The 27 year old romanian tookjust 56 minutes to beat Serena Williams in straight sets on centre court. Facebook is reportedly fined a record £4 billion to settle an investigation into violations of its users data privacy. And, england comfortably beat scotland to make it two wins from two at the netball world cup. Well have more on this and rest of the days sporting action in half an hour on bbc news. Good afternoon. The metropolitan police have released a statement in connection with leaked government documents which led to the resignation of the uk ambassador to the the us Sir Kim Darroch. Assistant commissioner neil basu re iterates that publishing any more leaks could be a criminal offence but says the police respect press freedom. Andy moore reports. Sir kim darroch has resigned but thatis Sir Kim Darroch has resigned but that is not the end of the matter. Now a Police Inquiry will try to get to the bottom of who leaked his e mails. That memo is published in the mail on sunday ca
And coming up look at the sport with gavin. We are awaiting an update on the condition of chris froome the time time Tour De France champion badly injured after a crash in france, more on the story and what it means for him and his team later on. Thanks gavin. Good weather for that duck . Yes, another day with heavy rain in june. Further localised flooding today with whether staying on the rubbish side as we head into the weekend. Well also look further afield in india for we are watching carefully for the arrival of a cyclone about to hit the north west of the country. Also coming up, the critically endangered bermuda snails released into the wild with the help of the british zoo. Boris johnson has emerged as the clear frontrunner in the conservative leadership election to determine the next Prime Minister, with more than a third of the votes cast by tory mps in the first ballot of the contest. The field of ten conservative mps has been narrowed to seven with the former cabinet minist
In the race to be pm. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. Two oil tankers hit by explosions in the gulf of oman dozens of crew members have been rescued. Almost three quarters of english hospitals miss nhs targets to treat Cancer Patients within two months. The british cyclist chris froome undergoes a six hour operation following a high speed crash on wednesday. Boris johnson has emerged as the clear frontrunner in the conservative leadership election, with more than a third of the votes cast by tory mps in the first ballot of the contest. The field of ten candidates has now been narrowed to seven. Here are the results, announced this afternoon by the 1922 backbench committee. Way out in front is borisjohnson, with 114 votes, followed by the foreign secretaryjeremy hunt on 43 votes, and the environment secretary michael gove who got 37 votes. In fourth place comes former brexit secretary dominic raab on 27 votes, then the home secretary sajid javid who got 23 votes, the Health Sec
Politicians. Trains cancelled as flooding hits parts of england. Take care, chris. Captured on camera moments before suffering serious injuries ina moments before suffering serious injuries in a high speed crash, britains champion cyclist chris froome is now recovering in intensive care after six hours of surgery. Intensive care after six hours of surgery. And President Trump causes a splash on twitter about his meeting with the prince of whales. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Borisjohnson good evening and welcome to bbc news. Boris johnson has overwhelmingly won the first round of votes to be the next conservative leader and the next Prime Minister. The former foreign secretary now seems almost certain to make it into the final two, after picking up the support of 114 of his conservative colleagues. Ten candidates were in the running. Boris johnson colleagues. Ten candidates were in the running. Borisjohnson was out in front followed byjeremy hunt and michael gove. Three candid
Good evening. This is 18 year old itay regev and his sister maya they were kidnapped by hamas from the Music Festival in israel last october and held for sa days. They were both shot when they were seized. Itay has been describing in detail what happened to him, his sister and his best friend, after they were taken hostage. His friend is still being held along with more than 100 others. Itay has been talking to our special correspondent lucy manning. Itay regev is free, but all he thinks about are the hostages he left behind. The teenager was at the nova Music Festival with his sister maya and friend 0mer when hamas attacked. Translation we started hearing shooting. The terrorists were surrounding the whole party area. Lots and lots of people started running in all directions. I hear shooting going past my head. I heard people screaming. I saw people falling down. A lot of bodies. We were confronted by a van of terrorists spraying our car with bullets without any mercy. I got shot in m