this is bbc news. the headlines at 10: hong kong's leadership backs down indefinitely after mass protests over their controversial extradition law. the council will halt its work in relation to the bill until our working communication explanation and listening to opinions is completed. jeremy corbyn questions whether the government has "credible evidence" that iran was behind attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. a major review of hospital food after the deaths of five patients from listeria is announced in england. lincolnshire flooding: people forced to leave their homes are still waiting to learn when they can return, after two months‘ rain fell in two days.

i'm here, where the residents behind me are being asked to evacuate because of further risks of flooding. my name is tony giles and iam flooding. my name is tony giles and i am totally blind. and backpacker tony giles visits the cradle of orthodox christianity in africa. that's in the travel show, in half an hour on bbc news. hong kong's suspended plans to introduce a controversial new law allowing extraditions to mainland china. the proposals had prompted the biggest protests in the territory for years. the government had previously argued that the extradition bill would "plug the loopholes"

so that the city would not be a safe haven for criminals, following a murder case in taiwan. but critics argued it would expose people in hong kong to china's unfair justice system. hong kong's chief executive carrie lam said the priority now was to restore peace and order. after repeated internal deliberations over the last two days, i now announced that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise. we start argumentation with all sectors of society. do more explanation work and listen to different views of society. i want to stress that the government is adopting an open mind to heat comprehensively different views in society towards the bill. the secretary for security will send a letter to the legislative council president to withdraw the notice of resumption of a second reading debate on the bill. in other words, the council will halt its work in

relation to the bill until our working communication explanation and listening to opinions is completed. we have no intention to set a deadline for this work. and promise to report and consult members of the legislative council panel on security before we decide on the next step forward. and we'll get the latest from our correspondent stephen mcdonell in hong kong later in our programme. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, says britain should act to ease tensions rather than fuel a military escalation in the gulf, where two oil tankers were attacked this week. the us has released video footage it says shows an iranian military ship removing an unexploded mine from the side of one of the tankers — proof, it says, that iran was behind the bombings — which tehran denies. the un secretary—general is now demanding an independent investigation.

america claims this video is proof of segment puzzlement involvement of explosions in the gulf. us officials say pictured are members of the country bosman islamic revolutionary guard removing an unexploded mine from a tanker. an attempt, they say, to hide evidence after several attacks. it has left ships damaged close to one of the whelp abs—macro most important oil shipping routes. certainly president trump seems to have little doubt about who was responsible. well, iran to do it and you know they did it because you saw the boat. i guess one of the mines didn't explode and it has probably got essentially iran written all over it. to run furiously denies that. at a summit in kurdistan, the arena president accused america of unwarranted aggression and threatening stability in the the region with its accusations. the uk is one of the country is backing the

us. the british foreign secretary jeremy hunt condemned the attacks and said the uk's assessment had concluded that responsibility for the attacks almost certainly lies with iran. what is adding to the tensions are appearances fi‘ prepared for that the us is prepared for conflict. it has made an aircraft carrier into the arabian sea because of concerns about attacks by iran and fears that there could be attem pts and fears that there could be atte m pts to and fears that there could be attempts to disrupt the supply of oil. but all sides know the cost of confrontation and there are many effo rts confrontation and there are many efforts being made internationally to avoid it. we're joined now by our correspondent mark lowen in the united arab emirates near to where the incident took place. can you just assess the evidence either way for us that iran was behind this? well, to speak to the us side, they would say that the evidence is clear, that this video shows and iranians craft removing an

unexploded mine, that iran probably is to blame, suspicion is certainly pointing towards iran for attacks on four tankers of a port here last month and that this is a clear act by the hardline iranians revolution regard, the paramilitary wing in iran that answers to the supreme leader, in order to disrupt any kind of mediation attempts between iran and the us or indeed to disrupt the world oil markets, to show that they can still do that despite the crippling sanctions being placed by washington on the raining oil industry. if you speak to the other side in this polarised debate, iran, they say that this... they flatly deny this claim. they say that this isa deny this claim. they say that this is a false flag operation, warmongering by some kind of proxy group, by some kind of actor intending to try to foment tension in this region, particularly the fa ct in this region, particularly the fact that the attack happened on the very day that the japanese prime minister was meeting the iranian

supreme minister was meeting the iranian supreme leader and so really at the moment you have both sides very entrenched in their positions and the only hope of trying to get some clarity would be when these tankers arriving at the port. one of them is on its way here, the japanese owned tanker, to try to examine it more closely and see what clues that might uncover, what actually because those blasts on thursday. and in terms of the detail of what actually happened, why would the iranians remove a mine, why would that be evidence that they may have been involved at all because presumably anyone might have wanted to remove that mine for safety purposes and also there is a question about whether it was a mine or what weather they were flying devices? yes, what the americans would say is ifa yes, what the americans would say is if a patrol craft went into the ship to re m ove if a patrol craft went into the ship to remove and an unexposed and mine because it didn't work effectively, he would do that apart from the party that actually the mining the first place? and president trump, as

you heard in washington, said that the operation has iran written all over it. what the iranians would say and have said is that it is so brazen to go in as a patrol craft like that in broad daylight, knowing you are probably going to be filmed bya us you are probably going to be filmed by a us drone, that it is not... iran and simply wouldn't do that. it wouldn't risk that kind of act. in terms of exactly what blew up or what attacked those ships, yes, there is still conflicting claims. the japanese company that owns the ship, they have been quoted as saying that some of the crew members on—board a flying object or flying objects, suggesting that it could have been some kind of missile that hit to the ship rather than mines attached to the whole. so it is not clear at all and even though the british government is now standing quite firmly with the american claim, jeremy hunt saying there is no reason not to believe the american accusation, you do have some doubts from other european

countries, notably germany, saying they need more evidence before they also agree that iran was behind this. thanks very much indeed. let's get more on this now with our political correspondent nick eardley. this has also become a little row between tory and labour, jeremy hunt tweeting again the british government view. yes, the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has a similar position to germany, as you heard mark outline there. he wants to see more evidence. he tweeted last night that he doesn't at this moment think that he doesn't at this moment think that there is credible evidence to say that iran was definitely responsible for this. that is a view that has been echoed this morning by labour plus much foreign secretary emily thornbury. let's have a listen to what she told the today programme. these are extremely dangerous developments and we really have to pause and think about where we are going next. the idea that we are going to get enmeshed in another war is something that we really need to think about very carefully. now,

the view of the government is very similarto the view of the government is very similar to the one of the us. it thinks iran was almost certainly responsible for this. we have heard again this morning from the foreign secretaryjeremy again this morning from the foreign secretary jeremy hunt again this morning from the foreign secretaryjeremy hunt on social media attacking mr corbyn for questioning that assessment, saying that mr corbyn has made views where bathetic and predictable and arguing mr corbyn wasn't listening to british intelligence or acting in the british interest. there is an enormous difference between the two. mrcabin has enormous difference between the two. mr cabin has always been sceptical of some british military intelligence. mr hunt is of course standing for the conservative leadership and we have to see it in that context as well. yes, jeremy corbyn saying that britain should act to ease tensions and the government's rhetoric will only increase the threat of war. critics ofjeremy corbyn saying that he casts doubts over the poisoning of sergei skripal and other things and eve ryo ne sergei skripal and other things and everyone has to be careful. the key is the intelligent links in the uk

does have really strong links and tends to get a lot of first sight which actually other european nations don't necessarily get. yes, absolutely. we know that relationship is strong. we know that one of the conversations that what exactly one of the conversations that what exa ctly u s one of the conversations that what exactly us knows about this. we know that the foreign office here has carried out its own assessments as well and come to that conclusion. labour just isn't well and come to that conclusion. labourjust isn't convinced there is enough evidence there. it hasn't seen enough evidence there. it hasn't seen enough evidence. it once more to be put out there before it can agree with that assessment that iran was more than likely responsible. there is a broader point here that the two sides have different views about the strategic approach to iran and the labour party is very concerned that an escalation here could lead to quite a destabilising conflict in the middle east. the cabinet is worried about that too. jeremy hunt has made clear he doesn't want that to happen. but for now, the government is much more

likely to side with the united states. and of coursejeremy hunt is one of the key players in the conservative party leadership race at the moment. more going on today with hustings for the candidates. yes, the big question in the tory leadership race is can anyone catch the former foreign secretary boris johnson? he is miles out in front as well when it comes to conservative party members. there is the first hustings of party chairs around the country today in london. this is supposed to be the day they try to oust theresa may. instead, they are looking at who her successor will be. it will be interesting to see whether there are any hints there about the possibility of a boris johnson coronation. there are some in the party that think that the party she does get on with it. there is no point in having this leadership race. presumably, boris johnson backers would like that. would people likejeremy hunt and

michael gove and other frontrunners really accept that? surely the more timely borisjohnson really accept that? surely the more timely boris johnson campaign really accept that? surely the more timely borisjohnson campaign has to 90, timely borisjohnson campaign has to go, the more likely it is to blow up. yes, i think that is a fit assessment of what they think. there are some of the who think it could be undemocratic and could mean that borisjohnson isn't be undemocratic and could mean that boris johnson isn't subject to the sort of scrutiny he should be in the run—up to potentially become the prime minister. they appointed theresa may and said that she wasn't subject to real questioning and she wasn't a good... she wasn't put under scrutiny when she was in power. only a tiny number of people get to vote, lady tory party members, the 20 that you much. a comprehensive review of hospital food in england, has been announced by the health secretary matt hancock. it's in response to the deaths of five patients who contracted listeria. seven nhs trusts have been affected by the outbreak, which has been linked to pre—packed sandwiches and salads. simonjones reports.

with nine confirmed cases of listeria in hospital patients, resulting in five deaths, the health secretary wants to know what has gone wrong. two people died at manchester royal infirmary, and one at aintree hospital in liverpool. it has not been revealed where the other two patients died. in a statement, the health secretary said: here at the department of health, matt hancock was facing growing calls to act. labour want him to make an urgent statement to the commons on monday to outline what exactly was being done. they say hospital patients and staff alike need reassurance. 43 nhs trusts have been supplied sandwiches and salads from a company called the good food chain, which has been linked to the outbreaks. they got their fillings from north country cooked meats. here, a strain of listeria has been identified. both have halted production. the first patient affected showed symptoms on the 25th of april.

suspect sandwiches and salads were withdrawn on the 25th of may. public health england first warned about the outbreak on the 7th ofjune. listeria typically causes mild food poisoning but can prove fatal if people are already seriously ill. it is probably the nastiest of all the foodborne bugs. nastiest in a sense that it does have this ability to target vulnerable people, and unfortunately kill them. far more than even nasty bugs like e.coli 157. as investigations continue, public health england insists any risk to the public remains low. two teenagers have been killed in london in separate attacks within minutes of each other. police are investigating after one was stabbed in wandsworth shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon and another was shot in plumstead. police have made arrests in connection with each death. an exam board has launched

an investigation after an a level maths paper sat by students yesterday was leaked online. pearson said it was "determined to identify" the source of the breach. edexcel a—level maths papers were also leaked in 2017 and 2018. the headlines on bbc news: hong kong's leadership backs down indefinitely after mass protests over their controversial extradition law. jeremy corbyn questions whether the government has "credible evidence" that iran was behind attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. a major review of hospital food after the deaths of five patients from listeria is announced in england. sport and for a full round up from the bbc sport centre, here's mike bushell. high. england have qualified for the last 16 of the women's world cup but

scotland's hopes of getting out of the group are now hanging by a thread after they lost to japan. side by side, but in many ways poles apart. three years ago, argentina had no fixtures, no coach, and no ranking. they fought back then and they put up a fight here. nikita parris had a chance to break through from the spot, but her opposition was more than a match. the argentine goalkeeper typified their resilience. just as england look to be inforan resilience. just as england look to be in for an night of frustration, jodie taylor came to the rescue. this her first jodie taylor came to the rescue. this herfirst goal jodie taylor came to the rescue. this her first goal in 14 months. jodie taylor came to the rescue. this herfirst goal in 14 months. as a striker, timing is everything. the floodgates failed to open, but one goal was enough. so england are through to the knockout stages with a game to spare, but not without a struggle here. as for scotland, they came into their first world cup knowing points would be hard to come

by. scotland faced one of the world cup because my blue ribbon teams, japan. the 2011 champions made a stuttering start to the tournament, but they quickly found their stride here. playing in yourfirst but they quickly found their stride here. playing in your first world cup has to be nerve—racking, but this was not pretty in pink. penalty, said the referee, and this player did the rest. and when lorna cleland finally gave scotland somehow, it was all too late. having fought their way to france, they now need a win in theirfinal game of they are to have any of staying. england has metjustin rose is still very much in contention at the us open golf, but he trails gary woodland by two shots at the halfway stage. the american with lunch at a bogey free 65 to reach nine under parand bogey free 65 to reach nine under par and the top of the leaderboard. rose began the day with a one—shot lead and carded and under part 70 to

move to seven under overall at pebble beach. rory mcilroy, who is chasing his first major for five yea rs, chasing his first major for five years, is still in the mix as well. his 69 with 25 under so one head of brooks koepka, who is chatting to chasing his third successive title. there is a long way to go and here in st andrews would be an iconic place to let a bit of silverware. i couldn't think of anything better. but if you don't mind, i am just going to wait a couple of days. scams have now shown that crisp rim also sustained a small fracture to his neck in the crash this week that ruled him out of the tour de france. the cyclist underwent a successful six—hour operation on wednesday night after breaking a leg, elbow and ribs when he ploughed into a wall at a0 mass per hour during a training ride. you may now have to stay in hospitalfor training ride. you may now have to stay in hospital for the training ride. you may now have to stay in hospitalfor the next training ride. you may now have to stay in hospital for the next six weeks when his injuries to begin hail. tyson fury returns to the ring in las vegas in the early hours of tomorrow morning against german thomas works. the way into place

last night as the former heavyweight champion continues his return to boxing after having two years out with mental health and drug problems. tyson fury is the favourite but he has said he is not sold it will be as easy as people think. that is of the sport from me. don't forget the bbc sport website has more on all of those stories and also you can keep up—to—date with the first match of the day from the cricket world cup at the oval and it is sri lankan against australia so you can keep up—to—date with what is happening there and see in play highlights on the bbc website. back to you. thank you very much. flood warnings remain in place across britain, with river levels still dangerously high after last week's heavy rainfall. hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in lincolnshire, where they've declared a state of emergency. raf helicopters were called in, with 100 tonnes of sandbanks to block a river bank breach after the equivalent of two months rain fell in just two days. joining me now from wainfleet

is our reporter michael cowan. how bad is it at the moment? things we re how bad is it at the moment? things were looking up before. last night, they managed to plug that breach with 270 tonnes of sandbags using raf helicopters. residents came out on the streets behind me. you can see they are quite badly flooded. it is receding, which is good news, but in the last half hour we have seen a fresh presence from police here going around telling residents that they do need to evacuate. further to that, we are being told of a further possible breach along the same stretch of river that they repaired last night, so this is a living situation and it is very difficult. already, 170 homes have been evacuated. 100 of those have been confirmed as flooded. for this small, tight—knit community, it is a really difficult time because just when they think things are looking up, there is anotherfresh bout of

worry. you people feel that they had enough warning or did it happen far too quickly? it did happen very quickly but residents seemed to be very happy with the way the emergency services have acted. they have acted very swiftly. the environment agency worked collaboratively with the raf from the beginning. there was a heavy police presidents and there are fire trucks 20 point watch out of houses all around the area so there is no suggestion here that the authorities have been anything less than exemplary. they are as we speak going door to door asking residents to evacuate. similarly, about 20 minutes ago, we saw those red rescue boats going out on what should be road but is now river, going around houses to see if there is anyone left who needs to be evacuated who can't get out of the house because further down the road behind me which you can't quite see, the water is waist height and most of those houses are thought to have been

evacuated but they are just going to double—check. this is a changing situation and very distressing one for this tight—knit local community. 0k, for this tight—knit local community. ok, thank you. the world health organisation says it is "deeply concerned" about the ongoing outbreak of ebola in the democratic republic of congo, which is already the second worst in history. the international health body is working with neighbouring countries to prepare for any possible spread of the disease, but says the response on the ground "remains overstretched and underfunded". the comedian, jo brand, has been told she won't face police action for a joke she made about throwing battery acid over politicians. she has acknowledged the comments were "ill—judged". the bbc said the remarks, on the radio four show "heresy", were never intended "to condone violence". the comedian david baddiel, has criticised the bbc for excluding thejoke from repeat broadcasts. faster trains between

south wales and london could arrive next year if a new train operator can overcome opposition to its plan. a new train operator called grand union has applied to run hourly services between cardiff and london, accelerating the current journey time by up to 20 minutes. but the department for transport has raised objections to the proposal. simon calder, travel correspondent of the independent, is at london paddington station. what is the plan for faster trains and why would anyone object? well, grand union wants to have what is cold open access services from here at paddington running every hour, taking one hour and a5 minutes and they can do that by cutting out all of the stops between here and bristol parkway, which isjust of the stops between here and bristol parkway, which is just north of the city of bristol. they would add a stop and then continue to newport and cardiff. one hour and a5 minutes, they claim. and they would say it is going to be terrific. we

need competition against gwr, which has had the franchise from here to south wales and also bristol and devon and cornwall for the past 23 yea rs devon and cornwall for the past 23 years without any competition from those along whole journeys. what is the government saying about that? well, the department for transport has responded to this application by grand union and then —— by saying, hang ona grand union and then —— by saying, hang on a minute. there is going to be what they call abstraction, taking cash away from dwr and when the department for transport awards these trade franchises, it is done on the basis of what they think the train operator will earn, so that is a problem and the grand union say that they will be cutting to get prices to the normal fares so they will be cheaper than gwr and they also say that they will have a range of advanced tickets. but on top of

that, the department for transport and other people are saying we don't really like the idea of having extra trains. that will cause more delays and asa trains. that will cause more delays and as a result of that we are going to see a lot of problems involving trains being delayed. so it remains to be seen what is going to happen but of course very exciting news for people in south wales. the electrification has been finished, thank goodness, and it will not be going all the way to swansea which was the original idea but people are hoping they will get a better service. however, everything is up in the air. the department for transport is conducting a real review but it may be that by december 2020, year and a half from now, when they want to study services, they simply haven't got... they have changed the whole system and open access is no longer a possibility. thank you. let's have a look at the weather now.

hello. we can't guarantee any dry weather around anywhere today. there has been some dry weather across central and eastern parts of the uk but showers are gathering and it has already been railing across western parts of the uk. this is where the showers are around in the middle of the afternoon across parts of the south, the midlands, certainly the north west of england and some across western parts of scotland as well. temperatures between 15 and 19 celsius. the weather isn't going to change over all across the uk into sunday. we still have low pressure sitting pretty much in the same place that keeps dragging in clouds and some showers. morning temperatures on sunday will be more or less what we had earlier on today. and then tomorrow again a mixture of centre and showers. the breeze will be very noticeable, particularly around western and southern coasts on sunday, so it might feel a little on the chilly

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hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... hong kong's leadership backs down indefinitely after mass protests over their controversial extradition law. jeremy corbyn questions whether the government has "credible evidence" that iran was behind attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. a major review of hospital food after the deaths of five patients from listeria are announced in england. lincolnshire flooding — people forced to leave their homes are still waiting to learn when they can return, after two months' rain fell in two days. two teenagers have been killed in london in separate attacks within minutes of each other. police are investigating after one was stabbed in wandsworth yesterday afternoon and another was shot in plumstead. detectives have made arrests in connection with each death. now on bbc news it's

the travel show. my name is tony giles and i'm totally blind and severely deaf in both ears. now we're moving. i can feel the wind in my hair. i've spent the last 21 years travelling. i've visited over 120 countries. every continent in the world, including antarctica. my mission is to visit every country in the world. i started off in december planning this recent trip and i decided to start in egypt because it's at the top of north africa and work my way through several countries to get to ethiopia. ok, i've got some fish. now i'm feeding the birds.