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Roger federer gets the better of his old rival rafa nadal to set up a final with Novak Djokovic tomorrow. All the support from here at 630. Good morning, it is a fairly settled weather weekend here in the uk. It will not be completely dry, there will not be completely dry, there will be a few sharp showers developing as we go through the day but equally, fairer amounts of strong july sunshine as well. I will have all the details for you in around 15 minutes. Its saturday, july the 13th. Our top story a criminal investigation has been launched into the alleged leak of diplomatic emails from the uk ambassador in the us, which were critical of President Trumps administration. The fallout from the data breach prompted Sir Kim Darroch to resign and has been a talking point in the conservative leadership race, as our Political Correspondent, nick eardley reports. Kim darroch, the uks man in washington. He will leave soon thereafter lea ked washington. He will leave soon thereafter leaked e mails criticising President Trump caused a huge diplomatic row. Last night, the met said it was investigating the leak, met said it was investigating the lea k, assista nt met said it was investigating the leak, assistant commissioner neil bazley said there is a political row too, Boris Johnson was criticised after he refused to say he would keep backing him as an bachar, my grilled by andrew neil, he accepted on account of his comments, albeit an incorrect one, had had an impact. This is what he said so kim told him. He said what somebody had relayed to him had certainly played and had been a factor. So what. It was a factor in his resignation . Unfortunately what i said on that tv debate was mip misrepresented to tim. What i said on that tv debate was mip misrepresented to tim. Some toys has said he threw his ambassador under the bus but is that is nonsense. Jeremy hunt faced pressure too, saying he may delay exit again to get a new deal. But for how long . On or around the 31st, it has to be before christmas. would expect so, yes. Expect so, but you cannot say for sure. Is there any chance we could still go into 2020 and still be a member of the eu . I dont believe so, no. But you do not rule that out . I do not think that would be the case. That isnt a guarantee and some fear more delay and uncertainty. Nick eardley, bbc news. Lets get more on this from our Political Correspondent pete saull, whos in oui london newsroom. Pete, what sort of impact could this leak have on the leadership contest . Neither of the two conservative contenders could have envisaged this would become such an important part of the race but it has become so. And borisjohnson, of the race but it has become so. And Boris Johnson, the of the race but it has become so. And borisjohnson, the front runner in this, is the one who is really feeling the heat over it. It is these comments he made in the itv debate on tuesday but keep coming back to haunt him. His refusal to say whether he would keep Sir Kim Darroch on as ambassador if he became prime minister, and admitted last night in the interview with andrew neil as we saw that it was a factor in his resignation, those comments he made, although he felt they had been misrepresented to the ambassador. It also came up in the latest regional holsteins last night conservative members in cheltenham, have a look at this hustings. One audience member was increasingly frustrated as what they see as Boris Johnson repeatedly refusing to a nswer johnson repeatedly refusing to answer a question. I think it will be that if the whole subject had never come up. Be that if the whole subject had never come up. I know that but that was not my question. Well, no, because what i was trying to say. Answer the bloodied question cheering and applause. Now, i was at the first of the regional hustings that have happened up and down the country in birmingham and you know, this was not the first time i have heard heckles in the room towards borisjohnson. He heard heckles in the room towards Boris Johnson. He does heard heckles in the room towards borisjohnson. He does largely get a warm reception from tory members but there are several of them that are quite annoyed actually what they see as this repeated obfuscation from the front runner in the contest. We had expected most tory members to have voted by now, although sources tell us there are not quite as many ballot papers sent back as had been accepted so expected so this is still the feeling that it is very much borisjohnsons still the feeling that it is very much Boris Johnsons race still the feeling that it is very much borisjohnsons race to lose but it is still not over yet. Thank you, pete. Lets bring you up to date with some of the other news this morning. The American City of new orleans is experiencing strong winds and heavy rains as it prepares for Tropical Storm barry to make landfall. Barry has been gathering speed over the gulf of mexico in recent days and may still reach hurricane strength by the time it makes landfall. Our correspondent sophie long has more. High winds lashing the louisiana coast as Tropical Storm barry approaches land. As it travelled slowly across the warm waters of the gulf of mexico, families, friends and neighbours build sandbags in the hope of protecting their homes. A state of emergency was declared days ago and people were told to stock up on supplies. They may not have another opportunity for several days. People here have seen stronger storms. But it is the amount of rain, estimates of up to 2a inches, that barry will bring that people are worried about. Im on the levy on the south side of the Mississippi River and you can send new orleans over there and forecasters are predicting a storm surge will travel upriverfrom predicting a storm surge will travel upriver from the gulf of mexico, and to give you a sense of how high water levels already are, people tell me that normally they can walk amongst these bushes and trees that have been almost completely submerged in water. Forecasters say the combination of conditions predicted over the next few days could cause water levels to crest at a historic high. And dangerously close to the top of the levies that protect new orleans from being submerged. The defence and drainage systems have been strengthened since the catastrophic flooding that followed hurricane katrina. But storm of 2005 claimed more than 1800 lives. But the citys mayor has warned there is no drainage system in the world that can handle the amount of rain they are expecting to fall amount of rain they are expecting to fa ll over amount of rain they are expecting to fall over the next 48 hours. Sophie long, bbc news, new orleans. And in the next half hour, well be speaking to the owner of a Radio Station who lives in new orleans. Thats at 6 a0 this morning. Facebook is reportedly facing a 5 billion fine over the misuse of personal data and privacy breaches. It is the largest ever fine levied against a tech company. Facebook has been hit by a series of privacy scandals, including one involving the political consultancy, cambridge analytica. Ministers are playing down the significance of sending another warship to the gulf. Hms duncan willjoin the british tanker that was threatened by iranian gunboats earlier this week. Iran has already warned the uk its playing a dangerous game. Meanwhile, politicians in america have voted to restrict President Trumps ability to attack iran, after he claimed he didnt need approval for such an action. Financial pressures on private and independent day nurseries is creating a workforce crisis in england, according to a charity. The National Day Nurseries Association Says people are leaving teaching roles to work in retail because they can earn more. It blames the government for underfunding free child care places. The department for education say children from low income families benefit from free child care, but are monitoring the sector. Scientists have released fascinating images of the Worlds Largest iceberg on the move. Take a look at this. Satellites have been tracking the progress of a 160km block of ice since it broke off from the Antarctic Ice shelf two years ago. It is hard to get the scale of it, i guess, from those pictures. The berg, which is thought to weigh around one trillion tonnes, is predicted to make its way north towards the south atlantic on a path that has become known as iceberg alley. Which is somewhere you would not wa nt to which is somewhere you would not want to go down on a dark night. True. Does not really go very far. It has been two years and it is hard to get a sense of scale and itjust sort of fleets around. I will have a proper look at those pictures later and does this voice sound familiar to you . Now this is very important. To avoid being run out, please hold the handrail on the escalator. You would do that if you are not necessarily expecting it. If youre heading down to stjohns wood tube stop this weekend, youll hear a new voice taking over the announcements. Lets hear a bit more in case you didnt get it first time. For some reason, stjohns wood is a very windy station so hold on to your hats. To avoid clogging everything up, please move away from the station. Lorde is 500 yards to your left. Lords. And if youre not sure who that is, well be speaking to him later on this morning. Some timely announcements. Overnight, the wall street journal has been reporting that the federal trade commission have approved a record 5 billion fine on facebook to settle an investigation into data privacy violations. If confirmed, it would be the largest ever fine placed by the regulators on a tech Company Significantly higher than the Current Record of 22. 5 million. Emily glazer is one of the reporters who broke the story, and shejoins us now from los angeles. Emily, good morning to you and thank you for staying up late there to speak to us this morning. Explain a little background to this because it has been a long running issue, hasnt it . But as we said you are reporting a record fine will be imposed on the firm. Correct, what we reported a little while ago was that the ftc did vote and this was a long running probe about these facebook privacy missteps and with a 32 facebook privacy missteps and with a 3 2 majority, they voted to approve a roughly 5 billion settlement with facebook. So they have approved that. What do we know about the timing then because we have not heard from facebook themselves, they have been tightlipped about this. We expect this will be imposed and they will have to pay it . That is they will have to pay it . That is the big question right now, we do not know exactly when this will all be finalised but what we do know is that the matter was moved to the Us Department ofjustice of the civil division, and it is unclearfrom now how long it will take for them to finalise at this is common where the Justice Department does finalise these types of settlements. So it is not unusual that it was moved there, it is just hard to know how much time it will take. He did not know that facebook were reported will report its earnings in two weeks of that will be something that people are looking for clarity on as well. Certainly when we Start Talking about the numbers, rough estimate in terms of how significant this fine is, one third facebooks profit . 5 billion may sound like a lot but in the scheme of things some are saying perhaps it should be higher. Definitely something to keep in mind, 5 billion is definitely not pennies but when you are talking about a tech giant as big as facebook, this is not something that will crumble the company. I used to cover the Banking Industry and it was similar, these large billions of dollars in fines would sound like huge numbers but really, the companies could quite easily go on from there. In fact, facebooks stock price rose after the article came out which meant the market saw it as came out which meant the market saw itasa came out which meant the market saw it as a good sign and was able to get this settlement and perhaps move on. Even though there are a number of other investigations and probes ongoing. I wanted to ask you about that, we were looking at pictures of mark zuckerberg, talking about privacy being key and putting it front and centre in their response but i wonder whether this fine also comes now with new regulation on these social media firms to get their house in order. And they could be more worried about that rather than the scale of the fine. Indeed, there is somewhat of a spotlight on regulation of Large Us Technology companies right now. The us broke the article that the department of justice is investigating google over anti trust and we know that the ftc, the same regulator that is now enforcing and likely to impose this 5 billion settlement on facebook, also has its sights on amazon and the department ofjustice could have its side on apple so this is a time right now when it is long awaited, when large Us Tech Companies that do not have quite the amount of regulation as any other big industry and have continued to balloon in their growth are finally now facing this reckoning with a large amount of regulators looking to impose more rules. Emily, good to talk to you and thank you so much. Thank you for staying up late for us and good evening to you there. Thank you. Well have more on that story a little bit later. Facebook and the ftc have told the bbc they had no comment to make on the report. Our correspondent in los angeles actually is following that story up. Helens here with a look at this mornings weather. How is it looking out there . Good morning to you both. Here in the uk it is looking pretty quiet for the weekend. We have seen ourfair share of bigger showers and thunderstorms this week. Just in time for the weekend if it is dry weather that you like. I know we still need rain in the most part it is a mainly dry picture this weekend. We will get some rain this weekend. It is because we have High Pressure drifting in. The northerly breeze has brought some relief for those who have not enjoyed the quite muggy whether we have had in the south recently, me included. Hopefully more comfortable for sleeping in the coming night as well. A lot of cloud this morning. Scotland and part of us this morning. Scotland and part of us could have drizzle and helpful. There could be showers is developing down the spine of the country particularly over the hills. In the sunshine, it will be sunshine for many of us in the afternoon, 23 or 24. That bodes well for wimbledon. Just the chance today that we could see a shower, a very outside chance. Those showers are meandering down across the hills of Northern England and the midlands and heading towards the south and east. They will eventually ease away through the night. The night more comfortable for most of us. We still maintain 1415 in for most of us. We still maintain 14 15 in the towns and cities, the heat island effect. Sevens and aids in the countryside and the north. The northerly flow from the north east coast. Slightly less tomorrow. We pick the wind up through the dover straits. They could carry one or two showers into southern counties of england and wales. We could also see one or two developing through the hills of wales, perhaps down the country tomorrow. Fewer tomorrow. Temperatures best in the west. Further it will have that cool breeze coming off the north sea. Nowhere near as cool as it was a few weeks ago. Just about where it should be. Probably quite a bit of cloud at silverton for the british grand prix tomorrow. Really no issues with rain. It should be a dry picture for the cricket world cup and for the wimbledon finals taking place tomorrow. The outlook keeps it mostly fine and dry. We are starting to see things breaking down, becoming more unsettled from the north from tuesday onwards. It does look as though we will see some rain right across the uk later next week. Now, while it is all relatively quiet in the uk, im absolutely certain most of you will have heard of Tropical Storm barry, that is a cross in the gulf of mexico. It is expected to make landfall in louisiana later this morning, early afternoon for us, morning in the United States. It is a significant storm. From as early as wednesday it was giving flooding in new orleans. They are expecting 600 millimetres default in the next four or five days on top of what has already fallen, not just days on top of what has already fallen, notjust for days on top of what has already fallen, not just for louisiana. Days on top of what has already fallen, notjust for louisiana. It is likely to stretch up through the mississippi and into the west as it moves inland. There is a chance it could strengthen to Hurricane Force before it makes landfall. Although it is mostly rainfall concern it could cause some devastating effects with that amount of rainfall it will cause a significantly flooding, potentially some landslides. The storm surge is something that is concerning along the gulf of mexico coastline, inundated with those waters being pushed on shore by the strengthening winds, currently sustained around 65 mph. If it reaches hurricane strength, it is borderline, then as winds are up. Potentially some damaging winds as well. It is one we are keeping a close eye on. Back to you. I know you will be tracking that over the next few hours. We will have the latest headlines for you including more on that at 6 30. Time now for this weeks film review. Hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases is mark kermode. So, mark what do we have this week . We have the dead dont die, it is a zombie movie but not a horror movie. So you are fine. Ok . We have stuber which is an action comedy. And the brink, a documentary about steve bannon. The dead dont die. Yes, it is a zombie movie but that is about the end of the horror. This is an ironic, kind of movie. This is byjim jarmusch. So we have two cops, adam driver and bill murray, who are driving around centerville which is a real nice place. Then they start to think Something Weird is happening, there are news stories about the world being knocked off its axis by polar fracking. Daylight ending when it shouldnt do. By the time they get to to the station, things are going severely wrong and the dead are coming back to life and walk on the earth, not to the delight of everybody. Guys. Shouldnt we be telling each other that its all going to be ok . Like this will all go away like a bad dream . Ronnie . Gee, wendy, im not sure i can say that. Cliff . Please . Its all going to be ok, wendy. Maybe itll alljust go away. Like a bad dream. I doubt it. You were laughing all the way through that clip. Who doesnt love bill murray . There is allotted to be for him. Individually, there are lots of funny and charming moments. You have a cast which includes steve buscemi, Tilda Swinton wielding a samurai sword, iggy pop is on the search of good coffee. If you are a fan ofjimjarmusch it often starts to feel like a greatest hits collection of quirks and jokes, there isnt anything you havent seen before. You might see it as a sister picture to only lovers left alive. The weirdest thing about it is that it takes a lot of tropes from george romeros zombie movies, particularly the dead trilogy. Which i know you watch on hard rotation. Each of which are about a specific thing, dawn of the dead is about consumerism. The sort of is seems to be saying, we are all consumers, and what we are looking for is wi fi, zombies Walking Around looking for wi fi. In passing, it is funny up to a point. There is also a fourth wall breaking device, there is a song by sturgill simpson, it is on the carved and bill murray and adam driver says it is the theme song. And also how do you know this is going to happen . Well, we have seen the script. There is a weird fourth wall breaking. You think it is handily going to do something really interesting and magical and itjust doesnt. Every now and then, it cuts back to tom waits who plays this sort of wild man and lives in the words and quotes henman melville. And does a lot of being tom waits with hair. Tom waits is that the only impression i can do. I wanted more. I think there are individual funny and quirky moments but itjust felt like yeah. It seems to me like youre saying it doesnt quite hold together. Like the zombies, it doesnt go anywhere itjust wibbles around and then falls over. Wibble i love that lets move to the second film, which i havent seen, but i like the premise. Kumail nanjiani and Dave Bautista in a comedy. I think Kumail Nanjiani is really funny, he is an assuming uber driver. Dave bautista is a Law Enforcement agent, who due to a complicated plot contrivance, there is a bad guy he has been trying to get for ages. He has a laser surgery, therefore he cant see. He knows where the bad quy cant see. He knows where the bad guy will be. He has to get an uber driver to help him. So they are thrown together like a sort of odd couple buddy cop movie. I think Kumail Nanjianis always funny, he does get the maximum laughs. He isjust a driver driving an electric car. The problem is, it is not really enough for the film. Also they have a brilliant martial a rts also they have a brilliant martial arts performer who is never really given the chance to shine. So in the end it comes down to whether you find Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista sparking off each other. Dave bautista plays the whole thing like a short sighted bear with a sore head, which is a joke that lasts around 15 20 minutes. Afterwards it starts to kind of. Again, a talent that i wanted more. I will confess that i did laugh four or five times and all of those laughs were because ijust find Kumail Nanjiani just funny. Number three is a documentary but this has a regular cinema release . Yes, documentaries are now a very important part of cinema. This is directed by alison klayman, it is a documentary about steve bannon. For complicated reasons and is now going around the world trying to drum up support for his populist nationalist movement. In doing so, we see him, inserting with a rogues gallery of people, people with links to far right groups, on the other hand, opportunist millionaires and nigel farage. If youre interested, what i like to do is set up something and ill fund it somehow and i think youre the perfect guy. We help knit together this populist nationalist movement throughout the world. Because guys in egypt are coming to me, the modi guys in india, duerte. You know, and we get orban, and. We are somehow some sort of convening authority for conferences and stuff like that so we get ideas out. I mean, you think thats a worthwhile thing . Yeah. Nobodys got it, nobody is doing it right now. Its not being done. The reason that we are going to beat corbyn and sanders is theyre not prepared to take on any powers that be. Were fire breathers, i mean, were taking on the establishment every day. Youve taken on at the tory party, im taking on the republican party. They dont have that. And thats why we can steal a march on them. And the reason they dont want to do it its immigration. As long as they dont take on. Theyjust refuse to take on immigration, were prepared to take it on. Yes. Its a global revolt. Were fire breathers and were taking this on. The thing is, the documentary doesnt interrogate them at all, it is a fly on the wall documentary. It is like spending time in his mind. The film maker had very good access. Yeah, great access. In a way, it is left to journalists who we see actually challenging bannon. Great interventions from paul of the guardian and others who do actively challenge him, talking about charlottesville, affiliations to people who are appallingly racist and have extremist views. Those sections remind you the importance of good journalism, ofjournalists who are willing to raise the hard questions, willing to integrate and ask things that are difficult. Do you really need to be interested in the minutiae of us politics to enjoy it as a film . Enjoy is a strange word because i found it very hard company to be in. I respect the film makers decision to literally stand back and let people have their say. Give them enough rope, let them say what they want. Obviously, there are moments in the documentary which do cause an intake of breath in which people say things which are quite outrageous but the documentary is very keen to just stand back and say, judge it yourself. Which i did. Anyone who follows you on twitter can imagine how you judged it. Lets talk about best of the week. This film hasnt been a wide release, it is never look away. I think it is a very smart film. It is a film about ways of seeing, talking about complicated ideas but wrapped up in melodramas. What is interesting about it, on the one hand, it is a very mainstream and accessible film of a love story. And a mystery. On the other hand, it is a film which is asking about the ways in which artists can look at things like looking at them from the side. Sometimes you can only look at something by looking away. Its three hours long but it flew by. Im terrible with long films but i thought it absolutely flew by. All right. And dvd . Yes, the documentary about Neil Armstrong is coming up next week. We are at the anniversary of the moon landings, we have seen a lot of films about it recently. The fact of the matter is that it is such an astonishing story. This documentary is his life story, before and after the mission. It is all fascinating. Every single time, i am astonished at what was achieved when people work together, what you can actually do. At the centre of it is this very enigmatic character who was never very emotional in public but did something extraordinary. Fantastic. And grab thank you very much. See you next week. Enjoy your cinema going. Bye bye. Hello, this is breakfast with ben thompson and Rachel Burden. Heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news a criminal investigation has been launched by the met police into the alleged leak of diplomatic emails from the uk ambassador in the us, which were critical of President Trumps administration. The fallout from the leak prompted the ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, to resign and has also featured heavily in the conservative leadership race, with borisjohnson facing questions and criticism for failing to back sir kim. The us city of new orleans is experiencing strong winds and heavy rains as it prepares for Tropical Storm barry to make landfall. Barry has been gathering speed over the gulf of mexico in recent days and may still reach hurricane strength by the time it makes landfall. President trump has declared a state of emergency in louisiana. Facebook is reportedly facing a 5 billion fine over the misuse of personal data and privacy breaches. It is the largest ever fine levied against a tech company. Facebook has been hit by a series of privacy scandals, including one involving the political consultancy, cambridge analytica. Earlier on bbc breakfast, one of the reporters who broke the story told us could lead to greater scrutiny of social media platforms. This is just this isjust a this is just a time this isjust a time right now this is just a time right now that has been kind of long awaited, where these large Us Tech Companies that dont have quite the amount of regulation as any other big industry and have continued to balloon in the growth are finally now facing this reckoning with a large amount of regulators looking to impose more rules. Ministers are playing down the significance of sending another warship to the gulf. Hms duncan willjoin the british tanker that was threatened by iranian gunboats earlier this week. Iran has already warned the uk its playing a dangerous game. Meanwhile, politicians in america have voted to restrict President Trumps ability to attack iran after he claimed he didnt need their approval for such an action. Financial pressures on private and independent day nurseries is creating a workforce crisis in england, according to a charity. The National Day Nurseries Association Says people are leaving teaching roles to work in retail because they can earn more. It blames the government for underfunding Free Childcare places. The department for education say children from low income families benefit from Free Childcare, but are monitoring the sector. How confident would you be about scoring a point in a game of tennis . You may be inspired by wimbledon. What about if your opponent was Serena Williams . A reasonable response would probably be no chance, but a poll by yougov has revealed that one in eight men believe they could win a point from the 23 time grand slam champion. People have taken to twitter to share their response, pointing out that the tennis legend hits serves of more than 120mph. I saw sabrina play on thursday. You saw her . She is fast, very powerful. To be fair. Judys murray judy murrays response to that was good luck, everyone. Serena. There is so much is hard to know where to start but with this ladys final day at wimbledon, and wimbledon, and mike is there. How is it looking at the moment, mike . Absolutely stunning good morning. Sunny on the hill, and again it will be packed today like it was yesterday for the semifinals for the men but it is ladies did final day today, sw19, could be Serena Williams 19, and if she does it today, finally does it and wins the record equalling 24th grand slam. She has been trying for quite a while though so psychologically, you feel it is quite a big step for her and lets hope she can do it, but she is up against simona halep who has never won a wimbledon title but has been a former world number one but she has a pretty awful record, one when intent against Serena Williams and williams is trying to equal the record set by the all time great margaret court. Lets hear from record set by the all time great margaret court. Lets hearfrom both players then. Ive done this a million times and i know how to play tennis and the crazy thing is i have been playing even better, you know, i came into this tournament training for ten days because i was so injured this year but i finally got healthy and i finally found a solution and i got better and its. Finally found a solution and i got better and its. Its finally found a solution and i got better and its. Its interesting because now, im like 0k, better and its. Its interesting because now, im like ok, i better and its. Its interesting because now, im like 0k, lam pain free and i can do this. I feel great on court, i feel the game, i feel the Court Finally i started to feel the grass which is never easy. Now i know the feeling of winning a grand slam and i am more relaxed but in the same time, i am very focused and very motivated to win every match i play. I am just enjoying, i to win every match i play. I am just enjoying, lam to win every match i play. I am just enjoying, i am happy on court and the fact that i am in the finals of wimbledon makes it an amazing feeling. So that is today and what about tomorrow . We know about the mens final now. A long time in the coming. The final of 2008 was the last time that feder and nadal the battle. Did battle. Roger federer saw off his great rival rafa nadal in the mens semifinals at wimbledon yesterday. Hell play Novak Djokovic in the final after the defending champion beat Roberto Bautista agut. Andy swiss rounds up the action. Time once again for the roger and rafa show. Cheering and applause. The anticipation was deafening, and they didnt disappoint. Federer edged the first set before nadal stormed to the second. It was magical, mesmeric stuff. From there, though, federer seized control. At 37, his poise seemingly as peerless as ever. But the real drama was yet to come. Four times, federer had match point, but dizzyingly, nadal defied him. Commentator goodness federers wife, mirka, could barely watch, until this. What a contest federer into his 12th final, but only after a quite breathtaking battle. Im exhausted. It was tough at the end. Rafa played some unbelievable shots to stay in the match and, you know, i thought the match was played at a very high level and i enjoyed it. Hell now face the defending champion. Novak djokovics opponent, Roberto Bautista agut, was meant to be on his stag do in ibiza today. And, for the first set, probably wished he still was. Thats fantastic but who needs a beach party when youve got centre court . Brilliantly, Bautista Agut levelled it up, but his hopes of a shock were soon dashed, djokovic roaring into another final. But one title here has already been decided, and it has a british champion. Andy lapthorne and his australian partner dylan alcott, victorious in the wheelchair doubles. Andy swiss, bbc news. Congratulations to those two. Dont forget the tennis is live on the bbc this afternoon, the womens final. The netball world cup is under way in liverpool with the first set of group games yesterday. Commonwealth champions england began their campaign with a win over uganda, beating them 64 32. The next game for the roses is against scotland this afternoon. Im pleased with our girls, the way they went out, they persisted with their performance, they chopped away at the scoreline and more importantly the players, we got an opportunity to get out there on court on the scoreline so for me overall good performance. In their opening match, scotland beat samoa 53 35 a crucial win for them already, as the top three teams of each group of four will advance to the next stage. That was one of their target matches to win. Northern ireland were thrashed by australia. The defending champions were ruthless in an 88 to 24 win. Mercedes look like the team to beat at this weekends british grand prix good news for lewis hamilton, who is chasing a sixth win at silverstone, but hes got to beat team mate Valtteri Bottas first. The finnish driver was narrowly faster than hamilton second practice. Ferrari and red bull werent too far behind, though. Earlier this week, organisers were given the news that silverstone will remain the home of the tournament until 2024. For many drivers, this weekend is a homecoming. I met with Renaults Daniel Ricciardo as he made his preparations for his racing highlight of the year. I never knew how strong their necks have to be, they do a lot of training in the simulator but a lot of network neck work which is a key what muscle in formula 1, so well have a look at that later, how on earth would you take a point of the great Serena Williams . It would have to be if she has a great are really bad game and she double faults. You dont fancy your chances . I had an embarrassing moment against her a few years ago, i was honoured to meet her for an interview in a hotel and i wanted to get some tips on my servant my swing soi get some tips on my servant my swing so i took racket and i was quite nervous obviously when i left the house because she said to me why have you brought a childs racket andi have you brought a childs racket and i had picked up my daughters racket by mistake not realising and after that she could not contain herself and was in stitches it broke the ice, i suppose. Glad to me you are not blaming your tools, mike. Brilliant, thank you. More from mike at wimbledon through the morning, of course. Another story were following this morning is the progress Tropical Storm barry which is currently moving over the gulf of mexico and is likely to develop into a hurricane. It is forecast to hit the us city of new orleans, which has already seen thunderstorms and flash floods. A state of emergency is in effect and residents in some low lying areas have been asked to evacuate. Patrick andras, who owns local Radio Station kmr c swamp radio in new orleans, joins us now. Thank you very much for your time. Give us an idea of what conditions are like there at the moment. Well right now the winds are at 65 miles an hourgoing right now the winds are at 65 miles an hour going throughout the south of the city. The hurricane or Tropical Storm actually right now is starting to go south west of the city and the problem is as it goes in it brings potential floodwaters into new orleans. So there has not been a Mass Evacuation and people are of course been told to prepare for this and for the rising waters. What kind of things are people doing . Really right now looking out on the streets up and down town of new orleans, the superdome, the streets are empty and friday night normally there is a lot going on but this city though really after katrina learned to basically shut everything down, not be out on the streets and be careful so right now, imean, streets and be careful so right now, i mean, look, new orleans is one of the places where something is always going on and you can hear a pin drop outside. Everyone is basically hunkered down inside, trying to do their best to prepare for the worst but be careful as they can but right now it is awaiting and see game. bet people have been told to put their bins on Higher Ground or take them in and move their cars even, make sure there is no debris that could clog up drains and that kind of thing. That is the thing, this week we had, before barry we had some rain into the city and we got about nine inches in an hour. The pumps in new orleans have been tested through many years and katrina obviously was a bad situation but you had a situation where regular rainstorms in the summer had water going in the street to three orfour summer had water going in the street to three or four feet and i had friends who were in the uptown area and got completely flooded out and so, the concern is having all of the water already in the ground and in the area, to have the rain coming m, the area, to have the rain coming in, and right now it is interesting because i was in the same area before katrina and the day before katrina was a Beautiful Day and then obviously we know what happened on the monday morning. Today was a decent day but it is the feeling of we have had this rain where it was so bad two days ago and what could happen at any point. We could see the military have been brought in to help with preparations there as well. Lest we forget the tragedy that was hurricane katrina, over 1500 people lost their lives in the hurricane. This is yet to be characterised as a hurricane but i guess people are still feeling pretty nervous and anxious there. They are, the main thing you can do is be careful though. As it comes m, is be careful though. As it comes in, one of the biggest fears and maybe people dont realise this because they have seen new orleans or whatnot on a map, 20 feet is what the levees can handle so if you have beenin the levees can handle so if you have been in the French Quarter or downtown, the levy there in the quarter is 20 feet. The city is between 1 two feet below sea level and parts of the city, people may not realise these are 20 feet below sea level so the river was only this week forecast to hit 20 feet and maybe go over which could push water into more and more of the city and now they are looking at 60. 5 or 60. 7 so that is definitely bad but the fa ct so that is definitely bad but the fact is at any point this river is so high that could be pushed and that really is just a big concern. You very much indeed for your time and best of luck. They say. If i could mention one other thing too, a band called the Rolling Stones are in town and i think they are from your neck of the woods . They have postponed a concert, a woman to play the superdome down the street sunday night and have moved it to monday night and have moved it to monday night and have moved it to monday night and they are now an extra day in new orleans to hang out waiting for the time it came to pass. in new orleans to hang out waiting for the time it came to pass. I am sure they can shift a few sandbags, iam sure. Sure they can shift a few sandbags, i am sure. Thank you so much, patrick. The Rolling Stones are still scheduled to play, but on monday. We will stay right across that story and keep an eye on its progress, whether it will be categorised as a hurricane, and expected to make landfall a bit later. Lets check on the weather now. Good morning. It is expected to make hurricane strength before it arrives on land. But it is really a rainfall event as you have just heard there are over in america. Phenomenal amounts of rain expect it. It comes after a very wet spring. It will happily more details on that throughout the morning. As for here in the uk, it is really very quiet in comparison. We have had some heavy showers and thunderstorms this week but they will be becoming more isolated today. For many of us there will be good spells of sunshine under this ridge of High Pressure welding and off the atlantic was not a northerly drift is finally cleared the humidity that has been rather uncomfortable for many in southern areas. This morning there is a lot of cloud around and it is bank and drizzly over some of the hills in scotland, in wales as well. The magicaljuly sunshine will get to work on the dank. We will develop showers as a result of that and some uplift over the hills across Northern England and parts of scotland. Some shop showers this afternoon. Fairly isolated. For most of us it will be quite pleasant sharp showers. There is more breeze, coming from the north. For the championships, there is the very outside chance of one of those showers arriving in wimbledon. For a large but it is dry today and tomorrow across the wimbledon area. It would be very unlucky if one of these makes its way across nsw one. For most of us divine dry weather continues, showers ease away sw1. Not particularly cold, as it should be this time of year with the cold nights. We have the remnants of the shower cloud across southern areas, one or two showers with us. Few and far between. Fewer showers if anything tomorrow. There might be one or two popping up over the hills. Still a drift from the north. Feeling cooler in the north sea coast. Brisk breeze through the dover street. Lighter winds, higher temperatures, and wimbledon fine and dry. Tillerson, quite a bit of cloud around. There should not be any issues with rain silverstone. It should be good for the cricket world cup at lourdes. It should be dry and bright with some sunshine coming through. Come tuesday we are anticipating a change lords. And more widely late in the week. Let me showers you this potential hurricane. It is close to hurricane strength. It is a rainfall event. A very slow moving storm. Whether it will have gone by monday from the mississippi and louisiana areas as debatable as well. Back to you two. More on that as well as we get further details of whether that makes landfall. And whether it will be categorised as a hurricane. More from hell in a little later. Helen. Time now for the latest technology and gadget news in this weeks click. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. So said president John F Kennedy in 1962. On july the 16th, 1969, three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, edwin buzz aldrin, and michael collins, made ready to fulfil that promise as they prepared for apollo 11. The First Crewed Mission to land on the moon. Three men to represent the culmination of a dream. Here at nasa in houston, texas, Mission Control monitored every aspect of the moon shot. These days its used to monitor the International Space station, the actual control room used for the apollo 11 mission is undergoing a bit of a refurb in honour of the 50th anniversary. Marcos flores is one of the current Mission Controllers for the iss. There was no guarantee that apollo 11 was going to be successful. I mean, it was really cutting edge, dangerous stuff, wasnt it . Yeah, definitely. There was a lot of risk involved in the missions themselves and how dangerous they were, but also a lot of unknowns in terms of being able to successfully land on the moon. The 36 storey tall saturn v moves out of its Huge Assembly building and heads for the launchpad. To build the launch vehicle, nasa contracted boeing, north american aviation, the douglas aircraft company, and ibm to help build a rocket that would end up being the biggest and most powerful ever built. Call that a rocket . This is a rocket. Inside here is the saturn v rocket. Stage 1 gets you off the launchpad and up to a speed of 6000 mph. Two and a half minutes later all of this fuel is burnt. You dont want to carry an empty casing into space so you ditch it to save on weight. Then five rocket engines in stage 2 ignite and send you into the upper atmosphere. At 115 miles up all that fuel is gone, too. You ditch the second stage. And this rocket on stage 3 fires you around the earth and into orbit. Then it powers down and, a little while later, it restarts. This time it sends you to the moon. So heres the thing. That bit there. Thats where the people sit. All the rest of it is fuel. Laughter. While the rocket was incredibly powerful, so, at the time, was the Computing Power required for the apollo programme. Even though in Popular Culture the computers of the day, which in this case were giant mainframes, are often compared unfavourably to contemporary technology. The 360 75 that we used was a 1 mip machine one million instructions per second. And it had 1 meg of real memory or1 million bytes of real memory and 4 million bytes of auxiliary memory. The numbers you hearfor the iphone that i own are anywhere from 10,000 times as fast as that to even a million to maybe even i think ive seen one that was 100 million times as fast. Homer programmes the actual code used for the descent and ascent of the Lunar Landing module. And onjuly the 20th 1969 it kicked in, as Neil Armstrong piloted the lunar lander onto the moons surface. Were going that line. Music plays. Right, were go. Weve had shut down. The eagle has landed. At 0239 hours armstrong exited the landing module and uttered the immortal phrase. Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Now, as any good tourist knows, photos are a must. Armstrong and aldrin also left a plaque and a flag. And took a phone call from president richard nixon. Hello, neil and buzz, im talking to you by telephone from the oval room at the white house. And this certainly has to be the most historic phone call ever made. And what did we learn from the Apollo Missions that we still use today . We are leveraging a lot of the experience that we gained with the vehicles themselves in terms of the rocket design, the capsule design, and what it takes for us to safely, you know, send that body up to space and bring it back down. So lets head to the front of the International Space station. Thats not something you get to say every day. A recent poll suggests that one in six britons believe the moon landing was staged. In the age of the internet, conspiracy theories run rampant, and claiming the moon landings were a hoax is at the head of the pack. Companies like nvidia have tried to use technology to prove the moon landings did happen. They built a 3d render using a powerful graphics processing unit, which realistically represents how light behaves on the moon, debunking popular Conspiracy Theory about the lighting in the moon landing images being wrong. Well, we decided to do some digging on our own and examine the evidence that proves, yes, human beings have landed on the moon. Jonathan swift, the famous novelist, satirist reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion by which reasoning he never acquired. If someone has an unreasonable opinion about something, based on nonsense, it doesnt matter how much reasoning you do with them, youre never going to reason them out of it, because reason didnt get them there to begin with. There are the famous ones, that you know, the fact that they didnt actually go to the moon, actually launched the rocket and orbited the earth, for a few times, pretended they went to the moon, and came home. Oh, radiation, thats the other one. There is no way they could have gone through the deadly van allen belt that surrounds planet earth. Theres the anomalies with the photographs, all of which are ridiculous. Stanley kubrick directed it in a film set in area 51, somewhere in the desert. The technology to fake the moon landings did not exist in 1969. The technology did exist to get to the moon in 1969 just. Radio three feet down, 2. 5, picking up some dust. Big shadow, its different but its very pretty out here. The lunar surface cameras were based on our 500 el systems. We had many modifications. The viewfinders, and the mirror system, all of this was removed to save weight, which then locked into a chest bracket on the astronauts suit. And it was literally moving their body, tilting their body, to frame up the images. You cant see any stars because the contrast range of the surface images is too high. If its a bright day and you stand outside a house and open the door to the house and look in, you cant see any of the detail because its too bright where you are. So this is as close as a modern equivalent as we would have. It has a 100 megapixel sensor. If we took it to the surface today would not be able to capture stars and lunar surface detail in the same image. Radio oh gee, thats great. Is the lighting here decent . One of the issues of doing it in a studio is the dust on the moon. And when there is no atmosphere, dust behaves differently to when there atmosphere. So now you would have to have a studio that you evacuated and had a vacuum in. The Lunar Mission comes as a climax of the space race that the United States and soviet union have been competing in since the mid 1950s for technological and scientific supremacy. The soviets possessed advanced tracking capabilities of their own, and have used them to track icbm missiles as well as spaceflight. So their inability to detect a conspiracy of this nature seems unlikely. Moreover, they would have had every incentive to expose this in order to score a major propaganda victory. Apollo engineers were very well aware of the van allen belt. A, it wasnt in them for very long, and b, it charted a course actually where the van allen belt it is quite weak anyway. You would think that having moon rocks on the earth would be living proof that the conspiracy theories can be debunked. Those rocks are still being studied today. Some of them are sealed up, never yet been touched, because the scientists, even back in the 60s in the 70s, knew that technology would get better with time and they would be able to make new scientific discoveries. We have, left by the apollo astronauts on the moon, retro reflectors, these are passive experiments, where, a bit like cats eyes, we can fire a laser at them. Bounce lasers from the earth to the moon to understand the changing behaviours of the moon and its orbit. It is sadly not enough for the deniers, they will always see conspiracy. While conspiracies have been around for decades, they certainly have a new lease on life in the age of the internet. Things like facebook groups, let all these disparate ideas where people come together and find each other in a way we have never had before. So the romans had conspiracy theories, theyjust didnt have the internet. Now we still have conspiracy theories, because we are humans and our brains are fallible, and we have the internet, its a perfect storm. That is it for the short short cut of click. Theres loads more brilliant space stuff in the full length version. That is waiting for you on iplayer. And next week we will be back to look even further into space. Thanks for watching. And we will see you soon. Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with Rachel Burden and ben thompson. Our headlines today Scotland Yard launches a criminal investigation into the alleged leak of diplomatic emails from the uk ambassador in washington, which led him to resign. Braced for Tropical Storm barry people in louisiana are told to stay inside as high winds and heavy flooding hit the us state. Facebook is reportedly fined a record 5 billion to settle an investigation into data privacy violations. Good morning from some of a sunny