but before that, this. the final chance for liz truss and rishi sunak to persuade conservative party members to vote for them the last hustings gets under way here at wembley in under an hour. thejury in the ryan giggs domestic violence trial fails to reach a verdict. he could face another trial. andy murray is in action at the us open. we ll have the latest after emma raducanu falls at the first hurdle in her defence of the title. and on sportsday on the bbc news channel, one month on from winning the women s euros, we ll find out how england s lionnesses are turning their attention to qualification for next year s world cup. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. in what is his last week as prime minister, borisjohnson has been defending his government s record on crime, but it comes on the day a new report commisioned by the centre right policy exchange think tank says police forces ability to solve crimes is woefully low. it follows the bbc s own research sho
another encore for serena williams. she showed she s got no intention of ending her singles career without a fight as she advanced to the third round of the us open, this time beating one of the top seeds. and we look at glasgow s chances of becoming the host city for the eurovision 2023. good morning. it s not of country this morning started off on a cool note with some dense fog patches but for many of us today, it is going to be largely dry. there will be some sunshine but there will also be some showers and some of those could be heavy and potentially thundery. i will have all the details throughout this morning s programme. it s thursday 1st september. the prime minister is expected to announce up to £700 million of investment for a new nuclear reactor in suffolk today. it s part of the government s long term strategy to bring down energy costs but it could take 15 years to build and a final go ahead will have to wait for mrjohnson s successor. jon donnison reports. is
communication if you like but not enough was done. the other issue i think we will hear an awful lot about was obviously last week was a science week, we heard from some of the top scientists and again the general theme there seemed to be the scientists frustration with this government mantra of following the science which they said basically meant that scientists were used as scapegoats for controversial decisions that politicians were making. and then of course the general thing which has been bubbling along over the last few weeks has been the chaos and confusion right at the centre of government in downing street. a lot of that is to do with the personalities involved, and so i think we will be hearing more on all of that because michael gove really had a front row seat to all of it. and another big name that we are expecting to hear from this week, matt hancock, the former health secretary, of course, who has come in for a huge amount of criticism from those at the very