Gate the reason we here this evening. Please join me in welcoming david randall. [applause] thank you all for coming. Especially given the weather outside. It is nice to be inside where it is dry. Outside where its wet. One thing i realized, so my first book was about sleep science and when i went and talked about that book, i realize many people coming to the talks because they had their own sleep disorders. And they want to talk with someone about it. This book is about the plague. If you think you have the plague, this is not the place for you. I think theres hospital about three blocks that way, that is the better that is where you should go instead. One of the questions people always ask me is how did you get interested in this book . Well, the last book i wrote was about malibu, a family that used to own all of malibu and how they got it and lost it. In an extra one of the main characters comes up to San Francisco around 1900 and theres a little bit is watching this is the wicked
We start in the us, where President Trump has raised the prospect of a global currency war just days after he agreed a truce in the trade battle with china. Hes taken to twitter to call for the us to force down the value of the dollar to better compete with china and europe a move that could have huge implications for economies around the world. In the tweet he accuses china and europe of playing a big currency manipulation game and pumping money into their system in order to compete with usa. And he says the us should match, or continue being the dummies who sit back and politely watch as other countries continue to play their games as they have for many years the comments came as official figures revealed the us trade deficit the shortfall between what america imports and what it exports has soared. Cutting or eliminating that deficit is of course a key aim for President Trump in his trade policies. But in may it hit a five month high of 55. 5 billion and that was up more than 8 on t
The fairytale for coco gauff continues here at wimbledon. At the age of 15, shes now into the third round and she says she canbeat anyone. The son will continue to shine in wimbledon all day. The sun. The further south you are, you will hang onto the sunny conditions but further north, cloud will build with heavy and persistent rain in the north west of scotland. We will be back with more later. Its thursdayjuly the 4th. Our top story patients lives are being put at risk because of delays in treatment for sepsis, referred to by experts as a hidden killer, because it is hard to spot. Its estimated 50,000 people in the uk die from sepsis every year. Hospitals are meant to put patients on an antibiotic drip within an hour when its suspected, but research by the bbc suggests a quarter of patients in england are waiting longer. Lauren moss reports. A father remembering his son as a bright student with ambition of becoming an accountant and taking ca re of becoming an accountant and taking c
Will be Something Like 10,000 times faster in thinking than we are. And after missing last years wimbledon because of injury andy murray returns to compete in the mens doubles today. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9 the two conservative leadership candidates have been challenged to urgently bring forward plans to tackle the social care crisis if they become Prime Minister. A committee of peers has called for an immediate 8 billion pound investment, and a move to a free, nhs based, system. Jeremy hunt has said he accepts more money is needed for care, while borisjohnson said a cross Party Approach is needed. The call comes as both candidates make further promises to try to win over tory Party Members who will decide which of them becomes Prime Minister. The frontrunner, mr johnson, has pledged to recruit an extra 20,000 Police Officers over three years if he becomes pm. Mr hunt has promised to offer mps a free vote on whether to lift the ban on fox hunting in england and wa
Superseded by a new, hyper intelligent life form Artificial Intelligence, i reckon, will be Something Like 10,000 times faster in thinking than we are. And Frank Lampard is back at chelsea as manager the club where he made over 600 appearances and won 11 major trophies. Good morning. In the last hour, the betting group william hill has said it plans to close around 700 of its shops across the uk, putting more than 4,500 jobs at risk. The company blamed the closures, which amount to nearly a third of its outlets, on the governments decision to reduce the maximum stake on fixed odds betting terminals to £2. Our Business Correspondent, emma simpson, is here. A bit of background as to how we have come to this point . The industry had warned that reducing the stakes on these fixed odds betting terminals from £100 to £2, that change came into effect in april, would trigger store closures and job losses. Today william hill said it plans to close 700 stores and they say since april, it has