At the rugby world cup. And coming up, dateline london reflects on what was another momentous week in westminster. That is in half an hour here on bbc news. Good morning. Downing street has reacted angrily after borisjohnson was referred to the Police Watchdog over his friendship with an american businesswoman. The independent office for Police Conduct will look at whether a criminal investigation should be launched into allegations thatJennifer Arcuri was given favourable treatment, including financial grants, when mrjohnson was mayor of london. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford reports. Come to london. Build your businesses here. The mayor of london supports you. The american tech entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri received £11,500 sponsorship for events run by her company innotech from organisations linked to borisjohnsons office while he was mayor of london. She then went on three overseas trade missions with borisjohnson all of which shed originally been turned down for. T
Albania goals saw them beat iceland 4 2 in elbasan. But the most exciting game had to be in southampton where kosovo despite scoring afterjust31i seconds trailed england 5 1 at half time but the hosts had to settle for a 5 3 win failing to score in the second half, but they did inflict a first defeat on their opponents since 2017 and our Sports Correspondent Natalie Pirks was watching. We dont need to get the video out and go back through it. Poor individual mistakes. A poor start to the game. I liked the way we show the game. I liked the way we show the composure to recover from that initial mistake and our use of the ball throughout the first up was excellent, right the way through the team. Very calm in playing through their pressure. I think the game, their pressure. I think the game, the pattern of the game was exactly what we thought. In asia, there were a host of world cup 2022 qualifiers with the first two rounds doubling as qualifiers for the 2023 asian cup. In group a, china
Tough times in the quarter final so for both, we were both happy and i think we are professional enough to be friends of think we are professional enough to befriends of the court and on the court to do our work and keep it focused and i think we did well and iam sure focused and i think we did well and i am sure that off the court we are still friends. I dreamt of this is a little kid so iiow i dreamt of this is a little kid so now that i am here i am enjoying it and especially playing in a stadium like this in front of a crowd like this. Thank you very much to everyone for coming out and supporting us. I am definitely disappointed right now because i really wanted to win and i could not so really wanted to win and i could not so now really wanted to win and i could not so now i am going to discuss with my team what went wrong today and how we can prevent that from happening again. Im excited for the last few weeks. While in the mens draw Matteo Berrettini is also into his first ever
On bbc news at 5pm. Police forces across the country observe a minutes silence to remember pc Andrew Harper, killed in the line of duty last week. The mp for sheffield hallam, jared omara, is arrested on suspicion of fraud. Great british bake offjudge, prue leith, is brought in as an adviser on a major government review into the quality of hospitalfood in england. Drones, theyre drones come with me, sir keep him down, im on my way Morgan Freeman and Gerard Butlerjoin forces again in angel has fallen. Hear what mark kermode thinks of that in the film review. Good afternoon. The french president , Emmanuel Macron, has threatened to veto a proposed trade deal between the eu and a number of south american countries, accusing his brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro of lying over his countrys stance on climate change. It comes as a Record Number of wildfires in the amazon rainforest continue to burn. Boris johnson has joined World Leaders in expressing his deep concern at the impact of the
Mourns the loss of military leaders killed during a failed rebellion. 3 q. And lift off for the private space industry space x. Launches 24 satellites with one of the most powerful rockets the world has ever seen. The light is from england australia at the cricket world cup. Heading into the quarter finals year ago i think defending champions today as both things put their spots in the copper america last night. The war of words between the United States and iran is intensifying after the u. S. President donald trump announced new sanctions against tehran now the measures target irans Supreme Leader ayatollah ali khamenei. He and other senior officials the iranian president Hassan Rouhani has hit back describing the sanctions as a religious and idiotic to a charter know it how bony is nice sure that they are suffering from mental disability the white house is afflicted by mental retardation and does not know what to do this means the certain failure and defeat of the United States i do