a government minister, suspended after manhandling a climate change protester. foreign office minister mark field apologises for the way he dragged her out of last night's mansion house dinner. the protester gives her first reaction to the bbc. he certainly manhandled me in a way which was very disagreeable to myself and to most people. i'm not going to prosecute, i'm not going to go down that route, because ijust don't want it to end up in a mudslinging match. as i say, the reason we were there was for the planet, for ourfuture. we'll be analysing the political and the security implications and the security of what happened.

also this lunchtime. reports that president trump changed his mind at the last moment over a miltary strike on iran. jeremy hunt promises he'll give borisjohnson the "fight of his life" in the conservative leadership contest. for the first time nhs patients are given a revolutionary treatment for blood cancer that reprogrammes the immune system. and a century on, remembering the german sailors who died when they sank their own fleet off the coast of scotland. and coming up on bbc news, england's bowlers make a positive start to their cricket world cup match against sri lanka. we'll have the latest from headingley. good afternoon and welcome

to the bbc news at one. downing street has suspended the foreign office minister mark field after he was filmed removing a climate change protesterfrom a dinner in the city of london. mr field said he acted instinctively when the woman approached the stage during a speech by the chancellor philip hammond. the minister has apologised but labour says what he did was "horrific" while the prime minister has described it as "very concerning". the woman involved has told the bbc mr field needs to go on an anger management course. richard galpin reports. the chancellor of the exchequer was on his feet giving his annual speech about the state of the economy when greenpeace activists in red dresses made their way inside and started to read out an alternative speech, calling for radical action to tackle a glomo to —— global climate emergency. as a glomo to —— global climate emergency. as one a glomo to —— global climate emergency. as one of the activist, janet barker, moved further into the hole, conservative mp and minister

lea pt up to hole, conservative mp and minister leapt up to intervene. after pushing her against a pillar, leapt up to intervene. after pushing heragainsta pillar, he leapt up to intervene. after pushing her against a pillar, he grabbed her around the back of her neck to force her out. i was simply walking past his chair, or trying to walk past his chair, or trying to walk past his chair. yeah, so they were really over the top. i would quite like him to go on an anger management perhaps. i hope he doesn't do it again. 40 greenpeace volunteers, almost all of them women, had managed to get inside the mansion house, apparently without being asked to provide any identification. they assumed their action would event should be dealt with but not with the force demonstrated by mark field. it was clearly an assault. it remains to be seen whether he will be under police investigation and if he is then he should resign. in a statement, mark field said that in the confusion many guests understandably felt threatened and when one protester rushed past me towards the top table, i

instinctively reacted. there was no security present and i was for a split second genuinely worried she might be armed. mark field has since been suspended as foreign office minister. mark has issued a full and unreserved apology. he recognises that what happened was an overreaction. but what we need now, in his interest but also in the interests of the lady involved, is a proper independent enquiry by the cabinet office and that's what's going to happen. at the mansion house, all the protesters were eventually bundled out of the hall. mr hammond, back on his feet, had this response. the irony, of course, is that this is the government that hasjust led to is that this is the government that has just led to the world by committing to a zero carbon economy by 2050. despite what happened to janet barker, she has now said she will not press charges against mr field. and while there will be an

investigation into the minister, security at the mansion house will also be under scrutiny. richard galpin, bbc news. our political correspondent iain watson is in westminster. downing street acting very quickly this morning to suspend this minister. it was very swift. at the morning briefing, downing street made it clear the prime minister had found the footage of the incident we have seen very concerning, and he had been suspended from ministerial office at the foreign office. i should stress this is quite an unusual thing to do. usually one of two things happen when allegations are made against ministers. they are either sacked outright, and sometimes then there is an investigation and they come back into office. or they continue in office while the investigation is going on, which happened to damian green who was being investigated over inappropriate behaviour. former defence secretary gavin williamson who was accused of leaking from a

security council meeting. at this time mark field has been suspended while investigations take place by the cabinet office. that is an indication of how serious it is being taken. and also doing a favour to the two people vying to succeed her, because if action had not been taken, jeremy hunt, who mark field isa taken, jeremy hunt, who mark field is a supporter of, and borisjohnson would have been plagued with questions from the media and the rest of us about what they would have done if they had been in downing street and how they would have reacted to the incident and what they would have done with mark field. mark field will be relieved to know the protester will not press charges. nonetheless, she says she was manhandled by him, and he has serious anger issues. although he has been suspended as a minister, we still have to wait to find out whether he will also be suspended as a conservative mp. iain watson, thank you. so how did protesters get in to such a high profile event? our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford is with me. does this amount to a major security

lapse? i think there are some serious questions to be asked about the security at mansion house last night was up in that room were hundreds, 100 or more people, who work in buildings that have very serious security, top banks in the city, the treasury, the bank of england, all those buildings where they work on a day to day basis have very high levels of security, yet according to janet barker, the greenpeace protester last night, they turned up at the door, 40 of them, and tried to talk their way in. although some of them were prevented from getting in, a large number managed to walk through, right into the room where all of these captains of industry and senior politicians were having a meal. i think that's quite a serious issue for mansion house security and i can't believe security will look like that again next year. daniel sandford, home affairs correspondent, thank you.

us media are reporting that president trump ordered military strikes against iran last night before then changing his mind and calling them off. the attacks would have been in retaliation for iran shooting down a us drone. there's been growing tension between the two countries with washington blaming iran for attacks on oil tankers in the region. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams reports. are the united states and iran edging closer to war or stepping back from the brink? the new york times says donald trump ordered strikes against iranian targets last night, but changed his mind at the last minute. the us was poised to retaliate for this, iran's shooting down of an unmanned american surveillance drone somewhere over the gulf, celebrated on iranian tv. iran also says it has retrieved pieces of the drone allegedly shot down over its territorial waters. the foreign minister, javad zarif,

tweeted this sketch last night, showing the track of the drone and the crash site just off the iranian coast. but america insists the aircraft was flying over international waters. it's released its own competing map. i have a feeling that it was a mistake made by somebody that shouldn't have been doing what they did. i think they made a mistake. i'm not just talking the country made a mistake, i'm talking somebody under the command of that country made a mistake. but in washington, mr trump's opponents are also worried about mistakes. the president may not intend to go to war here, but we're worried that he and the administration may bumble into a war. at the united nations, the iran ambassador condemned what he called america's unlawful and destabilising measures. in a letter to the secretary—general, he said the drone had been targeted after ignoring repeated iranian warnings. each side accuses the other of aggression.

washington says iran was behind last week's attacks on tankers and four others in may. this crisis remains delicately and dangerously poised. with the sense of danger arising, america's federal aviation authority has warned airlines to avoid iranian airspace. british airways and others say they will comply. this morning's chart shows dozens of aircraft keeping out of harm's way. paul adams, bbc news. jeremy hunt has promised to give boris johnson the ‘fight of his life' in the race to become the next conservative leader, and britain's next prime minister. earlier, the governor of the bank of england, mark carney, rejected mrjohnson's argument that new trade tariffs can be avoided if there's a no—deal brexit. our political correspondent ben wright reports. did you encourage tactical voting, mrjohnson? boris johnson's place in the final ballot was never in doubt. yesterday more than half of tory mps sent him through to the party members, but did some of his

supporters vote tactically to keep michael gove out of the final run—off? possibly, some shenanigans are part of politics, but the johnson team denies coordinating anything. and now it doesn't matter. jeremy hunt is borisjohnson's rival for number ten, today kicking off a round two of his campaign in kidderminster. thousands of jobs in the west midlands depend on having a wise prime minister who makes sensible calls on how we leave the european union promptly, but also in a way that doesn't harm business. the former and current foreign secretaries will now face a vote of tory party members, around 160,000 people. they will take part in 16 hustings starting this saturday. a postal ballot will take place and a new prime minister will be in number ten by the week ofjuly 22. brexit will surely dominate this contest. the uk is currently set to leave the eu at the end of october without a deal. earlier this week boris johnson claimed trading arrangements

could continue largely unchanged with the eu even if there is no brexit deal. the answer is there will be no tariffs and there will be no quotas, because what we want to do is get a standstill in our current arrangements. but today the governor of the bank of england said without a deal export costs would automatically go up. if we don't have an agreement, we should be clear that not having an agreement with the european union means there are tariffs. that there are automatically, because the europeans have to apply the same rules to us as they apply to everyone else. both borisjohnson as they apply to everyone else. both boris johnson and jeremy hunt as they apply to everyone else. both borisjohnson and jeremy hunt have claimed they can renegotiate a deal with the eu by the end of october. the next few weeks will ask urgent questions of the two candidates, about their plans to get a brexit deal through parliament and their intentions if they can't. ben wright, bbc news, westminster.

well, whoever is the new prime minister will find the message from brussels on brexit to be a familiar one. our europe correspondent damian grammaticas joins us now. what are they saying in brussels? the conclusion of the two day summit that has just concluded here, the last ten minutes were devoted to brexit and afterwards we had from jean—claude juncker, donald tusk brexit and afterwards we had from jean—claudejuncker, donald tusk and angela merkel all saying whoever is the new prime minister, they are not open to renegotiating their withdrawal agreement. this is what donald tusk said. we look forward to working together with the next uk prime minister. we want to avoid a disorderly brexit and establish a future relationship that is as close as possible with the uk. we are open for talks when it comes to the declaration on the future uk—eu relations if the position of the united kingdom were to evolve, but the withdrawal agreement is not open for renegotiation.

afterwards, donald tusk said he was worried the uk might be wasting time, but there were some member states wanting a tougher line. there was no written conclusion put out about that, and from that i think what we can take is that there is a small sort of window ajar for the next prime minister to come here and get a hearing at least. damian grammaticas, in brussels, thank you. britain now gets more of its energy from clean sources than from fossil fuels. it's the first time since the industrial revolution that renewables and nuclear have overtaken carbon—based fuels such as coal and gas to power the nation. coal production has fallen to just 3% of all energy production in a decade, while wind and solar power have grown. a conservative mp who made false expenses claims has lost his seat

after more than 10% of voters in his constituency signed a recall petition. there will now be a by—election in the brecon and radnorshire constituency only a matter of weeks after the new prime minister takes office. tomos morgan has the latest. market day where decisions have already been made. back in april, conservative mp for brecon and radnorshire, chris davies, was found guilty of submitting £700 worth of fa ke guilty of submitting £700 worth of fake expenses invoices to decorate his office. thank you all. i have accepted today's ruling and want to ta ke accepted today's ruling and want to take this opportunity to make an unreserved apology. that conviction triggered a recall petition and if more than 10% of constituents signed then a by—election would be held. more than 19% signed the ballot.|j don't think somebody as important as

chris davies should do that. he broke the law, but there are a lot worse things and that being done. today's decision is only the second recall petition that has led to a by—election. in may, peterborough‘s former labour mp fiona onasanya became the first mp to be unseated. as conservative party members decide the next tory leader, locally here in mid wales, the party will have to decide whether or not to back their former man in a by—election or to choose a new candidate in what could be the first test for the new prime minister. tomos morgan, bbc news. our top story this lunchtime... a foreign office minister is suspended after manhandling a climate change protester. and still to come... joined me to find out how climate change and rising sea temperatures are affecting the wildlife below and

above the sea lion here in shetland. the shetland islands are closer to the arctic circle than they are to london, but they're warming up as a result of climate change. it has implications for the fishermen who've worked there for generations, and for the wildlife. bbc weather forecaster matt taylor is in shetland for us now. thanks, ben. whilst the remoteness and the beauty of shetland certainly brings in the tourist money, the fishing industry is the main driver of the economy here. more fish landed in shetland than anywhere in england, wales and northern ireland combined, but temperatures are starting to rise in the season that has been having an impact notjust

on marine life but on birdlife too, asi on marine life but on birdlife too, as i have finding out. we're out on the boy frazerjust off the coast of shetland. alan has been fishing these waters for 38 years, and in that time he's noticed a lot of changes. there's been a lot more cod, which maybe ten, 15 years ago, you'd never have bothered with. so you see big changes in varieties? yeah, we're trying for velvet crab. they are a lot less of them around now, and there's more lobsters. so probably one moves in and the other moves out. i think certainly the climate and everything these days, it's a massive thing to deal with. a lot of people blame overfishing, but i think one of the biggest things is natural causes. research from the university of aberdeen says climate change has caused temperatures across the north sea to rise by up to 1.5 degrees in the last 40 years. during this time, fish that have been traditionally caught in these waters for generations are moving towards colder seas further north. meanwhile, fish preferring warmer waters are starting to thrive around

shetland. cod and haddock may be thriving in the waters around shetland at the moment, but studies suggest that yet more warming could send them further north. could we be swapping, in the decades ahead, our favourite fish for something a bit more exotic? changes in the seas around shetland are also making it tougher for some of the island's most popular sea birds. hello, helen. how are you doing? i'm good. welcome to sumburgh head. the rspb say there's been a sharp decline in the number of puffins and kittiwakes due to the warming waters. since 1981, there has been a 90% decrease in the number of kittiwa kes alone. what do you think are the main factors behind those drop in numbers? food availability is the big one. so the sea temperature has gone up a bit, and just a small change in temperature has big impacts on the food web. sand eels, which is the best fish for sea birds, are not

around. they are having to travel further now just to find their food? yes, yeah, guillemots and razorbills are going as far away as down to the moray firth to feed, and even further south to montrose. that's hundreds and hundreds of miles. and it would be like me going to glasgow to get my tea. the scottish government says it is hard to pin all of these shifts on climate change, as there could be other factors involved, such as overfishing and changes in the food chains. but the warming of sea temperature is likely to play a part in these changing trends, as folk here in shetland are already seeing. matt taylor, bbc news. so, sea birds have been the biggest casualties so far here in shetland from those lifting sea temperatures, but should temperatures rise in this seas further, could we have a knock—on impact on the fishing industry too? back to you. thank you very much indeed. a revolutionary new therapy for blood cancer that effectively reprogrammes the body's cells

to attack the cancer cells is now available to patients on the nhs. car—t therapy works by genetically modifying a patient‘s white blood cells, so that their immune system can fight the cancer. doctors at king's college hospital in london say it does not work for everyone, but can cure some terminally ill patients. here's our health and science correspondent, james gallagher. mike simpson from durham developed a type of blood cancer called lymphoma. two attempts at chemotherapy failed to control his disease, and mike was given around a year to live. but he became one of the first nhs patients to benefit from car—t therapy, a living drug tailor—made for each patient. if this treatment was not offered to me, i would... i would be saying goodbye in a very short space of time. how has the cancer responded so far? the treatment really has been effective in that we've got the cancer pretty much on the run and obviously i'm really happy about that and optimistic

for the future and glad that i committed to the treatment. this is a highly personalised form of medicine. it's a living drug made from a patient‘s own cells. their blood cells have been put on ice and now they're being sent to america, where they will be genetically modified to fight the patient‘s cancer. this is how scientists turned mike's blood into a therapy. white blood cells, a part of the immune system, are extracted. then they are reprogrammed to seek out and destroy cancer. millions of these car—t cells are grown and are then flown back and infused into the patient‘s body. i think the most exciting part is that it offers people therapy for many patients where adequate therapy doesn't exist, so it's a very exciting new development, and it gives new hope to a lot of our patients. clinical trials of car—t in the us showed 40% of patients had all signs of their otherwise untreatable

lymphoma eliminated from their body. mike is still recovering from the side—effects of his treatment, and it's too soon to know what will happen to his cancer in the long—term, but, for now, he says he has hope. james gallagher, bbc news. five years on from george osborne's pledge to transform the north into an economic powerhouse, a new report suggests that public spending cuts are undermining the project. the centre left—leaning thinktank, the ippr north, says more children are now living in poor households. the government, however, insists that both employment and investment are at record levels. nina warhurst looks at what has and hasn't been achieved. my goodness, what a view! the skyline says it all. manchester is booming. in six months here there will be a world—class hub for developing advanced materials — research that could help revolutionise how we make things, how we live. oh, wow. for a scientist, what's it like to work on a project like this? it's super exciting.

i've been in science for more than 20 years. just being able to be part of this venture and this institute is absolutely amazing, really. it was the former chancellor who put aside 230 million to get this built. how five years have flown since his frequently fluorescent clothing and these focused words. i'm here to talk to you today about what we can do to make the cities of the north a powerhouse for our economy again. if the northern powerhouse were an actual house, its foundations would be looking pretty strong, because now almost half of those living in the north have a directly elected mayor. there are plans for 70 billion to be spent on public transport. the percentage of those in employment has gone up more than the national average. but is life getting better? there are now many more children living in poor households, many more people surviving on low incomes, and spend per head on public transport has been a lot, lot less than in london.

i praise george osborne for putting it forward, but what is sad is that five years on, where is it? that's what people here are saying. we've still got austerity. we are being asked to cut essential services. we've got rail having gone in reverse. where is this northern powerhouse? well, not here. here, they are rejecting the idea of a northern powerhouse, that is despite receiving the money that came with it. here they are pushing their own luck, so funding a new business district and regenerating using money from the coastal communities fund. does st anne's need the northern powerhouse? i think we manage very nicely on our own, thank you. we are a force to be reckoned with as an enterprise partnership now, and northern powerhouse — if it wants to assist us, we won't say no. perhaps half a decade is too soon to judge the architecture of such an ambitious build.

in the years to come, we'll see if the northern powerhouse can withstand the cracks in the wall to build a better north for everyone. nina warhurst, bbc news. england's cricketers have a chance to go level at the top of the cricket world cup standings if they secure a win over sri lanka at headingley today. the sri lankans won the toss and chose to bat but england made a strong start, with the sri lankans losing two wickets for just three runs. andy swiss has been watching the game. sunny skies at headingley, and english optimism was in the air. they knew victory over sri lanka would take them within touching distance of the semifinals, and despite losing the toss, they were soon seizing the initiative. jofra archer with the breakthrough. sri lankan captain dimuth karunaratne with the thinnest of touches. it was just the start england wanted, and it got even better. where's that gone?

well, straight to moeen ali. sri lanka three for 2. for england, all too easy. but not for long, as avishka fernando launched a blistering counterattack. one went into the top tier of the stand, but that was a mere nudge compared to this. as he clobbered it out of the entire ground, england finally with some food for thought. but on 49, fernando's fireworks fizzled out, snaffled by adil rashid, much to england's obvious relief. suddenly, sri lankan runs were far harder to come by, and their efforts nearly cost them. ben stokes just inches from a run out. england agonisingly close to another breakthrough. but they didn't have to wait too long. first, captain eoin morgan with a smart catch to dismiss mendis, and then it was two wickets in two balls as adil rashid pounced another. england firmly on top

and on course for another world cup victory. andy swiss, bbc news. a century ago today, german forces off the scottish coast scuttled more than 50 warships — deliberately sinking them so that they wouldn't fall into allied hands. the scuttling of the german fleet, off orkney, shortly after the end of the first world war, was the greatest loss of ships ever. today a service was held to remember the 9 german soldiers who died on that chaotic day — the last german deaths of the war. lorna gordon reports. the vast natural harbour of scapa flow in orkney. the once—mighty german high seas fleet had been interned here, while its fate was decided during the peace negotiations at the end of the first world war. through winter and on into the lighter months, 74 german ships, flags lowered, lay idle in the waters off these northerly isles. the crews reduced to a minimum, demoralised, forbidden to go ashore.

but on midsummer‘s day a century ago, the officer in charge, fearing the victorious allies would seize the ships, gave orders that the fleet be scuttled. new research shows that, in the space ofjust over five hours, 50 german ships sunk here in scapa flow. it was the greatest loss of shipping ever to occur in a single day. seven of those ships still remain beneath the waves. through salvage and now diving, they became a source of income for these islands in the decades that followed. people here, though, this week remembering the last german fatalities of the first world war, the german sailors that died here in the chaos and confusion that followed the scuttling of their navy. lorna gordon, bbc news, orkney.

they are known for their speed and agility in the water, but did you know that seals can actually sing? it sings a group of grey seals have been taught to sing among other tunes twinke twinkle little star. it is all a part when you study, teaching them new songs like the star wars theme as well. researchers hope that their studies could lead to new ways of studying speech disorders. time for a look at the weather. well, the weather gets a seal of approval over the next couple of days. we have a couple of dry days coming up. cumulus cloud around but there will be a lot of dry weather for most of us. this satellite picture shows the cumulus cloud developing over the country. across the far north of scotland, the clouds a little bit thicker and it is here where the weather will continue to be rather breezy with

further