a very warm welcome to the programme. i m sally bundock. we start here in the uk. allies of the former uk prime minister, borisjohnson, have condemned the cabinet office for releasing details about possible covid lockdown breaches to scotland yard and thames valley police. lawyers preparing the government s case ahead of the public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic have sent the police information about meetings held at downing street and the prime minister s country retreat, chequers. the allegations have come to light during preparations for the covid public investigation. mrjohnson has replied to the allegations in a statement. his team says. 0ur political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more details. there is no investigation. what has happened here is that the lawyer through borisjohnson lawyer through boris johnson cosmic ministerial diary from the time of the pandemic in the process of preparing evidence for a forthcoming public enquiry which will examine th
for the return of local rule in stormont. this is bbc news. now on bbc news, newscast. hello. i m tina from radio 2 let loose on newscast. i m james let loose from scotland on newscast. they ve left us in charge against all the odds. they have. who decided to do that? this is my first time. possibly my last time. who knows? i very much doubt it. and because adam s away. yes. and chris is away. but chris is somewhere really quite interesting. he is with the prime minister, rishi sunak at the g7 summit injapan. we can have a look at him because he s on the aeroplane or he s not any more. but he was on the aeroplane with the prime minister. look at all the reporters huddled around, and chris, i must say, tina. crouching down there. is he crouching? is he kneeling? i don t know. i think he s got strong thighs, whatever he s doing. you know what i was also thinking? annoying. if you suddenly get turbulence at that point. if you get hurled into the prime minister s lap, nobody want
clean sheet and it is about time we got one of them as well. whilst attention is on the battle to avoid the drop, brighton are still very much in the mix for european football. they re seventh but have three games in hand over spurs and liverpool above them, whilst champions league qualification is still a distinct possibility for roberto di zerbi s men although the brighton boss maybe isn t looking that high up. we wa nt we want to achieve our target and i think it is clear for everybody, we are fighting against a big team, tottenham hotspur, aston villa, liverpool, for the euro. and at the moment, i think we are deserving to reach the best position. lewis hamilton may have endured a challenging season so far, but the seven time f1 world champion has some optimism after coming through the field to finish 6th at the miami grand prix. after enduring a difficult season so far, lewis hamilton has some optimism after driving through the field to finish 6th at the miami grand prix
moment but now we can head to the sport. hello from the bbc sport centre. there s a big game at the bottom of the premier league this evening as leicester city travel to elland road to take on leeds united. javi gracia s side have lost their last three games and conceded 13 goals in the process sliding down the table and now sitting just a point above tonight s opponents. leicester picked up their first win under new manager dean smith at the weekend. he is hoping thatjamie vardy, harvey barnes and james maddison will be available. they have had a struggle so far, a bit like us, they have been on the back of a couple of heavy defeats at home. but i m sure they will see this game as a big one to try and pull away from the position they are in, like ourselves. all of the remaining games are important and you never know where you will be able to get points. but of course playing at home is the next game and we have to be focused on this game, knowing we are playing against leice
on so many innocent people. hello. welcome to what is the last edition of outside source. but it s no different to all the ones that have gone before. we re going to have a detailed rundown of some of the biggest stories of the day. and we ll start in russia, because a court in moscow has ordered that a us journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. americanjournalist is american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. the journalist in question is evan gershkovich. he works for the wall streetjournal. russia s security service the fsb it says the journalist was acting on us instructions. and that he had collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of a russian defence enterprise. the wall streetjournal denies he has done anything wrong. we ve heard from the kremlin too. translation: this is - the prerogative of the fsb. you already had a statement about this from the