Offence, that she more than any other athlete should understand that if you have taken anything it is your responsibility to tell people, to declare it on the correct literature. Her defence was that the reason for her failed test in february was that she had visited a hospital where she had received treatment for an eight the pregnancy, one outside the womb, and had received a blood transfusion. Atopic. She never spoke about the pregnancy order spoke about it on any anti doping literature, and did not mention it when the officials visited her, because to have a pregnancy like this, she said, was a taboo. She didnt even tell her husband, who is also her coach. To some sad news from the world of baseball now, and former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher roy halladay has died after a plane he was flying crashed into the gulf of mexico on tuesday. The ao year old retired in 2013 after 16 seasons in major league baseball, 12 with the toronto bluejays and four with the phillies. He won two cy y
For the first time in 20 years britain has four players through to the third round at wimbledon and kyle edmund is on Court Bidding to make it five. And coming up in the sport theyve been chasing him all summer and now Manchester United have agreed a fee of around £75 million for everton striker romelu lu ka ku. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Donald trump has described russias behaviour as destabilising and said that the United States is working to combat it. In a speech in poland in advance of the 620 summit in germany, President Trump also declared he was considering a very severe response to north Koreas Nuclear weapons programme. And he questioned whether the west has the will to survive the dire threats of terrorism, extremism and government bureaucracy. 0ur correspondent wyre davies reports. It is only the briefest of visits but as the trump motorcade rolled into poland, the american president found the country where his populist views on energy, immigration
Welcome to bbc news. The Iraqi Government said today that the city of mosul has been liberated from so called Islamic State, three years after it was first occupied by the extremists. The second largest city in iraq was where is declared its caliphate in 2014. Since then, its grip on territory seen here in red has been gradually reduced in iraq and in syria. In the last nine months its been targeted in mosul by the iraqi army, backed by us and Coalition Air strikes and has lost Ground Street By street. Tonight, the defence secretary sir Michael Fallon congratulated the iraqis and highlighted the role played by the raf. But as our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale has seen in mosul, victory has come at a cost, with an estimated 800,000 civilians driven from their homes. What was once a beautiful old city is now mostly rubble. Every building deeply scarred or destroyed by months of war. We joined the Search And Rescue teams looking for survivors. But more often, they are just recoveri
Welcome to bbc news. The Iraqi Government said today that the city of mosul has been liberated from so called Islamic State, three years after it was first occupied by the extremists. The second largest city in iraq was where is declared its caliphate in 2014. Since then, its grip on territory seen here in red has been gradually reduced in iraq and in syria. In the last nine months its been targeted in mosul by the iraqi army, backed by us and Coalition Air strikes and has lost Ground Street By street. Tonight, the defence secretary sir Michael Fallon congratulated the iraqis and highlighted the role played by the raf. But as our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale has seen in mosul, victory has come at a cost, with an estimated 800,000 civilians driven from their homes. What was once a beautiful old city is now mostly rubble. Every building deeply scarred or destroyed by months of war. We joined the Search And Rescue teams looking for survivors. But more often, they are just recoveri
Welcome to bbc news. The Iraqi Government said today that the city of mosul has been liberated from so called Islamic State, three years after it was first occupied by the extremists. The second largest city in iraq was where is declared its caliphate in 2014. Since then, its grip on territory seen here in red has been gradually reduced in iraq and in syria. In the last nine months its been targeted in mosul by the iraqi army, backed by us and Coalition Air strikes and has lost Ground Street By street. Tonight, the defence secretary sir Michael Fallon congratulated the iraqis and highlighted the role played by the raf. But as our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale has seen in mosul, victory has come at a cost, with an estimated 800,000 civilians driven from their homes. What was once a beautiful old city is now mostly rubble. Every building deeply scarred or destroyed by months of war. We joined the Search And Rescue teams looking for survivors. But more often, they are just recoveri