to call for national lung cancer screening. england fight back to reach the semi finals of the euros. an extra time time winner from georgia stanway sees them come from behind to beat spain. it s thought half of all kennels across the uk have closed during lockdown, but with many more of us now owning dogs, getting a space at a boarding house like this is now a very hard thing. good morning. today will be cooler than yesterday. for england, fairly cloudy with the odd shower. bright and sunnier in the west. i ll have all the details and more later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday zistjuly. our top story two candidates are left in the race to replace borisjohnson, as rishi sunak and liz truss go head to head to become the next prime minister. a key battleground is likely to be taxation, with ms truss promising immediate tax cuts, while mr sunak says he would wait until inflation was under control. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. he s the forme
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 1st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin with the situation in ukraine. in a significant breakthrough this morning, a ship carrying ukrainian grain set off from the port of odesa to for the first time since the war started back in february. ukraine s minister of infrastructure tweeted this video of the vessel which is carrying more than 26,000 tons of corn and is on its way to lebanon. the ship is expected to reach istanbul on tuesday where it will be inspected before being allowed to proceed. the move is part of an internationally brokered deal between kyiv and moscow, to release millions of tons of grain to foreign markets, and ease a growing food crisis. ukrainian officials say 16 more ships are waiting to depart odesa s port as part of that deal. meanwhile, russia advances have slowed, almost to a standstill, as newly-delivered western weapons are helping ukrainian forces re-claim
at night. this is today cost germany with the temperatures dropping at night and towards the end of the week those high temperatures across more central and eastern parts of europe. so this is literally a wave progressing against europe and the peak that lasted a couple of days across our neck of the woods for the many major towns and cities across europe having a sustained period into the 30s. so not the a0 degrees they are getting, we had something out of this world for our climate but still lead to high 30s in other parts of europe and that across the mediterranean even hotter. today temperatures may peak 30 degrees across east anglia. we would normally call that hot but our perspective has been changed. these temperatures could spark off some welcome rain and many of us would appreciate some rain. some welcome rain across eastern and south eastern areas through the course of the afternoon and this evening. try elsewhere today and tonight. a pretty warm night and tomorrow
it was his last appearance at prime minister s questions. also on the programme. as inflation hits a ao year high, i m in derby, where we ll be reporting on how the local community is feeling the impact. higher food and petrol prices have pushed the latest inflation figure to 9.4%. if the prices do continue to rise, as it is predicted, i really. i don t know what we ll do. it doesn t seem feasible for us at the moment to actually be able to support ourselves. putting out the fires of climate change yesterday was the london fire brigade s busiest since the second world war. gold forjake wightman! jake wightman wins the 1500m race at the world championships. the last time a british man achieved that feat was nearly a0 years ago. england manager sarina wiegman tests negative for covid and will be in the dugout ahead of the quarterfinal against spain. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. conservative party mps have had their say. they have chosen two of their number
crucially temperatures continuing to drop. a 2a, 20 5 degrees, a degree or two higher than we would expect forjuly. 2a, 20 5 degrees. the odd heavy, thundery showers towards the south on friday, temperatures build once again over the weekend, close to 30 across the south and south east. and that s bbc news at six on wednesday the 20th ofjuly, you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the hello i m 0lly foster, here s what s coming up on sportsday this evening. can the england lionesses keep their winning run going, they face spain for a place in the semi finals of the women s european championship? i mjane i m jane dougal in i mjane dougal in brighton ahead of england quarterfinal match in spain where they ve been given a boost with their manager back in the dugout. we ll head live to oregon after an historic night for british athletics at the world championships. jake wightman storming to victory in the 1500 metres i kept expecting somebody to