this is bbc news, i'm ben brown. the headlines: more leaked memos from britain's former ambassador to washington suggest president trump scrapped the iran nuclear deal to spite barack obama. a man is charged with the murder of kelly mary fauvrelle — the 26—year—old who was eight months pregnant when she was fatally stabbed at home. the chancellor philip hammond warns that the uk will not be able to control key elements of a no—deal brexit. close! close to my surely, this time! yeah, that's out! three wickets for england so far at lord's, as new zealand make a steady start to the cricket world cup final. a stand—off in hong kong between pro—democracy campaigners and police. scuffles have broken out for the second day in a row.

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may last year, boris johnson as foreign secretary goes to washington and meets his us counterpart. his mission, to persuade the us president to soften his stance and stick with the around deal. he appeared on talk shows. topper on iran... but efforts failed, donald trump did not listen and withdrew from the deal. now new confidential e—mails printed in the mail on sunday revealed what was allegedly going on behind—the—scenes starbuck according to the paper, kim darroch wrote to mrjohnson saying that the administration has set up on an active diplomatic vandalism... idida i did a deal, iran had agreed to limit nuclear activities. the trade—off for us economic sanctions to be lifted. donald trump did not

think it went far enough. boris johnson failed and try to persuade him, and he has been criticised by those who feel he did not do enough to support kim darroch who has since reside. it was wrong for it to be leaked, it was wrong for president trump to throw a wobbly and behave like a toddler. it was wrong for theresa may to be as weak as she was, but the real villain of the plate piece is borisjohnson who refused to stand with one of our most senior diplomats. focus has shifted to a row over press freedom in britain. whether it was right for the paper to publish the e—mails. scotla nd the paper to publish the e—mails. scotland yard has issued a warning, if you publish leaked government documents, you are at risk of committing a crime. comments which have been widely condemned.” committing a crime. comments which have been widely condemned. i do not think e—mail on sunday was wrong, we have a very freedom of press in, so i think we have the right balance. for whoever becomes the right next

prime minister, they will have to pick up the pieces of this diplomatic fallout. in the meantime, there is a criminal investigation into who leaked the e—mails. a 25—year—old man has been charged with the murder of a pregnant woman in south london and the manslaughter of her baby son. kelly mary fauvrelle was eight months pregnant when she was attacked at her home in south london two weeks ago. navtej johal reports. kelly mary fauvrelle was eight months pregnant when she was fatally stabbed at her home in croydon in an attack last month. her son, who was delivered by paramedics at the scene, also died a few days later in hospital. police were called to her house in the early hours of the morning, where she was in cardiac arrest, and died at the scene. herfamily, including her mother and baby nephew, were all at home at the time of the attack. today, police have charged aaron mckenzie with her murder and manslaughter of her child.

25—year—old has also been charged with one count of possession of offensive weapon. he is one of three men arrested over the deaths. 37—year—old was released with no further action by the 29—year—old has been bailed until next month. —— while a 29—year—old. aaron mckenzie is due to appear in front of magistrates tomorrow. the chancellor philip hammond has said the uk will not be able to control key elements of a no—deal brexit, should we leave the eu without a deal. speaking to bbc panorama, just days left before he's expected to leave the treasury, the chancellor has said the eu will control most of the process if the uk leaves without a deal later this year. private business is an important player in this, and the eu 27 control many of the levers. for example, we can make sure that goods flow in through the port of dover without any friction.

but we cannot control the outward flow into the port of calais. the french can dial that up or down, just the same as the spanish for years have dialled up or down the length of the queues at the border going into gibraltar. we can't control what no—deal brexit would be like? we can't, because many of the levers are held by others — the eu 27 or private businesses. we can seek to persuade them, but we cannot control it. philip hammond speaking to the bbc‘s panorama programme. you can watch the full programme, britain's brexit crisis on bbc! this coming thursday, july 18, at 9pm. meanwhile, the work and pensions secretary amber rudd says she's changed her position on a no—deal brexit. she had previously been opposed to the idea, but has told the andrew marr programme that the possibility had to be kept alive in order to succeed in the negotiations.

i maintain my position that a no—deal brexit is bad for this country, and will be difficult to handle. to be fair, even brexiteers say that at the very least it will have adverse consequences. i am very clear that we need to be frank but the british people but no deal is not easy, it will be something that will challenge ur, but if we have to do it, it has to be a backstop, by the end of october, but i know longer say that i will lie down in front of the bulldozers if it arrives. schools and hospitals in england and wales could be held accountable if they fail to spot signs of violent crime among young people. that's according to plans due to be announced by the government this week. public bodies would have a legal duty to work together to report here's our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani. a community programme putting football at the heart of saving lives. the london—wide premier league kicks

initiative has worked with hundreds of young people at risk of falling into a life of crime. now, the home secretary sajid javid wants to go ahead with a new public health duty on public bodies that will put them all at the centre of spotting serious violence that has blighted cities across the country. the proposed duty will cover police, councils, health bodies, schools and colleges. it will compel them to share intelligence of youths at risk of serious violence. ministers hope the legal duty will mean professionals, such as mentors, can intervene earlier to turn around more young lives before it's too late. but it is not without controversy. when the idea was first floated in april, teachers and nurses responded with both dismay and scepticism. they warned that the threat of legal sanctions against them for not spotting the warning signs would lead to them overwhelming the system with alerts out of an abundance of caution. the final proposals, to be unveiled this week,

have been amended so that institutions such as schools, rather than individual professionals, will be monitored for how well they are doing in identifying vulnerable young people. that change has been welcomed, but the plan will still need parliamentary time to become a reality and critics say it needs to be backed by a massive investment in youth workers and other experts who have been cut over the last decade. dominic casciani, bbc news. the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, has criticised her party's response to the bbc panorama programme, which made allegations about the way labour handled claims of anti—semitism. the party described former officials who had acted as whistleblowers as "disafffected" and said they had "professional and personal axes to grind". ms thornberry told the bbc‘s andrew marr show that it was important labour addressed the problems raised by the programme. i think that the labour party has to deal with this

issue, and frankly, i welcome the fact that the... i mean, it's a shame and a disgrace that the equalities and human rights commission have been brought in to look at the labour party but they have, and i think we should now welcome it. i think we should open — wait a minute. we should open our doors up and we should say to them, "right, we have been trying to improve our processes. clearly, it's still not working. can you help us?" millions of people are braced for potentially life—threatening flooding after tropical storm barry made landfall in the us state of louisiana. more than 100,000 households are already without power, and flooding is expected to be most severe in areas southwest of new orleans. 0ur correspondent sophie long reports. coastal towns were battered by winds of up to 70 miles an hour. there was flooding in low—lying areas and whole communities were left without power. now the storm is moving slowly north through

the state of louisiana. barry may have been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm almost as soon as it made landfall, but people here are still concerned. this is one reason why. the mississippi river has been swollen to flood levels for many months, and now forecasters are predicting further downpours in the next 2a hours. the storm will weaken but there is so much water. where we have some of these rain bands feeding the tropical system, they have the potential to produce a foot or more of rainfall, and that is what we are watching. people here initially heeded warnings to shelter in their homes, but as they started to return to the streets, the city's mayor said they were not out of the woods yet. the storm surge risk on our mississippi river has passed, but the primary risk continues to remain, heavy rains for the city of new orleans.

the levee system that protects the city from major flooding has so far stood up to the storm's force. but there is concern that heavy rain could still overwhelm the city's antiquated drainage system. and flash flood warnings have now been extended to this evening. police have used batons and pepper spray against demonstrators in hong kong as thousands of pro—democracy campaigners took to the streets again today, as they try to keep up the momentum of recent mass protests. scuffles broke out between officers in riot gear and the anti—government protestors, who built barricades in the street. this evening, thousands remain on the streets and are facing off against police. 0ur correspondent stephen mcdonnell is in hong kong for us. these protest that have been going

on for so many weeks continuing. yes indeed, and it is pretty tense tonight in this district. there are thousands of protesters who are still here. as you can see, they have barricaded themselves in. they have barricaded themselves in. they have police on all sides, so they know at some point there is going to bea know at some point there is going to be a showdown with the right police. they have their barricades, they helmet sad they are ready for a conflict. i will come in closer and give you an idea of how they are preparing, so these barricades have been tied together with these plastic ties. behind them the protesters gathering with umbrellas, they can use those to propel tear gas and also makeshift shields with cardboard covered in plastic. also to repel tear gas or pepper spray. they are preparing for this conflict because at the other end of the street we have the right please.

they are looking pretty calm at the moment, but on all sides of this group of protesters, there are many hundreds of riot police, large shields, but on is, pepper spray, and eventually they will come in and clear the streets. this protest, like every protest, seems to go on the same way, we started with a very large peaceful protest. many tens of thousands of people, families, children, old people from all walks of life. they then tend to go home and when the protest becomes illegal, which is now, beyond the permission time, the more hardline element of the protest movement remain here, they are taking it right up to the authorities. what was a movement against this very unpopular anti—extradition bill has become much broader, a defence of hong kong's freedoms. they are qualified universal suffrage. bolstered by their success, they

think this protest action defeated that extradition bill, they think they now can achieve democracy, at many of them will not give up without that. we will see this for weeks and months to come. and yet beijing has shown no inclination whatsoever of granting universal suffrage to the people of hong kong. the authorities in beijing must be increasingly irritated by what they are seeing in hong kong, and not only the recent takeover of the parliament and the chamber but that these continuing demonstrations day after day. absolutely, i would love to hear what the conversations have like from beijing to the government in hong kong. going anger and clearing them out, they have tried the heavy—handed approach which doesn't seem to work. everything hong kong government has done has just emboldened this population. this weekend there were four protests. and it seems that every

weekend there are more and more planned. at some point, the danger is that beijing will say, we are going to take this into our own hands, and that could involve the people's liberation army coming out ina people's liberation army coming out in a worst—case scenario and really taking control of the streets. i think that is a nightmare scenario for the future of hong kong. for all sides. both the protest is under government have to find a way forward , government have to find a way forward, because they are now pulls apart these protesters, they want to be able to choose who governs them, and beijing, as i said, showing no inclination whatsoever granting that. power has been restored to all of new york city after a cut lasting several hours. the difficulties started with a fire in an electrical transformer in manhattan — the most densely populated of the city's five boroughs. street lights and traffic lights were put out of action,

and the subway system was affected. tim allman reports. life is certainly never dull in new york city. the upper west side of manhattan, members of the public having to direct cars because the traffic lights weren't working. and this was the new york subway, much of it cast into darkness. the trains providing the only illumination. these photographs were taken by one manhattan resident who told the bbc what it was like when the lights went out. it is a very eerie because half of the city is essentially black and the other half to the south was fine. it was a strange place to be from my vantage point. one part of town that was affected was broadway with many shows having to be cancelled. jennifer lopez tweeted: "devastated and heartbroken that i can't perform for all of you tonight. we will make this up to you, i promise".

irony of ironies, all this happened 42 years to the day after the famous new york blackout of 1977. that was on a much larger scale and lasted nearly two days. but a reminder of how things can go very wrong indeed. this could have been much worse. when you're talking about a city like new york with a significant piece of the city suffering a blackout, that could be a very chaotic situation. we saw the exact opposite. some traffic problems continued into the night, as work went on to restore power to all manhattan. times square was unaffected, still lit up like a christmas tree. new york is always defiant. tim allman, bbc news. more now on our top story. the mail on sunday has published more leaked diplomatic correspondence from britain's former

ambassador in washington, defying warnings from scotland yard that media organisations could be prosecuted for doing so. in one of the cables, sir kim darroch suggests that president trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal last year to spite barack obama. i'm joined byjason dittmer, professor of political geography at ucl. what do you think is the significance of this second tranche of diplomatic memos that have been published? of diplomatic memos that have been published 7 i suppose of diplomatic memos that have been published? i suppose the signal can slice in the connection to a very contemporary events. we have crisis in the gulf, it was earlier week or so in the gulf, it was earlier week or so ago that president trump pulled back from reportedly launching military strikes on iran, so going back to the origins of this crisis in trouble pulling out are the iran deal seems timely. i am not so sure

the revelation itself is so much of a blockbuster since it was stated british policy at the time. the leak correspondence suggests that donald trump abandoned the around the clear deal, according to the mail on sunday, as an act of diplomatic vandalism to spite barack obama. does that ring true? yes, it kind of does. a lot of the early trump administration, maybe even the contemporary trump administration, was about expressly rolling back what they saw as the damage of the 0bama era. also the cultural and wider identity area and elements of the 0bama administration. i think we can see that there was a motive that parallels what was in the leaks. colin get vandalism may sound like it is controversial, but looking at the current crisis, and the 0bama administration managed to pull these people together with different ideas and come to an agreement, to undo

that as may be vandalism is the right word. how much damage has the league of these memos done to the so—called special relationship? we have seen the fallout, the resignation of the british ambassador. if we look past those immediate events, i wouldn't say that the event itself causes damage to the special relationship. it reveals the state of the special relationship. president trump on the one hand so desperately wants a state visit in the way that he did, and also to turn on the people who enable that for him because of some embarrassing revelations in such a public fashion, it reveals perhaps how precarious this is. you cannot really cou nt how precarious this is. you cannot really count on long—term alliance with united states in this way under this president. do think people in the united states care very much about all of this? i suspect not. certainly they may care about it for

a moment. if we give it about six hours or so, there will be some other presidential tweet or something else that moves on the dialogue in the fashion that we have seed of the last couple of years. dialogue in the fashion that we have seed of the last couple of yearsm may not be an amazing revelation, but it does bring the focus back onto iran, and iran, as usa and, thatis onto iran, and iran, as usa and, that is a very dangerous crisis that is happening in the gulf. we have shipping that is needing military protection, the constant risk of somebody making a miscalculation, with eight is the iranians are one of the warships that are protected that shipping, and accurately to a wider conflict. yes, absolutely. the achievement of the iran deal was to get everyone with all of their various interest to agree on something. it may not have been perfect for everyone, but everybody was able to see that this was better than the path that everything was going. within a year or a year and a half are pulling out, we can see how badly the crisis has gone. i think

it isa badly the crisis has gone. i think it is a big deal, and i think the second revelation is kind of interesting because it does kind of put distance between borisjohnson who was the foreign secretary at the time and who went to washington to ask trump not to pull out of the deal, and with president trump. they have been in axis recently, but this highlights the differences between british policy and trump policy. thank you for being with us. this week marks 50 years since man first landed on the moon, and if it wasn't for a ground—breaking british invention, we may never have got there. a scientist at cambridge university developed the fuel cell which provided the electricity to power part of the apollo 11 space craft. here's our science correspondent richard westcott. tucked away on board apollo 11, just behind neil armstrong, is a small device without

which president nixon said they would not have reached the moon. and here is one part of it. it doesn't look much. this is a classic example of an object that looks so simple on the outside, incredibly complex on the inside and actually changed the course of history. it's an electrode from a bacon fuel cell. a prototype because the original was left in space. as we can see from the old manual, 30 of those discs combined into a cell that provided the electricity for apollo 11. it consumes hydrogen and oxygen to water and produces electrical energy. he makes it sound simple, but the inventor cracked a huge scientific problem — to turn the theory of a fuel cell into a practical working device. it seems to me that this is almost as revolutionary as the discovery of steam traction. would you agree?

i would like to think so, but remember, i am an enthusiast, so perhaps you should have that confirmed by someone else. professorjohn davidson knew tom bacon well. he was always very polite. he would ask you what your interests were, and if they had any bearing on the fuel cell, he was deeply interested. but if they did not, he switched off. but why was the fuel cell quite so good? and how does it work? new students in bacon's old cambridge department showed me. you are on television. look down the lens and tell everybody what we have here. we have a small pot of soapy water here and a balloon filled with hydrogen gas. what we will do is generate a layer of hydrogen bubbles on top of the water and then we will ignite it and you shall see a small—scale explosion.

the cell used hydrogen and oxygen that were already on board apollo as rocket fuel. when combined, they create energy... ..which can generate electricity. even better, the only byproduct was water, which the crew drank. it is safer, lighter, it is smaller, quieter and, above all, more efficient. the bacon fuel cell. the small british invention that made the moon landings possible. sport, and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's damien. england, new zealand. new zealand and doing all right. finally

balance, i suppose. and doing all right. finally balance, isuppose. —— and doing all right. finally balance, i suppose. —— finally balance. a battling half century from henry nicholls steadied new zealand nerves after an encouraging start for england in the cricket world cup final at lord's. currently 141—4. nicholls was out for 55. john watson is at lord's for us. it has been a crucial really for england, those big wickets, big breakthroughs. martin got always first by the high score at the last world cup. court lbw of chris woakes, new zealand 21 nike —— 29—1. big breakthrough for kane williamson cop byjos big breakthrough for kane williamson cop by jos buttler of big breakthrough for kane williamson cop byjos buttler of the bowling of liam plunkett for just cop byjos buttler of the bowling of liam plunkett forjust 30. it was henry nichols who then followed as well. having reviewed and lbw decision he could have gone earlier

in the new zealand innings. liam plunkett getting his second wicket as nicholls went for 55. mark wood getting a fourth wicket a few members ago. taking the wickets of ross taylor. new zealand ne 35th over, 142—4, england will be pleased with those breakthroughs add the wickets that they have taken, because as we know it is not often, it has not proved fruitful for those teams trying to chase totals here. four matches staged here, they have been won by the team that have batted first, but we know that england can chase down a total. they proved that against australia in the semifinals. that didn't quite play out on some of those matches that they lost in the group stages. eoin morgan will be pleased with that not be disappointed with the cloud cover here, bowling first, he will be pleased to have seen those wickets fall. as we know, eglin have the firepower. with jason roy

fall. as we know, eglin have the firepower. withjason roy back fall. as we know, eglin have the firepower. with jason roy back in the side, who has been crucial to help england of the line, get them entered this world cup final, and as we know, this is a tournament that england have never won before. 27 years that the last final. they lost backin years that the last final. they lost back in 1992, they face new zealand who have great pedigree, reaching the final four years ago, they lost to azalea. neither of these two have ever w011 to azalea. neither of these two have ever won a title at world cup. we know a new name will be on the trophy this year. for eoin morgan and the usable inside lords, they will hope that that will be england. defending champion novak djokovic stands in the way of roger federer and a record—equalling ninth wimbledon singles title. the top two seeds meet on centre court later this afternoon as an epic day of sport continues. holly hamilton is at wimbledon for us. usually exciting here, because what

i treat we have in store. defending champion and world number one facing his old rival and the second seed, roger federer on centre court. novak djokovic has been looking unstoppable at this tournament so far. he has only dropped two sets in the past two weeks. but he has not faced an opponent seeded inside a top 20 just yet. he does come here having one three of the passport grand slam is. roger federer does have history on his side. he has won wimbledon more times than any other man, and winning today would equal a martina navratilova's record of nine wimbledon titles. he has had a trickier journey. wimbledon titles. he has had a trickierjourney. three—hour wimbledon titles. he has had a trickier journey. three—hour battle and a semifinal with rafael nadal. he early dropped sets against the eighth seed, and in his opening match ago the debutant lloyd harris which came as a surprise to most people. today this will be the 48th

meeting between these two, and it is