and it s not just and it s notjust the uk temperature record that is likely to topple today and tomorrow. we are also looking at individual records for scotland, england and wales all being broken, and if anything tomorrow looks like it will be a bit hotter than today. i will have all the details throughout the programme. good morning. farms across the country, like this one in suffolk, are already dealing with a very dry first half of the year, as you can see from the reservoir levels behind me. now comes the heatwave. i will be looking at the effect it is having on the food they produce that we all rely on. also on breakfast this morning, one of the conservative mps vying to be party leader will be knocked out of the running today, when the latest round of voting takes place. in sport, how rory mcilroy let it slip away on the final day at st andrews, as cameron smith pockets a cool £2 million winner s cheque for winning the open. good morning. welcome to cambridge where th
services say a wildfire near yosemite national park is 0% under control. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to dateline. bringing together leading commentators from london. this week, british conservative mps completed their colleague coal in the hunt for that new leader and the country s next prime minister and they also called the economic consensus with which governments of left and right have operated for the last 20 years. and as the world waits for vladimir putin to allow safe passage of brain, why he himself was kept waiting. with me, a cricket commentator and foreign correspondent for pbs radio in the united states and host of a podcast. and steve richardson who began his career as a westminster correspondent as margaret thatcher was ending her is coincidental. his blog is called rock and roll politics and his most recent book is about the talented politicians who failed to make it to number ten. steve, we believe the question unanswe
in bangladesh, an explosion and fire at a storage depot kills at least 49 people and injures hundreds more. russian missiles strike the ukrainian capital of kyiv for the first time in more than a month. and in sport, wales beat ukraine 1 0 in cardiff to qualify for the world cup for the first time in 64 years. a huge pageant along the mall has ended with an appearance by the queen. the event concludes four days of celebrations to mark her majesty s platinum jubilee. more than 10,000 people, including the military, performers and key workers, took part in the parade, which depicted key moments from each decade of her 70 year reign. sir cliff richard, ed sheeran and gary lineker were among the celebrities taking part. in the last few moments, buckingham palace has issued this statement on behalf of the queen. it says: when it comes to how to mark 70 years as your queen, there is no guidebook to follow. it really is a first. but i have been humbled and deeply touched that so ma
labour government in nine years. experts warn record breaking heatwaves in india and pakistan are a hundred times more likely because of climate change. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 2.30am in afghanistan where the number of restrictions imposed on women under taliban rule is growing. the ministry for preventing vice and promoting virtue has been behind a raft of new, hard line laws, and among them ordering afghan women to wear the islamic face veil. our correspondent secunder kermani has been given exclusive access to a team of inspectors from the ministry, and begins our programme. we re joining the inspectors of the ministry of vice and virtue. they are remoulding afghanistan to fit in with the taliban s hardline beliefs. and how often do you do this? every day. every day? morning and afternoon? first stop, a shopping centre. bystanders and shopkeepers are given a lecture on the importance of saying yo