Good morning. It is the last day of august and some of us are clinging onto a bit of warmth and sunshine but foremost, we will see some rain pushing eastwards and it turns much cooler, just in time for tomorrow, the first of september. Full details here on breakfast. Good morning, thank you forjoining us. Its saturday 31st august. Our top story the chancellor sajid javid has had a row with the Prime Minister after one of his special advisers was sacked. Whitehall sources say sonia khan was questioned about government leaks by borisjohnsons senior adviser, Dominic Cummings. She was then dismissed from downing street, despite no evidence that she was behind the disclosure. Our political reporterjohn owen is in our london newsroom. Another twist in the drama of politics at the moment. A row right at the heart of Boris Johnsons government after more details of the dramatic sacking of sonia khan, an advisor to sajid javid, emerged last night. She was escorted out of downing street on thursd
This is making an untreatable disease treatable. Alison riske and then we have the mixed doubles and in the cricket new zealand are playing india. Ben has the weather. One or two showers are forecast. Some hefty downpours elsewhere but nothing like the rain we have seen on the other side of the pond. Some oppressive pictures for you. Also coming up, i am 0k oppressive pictures for you. Also coming up, i am ok for the next decade and all of us here because we will not face the problems. But the problems in the next 20 to 30 years and major ones that will cause great social unrest. Upping the heat Sir David Attenborough criticises World Leaders who he says are not doing enough to address Climate Change. Hello everyone this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. He cant have been up very long this morning before President Donald Trump took to twitter to write more personal comments attacking the uk ambassador to washington Sir Kim Darroch. a wacky ambassador, he says not someone we are thrille
Quite disrespectful and patronising me. Iama quite disrespectful and patronising me. I am a professional competitor who did her best today. Rain starts play with india against new zealand in their cricket world cup semifinal. And celtic scored three, as they begin their quest to qualify to group stages of the champions league. Thank you forjoining us. She was hoping to reach the wimbledon semifinals for a second time, but Johanna Kontas singles run is well over. She was knocked out by boris to cover. The british number one was cruising, but it all went wrong there after. The press conference that followed, she was not happy with some of the questions that came her way. John watson reports. Disappointment then forjohanna konta, who are seemingly coasting to that first set. She was poor one up, before losing it on a tie break and then losing the second set 6 1. It was 3a unforced areas which cause so it was 3a unforced areas which cause so the match and afterwards when questioned by repo
Convince us men what we have to do and what we dont have to do. Just do it. With me, with fifa, you will find open doors. Just push the doors. They are open. And do it also at the National Level come in every country, in every confederation. Just keep pushing, keep the momentum, keep dreaming. Bayern munich head coach Thomas Tuchel has been singing the praises of harry kane ahead of his bundesliga debut tonight. The german champions are away to werder bremen, with the england captain portraying a positive influence at the club already. My First Impressions of harry are fantastic. He is a top professional. The quality is outstanding and hes a fantastic human being. He is very open, his first on the training pitch, he is open in the Dressing Room. I think he has an immediate effect in the Dressing Room with his personality, with his approach to football, his love for the game. Chelsea have announced the signing of another midfielder. Romeo lavia joins from southampton for an initial 53 M
Winners over marseille and Maccabi Haifa prevailed 2 1 in slovakia against Slovan Bratislava with all three goals in that match coming in the opening 15 minutes. Elsewhere, rangers won 2 1 at home to swiss Side Servette with the visitors grabbing what could be a crucial goal ahead of the home leg next week. We had some really good chances, but obviously we go there one goal up, but we will obviously treat that game as if we were going in 0 0. So its a good start, a better performance compared to the weekend, so we know we move on from this. And do you feel that obviously with another game under your belt on saturday before that second leg, the performance will be all be improved . Does that give you confidence you can go out there and finish the job . Yeah, you, know, its another game to gel together and who is asked to play on the weekend,. Theyre going to give it 100 . And anyone whos asked to play the second leg, you know, were going to give it our all to make sure were in the next