For the next hour, with our audience here, well ask can labour move on from this, and if so how . Im ella, im jewish im ella, imjewish and i left the labour party in the summer of 2017 over allegations of anti semitism. Im salma karmi ayyoub, a british palestinian member of the labour party, and im concerned that some of the criticism being levelled against the party as unfair. Im ghulam asghar, a labour member for the last 14 years. Im pleased with the last 14 years. Im pleased with the new labour position on brexit. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Yes, we are also going to talk about labours new brexit position to go for a second referendum and campaign for remain thats ahead of a general election. That position may change when it comes to the partys manifesto. But wherever you are this morning, do join the conversation. Thanks for your messages. Stuart says on twitter corbyn has been a disaster for labour when they should be cleaning up in the polls
Thunderstorms my breaking out and into scotland as well. The reason why is low pressure moving across the British Isles at the moment and its moving across scotland. This is where we are going to see some of the heavier downpours, with the risk of flash flooding particularly across the eastern side of scotland this afternoon. It is eastern scotland, down into parts of north east england, where, if you do catch a thunderstorm you could see may be 20 30 millimetres of rain in an hour. Theyll be fairly slow moving. You can pick out one or two in the midlands and east anglia, maybe 10 15 millimetres of rain so the potential for some disruption. May be rather drizzly towards west facing welsh hills and its a rather muqqy facing welsh hills and its a rather muggy, warm afternoon out there, very pleasant if you get to see some sunshine and many places will be dry with sunny spells, but through the Late Afternoon into this evening just a closer look at where we are expecting some of the thunde
Of national guidance. Tommy robinson, the former leader of the English Defence league, is sentenced to nine months injail for contempt of court. And jubilation as england power into the cricket World Cup Final for the first time in 27 years after thrashing australia at edgbaston. And coming up on bbc news. Simona halep knocks out Elina Svitolina to reach a fifth grand slam final, herfirst on grass here at wimbledon. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. British ships in one of the busiest oil shipping lanes in the world have been put on the highest state of alert after a Royal Navy Warship had to warn off three iranian gunboats that were trying to intercept a tanker owned by bp in the gulf. The ministry of defence says hms montrose moved between the tanker owned by bp and the iranian vessels. The montrose issued several radio warnings, and the iranian boats then turned away. Iran has denied that any confrontation took place. But it had already threatened to retaliate after B
So you also have to repair relations with the United States and you have to worry about threat levels in the gulf and shadows over the golden era with china. And that is not all. So what are you going to deal with first . Thomas, as our elder statesman, open your red box and tell me whats at the top of it. Im sorry really about elder statesman as much as about the state of the world, and sorry about both. But to talk about britain and europe to begin with, thats very difficult nowadays because europe is so much in flux. As churchill once said the Old Soviet Union a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in a mystery, with so many new forces coming to the fore. And britain, at this very moment, of europe needing new leadership and a new profile, is leaving. So i wonder if that is a wise thing to do, when youre leaving at the very moment when europe might need you more than ever. What has the eu done to yourself that youve put brexit at the head of Everything Else in the world, because its ridi
Last two minutes, lionesses become first Senior England Team to reach semifinal by beating norway three, zero at the womens world cup. Good evening, coming up in ten minutes a full bulletin of the basin is that sophie, the first to compare this to be the expert minister Boris Johnson and jeremy hunt had been facing questions from our conservative party members, this time in barnett. He reiterated his pledge to be added the eu by october the 31st. We can come out and october 31, we must come out and we will. And the way we do, is a good way of getting a great deal, you seek out the problem of the Northern Irish backstop outside at the current withdrawal agreement, you disaggregate the elements of that 110w disaggregate the elements of that now defunct ill agreement and you get the citizenship first, it did the eu at 2. 2 million eu nationals protection we should have given them yea Rs Protection we should have given them years ago, dont you think, why not come absolutely, get them back.