this is bbc news. the headlines at 11am. storm warnings as a big operation continues to prevent a catastrophic collapse of the damaged dam in derbyshire. this is the same life, as the raf chinook helicopter is once again continuing its operations over the reservoir, as attempts are made to prevent water from exceeding the level. the prime minister visits whaley bridge and promises a "major rebuild" to make the dam safe. this is a major problem. if that dam goes, you know the potential disruption that can wreak on the whole of the village below.

the home secretary tells criminals they should "literally feel terror" at the thought of breaking the law. the authorities in hong kong are preparing for a ninth consecutive weekend of protests. both pro—beijing and pro—democracy activists are preparing to hold simultaneous mass rallies. this is the scene in hong kong, as china's central government has issued increasingly stern warnings about unrest. coming up in dateline london, the panel assess what borisjohnson has achieved. that is at 11:30am, half an hourfrom achieved. that is at 11:30am, half an hour from now. very good morning

reservoir, in derbyshire — which is threatening to burst through a dam and flood the town beneath it. attempts have been made to shore up the dam at whaley bridge, which was damaged on thursday, and yesterday raf helicopters spent hours trying to reinforce the structure. the authorities say there is a "substa ntial threat to life" if it fails completely and a severe weather warning remains in place — for the areas seen here in red. some residents in whaley bridge will be allowed to return briefly today, to collect essentials. jane—frances kelly has more. the prime minister flew in to see the dam for himself and to meet displaced residents. nice to see you. some appeared pleased to meet him, enjoying a diversion from the stress of the last few days, but he was also heckled. fix the infrastructure so this doesn't happen again! we are! borisjohnson also met some of the emergency service crews who have been working around the clock. well, it is looking

dodgy, but stable is how i would describe it. i mean, they have done an amazing job. as you can tell, the chinooks have brought in about 400 bags of stone, huge, huge quantities of aggregate gone into that hole and you still can't really tell that the hole has been filled. so, there is a major, major structural problem with the dam. raf chinook crews have been carefully dropping bag after bag in an attempt to hold back 300 million gallons of water. the fire service are also hoping to install more pumps over the weekend to reduce water levels. the dam was built in the 19th century and has a simple construction of clay surrounded by mud. in order to relieve pressure during torrential downpours, it was designed to allow water to flow over the top. but the flow on wednesday was so powerful, it damaged the structure. i must stress that the structural integrity of the dam wall

is still at a critical level and there is still a substantial threat to life should the dam wall fail. so our plea is that we would ask for residents to continue to heed police advice and stay away from whaley bridge. but because many were made to leave so quickly, the authorities are now allowing one resident per household to return to their homes for 15 minutes to collect pets and other vital possessions. when everyone will return for good remains uncertain. jane—frances kelly, bbc news. these are the pictures as the tunic carries a mixture of sand and gravel. —— tunic chinook. we are told that since thursday, the water level in the dam has only dropped about half a metre, and there is still a long way to go because the big fear is tomorrow, that enormous

reservoir will be faced with further fresh rainfall and further risks of flooding, further risk that the level might be over topped and the water could start rushing down onto the village beneath. the key thing really is to preserve the wall to ensure there is not further damage, reduce the water level, reduce the pressure on the structure, and then they can start to think about the moods needed to reconstitute the big operation that the prime minister was talking about to ensure the dam is not only safe for now, but safe in the future if, as we are told they are going to be more examples of extreme weather events that the infrastructure was just not designed for in the early part of the 19th century. the pictures give you a really good sense, i think, of the scale of the operation that is involved, and we are waiting to see

at what point they release those bags of sand and gravel onto the reservoir. it is obviously such an enormous site. we were told by one of the companies in the area that it sold about 186 bags of aggregate yesterday, something that would take about a month. yesterday, something that would take abouta month. —— yesterday, something that would take about a month. —— normally take about a month. —— normally take about a month. —— normally take about a month. speaking to bbc breakfast, the environment minister therese coffey said that dams do have safety checks regularly and people can be confident that they are safe. but added that this was an extraordinary weather event which could not have been forecast. this is a category a reservoir, recognising the risks, and that is why they already have to have independent engineers who do regular inspections. it is important people have confidence that around

the country the reservoirs are inspected regularly. of course we are building up new policies, a new strategy to anticipate more events like this happening in terms of intensive rainfall. that is why we want to increase our resilience, aware of the issues that could become greater and greater with the climate change we are experiencing. that was the environment minister, theres coffey, who moved from the theresa may government to the boris johnson government, an experienced environment minister, and she has been looking at all kinds of innovations, she was telling me when we last saw the coastal erosion in england and some of the plans that may be needed, looking for natural inspiration, for example the sort of pla nts inspiration, for example the sort of plants used in the southern united states, for example, to deal with the problems they have there with

flooding. they are certainly trying to think a bit more long—term about all of this, but to a certain extent that has to be crisis management, and this is an example of that crisis management. so the chinook is in place, waiting to drop the bags of aggregate from the 180 or so it acquired yesterday. there may well be more needed. you can see the rush of the water even now, this huge dam in derbyshire, built in around 1831. environment agency records a p pa re ntly environment agency records apparently give the date as 1841, just a small illustration of some of the practical problems, that actually a lot of paperwork for these kind of structures is not really in existence, and a lot of engineering work therefore has to be devoted to actually checking physically what is there, rather than relying on what the records tell you. there you can see the gap which is slowly but surely being

plugged, not entirely by any means watertight at this stage, but a lot of progress is being made, even though the water level, we are told, has only dropped by about half a metre in the reservoir itself. that is cold the spill wall, where the breach occurred. 0nce is cold the spill wall, where the breach occurred. once the service has broken —— surface has broken, water always finds a way to fill the 93p- water always finds a way to fill the gap. so we are going to talk in a moment to our correspondent, who's in whaley bridge. we have been getting some comments from residents of whaley bridge, hearing about when they will be allowed to go home. that is the last

bag being dropped by the raf, precise targeting. you really do not wa nt to precise targeting. you really do not want to waste that bag in this kind of situation. better to be patient and get it right then rushed the job and get it right then rushed the job and have to get more aggregate to fill the space. the sand and gravel bags are filling up, you can clearly see it is not a permanent solution, but a good temporary measure, while they take other measures to try to reduce the levels of water to reduce the risk of the dam overflowing are collapsing, which would be the most catastrophic situation because that would be one that offered no warning at all, whereas overtopping, at least you get some warning early that there is a problem ahead for you. again, one probably wouldn't build a village under a reservoir. there you go, the last bag has gone. i have been wittering away for eight minutes, which gives you a sense of how slow the progress is that has to

be, how time consuming for the raf crew involved, but how vital it is for the people of whaley bridge. let us for the people of whaley bridge. let us hear from for the people of whaley bridge. let us hearfrom a reporter, who is there for us now. i am at this junction, where the police cordoned is, because down that road is the lower end of whaley bridge, that is the area that was evacuated a couple of days ago, and as you said, today there have been residents popping back to their homes, they have been allowed a 15 minute window to come to collect their essentials because many of them had to leave in such a hurry on thursday that they could not pick up all the items they need. so we have had people coming back and the police have been there checking people in and out, and they have their phone number so that if there is an emergency and they have to call them back quickly they have got their numbers to bring them back immediately. i am joined

got their numbers to bring them back immediately. iam joined by got their numbers to bring them back immediately. i am joined by the local liberal democrat councillor, david lomax. david, you were involved in the evacuation process on thursday. how much time that people have before they had to leave? i people have before they had to leave ? i was people have before they had to leave? i was doing one of the side roads underneath the dam. we were not telling people —— we were telling people to get out as quick as they can, not just a matter of minutes, but people did get out very quickly, people understood the situation and got out. what is the latest on how long before they can return to their homes?” latest on how long before they can return to their homes? i was at a residents meeting last night and they were realistically talking about five or six days before they could hopefully get back permanently, and by that time the reservoir should be lowered to five or six more reservoir should be lowered to five or six more metres reservoir should be lowered to five or six more metres than it is at the moment. a very slow process getting the water out, as you appreciate. a lot of water there, and there is only so much you can put in the river before there is flooding downstream, so they are talking about one metre, 1.5 metres per day. there are more pipes heading that

way today, and they are doing their best to lower it as quick as they can. the prime minister attended there yesterday. what did you make of his presence? i think it was good that he came and he has promised the money that will be there to solve the problems for the dam. money that will be there to solve the problems for the damm money that will be there to solve the problems for the dam. it was good to hear that. thank you, david lomax. as he mentioned, there is work continuing to try to shore up the dam. earlier we had the chinook flying overhead, dropping ballast. work is carrying on in earnest with trips from other regions to try to pump away the water using high—volume pumps, because there is a met office weather warning with the promise of more rain and storms coming over the next 24 to 48 hours, even though you might not think it given the sunshine and blue skies today, but the message is clear, we are definitely not it yet. we will hear more during the course of the

morning here on bbc news. the home secretary, priti patel, has said she wants criminals to feel terror at the thought of committing an offence. in herfirst interview since being appointed last week, she said her mission was to restore public confidence in policing. ms patel also distanced herself from her past comments supporting the death penalty. 0ur political correspondent mark lobel told me the prime minister and the new home secretary are keen to shore up the conservatives' traditional image of being the party of law and order. borisjohnson has pledged to bring back 20,000 police officers cut since 2010, they are hoping to bring back over the next three years, with over £1 billion of spending, with recruitment starting in september for england and wales. and priti patel wanting to change the image of the party, to be the party of law and order once again after a rise in recorded crime and violent crime.

she is using herfirst interview here with the mail to say that police officers should be empowered to do the job, and they may relax the regulations on stop and search in order to get criminals to feel terror on the streets, and also taking a harder line on drug use. she points to cannabis use, which some would consider less bad, if you like, on the scale of drug use. she is saying police officers shouldn't turn a blind eye to drug use, even cannabis use. the other area creating interest was that in the past she had declared her support for the reintroduction of the death penalty. something that parliament has blocked for the last 50 years, ever since it was suspended and eventually abolished for the crime of murder. what is she saying on the subject? you don't hear much about capital punishment or the death penalty in britain, do you? she's feeling the need to say that she is not an active supporter of capital punishment, and saying that quotes that had

surfaced from the past were taken out of context. there is no doubt that she certainly supported the reintroduction of capital punishment, she told the bbc did that she did in 2011, the mail on sunday. she is trying to reframe the debate away from those comments to say that she has no intention of picking up her former beliefs in this currentjob, and instead focusing on the need for policing to be more robust. hong kong is bracing for a ninth consecutive weekend of pro—democracy protests. these are the scenes live this morning. activists are preparing to hold another mass rally, despite increasing stern warnings from china's central government about the unrest. the demonstrations began in response to a move to allow the extradition of suspects to mainland china. 0ur correspondent stephen mcdonell is in hong kong at the rally. it is pretty peaceful here at the moment. this is a pro—democracy

rally, i am sure you can see people in black are gathering, marking down this street, and even though they we re this street, and even though they were not given permission for this, they were allowed to gather here. thousands of people have been moving down the streets, this is the main street of the area here. people are heading down towards the harbour in that direction. at the same time, across the harbour, there is a pro—beijing rally, thousands of people as well, but not so many as the pro—democracy gathering, but nevertheless there are thousands there, rival rallies taking place at there, rival rallies taking place at the same time. both, i guess, trying to show they have wider support than the other. however, many more people at the pro—democracy rally at the moment. 0n moment. on thursday the people's liberation

released a video on social media of anti—riots demonstration taking place, and commentators drew conclusions that this was a kind of very u nsu btle conclusions that this was a kind of very unsubtle hint that if protesters d id not very unsubtle hint that if protesters did not kind of calm down quickly, there might be action taken against them. is there any indication from the hong kong authorities that they are minded to ask for help from the mainland?” think that is what the boffins would call signalling, so they are telling all of these people who have come out here today, potentially if things get really bad, that is what we could do. at the moment, though, the hong kong government has said thatis the hong kong government has said that is just rumours, that the people's liberation army would be called out this weekend because there has been the sort of mad rumour this week that martial law could be declared this weekend. the government in hong kong says it is not going to do that, so while they are keeping that in their back

pocket as an option of last resort, and it would be an option of last resort really, there is no indication we are looking to that quite yet. a 55—year—old ultra—runner has become the fastest woman to travel by foot between john 0'groats and lands end. sharon gayter covered the 822 miles in 12 days, 11 hours, 6 minutes, and 7 seconds. the previous record, set in 2008 and run from lands end tojohn 0'groats, was more than four hours longer. sharon's time is yet to be verified by the guinness world records. earlier i caught up with a very tired sharon gayterfrom lands end. you can train your legs, train your muscles, but you cannot train the impact over 12 days. are you quite a strong walker, or do you try to go quite gentle? i am a very quiet runner, you hear a gentle pitter

patter, i make peoplejump out their skin, i'm very gentle on my feet. but that intensity, i suppose, will inevitably cause some damage. so, what have you been doing through the course of the journey to kind of mitigate the effects on your body? because i gather from mitigate the effects on your body? because i gatherfrom hearing steph on breakfast this morning, you haven't been getting a lot of sleep, so you have been running most of the day into quite well into the night. yes, i had a little strategy are used, i runfor yes, i had a little strategy are used, i run for three hours then have a short break to try to put some food, with my feet in iced water, then i run again. so i run in blocks of three hours a day, and that leaves just three hours for sleep. how did you plan this? presumably you had to be quite careful about how you established the stages to ensure you can make the stages to ensure you can make the kind of progress you needed to. presumably you never thought you would get the record down that much?

i had would get the record down that much? ihada would get the record down that much? i had a plan for 12 days, and would get the record down that much? i had a planfor12 days, and i hoped to do that, but there was a contingency so you kind of know things might not go according to plan, so there is a cushion so if things go wrong you have something to play with, you don't plan it to the wire because you know things can happen unexpectedly, like bridge closures, which did happen! lots of sites where there should be a subway, so things sort of slowed me down which were out of my control. sport, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's mike bushell. good morning. day 3 of the ashes is underway, with rory burns back at the crease after recording his first test century yesterday to mean england started the day with 267—4, a mere 17 runs behind australia with six wickets remaining. have they gone past the australian total yet? play got under way at 11

o'clock. this is the latest for you. england are taking a long 275—4. —— ticking along. still early days on day three. the 3rd round of the british open golf at woburn is under way, with plenty of brits leading the pack, chasing the leader, ashley buhai of south africa. the defending champion, georgia hall, shot a second round of 69, including four birdies to finish on 6 under par. bronte law, produced a strong round to put herself into contention, she's on seven under, and so five strokes off the leader. and charley hull, who's playing on her home course, is also in the mix — she birdied the 16th, on her way to also finishing on 7 under par. i think it's just nice to play in front of my home crowd, really feel the support, and i've got my family out watching, and i think that always helps. 0bviously playing a major

is a little different, but i think that if i go out and i play the same way i have been playing, i can keep pushing up that leaderboard. in the opening weekend of the football league season, there are nine opening—day fixtures in the championship today — but they face a tough job, to follow on from last night's entertainment. luton and middlesbrough drew 3—3 in their opening fixture — sonny bradley with a stunning first goalfor luton. that made it 1—1 — four more goals would follow, the last of them from james collins, five minutes from time, to snatch a point for luton. bury‘s second game of the season has been suspended by the english football league, because the club still can't show they can settle outstanding debts. their game today against mk dons was cancelled during the week — they will now not play accrington stanley next weekend. salford city are making their debut in the football this afternoon when they host stevenage

at the peninsula stadium. salford have risen from division one north of the northern premier league to league two injust over five years, since former manchester united players gary and phil neville, paul scholes, nicky butt, ryan giggs and david beckham bought shares in the club. however, history is against them today as only one of the last 11 sides to make their debut in the football league have won their first game. that was aldershot town in 2008. argentina captain lionel messi has been banned from international football for three months for saying that the copa america was "fixed" after he was sent off in their match against chile. the ban means messi will miss upcoming friendlies but will be back in time for argentina's qualifying campaign for the 2022 world cup which begins in march next year. in rugby league, st helens have extended their lead at the top of the table, with a comfortable win over wakefield, while leeds rhinos, moved two points clear of the bottom of the super league table, as they crushed the huddersfield giants. ash handley going over twice for his side, on his 100th appearence for the club. the game finished 44—0 to the

rhinos, and the giants fall to 10th. tyson fury looks set to step back into the ring in las vegas next month, after agreeing terms to fight sweden's 0tto wallin. let me tell you about tyson fury. if the bout goes ahead, the former world heavyweight champion would be a strong favourite, as he seemingly bides his time, for a rematch against deontay wilder. fury is currently in a training camp in marbella. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories and follow third practice at the hungarian grand prix on the bbc sport website. here is tyson fury, just before i go. he has a superior opponent then can step up his plans to take on the potential rematch that so many

people want to see. apologies for so many of the gremlins in the system! now, time for the weather. as you have no doubt seen in the news, the weather has had significant impacts over parts of northern britain in the weekjust gone. the consequence, very heavy downpours. today, a quieter story, but tomorrow and into next week, the heavy showers will, i think, become more of an issue. here we have a lot of dry weather on the cards, but if we ta ke of dry weather on the cards, but if we take a closer look at what is going on, with the sunshine across scotla nd going on, with the sunshine across scotland we may spark some isolated but in ten showers across some of the higher ground, the same as we glide into northern england. perhaps some heavy showers across the midlands and an isolated risk for the south—east. the story, though, changes in terms of the shower risk

on sunday, as the low pressure towards the west starts to increase its influence, so through the course of the evening and overnight we will see some of the showers from central parts fading away but then heavier more organised bands of showers coming in from the west into northern ireland by don, starting to fringe into scotland, with the humidity lifting. 0vernight lows of 14 or 15. then, as the day pans out, with some help from the sunshine heating up the atmosphere, injecting some energy, we will see the shower is more widespread from sunday with a risk of significant intensity with hailand a risk of significant intensity with hail and thunder. some high rain full totals, and the met office has issued a yellow weather warning from the northern midlands to northern england and into southern and central scotland. it is notjust sunday we are concerned about, because this area of low pressure will be with us for the first half

of the new week at least, meaning further bands of heavy showers being pushed across the uk, and again it seems to have a focus of some of the heavier rain being across northern britain. 0n heavier rain being across northern britain. on monday you can see showers just about everywhere, with sunshine taking pressure up —— temperatures into the low 20s. 0n tuesday and wednesday we still have plenty of showers around, with heaviest downpours in northern england, northern ireland and parts of scotland.

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together some of the uk's leading journalists with the foreign correspondents who write under the dateline ‘london' for the folks back home. last week, boris johnson was appointed prime minister and made himself minister for the union, but might he be a latter day lord north, who won power but lost britain's american colonies. in hong kong, eight successive weekends of protest turned violent last sunday. is china preparing a crackdown? with me this weekend are journalist henry chu from variety international, anyes poirier who writes for the french magazine, marianne. maria margaronis, who writes for the nation, and has presented documentaries about the greek crisis and migration polly toynbee, a long—standing columnist with the british newspaper the guardian. boris johnson's championship of the union of england, scotland, wales and northern ireland — or "the awesome foursome" to use thejohnson argo — is looking a little bruised. at the end of a week where the uk's new prime minister carried out visits around the uk, brexit contributed to some testy