Partsinevelos, carol roth and john burnett. So nba commissioner adam silver insisting that Houston Rockets general manager has the right to show support for anti protesters in hong kong even after chinas state broadcaster canceled plans susan li is standing by in the news room with the very latest details. Susan . Reporter so adam silver there you heard him and hes also backpedaling a bit today, saying that they dont regulate what owners, players and employees of the nba say. I guess they are doing this internal calculus right now that the nba need china or does china need the nba. You know, the nba hasnt been in china since 1987 going back to the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan and theres only one nba in the world so 600 Million People stream the games on streaming services and hundreds of millions, close to 1 billion watch it on broadcasters, cctv, so some would say that the nba has actually more of a preferential position compared to disney or starbucks because you can go to altern
The 27 year old romanian tookjust 56 minutes to beat Serena Williams in straight sets on centre court. Facebook is reportedly fined a record £4 billion to settle an investigation into violations of its users data privacy. And, england comfortably beat scotland to make it two wins from two at the netball world cup. Well have more on this and rest of the days sporting action in half an hour on bbc news. Good afternoon. The metropolitan police have released a statement in connection with leaked government documents which led to the resignation of the uk ambassador to the the us Sir Kim Darroch. Assistant commissioner neil basu re iterates that publishing any more leaks could be a criminal offence but says the police respect press freedom. Andy moore reports. Sir kim darroch has resigned but thatis Sir Kim Darroch has resigned but that is not the end of the matter. Now a Police Inquiry will try to get to the bottom of who leaked his e mails. That memo is published in the mail on sunday ca
Users data privacy. And, louisiana braces itself for hurricane barry, storm surges and heavy rain are expected later. Hurricane barry has made landfall, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. Now it is time for a sports day. Hello and welcome to sportsday. We are alive at wimbledon on what has been ladys finals day. These are the headlines. Simona halep is the new ladies champion after a straight sets victory against Serena Williams. She played out of her mind, congratulations. Tomorrow it is the mens final as Roger Federer i another slice of history. He faces the defending champion, Novak Djokovic. And im olly foster at the bbc sport centre. Well head to lords ahead of the World Cup Final, england against new zealand, there will be a new champion. No pole for the World Champion at silverstone tomorrow, Lewis Hamilton isjust edged out by his teammate in qualifying for the british grand prix. And everythings coming up roses. A big win for england against scotland at the netball world cup
On saturday saying that iran has absolutely no plans to leave opec and the gap thats been created in the oil markets by iran being not being able to sell all its oil on the International Market can never actually be filled by any of the countries such as saudi arabia and the u. A. E. So hes also reiterating irans position that all these sanctions they might put some pressure on the country but nobody can actually replace what theyre trying to do. Reporting live from tehran to somebody thanks dude. The pressure from u. S. Sanctions is having a major effect on irans economy with export margins tights invest and turning to small medium sized businesses like coffee shops and can still top a profit just in the same bus one of the reports out from tehran. In iran oil isnt the only source of energy suffering under american sanctions the threat of punishment has made doing any kind of trade with iran highly risky for Foreign Companies that even in a cup of coffee the plight of irans Small Busi
Is ready to sit down with tehran depart joins us live from there now so door so these new sanctions tell us more about what they actually mean. Well richelle they mean that this firm and 39 of its subsidiaries are now under heavy u. S. Sanctions and anybody who wants to do business with them faces possibility of heavy fines by the u. S. Government and that all their assets have been frozen in the u. S. Now this is because the u. S. Government believes they provide Financial Support to the economic arm of the revolutionary guard thats a French Company known as the tamil mbia and now this company is known in iran to be responsible for building all the main roads and highways and bridges and accord the government in 2018 proportionately awarded 10 projects to them worth over 22000000000. 00 so theyre very well known company and now with this designation in these sanctions theyre under further pressure from the United States government so tell us more about the reaction from tehran the tod