A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Get involved in the conversation. An investigation commissioned by facebook has shown the vast majority of Health Advice on the site is false. Would you follow medical tips from facebook . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing the british pound is coming under more pressure in trading on asian markets, afterfalling to a 28 month low on monday. Its being caused by increased fears over a no deal brexit at the end of october, which would see the uk leaving the European Union without an agreement in place over its new relationship with the bloc. The new Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has increased planning for a no deal scenario. With me is our Business News reporter ramzan karmali. Will it fell 13 and it had fallen another half a percent to 121. 6. M is trading higher now thatjust a little bit. Against the euro, it is trading lower. Not doing great at all. Since th
From the hottest day on record to flooding in the north west all in less than a week how can business keep up with the ever changing weather . Im at the control room of United Utilities, one of the uks biggest Water Companies, to find out. We are going to see how the weather flow goes when they may have to manage changing weather. And some of us manage changing weather. And some of us will have heavy foundry downpours but the brightest conditions will be in the east and far north east. More in15 in the east and far north east. More in 15 minutes. Its tuesday, the 30th ofjuly. Our top story. Borisjohnson will make his first visit to wales as Prime Minister later, as he tries to rally support for his vision of farming in a post brexit britain. It follows a warning from the Farmers Union of wales that therell be civil unrest in rural areas, if the uk leaves the European Union without a deal. Lets speak now to our political reporter in cardiff, teleri glyn jones. Good morning to you. A new
Major currencies this morning. Iain conn, the chief executive of centrica, which owns british gas, announces hes stepping down after a challenging period for the company. Poorer pupils trail 18 months behind the rest of the class once they take their gcses, according to new research. Coming up in sport, gareth bale pulls out of real madrids pre season trip to munich after his big money move to china was blocked by the club. Greg and amber and, as the winners of this years love island are crowned, well ask whats made the reality show such a success. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. A former high courtjudge says police may have broken the law in the way they investigated claims of a paedophile ring at westminster. Carl beech was jailed for 18 years last week for perverting the course of justice after lying about his claims. Sir Richard Henriques, who carried out a review of the Scotland Yard inquiry, claims that warrants to search the homes of some of those beech had accused o
Their last two games. Much built on their defensive all the sport with ben croucher. Base of Steph Houghton and millie bright england have major doubts for their well, both are according to their manager major doubts to face norway First Choice Centre halves for in tomorrows quarter final. Tomorrows world cup quarterfinal houghton is struggling with an ankle problem picked up in this rather ugly against norway. Phil neville says he challenge near the end of their win over cameroon on sunday. Shes been rated as bets his life their replacements will be the better players on the 50 50 for the match. Pitch tomorrow. Theres optimism around bright. Thanks, ben, and stave danaos shes been confined to her hotel has all the weather. Room after picking up a bug. England boss phil neville has given his backing to their potential hotting up by the end of the week replacements to shine and that is why we are drawing up in their absence. You plan for these moments. Airfrom the near and that is why w
as the prime ministrer admits the nhs is under enormous pressure. in particular this winter we want to move people out of hospitals, into social care, into communities. russia state tv says a temporary ceasefire declared by president putin has come into effect ukraine has said it won t reciprocate. and former italy and chelsea player manager gianluca vialli has died at the age 58 from pancreatic cancer. the uk is embarking on a plan to accelerate research into mrna cancer vaccines. good afternoon. prince harry has said he wants reconciliation with the royal family, despite leaked extracts from his memoir containing a series of sensational accusations against them. details have also emerged about the moment he learned about the death of the queen and the days which followed. in the book, prince harry says he killed 25 taliban fighters while serving in afghanistan and he also talks about taking drugs, including cocaine when he was younger. and there is more about the alle