this is a bbc news, our latest headlines. 15 month suspended sentences for the parents of muslim convert, known asjihadi jack. hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm carrie gracie. sentences for the parents of muslim convert, known asjihadijack. both today at 2: pa rents a re convert, known asjihadijack. both parents are found guilty of funding terrorism as they sent money to the sun syria. president trump says the foreign office minister mark field us military was cocked and loaded to is suspended after he was retaliate against iran last night filmed pushing a climate change but he changed his mind ten minutes demonstrator at a dinner in the city planned strikes. foreign office minister mark field of london. is suspended after he was filmed she gives her first foreign office, clinic foreign pushing a climate change reaction to the bbc. demonstrator at a dinner in the city of london. she gives her first he certainly manhandled me in a way reaction to the bbc. a 15 month suspended jail sentences that was disagreeable. i'm not going to prosecute, i don't for the parents of a muslim convert jeremy hunt promises he will give borisjohnson jeremy hunt promises he will give boris johnson up the jeremy hunt promises he will give borisjohnson up the fight of his want it to go down that route. life in the conservative leadership contest. and a century on, ijust don't i just don't want it to end ijust don't want it to end up in a remembering the german sailors who mudslinging match. died when they sign their own fleet the reason we were there was for our planet, for our future. off the coast of scotland. reports that president trump now the sport on afternoon changed his mind at the last moment over a miltary strike on iran. jeremy hunt promises

live withjohn. he'll give borisjohnson the ‘fight of his life‘ in the conservative leadership contest. slow progress for the cricketers? coming up on afternoon yes, sri lanka have asked advantage. live, all the sport: england chase its turn in 33—3 for england are on top against sri lanka as they go for the win that will victory. england made a good start, return them to the top of the joffrey archer took a total of 15 standings in the cricket world cup. and sarah has the weather. wickets, making him lead out in the competition. in reply, jonny it is the summer solstice today and some summer it is the summer solstice today and some summer —like weather on the ba i rstow, competition. in reply, jonny bairstow, james vince, owen morgan cards. heat and humidity rising, the all went cheaply. england are now weekend is looking decent for many, but we are likely to see some thunderstorms late on sunday. you 119-3 all the detail throughout the all went cheaply. england are now afternoon. 119—3 after the 28th over. all went cheaply. england are now also coming up: 119-3 after the 28th over. you can listen on bbc five live or watch in for the first time nhs patients are given a revolutionary play highlights on the bbc sport treatment for blood cancer that website at up to see if england get reprogrammes the immune system. over the line on that one. nice to see andy murray smiling, pain—free, on court yesterday, we will see that again later? yes, we should see him back at queens after that successful

good afternoon. return to the court yesterday. he and felicity lopez beats the top downing street has suspended foreign office minister mark field seeds to fight the winner of dan after he forcibly removed a climate evans and british partner in the change protestorfrom a dinner in the city of london. semifinals later on. that could be mr field said he acted instinctively when the woman approached the stage during a speech by the chancellor philip hammond. the 18—year—old canadian who has the minister has apologised but labour says what he did was ‘horrific‘ while the prime minister beat top players in the singles. he has described what happened as ‘very concerning'. will play dan evans and his partner the woman involved has told the bbc in the doubles before potentially mr field needs to go on an anger management course. taking on andy murray and lopez if he wins with his partner. currently richard galpin reports. the chancellor of the exchequer was on his feet giving his annual out on court is lopez, up against speech about the state of the economy when greenpeace activists in red dresses mueller is that you took the first made their way inside and started set. low pairs, one game in the to read out an alternative speech, second, an early break there in the calling for radical action second, an early break there in the second set. the weather disrupting to tackle a global climate emergency. as one of the activist, the schedule, forcing several janet barker, moved further

into the hole, conservative mp players to miss matches, forcing organisers to play matches back to and minister leapt up to intervene. —— into the hall. back. andy murray and lopez later in after pushing her against a pillar, he grabbed her around the back of her neck to force her out. the doubles, lou pressed hoping to i was simply walking past his chair, or trying to walk past his chair. progress through the singles, a yeah, so they were former champion in the singles. much really over the top. nicer conditions today at queens, i would quite like him to go live on bbc two at the moment. on an anger management perhaps. i hope he doesn't do it again. frankie dettori has won at the a0 greenpeace volunteers, seventh race of the royal ascot almost all of them women, festival, it came in the had managed to get inside commonwealth cup. he took four the mansion house, apparently without being asked to provide winners in a row yesterday with any identification. bookmakers set for a monster pay—out before losing his final two races of they assumed their action would event should be dealt with but not with the force demonstrated by mark field. the day. it‘s been another day of it was clearly an assault. mercedes dominance in the form that it remains to be seen won with lewis hamilton going whether he will be under police investigation and if he is then quickest in first practice ahead of he should resign. in a statement, mark field said that in the confusion many guests sunday‘s french grand prix. his

understandably felt threatened team—mate went and when one protester rushed sunday‘s french grand prix. his tea m — mate went fastest sunday‘s french grand prix. his team—mate went fastest in second past me towards the top table, practice, hamilton was just behind i instinctively reacted. there was no security present with the second—fastest time. and i was for a split goalkeepers will no longer be second genuinely worried cautioned at the women‘s world cup she might be armed. for encroaching on the penalty taker mark field has since been suspended after a request was made to fifa as foreign office minister. mark has issued a full about the rule makers. scotland fell foul of the real winner in the and unreserved apology. he recognises that what happened scottish goalkeeper saved a penalty was an overreaction. but what we need now, before it was retaken, she was in his interest but also showing to be of her lying before in the interests of the lady involved, is a proper independent the ball was struck, she did receive enquiry by the cabinet office a booking which will now change with fever having made that request. the and that's what's going to happen. at the mansion house, scottish premiership fixtures for all the protesters were eventually bundled out of the hall. next season had been released and celtic will begin their bid for a mr hammond, back on his feet, had this response. record equalling ninth successful the irony, of course, title at home to saintjohnstone on is that this is the government that has just led to the world saturday the 3rd of august. rangers visit kilmarnock the following day, by committing to a zero all at the fixtures out on the bbc carbon economy by 2050. sport website. former liverpool and despite what happened chelsea striker, fernando torres, to janet barker, she has now said she will not press charges has announced his retirement from

against mr field. football. he won in the world cup and while there will be with spain in 2010, he made his name an investigation into the minister, security at the mansion house at atletico madrid before moving to will also be under scrutiny. liverpool. and then chelsea but he richard galpin, bbc news. won the champions league and europa league before returning to atletico let's speak to our political madrid, before finishing his playing correspondent iain watson who is at westminster. career in japan. england‘s madrid, before finishing his playing career injapan. england‘s melody touches that you do second round of swift action by the prime minister, she officially takes it seriously. the women‘s pga championship, she is currently one shot off the lead, two she said the footage was very concerning and she did that very shots off the lead now. a wet swiftly indeed. and in fact in quite an unusual way because she said there ought to be an investigation opening day in minnesota, with only by the cabinet office, indeed mark 16 of the 15a players going under field had referred himself to the cabinet office for investigation part. it is still australia‘s following the investigation. but in henning green who is out on the most cases if you think back to the front, one and dart on her second damian green allegations, the round today. that is all from the allegations against gavin bbc sport centre, we will have the williamson, they continued in office next update at half past five. until reports were drawn up and then either resigned or were sacked. in mark field plasma case, the prime

now on afternoon live, minister has suspended him pending let‘s go nationwide and see what‘s the investigation so he is no longer happening around the country a foreign office minister. it's not in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. clear whether he will also be suspended as a conservative mp as now, it‘s been five well because the chairman of the years since the launch of the northern powerhouse, conservative party said it was very the government‘s plan to fuel economic difficult to defend the footage he growth in the north, through modern transport links saw. i think what helps mark field and increased investment but has it been a success? is two things, first, there are let‘s go phil bodmer, other colleagues in the conservative party who have been defending him and backing his own defence as he who‘s in rotherham. acted impulsively, and secondly that the protest to herself says she does not want to press charges. and peter harris is in gateshead — nonetheless, she said she was manhandled and she also said she suffered serious anger from mark both will tell us how their respective regions have fed. field and he should take an anger management course. and labour obviously have been vocal as well. take a look at that rather but other equally vocal about the impressive robot behind me. this has question of security arrangements, been built, funnily enough, not far because obviously this is one thing that has come out especially since from the site of another industrial the interview with janet barker battle many years ago. 35 years ago herself, it is clear the security this month was the infamous battle

arrangements were fairly lax in order to allow so many of them to when the striking miners clashed get into the hall. that is right. with police at the coal works. that she seemed to make it quite clear. was one of the most difficult some people were stopped but it is periods in industrial, government clear it was easy for those relations. 35 years to the mound, protesters to enter. he had a things are an awful lot better. what chancellor of the exchequer speaking is going on here, they are cutting and some other dignitaries from the age of innovation and engineering city of london. so clearly there are security issues that have to be excellence. george osborne launch at raised about mansion house and they the northern powerhouse some five yea rs the northern powerhouse some five years ago but many people are are being raised. labour's focus wondering whether it is working. this is an example of how it works remains very much of mister field but there are many examples of how himself. louise hague was saying she it doesn‘t quite work. today, i think tank says that austerity has does believe an assault took place, she does not want to let the matter undermined the progress of the northern powerhouse some five years rest and she believes the police ago but many people are wondering whether it is working. this is an should investigate irrespective of example of how it works but there whether the protester has made a are many examples of how it doesn‘t quite work. today, i think tank says complaint. she also raises the that austerity has undermined the progress of the navan direction but question of why someone can be suspended as a minister but not more children are living in poor households. the government says that necessarily lose the whip as an mp. record numbers of people are... the surely if the conservatives were serious, she is saying, he should cabinet office minister, david also be suspended from the party. levinson, told me there was progress

thank you. but still a long way to go. yes, mark needs to be done. i want to see devolution taken further but we already have more than half of the north with mitchell myers in the charge. we need local authority the iranians have warned the us leader in the north to find ways to cooperate together because it sometimes take a little longer to against aggression. us media are reporting that get that devilish and agree that the president trump ordered military strikes against iran last night central government would like. so a before then changing his mind and calling them off. defence there but i think they are the attacks would have been retaliation for iran shooting down a us drone. admitting some difficulties, aren‘t our diplomatic correspondent they? the connectivity between the paul adams reports. are the united states and iran great northern cities of liverpool, edging closer to war or stepping manchester, hull, newcastle, and lead but any commuter will tell you back from the brink? that getting around by rail is very the new york times says donald trump ordered strikes against iranian targets last night, difficult many people, including but changed his mind myself, came in through a clapped at the last minute. out pacer train, introduced in the 80s, still going today. the government wants to fight them out the us was poised to retaliate for this, iran's shooting down of an unmanned american surveillance by 2019, tangibly, people cannot see progress being made. when it comes drone somewhere over the gulf, celebrated on iranian tv. to public transport spending,

iran also says it has retrieved according to the ippr, £3 per head pieces of the drone allegedly shot down over its territorial waters. the foreign minister, javad zarif, in london. many communities get tweeted this sketch last night, frustrated about the transport infrastructure do here, it‘s not showing the track of the drone what it should be and they are and the crash site just off the iranian coast. calling for more investment in life. but america insists the aircraft was flying over international waters. on the upside, it estimated that it's released its own competing map. 50,000 more scientific and technical jobs have been created from the i have a feeling that it was northern powerhouse and manufacturing jobs. that is a mistake made by somebody that shouldn't have been doing testa m e nt to what they did. manufacturing jobs. that is testament to how it‘s working but i think they made a mistake. they still need to be more down and i'm notjust talking a long way to go before everybody is the country made a mistake, i'm talking somebody under the command satisfied. let's go to the quayside of that country made a mistake. but in washington, in gateshead and talk to peter. i mr trump's opponents are also worried about mistakes. don‘t know if you came here feel the president may not intend to go to war here, but we're worried there, how much is the experience that he and the administration may there, how much is the experience the same or different?” bumble into a war. there, how much is the experience the same or different? i think the gist here in the north—east is, are at the united nations, the iran ambassador condemned what he called we going to get the serious america's unlawful and destabilising measures. investment? let me show you the front page of today's northern echo, in a letter to the secretary—general, he said the drone had been targeted after ignoring

it's a fairly succinct, show us the repeated iranian warnings. money. they are not wholly negative about the loving powerhouse in any each side accuses the way but they argue that it now comes other of aggression. washington says iran was behind last down to hard cash for the week's attacks on tankers and four north—east. phil was talking about others in may. the railway situation in the north, this crisis remains delicately and dangerously poised. we have today from ben hou chin, the with the sense of danger arising, america's federal aviation authority mayor of the tees valley, has been has warned airlines to avoid iranian airspace. pushing for what they call the british airways and others crossrail more. he said that if the say they will comply. this morning's chart department for transport would release the billions needed to shows dozens of aircraft keeping out of harm's way. visually fund those improvements to the ways in at the north—east, that paul adams, bbc news. would be transformational for the to talk more about the escalting economy appear. the mayor also tension between america and iran we arejoined argues that the powerhouse has a lot from leicester by dr clodagh clo of money from whitehall in other harrington associate professor ways. for instance, he was able to of american politics at de montfort university spend £30 million by durham tees valley airport, effectively thank you forjoining us. this nationalising it. we know we have greater devolution in the north. attack called off when planes were ultimately, this will now come down to hard cash. let's go back to where in the air, according to the american media. it is an we started from, the northern echo, extraordinary development. it is.

lazio from its editor, hannah and i think the iranians will be chapman. the powerhouse, as a looking at this with great interest. it strikes me that both sides in concept, is a really positive thing. it puts the needs of the knot on the national agenda. the problem is that this very delicate and fraught is not really backed by any cold situation like to present themselves as the unpredictable side, but when ha rd is not really backed by any cold hard the investment we need for you actually have both sides being unpredictable i think it is a very things like the rail. we heard from dangerous path to go down. we are the chancellor that will happen. real change cannot happen unless getting news that president trump that investment is forthcoming.” has just woken up and started suppose the other thing to say is tweeting, he has said iran can never that the north is a big place and there are quite a lot of major have nuclear weapons. that is a new cities in it. i don‘t know to what tweet from him. in the midst of this extent the experience that you have been describing is the same as it might be in manchester or sheffield? escalating tension between these two countries, what you make of that the key that you will hear in the message? well, itjust makes me north—east is the power of think how far things have come in a manchester. is there a risk that very short space of time. relations manchester. is there a risk that manchester would be on this major between the two countries have been city here, all the power get sucked fairly abysmalfor a towards it and you get essentially a between the two countries have been fairly abysmal for a number of decades now, so not all of this is new capital in manchester. and in on the trump administration, but there was a real, real sincere and

newcastle, sutherland, middlesbrough, they are effectively subsumed by the power of manchester. concerted effort to move things the tees valley mayor was saying forward during the obama years, you that right now he has control of the had the leaders of the two countries are speaking on the telephone for transport budget and policy he doesn't want to see out the world in the first time in decades, and now such a way as a regional structure here we are... i apologise, i'mjust thatis such a way as a regional structure that is actually taken away from it. going to disrupt for a moment on look north tonight, we will be because we have some more tweets from president trump coming in. he talking about other benefits of the says he stop the attack on iran loving powerhouse. such as because a response would not have investment funding which help small been proportionate to the downing of and medium—size businesses who might not get help from the bank. of an unmanned drone. he also said, course, not get help from the bank. of course , you can not get help from the bank. of course, you can onlyjudge the iran can never have nuclear weapons, powerhouse in its broader economic we mentioned that, and he is in no context. that context is austerity. hurry on iran. so an interesting mix i guess when we're starting here in five years' time if we are doing this conversation again, the of messages. iran can't have nuclear judgment on the northern powerhouse will come down to was the money weapons, the us should be in no ultimately are billed to push on to hurry, and the attacks as ordered make these things like the railway we re hurry, and the attacks as ordered were not proportionate to the downing of an unmanned drone. this isa make these things like the railway is a reality? i fact let's hope the answer is yes. peter and phil, thank strikes me as a man who is clearly you both very much forjoining us

this afternoon. com pletely strikes me as a man who is clearly completely devoid of any foreign policy experience himself so it's relying incredibly heavily on his if you would like to see more on any advisers. the people in his of those stories, you can access mid—administration who have his air mostly mid—administration who have his air m ostly o n mid—administration who have his air them via the bbc iplayer. a reminder that we go nationwide every weekday mostly on this topic, if you look at afternoon and for the tpm here on afternoon and for the tpm here on their history it is hawkish in the afternoon light. extreme. it is in one layer and the most senior criminaljudge in england and wales has extremely loud. perhaps he is expressed "enormous concern" getting another voice in another ear that many crimes are not being prosecuted. which might be congressional sir brian leveson has position which would be a little warned the system could more measured and more about slowing collapse without investment. it down so as not to accidentally go the government said it was spending billions on modernising the justice system. he‘s been speaking exclusively to our legal correspondent to war. i suppose that the question clive coleman. of miscalculation is the one in in the wake of the phone—hacking scandal, sir brian leveson everybody‘s minds. even allowing, as you say, that they may be forces became a national figure, within the administration who take a chairing the public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press. more hawkish line, this idea among other players that there could be a today, he retires as head of criminaljustice, with grave concerns. miscalculation, bumbling into war as there is undeniably a reduction in the number

we just heard of crimes being detected miscalculation, bumbling into war as wejust heard in miscalculation, bumbling into war as we just heard in the report. miscalculation, bumbling into war as wejust heard in the report. that must be a very serious concern right and crimes being prosecuted. it is very, very concerning that now given tankers in the gulf, drones in the skies, commercial citizens suffer wrong aircraft as well. it is extremely and are not obtaining redress fraught and tense. there is no doubt about it. i am also mindful that through the criminal courts. sir brian also addressed concerns every time president trump opens his by campaigners that complainants mouth and says anything, he is first in rape cases would be deterred when asked to hand their phones and foremost speaking to his base so to police by the so—called it looks presidential and digital strip search. what the police are looking appropriate perhaps from his for is reasonable lines of inquiry appropriate, that he is sounding and reasonable lines strong, someone who will not take of inquiry only. anything lying down from iran, but they are not seeking, they are listening to all of his as it were, to digitally strip search the victim at all. words as well as others in the middle east, so everything he says is very weighted and very significant. so it really seems he they are only looking needs to proceed with caution and for material which is relevant. maybe he is getting that message i can‘t believe that people now. i suppose there is a danger who are legitimately concerned would want to undermine the rights that the message he is sending is one of lack of resolve, that he has stepped it up and then stepped down of a defendant to a fair trial. again, which is something we have

seen again, which is something we have seenin again, which is something we have seen in other theatres as well and sir brian‘s parting message is clear the iranians may be thinking paper tiger, we have got his number. — our criminaljustice system, creaking under the weight of cuts indeed. and if you look at how and digital evidence, needs urgent, life—preserving investment. donald trump has spoken about others, i am specifically thinking of his predecessor when obama took a more cautious approach, he was absolutely disparaging about that, but this is serious business and you jamie is here in a moment do not want to go ahead with such actions unless you are very clear of he will be telling us the consequences. i think it can't be at this point, he cannot know how what‘s going on in the business news. iran will respond, and like i said, first, a look at the headlines they would both like to be seen to on afternoon live: we serve for three month suspended be unpredictable, which is a sentences for the parents of the terrible recipe. doctor harrington, thank you so much. and there is one muslim convert is known asjihadi more tweets coming in from president jack. president trump says he was cocked and loaded to retaliate trump as we were talking. he said against iran last night but he the us have planned to hit three changed his mining tenements before different sites in response but was the planned attacks. foreign office told 150 people would have died. —— minister, mark field, suspended after he was filmed pushing a had planned. that obviously relates climate change protesters at a to his comment about the dinner in the city of london.

proportionality or otherwise of that here‘s your business strike. we will come back to that headlines on afternoon live: about 150,000 businesses still do not have the paperwork story later this afternoon. they need to keep exporting jeremy hunt has promised to give to the eu in the event of a no—deal boris johnson the ‘fight brexit, mark carney has said. of his life' in the race to become the bank of england governor the next conservative leader, added that many had built and britain's next prime minister. up contingency stocks, earlier the governor of the bank but these would only last for "the short term". of england, mark carney, rejected mrjohnson's argument that new trade tariffs can be avoided if there's a no—deal brexit. the former chief executive ben wright reports. of barclays, john varley, has been acquitted of charges did you encourage tactical of conspiracy to commit fraud. it was the only attempt to prosecute voting, mrjohnson? borisjohnson's place in the final a chief executive of a major bank ballot was never in doubt. following the financial crisis. yesterday more than half of tory mps sent him however, the other three defendants, rogerjenkins, through to the party members, tom kalaris and richard boath, but did some of his supporters vote will now face a retrial. tactically to keep michael gove out all three deny any wrongdoing. of the final run—off? possibly, some shenanigans are part of politics, but the johnson team britain now gets more denies coordinating anything. of its energy from clean sources and now it doesn't matter. than from fossil fuels. it‘s the first time since jeremy hunt is borisjohnson's the industrial revolution that rival for number ten, renewables and nuclear have overtaken carbon based fuels such today kicking off a round two as coal and gas to power the nation. of his campaign in kidderminster. coal production has fallen to just thousands of jobs in 3% of all energy production in a decade while wind and solar the west midlands depend on having

a wise prime minister who makes power have grown. 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 the story about energy who currently of tory party members, around 160,000 people. markets, obviously, they were they will take part in 16 hustings jockeys, plan —ish doubts, etc. oh starting this saturday. a postal ballot will take place yes, there is a lot going on in at and a new prime minister will be in number ten by the week the international scene which has ofjuly 22. the international scene which has the markets worried. possibly a brexit will surely dominate this contest. military conflict, we were the uk is currently set a p pa re ntly military conflict, we were to leave the eu at the end apparently ten minutes from it last of october without a deal. night and didn‘t realise it, with earlier this week borisjohnson claimed trading arrangements iran. that has all been upsetting could continue largely unchanged the market at a time when things with the eu even if there actually seem to be going in a is no brexit deal. the answer is there will be no positive direction, as far as stock tariffs and there will be no quotas, markets are concerned, all in the because what we want to do is get hopes of lower interest rates in a standstill in our america. that conflict between the current arrangements. but today the governor signals means we will see quite a of the bank of england said without a deal export costs lot of volatility in the markets in would automatically go up. the coming few weeks and months.

if we don't have an agreement, we should be clear that not having that‘s up to a senior fund manager an agreement with the european union means there are tariffs. in london. generally speaking, this that there are automatically, kind of tension in the middle east, because the europeans have to apply what does that do to markets? what the same rules to us as they apply should investors be looking out for? to everyone else. yes, definitely volatility. the both borisjohnson and jeremy hunt markets at the moment are looking at have claimed they can renegotiate a deal with the eu the direction of interest rates, by the end of october. particularly in europe and the us. the next few weeks will ask urgent we did see a reaction on the oil questions of the two candidates, about their plans to get a brexit price on the back of the potential deal through parliament and their intentions if they can't. military action of the usa yesterday. a big jump of around 5% ben wright, bbc news, westminster. up yesterday. a big jump of around 5% up in the oil price. equity markets you're watching afternoon live, we re fairly up in the oil price. equity markets were fairly steady. as i said, much these are our headlines: foreign office minister mark field more taking the lead from the is suspended after he was filmed potential central bank action that pushing a climate change demonstrator at a dinner we might see in the nearfuture. in the city of london. it's a very strange market where bad jeremy hunt promises he'll give borisjohnson news could potentially be good news the ‘fight of his life' in the conservative for risk investments. you talk about leadership contest. strange markets, we have seen bond

yields on ten year treasuries have and reports that president trump gone negative. for most people, that changed his mind at the last moment is difficult to understand. it is over a military strike on iran. basically that you are paying the government to lend them money, which doesn‘t really much make sense, am i right? absolutely right, it's very also a revolutionary new treatment for blood cancer. bizarre. certain bond markets, globally, since 2016 it has been a situation. since the european awin for blood cancer. a win will return england to the top central bank comments this week on of the standings. top seed who tuesday, markets started to price knocked out kyle edmund is facing even more negative use in europe. we someone knocked out kyle edmund is facing saw a situation where the ten year someone else in the quarterfinals. andy murray is due out later. and german government bond actually you lewis hamilton was fastest in first read —50 basis points. practice ahead of the french grand german government bond actually you read -50 basis points. does anybody prix. more to come on all those actually buy these bonds? stories at around half past. read -50 basis points. does anybody actually buy these bonds7m read -50 basis points. does anybody actually buy these bonds? if you're actually buy these bonds? if you're a saver, absolutely. as an individual saver, it makes no sense to about these boys. there are certain points in the economy what you have to buy these government bonds. for example, banks have to

a conservative mp who made false hold government bonds part of the expenses claims has lost his seat after more than ten percent of voters in his constituency liquidity requirements. if they signed a recall petition. there will now be a by election leave their money with his central in the brecon and radnorshire bank in europe, you're going to get constituency only a matter of weeks after the new prime -ao minister takes office. bank in europe, you're going to get —ao basis points so —30 might not tomos morgan has the latest. market day, where decisions looks a bit on the ten year have already been made. back in april, conservative mp government bond in germany, for for brecon and radnorshire, chris davies, was found guilty example. air some comments from mark of submitting £700 worth of fake expenses invoices carney talking about 150,000 to decorate his office. companies in the uk really not thank you all. prepared for a no—deal brexit at the i have accepted today's ruling and want to take this opportunity moment. do you take note of that? to make an unreserved apology. that conviction triggered a recall does this matter to the economy, to petition and if more than 10% of constituents signed then the uk as a place to invest. yes, i a by—election would be held. think it different doesn't matter more than i9% signed the ballot. because it matters to the banks which lent part of the of the economy. the banks themselves have said that they are prepared for a no—deal brexit but if their clients aren't, that will definitely have an i don't think somebody as important impact on them because they will be as chris davies should do that. he broke the law, but there are a lot worse things looking at fairly risky loans going

and that being done. forward. thank you forjoining us. today's decision is only the second recall petition that has led to a by—election. in may, peterborough‘s former labour somejumpy forward. thank you forjoining us. some jumpy markets then? jumping all mp fiona onasanya became the first mp to be unseated. over the place. the dial is up as conservative party members decide the next tory leader, again, looking fairly positive. locally here in mid wales, the party will have to decide there are worries about middle east whether or not to back their former but on the other hand, these lower man in a by—election or to choose interest rates are quite expert for a new candidate in what could be the first test investors. oil will continue to move for the new prime minister. up investors. oil will continue to move up over 1% now. oil is always price tomos morgan, bbc news. in dollars, which is looking a little weak. a weak dollar is doing that rather than a strong pound. the court of appeal declined an a century ago today, german forces off the scottish coast scuttled more than 50 warships deliberately sinking them so that they wouldn‘t application to deduct three other defendants will face a retrial. fall into allied hands. the scuttling of the german fleet, off orkney, shortly after the end john varley was the early bank chief of the first world war, was the single greatest loss of warships in history. executive to be criminally today a service was held

to remember the nine german prosecuted since the 2008 financial soldiers who died on that crash, the one that led to the huge chaotic day — the last bailout and the worst recession in german deaths of the war. lorna gordon reports. 80 years. what he was accused of by the vast natural harbour of scapa flow in orkney. the once—mighty german high seas fleet had been interned here, the serious fraud office was conspiracy to commit fraud with while its fate was decided during the peace negotiations at the end of the first world war. three other barclays executives in through winter and on into the lighter months, 7a german ships, 2008. the first accusation was that flags lowered, lay idle in the waters off these northerly isles. injune 2008. the first accusation was that in june 2008 he 2008. the first accusation was that injune 2008 he made dishonest representations on behalf of the bank that barclays was not paying any additionalfees the crews reduced to a minimum, bank that barclays was not paying any additional fees to investors from qatar who were then putting demoralised, forbidden to go ashore. billions of pounds into the bank. but on midsummer‘s day a century ago, the officer in charge, fearing the victorious allies they said that was a dishonest would seize the ships, gave orders that the fleet be scuttled. representation. the second allegation was that similar dishonest representations were again made later that year. those were the new research shows that, in the space ofjust over five allegations, but the trialjudge in hours, 50 german ships sunk the lower court ruled that the here in scapa flow. it was the greatest loss of shipping evidence against mr varley was insufficient for the case to proceed. that ruling was appealed by ever to occur in a single day. the prosecution, now the appeal court here has dismissed that seven of those ships still remain beneath the waves. appeal, accordingly mr varley has through salvage and now diving, been acquitted on both counts. 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 the shetland islands. implications died here in the chaos and confusion for the fishermen and the wildlife. that followed the scuttling of their navy. lorna gordon, bbc news, orkney. matt taylor has been out to the shetland islands to take a look. russia has started to release whilst the remoteness and the beauty a group of nearly a hundred captive of shetland brings in the tourism money, the fishing industry is the whales which have been kept in small pens in the far east of the country. main economy. more fish are landed in shetland than anywhere in the conservationists had feared the animals rest of the uk combined. but were destined for entertainment temperatures are starting to rise in parks and aquariums in china. the season that has been having an gareth barlow has more details. impact notjust on many life but on bird life as well, as i have been finding out. we're out on the boy frazerjust off trapped in tiny cages the coast of shetland. at the so called whale jail. alan has been fishing these now they are being set free. waters for 38 years, last october, the environmental and in that time he's noticed a lot of changes. group greenpeace highlighted there's been a lot more cod, the group of almost 100 orca which maybe ten, 15 years ago, and beluga whales being kept in pens you'd never have bothered with. of russia‘s east coast. so you see big changes in varieties? yeah, we're trying for velvet crab. following a huge international outcry, and an intervention they are a lot less of them around from the president vladimir putin,

now, and there's more lobsters. the first wales are being so probably one moves in and the other moves out. from the president vladimir putin, i think certainly the climate the first whales are being and everything these days, it's a returned to the open ocean. massive thing to deal with. a lot of people blame overfishing, but i think one of the biggest although russia allows whales to be captured for scientific purposes, things is natural causes. expert feared the animals were destined for sea parks research from the university or aquariums in china. of aberdeen says climate speaking during president putin‘s change has caused temperatures across the north sea to rise by up annual phone in on thursday, russia‘s deputy president said to 1.5 degrees in the last a0 years. the law would now be changed. translation: to avoid such during this time, fish that have been traditionally caught in these a situation in the future, waters for generations are moving the mammals will not be captured towards colder seas further north. in large numbers. the government has decided to change meanwhile, fish preferring warmer waters are starting to thrive around the law to ban catching shetland. cod and haddock may be thriving whales for so—called cultural in the waters around and educational purposes. shetland at the moment, but studies suggest the firms that caught the animals, that yet more warming many of which are in poor could send them further north. health, have been fined could we be swapping, in the decades ahead, and while the process to move our favourite fish for the whales is under way, it is expected to take several months. something a bit more exotic? changes in the seas around now it‘s the longest shetland are also making it day of the year. tougher for some of the island's about 10,000 people cheered the sunrise this morning at stonehenge,

according to wiltshire police. most popular sea birds. it‘s thought solstices have been celebrated at stonehenge hello, helen. for thousands of years. how are you doing? the monument is built i'm good. on the alignment of the midsummer welcome to sumburgh head. sunrise and the midwinter sunset. the rspb say there's been a sharp decline in the number of puffins and kittiwakes due to the warming waters. on the summer solstice, since 1981, there has been the sun rises behind the heel stone, a 90% decrease in the the ancient entrance number of kittiwa kes alone. to the stone circle, and rays of sunlight are channelled what do you think are the main factors behind those drop in numbers? into the centre of the monument. food availability is the big one. that‘s it from your afternoon so the sea temperature has gone up a bit, and just a small change in live team for today. temperature has big impacts on the food web. sand eels, which is the best fish next, the bbc news at five. for sea birds, are not around. time for a look at the weather. they are having to travel further here‘s sarah. now just to find their food? good afternoon. after what has been a relatively yes, yeah, guillemots and razorbills are going unsettled and cooljune so far, as far away as down we are seeing the summer solstice to the today, and the weather is getting moray firth to feed, a little bit more summery, and even further south to montrose. certainly, over the next few days. that's hundreds and hundreds of miles. this is the view today in cornwall, and it would be like me cumulus cloud around, we have had clear blue skies. going to glasgow to get my tea. the scottish government says we have got this big it is hard to pin all of these shifts on climate change, as there area of high—pressure moving in from the south, could be other factors involved, such as overfishing and changes keeping the weather settled, at least for the next couple of days.

in the food chains. into this evening and overnight, but the warming of sea we keep the largely dry temperature is likely to play a and clear conditions, part in these changing trends, one or two showers across the far as folk here in shetland are north of scotland at times. tonight, we will see already seeing. matt taylor, bbc news. a little bit of patchy cloud developing here out there, particularly for parts of east anglia and also for eastern england as well. but under the clear skies, for many of us, a relatively cool so sea birds have been the biggest night ahead, with temperatures falling into single figures, certainly in the countryside. casualty so far in shetland is, but the weekend is shaping up to be a relatively fine and dry one. should the temperatures rise in the sunny spells and temperatures seas further, could we have a on the up through the weekend too. knock—on impact on the fishing saturday morning start of an a dry and bright note, industry as well? don't forget you can let us know what you think. tweet us. all the saturday morning starts off on a dry and bright note, we will see sunny spells across much of the uk, perhaps a bit more cloud around across parts of eastern england and also for the north—west of scotland. ways to contact us are there. some isolated showers for scotland and northern ireland too, now — time to take but most places dry, long spells of sunshine. a look at the weather. temperatures somewhere between 16—22dc. into the second half of the weekend, high pressure not far away, as it drifts to the north—east, temperatures are going to be on the lower pressure starts to move in from the south—west. rise. that is down to the fact that that could bring a few problems we have an area of high pressure sitting towards the north—east of from sunday afternoon onwards. the uk, low pressure in the much of sunday looks fine and dry again, with some sunshine but watch

south—west, so the combination will be drawing in these really one wins. out for heavy rain later in the day, initially to the south—west as we head through next week we of england and wales. could see some near—record june temperatures across parts of france, sunday, temperature—wise, it will feel warm and muggy, germany and the netherlands, and we will be in for him at airfrom the quite humid weather moving in, 2a celsius likely south or south—east. you haven't toward the south—east. seen south or south—east. you haven't seen that for a while, have you? but low pressure then pushes its way further eastwards across the uk, we will keep the rain. if you think moving through sunday night and into monday as well. during sunday night, expect to see back to this time last year, the widespread heavy rainfall. temperatures were similar but it was following behind the main hot and dry. this summer that he band of rain, some heavy thunderstorms as well. will continue to build but also the chance of heavy rain and thunderstorms with all that humidity we still have that heavy rain building as we head through next on monday, the threat of flooding problems as well as gusty winds and hail as these thunderstorms move week. before we get there, we have some nice weather on the cards. in between heavy showers, temperatures are up to around 27 celsius in the south—east on monday. before those thunderstorms arrive, the temperatures will continue we have some warm and dry weather to rise throughout next week. developing, so this afternoon, blue but also the risk of some heavy thunderstorms, muggy nights, too. but the details remain uncertain. bye— bye. skies, sunshine, but this area of high pressure moving on from the south keeps things generally dry and settled for many of us, certainly over the next few days. this

afternoon, sunny spells across the board, one or two showers across northern ireland and that north—west of scotland, but temperatures in the high teens across northern ireland and scotland. further south, high teens across northern ireland and scotland. furthersouth, up towards the early 20s. just the odd shower towards shetland tonight. under clear skies, quite cool, fresh night, temperatures in single figures. through the weekend, dry weather, sunny spells, temperatures on the up. there could be some heavy showers late on sunday, but before that it showers late on sunday, but before thatitis showers late on sunday, but before that it is looking dry on saturday, just the threat of a few light showers in the far north—west. sunny skies and temperatures widely in the low 20s, high teens across scotland and northern ireland. in the second half of the weekend, as the high pressure m oves half of the weekend, as the high pressure moves to the north—east, it brings in low pressure from the

south—west. for much of sunday, although a pretty decent day, the skies were applied over from the south—west ahead of some heavy rain. that will initially affect the far south—west of england. the temperatures on sunday, 2a degrees or s0 temperatures on sunday, 2a degrees orso in the temperatures on sunday, 2a degrees or so in the south—east. much warmer than the weather we've had so far. through sunday night and monday, the low pressure creeps north—eastwards, as it bumps into the hot air we could see heavy rain and thunderstorms. through sunday night and into monday that heavy rain moves northwards across the uk, particularly heavy for eastern scotla nd particularly heavy for eastern scotland on monday but further heavy thundery showers further south today at five. across the uk as well. that will the parents of a teenage muslim cause some problems, some localised flooding issues, perhaps. convert who went to fight for islamic state are convicted of temperatures as high as 27 on sending him money. jack letts, went monday. through next week, the to fight in syria, his parents were

temperatures on the app, the risk of found guilty of sending him cash heavy showers and thunderstorms, knowing it might be used to fund quite uncomfortable nights to come but still some uncertainty about the terrorism. their solicitor spoke detail with all these heavy showers outside court. the heavy price we s0 detail with all these heavy showers so do keep tuned over the next few pay today as an indicator of the days. love we have had our children. we are committed to helping him return home and will continue our campaign to help those the government has turned its back on. while the couple have been spared jail they were given suspended sentences. the other main stories, the us iran this is bbc news.

our latest headlines: foreign office minister mark field is suspended after he was filmed pushing a climate change demonstrator at a dinner in the city of london. she gives her first reaction to the bbc. he certainly manhandled me in a way that was disagreeable, i'm not going to prosecute, i don't want it to go down that route. the reason we were there was for our planet, for our future. president, says that the us military was cocked and loaded to retaliate against iran but he changed his mind ten minutes before the planned strike. jeremy hunt promises he'll give borisjohnson the "fight of his life" in the conservative leadership contest. for the first time, nhs patients given a revolutionary treatment for blood cancer that reprogrammes

the immune system. and a century on, remembering the german sailors who died when they sang their own feet off the coast of scotland. sport is now on afternoon live withjohn. awin in is now on afternoon live withjohn. a win in action in the cricket, how are they doing? they are on top against sri lanka at the moment. england are chasing 233 to when sri lanka, batting first, were reduced to 3-2 lanka, batting first, were reduced to 3—2 at one stage. archer taking two more wickets, three for the winnings, and a total of 15 for the competition so far. in response, how are england getting on? england 1-1,

much the best of starts. you can't listen to it all on the bbc sport website and via the app. what about the tennis? we saw andy murray at queens. he should be returning in doubles later, he should be back in his quarterfinal as well. the beat of the top seeds. they will face the winner of dan evans and his british partner in their last 16 match, that is still to be played. and then murray and lopez will follow after, murray and lopez will follow after, murray sent that he will play in the men's doubles at wimbledon. top seed knocked out british number one kyle edmund, in action at the moment, taking on the canadian. level

pegging at the moment in the first set, these are live pictures from bbc two. we know how conditions have been there this week, we have seen these schedules moved by it, a lot of matches suspended due to the bad weather. you wonder if that is affecting things out on the court at the moment. england midfielder, karen carney, has been signing up for the video assistant referee for the decision at the women's world cup which has sparked great debate, leading to penalties being the reta ke leading to penalties being the retake it. scotland fell foul of the rule, the ar showed that she had come off her line before the ball was struck. the scots were struck home but carney counts it from the other side. i don't think people appreciate how difficult it is, it looks so easy from 12 yards out.

when you are under pressure, there are thousands of people, those are people at home, i don't think people appreciate how much pressure that one pressure is under. i think it's a lwa ys one pressure is under. i think it's always difficult, it takes a dead person, if a character to step up and want to take one. not least in the world cup, as well. the scottish premiership fixtures for next season have been released. celtic will begin their record—breaking bid for a ninth title against saint johnstone on the 3rd of august. all the fixtures are available on the bbc sport website. former chelsea goalkeeper, peter check, it is back at the club as a technical and performance advisor. he spent 11 yea rs performance advisor. he spent 11 years later, winning the premier league four times, and a champions league four times, and a champions league title before joining arsenal four years ago and retiring from play at the end of last season. chelsea are without a manager at the

moment. the former player, frank lampard, the moment. the former player, frank lampa rd, the favourite moment. the former player, frank lampard, the favourite to take over. england? mel reid is one short of the lead out the women's pga championship, the third major of the season. she sucked a three under par 69 on season. she sucked a three under par 69ona season. she sucked a three under par 69 on a wet opening day in minnesota. with only 60 of the hundred or so players going on their part. it is australia's hannah green who leads. second practice is taking place ahead of this week's french grand prix. updates are available on the bbc sport website. that is all from me for now. let's return to our main story — the suspension of the foreign office minister, mark field, over his actions at the mansion house speech towards a greenpeace protester. janet barker was grabbed by mr field and marched out of the room. she's given her first interview to the bbc and explained to our producer, claire ellison, what happened. so we all had different roles

and the aim was to get our message across that we are in this climate emergency, we can't continue, as we are going with business as usual, investing in fossil fuels. so one group of us was to the left—hand side but they were intending to get to the plinth and deliver our own message to stop digging up fossil fuels. my role was then to issue out the speech itself to the guests and we were to just stand there, dignified, listening to the speech, peaceful and then after the speech was read, the idea was we were just going to leave. did you expect resistance? yes. but not to the extent to which i received it. i expected to maybe engage in a conversation or two with people, perhaps people blocking my way, but certainly not to be grabbed round the neck and grappled out of the room. the minister has just been suspended. what do you think about that? i think it isjust

the result of his actions. what do you think about his actions? i think they were pretty much over the top. we were peaceful, i was walking, i was simply walking past his chair or trying to walk past his chair. yes, so they were really over—the—top. his supporters have said that we are in a time of heightened security, mps have been attacked in the past and murdered, and that it would have been impossible for him to tell very quickly that your intent was peaceful. what you think about that? well, the only thing that i was armed with was peer reviewed science stating the state we are in and just getting that message across that no more fossil fuels, green future. i had nothing on me, i was wearing a red dress, a sash, i had a little handbag with leaflets. so...

he panicked. that's all. he certainly manhandled me in a way in 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 our future, to try and curb these co2 emissions. it's not because i've got beef with this gentleman, that's not what it's about. it's about massive change that we need now, not some bit of argy—bargy. more now on on the security implications of what happened. we are joined implications of what happened. we arejoined by a implications of what happened. we are joined by a former counterterrorist detective, not an expert of counterterrorism at elise beckett at university. what's your

take? i might not quite a surprise that there seem to be a lack of security out of security at the mansion house. no doubt, the police will be reviewing at what happened there. you look at the actions that marks you took and i have a look at ita number of marks you took and i have a look at it a number of times. you have an individual are patiently topped table where you have got to the governor of the bank of the exchequer, other senior governor of the bank of the exchequer, otherseniorfigures. she was walking with a purpose there,. i think mark field has taking an action that perhaps many would have taken. you look at the action he did ta ke taken. you look at the action he did take out of the question has to be, what is reasonable or excessive force ? what is reasonable or excessive force? there will be an investigation so i will give a how i would do is but he did not kick and punch out. many people would not know what her aim was, there could be anything on that table that they would think was a threat. i think

the security may have to be questioned next time they have functions like this at the mansion house and premises where you have high ranking dignitaries there. and someone high ranking dignitaries there. and someone that you might expect to have personal protection, id checks, things like that. you say it will be looked out but you would after what we have seen looked out but you would after what we have seen over looked out but you would after what we have seen over the past 20 years, it would have been littered already? yes, that is where i'm quite surprised. we have known of green for a number of years, they are not exactly a violent grip. of course, we all have a right to have a demonstration and if it had been arranged for them to come and have their say before the chancellor gave his speech, or at the end of his speech, that's fine. arrangement you would expect to be made. and how to tell, even from the video, who the

guests are and who are security. i think, as you point out, questions have got to be raised. we are at severe terrorist threat level so it doesn't take much for an incident to occur that has serious implications. i think serious hard questions will be asked. in terms of going back to the paper of mr field himself, there are people who says something similarto are people who says something similar to what you said. then there are others, the prime minister has suspended him from his role. do you think that's an overreaction?” understand why. anybody in the official capacity, he is a foreign office minister, should be investigated and have an open investigation but i think some of the things that i have seen on social media, not everybody but some

mps, ithink social media, not everybody but some mps, i think there is to be a level of restraint. this is only my personal view but i think the action he has taken, you put yourself in those circumstances, i think it's what most reasonable people would have died. apologies for interrupting. is it an overreaction that he should be suspended from his job? personally, i think it is that he should be suspended from his job? personally, ithink it is an overreaction to stop will this affect hisjob? overreaction to stop will this affect his job? i overreaction to stop will this affect hisjob? i don't think overreaction to stop will this affect his job? i don't think so. 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. our business correspondent, sarah corker, is at grimsby docks for us.

tell us more. here on the rather windy east coast, there is a good deal of scepticism about what difference in the northern powerhouse has really made here. some people have dubbed it the great northern power cut. others, the manchester powerhouse. that reflects a sense among businesses here that it has been focused on the north—east. areas like hull, scunthorpe, grimsby north—east. areas like hull, scu nthorpe, grimsby have north—east. areas like hull, scunthorpe, grimsby have felt far fewer benefits and have felt a little overlooked. five years on, transport links getting to and from these dolls, travelling across the north generally, remains the biggest challenges for businesses. from coast—to—coast, hull to liverpool, the idea was to produce a powerful economy to rival london. but some business leaders are now increasingly sceptical about what difference the northern actually made. a lot of people still see the north

as manchester centric. the north exist 20 miles past manchester, we are here, we are ready to do business. poor transport links are still the biggest challenge for many businesses here, especially for hauliers. we have very few arterial routes. they are clogged, they are not wide enough, traffic doesn't flow enough. if you look at the rail line, we are not electrified into hull even now with electric trains dare not come into hull. we do not want to be forgotten, we want to be at the forefront of haulage in the north—east. it has been five years since this, george osborne's now landmark speech. we need the northern powerhouse too, notjust one city, but a collection of northern cities. fast forward to 2019, ministers insist they are on the right track. we have a plan to drive the hopes and aspirations of people in the north. whether that is a record investment in transport, schools. successes include transport for the north, an organisation

which has set out £70 billion investment package. but new research published today shows that transport spending per head in the north increased by less than half of what it has in the capital. and the north still falls behind on skills and education, only 33% of young people in yorkshire and the humber are in education post a—level, that's compared to 53% in london. every company that i meet talks about the skills gap. they talk about the fact that they struggle to invest, they talk about the fact that they can't be competitive. because they have vacancies within their business. there is some optimism too. within their business. this hull company makes ethical cleaning products and is expanding. i think it is still a two tier economy however i do think the gap is closing. we have taken our destiny in our hands and tried to redress the balance and we have certainly seen more skilled people, not only available but been attracted to the area.

most businesses here do back the idea of the northern powerhouse but to really rival london, the northern economy still has some way to go. the real success story here in grimsby has been the rapid growth of the offshore wind sector, it has really breathed new life into this old fishing port. the callers are long gone, they have been replaced by these when the farm repair vessels. this development has been very much driven by private money and eu companies, not the work of the northern powerhouse. the partnership has helped to support smaller businesses who have wanted to set up here on in the docks so a lot more work still to do. get first, a look at the headlines

on afternoon live: foreign office minister, mark field, suspended after he was filmed pushing a climate change them later ata dinnerand pushing a climate change them later at a dinner and the city of london. president trump says the us military was cocked and loaded to retaliate against iran but he changed his mind about ten minutes before the planned strikes. jeremy hunt promises he will give borisjohnson at the height of his life in the conservative leadership contest. here's your business headlines on afternoon live: about 150,000 businesses still do not have the paperwork they need to keep exporting to the eu in the event of a no—deal brexit, mark carney has said. the bank of england governor added that many had built up contingency stocks, but these would only last for "the short term". the former chief executive of barclays, john varley, has been acquitted of charges of conspiracy to commit fraud. it was the only attempt to prosecute a chief executive of a major bank following the financial crisis.

however, the other three defendants, rogerjenkins, tom kalaris and richard boath, will now face a retrial. all three deny any wrongdoing. apple hasjoined a growing chorus of firms urging the trump administration to drop a plan to put more us tariffs on chinese goods. the us has said it may impose duties on £236.1 billion worth of chinese products if the two sides can't reach a trade deal. troubles in the middle east, my top headline and also yours. you have got airlines who do not know what to do, that every rout because of fear. much as re—route, they have cancelled as well. united airlines has cancelled one flight going from newark to mumbai. people have been re—routing, possibly more suspensions if tensions increase.

obviously, it got worse last night, even with the possibility of actual military strikes from the us. let's go to media analyst. the real problem is when you start to suspend flights, not just avoid problem is when you start to suspend flights, notjust avoid the danger area? yes, so far, united airlines have cancelled a flight. the east coast to mumbai is currently suspended. it is a headache for airlines to re—route flights, it means longerjourneys, airlines to re—route flights, it means longer journeys, disruption airlines to re—route flights, it means longerjourneys, disruption to timetables, costs to airlines. of course, airlines are very mindful of what followed the previous shooting tragedies, always putting safety first. this is part of the problem of major air—traffic confidence, not only to the golf itself, but over

flights over places like india and parts of asia. if things get worse and more airlines want to suspend or avoid, how easy is it to avoid this pa rt avoid, how easy is it to avoid this part of these world? it is not easy. most carriers affected are based in the gulf region, qatar airlines already faces restrictions on its wider expense because of sanctions. emirates in dubai and abu dhabi, many airlines from europe flying in and out of the gulf to asia. some air space is off limits ordinarily because of military usage and there are these pressure points. it's a challenge and settlement leads to delays and operational headaches to actually implement that. president trump is already tweeting on the problems in the middle east.

brinkmanship was the thing last night, fine strikes, called ten minutes before they were due to go. the markets are acting unfairly dramatic ways. we have seen the actual stock market, the dowjones, going extinct bully well over the past few days. we have seen gold and oil rising. let's get an idea from our north america correspondent. we have the dull very close to all—time highs,. what is going on the stock market first? we are seeing the stock market is really quite happy from the news to head from the federal reserve earlier this week that it federal reserve earlier this week thatitis federal reserve earlier this week that it is possible we could see a rate cut. there are some analyst that believe there could be anywhere from two to three rate cut this year, meaning that they will be a lot more money being flooded into us stock markets which is why we are

seeing these big rises. the dial is on track to have its bestjune since 1955, that is all really great. but if you look at the way that markets are trading today, you can see they are trading today, you can see they are in the red rate, a little bit tepid. a lot of that has to do with the increasing tensions that we are hearing in the persian gulf. is that why we are seeing gold and oil moving up and the dollar coming down? or is that more related to interest rates? certainly, you can see the interest rates are having an impact on the dollar but it is very difficult to discount what is happening in the persian gulf. looking out of the price of oil, one of the reasons it is so vulnerable to any sort of disturbance in that area is because a lot of oil goes through that straight so that is a lot of worry that if there is some

sort of escalation or more tensions. there are worries that may have an impact on the ability for oil to come into europe and into other western regions. we can just see you, just! thank you, dodging around the crowd at the new york stock exchange. the gold price is up,, against the dollar. as the dollar weakens, that means gold and oil get more expensive as of the actual value of the dollar decreases. the dow and ftse down just the dollar decreases. the dow and ftse downjust a the dollar decreases. the dow and ftse down just a small but. 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 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.

now — time to take a look at the weather. more thunderstorms will arrive into next week. before we get there, a glorious afternoon today across much of the country. this is the scene across the coast of kent. it is this area of high pressure which is driving our weather over the next few days, moving in from the south, not too many isobars who are less breezy. one or two showers around across north scotland. england and wales will contrive for the rest of the afternoon, temperatures up to 21 celsius and a warm spots. the high teens across scotland and northern ireland take. into tonight, most of us are ireland take. into tonight, most of us are dry and clear, more clever parts of east anglia, perhaps the

odd shower continuing in the far north of scotland. with clear skies, a fishing to come, temperatures in a single figures for many of us. throughout the weekend, those temperatures will be up to. saturday sta rts temperatures will be up to. saturday starts with sunshine from the word 90, starts with sunshine from the word go, there will be more cloud across the north, perhaps the east of england as well but for the majority, long spells of sunshine, dry, temperatures around 16—22dc. into the second have the weekend, high pressurejust into the second have the weekend, high pressure just to watch the north—east, allowing lower pressure to move in from these sell. sunday still warm, dry and sunny but watch out for heavy rain later in the day, initially to the south—west of england and wales for supper temperature —wise, it will feel hot and humid, especially down toward the south—east, in the north, highs of 20 celsius. low pressure then

pushes its way further eastwards across the uk, mailing through sunday night and into monday as well. during sunday night, expect to see widespread heavy rainfall. following behind them main band of rain, some heavy thundery doubles as well. we still have that heavy rain on monday, eastern parts of scotland particularly. there could be flooding issues as big thunderstorms develop to the south of that as well. in between heavy showers, temperatures are up to around 27 services are so in the south—east on monday. the temperatures will continue to rise throughout next week. but also the risk of some heavy funny downpours too.

hello, you're watching afternoon live. today at 3pm: president trump says the us military was ‘cocked and loaded to retaliate' against iran, but he changed his mind ten minutes before planned strikes. foreign office minister mark field is suspended after he was filmed pushing a climate change demonstrator at a dinner in the city of london. she gives her first reaction to the bbc. he certainly manhandled me in a way that was disagreeable. i'm not going to prosecute, i don't want it to go down that route. ijust don't want it to end up in a mudslinging match. the reason we were there

was for our planet, for our future. jeremy hunt promises he'll give boris johnson the ‘fight of his life' in the conservative leadership contest coming up on afternoon live all the sport: england are chasing 233 victory against sri lanka at the cricket world cup. they long jonny bairstow and james vince early in their chase. and we have all the weather. heat and humidity in the forecast in the next few days. lots of dry weather before some heavy thunderstorms in next week. all the details and about 25 minutes. also coming up: the impact of climate change on wildlife in the shetland islands.

hello, good afternoon. in the last hour, president donald trump has confirmed media reports that he halted us air strikes against iran last night, ten minutes before they were due to take place. attacks on three sites were planned in response to the shooting down of a us unmanned drone on thursday, but mr trump said he called them off when a general told him 150 people were likely to be killed in the attack. the iranians have warned the united states against aggression, saying provocative, unthought out acts would receive a reciprocal response with unpredictable consequences on twitter mr trump confirmed the reports that the us military had been poised to attack iran last night. he said that after the american drone shot down on thursday, they were ‘cocked & loaded‘ to retaliate last night on three different sights, when mr trump asked how many people but he changed his mind where general told him 150 people were the attack. he said his action would not have been proportionate to the

shooting down of an unmanned drone and said, i am in no hurry, our military is rebuilt, new and ready to go, by far the best in the world. sanctions are biting and more added last night, iran can never have nuclear weapons, not against the usa, and not the world. 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 notjust 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. breaking news now from the old bailey. the parents of the muslim convent commonly known as jihadi jack have been found guilty of funding terrorism. but not guilty of the same charge in december 2015. this is the organic farmer, john lets and the former oxfam fundraising officer, they are the

pa rents of fundraising officer, they are the parents of jack, who travel to syria. they have been found guilty of funding terrorism because they sent money to him. we will speak to correspond it at the old bailey fairly shortly but we will move onto news just now. downing street has suspended the foreign office minister, mark field, after he grabbed a female greenpeace activist by the neck at a black tie dinner in the city last night. mr field said he acted instinctively when janet barker approached the stage during a speech by the chancellor philip hammond, and has since apologised. the prime minister described what happened as ‘very concerning‘ and labour has called his actions ‘horrific‘. ms barker told the bbc mr field should "reflect on what he did" and suggested he "go to anger management classes". 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 global climate emergency. as one of the activist, janet barker, moved further into the hall, conservative mp and minister 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. yeah, so they were really over the top. i would quite like him to go on an anger management perhaps. and i hope he doesn‘t do it again. a0 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 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, told me the prime minister has acted quickly. she said the footage was very concerning and she did that very swiftly indeed. and in fact in quite an unusual way because she said there ought to be an investigation by the cabinet office, indeed mark field had referred himself to the cabinet office for investigation following the investigation. —— following the incident. but in most cases if you think back to the damian green allegations, the allegations

against gavin williamson, they continued in office until reports were drawn up and then either resigned or were sacked. in mark field‘s case, the prime minister has suspended him pending the investigation so he is no longer a foreign office minister. it‘s not clear whether he will also be suspended as a conservative mp as well because the chairman of the conservative party said it was very difficult to defend the footage he saw. i think what helps mark field is two things — first, there are other colleagues in the conservative party who have been defending him and backing his own defence that he acted impulsively, and secondly that the protest to herself says she does not want to press charges. nonetheless, she said she was manhandled and she also said she experienced serious anger from mark field and he should take an anger management course. and labour obviously have been vocal as well.

but are they equally vocal about the question of security arrangements, because obviously this is one thing that has come out especially since the interview with janet barker herself, it is clear the security arrangements were fairly lax in order to allow so many of them to get into the hall. that is right. she seemed to make it quite clear. some people were stopped but it is clear it was easy for those protesters to enter. he had a chancellor of the exchequer speaking and some other dignitaries from the city of london. so clearly there are security issues that have to be raised about mansion house and they are being raised. labour‘s focus remains very much of mister field himself. louise haigh was saying she does believe an assault took place, she does not want to let the matter rest and she believes the police should investigate irrespective of whether the protester has made a complaint. she also raises the question of why someone can be suspended as a minister but not necessarily lose the whip as an mp.

surely if the conservatives were serious, she is saying, he should also be suspended from the party. thank you. back to our top story. iran and the united states with president trump getting up and confirming that there was an intended strike on iran in retaliation for the shooting down of a drone. but that he had stood the strike down, he said in a series of tweets that he did that because of the casualties that would have been involved. and that he felt that would not have been proportionate at this stage. let‘s talk about all of this stage. let‘s talk about all of this morph. thank you forjoining us. this morph. thank you forjoining us. obviously, i have rather thrown those tweets at you but what is your

initial reaction to that confirmation from the president that the attack was planned? iran does not want a war and america does not, with a few exceptions. that does not mean there will not be a war, because miscalculation is often the way you end up in conflict in this back—and—forth escalation, and both sides are trying to find a safe come down from what has become a very dangerous situation. you say they wa nt dangerous situation. you say they want a safe come down, do you think thatis want a safe come down, do you think that is the message trump ascending? i sometimes hear it described coercive diplomacy. i would say the actual strategic interests do not point to war, but this does not mean there will not be a war, because trump‘s base and also some of his foreign sabre rattling he wants to project an image of strength, he also wants deterrents, he says you cannot simply shoot down a $130 million drone without consequences.

the question is how do you deter that type of action without ending up that type of action without ending up in an unprovoked... undesirable war with up in an unprovoked... undesirable warwith iran, up in an unprovoked... undesirable war with iran, which would be very dangerous for the us and very risky for his presidency. that is very difficult question to answer. what happened overnight suggests there is no clear plan in place, there was not a clear chain of command followed, a sort of slapdash attempt to respond in some way and then a last—minute pulling back from that potential start of a war, so that does not mean we are out of the woods just because trump said last night he did not want to attack. he still could decide today or tomorrow that he does, and i think we need to ratchet tensions down and understand war is bad for everybody.” ratchet tensions down and understand war is bad for everybody. i suppose one of the conclusions the iranians might be drawing at this point is that trump does not always carry through his threats. this is the difficult part. he has set a red line with iran which they seem to have broken. barack obama famously

set the red line with syria and did nothing when they broke it. if you don‘t enforce these lines you create a culture of impunity. for example, if you shoot down an unmanned drone, and trump yesterday said it would be different if there was somebody on board, that‘s signal inadvertently sends the message to iran that you get away with sending down drones. so why don‘t you get? so that is the problem, you need to create credible deterrence at the same time is not inadvertently escalate into war. so if he decides to do missile strikes there is no saying iran would not escalate back. the lesson people often draw is that the first gulf warfor example often draw is that the first gulf war for example with iraq and kuwait, that came out of miscalculations. something similar could happen here where iran misinterprets a tweet and all of a sudden tensions get out of control. cani

sudden tensions get out of control. can ijust sudden tensions get out of control. can i just see what you think about the actual facts on the ground in relation to the drone, or the facts in the water? we are not really clear or there are conflicting accounts, the americans were saying it was international airspace, the iranians say it was there airspace. are we ever going to get the of it? this is why in international crises the most important things you can have a credibility and analyse to back you up. donald trump the last two and half years has won a masterclass on how to destroy those things, by telling lies repeatedly in the wake white house, and by bashing allies. this is a moment where you want to call in the white house plasma credibility and say iran‘s word versus hours... previously everybody would have trusted the white house. this time

around, there are people within the us, within the allies saying, show us, within the allies saying, show us the proof. this is where some of the costs of the behaviour of the previous actions in the trump administration have been brought to bear. i do hope we get to the bottom of it, i hope there will be releases of it, i hope there will be releases of photos and documentation from the us foreign policy establishment showing clearly that iran is wrong. if that is the case then the provocation will need to be met with some sort of response because otherwise there will be a culture of impunity where you can shoot down a drone over international airspace and it is not acceptable. thank you for joining and it is not acceptable. thank you forjoining us. you are watching afternoon life. these are the headlines. foreign office minister mark field is suspended after he was filmed pushing a climate change demonstrator at a dinner in the city of london. president trump says the us military was ‘cocked and loaded to retaliate‘ against iran, but he changed his mind ten minutes before planned strikes. jeremy hunt promises he‘ll give borisjohnson the ‘fight of his life‘ in the conservative

leadership contest. and in the cricket world cup, england are chasing 233. jonny ba i rstow england are chasing 233. jonny bairstow and vince went early. it is currently a1 a2. the quarterfinals at queens, lost the first set. andy murray is due in court later. lewis hamilton was fastest in first practice for the french grand prix. second practice is ongoing. his team—mate is quickest so far. more to come on all those stories at around half past. 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. ben wright reports. did you encourage tactical voting, mrjohnson? borisjohnson‘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 borisjohnson 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 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. a conservative mp who made false expenses claims has lost his seat after more than ten percent 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 fake expenses invoices to decorate his office. thank you all. i have 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. 19% signed the ballot. yes, i signed yes, isigned it. i 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.

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. whilst the remoteness and the beauty of shetland brings in the tourism money, the fishing industry is the main economy. more fish are landed in shetland than anywhere in the england, wales and northern ireland combined. but temperatures are starting to rise in the season that has been having an impact notjust on many life but on bird life as well, as i have been 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 a0 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 casualty so far in shetland is, but should the temperatures rise in the seas further, could we have a knock—on impact on the fishing industry as well? time for a look at the weather. temperatures are rising. much of june has been pretty disappointing, temperature is below average and quite a lot of rain. but things are about to change, today is the summer solstice and temperatures are rising. that is down to high pressure setting towards the north—east. low pressure down to the south—west. that combination draws in the warm air. very high temperatures around france and germany, and that air comes into the

south east next week. and 31 is quite high but it comes with rain? yes, temperatures on the rise so we could see 31 but also some rainfall. we also have humidity. that will fuel heavy rain, thunderstorms as well. we could see further flooding problems as well through next week. for now, that high pressure is bringing us fairly sign unsettled weather. blue skies, a bit of fluffy cloud. high pressure driving our weather over the next 2a to a8 hours. bidding on from the south. this afternoon and into this evening, most of us are set fair. sunny spells, fair cloud, just a few showers for northern ireland in the north—west of scotland. temperatures in the mid to high teens in the north. further south, 20 or 21

degrees. this evening largely try u nsettled, degrees. this evening largely try unsettled, overnights and patchy cloud but under clear skies in the countryside temperatures down to single figures. quite a fresh start to saturday morning. the weekend looks fine and dry, long spells of sunshine, and the temperatures rising. a fine day on saturday, less breezy than recently. lighter winds, sunny spells, a bit more cloud across east anglia and south—east england, and a few showers for the north—east of scotland and north—western northern ireland. temperatures widely 20 to 22 across england and wales, the high teens for scotland and northern ireland. then lower pressure starts to move on from the south—west, that could be the start of the trouble. much of sunday dry with sunshine and feeling warm and humid, but rain late on sunday arriving across the south—west of england up towards northern ireland as well. quite hot

and humid, 2a degrees for london. moving through sunday night into monday, low—pressure pussies across all the uk, heavy rain towards the south—west will move across most areas. overnight heavy rain across northern england and wales. sundry downpours, hail, and gusty winds as well. some thunderstorms developing. 27 at the warmest. temperatures rising next week bringing the risk of thunderstorms, potential for flooding, and some uncomfortable nights. the detail is uncertain so keep tuned to the forecasts and all the weather warnings are on the bbc weather website.

this is bbc news. our latest headlines: foreign office minister mark field is suspended after he was filmed the parents of muslim convert, jack alerts, are found guilty of funding terrorism. president trump says that the us military was cocked

and loaded to retaliate against iran but he changed his mind ten minutes before the planned strike. foreign office minister mark field is suspended after he was filmed pushing a climate change demonstrator at a dinner in the city of london. she gives her first reaction to the bbc. jeremy hunt promises he‘ll give borisjohnson the "fight of his life" in the conservative leadership contest. and a century on, remembering the german sailors who died when they sank their own feet off the coast of scotland. all these board now. john, how are england getting on? it is a busy day with plenty going on. we begin in leeds, where england are chasing for victory in their group match against sri lanka to stopjonny bairstow giving chiefly early on. sri lanka

are finishing on a 232—9, but it was burst and vince who had early on in their run chase. england 50— to the 1ath over. it was great seeing andy moray back on court yesterday, he is back on court later? we should see him back at queens after his return yesterday. he is playing in the doubles quarterfinal, he and his partner lopez beat the top seeds. they will face the winners of dan evans and british partner‘s match a little bit later on. we havejust seen a little bit later on. we havejust seen a bit of an upset though. top seed lost to canadian,. he is

currently at the youngest player in the atp top 100. he had big win against nick kerry got us just yesterday. he has a busy day to come because he might face andy moray in attlee w. it has been on the day of mercedes dominance in formula 1 with lewis hamilton going quickest in first practice for the french grand prix. his team—mate hasjust first practice for the french grand prix. his team—mate has just set the fastest time in a second practice, hamilton wasjust fastest time in a second practice, hamilton was just behind with the second quickest time. yellow cards will not be handed to goalkeepers who are of the line when parities are taken out of the women‘s world cup, it has caused controversy so far, with penalties being retaken with go creeper encouragement. scotla nd with go creeper encouragement. scotland fell foul of the rule when lee alexander saved a penalty but var showed she was off her line when the ball was struck as we see in the replay. i did you the scots home.

but england midfielder, karen carney, believes the technology is working. anorak i don‘t think people appreciate how difficult it is, it looks so easy a 12 yards out. when you‘re under pressure, your fatigue, millions of people watching.|j you‘re under pressure, your fatigue, millions of people watching. i don't think people appreciate the pressure that one person is under so i don‘t think there ever an easy time to ta ke think there ever an easy time to take a penalty, even with what is going on at the moment. it is always difficult and it takes a big personality big character that is about i want to take one. the scottish premiership fixtures for next season had been released as acetic will begin their bid for a record—breaking ninth title against saintjohnstone on the 3rd of august, rangers visit kilmarnock the following day. all the features on the bbc sport website. the former liverpool and chelsea striker, fernando torres, has announced his

retirement from football. he made his name at madrid, then at liverpool, then it big—money move to chelsea. he returned to atletico madrid before finishing his playing career in japan. the madrid before finishing his playing career injapan. the former madrid before finishing his playing career in japan. the former chelsea goalkeeper, petr cech, is back at the cloud as a technical and performance advisor. he spent 11 yea rs performance advisor. he spent 11 years there as a player, winning 13 trophies, including the premier league a times and a champions league a times and a champions league title as well before joining arsenal a years ago and retiring from playing at the end of last season. chelsea are without a manager, the former player, frank lampard, the manager, the former player, frank lampa rd, the favourite manager, the former player, frank lampard, the favourite to take over. england‘s melt rate isjust lampard, the favourite to take over. england‘s melt rate is just about to start her second round of the women‘s pga championship, the third major of the season. she is one short of the lead after the first round. only 16 of the 15a going on

the park today, going to show how tough the courses. australia‘s hannah green is leading at the moment. that is the spot for now. police has suspended work with the uk is biggest provider of forensic services after a cyber attack. the company carries out toxicology, computerforensics, company carries out toxicology, computer forensics, and dna analysis. it is believed that the delay any forensic testing could have an impact on court cases. joining me now is home affairs correspondent, danny shaw. it is an option ordinary story, basically, they cannot get into their own systems ? they cannot get into their own systems? yes, there has been an cyber attack on the company. what that essentially means is that people using their computers cannot access the data, they cannot access the personal files, they

access the data, they cannot access the personalfiles, they are access the data, they cannot access the personal files, they are locked out. a ransom is demanded, in the meantime, it is causing huge problems and security concerns about the safety of that information. i don‘t think there is any suggestion that any information has been stolen but because of the security implications, the police have had to ta ke implications, the police have had to take a sort of belt and braces approach, they have suspended all submission of forensic samples to the company. this isn‘t a small company doing a bit of a niche word, this is a main provider of forensic science, they have over 50% of the market in the uk for samples of dna testing, samples from footwear, from blood, toxicology test, ballistics, firearms, all that range of services as well as computers and smartphones. a key provider. do the police have someone else to send this word? that is the problem. the market does not have huge capacity,

those problems have already been documented in reports. it is not the case of simply switching to an alternative provider, that isn‘t the capacity in the system to do that. what is happening right now is that the national police chiefs council have got an emergency group coordinating the supply of all these forensics emissions, making sure the most serious cases, murder cases and so most serious cases, murder cases and so on, get to those problems have already been documented in reports. it is not the case of simply switching to an alternative provider, that isn‘t the capacity in the system to do that. what is happening right now is that the national police chiefs council have gotan national police chiefs council have got an emergency group coordinating the supply of all these forensics emissions, making sure the most serious cases, murder cases and so on, get close forensic submissions and sampling done immediately. in the meantime, there will be a tie and inevitable backlog, that will have a knock—on effect of court cases coming to town. that in itself is amazing. it‘s also amazing when you think about it from the 3rd of june until now, that will be a full 3 weeks by monday. they deal with crime but they are the victims of a very significant crime which has made it impossible for them to operate. there are already delays and backlogs in the system,

particularly getting back digital forensics work so this willjust exacerbate that. this isn‘t an isolated event, this is the third time in the past couple of years that there has been a major forensics problem. we have already got a criminal enquiry going into another company about alleged irregularities there. another company collapse sometime ago i had this really plays into the concerns that you have got a market which is involving a number of private companies which are not the most solid, and also prone to the sorts of attacks. mist a field pushed janet barker as she approached the stage before marching her out of the room. miss barker spoke to the bbc.

so we all had different roles and the aim was to get our message across that we are in this climate emergency, we can‘t continue, as we are going with business as usual, investing in fossil fuels. so one group of us was to the left—hand side of the room but they were intending to get to the plinth and deliver our own message to stop digging up fossil fuels. my role was then to issue out the speech itself to the guests and we were to just stand there, dignified, listening to the speech, peaceful and then after the speech was read, the idea was we were just going to leave. did you expect resistance? yes. but not to the extent to which i received it. i expected to maybe engage in a conversation or two with people, perhaps people blocking my way, but certainly not to be grabbed round the neck and grappled out of the room.

the minister has just been suspended. what do you think about that? i think it isjust the result of his actions. what do you think about his actions? i think they were pretty much over the top. we were peaceful, i was walking, i was simply walking past his chair or trying to walk past his chair. yes, so they were really over—the—top. his supporters have said that we are in a time of heightened security, mps have been attacked in the past and murdered, and that it would have been impossible for him to tell very quickly that your intent was peaceful. what you think about that? well, the only thing that i was armed with was peer reviewed science stating the state we are in and just getting that message across that no more fossil fuels, green future. i had nothing on me, i was wearing a red dress, a sash, i had a little handbag with leaflets. so... he panicked.

that‘s all. he certainly manhandled me in a way in 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 our future, to try and curb these co2 emissions. it‘s not because i‘ve got beef with this gentleman, that‘s not what it‘s about. it‘s about massive change that we need now, not some bit of argy—bargy. the government has failed the novel england due to lack of investment. that is the opinion of andy birdman. for chancellor, george osborne, a that pledge in 2050. a new analysis

suggests that the country is not benefiting. breakfast time at leeds, this primary school isn‘t one of the most deprived areas of europe. funding for the breakfast cloud is from the government, the children love it. but the parents need it. this girl gives them the leftovers at home tie. any milk, fruit and veg left over, we go to the school gates and distributed amongst our families. we have noticed an increase in demand in the past year. 5 years ago, george osborne at launch his project to try and rebalance the north south divide. we need the northern powerhouse too. but research giving it to the bbc suggest there is a long way to go. since 201a, there are so do thousands more children living in a poor household. transport for spending an opening offer is less than half than what it is the

capital. one success has been devolution, nearly half of the north now has an elected mayor who decides how money is spent in the area of his up but arouse let more power and investment is needed. westminster has felt the north of england, that is over decades under the governments of all colours. no north and south divide is real and it is a matter of serious economic injustice. no north and south divide isa injustice. no north and south divide is a problem that has been with us for decades. my proposal is to take power money and influence away from —— to power money and influence away from — — to return power money and influence away from —— to return to the people of the north. these ladies run and organising who takes one school uniforms and gives them to families who cannot afford new ones. the phrase northern powerhouse is a new one for them. i've never actually heard of the northern powerhouse. it sounds like it‘s something i should

be building up the north but the north has not been built up, at the moment, we are really poverty stricken. i personally haven't heard of it, i find it very strange as it is meant to be this big thing to help people and it's not heard of, it's nonexistent to us. they are does have a stronger voice than it did but it wants more than that. some people have not run very well at all over the past 5 years. but now any smooth to move into phase which benefits these people rather than one thatjust talks about increase productivity and faster trains. in the next few weeks, we will have a new prime minister, the north wants a commitment from hoover gets thatjob north wants a commitment from hoover gets that job that they want to move into phase which benefits these people rather than one thatjust talks about increase productivity and faster trains. in the next few weeks, we will have a new prime minister, the north wants a commitment from hoover gets that job that they would be forgotten. 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 a0% 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.

jamie is here in a moment he will be telling us what‘s hot and what‘s not in the business news. first a look at the headlines on afternoon live: the parents of jack leets are found guilty of funding terrorism. president thomas the us military we re president thomas the us military were cocked and loaded to retaliate against iran last night but he changed his mind 10 minutes before the planned strikes. foreign office minister, mark field, suspended after he was filmed pushing a climate change protesters at a dinner ina climate change protesters at a dinner in a of london. here‘s your business headlines on afternoon live: about 150,000 businesses still do not have the paperwork they need to keep exporting to the eu in the event of a no—deal brexit, mark carney has said. the bank of england governor added that many had built up contingency stocks, but these would only last for "the short term".

the former chief executive of barclays, john varley, has been acquitted of charges of conspiracy to commit fraud. it was the only attempt to prosecute a chief executive of a major bank following the financial crisis. however, the other three defendants, rogerjenkins, tom kalaris and richard boath, will now face a retrial. all three deny any wrongdoing. apple hasjoined a growing chorus of firms urging the trump administration to drop a plan to put more us tariffs on chinese goods. the us has said it may impose duties on £236.1 billion worth of chinese products if the two sides can‘t reach a trade deal. clea n clean energy overtaking fossil fuels? i'm going to show you a graph. that it is. that is the

proportions of our energy generation we are depended on. gas stays roughly at the same, it actually stinks a little and then gets back to where it was. coal is the most dramatic one, look at how coal has virtually disappeared. biomass, gradually growing. nuclear, still co nsta nt, gradually growing. nuclear, still constant, has grown, hasn‘t struck. biomass has grown about 5%, its input coming from the conference has grown. renewables is the most dramatic increase. the increase is now what happens next, we do we go from here? what is the graph going to be like in the next 10 years. where do we go from here, do you think? will it be continuing growth in renewables or nuclear, or what is going to happen to gas as well?”

believe that you're going to see a further growth in renewables, hopefully more solar and wind power. we will still need some underlying baseline generating for the days when it's not sunny and windy but i think you will see a change in the way we use energy and the way energy is an ability by the end cold by using new features, incorporating energy storage. but the interesting thing not really taking into account with these graphs and measurements, is how much our demand for elytra city is going to increase. we will all be driving electric cars they say it the next 10 years, we will let electricity come from? the electricity has to be generated, some can come from renewables, some from conventional power sources. they use energy will actually change it up at the moment, our vehicles

are petrol —based. we lose almost half of the energy from those just in generating heat. with let it up at the moment, ourvehicles in generating heat. with let it up at the moment, our vehicles are petrol —based. we lose almost half of the energy from those just in generating heat. with electric vehicles, vehicles around, we are actually driving energy storage systems so we cannot use these as mobile battery packs to help to pillage energy throughout the network. —— pillage energy throughout the network. — — so pillage energy throughout the network. —— so we can pillage energy throughout the network. “ so we can use pillage energy throughout the network. —— so we can use these as. the way we distribute energy is going to have to change i want to know the kind of investment, the nature of this change, the size of it, weather we can actually do it because we‘re going to work much more localised aren‘t we? because we‘re going to work much more localised aren't we? that's right. it's a huge revelation, not just for electrical machines but for wind generators. also for power conversion circuits to manipulate

the electricity, also the communication systems and the management and aggregation of all these different services. italy is a very exciting time for anyone who is working in this sector. thank you for joining working in this sector. thank you forjoining us. an electrifying story, i thought. i think it is. you set out with a straight face, you really wa nted set out with a straight face, you really wanted to laugh, didn‘t you? let‘s move the markets. oil price moving up, gold price up as well. the pound is up against the dollar, closing in one .27, that is more to do with the weakness of the dollar. i wanted to explain my hesitation. it's i wanted to explain my hesitation. it‘s because i wanted to agitate more questions about it but we don‘t have time. so i wasjust more questions about it but we don‘t have time. so i was just holding myself back. we will be doing a lot

more stories on this in the coming future. 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 single greatest loss of warships in history. today a service was held to remember the nine german soldiers who died on that chaotic day. 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, 7a 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. some breaking news coming in from the old bailey. it relates to the pa rents of the old bailey. it relates to the parents of a muslim convert commonly known as g harry jack, his parents of a muslim convert commonly known as g harryjack, his real name

is jack letts. his parents have been found guilty of funding terrorism. they have been handed suspended sentences for 12 months, they are an organic farmer and an oxfam fundraising officerfrom organic farmer and an oxfam fundraising officer from oxford organic farmer and an oxfam fundraising officerfrom oxford and they refuse to believe that their 18—year—old son had become a dangerous extremist when they allowed him to travel. more on that in the next half hour. right now, here is set out with the weather. good afternoon. after what has been a relatively unsettled and cooljune so far, we are seeing the summer solstice today, and the weather is getting a little bit more summery, certainly, over the next few days. this is the view today in cornwall, cumulus cloud around, we have had clear blue skies. we have got this big area of high—pressure moving in from the south, keeping the weather settled, at least for the next couple of days. and to this evening and overnight, we keep the largely dry

and clear conditions, one or two showers across the far north of scotland at times. tonight, we will see a little bit of patchy cloud developing here out there, particularly for parts of east anglia and also for eastern england as well. but under the clear skies, for many of us, a relatively cool night ahead, with temperatures falling into single figures, certainly in the countryside. the weekend is shaping up to be a relatively fine and dry one. sunny spells and temperatures on the up through the weekend too. saturday morning start of an a dry and bright note, we will see sunny spells across much of the uk, perhaps a bit more cloud around across parts of eastern england and also for the north—west of scotland. some isolated showers for scotland and northern ireland too, but most places dry, long spells of sunshine. temperatures somewhere between 16—22dc. into the second half of the weekend, high pressure not far away, as it drifts to the north—east, lower pressure starts to move in from the souoth—west. that could bring a few problems from sunday afternoon onwards. much of sunday looks fine and dry again, with some sunshine but watch out for heavy rain later in the day, initially to the south—west of england and wales.

sunday, temperature—wise, it will feel warm and muggy, quite humid weather moving in, 2a celsius likely toward the south—east. low pressure then pushes its way further eastwards across the uk, moving through sunday night and into monday as well. during sunday night, expect to see widespread heavy rainfall. following behind them main band of rain, some heavy thunderystorms as well. thunderstorms as well. we still have that heavy rain on monday, the threat of flooding problems as well as gusty winds and hail as these thunderstorms move northwards in between heavy showers, temperatures are up to around 27 celsius in the south—east on monday. the temperatures will continue to rise throughout next week. but also the risk of some heavy thunderstorms, muggy nights, too. but the details remain uncertain. bye— bye.

hello, you‘re watching afternoon live. today at apm: a15 a 15 month suspended jail sentences for the parents of a muslim convert known asjihadijack, for the parents of a muslim convert known asjihadi jack, as both are found guilty of funding terrorism after sending money to their son in syria. president trump says the us military was ‘cocked and loaded to retaliate‘ against iran last night, but he changed his mind ten minutes before planned strikes. foreign office minister mark field is suspended after he was filmed pushing a climate change demonstrator at a dinner in the city of london. she gives her first reaction to the bbc. he certainly manhandled me in a way that was disagreeable.

i‘m not going to prosecute, i don‘t want it to go down that route. ijust don‘t want it to end up in a mudslinging match. the reason we were there was for our planet, for our future. coming up on afternoon live all the sport: england are making hard work of it as they chased 233 for victory against sri lanka in their latest world cup cricket match. and we have the weather: we have some hot and humid weather in the forecast for the next few days, it should stay largely dry to the weekend but we are set to see some heavy showers and thunderstorms into next week. i‘ll bring you more details on about 25 minutes. also coming up: five years since the launch of the northern powerhouse, accusations that westminster has failed the north of england. that‘s later this

hour. hello. in the last hour, the parents ofa hello. in the last hour, the parents of a muslim convert dumped jihadi jack have been found guilty of funding terrorism. john letts and sally lane sent their son money while he was in syria, despite being warned he had joined the so called islamic state and become a dangerous extremist. they have both been sentenced to 15 months injail suspended they have both been sentenced to 15 months in jail suspended for 12 months. our reporter chi chi izundu is at the old bailey. jack letts with his parents, picture perfect childhood. he converted to islam at the age of 16. two years later he travelled to kuwait saying he had gone to study arabic. months later he was in syria. sally lane

said she was horrified when he called her in 201a to tell her where he was. she said she screamed at him, how could he be so stupid? the jury him, how could he be so stupid? the jury had been told some of his friends from his mosque in oxford had warned her and john lets of their concerns about the extremist views he‘d been watching online and the people he‘d been associating with in the uk. the court was shown this picture of jack. with in the uk. the court was shown this picture ofjack. the prosecution said one fingered salute was associated with islamic state. the pair argued was associated with islamic state. the pairargued in was associated with islamic state. the pair argued in court that they do not believe that sam was actively fighting in syria, and in a police interviewjohn letts tried to explain. i've got to get him out somehow and how my going to do that, he is in danger and ifeel i have to do something but in the other hand i don‘t want to get put away and i don‘t want to get put away and i don‘t want to get put away and i don‘t want sally to be put away. i have another son to worry about, so what am i supposed to do? the family keptin

what am i supposed to do? the family kept in contact. the messages which could be retrieved were read out in court. his mother told thejurors could be retrieved were read out in court. his mother told the jurors of his her disgust at some of his comments. like this one. it was posted on the page and a friend who had been training with the british army. nearly a year after being in syria jack began asking for money, first to help out a per friend with a large family and then he said it was to get out of syria. did you say if it was to get out she would send? despite warnings from police, miss lane was captured on cctv sending money. it there individuals to decide when it applies to them when it does not. one of the really strong messages is, despite whatever you think you are doing, ultimately you think you are doing, ultimately you are breaking the law and that is not ok. ajury at the old bailey

agreed. they found sally lane and john letts guilty of sending money to their son knowing or having reasonable grounds to suspect the funds would be used for terrorism. tell us more about what has happened there this afternoon. sally lane and john letts gave no emotion when thejury sally lane and john letts gave no emotion when the jury came to the conclusion that they were guilty of one count of funding terrorism or to be exact of sending money for their son who was in syria with reasonable knowledge or reasonable suspicion to think that the money they had sent would be used for terrorism. the judge in their sentencing said he understood the procurement they were in because they were parents and trying to do something for a son they loved very much, but in this context they did lose sight of reality. as i said in my report, sally lane in conjunction and full

responsibility with her husband john did send £233 to a friend as indicated by their son, jack, in lebanon. he said the money would go toa lebanon. he said the money would go to a friend who was poor and had a lot of kids are needed help. that is what he said the money was sent for. but the jury agreed they had reasonable knowledge to believe that cash would be used in funding terrorism, to specifically isis in syria. thejudge also terrorism, to specifically isis in syria. the judge also said they had indication to know their son was indicated in terrorism because the police had warned them earlier in the leah not to send the money. plus it messages back and forth with jack he had sent to make facebook m essa g es he had sent to make facebook messages indicating what he wanted to do to an old school friend who was part of the british army on the 30th ofjuly saying he wanted to perform a martyrdom operation in this scene. he also indicated he wa nted this scene. he also indicated he wanted to cut peoples heads off and put bullets in their heads. today

sally lane and john letts were both sentenced to 15 months, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to pay £1a0 in a fine. president donald trump has confirmed media reports that he halted us air strikes against iran last night, ten minutes before they were due to take place. attacks on three sites were planned in response to the shooting down of a us unmanned drone on thursday, but mr trump said he called them off when told about the likely number of casualties. the iranians have warned the united states against aggression, saying provocative, unthought out acts would receive a reciprocal response with unpredictable consequences. on twitter mr trump appeared to confuse the date when the drone was shot down, saying it happened on monday. he said they were ‘cocked & loaded‘ to retaliate on three different sites, but mr trump changed his mind when a general told him 150 people would die in the attack.

mister trump said his action would not have been proportionate to the shooting down of an unmanned drone. he said, i am in no hurry, our military is rebuilt, new, and ready to go, by far the best in the world. sanctions are biting and more added last night. iran can never have you nuclear weapons, not against the usa and not against the world. 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 notjust 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 the president says he is in no hurry, saying this morning he had been willing to retaliate but cancelled the strike when he learned

hundred and 50 people might die. the un condemned what it called these 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. earlier i spy to pray in class and asked him about this escalating tension. iran does not want a war and america does not want a war, with a few exceptions. that does not

mean they will not be a war. this calculation is often the way you end ofan calculation is often the way you end of an conflict in the sort of back—and—forth escalation, and both sides are trying to find a safe down from what has become a dangerous situation. you say they want a safe come down, do you think that is the message trump is sending? i sometimes hear it described as coercive diplomacy. what i would say is that the actual strategic interests do not point to war, that does not mean they will not be a war because of the trump putt base politically in the domestic arena and for some of his foreign sabre rattling, he wants to project an image of strength, he also wants to have deterrence here where he says you cannot simply shoot down $130 million drone without consequences. tha nkfully million drone without consequences. thankfully no one was on the drone but it is still a significant provocation. so the question is how you deter that action without ending up you deter that action without ending up in an unprovoked... undesirable war with iran which would be very dangerous for the us and very risky for trump. that is very difficult

question to answer. what happened overnight suggests there is not a clear plan in place, there was not a clear plan in place, there was not a clear clay chain of command followed, there was a sort of slapdash attempt to respond in some way and then a last minute pulling back from that potential start of a war, so that does not mean we are out of the woods just because trump said last night he did not want to attack, he still could attack that decide he does tomorrow he does or today he does. and that is why we need to ratchet tensions down and understand a war is bad for everybody. and i suppose one of the conclusions the iranians might be drawing at this point is trump does not always carry through on his threats. this is a very difficult pa rt threats. this is a very difficult part of it. he set a red line with iran which they seem to have broken. barack obama iran which they seem to have broken. ba rack obama famously iran which they seem to have broken. barack obama famously set that red line with syria and did not do anything when they broke it. and if you don‘t enforce these lines you create a culture of impunity, for example if you shoot down an unmanned drone, and trump yesterday said it would be different if

somebody was on board, that signal inadvertently sends a message to iran that you can get away with shooting down drones. downing street has suspended the foreign office minister, mark field, after he grabbed a female greenpeace activist by the neck at a black tie dinner in the city last night. mr field said he acted instinctively when janet barker approached the stage during a speech by the chancellor philip hammond, and has since apologised. the prime minister described what happened as ‘very concerning‘ and labour has called his actions ‘horrific‘. ms barker told the bbc mr field should "reflect on what he did" and suggested he "go to anger management classes". 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 global climate emergency. as one of the activist, janet barker, moved further

into the hall, conservative mp and minister 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. yeah, so they were really over the top. i would quite like him to go on an anger management perhaps. and i hope he doesn‘t do it again. a0 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 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, told me the prime minister has acted quickly. she said the footage was very concerning and she did act very swiftly indeed. and in fact in quite an unusual way because she said there ought to be an investigation by the cabinet office, indeed mark field had referred himself to the cabinet office for investigation following the incident. but in most cases if you think back to the damian green allegations, the allegations against gavin williamson, they continued in office until reports were drawn up and then either resigned or were sacked. in mark field‘s case, the prime minister has suspended him pending the investigation so he is no longer a foreign office minister.

it‘s not clear whether he will also be suspended as a conservative mp as well because the chairman of the conservative party said it was very difficult to defend the footage he saw. i think what helps mark field is two things — first, there are other colleagues in the conservative party who have been defending him and backing his own defence that he acted impulsively and, secondly, that the protest to herself says she does not want to press charges. nonetheless, she said she was manhandled and she also said she experienced serious anger from mark field and he should take an anger management course. and labour obviously have been vocal as well. but are they equally vocal about the question of security arrangements, because obviously this is one thing that has come out especially since the interview with janet barker herself, it is clear the security arrangements were fairly lax in order to allow so many of them to get into the hall? that is right.

she seemed to make it quite clear. some people were stopped but it is clear it was easy for those protesters to enter. you had a chancellor of the exchequer speaking and some other dignitaries from the city of london. so clearly there are security issues that have to be raised about mansion house and they are being raised. labour‘s focus remains very much of mark field himself. louise haigh was saying she does believe an assault took place, she does not want to let the matter rest and she believes the police should investigate irrespective of whether the protester has made a complaint. she also raises the question of why someone can be suspended as a minister but not necessarily lose the whip as an mp. surely if the conservatives were serious, she is saying, he should also be suspended from the party. thank you. 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. ben wright reports. did you encourage tactical voting, mrjohnson? borisjohnson‘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 borisjohnson 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 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. let‘s ta ke let‘s take a look at hong kong. you will remember over the past two weeks we‘ve seen extraordinary scenes on the streets of hong kong with massive demonstrations against the planned extradition legislation which allow some citizens to be extradited to mainland china and those protesters complaining that is not an effective judicial system. anyway, the government was forced to back down or at least to suspend that legislation, but still the

protesters are unhappy. you can see them there tonight, obviously this is very much in the middle of the night in hong kong, but still in large numbers, outside police headquarters. in that way that protests have of creating ripples in new protests, what they are now demanding is the resignation of the chief executive of hong kong. they are also demanding the release of demonstrators arrested during the protests of last week. so there was at the time last wednesday, i don‘t know if you remember, the protests on that day, the police used rubber bullets and tear gas and pepper spray, and they called the demonstration a riot or accuse some of those taking part of rioting, which carries a ten year prison sentence in hong kong. a lot of hong kong citizens were very angered by that and that meant the match on sunday became even bigger, with people coming out to protest against the policing of the previous

protest. there you see a scene outside police headquarters in hong kong, where demonstrators are chanting, release the righteous, shame on police thugs. it is worth through remembering that hong kong‘s police traditionally have a good reputation with the public in hong kong, so these protests are putting a lot of strain on relations between the authorities and some quarters anyway, some parts of hong kong‘s citizen ri. we will keep an eye on that this evening in case there are any developments. for now, let‘s move on. police have suspended work with the uk‘s biggest private provider of forensic services after a cyber attack, the bbc has learned. eurofins forensic services carries out dna testing, toxicology analysis and computer forensics work. it‘s understood the suspension is leading to delays in forensic testing and could have an impact on court cases.

earlier i spy spoke to our home affairs correspondent. if there's been a ra nsomwa re affairs correspondent. if there's been a ransomware attack on eurofins. that was reported onjune the 3rd. a serious attack and what that means is essentially people using their computers can‘t access the data, they cannot access the personal files the data, they cannot access the personalfiles in the data, they cannot access the personal files in the systems, they are locked out, adam ranson is demanded, but in the meantime is causing hughes problems in chaos and security concerns about the safety of that information. i don‘t think there‘s any suggestion that any information has been stolen, but clearly because of the implications the police have had to take a sort of belt and braces approach, they have suspended all submissions of forensic science samples to eurofins from june the 3rd. this is not some small company doing a bit of niche work, this is a main provider of forensic science. they have over 50% of the market in the uk. dna testing, samples from footwear,

blood, toxicology tests, ballistics, firearms, all that kind of services as well as computers and smartphones. so do the police have somewhere else to send that work? that‘s the problem. the forensic science market does not have huge capacity. there is proper problems have already been well documented, so have already been well documented, so it is notjust a case of switching to an alternative provider and saying, you take up the slack. there is not the capacity in the system to do that. so at the moment the national police chiefs council is... sorry, we are going to the old bailey to hear the parents of jack letts. we have been convicted of sending money to our son where there we re sending money to our son where there were reasonable grounds to suspect the money might have been used for terrorist purposes. no one during our trial even suggested that the £223 that we actually managed to centre jack was in fact used for terrorism. the fact the jury acquitted us of some of the allegations makes it clear that the

jury allegations makes it clear that the jury accepted we believed our son‘s life was in imminent danger. we believed we have been let down badly by the police and the government. we try to do the right thing. we fully cooperated with the police and asked them repeatedly for help. they promised they would help us but instead of helping us they use the information we provided to prosecute us. information we provided to prosecute us. jack is still a british citizen. we have pleaded with the government to help us bring him to safety even if that meant he might be prosecuted in the uk. if there is evidence that he has committed a crime, then he should be tried. having escaped from isis, he is now in limbo. the government claims it can do nothing because it is too dangerous for officials to travel to syria to help jack, althoughjournalists officials to travel to syria to help jack, although journalists have officials to travel to syria to help jack, althoughjournalists have been able to travel there and we believe there are numerous members of the uk government agencies on the ground in the region. others including children are in the same situation as jack. this means after more than

two years as jack. this means after more than two yea rs in as jack. this means after more than two years injailjack as jack. this means after more than two years in jailjack still faces indefinite detention without being charged or tried for any crime, effectively there is no government policy for british citizens including children trapped in syria. the heavy price we pay today as an indicator of the love we have for our children. we are committed to help jack return home. we will continue our campaign to help those that the government has turned its back on. thank you. so, a spokesperson for the parents of jack letts. we saw it standing behind him john letts and sally lane, the pa rents of john letts and sally lane, the parents of jack letts. it is a heartbreaking story, but they have been found guilty and been sentenced on that charge of funding terrorism. defending themselves, really, there by saying they had tried to do the right thing and that they had not had help from government or police and they felt let down. and

complaining, really, an underlying issue, saying their sonjack has beenin issue, saying their sonjack has been injail in the region for two yea rs been injail in the region for two years already and is now effectively in indefinite detention, that there is no policy for citizens trapped in syria. more analysis, i think, coming in the next few minutes on that case which has been breaking this afternoon, the conviction of jack letts‘ parents, their sentence for 15 months, suspended, and their response that they feel let down by the authorities here and they feel british citizens trapped in syria, there is no policy to bring them home. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. temperatures on the rise of the next few days and some summer sunshine in the forecast over the weekend. the temperatures will be warming up and have a place as it will remain dry

with some sunshine. through this afternoon and this evening it is clear and dry, some patchy cloud over night and a few showers in the far north—west of scotland. fairly cool in the countryside, the temperatures in single figures. high pressure in charge for saturday. on sunday that drifts north—east, allowing low pressure to bring rain and from the south—west. before that, saturday is a decent day. try across the board, the chance a few light showers for the north of scotland. temperatures around 17 to 22. into the second half of the way weekend, heavy rain on sunday, before that some sunshine, hot and humid with top temperatures up to 2a 02:29:45,318 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 degrees. goodbye.