In the tournament. But comes back to win against the odds. Four stretch the ones world cup to 32 and to double its prize Jaguar Land Rover is investing hundreds of millions of pounds to build a range of electric vehicles at its plant in birmingham. It will begin with an electric version of the jaguar xj from 2020. The company says it will help secure the jobs of more than two and a half thousand workers at the plant although it announced almost double the number of job losses earlier this year. But with purely electric cars making up just 1 of the market, does todays decision reflect Consumer Choice . Our Business Editor simon jack is in castle bromwich. After 6000 lay offs in the last two. The boss announced the company was spending the £1 billion on electrifying one of its most famous models. Julia and Martin Davies got married after meeting at the plant. 0ur son in laws here, so this is the next generation, they are taking it on. Its secured their futures. Its just fantastic. Jlr h
Meps from the brexit party stage a protest at the European Parliament. And ready to roar englands lionesses prepare to take on the usa for a place in the womens world cup final. And coming up on bbc news, its a busy day for the british players with eight in action hoping tojoin kyle edmund and Heather Watson in the second round. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The Chinese Government has condemned the protests in hong kong as an undisguised challenge to its rule by violent offenders. Yesterday, pro democracy demonstrators stormed the parliament, occupying its chamber and scrawling graffiti on the walls. Chinas state media have denounced the protests as mob violence, and warned western powers including britain against interference in chinese internal affairs. But here, the foreign secretary jeremy hunt has told the authorities in hong kong not to respond with repression. Nick beake is in hong kong for us this afternoon. It feels like hong kong has been catching its bre
This fair weather thanks to High Pressure that keeps things quiet overnight and skies will clear for many. Some fog perhaps across east anglia first thing on wednesday. Quite fresh in southern scotland and far north of england and rural wales first thing on wednesday. We got down to three degrees in parts last night. Wednesday dawns with sunshine and more sunshine to come. Thicker cloud to the north west will bring more rainfall to the highlands and the Western Isles i think. For wimbledon, High Pressure is in place in the south of the uk, keeping the story fine with sunshine. Perhaps more cloud like today building as the hours go by. Change on thursday with High Pressure to the south. This front to the north tucks into scotla nd this front to the north tucks into scotland and it could mean business for the north west, perhaps an inch of rain in some areas. A lot of that taken out of rain in some areas. A lot of that ta ken out by of rain in some areas. A lot of that taken out by the g
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
Across the central swathe of scotland, up into the low 20s further south. We do pull in a little bit of a warm weather front, though, to the far north of the high through wednesday, so some thicker cloud and some more persistent rain for the highlands. That front pushes away through wednesday evening overnight into thursday, but then we start to see this cold weather front coming into play for thursday. Some more meaningful rain for scotland, and particularly for some of the Higher Ground in the north west. We could get the best part of an inch of rain. A breezy story, as well, across the northern half of the uk. More cloud putting south as well but across southern england, up to 26 degrees possible where the High Pressure centre is closer by. Thursday into friday, this cold weather front starts to work its way south. Not much in the way of rainfall in association with it as it does so, perhaps a few scattered showers, but what it will do is move us showers, but what it will do is move