and sword, a man, ora woman? through to the quarterfinals. hello. it s a controversial policy, attacked by human rights groups and subject to legal challenge. but today, the first of possibly hundreds of migrants, moved onto a barge docked off the coast of dorset, to be housed while they await the outcome of asylum applications. the government says the vessel, which will accomodate up to 500 men, will be better value than hotels costing 6 million pounds a day. but concerns have been raised about the possible impact on local services, and campaigners have called it a shameful way to treat people, who are often fleeing war or persecution. danjohnson has our top story tonight, and we can join him now in portland, where the barge is docked. this is deeply controversial. whether you are supportive of it or against it, a lot of people are, this marks a big moment, a key change in the state s attitude towards refugees. that attitude which is projected on behalf of us all. what has
in july, not the record breaking heat we saw injuly, more a sustained period of very hot and dry weather. that will be uncomfortable for most and of course dangerous for some. always more refreshing towards coastal areas with a sea breeze. on the south coast we recorded 29 celsius earlier on today. those temperatures not as high as we will see later in the week, but still 32 degrees out towards western areas. 26, 20 7 degrees for eastern scotland and northern ireland. always cooler and cloudier with weather fronts towards the north west of scotland through the north west of scotland through the western isles. a warmer night tonight, temperatures down to the mid teens. missed and low cloud for northern ireland perhaps through the thames valley as well. some of that cloud could continue on and off in patches through the day tomorrow, but for most, blue sky and strong sunshine. temperatures reaching 34, 30 five celsius maybe for parts of the midlands on thursday. it will always
and they ask us to help, as i say, i think it will be very difficult to say no. we don t need unilateral action, we need to work through the un but, above all, we need to bend ourselves totally to getting a political settlement in syria. the government loses a court bid to delay publication of its air pollution strategy until after the general election. new figures show a big rise in violent crime in england and wales with knife crime at its highest level for six years. and how readers are turning off their e books and switching back to paper, as publishers enjoy a record year. good evening, there s been a major security operation in whitehall as armed police arrested a man suspected of planning acts of terrorism. a rucksack and several knives have been recovered from the scene, but no one has been injured. it s understood officers from scotland yard s counter terrorism command moved in on the suspect as part of an intelligence led operation. the prime minister was not in dow
nasa s cassini gets closer than ever before to the planet. coming up in the sport on bbc news, in age, there s14 years between them, but today, anthony joshua and wladimir klitschko came face to face ahead of their world title fight. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. another terror alert just yards away from last month s deadly attack in westminster. armed police have arrested a man under the terrorism act and seized knives he was carrying. it s now clear that the suspect who was captured on whitehall was under surveillance by scotland yard s anti terror squad. asjune kelly reports, there s been a high profile police presence in the area since khaled massood killed five people, including pc keith palmer, in march. under arrest in the shadow of government buildings in whitehall. the man was detained by armed officers near parliament square. this was not a random stop search and arrest. it is understand the man was targeted by police as part of an operation b