Reporter in a scathing report of the Alameda County grand jury accuses the Oakland Unified School district of having a broken culture. Concluding the district is not doing justice or a 36,000 students and 87 public schools. Ray souza is on the grand jury. It is not you can point to one thing and say they did this wrong. It is pervasive. The board, the leadership, the management, the people that work there. Reporter the report cites a range of problems including mismanagement, favoritism, disregard for authority among midlevel management and a lack of accountability. Financial instability was also highlighted. The grand jury finding oakland unified wasted millions of dollars, pointing to lack competitive Business Practices and poor contract management. One example, nine building projects halted because of overspending including the most egregious of construction project at Fremont High School that was 51 million over budget. These kids deserve an education and there is money there to do
Of one of the uks worst disasters in modern times. Captured on camera moments before britains champion cyclist chris froome suffered serious injuries in a high speed crash in france hes in intensive care after six hours of surgery. And coming up on bbc news. England striker toni duggan trains alone for the second day running, and may miss out with injury against argentina at the womens world cup tomorrow. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Boris johnson has overwhelmingly won the first round of votes to be the next conservative leader and the next Prime Minister. The former foreign secretary now seems almost certain to make it into the final two after picking up the support of 114 of his conservative colleagues. Ten candidates were in the running. Boris johnson was out way front followed byjeremy hunt and michael gove. Three candidates andrea leadsom, mark harper and esther mcvey didnt get enough support and were eliminated from the race, leaving seven mps to face more vo
A weekly two hour dose of nature does wonders for our health and wellbeing. I am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The shipping lanes between the arabian peninsular and iran are some of the busiest in the world today they are also some of the most tense. Every day 180 vessels pass through the gulf of oman, most of them carrying oil. Two of those tankers are on fire today, seriously damaged in an attack. Us officials reportedly believe iran is behind the attack and say the crew abandoned one of the vessels after discovering a naval mine on the hull of their ship. These are the pictures from the aftermath of the explosions. The 23 sailors aboard the norwegian owned front altair were taken to iran 21 others on the japanese owned kokuka courageous were rescued by the us navy. A fifth of the worlds oil is transported through these straights and the price of brent crude jumped sharply today. Just a month ago iran was accused of using naval mines to blow holes in two oil
Politicians. Trains cancelled as flooding hits parts of england. Take care, chris. Captured on camera moments before suffering serious injuries ina moments before suffering serious injuries in a high speed crash, britains champion cyclist chris froome is now recovering in intensive care after six hours of surgery. Intensive care after six hours of surgery. And President Trump causes a splash on twitter about his meeting with the prince of whales. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Borisjohnson good evening and welcome to bbc news. Boris johnson has overwhelmingly won the first round of votes to be the next conservative leader and the next Prime Minister. The former foreign secretary now seems almost certain to make it into the final two, after picking up the support of 114 of his conservative colleagues. Ten candidates were in the running. Boris johnson colleagues. Ten candidates were in the running. Borisjohnson was out in front followed byjeremy hunt and michael gove. Three candid
The us has blamed iran for suspected attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. One is reported to have been hit by a torpedo. Crew from both have had to be rescued. This video is from the iranian navy and we think it shows the norwegian ship the front altair. It was carrying 75 thousand tonnes of a type of crude oil. And the crew reported three explosions. The tankers were sailing through the strait of hormuz. This graphic shows the path they took they were moving out of the gulf of oman when the explosions happened. Both were around 30 km from the coast of iran. The owners of both ships have called it an attack. Its the second serious incident involving a tanker close to the strait of hormuz in a month. No one has claimed responsibility but iran was first to respond. Its foreign minister tweeted. To explain one of the ships, this one is japanese owned. The other though is norway owned. Well, if iran has its suspicions, so does the us. Heres mike pompeo. It is the assessment of t