Low pressure sitting around here, spiralling around that we have kyle jameson outbreaks of rain, the stripe of culture sitting in place, not moving anywhere quickly, so the wettest weather continue across parts of lincolnshire and the north midlands, wet weather to merseyside, north east wales, dangling down into cornwall. The same areas will see cloud and persistent rain through the rest of this afternoon. Where it was so wet in the south east yesterday, we see sunshine but also some heavy, fungible shallots. Light winds here, pretty brisk winds elsewhere. You will notice the strength of the north easterly winds and you can see gusts of a0 mph or more, 11 degrees in birmingham, 12 in hull. Northern ireland, the far north of england and scotland predominantly dry with some sunny and scotland predominantly dry with some sunny spells and a few showers in the far north of scotland. The band of cloud and rain moves erratically North West Woods overnight, some rain into north west england a
Lowest in five months. We start in the us, where just days after pulling back from the brink of a trade war against mexico, President Trump has a new target in his sights. He has criticized germany for overdependence on russia for energy and threatened sanctions against european firms involved in a massive project to bring more russian gas to europe. Michelle fleury in new york explains. Donald trump has upped his criticism of germany over a gas pipe line that would double the amount of gas that can be transported directly from russia to germany. The american president said on wednesday he is still considering using sanctions to block the nord stream to pipeline. Still considering using sanctions to block the nord stream to pipelinelj think block the nord stream to pipeline. think it is an enormous mistake to germany, but again germany is running its affairs and they will do just fine. But i was critical, i had been critical of it. A tremendous amount of energy will be supplied by that
We are live on the ground. Good morning, welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Just after six 00 a. M. In london. Lets go to hong kong and get the latest on the protests. Stephen engle is standing by on the ground. Great to have you with us. The debate on the bill has been delayed, give us an update. Stephen good to see you. The debate and the dialogue on the bill in the building behind me it has been postponed until down a littles more. Some of the protesters with masks and goggles and paraphernalia rallied yesterday, and were repelled by the police force, including teargas and rubber bullets and pepper spray. Some of them came here this morning, they congregated around us and were waiting to see if the Legislative Council would have the reading of the controversial bill. It turns out they have decided not to meet today or tomorrow, they saw that as a moral victory. They have not gone home. They have retreated out of the main street here, and we have one protester wanting to jump into
Snails are being released back into the wild after a successful Breeding Programme at chester zoo. Hello, a very good morning to you. Welcome to bbc newsroom life. The first round of voting in the conservative leadership contest is under way, tory mps have their first chance, this morning, to vote for the person they want to see lead the party in the country. At least one of these ten candidates vying to be oui of these ten candidates vying to be our next Prime Minister is going to be knocked out of the race today. The mps are holding a private ballot, with contenders needing a minimum of 17 votes to carry on. Voting started in the house of commons this morning at around 10am, with a result expected to be announced by the 1922 committee at around 1pm this afternoon. Further ballots will be held next week with the two most popular mps moving to a run of five tory Party Members. The winner is expected to be announced in the week of the 22nd ofjuly. Lets talk now to our political assistan