A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme, the latest Research Says an extra 100ml of sugary drinks a day about two cans a week would increase the risk of cancer by 18 . So wed like to know to what extent do you chose foods or drinks based on health . Get in touch just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Armed iranian boats are reported to have tried to intercept a British Oil Tanker near the strait of hormuz before being driven off by a british warship. Media reports quoting us officials said the iranian vessel asked the tanker to stop in iranian waters close by, but withdrew after a warning from a royal navy frigate. Its a strategically very important stretch of water between the persian gulf and the gulf of oman, bordered by iran and the united arab emirates. Peter bowes reports. This tanker, the British Heritage tanker was passing through the area. It was about to cross the strait of hormuz when there was an attempt to intercept it by these five iranians votes who were ordering it to change its direction. But the boat, the british warship that was escorting the tanker then trained its guns on the tanker then trained its guns on the uranian boat and ordered them to back off and they heeded the order, backing off and no shots were fired. The british tanker was allowed to go on its way. We had a short statement from the pentagon, the ministry of defence in the United States, confirming that they are aware of these were courts, not adding any additional detail and still waiting for more details from the British Ministry of defence. Jeremy cook, founder of complete currency consulting, joins me now. Give us your take on this story. This is another development in what has been going on there for some weeks and months. It has led to a lot of heightened tensions in the region. The headlines around this harassment, lets say, of a British Oil Tanker and the royal navy having to flex its muscle and say get out of the way and leave them be, that is driving the headline. It comes as a result of the Trump Administrations stands against around. One of the Core Principles of the presidency so far has been rolling back diplomatic efforts by the 0bama presidency, one of which was the nuclear deal in 2015 with iran, allowing for enrichment of uranium toa iran, allowing for enrichment of uranium to a certain standard and certain amount. Iran has now broken that as a result of increasing sanctions. And since the us pulled out of the deal and increased sanctions there have been these attacks on vessels coming through the strait of hormuz and there has been attacks on and this is a critical trade route, isnt it. Just look at the map. That very thin straight, that bit of water and the ability for a foreign power to sit there and say no, we blockade this. We are putting as much pressure here as possible and we talk about the strait of hormuz is much as we do about Interest Rates because of the impact on markets. And as you mentioned it heightens the tensions. The stakes are high. The senior us general this time yesterday said they need International Responses and policing of this water. It is critically important. 0lder viewers will remember the suez crisis and it isa similar will remember the suez crisis and it is a similar piece of geography. We know that france is getting involved diplomatically. Iran has appealed to the eu to say help us bypass the sanctions and whether it needs policing or whether it needs a diplomatic effort to try and cool the tensions and bring some peace to the tensions and bring some peace to the region, we will have to wait and see. Thank you for now. Currently will be back later for the see. Thank you for now. Currently will be back laterfor the news briefing. And a lot more detail on oui briefing. And a lot more detail on our website as well is that story develops. The german chancellor, Angela Merkel, has suffered another shaking spell the third in less than a month. It happened as she stood alongside the finish Prime Minister for the National Anthem in berlin. Finnish Prime Minister. Concerns about her health were first raised, after she was seen shaking during a ceremony with the ukrainian president last month. Ramzan karmali reports Angela Merkel making headlines but not for the reasons shed want. Her public bouts of shaking have fuelled speculation about her health. First, she was seen involuntarily shaking during military honours for the visiting ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. She later appeared to blame dehydration, saying she felt better after drinking some water. The 64 year old was then seen shaking two weeks ago, ahead of her trip to japan, for the g20 summit. Again she told journalists she was fine. Her latest trembling episode took place as she stood next to finnish Prime Minister antti rinne. She insisted there was nothing to be concerned about. Translation to start off, i am fine. I have recently said that i am working through what happened during the military honours with president zelensky. This process is clearly not finished yet but there is progress, and i must live with this for a while but i am well and you do not have to worry about me. Angela merkel has been a mainstay of german politics since the demolition of the berlin wall. She was made womens minister in 1991 and continued to rise up through the ranks of the ruling christian democrats party, ultimately becoming chancellor in 2005. Her work ethic has become stuff of legends and she has even prided herself on having camel like capacity to store up sleep. But now her health is likely to come under much more scrutiny. Those incidents show weakness and weakness is simply not something you want to see with your head of government and certainly not with such a very powerful woman as Angela Merkel is, the leader of europe as some people say, so i guess she would have to give some proper answers and the media now here in germany is shifting and is demanding for such answers. Angela merkel is in herfourth and last term as chancellor. She has already indicated she will leave politics when her current term ends in 2021. Soon she will be going on her Summer Holidays and hopes to return in rude health. Ramzan karmali, bbc news. Lets brief you on some of the other stories making the news. A man has been detained for climbing over a fence onto the forecourt of buckingham palace. Its understood he scaled the barrier to the side of the building in the early hours of wednesday. He was arrested moments later. Royal Officials Say he did not enter the palace building. The body of a us scientist has been found inside a world war ii bunker on the greek island of crete. Suzanne eaton, who went missing more than a week ago after going on a run, died of suffocation. Local police say they are investigating the case as a criminal act. The molecular biologist had been attending a conference on the island when she disappeared. The japanese hayabusa 2 space probe has landed successfully for a second time on the same asteroid, to collect more samples. Hayabusa 2 last visited ryugu in february, when it gathered material spewed from inside the asteroid, about 300 million kilometres from earth. This is the talking point for today, people who consume a lot of sugary drinks. And that includes pure fruitjuice could have a higher risk of developing cancer, according to a new study. The Research Published in the british medicaljournal, looked at 100,000 people in france. It found that the consumption of sweet drinks was associated with increased risk of overall cancer, as well as breast, prostate and bowel cancer. Lauren moss reports. Bottles of pop and sugary drinks are often at the centre of the debate about Healthy Living and obesity. Now a study by scientists in france suggest they are significantly associated with the risk of cancer. Researchers looked at 100,000 people for five years. The average person drink around two cans of sugary drinksa drink around two cans of sugary drinks a week. The study found if they consumed two more cans on top of that, around 100 millilitres a day, there was an 18 risk of cancer. The study did not find any cancelling with artificial sweetener, it could not determine whether sugary drinks cause disease but Health Campaigners say the findings are another indication that inta ke findings are another indication that intake should be limited. They did find a link regardless of weight, thatis find a link regardless of weight, that is interesting. But we need more research on this. In the meantime there is already lots of reasons to cut down on these drinks. Since last year, uk manufacturers have been paying a levy on high syriza drinks. Tory leadership candidate Boris Johnson syriza drinks. Tory leadership candidate borisjohnson provoked criticism from Health Officials last week by vowing to review what he called sin tax when he becomes Prime Minister. Consuming many sugary drinks can lead to weight gain and obesity is a no case of it cancer. But this study says it is notjust that. Soft drinks can be saved as pa rt that. Soft drinks can be saved as part of a balanced diet with this will feed into the continuing discussion about how we can lead a healthier life. We are having that discussion here this morning on the briefing. I asked what are you doing when it comes to food and drink. Are you considering your health or is it not on your radar. Jerome says that the statistics need context. He gives an example of other advice. Another person says that they love healthy food and drink. They have green tea or barley grass and water. Kerry says that water is supposed to be the best for you but i have to have that is of diet cola when i eat. I dont use extra syriza or salt because it is already in the food and frankly i dont like the taste. Thank you for the comments so far, keep them coming and any tips will be welcome as well. The United States has launched an investigation into frances plan to Tax Technology giants like google and facebook saying it may unfairly target American Companies. The french government says companies that make big profits selling Digital Services in france should not be able to escape paying tax simply because their headquarters are elsewhere. 0ur correspondent dave lee reports. Many governments and the citizens they represent are angry that while Technology Giants make millions in their countries, they are able to avoid paying some taxes by basing their operations and recording their profits elsewhere in the world. There had been europewide talks to implement new measures that would Tax TechnologyCompany Revenue rather than profit. Those talks fell through. Some countries pledged to go it alone. France is set to become the first and in doing so the president risks provoking the Trump Administration and its America First aspirations. Frances proposed new tax would apply to any Internet Company that makes its Product Available in the country and has Global Annual revenue of around 850 million. 30 Companies Fall into that bracket said the countrys finance minister. He predicted the tax would bring in between a0 500 Million Euros every single year. But the us is concerned it will end up losing out the most. Trade representative said the tax unfairly targets American Companies because the majority of the firms that meet the criteria i us success stories. Companies such as google, amazon and facebook. His investigation could last up to one year and may be a precursor to new us trade tariffs. There is a lot at stake to the Us State Department estimates there is approximately 1 billion worth of trade between french and us business every single day. More on that story in the business briefing. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come the worlds top earning celebrity. Taylor swift earned 175 million last year. Central london has been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks. Police say there have been many casualties, and there is growing speculation that alqaeda was responsible. Germany will be the hosts of the 2006 football world cup. They pipped the favourites, south africa, by a single vote. In south africa, the possibility of losing hadnt even been contemplated, and celebration parties were cancelled. The man entered the palace through a downstairs window and made his way to the queens private bedroom. Then he asked her for a cigarette, and on the pretext of arranging for some to be brought, she summoned a footman on duty, who took the man away. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution. Applause youre watching the briefing. 0ur headlines a british warship is reported to have chased away five armed iranian speedboats after they tried to intercept a British Oil Tanker in the strait of hormuz. New research has found a correlation between consuming sugary drinks and increased rates of several forms of cancer. Researchers have discovered the earliest evidence of modern human fossils outside africa. The evidence comes from a 210,000 year old skull unearthed in greece. The discovery pushes back the arrival of the first homo sapiens into europe from africa by 150,000 years and rewrites the history of our species. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghosh has this report. In the distant past, the first of our client evolved here in africa. There were also other now extinct species of human, such as the amount of the neanderthals. 0ur a ncestors of the neanderthals. 0ur ancestors eventually left the continent and spread across the globe and quickly took over from the other species. So the theory goes. But the discovery of this human looking skull in southern greece has changed this view. Scientists used to think that 200,000 years ago, europe was exclusively populated by the neanderthals. Where is our kind, modern humans, remained in africa until a0,000 years ago. The discovery of the new school in greece has shattered that view. It doesnt have the flatter elongated shape of the neanderthal, but rather its much more like our own, rounder. This means the two species could have interacted a00,000 years. It had been thought that our a ncestors it had been thought that our ancestors had prevented from leaving africa for tens of thousands of yea rs, africa for tens of thousands of years, perhaps by the other types of humans or the climate. But researchers are now having to rethink their old ideas. There was nothing to stop modern humans getting out of africa for more than 2000 200,000 getting out of africa for more than 2000 200,000 years. Potentially means that places further to the eased, there are claims of modern human fossils in china, i have been very sceptical about those until now. Given the evidence from this, maybe i should be more open minded about those early chinese records. It is potentially the biggest shift in our understanding of how modern humans left africa, instead of overlapping briefly with neanderthals in europe, our kind may have coexisted with a wide variety of human species across the world for tens of thousands of years. Heres our briefing on some of the key events happening later. We begin in hong kong, with a public memorial to commemorate the death of marco leung, the man in the yellow raincoat who fell to his death after protesting the chinese run administration of hong kong. Next, to switzerland and the opening of a play entitled, no ladies please, based on the life and achievements of 19th century mountaineer, lucy walker, the first woman to climb the matterhorn. Finally to birmingham, alabama, where russian punk collective pussy riot are set to perform to protest what they describe as, the ridiculous abortion ban in the us state. Now its time to get all the latest from the bbc sports centre. Hello. Im Tulsen Tollett and this is your thursday sport briefing where we start with the news that eight time winner Roger Federer will meet twice champion rafael nadal in their first clash at wimbledon since the 2008 final when they line up in fridays semi finals. Elsewhere, top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic is through to the last four after a straight sets win over david goffin, and the serb will now play Roberto Bautista agut whos missing his stag weekend due to him getting this far. I had planned to be there right now. We had everything organised already and my friend, six of them are all there and well, it feels better to be here. New zealand reached the cricket World Cup Final beating india by 18 runs at old trafford in manchester. Despite Ravindra Jadeja and ms dhoni producing a 116 run partnership,it was cheap wickets at the top and bottom of the order that saw them in trouble chasing the target of 2a0 which proved too much as the black caps made it to a second successive final. New zealand deserves a lot of credit because they really put up a great display of how to bowl with the new ball and the head perfect line and link and forced us to make good, was immense. Tens of thousands of fans lined the streets of new york on wednesday to greet the the United States womens world cup winning team. The usa beat the netherlands 2 0 in sundays final in france to win the competition for a fourth time and retain the title they won in 2015. In a ceremony at city hall new york mayor bill de blasio presented them with the keys to the city. New zealand will face the winner of thursdays semi final at edgbaston between reigning champions australia and hosts england. Pre tournament favourites england lost to australia in the group stage but recovered to reach their first semi since 1992 with wins against india and new zealand. Im more confident than we were three games ago, we are probably a Different Team that played four games ago and three games ago, i think the loss against a lacquer hurt us, it was an overhang into the lords game and we came here and we re lords game and we came here and were able to produce something similarto were able to produce something similar to the cricket we were playing over the last four years. Serena williams continues her bid for a record equalling 2ath career grand slam singles title when she plays Barbora Strycova in the wimbledon semi finals in the coming hours. Prior to that in the other last four match up former world number one simona halep whos never gone past this stage at these championships will go up against ukrainian elina svitolina. Julian alaphilippe will again head out in the race leaders Yellow Jersey when stage six of the Tour De France gets underway later. Peter sagan secured his first win of this years race as he sprinted to victory in stage five for his 12th tour stage win, while defending champion Geraint Thomas stays seventh overall, a5 seconds behind race leader alaphilippe. Kawhi leonard has left reigning nba champions the Toronto Raptors just three weeks after winning the title to join the la clippers in a three year deal to belived to be over 100 million. The clippers have confirmed the Free Agency Move on social media with leonard set to link up with paul george who was traded from Oklahoma City thunder which has seen the californian franchise tipped for next seasons title. You can get all the latest sports news at our website thats bbc. Com sport. But from me, Tulsen Tollett, and the rest of the team, that is your thursday sport briefing. The pop singer, taylor swift, has been named the worlds top earning celebrity. She was number one in the famous forbes 100 list for the last year earning more than 180 million. Most of the money came from her reputation tour, described as the highest grossing in us history. The bbcs tim allman reports. I promise that youll never find another like me e e ooh ooh ooh ooh. Im the only one of me. Baby, thats the fun of me eeh eeh eeh. She may have recently lost the rights to her back catalogue but taylor swift certainly has not lost the capacity to make lots and lots. And lots of money. Nearly 200 million of it, in fact well, once the taxman took his share and she made most of it by putting on a show. She toured like crazy, she did about a quarter of a billion dollars gross on her latest tour so we measured over the past 12 months and we cut most of that tour and it is Good Business when you can gross 5 million 6 million a night on the road. Coming in second with a positively paltry 170 million was social media sensation and cosmetics billionaire, kyliejenner. Her brother in law, kanye west, came in third, scraping by on a measly 150 million. As for taylor swift, she is releasing a new album next month and there is speculation another tour may follow. If any financial obstacle gets in her way, she will, presumably, just shake it off. Tim allman, bbc news. Stay with us here on bbc news so much more to come. It is very muggy out there and we are expecting downpours with some thunderstorms as well, mostly across northern and eastern areas of the uk. The south coast of england, for example on thursday, should have mostly fine weather. This is what it looks i threw the early hours of the morning. She was dotted around the country and very mild Early Morning temperatures on thursday and some areas will be around 15 or 16 degrees, even in the north. Low pressure crosses the uk on thursday, a weather front as well, that will help spark of some of those thunderstorms but if you were wondering about wimbledon, the weather is looking dry service out of the country is expected to be right and of the country is expected to be rightand warm, of the country is expected to be right and warm, perhaps not as high as thursday, but still warm enough. 2a25 degrees, he researchers with 0utlook. 2a25 degrees, he researchers with outlook. The jarvis will break out across parts of scotland and eastern areas of the uk, around lincolnshire northwards but most likely around the north east of england. Very warm indeed, 25 or 26 degrees in london, at the north of the country closer to the low 20s. These showers will continue into the evening hours, some will be very heavy, torrential and eastern scotland, the borders down into north east ingot. 0n thursday into friday, there is an identified, that low pressure pulls away and it looks as though things will start to dry out, there is High Pressure behind me ready to build for the weekend but on friday, one or two showers, possible the district possibly thundery wants. As High Pressure builds from the west, the weather will start to dry out. Still in the mid 20s across the south, but as we head to the weekend there will be a switch in the wind direction. The wind will come from the north bush that warm humid air we have had for the last few days back into france. So temperatures will tend to is a bit. A chance of one or two showers but highs of around 18 in newcastle, because it to 22 or 2a on saturday in the south. It is sunday, pleasantly warm and sunny spells right across the uk. Thats it from me, but by. This is the business briefing. Im sally bundock. Taxing the tech giants Frances Parliament set to approve a levy on the likes of google and facebook, risking new trade tensions with the us. Plus we will act as appropriate the head of the Us Federal Reserve raises hopes for an Interest Rate cut as early as this month the first in a decade. And on the markets. Fed chairman powells comments boost Global Stock Markets and hit the dollar