Carried out the assault with wooden rods and metal sticks. Irans seizure of a british registered tanker theresa may chairs an emergency meeting in whitehall to discuss how to respond. The tumble dryers found to be dangerous now whirlpool apologises and orders a full recall. And 50 years after the apollo 11 mission, india aims to be first to land on the moons south pole. And coming up on bbc news adam peaty has won World Championship gold in the 100 metres breaststroke. The 24 year old broke the 57 second mark and his own world record in the semifinals yesterday. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news that one. The Foreign Office minister sir alan duncan has resigned from the government, quitting ahead of an expected borisjohnson victory in the race to be conservative leader and Prime Minister. Party members have until 5pm to return their ballots for either jeremy hunt or borisjohnson the winner will be revealed tomorrow. The chancellor Philip Hammond and justice secretary david gau
Times. Why would the tories want more of the same when its hardly been a golden age for them . Because, andrew, iam a totally different person, and i have a totally different plan. And i did vote three times for theresa mays deal, and ill tell you exactly why, because i wanted to leave the European Union as quickly as possible. And had we voted to do that, as indeed did borisjohnson and Jacob Rees Mogg and many other people, we would have left the eu by now, and i think we would have been in a better position as a country. A lot of tories look at you and say, we tried you, it didnt work. Trying theresa in trousers isnt going to be any better. Well, i am certainly not that, and i am the person who argued in the cabinet very strongly for a different approach to these negotiations. I didnt think the backstop was the right way forward. I thought we should have negotiated harder, but i was also a loyal foreign secretary, and i think theresa may had a tremendous sense of duty to our country,
Exactly, bbc one taken over for three hours. The only thing we would ever have in common withjoe rogan. Serious subject first. We have an inquiry out today, or the first part of an inquiry, that was looking at how Wayne Couzens, the serving metropolitan Police Officer who murdered Sarah Everard in 2021 in london, could ever have been a metropolitan Police Officer. What was it like for you, as somebody who has got political oversight of that force, reading that report . Because in every single page there was something really bad that had gone wrong over decades . Can i begin the conversation by speaking about sarah, Sarah Everard and her family, her parents and her siblings . It is important to remember her in the context of this conversation. I remember vividly the days after sarah disappeared because i live not far from where sarah disappeared from, and it was during the pandemic and my wife and daughters would go regularly for walks in and around that area. So it brings it all back,
Manchester city edge closer to the Premier League title, but is it turmoil at tottenham . Their manager claims the clubs foundations are really fragile, after defeat. Hello and welcome to the bbc news at one oclock. The Prime Minister has said no prisoner will be released early if theyre deemed a threat to Public Safety. It comes as overcrowding in englands prisons has led the government to order a delay to some magistrates court appearances, to try to manage the flow of people through the criminaljustice system. From next week, some prisoners will be released up to 70 days early. Labour says that convicted Domestic Abusers could end up being among them. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports. Across england, prisons are bursting at the seams, almost full to capacity, the result of years of neglect and funding cuts, say solicitors groups. The Ministry Of Justice insists the pandemic and strikes last year by barristers are partly to blame. To cope, in parts of england fo
Good morning. A swathe of cloud across eastern england, through the midlands, Northern England come into the south west and that is producing a bit of rain at the moment and either side of that is sunshine and a few showers today. I will have all the details throughout the programme. Its wednesday the 15th of may. A major manhunt is under way in france after two Prison Officers were killed in an ambush on a police van. The attack happened at a toll booth near rouen in normandy, and police said the man who was freed has links to a gang in marseille. Our europe correspondent, nick beake, has the latest. An unremarkable tollbooth in northern france, and the scene of a swift and brutal ambush. Cctv Footage Shows the Moment A Dark Car Veers into a white prison van, and at least two masked attackers start shooting. Terrified passengers on a passing bus throw themselves to the ground as the bullets ring out. One assailant is seen strolling calmly among the other vehicles on the motorway. Then