tonight at ten, scotland yard begins a criminal investigation, into the alleged leak of official communications from britain's outgoing ambassador to america. sir kim darroch had branded the trump white house inept, and incompetent, with the leak of his memos eventually forcing his resignation. scotland ya rd's counter—terrorism command will lead the inquiry. we'll have the very latest. also tonight... pride and disappointments. as theresa may prepares to stand down as prime minister, she says one of her biggest regrets is failing to deliver brexit. i underestimated the unwillingness of some people in parliament to compromise. a man is sentenced to life

in prison, after repeatedly stabbing a 51—year—old father to death on a train in front of his 14—year—old son. we have a special report from el salvador, where campaigners say strict abortion laws mean women are jailed, even after miscarriages and stillbirths. what a contest! and roger federer comes out on top against rafa nadal at wimbledon. he'll now play novak djokovic in sunday's men's singles final. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, england and scotland begin the netball world cup with wins, but northern ireland are thrashed by defending champions australia.

good evening. the metropolitan police has begun a criminal investigation into the alleged leak of official communications from britain's outgoing ambassador to the united states. the furore over the contents of sir kim darroch‘s emails, which were highly critical of the trump administration, caused the white house to refuse to work with the ambassador, and eventually led to his resignation. scotland ya rd's counter terrorism command will lead the police inquiry. our correspondent dan johnson reports. who leaked the documents that parted the president and ambassador and put the president and ambassador and put the special relationship under strain? how did our man in washington's frank assessment and up splashed in the mail on sunday? sir kim darroch privately described the white house as dysfunctional, donald trump as insecure and inept. within days the ambassador announced he would leave his washington residency, after the president fired back, calling him stupid and

pompous, making clear he wasn't welcome. a whitehall enquiry started to root out the league about tonight the metropolitan police announced it would take over. the assistant commissioner said: there was even a direct appeal. i'm assuming that it is a function of how seriously it's being taken, the damage to britain's national interests here, and i think obviously the police have more investigative power, more tools at their disposal to find the culprit. i think it's very important to find out who the perpetrator is. today the president was trying to be nice

with some warm words for sir kim. the president was trying to be nice with some warm words for sir kimi wish the british ambassador well, but they've got to stop the leaking problem is they are, just the way we have to stop them in our country. stopping leagues is one challenge, finding the source of this one will be tough enough. dan, just clear why the counter terrorism command is leading the enquiry? because it touches on matters of national security and the police are investigating potential breaches of the official secrets act, giving an idea of the level it has reached, and an idea of how complicated the investigation could be and how long it may take. there was a time when civil servants, special advisers and politicians would cheer at the announcement of a league enquiry because they knew that it would lead nowhere. but there is a warning from the police that any further revelations, could constitute

breaking the law and we get an indication of how seriously this is being taken indication of how seriously this is being ta ken because indication of how seriously this is being taken because no doubt this has been an embarrassing and unsightly week for british diplomacy and there seems to be a determination to find out who is behind it. thanks. in an exclusive broadcast interview at downing street, theresa may has told the bbc she will leave herjob as prime minister in ten days' time, with a "mixture of pride and disappointment". she said she didn't "recognise herself", in the characterisation of critics, and admitted she'd "underestimated" parliament over brexit. she said it was "incredibly frustrating", not to have been able to get her brexit deal approved, but she was proud to have served as prime minister. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. a rare glimpse in the private world of number ten. time now to reflect. it's three years almost exactly since you... it is, yes. it hardly seems possible, the time has flown by, but please do have a seat. what's it like living above the shop?

it's very convenient. but it's, you know, at any point in time you can obviously get a call, people can be bringing papers up to you. it's really, in a sense, it's a place of work. the red box is done in the evenings. it was here, of course, that i took the phone call about the terrible terrorist attack in manchester. it's really absolutely chilling when you get a call like that. there have been so many difficult moments. how did you manage to get through it all? to be honest, i don't know, i guess it's just sort of me. it's important that i've had philip, my husband, is hugely supportive. the other thing is just to keep a vision on what you are trying to get to and what you are trying to achieve. was there ever a moment

where you sat in here at the end of a hard day and thought, i just wish it was over? there were moments when i sat here and i thought i wish we'd got brexit over the line. i wish we'd actually managed to achieve that. i felt at home here as prime minister. but it's not obviously the home that philip and i built up together. and it is, as i've said, very much a place of work. but there are happy memories, because it is an immense privilege to be prime minister of the united kingdom. it's a huge honour, it has a huge responsibility. you were often accused by your opponents of being too buttoned up, being too closed. well, this is always a difficult question because i don't recognise myself in some of the descriptions that people give of me. nobody likes to have descriptions of them that they don't think are right. but that's what happens in politics, you know? what do you think you will feel when you leave this building for the last time as prime minister? i think it'll be a mixture of pride at having done the job, but also a degree of disappointment,

because there was more that i wanted to do. forced out by bust ups in this cabinet room and outside over brexit. why do you think it didn't happen? i thought that parliament, having voted to give people the choice, 80% of the people in the 2017 general election voted for parties that said they would respect the referendum. what i had underestimated was that there were people who were in entrenched positions. on the one hand, some people who'd always campaigned for brexit but didn't vote for the deal, because they had a particular vision of brexit and they were sticking firmly to that vision. on the other side, people who said they didn't want to leave with no deal, but weren't prepared to vote for a deal. i underestimated the unwillingness of parts of some people in parliament to compromise. what about your own

responsibility, though? what people say to me is on the one hand that i stuck too firmly to my red lines, and on the other hand people say, sometimes the same people, say that i gave up too much, i compromise too much, and both of these cannot be true. do you think there are things you got wrong though? one could always look back and say, if i'd sat down and talked to people more. i spent a lot of time talking to colleagues, trying to understand from colleagues exactly what it was that was creating a problem for them. on both sides it was incredibly frustrating. what i hope is that my successor now has the job of bringing a majority together in parliament. your colleagues who you sat with round this table, a lot of them were also quite fond of saying what they thought, which wasn't exactly the same always as you thought. you must have been furious at the number of leaks that came out of this cabinet. every decision, every position the government took was a collective, agreed position, agreed by cabinet. but it must have driven

you mad, surely? good government, good cabinet government, depends on collective responsibility. but i think once we have left the eu and government can get forward over that brexit issue, collective responsibility needs to return. you lost your majority in 2017. do you now regret calling that election? can you say that? no, i don't regret calling the election. i regret running a campaign that wasn't really me. there were other things. i probably actually should have done the tv debates. i remember you said so clearly in your campaign — i'm theresa may and i'm the best person to be prime minister. do you still feel that that was the case? by definition i'm not going to say, no, i wasn't the right person. i do believe i was the right person to take this on and to take the conservative party. i'm proud of the fact

that our balanced approach to the economy means we see employment at record levels. we'll be injecting that extra £20 billion into the nhs. we're building more homes for people. but then i'm also proud of giving a voice to the voiceless, of championing some causes that otherwise would be unfashionable. what will you miss? i'll miss the opportunity to be able to go and sometimes just say thank you to people for what they are doing for this country. you know, i hope that whoever people are, whether they voted for the conservative party, orfor other parties, whether they have — they were leavers, remainers, whatever they felt, i hope they will feel that in everything i've done i've always done what i believe to be in the national interest. her picture will soon be on the wall on the famous staircase. what do you hope people will remember of you in years to come compared to all these other prime ministers? the first thing i hope is that people will recognise the second

female prime minister. and i actually hope in years to come there will be more women on the wall as prime minister. not the next time. and so much of what theresa may hoped for is unresolved. she departs a prime minister who ultimately failed, but a prime minister who tried. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. the two men hoping to succeed theresa may as tory party leader and prime minister — borisjohnson and jeremy hunt — have been cross—examined in interviews by andrew neil for a special bbc one programme this evening. with more on what they said, here's our deputy political editor, john pienaar. they came expecting to be tested, and they were. jeremy hunt first. he said brexit may take a little longer than october the 31st to deliver, but how long? days, months? maybe longer, it turned out, than he'd like. if it's on or around the 31st, it has to be before christmas.

i would expect 50, yes. expect so? but you cannot say for sure. is there any chance we could still go into 2020 and still be a member of eu? i don't believe so, no. hmm. but you don't rule it out? i don't believe that would be the case because... well, this is why people don't really trust you on this. what people get with me is a prime minister who will get them out of the eu more quickly. why? parliament could block brexit with no deal, an election, the only way to break the deadlock. who is the prime minister who is most likely to get us out of the eu quickly? my worry is that if people vote with their hearts, perhaps, instead of their heads, we will end up with a general election before we get to brexit. over to the frontrunner. borisjohnson and his brexit pledge. out on time, do or die. but what if a deal was within reach? nobody believes you would walk away in these circumstances. be honest with the british people. no, i think it's very,

very important that we get ready to leave on october the 31st, come what may. mrjohnson's not always been easy to pin down, although that was clearly the plan today. no, no, no. no? you will follow the questions i want to ask, not the ones you want to be asked. all right. and the latest row, had he helped drive out britain's us ambassador by failing to back him on tv after he fell out with donald trump? he said that what somebody had relayed to him had certainly been a factor. so your lack of support for him was a factor in his resignation. i think that unfortunately what i said on that tv debate was misrepresented to kim. will you be as craven if you were prime minister? i've been... neil, towards the united states of america, craven? towards anybody who is powerful in the world. don't be ridiculous, if i may say so. he's still the favourite but in ten days we'll know whose answers

will shape britain's future. boris johnson orjeremy hunt, the big questions on when and how to deliver brexit, on which tax and spending promises to keep, and which to quietly set aside. there'll be no dodging those questions once in office. until then, it's fair to say that neither man really knows the answer to some of those big questions themselves. john pienaar, bbc news, westminster. and if you want to know more about each candidate's policies, you can go to the bbc‘s reality check website. that's at bbc.co.uk/realitycheck. a man who stabbed a passenger to death in a row on a train has been found guilty of murder and jailed for life. lee pomeroy was travelling with his 14—year—old son when he was stabbed 18 times by darren pencille on the guildford to london service injanuary. the jury at the old bailey rejected pencille's claim that he was acting in self—defence, and his girlfriend was also found guilty of helping him hide from police. our correspondent richard galpin reports from the old bailey. it should have been a fun trip together on the train. a father, lee pomeroy,

and his young son heading to london. but also on board was darren pencille, who had previously been convicted for stabbing a man in the neck. cctv footage shows pencille and mr pomeroy arguing because the aisle was blocked — it escalated rapidly. you bleep heard what i said! put your hands on me, i dare you, i dare you! mr pomeroy, who allegedly had a reputation for starting fights, pursued pencille into the next carriage. pencille was then overheard saying he was going to "kill that man" and seconds later stabbed mr pomeroy 18 times. bleeding profusely, mr pomeroy collapsed. pencille got off the train. from clandon station, he headed here into the fields. but he was soon spotted by a local resident here, who said he looked distressed and that he was sweating. she asked him if he was ok, and he said he'd been in an accident.

but later, in the woodland here, she found a bloodstained hat and called the police. but pencille was already being driven back by his girlfriend, chelsea mitchell, to herflat in farnham, which the following morning was raided by the police. stand still! do not look at me, stand still! both were arrested. today, pencille was sentenced to a minimum of 28 years in prison. chelsea mitchell was sentenced to 28 months for assisting an offender. after sentencing, the police gave a statement with mr pomeroy‘s wife lana alongside. it was solely the actions of a murderer who, when challenged, could only respond with vicious threats and arm himself with that knife, which led to the death of mr lee pomeroy. the court heard that pencille, a paranoid schizophrenic, had panic attacks in public places such as trains. but the day before the killing,

a psychiatrist assessed him, concluding he was not a risk to himself or others. just 2a hours later, darren pencille committed murder. our family has been destroyed by this. if this can happen to a law—abiding 51—year—old man just going about his business on a train in the middle of the day, this terrifies me. summing up today, thejudge said, truly, this was a senseless loss of life. richard galpin, bbc news. the ministry of defence has brought forward plans to send a second warship to the gulf, amid rising tensions with iran. the destroyer hms duncan is en route from the mediterranean. it willjoin hms montrose, which earlier this week warned off iranian vessels attempting to impede a british oil tanker. montrose is scheduled to return to port for maintenance. a boy has been cleared of murdering a 17—year—old who was stabbed in the heart with a flick knife.

yousef makki was attacked in hale barns in cheshire. the defendant, who can't be named because of his age, admitted possession of the knife, as did another boy. they're both to be sentenced for carrying the weapon. the travel company thomas cook is in talks about a possible £750 million rescue deal that would hand control of its package holiday business to a chinese investor. shares in the company have fallen more than 45% on the news, but the firm insists customers have no cause for concern. thomas cook employs 9,000 people in the uk. human rights organisations are calling for an end to el salvador‘s total ban on abortion — laws which see women and girls routinely imprisoned, even after enduring stillbirths and miscarriages. on monday, a 21—year—old woman, whom supporters say had a stillbirth, faces a retrial on charges of killing her baby. she has to prove she didn't induce an abortion.

since 1998, terminations have been banned in all circumstances, including rape, incest and a threat to the life of the mother. women can be sentenced for up to 50 years injail. from the capital san salvador, our international correspondent orla guerin has sent us this special report. san salvador. a city where catholicism has deep roots, and where the church has had a commanding influence, and helped to ensure the total ban on abortion. a ban that has criminalised women like theodora vazquez. she went into labour alone at work and called an ambulance which never came. theodora says she fainted during the birth, and came to surrounded by police, accusing her of killing her baby. last year, her 30—year sentence was commuted and she walked free, to be reunited with herfamily,

after a decade behind bars. human rights groups says she is one of many women who lost their babies and were jailed for killing them. theodora was already a devoted mother when she was convicted. her son, angel gabriel, now 15, was just four years old when they were parted. do you feel like you missed out on a lot of his life, on a lot of your son's life?

theodora says she was jailed for a crime she did not commit, by a society where men still have the upper hand. some women and girls here do seek terminations, but the process has been driven underground. this doctor told me many of the women who come to him have actually miscarried, but are too scared to go to hospital in case staff called the police. he says most of his

patients have been raped. there is so much sexual violence here. it affects almost 60% of my patients. many are abused by gang members, and i see minors raped by a brother, an uncle, or a father. i'm frustrated, as a salvadoran and a doctor, that victims are being punished by the law. and supporters say this woman, called evelyn, is being punished for a stillbirth. she asked us not to show her face. evelyn told me she was raped as a teenager. she didn't know she was pregnant until her baby was born in a toilet. she was arrested in hospital and never allowed to see her son's body. after three years in jail, she's now facing a retrial. campaigners say they'll fight on to free 16 still behind bars because of the abortion ban.

-- 16 —— 16 women still behind bars. many fear it will be a long march to justice and reform of the law. orla guerin, bbc news, san salvador. the ongoing fight for abortion rights in el salvador. it's a big weekend of sport coming up and with all the details, here's our sport correspondent andy swiss, at wimbledon tonight. yes, welcome to wimbledon and what a day we've had here. the men's semifinals and perhaps the match of the tournament, as roger federer and rafael nadal served up another masterclass. it is surely the game's most glittering rivalry. 15 years after they first played each other, 11 years after their epic wimbledon final, time once again for the roger and rafa show. the anticipation was deafening, and they didn't disappoint. federer edged the first set,

before nadal stormed to the second. it was magical, mesmeric stuff. from there, though, federer seized control. at 37, his poise, seemingly as peerless as ever. but the real drama was yet to come. four times, federer had match point, but dizzyingly, nadal defied him. good heavens! federer‘s wife, mirka, could barely watch, until this. what a contest. federer into his 12th final, but only after a quite breathtaking battle. i'm exhausted. it was tough at the end. rafa played some unbelievable shots to stay in the match and you know, i thought the match was played at a very high level and i enjoyed it. he'll now face the defending champion. novak djokovic's opponent, roberto bautista agut, was meant to be on his stag do in ibiza today.

and, for the first set, probably wished he still was. that's fantastic. but who needs a beach party when you've got centre court? brilliantly, bautista agut levelled it up, but his hopes of a shock were soon dashed, djokovic roaring into another final. but one title here has already been decided, and it has a british champion. andy lapthorne and his australian partner dylan alcott, victorious in the wheelchair doubles. well, it should be some weekend here at wimbledon. it should also be some weekend at lord's. it's the final of the cricket world cup, with england looking to lift the trophy for the very first time. only new zealand stand between them and sporting history, as i was sports editor dan roan reports. it was the performance

that thrust cricket back into the national conversation. england's thrashing of australia secured a first world cup finalfor 27 years. and now the hosts stand on the brink of winning the sports flagship event for the first time. i think sunday is not a day to shy away from. it is a day to look forward to. we have created the opportunity to play a world cup final. it will be a matter of the same. try and produce everything that we can performance wise and enjoy the day. on sunday, england will be playing in front of more than just a sold out lord's, because for the first time since 2005, one of their matches will be shown live on free to air television. amid concerns that this world cup has lacked visibility, rights holder sky, agreeing to an unprecedented step in sharing their coverage with channel 4. it is a significant moment, the home world cup comes along once in a generation. we have always used this cricket world cup as a platform for building on our plan to grow cricket in this

country for the next five years. the plan is all around inspiring the next generation and so the cricket world cup gives us an ideal opportunity to build on that success. the ecb insists that thanks to events like this one today, a million children have connected with cricket after the numbers playing the game had slumped over the past decade. but there's been criticism that until now, the world cup has lacked visibility. it's a great opportunity for cricket to get more of a foothold in the uk. i mean, soccer seems to be the dominant sport and while we need to take the opportunity to expose as many people as you can to the game, when it is not that popular in england, i think they would've missed a trick, yes. opponents new zealand meanwhile, spent the day preparing for their second successive world cup final. these players now all that stand between england and what would be one of the team's greatest and most important achievements. dan roan, bbc news, lord's.

well, as one world cup reaches its climax at lord's this weekend, another is just getting under way in liverpool. it's the netball world cup in liverpool. australia are the defending champions but england are the commonwealth champions. they began their campaign against uganda tonight, as natalie pirks reports. 16 nations, one prize. on netball‘s biggest stage one country has always dominated, but in liverpool fans hope the wheel of fortune is turning in a different direction. commentator: to take, england have done it! commonwealth gold in australia's own back yard last year made england's roses believe they could win the world cup for the first time and dethrone the aussie diamonds in the process. to be able to lift the world cup on home soil in front of friends and family, supporters, young boys, young girls, just everyone who has followed us on this journey up until this point would just be monumental. but it's going to be tough.

it's a group—based system and england have got the harder side of the draw which means they'll have to face south africa and the second ranked team in the world, jamaica, if they are to even make the semis. before the semis though, uganda in what is a fast and furious sport england raced into the lead as the shooter collected her 100th cap for the roses. her attacking partner, commonwealth games hero helen housby was up for this. fast feet, fast hands, occasional tumbles, england were grinding their opponents down as head coach tracey neville contemplated her next move. lab scientist by day, netballer by night, 36—year—old veteran rachel dunn has seen the total evolution of this side, playing to sold—out crowds as favourites. she was busy making hay after uganda had a player sent off. a physically tough start then with a convincing 64—32 final scoreline, but england know they have another gear. we talk about how unbelievable those fans and supporters were around