a government medical adviser tells the bbc that cases of monkeypox are rising in the uk on a daily basis. professor of experimental medicine, paul hunter, explains why it s significant the issue is, it is spreading between people in the uk, which we haven t seen in the west before to any great extent. the premier league title race between manchester city and liverpool will be decided today. manchester city play aston villa, liverpool play wolves. good afternoon. the education secretary nadhim zahawi says he doesn t believe boris johnson s meeting with the senior civil servant preparing to publish the partygate report this week will have had any influence on what s in it. there is still confusion as to who called the meeting between the prime minister and sue gray said to have taken place last month. she s given civil servants she wants to name in her report until 5pm today to respond if they object. our political correspondent jonathan blake has the latest. borisjohnson,
and it s half time for the last round of premier league games manchester city trail aston villa and liverpool equalise against wolves if it stays like that city will be champions. welcome to bbc news. in the last few minutes, a deadline has passed for civil servants who want to object to being named in sue gray s partygate report to respond a move which could delay publication. this morning, the education secretary, nadhim zahawi, defended a meeting which took place last month between ms gray and borisjohnson insisting it would not have influenced the outcome of the inquiry. our political correspondentjonathan blake has the latest. borisjohnson, the prime minister whose political fate could rest on the findings of a report by the senior civil servant sue gray. weeks ago, the two held a meeting who called it, what was discussed depends on who you ask. one cabinet minister says the row does not matter sue gray has complete control over her inquiry, and the prime m
this is luke bbc news with the headlines. the deadline has passed for officials named in sue gray s report into lockdown breaches in downing street to respond or object, ahead of its long awaited publication this week. energy company, eon, is warning that unless the government intervenes, the number of its customers in fuel poverty could reach 40% by the autumn. the ukrainian government says it won t agree to a ceasefire with russia, that involves giving up territory in an apparent hardening of its position. more than 300 scotrail services have been cancelled for the third sunday in a row. it comes on the eve of major timetable cuts across the country. now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m gavin ramjaun. glory at the etihad manchester city are premier league champions after a dramatic final day of drama. delight for leeds united. they beat brentford to stay up, as burnley are relegated, following defeat to newcastle. and back on top
working in challenging and hazardous conditions. but here at heriot watt university, they re developing underwater robotic solutions to help take the strain. and they ve come up with this the orca autonomous drone. we ve got our scanning sonar, a mechanical scanning sonar. that can see all of these structures and items around the vehicle at quite a long distance. we ve got an acoustic modem. this means that when we don t use the tether, we can communicate with the robot using sounds underwater. and how does it move around in the water, is it with these propellers that i can see here on either side? there are eight thrusters that are used and it can move it in all six directions. you ve got forward, backwards, left, right, up, down, then you ve got roll, pitch, and turn. oh, wow, so it s pretty manoeuvrable then? yes. all this technology allows the device to work autonomously, planning its own route to fully scan a structure with little human intervention. so, the system tha
didn t really want to win the premier league. they thought at one point they had a chance to do it, but they were equally always up against it. the title was always in city s hands and they never quite got over the line. wolverhampton wanderers went ahead in the match and got in through liverpool s left after two minutes, on the ball was squared for pedro neto. what a shock that was. liverpool s defence did look shaky, but they were a scintillating going forward. they equalised not too later. wonderful kick from thiago, equalising for liverpool. we heard news not long after of an aston villa goal, and that really got the interest in that match, and had they scored the game, they would be the theme on course for the title. that goal never came until too late. by the time mo salah made it 2 1. gives him the share of the golden boot. andy robertson added a third, but because city were up added a third, but because city were up and villa management to never get a goal, that meant