And it does look like snow. It is good afternoon. Coming up on afternoon not quite what it seems because i play is under way at the all england club, was not actually a metre of hail before we go to sport, i want to should be a terrific fortnight, accumulating in any one location, plenty to cheer for the british live, all the sport. Ta ke before we go to sport, i want to take you back to hong kong because the thinking is that because it is a tennis fans already, this is the scene live there right lets get the very latest warm climate, a lot of that hale from wimbledon. Melted when it reached the ground now. We understand that protesters afternoon, wimbledon is under way and then youve got a lot of flash have smashed their way into the and Novak Djokovic has just started john watson is there. The defence of his title. You will flooding, and then the additional Legislative Council. You can see the be back there later in the hour. I hail that was falling was almost pictures there. Protest
Nonopec allies. We are already seeing demand pick up, refineries that had been in maintenance have come back we Inventory Data out of the u. S. Prove what i said, that demand is picking up shares in Funding Circle plunge after the online lending platform cuts its fullyear revenue forecast in half and blames softer demand for loans as we mentioned, its been an interesting day for european bond yields. You can see the italian, spanish and portuguese there, theyre all at record lows really significant numbers if you think about the context. Over the last ten years, in germany the negative yield rising slightly back towards zero down still at 0. 36 . You can see the ftse 100 is in positive territory up 0. 5 . Similar story with the ftse mib. In germany and france, both of those indices slightly below the flat line. Lets look at the u. S. Markets over the course of yesterday we saw extraordinary numbers with the s p 500 hitting a record high the dow jones also up more than 0. 4 the nasdaq t
The United States not to interfere. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport olly foster. Weve already had british winners on the second day of wimbledon well head live to the all england club and also lyon and the lionesses as we count down to the world cup semifinal. Thanks olly, and thomasz has all the weather. The weather is lush. It is beautiful, just right. We will be talking about the european monsoon in halfan talking about the european monsoon in half an hour. Also coming up turning their backs on the eu meps from the brexit party stage a protest at the opening session of the European Parliament. Hello everyone this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. Its been one of the major Sticking Points in the brexit negotiations but the two candidates vying to be Prime Minister have been outlining their plans for the irish border after the uk leaves the eu. In the latest conservative Party Leadership hustings in belfast, jeremy hunt said it would be impossible to have an eu withdrawal de
we start in ukraine, where the capital kyiv has been targeted by a fresh barrage of russian missiles, described by officials as exceptional in its density . but ukraine says all 18 missiles of various types were shot down, this footage showing air defences intercepting targets over the city. loud explosions were heard. at least three people were injured by debris. kyiv says the rockets shot down included six advances hypersonic missiles. like this one, said to be the first such hypersonic kinzhal missile intercepted by the patriot defence system earlier this month. kinzhal means dagger in russian. the latest barrage came just hours after president zelensky finished a european tour, in which he was promised billions of dollars worth of military aid by western allies earlier i spoke to our correspondent, hugo bachega, in kyiv about these latest attacks. lemerre here has said the falling debris was reported in four districts of the city and that three people were injured but