hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... a former uk conservative minister — and current mp — is arrested on suspicion of rape, sexual assault and coercive control. classified documents released by the british military raise new questions about whether uk special forces killed unarmed civilians in afghanistan. the australian state of victoria declares a "state of disaster" as the number of new coronavirus cases rises steeply. meanwhile, south africa records more than half a million virus infections — the fifth highest number in the world. now for a look at all the sport with jane.

that the sport with jane. is including all the fallout from that is including all the fallout from the dramatic fa cup final. arsenal will be more determined than ever to keep hold of their captain pierre—emerick aubameyang, after he led them to victory over chelsea in the fa cup final. the win secures arsenal a place in europe next season. it was the first time the final had been played at wembley without fans, and chelsea were quickest to settle, christian pulisic putting them ahead after just five minutes. aubameyang has been linked with a move away this summer, but there was no questioning his commitment yesterday. he equalised with a penalty and then scored a sensational winner. manager mikel arteta said aubameyang needed more experience with trophies, after he dropped the cup, before eventually holding it aloft. arteta says he wants to build a squad around him next season, but for now, he's happy to have yet another fa cup triumph. it is a double reward for us. it's really important for this club,

in every way, to be in europe. we've done it through this competition, winning it. it's part of our history. it's 1a now. i contributed, we all did it, so i'm so happy. eddie howe wrote an open letter to bournemouth fans, after leaving the club by mutual consent. he told them it was one of the hardest decisions he'd ever had to make. the club's five—year spell in the premier league came to an end when they were relegated last weekend. howe‘s association with bournemouth as a player and manager spanned 25 years — but he said it was the right time for the club to have a change. celtic‘s bid for a record tenth scottish premiership in a row begins this afternoon, when they take on hamilton. their closest rivals last season, rangers, kicked off the season with a 1—nil win at aberdeen. ryan kent with the goal. lewis hamilton will be favourite to win today's british grand prix, after he set the fastest ever lap at silverstone, to take pole position. despite a little slip

up during qualifying, he was in impressive form, recovering to break the track record twice on his way to the 9ist pole of his career. he was a third of a second quicker than team mate valtteri bottas, and a full second ahead of red bull's max verstappen. i had that horrible spin, and i didn't get the lap in. and meanwhile, valterri's just doing step—by—step, good lap after good lap after good lap, which is really, really hard to bounce back from. but the last two laps were super—sweet. so, i'm so happy and grateful for them. england's cricketers made hard work of it but they won the second one day international against ireland, to take an unbeatable 2—0 lead in the series. adil rashid became the first english spinner to take 150 wickets in this format of the game, with ireland only managing 212 for 9. jonny bairstow was really impressive, hitting 82 offjust 41 balls, before england suffered

a mid—innings wobble — but they recovered to win by 4 wickets with 105 balls to spare. three—time world snooker champion mark williams is through to the second round at the crucible, but if it weren't for the pandemic, he might never have been there. williams admitted he'd seriously considered quitting the sport, until the coronavirus lockdown gave him a fresh perspective. he beat alan mcmanus 10—5, and said he'd decided now that he's not going to retire. five professional boxing matches took place last night, not at the 02 arena, but in a back garden. promoter eddie hearn has transformed his matchroom headquarters in essex to host fights over the the next month. it's part of a bio—bubble created to allow four ‘fight camp‘ garden events. among last night's contests, super lightweight dalton smith extended his undefeated run as a professional to six,

with a fifth—round knockout of nathan bennett. we also have the resumption of the super league season today, as well as the final day of the battle of the brits team tennis competition, which you can watch on the bbc sport webiste. that's all from me — now on bbc news, here's ben with the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us. with me are katy balls, deputy political editor of the spectator and business journalist, john crowley. the sunday telegraph reports radical government plans are being drawn up to avert a second national lockdown, including enhanced shielding, tighter local measures and sealing off the capital. the observer has a warning from one

of the country's biggest teaching unions that parents and teachers need further reassuring that schools are safe to reopen next month. the sunday times says the defence secretary has been ordered to explain why evidence was withheld from a judge — which showed sas troops had killed 33 afghan civilians in night raids in 2011. the mail on sunday reports a conservative mp has been arrested on suspicion of raping and sexually assaulting a commons researcher. a conservative party spokesman has said they ‘take all allegations of this nature extremely seriously.‘ and the sunday express has conducted a poll, which shows millions of brits say they won't be going away this year due to concerns about coronavirus. katy and john are here for the time being at least. let's kick off with the telegraph. they have got this ministerial blueprint to avoid a new

lockdown, including enhanced shielding, tighter local measures, sealing off the capital, as i mentioned. quite a long rest. ministers and officials are considering a range of options, which are various methods to try and avoid a spike. one of those is prolonged shielding. remember that... adding to that, also the idea of a local lockdown with the entirety of london. we have already seen lockdowns across the uk, but because we see beethoven's action rising in recent weeks, i think lots of people in government —— the rate of people in government —— the rate of infection. it is coming up the track quicker than people hoped, which is why they are looking at things to avoid a national lockdown.

things i not going really according to plan, although it is hired to know with coronavirus what exactly the plan is. but infections are rising, and it —— borisjohnson‘s hoped to fire up the economy is proving difficult. one thing that defined borisjohnson's politics is a kind of not really telling people what to do. he is a libertarian, and you can see that he is kind of resting with this dilemma. a few weeks ago, he was saying hopefully things will be back to normal by christmas. and one thing that you cannot do with this virus is actually predict the future. but that goes against the prime minister's instincts. in terms of the detail, in the sunday telegraph, they are saying that people may have to have enhanced or a differential

shielding which will bewilder the 2 million people who, yesterday, were finally told after nearly five months that they can finally venture out into society again. there is more detail, actually, in the sunday times where they may consider scrapping the green list of countries where you can fly and everyone may have to self—isolate, self quarantine for 14 days. london might be kind of shutdown if the virus spreads therewithin the confines of the m25. in terms of schooling, they want to get schools open, but it might have to go on a rater. there is not much meat on the bone, but i think they are floating these ideas to soft and up the population against should be disease ta ke

population against should be disease take of —— rota. population against should be disease take of -- rota. the observer lead on whatjohn mentioned about schools reopening, they have sounded alarm in the past about this, some people, but the reopening of schools quite close. we are now in august. it is only a month or so away. how concerning eu think this prospect is for ministers of reopening schools? i think we have seen how uphill it was to get pupils back into schools. they moved it to september. teachers raising questions. it is interesting that this week we heard chris whitty, the chief medical officer, go further than boris johnson whitty, the chief medical officer, go further than borisjohnson in the press c0 nfe re nce , go further than borisjohnson in the press conference, borisjohnson think he was pausing some of the lockdown measures. what chris whitty said was that we had reached or at least were very close to the remit of the number of things that could open whilst keeping the virus under

control. if you want schools to open, you may need other things to close. in whitehall, it is the pubs and schools dilemma. for some people, it is not such a dilemma. the issue is, if things go in the direction that they are, we have some restrictions placed back and schools opening to get that balance. i think the government is completely determined to get schools back. it could be a rota system. it could be schools not quite as we know it. the cost of education, continuing remote schooling... there's lots of concern of teachers, that there are two things. does something else had to close ? things. does something else had to close? and does the level of confidence among the public, will

pa rents confidence among the public, will pa re nts wa nt confidence among the public, will parents want to send their children back to school? you can open things, but if public confidence isn't there, they are not going to be fully used. it is extraordinary that that might be the choice, whether you keep the pubs open or you could be schools open? you have publicans and they will say that a lot of their patrons who are desperate for pubs to stay open, but you also have some teaching unions who are very nervous about reopening schools. they don't want to be put in that situation of, let's see if the virus doesn't spread. in the observer piece, someone representing teachers saying they are seeking greater clarification. and then there is another scientist and expert from the university of east anglia who is saying when you close down schools that you actually tapped only virus

ina big that you actually tapped only virus in a big way. critics of this will accuse them of playing politics in a big way as they did in may and will say it is a decades long battle between teaching unions and the conservative party in which they are kind of playing politics. but teaching unions would, of course, resist that allegation and say, we're just protecting a remembrance. let's talk about the sunday express. they have got a pole. they say that virus fears put lives back on hold and bat millions of people are saying they are not going to go away for a holiday because of coronavirus. we have had this saga of which countries are on the list and which aren't, the whole thing about spain. do you think that is putting off many british people for going on a foreign holiday this summer? yes. i think there are lots of people that were not going to go abroad anyway, partly because of the

virus fares, partly because it clearly is a time of financial difficulty for a lot of people, with a lot of uncertainty —— virus fears. as someone who did that a holiday, with hindsight, you look at the difficulties of air bridges, even the air bridges in place don't look very stable. it is a really difficult thing. it is difficult for the travel industry, and ultimately, it goes back to the issue that it is not just one it goes back to the issue that it is notjust one crisis that the government has to deal with. it is a public—health one, but it is also an economic one. azucena government sites to work on the economic opening things up, encouraging people to do things, the public health issue rises again —— as soon as the government. there are such competing demands right now of things that need to be looked at going forward. you booked a holiday. are you actually going to go on

holiday? we live in hope. what about you, john? are you going away this summer? i did a staycation down in devon. and then i stayed in west sussex. i am devon. and then i stayed in west sussex. lam being devon. and then i stayed in west sussex. i am being a good boy supporting the british economy. what do you make of the poll that millions of people will not be going away. does that make sense to you? yes, it does. we have criticised the government for their messaging campaigns, but the first one, stay at home, save lives, has been incredibly, perhaps too successful. i was reading one piece over the weekend about boris johnson driving in his chauffeur driven car over the streets of empty london and saying, why are people not going back to their working lives? people are frightened, as this sunday express polls shows. where are all the

people, thought the prime minister! let's go to the sunday times, katy. away from the coronavirus, they have got e—mails reviewing officers' fears of a road sas execution squad. tell us about that. this all relates toa tell us about that. this all relates to a court case. ultimately, this goes back to what they sunday times have described as the suspected gary's on in afghanistan in 2011—— goings—on. there has been a court case looking at how people were treated, the death of certain people. the court case with this document, the fact that there could have been an investigation is releva nt to have been an investigation is relevant to it. it wasn't brought forward. the documents have now been and the defence secretary is being asked by thejudge and the defence secretary is being asked by the judge to explain why this evidence was withheld. the

complaint was made three years after these things allegedly happen. there's a lot of pressure on the defence secretary to give an account of why. john, the mail on sunday they have got a tory mp quizzed by police over sex attacks. there is not a huge amount we can say about the story for legal reasons, but it is on the front page of quite a few of the papers. yes, it is. you go on to social media, you go on to twitter today and there is a guessing game going on. you can relax, i guessing game going on. you can relax, lam not guessing game going on. you can relax, i am not going to divulge any names, but people are already trying to do piecemeal identification and trying to work out who this mp is. you know, apart from this incredibly serious allegation, i think there is a secondary political aspect to it in the sense that the chief whip, you have been reporting this morning, has kind of said that they

didn't... they morning, has kind of said that they didn't. .. they knew morning, has kind of said that they didn't... they knew that this had been raised. i think it was they didn't know the magnitude, i think that was the word that was used, of the allegations. but the newspapers will be looking today at just how long the conservative party knew about these allegations, how serious they were and how long, possibly, did base it on them for. katy, the conservative party statements said they take all allegations extremely seriously —— virus —— it's the type of allegation in the process it will now move to that i think. you can look at recent events in the tory party. you had a conservative mp last week found guilty of sexual harassment and i think there is scrutiny, is the party doing with

this in the way that they should be? particularly when you had the house of commons recently trying to improve its own channels for looking at things like bullying and harassment. john, the sunday times have got a story about the cash tills shut at the bank of mum and dad. this is going to lime young people hoping to get their foot on the first rung on the property ladder —— alarm. a company is not allowing mothers and fathers to help with the deposit. the bank of mum and dad used to be good for your money, that is where young people looking to get onto the property ladder used to go to. now, in the light of covid—19 and the economic crisis that we are in, they are saying, actually we need to see what you are earning and how much savings you are earning and how much savings you have got. i think they want

three quarters of the savings to be from yourself. they give a kind of example. i think it is a £475,000 home in london, a £70,000 deposit. the bank of mum and dad can only put up the bank of mum and dad can only put up £15,000 now. i don't know how many mum and dads having breakfast up many mum and dads having breakfast up and down the country feel about having £15,000 on the back of their sofa to give to their nearest and dearest. but it is a big moment for people time to get on the property ladder if they are banking with nationwide are going to nationwide for a mortgage. apparently, last year, the bank of mum and dad provided £5 billion worth of deposit money. mahatma ghandi is going to be the first bame singer on a coin? yes. i

think at the moment, ghandi is the person most likely to be first. —— figure. you have a separate independent body looking to see how it would work. i think if you join the dots, that seems to be where we are heading. that also putting out calls to say we should notjust are heading. that also putting out calls to say we should not just stop here. more suggestions for more figures. john, does that make sense to have figures like ghandi on coins, banknotes? ithink there to have figures like ghandi on coins, banknotes? i think there was a big campaign to get jane austen on a big campaign to get jane austen on a £10 note, a very long campaign. i think it was nearly 100% of people who were on banknotes were kind of white male and deceased. i think getting people on poly onto banknotes and coins is a good thing. the one thing i would say is that

ghandi isa the one thing i would say is that ghandi is a controversial figure in himself because he has been accused of being misogynist and racist himself to black people in south africa where he practised as a lower. this is a problem, when you put political people forward, they will be void over —— poured over. put political people forward, they will be void over —— poured ovenm this part of a wider cultural revolution in the wake of george floyd or was this the sort of thing that was going to happen anyway in this country? i think it was a general direction, but i think things have been accelerated. you saw the black lives matter protests, the strength of feeling. i think now we are seeing the strength of feeling. i think now we are seeing every conversations about why is that statue there, should that person be there? it is only natural that that starts to go to other figures that we judged to

be culturally important. let's end up be culturally important. let's end up with the sa cup final. —— fa cup. my arsenal supporting friends are kind of blase, we've already won it 14 times. it was kind of weird yesterday, because there were no fans there, the time has been moved from the traditional pint to 5pm. arsenal won their 14th championship. qpr still waiting. the pack fell apart when it was collected by aubameyang —— cup fell apart.

apart when it was collected by aubameyang -- cup fell apart. he is a great goal—scorer but he is not a goalkeeper, certainly. it is a shame that we couldn't have fans packed into the stadium, arsenal and chelsea fans. it was a bit word, but a shout out for the heads up campaign that prince william is doing with the fa, doing work with footballers, role models to try and get them to talk about issues and problems. he has recently made great strides in this full area about mental health, katy? yes, they think you see the duke and duchess of cambridge holding various sessions. whatever you think of the monarchy, they are a platform, which means that they do have this reach, which is hard for celebrities and politicians to get that, a reach which is beyond just asserting groups. do you think we are seeing

more of william and kate because of harry and megan's absence? are they filling a void to some extent, john? that is a good question. theyjust seem that is a good question. theyjust seem to be getting on with things. the filter that they are seen through is, let's face it, it is on the front of a newspaper. and the reason why his brother and sister—in—law, the duke and duchess of sussex are in the papers, they seem of sussex are in the papers, they seem to be having a moan about their lot from their home in la. there is certainly... it seems like the duke and duchess of cambridge i winning hands down at the moment. katy, enjoy your holiday if you go on your holiday. many thanks indeed for being with us. that is it from us.

goodbye. it will be pleasant enough today where the sun is on your back, feeling warm enough. when the sun isn't committed to their and showers coming your way. it fulfilled a little on the poolside. a scattering of showers this afternoon, not dissimilar to yesterday. —— cool side. between showers, longerspells of sunshine compared with the morning. maybe 17 or 18 degrees towards the east. more showers towards the east. more showers towards northern ireland this afternoon. showers tracking eastwards a cross afternoon. showers tracking eastwards across england. compared with the morning, fewer showers. eeeeesssssttttt will see a more. 23,

24 the high —— east we will see them. as we go through the evening and overnight, showers in eastern areas will fade. we will see one or two continuing in the west. clear skies across many areas and it does mean that with a cooler ms in place, temperatures will drop tonight. away from the city centre, temperatures will drop. —— from the city centre, temperatures willdrop. —— air from the city centre, temperatures will drop. —— air mass. a cold front approaching from the west. in between them, it does mean dry and bright weather with some time first thing. a few shower clouds this afternoon. the odd heavier one. more of you will spend the day dry tomorrow. even if it is not particularly warm in the cloudy times, it will feel pleasant again when the sun is out. as we go through tuesday and into wednesday,

weather fronts sitting across scotla nd weather fronts sitting across scotland and northern ireland produce lives amount of rainfall, particularly across northern ireland. rain at times for northern northern ireland. 20, 20 five celsius by this stage. it is going to get even warmer still as we get to get even warmer still as we get to the end of the week. a cool start to the end of the week. a cool start to the end of the week. a cool start to the week. summer heat will return, particularly across england. we will keep you updated throughout the week.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a former uk conservative minister and current mp is arrested on suspicion of rape, sexual assault and coercive control. classified documents released by the british military raise new questions about whether uk special forces killed unarmed civilians in afghanistan. the australian state of victoria declares a "state of disaster" as the number of new coronavirus cases rises steeply. meanwhile, south africa records more than half a million virus infections — the fifth highest number in the world. and the owners of one of britain's oldest vineyards threatened by lockdown raise a glass to the kindness of strangers.