last year it sebastien vettel, ferrari had a better car.e a big step and they have the best engines, a very good chassis and they have sebastien vettel against lewis hamilton in the same for mercedes. it has got all the ingredients for a thriller. just described, for a driver, the psychological battle but must go on between the likes of sebastien vettel and lewis hamilton when they are both at the top of their game. it is intense, the life of a formula 1 driver is intense, there are only 20 of them and the pressure is huge. the pressure is bigger on the ones at the front. they are being watched, everything they do. when sebastien vettel threw away the win in germany, you could see the pressure was so much. it boiled over. we have saw the same from lewis hamilton in germany the day before as well. it is huge pressure, a long season, still ten more races to go and with every race, the pressure gets more. it is huge, psychologically this raises big because there is a three—week gap and the drivers will have to stew over whatever happens. sebas

with championship leader sebastien vettel roaring off the line leading from pole, hamilton might haveelt his luck had run out. the britain fought his way up the field climbing to fifth before halfway. further progress looked unlikely to a storm arrived, shaking up the race and the championship. vettel was the biggest casualty. his pride clearly hurt. sorry, guys. that handed his ferrari teammate kimi raikonnen the lead until he stopped for fresh tyres. hamilton stayed out at the last moment to move ahead but crossing the pit lane line led to a telling off from the stewards after he claimed the chequered flag for the fourth time this season. a late twist on a day when his championship hopes were expected to take a battering but ended with him back on top. nick pa rrott, ended with him back on top. nick parrott, bbc news. the arsenal midfielder mesut ozil says he no longer wants to play international football for germany after facing, what he calls racism and disrespect because of his turkish roots. in a lengthy statement, ozil, who was a key member of germany's world cup—winning side i

he is eight points behind championship leader sebastien vettel, with the german clinching pole in hisreaction news on the the bbc sport website, clive. the exceptionally dry start to the summer is forcing the closure of one of britain's longest waterways. 55 miles of the leeds and liverpool canal will shut for a month at the end ofjuly, because of concerns over water supplies. phil bodmer has the story. a narrow boat navigates barrowford lock on the leeds liverpool canal. but from the end of this month, that will no longer be possible as a 55 mile stretch of one of britain's most popular waterways is closed simply because of a lack of water. we have not got the water to feed into the canal to keep them going. it is a difficult decision for us to take but it is simply down to this glorious summer that we are all enjoying. the leeds liverpool canal, which crosses the pennines through yorkshire and lancashire, is the longest man—made waterway in britain. it is also one of the highest, with water travelling downhill from huge reservoirs it is stored in. this is just one of a number of res

he is eight points behind championship leader sebastien vettel, with the german clinching pole in hisworld cup in san francisco. that‘s it. there‘s more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel and i‘ll be back with the late news at 10pm. now on bbc one, it‘s time for the news where you are. bye for now. hello. this is bbc news with annita mcveigh searches have been continuing throughout the day at a park in salisbury where it‘s believed that two people, poisoned by a nerve agent, may have picked up a contaminated bottle. charlie rowley — whose partner dawn sturgess died — is now out of hospital but still unable to return to his home, which remains cordoned off. earlier our news correspondent simon jones, whose been at the scene in salisbury, sent us this update. you have got officers with protective suits who go into the park to try to search for clues. what we had around lunchtime is the officers heading over to that area, to a park bench. they took samples from that bench, and photos, and took away evidence bags as part of their investigation. what we do know is police are no