To their homes because of flooding, descibed by the Environment Agency as unprecedented. Around 48 Million People may be affected by a huge electrical power failure in argentina and uruguay. Millions tune in to watch the biggest clash in world cricket as india meet pakistan in manchester in the world cup. Good afternoon. Hundreds of thousands of protestors are back on the streets in hong kong, a day after the territorys chief executive, carrie lam, suspended highly controversial plans to allow extradition to the chinese mainland. Within the last hour carrie lam has apologised to the public with utmost sincerity and humility. The demonstrators are calling for the proposals to be completely withdrawn and for mrs lam to resign. Our china correspondent, stephen mcdonell, has spent the day at the protests. Hong kongs streets are again a sea of protest, a day after the government was forced into a humiliating back down. Its delayed a bill to allow for people to be sent to mainland chinese co
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
Guardians daily podcast and anti chief Political Correspondent chris hope. Today. Will you tap the ballot today, mrjohnson . He is a long way from number ten, but it looks like Boris Johnson a long way from number ten, but it looks like borisjohnson s go contest to lose. Is it sajid javid . Michael gove . Jeremy hunt . Well speak to all of their campaigns. You wont be cheering in september does this vote mean the commons cant stop the next Prime Minister pursuing no deal . And, which of these 10 wont make the cut . Well find out at1 oclock. Voting in the secret ballot to decide who goes forward in this contest finished at noon, its all happening in the commons in Committee Room 1a, lets go straight over to our assistant Political Editor norman smith, hes in the central lobby of the house of commons. A big day, whats been happening . The Committee Corridor has been packed all morning. Mps have been arriving early doors. My sense is it is looking like a big win for Boris Johnson. His tea
Hundreds of people in lincolnshire still cant go back to their homes because of flooding, described by the Environment Agency as unprecedented. Around 48 Million People may be affected by a huge electrical power failure in argentina and uruguay. And the internationally acclaimed writer Fatima Bhutto talks to George Alagiah in talking books, in half an hour on bbc news. Good afternoon. Tens of thousands of protestors are back on the streets of hong kong, a day after the territorys chief executive, carrie lam, suspended highly controversial plans to allow extraditions to the chinese mainland. Carrie lam has apologised to the public with utmost sincerity and humility. The demonstrators are calling for the proposals to be completely withdrawn and for mrs lam to resign. Our china correspondent, stephen mcdonell, has spent the day at the protests. Hong kongs streets are again a sea of protest, a day after the government was forced into a humiliating back down. Its delayed a bill to allow for
Hundreds of people in lincolnshire still cant go back to their homes because of flooding descibed by the Environment Agency as unprecedented. Most of argentina and uruguay, together with regions of paraguay and brazil, are without electricity after a massive power outage. Good afternoon. Five of the 6 conservative leadership candidates are preparing to go head to head in their first televised debate tonight. However, borisjohnson, the frontrunner in the race, will not be taking part. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, has said choosing mrjohnson as the next tory leader would mean britain leaving the eu without a deal. Our political correspondent, nick eardley, reports. Catch him if you can. Boris johnson is the frontrunner to be our next pm, and he still is keeping his head down. He wont be at the first tv debate tonight, but his rivals know he is the man to catch. Jeremy hunt thinks he can make up the ground, but unlike mrjohnson, hes not promising brexit will be done by the end of o