this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines at 1pm: there's continued focus on borisjohnson's private life, after he failed to answer questions about why police were called to his house following reports of a row. i think it's always just easier to give an explanation, but, ithink... and move on? again, and the key thing is then how you get onto the issues. what we can't have is it being a distraction. reports say the us launched a cyber attack on iranian weapons systems systems on thursday, as president trump pulled out of air strikes on the country. neither iran nor any other hostile actor should mistake us prudence and discretion for weakness.

five people have been arrested and questioned over alleged accounting fraud at the bakery chain, patisserie valerie. england's lionesses prepare to take on cameroon in the quarter finals of the women's world cup. and, coming up at 1:30pm, and, coming up at1:30pm, we and, coming up at 1:30pm, we are on the yorkshire post checking out the whitby golf festival. —— yorkshire coast. good afternoon. there's continued focus on borisjohnson‘s private life this lunchtime, after he failed to answer questions at a conservative leadership debate about why police were called to his house following reports of a row. his supporters, including

the cabinet minister liz truss, say he should be judged on his policies not his personal life. but detractors, like international trade secretary liam fox, who's backing jeremy hunt, said today mrjohnson should have given an explanation of what happened. here's our political correspondent nick eardley. often in the headlines, this time for the wrong reasons. after police were called to the flat borisjohnson shares with his girlfriend, mrjohnson has been reluctant to explain. i don't think they want to hear about that kind of thing, er... applause. but this senior tory, who's backing mrjohnson‘s leadership rival, jeremy hunt, said an explanation would be sensible. it's always easier to just give an explanation, but i think the key thing is then how you get on the issues. what we can't have is it being a distraction from explanations about wider policy. mrjohnson‘s team say he has never answered questions about his private life and won't start now.

his supporters say we should move on. the police were called to an incident and what did they say? they said everybody was safe, everybody was well, there was no concerns that the officers had and there was no cause for any further action. given that's what the police said and it's clearly a private incident, i wasn't there, you weren't there, i think we should just leave it at that. but the front runner to be prime minister is no stranger to controversy. scotland's first minister suggested he was racist for comments he's made in the past, like comparing women wearing the muslim veil to letterboxes. boris johnson has made overtly acist comments, —— racist comments. people who are prepared to make comments like that can't suddenly throw their hands up in horror when people call them out for it and say that they appear to be racist as a result of it. the first thing we need to do — you know what it is — we need to get brexit done. at the heart of the leadership contest are questions about brexit. both sides made their case at a hustings in birmingham yesterday.

liam fox suggested some of borisjohnson‘s claims about what would happen if we leave without a deal are wrong. but mrjohnson‘s supporters say their man can deliver. we need a leader with a determination to follow through, go through to the 31st of october, leave, preferably with a deal but without a deal if necessary. he will be asked many more questions over the next few weeks, but for now, he's the man to beat. nick eardley, bbc news. reports in the us say america launched a cyber attack on iranian weapons systems on thursday, as president trump cancelled air strikes on the country. several sources, including the washington post, said the attack disabled computer systems controlling rocket and missile launchers. the action was in response to the shooting down of a us drone in the strait of hormuz last week. a senior british foreign minister

has arrived in tehran today, for talks amid growning tensions between iran and the west. jane frances—kelly reports. america appears to have used cyberspace rather than airpower to retaliate against iran's elite military forces. us media reports that the online operation was designed to cripple weapons systems like this, used by the islamic revolutionary guard to shoot down an american drone last thursday. the wreckage was later put on display by tehran. it came as president trump publicly declared he had pulled back from an air strike on iran because it would cause a loss of life. what it has to do with, very simply, is the fact is we are not going to have iran have a nuclear weapon, and when they agree to that, they are going to have a wealthy country, they are going to be so happy, and i'm going to be their best friend. i hope that happens. but tensions remain high. the downing of the drone comes after a series of attacks on tankers

travelling through the busy shipping lanes of the gulf, which washington has blamed on iranian forces. mr trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal last year and has announced new sanctions will begin on monday. a british foreign office minister meeting with diplomats in tehran today has called for a lessening of tensions. within days, iran is likely to start breaching some technical limits of the agreement. this puts pressure on european leaders, including germany's chancellor, who remains committed to it. translation: i say that the political solution should not just be a hope but it should be worked towards with the utmost seriousness, because i believe it should only be a political solution. mr trump is using both the stick and carrot. he is piling on the pressure while offering the hand of friendship. and so far, iran has shown little inclination to bow to his will.

let us hear more on those reports that cyber warfare was launched by washington against iranian weapons systems. emily taylor, a cybersecurity expert, has been saying this is a key part of how washington flexes its muscles against perceived aggressors. it sort of sits alongside the more traditional capabilities. what's interesting here is not so much that the us launched, allegedly launched, the cyber attack, but they have claimed credit for it. there are many incidents where it is thought that active cyber measures have been used, but states have kept quiet and that's one of the aspects of cyber that makes it so attractive to states, is that you can inflict potential damage without being identified. and without causing any casualties, i suppose, which is another attraction? well, it all depends on where you draw the line. last month, we saw in israel

allegedly in response to hamas cyber attacks, israel actually bombed hamas installation. that shows how quickly things can escalate, even if you think that this is a sort of fairly clean way of responding. states have to, they have various options and they have to seek a proportionate response to the attacks that the us have been worried about, and so cyber is part of that toolkit. we know there have been escalating tensions between the two countries in the last few days and weeks, what sort of damage do you think this might have done to iran? it's difficult to say at this time because the reports are so early. however, ithink, you know, the iran nuclear enrichment programme has been a source of concern in the west for many years.

ten years ago, there was an attack on nuclear installations allegedly by the us and israel in iran, and all of these, they can knock back capability by 18 months, in that previous case. however, states who launch cyber attacks have to also watch their own back because nobody‘s cyber defences are perfect, even the us. that helps to explain why the us has perhaps been so worried about 56 roll out and things like that, because they don't want the state to have access to their critical infrastructure and do, and have the same sort of tactics done unto them. do you think the united states are pretty good at this sort of cyber warfare? they are pretty good at it, but it is always easier to attack than to defend in cyberspace. also, cyber attacks are not like a bomb that blows up and does its damage. they are lines of code that can then

be copied and used in other circumstances so a different type of fallout in the cyber world, which is that your exploits end up in the hands of your enemies and used against you. this is not a risk—free type of approach. even if it means that you don't have to deploy troops on the ground, it can lead to an escalation and you can end up being harmed by your own weapons. this has been seen time seen time and time again. emily taylor, a cybersecurity expert at chatham house. the north korean leader has said he's received a personal letter from donald trump. kim jong—un said he would seriously contemplate the "excellent" and "interesting" content and he saluted the "extraordinary" courage of the american president, according to reports on state media. talks to stop north korea's nuclear programme remain stalled after the failure of the hanoi summit in february. the ethiopian prime minister's chief

of staff has been shot dead during an attempted coup. he was killed by an attempted coup. he was killed by a bodyguard at his home in the capital. three other officials were killed in two separate attacks. five people have been arrested as part of a fraud investigation following the colla pse a fraud investigation following the collapse of patisserie valerie. it folded in january. collapse of patisserie valerie. it folded injanuary. with the loss of 900 jobs after a £91; million black hole was discovered in the accounts. earlier, i spoke to our business correspondence. back in october last year, one arrest was already made and that was chris marsh, the former finance director of patisserie valerie. this is part of a serious fraud office probe into how the chain came to collapse as it did. today, they confirmed to me that on tuesday part of a joint operation with hertfordshire, leicestershire and the metropolitan police in london, five further people were

arrested and questioned, also in connection to this probe into the colla pse connection to this probe into the collapse of patisserie valerie. they didn't say who they were or what they have been arrested for. millions of residents of turkey's biggest city of istanbul are voting ina rerun biggest city of istanbul are voting in a rerun of the election to choose their mayor. the opposition candidate narrowly won the vote in march but the result was annulled after complaints from the ruling ak party. critics of president erdogan, a former mayor of istanbul, had accused him of putting pressure on tu rkey‘s accused him of putting pressure on turkey's election authorities. our correspondent is in istanbul. this is much more thanjust a local election. it is a pivotal test by president erdogan, that key figure on the world stage from everything from european security to syria. this is his home city, the city he once ran as mayor and propelled him to national power. whoever wins istanbul wins turkey, he had said.

he may come to regret that statement because if the polls prove correct and if he loses tonight and perhaps even buy a larger margin than in march, it would start to prompt talk of whether this is perhaps the beginning of the end for him, the end of his political rise over the last 25 years. the opposition has managed to tap into the widespread desire among its supporters for change with a positive, optimistic message. make no mistake, this is a watershed moment for turkey, this crucial country and its most powerful leader of modern times. mark lowen reporting from istanbul. back to our main story, the continued focus on borisjohnson‘s private life after he failed to a nswer private life after he failed to answer questions yesterday at a conservative party leadership debate about why the police were called to his partner's flat following reports ofa his partner's flat following reports of a row between the couple. iain dale chaired those hustings between the leadership contenders in birmingham yesterday and he spoke to

me earlier on. i think when you are running for the office of prime minister, notjust the conservative party, you kind of don't have a private life. i think everyone has a right to know particularly if the police are called to an incident. if i hadn't asked the question, i could imagine yourfirst i hadn't asked the question, i could imagine your first question to me today would have been, call yourself a journalist! you are today would have been, call yourself ajournalist! you are right today would have been, call yourself a journalist! you are right on that one. there was quite a bit of booing and jeering of you when you asked that question from some of the tory party faithful? it wasn't when i asked the first question but when i asked the first question but when i asked a fourth time, i fully expected it to happen. i had to push him. you know yourself, if a politician doesn't answer the question the first time you don't just think, ok, i'll let it go. you wa nt to just think, ok, i'll let it go. you want to get the answer. i was intending, i had 15 minutes to interview both candidates and i was intending to may spend two minutes on that with borisjohnson. in the end, i spentjust over five on that with borisjohnson. in the end, i spentjust overfive minutes and the audience was clearly getting

frustrated that i kept persisting with the question but that was my role, that was myjob. they will have been lots of other people in the audience who actually did want to hear the answer to that question. it wasn't really aggressive, hostile booing and it only happened once. i actually found it quite amusing. i don't think it's a good look when people from a political party to a journalist for asking perfectly legitimate questions. i have criticised labour party members when they do that to jeremy criticised labour party members when they do that tojeremy corbyn. i'm certainly not going to defend the booing in that way but it was a hustings and they sometimes get fairly robust. boris johnson defended un said don't boo the great man, which must have boosted your ego a little bit? i don't think my ego a little bit? i don't think my ego needs boosting! he said people are entitled to ask me about my character but didn't seem to answer the questions about his character, although he did say, i've tried to give my answer exhaustively but it

sounded by the fact you had to ask him fouror sounded by the fact you had to ask him four orfive times sounded by the fact you had to ask him four or five times that you didn't feel he did? in the end i said, look, let's get this clear, you are not going to answer the question, are you? he said what ujah said. people watching, whether they we re said. people watching, whether they were watching the live stream, in the hall or watching it on the bbc, they will draw their own conclusions. i wasn't trying to lead anyone to come to a conclusion but i wa nted anyone to come to a conclusion but i wanted boris to answer the question. he was determined not to. people will draw their own conclusions from that. you are chairing some of the other hustings, there are a few of them, 16 altogether, this was just them, 16 altogether, this was just the first. do you think it is a good process ? the first. do you think it is a good process? obviously some people are worried about the fact this is just a very small section of society, 100,000 or so tory party members who are choosing our next prime minister? i'm hosting ten of the 16 hustings. i think the challenge will be to keep it fresh. yesterday in

birmingham we didn't cover every single issue, so we have to cover them over the course of the different hustings. it is a good way for the conservative members to work out what the two candidate strengths and weaknesses are. i think we saw a little bit of that yesterday with both candidates. there were questions borisjohnson both candidates. there were questions boris johnson answered very well and there are questions jeremy hunt answered very well. he was a bit woolly on one or two. i think over the course of the 16, they will be able to make a better, informed decision. people will say, they should be doing much more radio andi they should be doing much more radio and i think there will be more of that over the next four weeks, but they are not going to accept everything that comes their way. look, when you are electing or appointing in this case the prime minister, you say it is a small membership. whether it is the conservative party or the labour party, they have their leadership

election rules. all this stuff about, it's a very small party, of course it is but that is the way our system works. i don't know what people expect to happen here. if you should automatically have a general election every time there is a change of party leader. that would runa change of party leader. that would run a coach and horses through the way we have traditionally done things that may be that's what people want to do now. the journalist iain dale talking to me a little earlier about asking the questions to borisjohnson yesterday not getting all the answers he wanted. let's catch up on the latest sports news for you. thank you. good afternoon. we start with football. phil neville says cameroon will pose a threat his england team "has not experienced" in their first knock out match of the women's world cup in france this afternoon.|t‘s live on bbc! and radio 5 live at 11.30. england won all three group games against teams ranked higher than cameroon,

who are 46th in the world. our reporterjane dougall is in valencienne for us where the match will be played. what's the mood like there in the england camp? we spent a better time with the lionesses yesterday as they trained in the north of france. it was very relaxed, actually, very confident. they might well be confident because as you mentioned, they finish top their group as you mentioned, they finish top theirgroup and as you mentioned, they finish top their group and won three matches from three. so yes, i think going into this match against a team that oui’ into this match against a team that our 46th in the world in the fifa rankings, they might be confident. i think one of the they will have to face today is the heat. later on todayit face today is the heat. later on today it is forecast to be 30 degrees. so within the stadium behind me, iwould imagine the conditions will be fairly tough to have to deal with. and their first game of the tournament, which was against scotland in the south of france, the temperatures were at 25

degrees and they found that fairly tough to deal with. despite that, they are in the best condition they have ever been in, the england squad. they will have to deal with it. if they get through to the semifinals, which are in a weak‘s time, it is forecast to be even hotter then. it is something they will have to get used to, the heat in france. we were speaking to steph houghton the england captain and she said she is dealing with this match like she would any other. knock out, it's 90 minutes, potentially extra time, hopefully not. we know it is all on your performance on your day. we know as a squad we have to perform and this is the football we wa nt perform and this is the football we want to be part of, we want to be playing, the nitty—gritty bits of winning games. it's counting down games in your head, this is game four, we have to tick it off. what do we know about england's opponents cameroon? the lowest ranked team left in the competition but what

kind of tester we think they will provide? this is going to be a very different match to the previous three england have played. cameroon area three england have played. cameroon are a very physical side. they are known for that. as you said, the lowest ranked teams still in the competition but they managed to get through to the knockout stages with a last—minute goal against new zealand. playing in a physical manner has suited them very well so far this tournament. the only other time that any other england players in this current squad have ever had to play against cameroon was back in 2012 in the olympics, when team gb played cameroon at the olympics and beat them 3—0, team gb beat cameroon. both steph houghton and jill scott played in that match and scored in that match and they both said they were very physical side. philip neville is aware of that. they have been watching the other teams in this competition. phil neville some of that pressure, his players do actually thrive on it. he will have to keep that in mind when he comes to picking his line up,

which we will have for you in the next couple of hours. thank you, thank you very much. the winners of that match play norway. nottingham forest have confirm that assistant manager roy keane has left the club. keane was appointed assistant manager when martin o'neill put in charge at the city ground in january of this year. in a statement, he thanked o'neill and described their years together at both forest and with the republic of ireland squad as "a magnificent experience". the club has wished keane the "very best in the next stage of his career." one match in the cricket world cup today and it comes at lord's where south africa are playing pakistan. they're currently 8th and 9th in the table so both sides are desperate for a win. pakistan won the toss and chose to bat first. they're currently 202—3. ball—by—ball commentary on radio 5 live sports extra. andy murray says he "didn't expect to be playing in the queen's final" on his return to tennis, just five months after career—saving

hip surgery. the two—time wimbledon champion and his partner feliciano lopez will face britain's joe salisbury and american rajeev ram later. the pair beat the third seeds john peers and henri kontinen in three sets in their semi—final and have dropped only one set en route to the final. before that, lopez is playing in the singles final. you can watch the action from 1:20pm on bbc two. one result from queens already today. alfie hewitt has won the wheelchair final. the world number three won the match in an hour and 28 minutes. not the only match the pair will play today. they will join forces later for the doubles final. if they are still talking to each other! obviously! that is all your support for now, more later. thank you, john, see you later.

the atlantic council, us think tank says the material originates in russia. gareth barlow has this report. britain spying on america. anti—immigrant sentiment in germany. the involvement of irish paramilitaries in the death of a former russian spy. serious stories, all of them fake. the campaign on 30 online platforms was designed to stoke international tension. researchers from the atlantic council say it originated in russia. most of the posts failed to gain traction, but with russia repeatedly accused of trying to destabilise democracies, the latest revelations will surely cause further alarm. moscow has repeatedly denied using the internet to spread fake news and also alter public opinion. but politicians in europe and also in the united states say the kremlin is guilty of trying to influence elections. in 2017, fake news was made word of the year.

it's a phrase that has become synonymous with elections, the internet and also with russia. the latest campaign used scores of accounts in multiple languages and although its impact was limited, it once again highlights the challenge facing social media providers and governments to separate news that is real from news that is not. gareth barlow, bbc news. young people are being exploited in their quest to find work, according to the unite union. it says some employers are using a loophole in employment law to use young people as free labour by offering them unpaid trial shifts. our correspondent has been speaking to one young woman who believes she has been the victim of the practice. like thousands of teenagers this summer, 16—year—old mia had been looking for a part—time job. when a local cafe responded to her cv with the offer of a trial shift, she was elated.

she says she spent seven hours waitressing on a busy saturday, but was not offered any work or paid the minimum wage. i don't think it's fair at all, that we would not get paid. just because we are young, i think we should still be treated like adults, and the fact we are young doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to get the job or anything like that. it is interesting that so many other people have posted a similar experience to you. when her dad, shaun, posted mia's experience on social media, he says dozens of parents wrote back saying their kids had experienced the same thing. what does the law say? according to the government, it is illegal to employ anyone on an unpaid work trial for what it calls an excessive period of time or if there is nojob on offer. but trying to prove exactly what an excessive period of time is, or whether there was ever a job in the offing, is difficult to prove, especially if you are young and inexperienced.

guidelines that they put out kind of give a bit of a loophole to the employer to say that this is a genuine trial and we need to assess if the person is right for the job. but that just creates a situation where employers can take advantage. after the bbc contacted the cafe where mia had had her trial shift, she received a text message saying that she had not got the job as a waitress, and that her travel expenses would now be reimbursed. in shetland they call this time of year "the simmer dim", because the sun dips just below the horizon for only a few hours at night. imagine what it's like trying to get the kids to bed when it's light until midnight.

this family loves the summer. living in shetland, the most northerly inhabited place in the uk, it can get pretty dark, with only six hours of daylight. so at this time of year, when they have more than 19 hours of daylight to play with, they want to make the most of it. living in shetland in the summertime is fantastic. it is a fantastic place to live and bring up children. it is filled with life at this time of year. all the visiting sea birds come out, the flowers are out, it isjust a magical time here. you sometimes lose track of time. when it is a nice night, you really have to make the most of it and just get out whenever the weather allows, and store up some vitamin b. do you like going to the beach? i want my shovel! you want your shovel! we forgot our bucket

and spade, didn't we? it's just the freedom at this time of year. if it's a nice night, you can pack a picnic and go to the beach. on a nice night when the sun is still shining, then sometimes bedtime does get pushed back a little bit. the lighter evenings can make it a struggle for her to get her three and seven—year—olds to sleep. you don't want to go to bed? no! trying to get them to understand it is bedtime when it is still light, how difficult is it? i think because they were born here it isjust normal, it's what they are used to. it is just the reality here. they know that in the winter it is dark all the time and in summer it is light all the time. you go from 16 hours of daylight in the summer, to barely six in the winter. what's that like? house gets trashed!

why's that? caged in! when they go to school in the morning it is dark, when they get home in the afternoon it's dark. it's quite stormy in the winter. so really, there is no opportunity to get outside, so they are just bouncing off the walls inside. wintertime can actually be worse. which is better, summer or winter in shetland? both: summer! do you like going to bed in winter? no! do you ever like going to bed? no! what do you like about summer, is it all the sunshine? yeah! do you like playing inside? yes, for all week! let's have a look at the weather. sunshine is becoming in shorter supply as we head through the