After more rain on day three, they say they need to get australia out by lunch to have a good chance of winning the second ashes test. After yesterdays washed out the weekend is looking a little more promising. Sunshine and showers, but quite windy at times, too. Its saturday 17th august. Our top story. Detectives investigating the killing of a Police Officer in berkshire have sealed off a nearby caravan site. Pc Andrew Harper, who only got married four weeks ago, died after he was dragged along by a vehicle as he was attending reports of a burglary. Our correspondent simonjones is at the scene. Simon, what more do we know . Earlier on we hired the sentiment from the forest, the sadness. The reaction has been quite overwhelming from this, hasnt it . Yes, great deal of shock and sadness and still a big Police Presence where pc harper lost his life. This side of the road remains cordoned off, the other side the police ourselves. We believe pc harper was derived from one side of the road
No river in the uk is currently safe to swim in thats the stark warning from scientists about the levels of sewage in our waterways. A Record Number of fires in the amazon rainforest data shows an 85 percent increase this year. Mps warn the uk will not meet its Climate Change targets unless people ditch their cars. Good afternoon. Our main story at five is borisjohnson has been in paris for talks with Emmanuel Macron, the latest stage in his attempts to try and break the brexit impasse. The french president insisted that the controversial irish backstop is indispensable to the integrity of the eu Single Market. The measure aims to prevent physical border checks if there was no post brexit trade agreement. Mr macron didnt point blank refuse to re negotiate the brexit deal though, asking for further explanation from the uk on what its alternative propsals might be. Both sides have agreed that they will keep talking. Our europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas sent this report. Frances pr
The mp for sheffield hallam, jared 0 mara, says he is to resign as a member of parliament to deal with personal issues. Riot Police Fire Tear gas at protesters in hong kong after tens of thousands march through the town where gangs attacked pro democracy activists last weekend. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are katherine forster, journalist at the sunday times, and the Home Affairs Editor at the london evening standard, Martin Bentham. The refresh has dominated the week, so the refresh has dominated the week, so youve got me in the chair the reshuffle. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. The sunday telegraph leads with reports that the new chancellor, sajid javid, is planning a big spending blitz to prepare for brexit. The observer goes with talks between former chancellor Philip Hammond and labours brexit secretary, keir starmer, to try and block a no deal brexit. The mail on sunday has a full page splash on bori
Part of the day, but it will be quite a warm one again. 22 to maybe 26 or 27 across the south east given the best of the sunshine here. But its on in towards the latter part of the afternoon to the evening where some of these showers and thunderstorms could cause some problems and locally torrential falls of rain. Hit and miss showers, but still, met office have issued a yellow warning for these. Its summer, these hit and miss showers and storms could affect the flood sensitive areas across Northern England. So, thats how sundays looking. As we head on into monday, low pressure is firmly with us, mainly affecting northern and western parts initially, and then spreading further east as the week wears on. So, it looks pretty unsettled, in fact, next week, particularly the first half of the week, where well see plenty of showers, maybe some thunderstorms, which could give rise to localised flooding in places. So our bands of showers and rain on monday, affecting eastern parts of england,
And coming up in business indias crypto crackdown. Why the country could soon ban bitcoin, ripple, and other digital currencies. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. It will get extremely hot here in Central London with temperatures rising above 30 celsius but also it will be very heated when it comes to the politics. And you can be part of the conversation. Send us your comments and questions about the the conservative leadership contest. Ill be talking to Iain Anderson and putting some of your points to him. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. So, it is a momentous day here at westminster. After several weeks of campaigning, the new leader of the Uk Conservative Party will be announced in just a few hours. That person will also be moving into number 10 as britains new Prime Minister. It will be one of these two men. Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, or the current foreign secretaryjeremy hunt. Mrjohnson is th