About their campaign. The kind table, and pupils across the country are competing to be crowned a rocky roads. Crowned rock heroes. Good morning. Its thursday the 6th july. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live the chairman of the iraq inquiry, Sirjohn Chilcot, has told the bbc that the former Prime Minister, tony blair, was not straight with the nation, or his inquiry, about the decisions made in the run up to the iraq war. Speaking for the First Time Since the publication of his report a year ago today, sirjohn told the bbc why he thinks mr blair made the decisions he did, and about mr blairs State Of Mind at the time of the inquiry. The iraq inquiry by Sirjohn Chilcot took 7 years and ran into two million words. The Main Findings were that policy on iraq was made on flawed intelligence and assessments. And the planning and preparation for the country after Saddam Hussein was wholly inadequate. in response to sirjohns interview with the bbc a spokesman for mr blair highlighted that the report
For the first time in 20 years britain has four players through to the third round at wimbledon and kyle edmund is on Court Bidding to make it five. And coming up in the sport theyve been chasing him all summer and now Manchester United have agreed a fee of around £75 million for everton striker romelu lu ka ku. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Donald trump has described russias behaviour as destabilising and said that the United States is working to combat it. In a speech in poland in advance of the 620 summit in germany, President Trump also declared he was considering a very severe response to north Koreas Nuclear weapons programme. And he questioned whether the west has the will to survive the dire threats of terrorism, extremism and government bureaucracy. 0ur correspondent wyre davies reports. It is only the briefest of visits but as the trump motorcade rolled into poland, the american president found the country where his populist views on energy, immigration
And iraq. And at wimbledon, the elimination of kyle edmund means there are four british players in the last 32. Its 5pm. Our main story President Trump has arrived in germany, ahead of a two day g20 summit. This afternoon Air Force One touched down in hamburg. Security has been stepped up in the city as thousands of people are expected to demonstrate at numerous events across the city on issues including Climate Change. Its not overstating things to say this summit could shape how the world responds to its most pressing issues for years to come. This is why, on the issue of Climate Change which Angela Merkel has chosen as the central theme, well, the United States and its president are out of sync with the vast majority of the world and how to respond. He is pulling america out of the paris Climate Change accord. Well start to understand what that will mean in practical terms as the rest of the world pushes on. Then there is globalisation, a surprising amount of agreement whether you a
The western way of life is threatened by extremists. Mission to mercury european and japanese scientists unveil their plan to explore the red hot planet. Root to the rescue he lifts english spirits in his first test match as captain. And coming up on bbc news, well have Wimbledon Sportsday for you, with all the latest action from day four from the All England Club live at 6 30. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The controversy surrounding the iraq war then and now revolves around tony blairs role in taking britain into battle. Today, Sirjohn Chilcot the man who led the inquiry about the war has poured fuel on the argument. On the First Anniversary of his report, in an exclusive interview with the bbc, he said that mr blair was not straight with the public when he argued so forcefully and emotionally for intervention. Mr blairs office has insisted that five separate reports including the Chilcot Inquiry Have found that there was no falsifying of the intelligence. Heres ou
Wimbledon sportsday, im katherine downes. Heres a taste of whats coming up tonight. We had four, but could we make it five brits into round three . Kyle edmund certainly tried on a hot and humid centre court. No sweat for djokovic. Hes through to round three after demolishing Adam Pavlasek of the Czech Republic in straight sets. And there was plenty of hot stuff on day four of the championships well bring you the best of the rest. And well bring you the rest of the days sports news, including a great day for the new england cricket captainjoe root. Its been a realjacket off day at wimbledon. Temperatures pushing upwards of 30 celsius, and over the last few days the british tennis has been pretty hot. Yesterday we would talking about four british players through to the third round for the first time in 20 years, today kyle edmund had the chance to become the fifth. But although the british mens number two put up a fight, he eventually succumbed to number 15 seed gael monfils in straight