American evanston its good to have you with us we begin in hong kong where prodemocracy lawmakers have suffered a setback in the Territories High Court the judge dismissed their bid to get an injunction against a ban on face masks warning demonstrations protesters reacted to finally with more marches in Hong Kong Central Business District which later descended into another night of violence. Tens of thousands of prodemocracy protesters continue to defy a ban on face masks on sunday carol lam hong kongs governor had introduced the ban on the colonial era state of Emergency Powers in hopes of curbing months of unrest prodemocracy lawmakers again went to the high court on sunday morning seeking an injunction against the ban they argued the Emergency Powers bypass legislature and contravene the citys constitution today is about 40. 1st system rule of law i would say this is one of the most important constitutional cases in the history of all but a senior judge dismissed the case that only
The us open. He is hardly a household name but he has had and is interesting journey. And matt taylor . If you are fed up of rain, more downpours to come, particularly for Eastern England tomorrow night. Where is the summer . I will tell you more in the next half an hour. Also coming up can you have a naughty corner in the oval office . It isa it is a fantastic financial statement. Lets do that over, he is coughing in the middle of my answer, i dont like that. If you get a cough, please leave the room. His views on germs are well known. Well tell you how the president reacted to that cough, during a television interview. Hello, everyone, this is afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Boris johnsons campaign to become conservative leader and Prime Minister received a boost this morning with the endorsement of the Health Secretary, matt hancock, who said mrjohnson was best placed to re unite the fractured party. Matt hancock dropped out of the race last week. He made his announcement after the
Camaign for a confirmatory ballot. The London Bridge attacks. An inquest hears that chaos and confusion meant long delays in treating some of the injured. Iran warns it is about to breach a limit on its stockpile of enriched uranium, a year after the us withdrew from the nuclear deal. The Prime Minister launches plans to train every new teacher in england to spot the Early Warning signs of mental illness. And andy murray tells the bbc hes pain free ahead of his return to competitive tennis in the doubles event at queens. Good afternoon. The contenders to become conservative leader, and Prime Minister, have been making their case on brexit and other issues at a hustings with westminster journalists, ahead of a second ballot of mps tomorrow. Borisjohnsons campaign was given a boost by the endorsement of the Health Secretary matt hancock, who dropped out of the race last week. But his rivals have criticised him for his absence at todays hustings, and also from last nights televised debate
Prime minister rishi sunak is due to speak to his israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu today to urge restraint after irans unprecedented missile and drone attack on israel on saturday night. Lets go live tojerusalem for the very latest and our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet. Two days after the skies of israel was killed by iranian cruise and Ballistic Missiles as well as suicide drones, israel is making it clear that it will hit back. The question still is, how and when will it retaliate . What seems clear now is it will, at least it hopes, take many forms. This morning, israels Foreign Minister has said he is leading a political war against iran. He has written to dozens of countries urging them to sanction irans irg sea to isolate iran. We have heard from the military officials as well. Yesterday the israeli Chief Of Staff visited the airbase which was struck by several iranian missiles. Israel says it suffered limited damage but he took that occasion to say that isr