in two hours' time, the lioness in two hours‘ time, the lioness his ta ke in two hours‘ time, the lioness his take on the usa in the most important match in english women‘s football. success would mean a final place for an english senior side for the first time since 1966. it is an exciting time, especially for me, it is my first semifinal and i cannot wait to go up against the best. as england fans gather here in lyon, millions will be watching all the drama back in the uk. also on the programme tonight: police try to identify the body of a man thought

to bea identify the body of a man thought to be a stowaway who fell from a plane into a london garden. three women break into the top ten highest earners at the bbc as the corporation defends a its wage bill. johanna konta is through to round two of wimbledon with a straight set victory. coming up on bbc news, it has been a good day for british players in action at wimbledon on day two were johanna konta players in action at wimbledon on day two werejohanna konta among those to bit her place in the second round. —— with johanna those to bit her place in the second round. —— withjohanna konta. good evening from lyon and the magnificent stadium where they are testing out the sound system. i hope you can hear me above the deign for what promises to be a fantastic game

as england take on the united states in the semifinals of the fifa women‘s world cup. the americans are the world number one, the defending fifa women‘s champions and may have had a fantastic tournament so far. there is a real sense of anticipation and promise within the england camp that they can go one step further than they did for macro yea rs step further than they did for macro years ago in canada. victory would make the lioneesees their first senior english side of any gender to reach the finals of a world major tournament since 1966. —— lionessees. full england fans there isa lionessees. full england fans there is a corner of every city they can call home, it is usually a noisy one. this time, they have something to sing about. everyone that we had seen back at home is like, oh my god, we are following their women‘s world cup. it is really cool.

absolutely massive. it is a turning point in history for women football. i cannot wait to let you guys in the eye at midnight and go, oh, sorry. they have had their warning. much of their hopes rest on the shoulders of their hopes rest on the shoulders of the english right back matt lucy bronze. she was the talk of the tournament after her goal against norway. i think he said it two weeks after i first met him. he keeps saying it to me and it is getting annoying. he always wants to challenge me to be the best and do the best and do more and it brings the best and do more and it brings the best and do more and it brings the best out of me. england have reached the semifinals in three consecutive major tournaments and they need to take the next step. standing on no way is a formidable opponent, the world number one side of usa, the defending champions, and they have already crashed their

world cup dreams of the hosts. they have already crashed their world cup dreams of the hostsm has come all the way through. the usa had us a swagger about them. the goalkeeper hope so they won it all with the us and says it gives them a psychological advantage. -- solo. there is so much experience on the tea m there is so much experience on the team said they had the edge. for the first time i have seen england come so first time i have seen england come so far in the last four years that i think for the first time there is a bit of fear on the american side. really? england has been playing so well, they have worked on their fitness levels and they had such good players, one of the best players in the world. england can beat us. defeat the usa and the noise around england will amplify to another level. their fans had

noise around england will amplify to another level. theirfans had been welcome gas in france. had the beat go on? —— welcome guests. 50,000 people are expected to pack into the stadium. millions will be watching right around the world, including in the uk. there are world cup party is being held in perhaps big screens had been erected in lots of cities and there will be festivities in liverpool, the home of the england forward , liverpool, the home of the england forward, nikita parris. 0ur correspondent has been back to her old school to find out where her love of football began. commentator: and that's the confidence that nikita parris has got. she is making her name on the world stage, but nikita parris began her career at the grass roots, here on the pitch at st patrick‘s primary, where today girls‘ football is alive and kicking. and they all idolise the same lioness. nikita, because she's an excellent role model for all girls all around the world.

she used to be here playing here and look where she is now. it makes me think really if she comes from where we have, then maybe we can be like her one day. the support from st patrick‘s and from all over england means a lot to the player. it‘s unbelievable to see so many young girls, young boys, men, women across the nation supporting the lionesses and long may it continue, because there‘s so much more to come from this group of player, but the next generation too. the lionesses are already poster girls in their home city, but as their fame as following has increased so, too has the amount of high profile support. i'm really looking forward to tonight, millions of people are watching. good luck, girls, you have shown great quality throughout the tournament — come on england! you've been doing fantastic so far and you're doing the country proud.

just keep going, keep believing and keep the dream alive. lionesses, you have never been more prepared, more focussed, more ready to give your best performance tonight. i really believe you can do it. so come on, show everyone what you‘ve got. tonight‘s tv audience is expected to break records and the fa counts football as the top participation sport for women and girls in england. there's a real buzz at the moment that'sjust that as important if not more important and it's so equal now, which is the way it should be. there's a lot of opportunities for girls now in the professional game as well. at st patrick‘s sports day today, the obstacle race was popular, but tonight it will be the football which everyone is following. come on england! let‘s look at some of the themes in that report. our sports reporter is here. i am that report. our sports reporter is here. iam interested not that report. our sports reporter is here. i am interested not only on the significance of the game tonight but how important it is to women‘s sport in general. this is as big a

moment as english women‘s football has ever experienced. when it comes to the potential impact it could have on development of the sport, an english victory could be more profound than a united states one because they have won the tournament on three previous occasions, they are reigning champions in their game is more developed than ours. coming into the tournament i have been so many strides all being made can a sponsorship deals, commitment and media coverage and investment in the women‘s team and a domestic league. they have capitalised on it by reaching the last four, created household names and viewing figures have gone through the roof of some 10 million people might watch the match tonight. if you did not know who ellen white was before this tournament there is a good chance he will now. in terms of shifting perception, profile, recognition, there has been great progress

already regardless of tonight. the next challenges tackling female inactivity we had known successive governments are trying to solve and inspiring women to take on football and other sports as well, raising awareness of inequality which still exist in women is attracting more people to the domestic league and the club game. if they can do that tonight about what a tremendous legacy it would be. festivities get off at eight o‘clock although it sounds as if they already started here in the stadium. back to you. coverage starts here on bbc one at 7:30pm. police are trying to identify the body of a man who fell from a plane landed in a garden in south—west london. 0thers believe the victim fell from the landing gear compartment of the kenya aeroplane. the body landed a metre away from a resident who had been

sunbathing. coming into land at heathrow on sunday but minutes earlierfrom heathrow on sunday but minutes earlier from beneath this heathrow on sunday but minutes earlierfrom beneath this kenyan airways plane, a body had fallen through to the ground. the man fell ina through to the ground. the man fell in a street in clapham. it is a desperate act to stow away on a plane and he did not survive. the body described as an ice block missed a man he was sunbathing in a garden. neighbours are reported to have said they had an almighty bang and that a man had fallen from the sky. the man he was sunbathing in the garden has been left badly shaken by what he saw and the na rrowness shaken by what he saw and the narrowness that could have killed him as well. the kenya airways flight left him as well. the kenya airways flight left nairobi on sunday morning at the start of a nine hour, 4000 mile trip. it was at 3500 feet when a body fell. the plane flew

over the road at 336 pm and landed minutes later. we have heard about it happening in the past, happening at richmond, and it is quite frightening. it is unfortunate for the poor chap. at a bbc documentary about a man who fell to his death in 2012 showed how stowaways get into aircraft. he would had to climb up as up as quickly as possible into the wheel arch. temperatures are down to —60 celsius stop the stellar way will pass out at about 20,000 feet and they will die above 30,000 feet. —— the stellar way. on the approach to the ground they will probably full to their deaths if they are not already dead. a bag, water and feed were discovered by

the landing gear, not enough to keep the landing gear, not enough to keep the stowaway ally. the bbc has defended the wages of its top presenters. some on—air staff are paid £150,000. the corporation said it was not paying anyone about the market rate. this year, the annual report includes three women in the top ten earners for the first time. the roll call of top earners among the bbc on air staff, which includes me, show salaries that are many many multiples of the average take—home pay in the uk. and it comes just a few weeks after the corporation said only over 755 on pension credit would receive a free tv licence from nextjune. lord hall. its leader says the government forces on the bbc back in 2015. the balance was between supporting the over 755 and on the other hand cutting services that all licence fee payers value.

if this is an unfair thing to impose on the bbc, why did you sign up to it? this came out of your deal, your negotiation. lets go back to 2015, and the height of austerity an incoming conservative government. this policy was coming to the bbc. do you think it is wrong that the bbc was co—opted into a policy like this? i think it is absolutely wrong, absolutely wrong that now, twice, once in 2010 and again in 2015 decisions about the licence fee and the amount of the licence fee should be taken over a matter of days behind closed doors by a small group of people. most bbc staff are producers, researchers, or administrators on conventional public sector salaries. they include women who are still embroiled in grievances over equal pay. the bbc‘s gender pay gap has fallen and there are now three women in the top ten salary brackets. the bbc is buffeted by forces both global and local. wealthy competitors are driving hyper inflation in sport and drama, putting its very business model under strain. meanwhile, as a public broadcaster in polarised times, its

every commercial and editorial decision faces unprecedented scrutiny. the question of who should pay reflects britain‘s generational divide. people over the age of, is it 75? i think if they can afford it, then they can pay for it. i want to see something from the bbc in cutting back their wages bill. i want to see them make a contribution, as well as asking for an extra contribution from the over—75s. creative successes, structural reform and some progress on salaries are bought the bbc time. —— have brought. but if its most loyal decline to pay, those very high salaries might not last. the top story: england‘s team prepare to take on the united states for a place in the final of women‘s world cup. and coming up, i‘m at wimbledon where it has been a busy day for the brits and serena williams has started her bid for

glory. 0n sports day, england recover from a terrible start in the women‘s ashes. indigenous people in the amazon rain forest fear their survival is being threatened, as more trees are cut down. they say brazil‘s new president is allowing deforestation in some of the 700 protected areas for indigenous groups within the brazilian rain forest. around 900,000 indigenous people live there. our science editor has been to see one group fearing for its future.

ina in a remote corner of the amazon bgs talk of conflict and how to prepare for it. the indigenous people feel the need to defend themselves. this man has dark memories of first violent contacts with the outside world in the middle of the last century. his wife was wounded as a young girl. an attack left her with scars and killed herfamily. there isa scars and killed herfamily. there is a long history of conflict over land and and she is worried again. they‘re a tiny band ofjust 120 they‘re a tiny band ofjust120 and they have never been so vulnerable. they‘re making an ink that is used

asa they‘re making an ink that is used as a war paint. they feel the new government of brazil is against them and they have to be on guard. so they patrol what is meant to be a protected reserve. but they discover incursions like this track carved to steal timber or create farms. this is where they gather food and hunt. they used to be seen as guardians of the forests. now, they say, invaders are encouraged by the new president of brazil.

farmers are pressing against the dark green edge of the reserve and the president says they should be allowed to use it and indigenous people have too much land. 0ur research with satellites pictures reveals over the past 20 years how quickly trees can be wiped out. this is the forest of the area. i sthoe show the people the view from space of what they‘re experiencing. with all this farmland around you and you‘re about there. just in that corner. with all these pressures, tensions are escalating. shots were fired at the sign marking the reserve. these farmers live just down the road and like the president, they want access to the forest.

so two very different views of future of this land. the farmers with their fields, right beside the indigenous people in the forest. the fate of the children here is uncertain. they are learning traditional skills and they have rights under law, but they‘re outnumbered and powerful forces are circling outside. the two conservative leadership candidates have faced questions from party members in northern ireland, with brexit dominating the agenda. 0ne members in northern ireland, with brexit dominating the agenda. one of the parts of withdrawal agreement is

the parts of withdrawal agreement is the backstop, to avoid any new checks or controls on the irish border after brexit if a trade deal can‘t be agreed. it would mean the whole of the uk would continue to share customs arrangements with the eu and northern ireland would remain in the market for single goods with the eu. jeremy hunt and boris johnson are seeking substantial changes to the agreement, which the eu has refused to agree to. here is our ireland voent. what will the future look like with a new prime minister? whether it‘s deal or no deal, just get on with it. here in belfast, there‘s no escaping the reality that the new prime minister will have to deal with the bumpiest part of brexit so far. how to avoid checks on goods across the irish border. i don‘t think boris orjeremy will have an easier ride than theresa, to be honest. so if i could make you virtual prime minister.... i would head back and just delete the whole programme and start

fresh from level one. the candidates are virtually pledged to do just that. both want to persuade the eu to ditch the so—called backstop which could have meant northern ireland having to follow different rules from the rest of the uk. that has to change and we have to find a different solution and i think it will be a technology—led solution, what the germans call an invisible border. borisjohnson wants to solve it through a separate trading agreement with the eu, or leave with no deal. solve the border issues where they belong, logically, in the context of the fta that we're going to do. the biggest critics of the backstop, northern ireland‘s democratic unionist party, would be brought into the brexit negotiating team underjeremy hunt. we need to persuade the eu that we have a coalition that can get a majority through parliament and we do depend on that partnership. if we didn't have the dup, i am afraid the truth

is we would have jeremy corbyn, who has an agenda to break up the union. who impressed you? boris. because he is wonderful. i think boris is treating northern ireland the same as the rest of the united kingdom, i think that's important for northern ireland. although the conservative party doesn‘t have a single mp here in northern ireland, there are about 500 party members who will be voting next week. i thoughtjeremy hunt made a real effort at answering the questions and boris johnson waffled about everything. they both want to do away with the irish backstop. do you believe they could? they are saying tech solution, but that is a generic term that nobody understands. after today‘s hustings, it was borisjohnson who went to meet dup leader arlene foster, and whoever becomes prime minister, the relationship with her could be crucial. the european parliament has met for the first time in strasbourg since

elections in may. members of the brexit party turned their backs during the european 0de brexit party turned their backs during the european ode to brexit party turned their backs during the european 0de tojoy anthem n brussels the eu has announce who had will get the top jobs. gavin lee is there for us. who have they given them to? it has been three days of negotiating, trying to work out who they want to lead and shape the way for the eu. and it has been announced the commission president will be the first female president. she is the german defence minister. she is seen as key to bringing through aure peep vision.

we have had the announcement of spanish foreign minister who, will be the head of foreign affairs and christine lagarde taking overfrom the european central bank. on brexit, we are told in the short—term, whoever is in charge, because they have to get voted in tomorrow, it won‘t change the game and the withdrawal agreement will not be re—opened it is about the posts and the unity, not the personality. thank you. a man from east yorkshire who shot dead his six—year—old great grand son has been jailed six—year—old great grand son has beenjailed for six—year—old great grand son has been jailed for three years. stanley metcalfe died after being hit in the stomach with a pellet from an air rifle. stanley‘s mother said the man had had never apologised. tennis and british no1

had had never apologised. tennis and british no 1johanna had had never apologised. tennis and british no 1 johanna konta had had never apologised. tennis and british no 1johanna konta breezed into the second round, beating ana bogdan. roger federer is also through, but suffered a scare on the way. for years day two at wimbledon was known as ladies day. today it gotan was known as ladies day. today it got an upgrade to duchess. there is no royal box on court 14. extra pressure for harriet dart. she wonment wimbledon may be a natural home for royals and tradition, but it is moving with the time and dropped marital statuses from on court announcements. jo konta is one of eight brits in action today and hopes are high she can match what she achieved at the french open when she achieved at the french open when she was a semi—finalist. she is no stranger to the semis here either and against bogdan, she was starting

to find her rhythm. that backhand was a bullet. the first set soon followed. two crucial breaks in the second set brought relief. the 6—2 score made it look simpler than it felt. it was very tough out there. neither of us felt quite comfortable and just trying to find our feet and it wasn‘t easy. and just trying to find our feet and it wasn't easy. she wasn't the only brit through, dan evans is through and jay clarke landed a plum second round against wimbledon royalty. he will face roger federer, who reigned supreme will face roger federer, who reigned supreme here. but his opponent, lloyd harris won the first set. centre court is federer‘s kingdom and he saw out the next three sets for the win. and queen serena may have had a knee injury, but she knows how to play tennis. she made

light work of giulia monticone. she won that match. rafael nadal is two sets up. there is a fairy tale on court 17. pauljudd was raised by his grandmother in hull and he has won an american contest to win a wildcard and she is making on sousa from portugal. now time for the weather. good wimbledon weather ahead? yes, not too warm. some fair weather cloud. midweek tomorrow and thursday the weather is looking decent. but not every where. clouds you can see south of iceland, a front that is approaching the north—west of the united kingdom and that spells some cloud and rain by the end of the night in scotland.

but the vast majority of the country, clear spells tonight and actually not too cold in the south early on wednesday morning, temperatures around 14 degrees in the centre of town. fresher in newcastle. tomorrow, dawns on a sunny note. apart from north western scotland. a weather front approaching. there will be some rain in highland. south of the lowlands, the weather is looking fine and the temperatures are bang on average. 22 in london. 18 in glasgow and everybody. 0n in london. 18 in glasgow and everybody. on thursday, a subtle change, high pressure dominates central and southern britain, but in the north fronts are moving in and that spells some cloud and rain for scotland. it will go down hill in the north. a fresher breeze off the atlantic. in the south light winds and high pressure and a continental influence and temperatures will rise

in the south. turning hot, temperatures up to 26 degrees in london. the mid 20s in yorkshire. and we will keep the temperatures in tmid 20s and we will keep the temperatures in t mid 20s in the south until friday. then a bit of a dip, butjust eye balling the weather symbols, it is allfair balling the weather symbols, it is all fair weather cloud. raise that is all from us. now time for the news where you are.

this is bbc news. our headlines. england have the chance to make history at the women‘s world cup tonight when they face defending champions the usa for a place in the final in france. the eu‘s leaders have reached a tentative deal on who should hold the most prominent positions for the next five years but the