good afternoon. hundreds of thousands of protesters are back on the streets in hong kong, a day after the territory's chief executive, carrie lam, suspended highly controversial plans to allow extradition to the chinese mainland. the demonstrators are calling for the proposals to be completely withdrawn and for mrs lam to resign. our china correspondent stephen mcdonell is at the protest with the latest. hong kong's streets are again a sea of protest. the day after the

government was forced into a humiliating back down. it's delayed a bill to allow for people to be sent to mainland chinese courts, where demonstrators say a free trial isn't possible. but there marching are demanding more. they want the plan scrapped altogether. basically, we shouldn't let the government have all power to us because we have our own freedom of rights and freedom of speech and this is why we are here. if the bill is passed on, has no democracy anymore. this isn't acceptable, my parents have come here today and all my friends came here today and all my friends came here today. because we are really upset about this. if this happened, hong kong is over. many in the crowd have blamed hong kong's leader carrie lam for instigating this crisis. they say the chief executive pushed ahead with extradition in the face of clear mass opposition. now they want something else from her.

the death of a protester last night contributed to a sombre mood. he had fallen from a building. people wore ribbons and carried flowers in his memory. if the idea was to take the stea m memory. if the idea was to take the steam out of the protest movement by delaying this bill, as you can see it hasn't exactly worked. the other people watching this are the standing committee in beijing. these are all chinese citizens and this is are all chinese citizens and this is a clear act of defiance from people who are saying that any attempt to erode their freedoms will be resisted in the streets. there is a renewed belief in the power of protest here, and as long as the threat of extradition remains, large proportion of the population seem prepared to mobilise in order to stop it. stephen mcdonell, bbc news, hong kong. five of the six conservative leadership candidates are preparing to go head—to—head in theirfirst televised debate tonight. however borisjohnson, the frontrunner in the race, will not be taking part.

the foreign secretaryjeremy hunt has said choosing mrjohnson as the next conservative leader would mean britain leaving the eu without a deal. our political correspondent nick eardley reports. catch him if you can. boris johnson is the frontrunner to be our next pm, and he still keeping his head down. he won't be at the first tv debate tonight, but his rivals know he is the man to catch. jeremy hunt thinks he can make up the ground, but unlike mrjohnson, he's not promising brexit will be done by the end of october. this morning, he wouldn't even commit to definitely leaving this year. why? because he wants a new deal and believes europe could be open to it. they say that if they were approached by a british prime minister, someone they're willing to deal with, who had ideas as to how to solve the northern irish border, they would be willing to renegotiate the package. the problem — time and time again

europe has ruled out reopening the withdrawal agreement and some tories fear this could go on and on and on. when people voted, they voted to leave. we haven't left yet and that is why we are seeing notjust the uncertainty for the economy and the damage it is doing to businesses, many of them just want to know what we are doing, but also this corrosion of public trust and the tory party will be toast unless we are out by the end of october. dominic raab questioned borisjohnson's brexit plan and others have too. like rory stewart, the unlikely celebrity of the leadership race. he says he wouldn't serve in a johnson government and believes his brexit strategy doesn't stand up to serious scrutiny. because nobody has yet had the chance to question him, and as soon as you question him, as i sit down with him and ask the big question how, how are you going to deliver brexit, how are you going to get no deal through, then it begins to come off the rails. there is a clearfrontrunner in the race to call this place home,

but borisjohnson's rivals insist there is a long way to go. tonight, without him, they will take part in the first tv debate, hoping they can do something to stop this contest becoming a foregone conclusion. two teenagers have been charged with the murder of an 18—year—old man who was stabbed to death at wandsworth in south london on friday. scotland yard said 18—year—old mohammed nadir dafallah and a 17—year—old boy had been charged. a huge electrical power failure is affecting large parts of latin american. some reports suggest that almost all of argentina and uruguay are without mains electricity. parts of brazil and paraguay are also said to be affected. after severe flooding in lincolnshire, emergency services say they're worried about the prospect of more heavy rainfall this week, with storms forecast in the coming days. hundreds of people have already been forced to leave their homes at wainfleet and thorpe culvert

after the river steeping burst its banks. luxmy gopal is there for us. just tell us what's happening there and how worried are the emergency services about what's coming round the corner? well, it might seem clear and fine at the moment relatively speaking but until a couple of weeks minutes ago it was lashing down with rain and there's more heavy rain expected. -- until a couple of minutes ago. behind me is the pumping station which was vital to the efforts to minimise the risk of further flooding but that too has been further flooded and emergency teams have been working desperately to keep it going. they had succeeded and kept the vital parts clear so it's still working. the environment agency have brought in high volume pumps to channel away some of the

water. they are worried about the river steeping breaching its banks again as it did on wednesday at points where flood defences are weak and vulnerable. yesterday the raf chinnock returned to drop bags of sand and gravel on those points to try and shore up defences. that has held up for now but they are clear we aren't out of the danger zone yet which is why residents from 600 homes that have been evacuated are still not able to return because they'd been told it's not safe yet. thank you. it's one of the world's most intense sporting rivalries — and it takes centre stage today — as india take on pakistan at the cricket world cup. india are unbeaten so far in the tournament, and are currently charging ahead against pakistan, as andy swiss reports now from old trafford. cheering if you wondered just what this game means, well, here's your answer. for india and pakistan fans, all roads lead to manchester.

whatever the transport, theyjust had to be there. this means a lot for us. we came from india only to watch the match. we are going to win the match. it is more than a cricket match. this is war. it's the biggest match in the world. any sport, you can't beat it. the best part of a million fans had applied for tickets, with an estimated billion watching on tv. talk about pressure. but it was india's batsmen that rose to the occasion. rohit sharma setting a blistering turn, with the favourites of to a flyer. pakistan have never beaten india at a world cup, and their early prospects didn't look encouraging as india raced past a hundred. but finally, a breakthrough. rahul out for 57. at last, something for the pakistan fans to cheer. it was india, though, still very much in the driving seat. sharma completing a stunning century to the delight of his jubilant supporters. still a long way to go, but this

greatest of sporting stories has so far been largely one—sided. the very latest is that india are still going very nicely indeed. they are currently 234—2 and on course for a huge total. pakistan have won only one of their four games so far in this tournament. they really have to win this to get their world cup hopes back on track. but it looks like they are going to need something very special indeed. tyson fury put on an impressive show for the american boxing public as he beat previously undefeated heavyweight tom schwarz in las vegas. fury dominated from the start and stopped the german fighter in the second round, with his opponent's corner throwing in the towel. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel.

the next news on bbc one is at 25 to 7 — bye for now. you're watching the bbc news channel. iran has complained to britain's ambassador in the country after the uk government accused it of involvement in the attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. the iranian authorities deny being involved. amid the growing tensions, the british—iranian woman jailed in tehran for spying, nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, has begun a new hunger strike. she denies any wrongdoing. simonjones reports. outside the iranian embassy in london, a lone tent symbolising

the growing tensions between the uk and tehran. the husband of nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe camping outside the building to try to make his voice heard. his wife remains injail following her arrest at tehran airport, after visiting her family three years ago, accused of being a spy, which she has always denied. we are camping out in solidarity with nazanin, she has gone on hunger strike in iran. we can't see that, but said if she was going on hunger strike we would do it here. obviously you can see me, and i am doing it in front of the iranian embassy. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe's case is intricately connected with the difficult relationship between the uk and iran, which has just become even more tense. london has accused tehran of being behind attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman, one of the world's busiest waterways. iran says that isn't true, making its displeasure known in a meeting with the ambassador.

jeremy hunt, who met mr ratcliffe yesterday, as said compassion should be shown to nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe to allow her to return home to her family. for her husband and his supporters the wait continues, with no response yet from the iranian authorities. a little earlier i spoke nazenin ansari. she's an iranian—british journalist, and editor of kayhan london, which provides news for a global iranian community. we have been in a confrontation for a very long time, whether it be economic, cyber,

through social media, through the airwaves, news media, but at the moment, what is really, really getting dangerous is the military confrontation. and what we have seen in the past years and also specifically in the past few months, the statements, the behaviour of the islamic republic has become ever more aggressive. and indeed, they have been issuing statement explaining their presence 24—7 in the persian gulf to make sure the waterways are open. but now we understand that when the two tankers gave out their first signals of distress and an american drone went to find out what was going on, it was shot at. this is what the islamic republic wants. the leaders really have given up, because at the end of their a0 year reign, it has been a saviour, and whether they can really be able to reform the

infrastructure of the state to make iran to start providing the necessary means to its people and also become a really positive force on the international scale, and an active force in the international scale, it cannot. us president donald trump has once again taken to twitter to criticise mayor of london sadiq khan. retweeting a post from right wing commentator katie hopkins, he said yesterday "london needs a new mayor asap. khan is a disaster — will only get worse!" mr trump later followed it up with another post saying: "he is a national disgrace who is destroying the city of london!" the president's comments came after five attacks in london in less than 2a hours left three men dead and three others injured. earlier i spoke to political scientist dr brian klaas

about the effect of donald trump's controversial tweets. trump and sadiq khan have had a twitter spat back and forth for some time now. this tweet is amplifying katie hopkins, who is viewed in this country as quite extreme. it is another one of these long—standing feuds that is layered on top of trump's long—standing animosity, and i would say bigotry, towards muslim communities. trump has made part of his platform anti—muslim bigotry. we forget sometimes that in december of 2015, trump literally said we should ban all muslims from entering the us. it is an extremely far right position to have, so this foil of sadiq khan is usefulfor him, particularly as he heads into the 2020 election campaign. it is important that we don't lose sight of how unusual and unacceptable

it is to mainstream these comments. katie hopkins has described migrants as cockroaches and used dehumanising language. previously, trump retweeted the leader of britain first, an islamophobic hate group here. a surgeon who served time in prison for killing a patient before his conviction was quashed has raised concerns about the way black and ethnic minority doctors are treated by the professional regulator. figures obtained by the bbc suggest the general medical council is more likely to investigate complaints against bame doctors than those who are white. here's amara sophia—elahi. i had lost my salary, i had lost my reputation, i lost myjob. david is a respected colorectal surgeon with over 20 years ——david is a respected colorectal

surgeon with over a0 years of experience in the nhs and private sector. in 2010 a patient died under his care. he was investigated by the gmc, then charged and convicted of gross negligence manslaughter. he was later cleared on appeal after serving 15 months of a two—year prison sentence. he believes his race played a part in the way his case and others have been handled. the general medical council, our regulator, investigates a disproportionate number of black and ethnic minority doctors. we should all proportionately take the blame for when things go wrong, and things do go wrong in medicine after all. black and asian doctors make up around a third of the workforce in the uk, yet they are overrepresented in fitness—to—practise cases. figures obtained by the bbc show that over a five year period, 44% of complaints made against black doctors led to investigations. for asian doctors it was a0%.

and for white doctors it was just 29%. they also revealed i2% of black doctors were suspended or erased from the medical register after an investigation by the medical practitioners tribunal service. that is more than double the proportion of white doctors. the gmc said it is not complacent about its own processes being free from discrimination, which is why it regularly and independently gets them reviewed. it has commissioned research to understand better why black and asian doctors are disproportionately complained about, investigated and sanctioned. they destroyed my profession, they destroyed my career. somebody surely should have been held to account for that, but nobody — i didn't get any apology, nothing. on fathers' day three years ago andrew suttie discovered he was going to be a dad. but one of his twin daughters was born with a rare disorder

and died atjust eight months old. the charity that helped andrew and his family say 16,000 scottish children have a life—shortening illness. now, an appeal has been launched to try and ensure there is support for fathers like andrew. louise cowie has been to meet him. so it was father's day 2016. we had been trying for a while to have a baby, and we had had ivf, and it was the first round of ivf, and she came in on father's day and said "you're going to be a dad". we were delighted. a month or so afterwards we found out it was going to be twins, so we were delighted. at 32 weeks, the girls were born by c—section, and jess was tiny. she was two pounds 11. both georgia and jessica needed intensive care in the neonatal unit, and jessica was in for three months and georgia was in for three weeks. a week after discharge, we found out she had a syndrome,

which was catastrophic. it is a horrible, horrible thing to go through. to find out at that stage that your child won't live to their first birthday, and all the hopes you had for that child are shattered at this stage. it is awful. my thoughts were, especially with two little girls, you will look after your wee girls, you will care for them for the rest of your life, you will worry about them for the rest of your life as well. i researched different support groups and whatnot, and i asked if we could be referred and they accepted us to go to rachel house, a children's hospice. but you wouldn't know that, it is like a 5—star hotel. there are lots of families there at the same time. every single one of them has a child that has a life shortening condition. being someone that maybe didn't open up about my emotions in the past, there were other dads that were in the same boat, like most scottish males,

they don't express their emotions. so it was good to be able to talk openly with them about how you're feeling. georgia and jessica were sharing a room together, babbling away to each other. we knew something wasn't right withjessica, she stopped breathing. it really was out of the blue. even though you expect it, it still came as a shock. georgia, why don't you sing a song to jessica? # twinkle, twinkle, little star. # how i wonder what you are.# right from the start with georgia, her sister, we always speak aboutjessica. some of my friends, i think they maybe feel a bit apprehensive about speaking aboutjessica, but i like speaking about her, she was my daughter. what are your overriding memories of her? her beautiful smile. sorry. just her relationship with georgia. they loved each other, they looked at each other. they definitely knew they were sisters. i will always remember her smile, and her chatting. she was chatting nonstop

all of the time. the four—time tour de france champion chris froome says he's "lucky to be here" after suffering serious injuries after a crash while training in france. the cyclist posted this photo on social media with the words "on the road to recovery" after undergoing surgery. in a statement, froome said he's fully focused on getting back to his best. sport and for a full round up, we go over to the bbc sport centre, we'll start with boxing as briton's tyson fury made quick work of the previously undefeated heavyweight tom schwarz in las vegas. fury entered the ring wearing the the american stars and stripes on his shorts and didn't take long to stamp his authority in the ring. he produced a ruthless display

and eventually stopped the german fighter in the second round, his opponent's corner throwing in the towel to end a one—sided contest. afterwards, fury promised fans that wbc champion deontay wilder is coming. and then there was to. i already beat him once so i will beat him again and again and again. he ain't going to fight 50% tyson fury any more, he will get a fully fit, back sharp tyson fury. anything can happen at any given moment, but the way i box and my style, it is kryptonite for anybody, as long as they don't knock me out, which you have seen and it can happen, but they have got to keep me down. providing they don't do that, i will keep winning. england's justin rose will go into the final round of the us open later today just one shot off the lead. topping the leaderboard still is the american gary woodland,

who will begin the day 11 under par at pebble beach. rory mcilroy is still among the chasing pack and is five shots off the lead. the leaders will tee off around 10pm uk time. i'm not chasing. i'm so close to gary, i will go and play my game tomorrow. i think it will be dictated by the pin placement and the weather tomorrow as to how aggressive you can be and what it will take to win. i make no predictions tonight on what tomorrow will feel like. i will assess it in the morning. hopefully i will be in a better spot. i have been pleased with how i have played all week. for the most part, i felt i played the right things. hopefully i will get a bit more out of the round tomorrow than i did today. i expect the conditions to be similar but i could see the course just getting a little firmer and a little faster, being a touch trickier. one of sport's most eagerly anticipated clashes is under way. india are taking on pakistan

in the cricket world cup. well, here is a carnival atmosphere at old trafford — the atmosphere outside the ground was pretty impressive before a ball had even been bowled. there were nearly 800 thousand applications for tickets and an estimated one billion people are expected to watch worldwide. well, so far, the indian fans will be happiest — they were put into bat and are 161—1 so far at old trafford with rohit sharma enjoying himself. you can listen to the match on bbc radio 5live sports extra and watch in—play highlights on the bbc sport website and app... the scotland goalkeeper lee alexander has given her views about whether the goals in women's football should be reduced. she was speaking ahead of her side's final world cup group game against argentina on wednesday

and responded to the views of chelsea boss emma hayes who wrote an article suggesting smaller goals would be beneficial. i completely disagree. i think if we are looking to go to an even playing field, ijust are looking to go to an even playing field, i just take away the fact that you would reduce the size of goals. i would love to be six feet tall by genetics hasn't given me that the stop i just tall by genetics hasn't given me that the stop ijust have tall by genetics hasn't given me that the stop i just have to tall by genetics hasn't given me that the stop ijust have to make sure i work harder in all aspects of my game. if you ask all goalkeepers in women's football, we work probably just as hard in women's football, we work probablyjust as hard as the men in turn of our speed across the goal line and ourjumps. some we will make, some we won't. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. virat kohli has just reached a half—ce ntu ry virat kohli has just reached a half—century against pakistan. more support on bbc news throughout the afternoon. india going very well

indeed. we will keep tabs on that throughout the afternoon. the spice girls ended their sell—out reunion tour at wembley stadium by inviting their mothers and children on stage last night. the group performed their hit singles ‘wannabe' and ‘spice up your life' in front of 80,000 fans in the stadium. as the concert came to a close, the artist known as ginger spice apologised to her bandmates for leaving the group in 1998. earlier i spoke to lauren bravo, a spice girls fan and author who wrote what would the spice girls do? how the girl power generation grew up. she went to see them at wembley on thursday night. i never saw them back in the day. i didn't see their reunion tour a decade ago. and ginger apologising last night — she said, i'm sorry i left, i was just being a brat and last night — she said, i'm sorry i left, i wasjust being a brat and i wa nt to left, i wasjust being a brat and i want to say it is just so good to be

back with the girls i love. was that a necessary apology, do you think was my i don't know if it was necessary , was my i don't know if it was necessary, i think it was nice to hear as a necessary, i think it was nice to hearasafan. necessary, i think it was nice to hear as a fan. we all wondered what could have been had she not left, but ina could have been had she not left, but in a way, it is special that we can treasure those two years when they were a phenomenon, and what might have happened if they had carried on. nice to hear her say it, though. i'm sure she was gutted, actually. what do you think has made them so successful and special? they have such a place in people's parts, people like you who were obviously very young when they were first round. i think that's it. i think the fact that they appealed to such a young audience, particularly young girls. the vision of girl power was a feminist article for women of my generation. it was accessible, mainstream, fun and joyous, confident and loud. those were all things that little girls had been

offered by culture before, so it was exciting. should they do more tours now, get back to recording? what would you like to see them do? i'm not sure, to be honest. i'm satisfied, having danced myself silly on thursday night. i'm happy to call it a day. i wouldn't blame them if they wanted to keep going, and they are obviously having the time of their lives. there would be huge demand for a world tour if they wa nted huge demand for a world tour if they wanted to continue. i don't know if we wa nt wanted to continue. i don't know if we want to see them back in the studio, particularly, buti we want to see them back in the studio, particularly, but i have been enjoying emma's new album. no doubt there will be more to come. time for a look at the weather, which is not too good in the coming days, i think. which is not too good in the coming days, ithink. they which is not too good in the coming days, i think. they are worried in lincolnshire, where there has been a lot of flooding, about the prospect of more rain. everyone is in with a chance of

sunny spells and showers. the rest of the day pretty much summed up like that. i wouldn't promise a dry set up, because we have this spiral west of the british isles dominating the weather. you can make out a lump of cloud that has just shown its hand into the far south—west of the british isles, and that is converting some of the showers back into rainfall. it isn'tjust lincolnshire, i have to say. the trend is bad news at the moment. it is the same in shrewsbury for the river severn. this area of rain down here will become ever more extensive for wales. up the irish sea coast, the isle of man, the north west of england, and into the evening, some of this will be quite heavy, driving into the north of scotland. there will be a dangling weather front bringing more rain, more persistent rain, back into the western side of

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