President trump warns germany over dependence on russian gas and threatens sanctions over the nordstream 2 project to bring more of it to europe. A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme the Us House Intelligence Committee today holds a hearing on the rise of so called deep fakes online, fake videos of people saying or doing something that never happened. How concerned are you about this . How can it be policed, if at all . Send us your comments, bbcthebriefing. Authorities in hong kong are shutting most government offices in the financial district for the rest of the week, after days of protests against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to Mainland China for trial. The bill has triggered the biggest street rallies since hong kong was handed back to china by the british in 1997. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets in running battles with the demonstrators. Joining me now is t
Hello, good morning. Welcome to bbc news. One of the front runners in the race to become the next prime minister, michael gove, has admitted taking cocaine on several occasions, 20 years ago. In an interview with the daily mail, mr gove said he deeply regretted his actions and insisted it shouldnt rule him out of the contest to succeed theresa may, which begins next week. Our political reporter peter saull explained why mr gove may have decided to talk about his past. His message really in that interview is, judge me on my record in parliament and not what i may or may not have done. Michael gove is clearly one of the front runners in this conservative leadership contest which gets under way this week, with the first round of voting taking place on thursday. He may feel that this is about clearing the decks, so to speak. Putting it out there, past misdemeanours, and i suppose he will still rely on the support of a lot of his colleagues within the conservative party. He does have quite
The world cup. They comfortably beat south korea 4 0, in front of a sell out crowd in paris. Its not a perfect start to saturday, wet and windy for many of us. Saturday, wet and windy for many of us. Even as the wind clears it leaves a trail of sunny spells and scattered showers. Ill have all the details coming up shortly. Its saturday the 8th ofjune. Our top story one of the frontrunners in the race to become the next Prime Minister, michael gove, has admitted taking cocaine on several occasions, 20 years ago. In an interview with the daily mail, mr gove said he deeply regretted his actions. It comes two days before the conservative Party Leadership contest officially begins. Our Political Correspondent peter saull is in our london newsroom. What details has mr gove given about his use of the drug . This was more than two decades ago. At the time michael gove was working asa at the time michael gove was working as a journalist. He is 51 now, this was probably in his late 20s. He says
Jamaica 1 0 and will now face england. As David Brindle reports it was a tense and nervous game with so much at stake. At the stadium where canada, brazil and the United States were eliminated. Colombia and jamaica hoped to avoid a similar fate for the winners. England await. The first half was physical and tense, but ultimately goalless. That was nothing new forjamaicas defence, whove been impenetrable in this tournament. But when Catalina Guzman brought a long ball down in the area perfectly, she ended that run. Commentator hit the front thanks to their captain on the night. Her second goal of this fifa womens world cup. And it sends the colombians in the stands into raptures. Over 300 minutes had gone by before jamaica conceded their first goal of the tournament and it brought them to life. Moments later, they struck the woodwork, but they probably should have equalised. Colombia spotted an opportunity and immediately hit on the counter a chance to double their lead. To no avail. En
For each of our current employees across the police service. I understand that that will be of considerable concern to many of my colleagues, and their families at the moment. We operate in an environment at the moment where this is a Severe Threat to our colleagues in Northern Ireland related to terrorism and this is the last thing that anybody in the organisation wants to be hearing this evening. So i owe it to my colleagues to investigate thoroughly and weve initiated that, well keep the police board informed and all the Staff Associations informed of that investigation. And weve been engaging with them throughout the afternoon. The information was taken down very quickly, but nevertheless i do appreciate the concern that it will cause. Well seek to find the extent to which that has been viewed, but what i would say is that of the error was our own, once that information was out there if anybody did have access to it i would ask them to delete it straightaway. We will have more reac