's not relevant. i think this isjust people are trying to slur, just to bring him down. not really fair to do that. personally speaking, i don't think it will have any real impact. remember, the race to replace theresa may — and move on here by the end of next month — hasn't yet formally begun. that happens on monday. so the scrutiny, the awkward questions, the probing of each candidate's past is onlyjust beginning. mr gove and his rivals are now in a breathless battle for the topjob. chris mason, bbc news. 0ur political correspondent chris mason is here. a lot of the sunday papers going on the michael gove story. the daily mail, the observer, using this title of hypocrite. how will he handle this? he has a big interview
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tomorrow going out on the andrew marr show. inevitably there will be questions about whether the extent of the revelations today are the end of the revelations today are the end of it. is there more to be said? a couple of the sunday newspapers have dug out an article that michael gove wrote in 1999, roughly the time he acknowledges he had taken cocaine on acknowledges he had taken cocaine on a few occasions, in which they were able to throw the word hypocrite around. it is interesting, when you read this article, he does condemn middle—class drug users. he also acknowledges that, perhaps, it is not as bad to be, he says that lots of journalists will talk about not as bad to be, he says that lots ofjournalists will talk about how drug laws should be re— liberalised and the reason they say that is because many of them may be drug ta kers because many of them may be drug takers themselves, he says it is more important to acknowledge that you may have transgressed around the law but respect the fact that the law but respect the fact that the law is therefore a good reason. yes, he is taking a bus from critics who are accusing him of hypocrisy. what he is also doing coming the sunday telegraph, is talking about his
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policies. trying to shift the focus back onto that. and a particularly radical one which is getting rid of vat. that would be a huge economic policy if an incoming prime minister to do it. he wants to replace it with what he describes as a lower and simpler sales tax. does not say how much lower or how much more simple or when it would be introduced. that is pretty radical. the whole shape of the article is about his economic platform and contrasting his conservative economics, boosting competition, and the free market versus the socialism ofjeremy corbyn. the free market versus the socialism of jeremy corbyn. 0bviously the free market versus the socialism ofjeremy corbyn. 0bviously he thinks it is better to pursue his conservative vision. labour would have a different take on it. tomorrow morning the focus again will be on michael gove because of this big interview he is giving in the context of all of this stuff. meanwhile, any times we are also hearing from borisjohnson and his plans to save the country from jeremy corbyn a nigel farage ——in the sunday times. boris johnson is
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the favourite in this race. he has this column that he writes in the telegraph but he has not put himself up telegraph but he has not put himself upforany telegraph but he has not put himself up for any public scrutiny at all. now he has because he has done is interview in the sunday times. he talks about himself as the best candidate to deliver brexit and to beatjeremy corbyn. it talks about brexit in terms of policy, by saying he would hold onto that divorce payment that the uk is due to pay the eu until the future arrangement is thrashed out. we want to scrap the backstop, insurance policy for dealing the irish border ——he wants to. his critics will say, hang on a minute, theresa may went all the way around this block several times and got nowhere. why would the eu changes position for you ? interestingly, three more cabinet ministers coming out supporting estherjohnson, chris grayling, alun cairns, andjames estherjohnson, chris grayling, alun cairns, and james brokenshire. as things stand at the moment, boris
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johnson looks like the person to beat and the out and out favourite. any caveat i would insert is that this stage in the campaign last time, the favourite then was boris johnson and everything imploded. so who knows. it is a time when candidates are starting to build momentum. we are hearing support for sajid javid. ruth davidson, the leader of the scottish conservatives backing the home secretary, sajid javid. which is a useful boost for him. as things stand at the moment, we are on the eve of this race formally starting. it feels like people like me and you have been banging on about it for weeks on end, but it hasn't even started yet. 0n end, but it hasn't even started yet. on monday is when nominations go in. then they close. we will find out who is in the running by close of play on monday. the first round of voting on thursday. the whole process of whittling down the candidates who then go out to the membership of 100,000 people. we should have a new prime minister in
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about six weeks. gosh. chris mason, thank you very much. one of britain's most wanted men, christopher guest more junior, has been arrested in malta, after 16 years on the run. police want to question him over the murder of a man at a remote farmhouse in cheshire, in 2003. 0n the run for 16 years, but now in ha ndcuffs 0n the run for 16 years, but now in handcuffs after being captured in malta. christopher guest more junior, one of your‘s most wanted en route to a court hearing. it started his extradition proceedings. it is thought to 41—year—old left the uk in 2003 after brian waters was tortured and beaten to death in front of his two adult children. mr waters had been running a cannabis farm in cheshire. he had been brutally whipped, burnt, and beaten during the three hour ordeal. three other men, 69—year—old john wilson, james raven, and 0tis matthews are serving life sentences for his
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motor. mr moore junior is serving life sentences for his motor. mr moorejunior is wanted in relation to mr murtagh ‘s death, the second death. he is being remanded in custody until his hearing on monday. chi chi izundu, bbc news. donald trump has called off his threat to impose tariffs on mexican imports, after a pledge that more will be done, to clamp down on migration into the us. he says the tariffs, which were due to take effect on monday, would be "suspended indefinitely". 0ur correspondent, chris buckler, has more from washington. mexico was trying to show it is doing all they can to crackdown on trafficking, on smuggling. it is also deploying its national guard to its southern border with guatemala. a key pa rt its southern border with guatemala. a key part of the agreement will see migrants who come to the us claiming asylu m migrants who come to the us claiming asylum return to mexico while they wait for a decision from the american authorities. none of that
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will guarantee there is a reduction in the number of migrants making their way from central america, through mexico, to the us border. the mexican government has been at pains to point out during the ghosh asians in washington that it feels that there needs to be a longer term solution —— negotiations. however, donald trump has long promised his supporters that he will deal with theissues supporters that he will deal with the issues surrounding immigration. he has wanted action and short—term effects. you could argue that in those words that he is indefinitely suspending the tariffs he is withholding them and saying he could use the weapon again if he doesn't see a difference at the border. chris buckler there. a 16—year—old boy has been arrested over a homophobic attack against two lesbians in london. melania gimoanat, and her partner chris were passengers on a night bus when a group began harassing them and asking them to kiss. four other males aged between 15 and 18 were questioned on suspicion of robbery and aggravated grievous bodily harm. all of those arrested have been bailed until earlyjuly.
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a man who was found in a critical condition at a murder scene earlier this week in salford — has died. the 31—year—old man was taken to hospital after the body of 27—year—old regan tierney was discovered by police in walkden on wednesday. police say they are not searching for anyone else in connection with the deaths. a woman who was bitten by a dog in preston last friday has died. 55—year—old sharonjennings, was walking her own dog in the brookfield area of preston when she was attacked by another dog. she was taken to hospital on monday and died last night. police are making enquires to trace the dog involved and its owner. the queen's official birthday has been marked by the trooping the colour ceremony, with the duchess of sussex joining the parade in an open—top carriage. it's her first public appearance, since the birth of her son four weeks ago. 0ur royal correspondent,
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daniella relph reports. fanfare. this week, she has hosted a president and remembered the sacrifice of d—day. today, the queen herself was celebrated on her official birthday. trooping the colour also saw a return to royal duties for the duchess of sussex. meghan rode in a carriage with her husband and the duchesses of cornwall and cambridge, for her first royal engagement since baby archie was born on the sixth of may. the american duchess did not take part in the state visit of the american president earlier in the week, because of the birth of her baby son. but officials say she chose to interrupt her maternity leave for this event, because it is a family moment in which she wanted to share. the queen has rarely missed a trooping the colour. hers is an expert eye on a spectacle
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of military precision. among those watching was theresa may, a day after formally stepping down as conservative party leader. from the parade ground back to the palace, surrounded by pomp and pageantry. the ceremony also draws together one of the year's largest gatherings of senior royals. and the police carefully guided the crowds on the mall into prime position. at buckingham palace, they saw the queen lead the family out as the younger generation stole the show. prince louis, 13 months old and making his debut on the palace balcony, had his own take on the royal wave. they all watched the fly—past, the day's grand finale, although strong winds meant several of the vintage aircraft couldn't fly. as his great—grandmother led herfamily back inside, the youngest royal there looked like he'd definitely be back next year. daniela relph, bbc news,
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buckingham palace. it is just approaching a quarter past 11. the headlines on bbc news: michael gove, one of the front runners for the conservative leadership, says his past cocaine use more than 20 years ago should not be held against him in his bid to become prime minister. after 16 years on the run, one of europe's most wanted fugitives is arrested in malta, over a brutal murder in cheshire. president trump lifts the threat of tariffs on imports from mexico after its government promises to curb illegal immigration. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's azi. good evening. steve clarke began his reign as scotland men's head coach
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with a 2—1win over cyprus in their euro 2020 qualifier. 0liver burke secured the points with a late goal at hampden. the win keeps scotland level in the group with second—placed russia. clarke will now take his side to brussels to face the belgians on tuesday. it's three wins out of three for northern ireland. they came from a goal down to win 2—1 in estonia. josh mageniss scored a late winner, minutes after conor washington had equalised. not such good news for wales though. they lost 2—1 against the world cup finalists croatia in 0ssy—yek. they are now in third place and currently out of the automatic qualfication places. they play hungary in budapest on tuesday. we didn't really play well. two poor goals we gave away. and, so disappointed. so when you don't play like you can do and still create chances against this top team you've got to be disappointed. at the women's world cup, two—time champions germany were far from their best butjust edged past china in rennes. the world's second ranked side were frustrated for long periods before teenager yulia gwinn scored the only
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goal of the game on her first competitive appearance. spain came back from a goal down to beat tournament debutants south africa 3—1 in their opening game of group b. lucia garcia sealed the victory for spain after two penalties from atletico madrid forward jenni hermoso. norway are second in group a after an easy 3—0 win over nigeria. the 1995 champions scored all of their goals in the first 36 minutes. some very sad football news to bring you now. leyton orient have announced that their managerjustin edinburgh has died, at the age of 49. the club say he suffered a cardiac arrest last monday, and passed away earlier today. under edinburgh, 0rient won promotion to the football league just last month. during his playing career, he spent a decade at tottenham hotspur, winning both the fa cup, and the league cup. 0rient chairman nigel travis said "we are completely heartbroken by this tragedy, and all our thoughts and love are with the edinburgh family".
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england beat bangladesh by 106 runs to make it two wins out of three at the cricket world cup. an opening stand of 128 for the opening wicket between jonny bairstow and jason roy set england on course for a total of 386 for six — their highest in the world cup. roy made 153. it was like jason and johnny, they we re it was like jason and johnny, they were outstanding. they assessed conditions well. they waited to compose themselves on the innings. 128 is a considerable stand at the top of the order. in today's other match new zealand comfortably beat afghanistan by seven wickets in taunton. new zealand reached their target of 173 with 107 balls to spare. they are the only team with three wins out of three..
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australian ashleigh barty has won her first grand slam title at the french open. the eighth seed, who quit tennis to play professional cricket in 2014, thrashed czech teenager marketa vondrousova in straight sets to complete a fairytale return to the sport. dominic thiem faces rafael nadal in the men's final tomorrow and ferrari's sebastien vettel took his first pole of the sesaon ahead of the canadian grand prix. he pipped lewis hamilton on his last lap. hamilton will start from second ahead of vettel‘s ferrari team—mate charles leclerc — it's only the second time in seven races that mercedes have been beaten to pole. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport
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the sudanese opposition has called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience. the arrest took place just hours after the ethiopian prime minister was sent in for mediation talks. earlier this week, minister was sent in for mediation talks. earlierthis week, dozens minister was sent in for mediation talks. earlier this week, dozens of protesters were shot dead by a paramilitary group. a civil administration is being demanded. people in venice have taken to the streets to protest against the docking of large tourist boats. tourists say they locals say they cause pollution and damage.
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irish fishermen are being warned they face arrest by scottish authorities — if they're caught fishing around the tiny atlantic island of rockall — which lies more than 200 miles west of the hebrides. ownership of the rock has long been disputed — but scottish ministers now say they have a duty to defend the interests of their fishermen. laura maxwell reports. inhabited only by seabirds, rockall is a big lump of granite miles from anywhere. but the waters around it are rich fishing grounds for haddock, monkfish, and squid worth millions of pounds a year. it's access to this catch which the scottish government says it's defending. in a statement, they told us... we would not like to see conflict but in this case it's straight and clean, it's a matter of illegality under international law and we'd like it fixed. the uk claimed sovereignty in 1955 with royal marines hoisting the union flag. but the ownership of rockall has been disputed for decades and irish
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fishermen maintain they're working illegally. they're extremely worried and they are looking and we expect that if there is any detentions here, we will have the full backing of the irish government to defend ourselves against what we consider is an illegal act by the scottish authorities. the irish government says the jurisdiction remains disputed and the threat of action by the scottish government is unwarranted. it says it will pursue every legal avenue to defend its fishermen. laura maxwell, bbc news. the actor 0livia colman, and the tv adventurer bear grylls, are among the famous names recognised in the queen's birthday honours list. theyjoin hundreds of members of the public who've also been recognised for contributing to their communities. earlier i spoke to naseem akhtar. she received a british empire medal for her charity work organising inclusive exercise for women in birmingham.
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its kind of nice, humbling, exciting, embarrassing, all at the same time. why would it be embarrassing? you are doing amazing work. it was set up as a charity and it was about encouraging more women to ta ke it was about encouraging more women to take part in egg and —— exercise, fitness and sport. we used to see the green goddess on the morning in bbc breakfast every morning but we didn't have the opportunity to do that. we started to develop our own exercise and fitness activities and supporting sport england —— supported by sport england. we want to do do activities with young girls and than older women so now we have and than older women so now we have a cycling club, a running club and then women who do half marathons, marathons, cycling. we took part in the fellow cycling right where you
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could take part in 100 miles. because it was during ramadan, we called it the ramadan special. it took apart in the last ten miles and then next year, we will take part in then next year, we will take part in the whole event. it is about encouraging women to do sport and they don't have to be lycra clad. they can be anybody to do it at their own ability. it is about creating journeys for women from the lower level to then they can run half marathons and full marathon. lower level to then they can run half marathons and full marathonlj wa nt to half marathons and full marathonlj want to go back to something you said. he said, "we never had the opportunity to take part in this exercise". why not? many in my community, about 15—20 years ago, a lot of women wouldn't want to take pa rt lot of women wouldn't want to take part in any sporting activities where it was a mixture of men and women. many women lacked confidence
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and so they wanted to do it as a women only activity. women are more social and they want to mix and have friends. it is a social activity, and as part of that you might go running, cycling, swimming. it was about creating that opportunity to get women more confident to do things like that. organising inclusive exercise for women in birmingham. herart on inclusive exercise for women in birmingham. her art on canvas and pictorial quilts have been powerful state m e nts pictorial quilts have been powerful statements on racism in the us. now at the age of 88, the acclaimed artist faith ringgold is getting her own exhibition with her rex —— retrospective of her amazing work.
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going all the way back to the 60s, a young, black, female artist living in harlem was not how difficult was it? it was really difficult. riots in the street, all kinds of stuff was happening. 0vert racism. in the street, all kinds of stuff was happening. overt racism. faith ringgold emerged as an artist at the height of america's civil rights movement. it was in response to what was going on around her. a group port — make a group portrait, a country divided by race. —— a group portrait. the american people, that's the story i started with. i am going to tell it like i see it. i'm going to do images of the important aspects of american life that affect me. you make these paintings which are politically
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charged and dealing with major issues, racism at the centre, and you say you can find beauty in that. truth. there is beauty in truth. inspired by african culture and western faction —— fashion, ship started to make story quilts, paintings on fabrics with statements. written because big art institutions wouldn't present her work. they were not interested in my story stop that there was racism everywhere and people killing each other in the street and all this going on did not interest them because it wasn't happening to them. how would you paid america in 2019? how would you paid america in 2019? how would you paid america in 2019? how would i paid america in 20... 0h, how would i paid america in 20... oh, my. ...i how would i paid america in 20... oh, my. iwould painted in
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multi—, multi—, multi— colours. which i did before but i would make it more obvious. that was faith ringgold. time for a look at the weather. it has been not the best start to a weekend really. a lot of cloud and rain and blustery winds. much of the day, the skies looked like these ones over and rail — make wales in west yorkshire. we saw an improvement and a few showers we have seen increasingly clear skies working in and that is a trend of what we have got to come. mind you, a few showers left over. northern ireland, north—west of england and scotland, but they are becoming more rare. 0ur england and scotland, but they are becoming more rare. our main driving area of low pressure works over towards norway. at averages drift
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down to around seven and nine celsius. looking at sunday's weather picture. as does make a fine and sunny start and probably a dry morning. the exception might be across scotland where we might have more cloud and coastal showers but otherwise a dry morning. clouds developing and showers on the way. as showers will form in lines where the winds converge together so across south—west england, a line of heavy, slow—moving showers extending up heavy, slow—moving showers extending up towards... a convergence zone running into northern scotland and it is across that area that you could see showers. there could be few elsewhere but they will be rare. more on the way of dry weather and sunshine and they could be more warm weather because of that. into next week, trouble around the corner. a big air mouse with water coming in from africa. — hermas. it creates a
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potent weather front and the met 0ffice have already got weather warning. good areas could get a month's warning. good areas could get a months worth of rain. the rain not just heavy but persistent. here it is in more detail. you can see how extensive it is and with heavy bursts around, localised surface water flooding. away from that, scotla nd water flooding. away from that, scotland and northern ireland, sunny spells and a few passing showers. however, the area of rain will push its way northwards as we get to the latter pa rt its way northwards as we get to the latter part of the week. in scotland, whether turned increasingly wet as the weather turns brighter in the south as we head towards the end of the week and next weekend but before we get there, heavy showers tomorrow and then the potential of heavy rain across england and wales through tuesday.

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