this is bbc news, and martin crocs all, the headlines at 11 p:m.. boris johnson the front runner for the tory leadership says he will take pa rt tory leadership says he will take part ina tory leadership says he will take part in a bbc tv debate with other contenders. in a bbc interview, he insisted the uk must leave the eu by october. symbols of peace, survivors and bereaved families mark the anniversary of the grenfell tower file two fire two years on. two boys in their late teens are killed within minutes of each other in different parts of london this afternoon. sadiq khan says he's second. heavy rain continues to cause problems in parts of the midlands and northwest england with flood warnings still in place. england's women are through to the next stage of the world cup after

beating argentina. at half past 11, we will take another look at the papers with deputy editor of the daily express michael booker, internal and author, yasmin. good evening and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson, good evening and welcome to bbc news. boris johnson, the good evening and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson, the frontrunner in the race to be the conservative party leader and prime ministers says he will take part in the bbc tv debate with the other contenders next week. but not in the channel for programme this weekend. in his first broadcast interview, since the contest began, he said it was perfectly realistic to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement with the eu before the end of october. but the uk should step up preparations for a no—deal brexit, to help get an

improved deal. the leadership race lost a candidate today, the health secretary, matt hancock, dropped out, leaving six men going into the next ballot of tory mps on tuesday. awarning, next ballot of tory mps on tuesday. a warning, this report byjohn pr contains flashing images. leader of the pack, the strong, silent type. are you afraid of scrutiny or a gaffe, mrjohnson? well, was he up forfacing live interviews, joining the other candidates in a bbc tv debate? turned out today he was. i've always been keen on tv debates. i'm slightly bewildered by the conversation that's been going on. and the best time to do that i think would be after the second ballot on tuesday. he decided risking a slip—up or setback next tuesday, although not in channel 4's debate on sunday, was worth it. his pledge, no surrender. he'd deliver a managed brexit, deal or no deal, by october the 31st. the only way to make sure that we convince our partners that we're determined to get that outcome is to prepare for no deal,

and i think it would be absolutely bizarre to signal at this stage that the uk government was willing once again to run up the white flag and delay yet again. as for the big barrier to a deal, how to avoid stops and checks on the eu's irish border after brexit... the obvious way to do it is to make sure that you have checks on anybody who breaks the law, as you would expect, but you do it away from the border. what about using cocaine? a damaging admission by rival michael gove? mrjohnson treated it is almost something trivial. a single inconclusive event that took place when i was a teenager. moments earlier, the first to drop out, health secretary matt hancock's 20 mps' votes in the last round up for grabs. where i put myself forward as a candidate focused

on the future, the party is understandably focused very much on the here and now and how we get through brexit in the next few months, and so i have decided to withdraw from the contest. in other words, the big issue in the coming debate and rounds of voting next week is how willing the next prime minister will be to leave the eu without a deal. that and who's best—placed to take on the front runner. jeremy hunt saying his negotiating experiences in business and as foreign secretary mean he can get a deal where theresa may failed, so trust him, not borisjohnson. his hard stop on the 31st of october is effectively saying that the best we can offer the country is either a no—deal brexit or a general election if parliament succeeds in stopping that no—deal brexit. so, six runners left. michael gove, in third place and trying to accelerate. i'm looking forward to a contest of ideas and to exchanging thoughts with other candidates about how we can make this country better in the future.

rory stewart warning against no deal and against boris johnson. he keeps saying he will deliver brexit by the 31st of october, but how? we need to get into the details of how it's going to happen. brexiteer dominic raab. you know they're campaigning when the hard hats come out. i think this is the start of the race. we all know about the curse of the front runner in conservative leadership contests. there's many a slip between a cup and a lip. and the home secretary, like all of them, needing to gain ground. the question now is who is going to go up against boris, and i think that what i offer is a good choice, a fresh choice, for the party and for the country. so, this isn'tjust a race to downing street, it's a chase. the prospect of calling number 10 home has tantalised borisjohnson for years. now it mayjust be within touching distance. survivors of the grenfell fire along with relatives and friends of those who died have been attending events

to mark the two year anniversary of the disaster. 72 people lost their lives when a fire in a flat at the tower block in west london spread rapidly, involving the building. it's emerged that more than 300 high—rise buildings in england still have cladding similar to that used on grenfell tower. lucy manning reports. in the shadow of grenfell, a community that fire ripped apart came together. tonight, grenfell marched silently. appropriately, given they feel no one has been listening. the day had started as it finished, with remembrance. # ijust lift my head up to the sky # and say help me to be strong # ijust can't give up now #.

zainab choucair. mierna choucair. 72 names. many whole families. bassem choucair. # i've come so far from where i started from.# the pain hasn't subsided, it'sjust lasted for longer and the sense of injustice has grown. we don't want to wait for justice, i don't know, certain years, so it's still not possible we get the justice. two years on, no one held responsible, no one charged, no outcome to the delayed public inquiry. marcio gomes and his pregnant wife escaped that night but his son, the youngest of the 72 victims, killed two months before he was due to be born. lots of emotions. crying, anger, love, forgiveness, everything.

and two years on has enough changed? no, no, not nearly enough. a lot more needs to be done. people need to feel safe at home. the grenfell families were promised everyone would be rehoused within three weeks. two years on, and i7 households still haven't found permanent homes. the country was promised every high—rise building would be made safe. two years on, 328 buildings are still with unsafe cladding, with tens of thousands of people still living in them. the families feel that not enough has been done two years on, many people are still living in unsafe buildings. what's your response? well, today is very much a day for reflection and all of those who've lost their lives, and i very much recognise the calls for more action and that's what i think does need to happen.

so i'm proud to be supporting this cookbook. survivor munira mahmud has raised money with a grenfell cookbook, but can't find peace. it's two years on and no one has been charged yet. they are walking freely, sleeping nicely, you know, and we are in a nightmare, the families, we lost families, we lost friends, we lost neighbours. they are dignified, they have refused to give up, but are still waiting. lucy manning, bbc news. two boys in their late teens have been killed in separate attacks this afternoon in south london. the first was stabbed in wandsworth at 20 to five, minutes later, a second was shot dead in plumstead. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, tweeted that he is second to hear that two young lives have been ended within minutes of each other. our correspondent, ben andojoins us of each other. our correspondent, ben ando joins us now.

of each other. our correspondent, ben andojoins us now. tell us more about these fatalities. i think the first thing to point out, as far as we are aware, they are not linked in any way. the first run as you said took place in on the side road in southwest 17 in london, at around 20 to five, and in that, a teenager was found with stab wounds, the ambulance service tried to help him, but they were unable to come and he died at the scene. and in connection with that, six people, six men have been arrested, and are being questioned by the police. the other incident was a shooting in plumstead greenwich, again, about five to five, that took place, that was four people including one woman now being questioned by the police. we have said that the mayor of london has tweeted that he is sickened by this. but again, it shines a light on the levels of violence, particularly involving young people in the capital. this has been causing concern, it's been rising over the last couple of yea rs, rising over the last couple of years, the last few are considered to be the worst on record. this

year, these two killings will bring to around 50, the number of homicides in london this year, which isa homicides in london this year, which is a lot, it's considered to be a lot. compared to other major cities in the world, it's not necessarily that high, but nonetheless, it's something that the mayor is concerned about, and something that people are worried about. ben, thank you very much. the foreign office has cited some most certain that iran attacked two oil tankers in the gulf of oman yesterday. jeremy hunt called on iran to urgently seize all forms of destabilising activity. earlier the us military released a video that shows iranian special forces and neck were moving in on exported mine from the site of an oil tanker. iran has rejected the claims that it was responsible. our chief international correspondent reported —— reports. america builds its case. the us military says their video shows iran's islamic revolutionary guards removing a limpet mine from this stricken tanker. their photos of the ships hull point to what they say is probably that mine which didn't explode —

and the damage from one which did. one of two attacks on oil tankers in the gulf on thursday, which rang the alarm about disruption of oil supplies, and the danger of war in this volatile region. others, including the un, are calling for an investigation. but this morning, president trump took to his favourite tv show to say iran's to blame. well, iran did do it, and you know they did it, because you saw the boat. i guess one of the mines didn't explode, and it's probably got, essentially, iran written all over it. tonight, britain's foreign secretary backed him up. jeremy hunt now says responsibility almost certainly lies with iran. iran denies that. at this regional meeting, its president took aim at the united states. translation: the us government has acted against all international laws in the last two years by adopting an aggressive policy, and it poses

a serious threat to regional and international stability. whoever caused these explosions knows they are playing with fire. just look at this map of the gulf region, and the narrow waterways, where the world's oil tankers come and go. this is where these tensions could escalate — by an accidental collision or a retaliatory strike by iran or the us and its closest partners, including saudi arabia. for now, the saudis are threatening stern action against what they see as iran's puppet — the houthis in yemen — already locked in a devastating war with the saudi—led coalition just south of here. so is there a way out? definitly, and that's through diplomacy, that the trump administration pulled out of the nuclear agreement last year, and reimposed sanctions on iran, despite the fact that it didn't violate the nuclear agreement. now we have people in the administration that are hoping to put so much of the economic pain on society that it will lead to a regime change,

and so at the same time, they are saying that they want the trump, that they want to talk to iran. they call me and so that's almost laughable. if iran's to blame, it may be its message, it can also inflict pain — on oil supplies, on stability. a warning, if one was needed, of the cost of confrontation. lyse doucet, bbc news. mark is at a port in the united arab, and give us this update. tension was already very high after four tankers were attacked here off the port of... last month. now it's eased slightly since then, but that tension has rocketed back up with the attack on these two tankers yesterday. one of the two tankers, the japanese owned one, is currently being tugged here to... where it will be assessed when it reaches the port. but even before that assessment, course, these barbs and accusations are flying between the two sides. what all of this has

exposed, really committee caverns in this region, you have the one side saudi arabia backed up by the us, on the other, you have iran, backed up by russia and turkey, and cross quite literally in the middle is the worlds oil industry, about a fifth of the world's crude oil passes through these waters. today, the world's largest ship owners association warned that tension in this region is now as high as it gets without being an actual armed conflict. mark, you are watching bbc news, the headlines. the front runner for the tory leadership, borisjohnson, the front runner for the tory leadership, boris johnson, says the front runner for the tory leadership, borisjohnson, says he will take part in it bbc tv debate with other contenders. it's been a day of events to mark the second anniversary of the ground felt tragedy. a community gathers for a vigil and silent walk to remember the victims. two boys in their late teens are killed within minutes of each of them parts of london this afternoon. sadiq khan says he is sick. raf

helicopters have dropped more than 100 tonnes of gravel to reinforce flood defences in lincolnshire, which breached after more than two months of rain fell in the space of two days. the village of rain fleet near. . . two days. the village of rain fleet near... has seen homes flooded and residents evacuated with unseasonably heavy rain prompting flood warnings across parts of the midlands, northwest england, and wales. danny savage reports from wayne fleet. the raf has spent the night trying to repair a breach in flood defences on the river steeping, which has caused severe flooding all of these cars are underwater, nobody even had a chance to move their cars, a can pretty put

quickly. the river becomes two high banks, but yesterday one of them gave way, the surrounding land is lower, so a wide area was very quickly flooded. that's the pull that goes on six feet. we neck you've got a swing pull your garden? which is now turned into... it's one big pool. laura has only lived here for a few months, now she's had to move out indefinitely. i'm shocked. itjust doesn't happen to that river. i'm just shocked, i didn't expect this. are you insured? yes. but that could take a while, doesn't it? with mike yes, but we are all alive, so that's the main thing. next door, paul can only look in from the outside. he doesn't want to open a door, in case it lets in water. it was like a war zone last night, the trucks and sandbags and everybody pulled together it was a really good efforts from the local community. and raf helicopter was brought in to drop huge bags of ballast to try and plug the gap in

the breached bank. at the land here is so low in places that much of the water that is already in will have to be pumped out. it could take a while for things to improve. danny savage, bbc news, wayne fleet in lincolnshire. public health england has confirmed that two more hospital patients from all bricks of listeria linked to prepacked sandwiches, the deaths of two patients in another patient at this hospital have already been revealed. all but one of the five deaths happened over a month ago, and the food products linked to the outbreak have been withdrawn. i spoke to hugh pennington at aberdeen university, he started by telling us a little bit more about this wisteria. he started by telling us a little bit more about this wisteriam he started by telling us a little bit more about this wisteria. it can be very viral in the elderly, particularly older men. we don't know why it's men rather than women, men over 70, men over 80, and anybody who has immunosuppression, cancer treatment, or an

immunosuppressive disease, liver disease, kidney disease, these are the people who are really hit hard by listeria, and unfortunately, despite the best treatments available, and about 30% of them, u nfortu nately, available, and about 30% of them, unfortunately, don't make it. it's also a problem in pregnant women, because it can get through the placenta, and affect the baby and cause meningitis and the baby. so it's a very nasty bug. the only good thing about it is, that it's pretty rare. last year, last year, we have about, well every year we have about 200 cases in england and wales. how does it compare with other bugs that are foodborne? well it's probably the nastiest of all the food bugs. nastiest in the sense that it does have the ability to target vulnerable people, and u nfortu nately, vulnerable people, and unfortunately, kill them. you know, far more than even nasty bugs like e. coli, the mortality late neck mortality rate here is the worst of

any foodborne blog, and as i said, the only good thing about it is that it's rare, very fortunately of course. what can you do to eradicate it from a food preparation area? well once against a food business, and it does from time from time to time, it can be very difficult to get rid of. it gets in the drains, gets on surfaces. there are things called biofilms, where there is a sort of, just a layer of stuff on surfaces and on slicers, and it's very difficult to get rid of it from there. so basically what businesses have to do is to make sure it's not there in the first place, and have a very rigorous cleaning regime making sure that the listeria isn't in their premises, because it's killed by cooking, but sometimes products that are already cooked can get re—contaminated while being sliced are handled in a food business. so it's a very versatile, sort of cunning sort of bug, and it's one that food businesses pay a lot of attention to, because prevention of course is the word of the day.

that's hugh pennington from aberdeen university. a couple who have been convicted of murdering a vulnerable young woman nearly 20 years ago, edward kearney and avriljones killed margaret fleming, who was 19, and have learning difficulties. at their home around christmas 1999. a benefits claim made 16 years later on margaret's‘s behalf prompted questions. our scotland correspondent laura gordon reports. edward cairney and avriljones — the supposed carers of a vulnerable young woman — who instead became her killers. in a bbc interview before they were charged, they denied margaret fleming had been harmed. did either of you harm margaret? no. far from it. so, margaret is alive and well and she has come to no harm? that's right. not that i know of, unless she's got

hurt in the last couple of weeks. but margaret — a quiet, shy girl — had come to harm. the teenager had moved here, into the couple's home in inverkip on the clyde, after herfather died. on one occasion she was seen here with duct tape around her wrists. on another, with drainpipes covering her arms up to her shoulders. margaret was last seen alive just before christmas 1999. police believe that in herfinal months she was effectively a prisoner — treated like a slave, neglected, deprived of food, murdered. the couple made fantastical claims to try and cover up their crimes. that margaret was scared of the police and had run away. that she had left to become a gangmaster. that she was a frustrated spy. it was left to one of her former teachers to talk about the real margaret — an isolated teenager who nobody was looking out for, who disappeared without anyone even realising she was gone. i taught margaret for two years, and i'm here speaking about her as a person, and i'm the only person that we've been able to find who really remembers her. and i think that is one of the saddest things, that this wee girl has just been forgotten. forgotten for almost 20 years. now margaret fleming's murderers

finally brought to justice. lorna gordon, bbc news, at the high court in glasgow. the world health organisation has described the bola crisis in the democratic republic of congo as very much an emergency, but stopped short of labelling it a good look at my global threats, the who is working with neighbouring countries before possible outbreaks, more than 11100 people have died including over 350 children, the death rate is higher than in the major outbreak of 2014. our correspondent and soy is on the ugandan side of the border. and sent this update. you make other people have spoken to today here say they are very confident that indeed uganda can control and out great of ebola. they went through a major test this week, after the arrival of six family members from the democratic republic of congo, few of them had ebola, and they did not come in through an official border post, they came in through a back

route. but somehow, they were detected, one of the children was very ill, they went to hospital, have been to that hospital today, the health workers there were ready, they have been training for this for months. they quickly identify the symptoms of ebola, and refer the family to an ebola treatment unit, which has been set up months in advance. uganda had traded close to 5000 health workers —— trained. in anticipation for a situation like this. however, the problem is across the border in the democratic or public of congo, an area that has seen public of congo, an area that has seen decades of conflict, they are low security levels during the commute he has been very hostile to the health workers, and they are saying that they still need more international support to bring ebola come of the ebola outbreak under control. reporting from uganda. just some more information about this review of hospital food that the health secretary, matt hancock has announced, following the deaths of

two more hospital patients for an outbreak of listeria. following that meeting, that have been linked to prepacked sandwiches. matt hancock says i've been a greatly concerned by this issue. and strongly believe we need a radical new approach to the food that is served in our nhs, staff, patients, and families deserve so much better. now the nhs should be at the forefront of supporting people to make healthy choices. i've instructed the nhs to conduct a review of hospital food. that has come from the health secretary, matt hancock, following public health england confirming there have been two more deaths from listeria. scotland yard has confirmed tonight it won't take any action against the community —— comedianjoe action against the community —— comedian joe brand, after she action against the community —— comedianjoe brand, after she was criticised for a joke for throwing battery acid on politicians, she had already apologised. protesters in hong kong say they are pretending to ta ke to hong kong say they are pretending to take to the streets again this weekend, if a government refused to

withdraw an extra edition law that would allow people in the territory to be sentenced to china for trial. organiser set up to a million people took to the streets, last weekend, and tens of thousands clashed with wright police on wednesday in the worst u nrest wright police on wednesday in the worst unrest there for decades. our correspondent rupert winfield hayes has been speaking to some of the protesters. crowd chants. "withdraw the bill, withdraw the bill." it is the chant that has echoed across hong kong this week. "evil police" is another. this level of hostility is something new for hong kong. the activists are younger, more determined, and more prepared to use violence than their predecessors. this young man is one of them. he's asked us to hide his identity. we have already know that if we just sat there doing nothing the government will not listen to us. even i feel that1 million people protest, the government still does nothing, that is the thing, so we believe that we need to use more violent or aggressive ways

so that the government will listen to us. these tactics may be working. one senior government adviser today told me he still supports the bill, but the violence means it's time for compromise. we maintain a different system and we have a different and independentjudiciary to deal with these things, and this bill will not enable the things which happen in china happen in hong kong. so if it isn't an issue, a legal issue, it is then a political issue, and this is about political discontent? that's exactly the point, so if we were to push ahead the voting on the bill as we already originally planned, i fear there would be more street violence. it's a long way from the day in 1997 when hong kong was handed back to china by britain. then, many here felt a surge of patriotic pride. 68—year—old ivy has copies

of every hong kong newspaper published that day. but 22 years later she no longer looks at them with any sense of pride. translation: i'm chinese, but i'm not communist. we have become a chinese colony. that makes me very sad. we thought when we went back to china we'd be happy, but now we are more and more unhappy. some of these young people are now calling for hong kong independence. it is a naive fantasy, but it shows how far beijing has gone in losing the hearts and minds of its hong kong citizens. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in hong kong. paulina scottish nurse who survived the bola virus has given birth to twin boys. the 43—year—old worked as a volunteer in sierra leone where an epidemic killed him as per thousand

people in 2014. the babies father, robert softly gail, a theatre director and disability campaigner announced the news by posting an image of the newborns —— newborns on instagram. delighted keepers at longley survivor park are celebrated in the arrival of seven european wolf pups. the litter was born last month, but they have not been shown to the public until now. mum and dad are to the public until now. mum and dad a re often to the public until now. mum and dad are often seen picking up the pipes and moving them between dens at their enclosure in wiltshire. the pups their enclosure in wiltshire. the pups weighed less than half a kilo when they were born, but are now able to eat small amounts of meat. this is the second litter born at the safari park in the last year, and boosts the pack size to 14. wild wolves have been extinct throughout the uk for more than 250 years. time for look at the weather forecast now with louise. hello there. it's been an unsettled week of weather, miserable week for many of us, i'm sure you don't really need me to remind you. but the met office has

now issued some earlyjune statistics, makes for dismal reading across england and wales, particularly in terms of rainfall. you can see it's been pretty wet across england and wales. this map shows that the rainfall as a percentage of the june shows that the rainfall as a percentage of thejune average. and it means that parts of england and wales have seen it double the amount of rain already. it's also been pretty cold across england and emily. so, will it last? it is expected to improve a little as we go into next week. the area of low pressure, though, still with us into the weekend. it's still going to be a pretty unsettled spell with some showers, but not that heavy persistent rain that we have been used to. so, we start off on saturday with rain out to the west. as that moves its way steadily eastwards, it will weaken substantially, a band of cloud and a few scattered showers. where we see a little more sunshine, we should get some warmth, but always closer to that area of low pressure in the north—west, that's where we're likely to continue to see more frequent