That was a huge upset in the womens 400m. The olympian champ 0lympic champion came in here is the athlete to beat. She was the fastest in the world this year. But she liked the crowd was stunned by a brilliant performance by Salwa Eid Naser of bahrain, who clocked the third fastest time in history and the fastest time in history and the fastest time in history and the fastest time since 1985. Miller weaver, who had to settle for silver, also set a national record. An equally good performance by Katarina Johnson thompson of britain in the heptathlon. 0ver Katarina Johnson thompson of britain in the heptathlon. Over the course of the two days she has had four lifetime bests. She launched javelin a metre further than she had done and in 800m clocked the personal best to dethrone a formidable champion to win her first global Senior Outdoor title, and in the process she beatjessica ennis hills british record and also amassed the sixth highest point in history and heptathlon. At one stage at
First Floating Nuclear power station in the arctic. Hello and welcome to world news today. Finacial markets have been tumbling after donald trump has waded deeper into the us china trade war. This time the us president said he was ordering us companies to look at ways to close their operations in china and make more products in america. On twitter he said. Our Great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to china including bringing your Companies Home and making your products in the usa. He went on to say we dont need china and, frankly, would be far better off without them. The comments came hours after china announced it will impose additional tariffs on us imports worth about 75 billion dollars this in retaliation to a us decision to increase tariffs on chinese goods. Well, since the president s comments, us stocks have fallen sharply, the dowjones has fallen nearly 600 points, our Business Correspondent Michelle Fleury is in new york.
In the independent process. Warwick university apologises to female students who faced online rape threats but one victim says being sorry is not enough. Andy murrays comeback dream is over even his tie up with serena is not enough. And coming up on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, new zealand book their place in the World Cup Final after india fall short at old trafford. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. It started as an Anglo American diplomatic row, but now its taken centre stage in the political fight between the rival camps in the conservative leadership race. Britains ambassador to washington, sir kim darroch, resigned this morning, saying he could not carry out his duties after president trumps unprecedented attacks on him. But supporters ofjeremy hunt say the top diplomats decision was linked to frontrunner Boris Johnsons refusal to give him full support during last nights tv debate. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale has the story. His report con
Lifting the lid on how labour deals with anti semitism allegations. A bbc investigation is told Jeremy Corbyns office interfered in the process. Warwick university apologises over its handling of rape threats towards female students. It is, its over one of the favourites, india, to lift the cricket world cup, are dramatically knocked out in the semi finals by new zealand. And the dream is over for andy murray and Serena Williams, beaten in the mixed doubles at wimbledon. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news Roger Federer gets his 100th win at wimbledon to make it through to another semifinal, where he will face rafa nadal. Good evening. After days of mounting pressure, britains ambassador to the united states, Sir Kim Darroch, has resigned, following a row over leaked memos that were critical of the Trump Administration. Sir kim said he felt no longer able to do hisjob. The leak of the confidential emails, in which he assessed the Trump Administration as being inept and incompetent,
A technique called gene silencing which doctors say will be life changing is given the go ahead for use on the nhs in england. This is huge. This is making a disease that was previously untreatable, treatable. The first study of its kind has found most ethnic groups in the uk earn less on average than White British workers we are live at wimbledon, the women ta ke ce ntre we are live at wimbledon, the Women Take Centre stage on quarterfinal stage. Coming up in the sport on bbc news well have the latest from old trafford. The first of the world cup semifinals, new zealand making a shaky start against india. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The labour leaderJeremy Corbyn, has committed his party to campaign for remain in another referendum on a conservative brexit deal or a no deal exit from the European Union challenging the next Prime Minister to put their deal to the people. The major shift in the partys policy came after a meeting of the shadow cabinet this morning.