And. Its paradise for a paleontologist we go fossil hunting in search of the mysterious and monstrous megalodon. Hello and welcome to bbc news. President trump says hes convinced iran did carry out thursdays attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. That view is supported by the uk government. Earlier, the us military released a video which it said showed Iranian Special forces removing an unexploded mine from one of the stricken ships. Tehran has strongly denied any involvement in the attacks. Heres our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet. This morning, a First Oil Tanker is set ablaze, ignited by an explosion. Crew members on this norwegian vessel were rescued by a passing cargo ship. These scenes filmed by iran possibly may be. An later come in other tanker, japanese own, also hit by an explosion. It is still not clear what caused these latest attacks and one of the worlds busiest shipping lanes. Today in washington, unequivocal condemnation of iran. These unprovoked
Of indias western coast as the region prepares for a powerful cyclone. The start of a beautiful friendship . Japans Prime Minister is in iran, the first visit of its kind in decades this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 1am in london and eight oclock in the morning here in hong kong where the mood remains tense after police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at thousands of protesters in the city centre. They were here a few hours ago and the situation does remain tense here today after. You can see the litter that has been left behind and we saw Police Trucks this morning, their presence out here. Nonetheless, protesters have remained a way. We did see them protesting over the last few days. There is a lot of anger here over a new bill that would allow people to be extradited to china for trial. Doesnt have been injured here, some critically so, as the territorys leader described these protests as organised riots. Lets start with this report from Rupert Wingfield hayes
Where huge tracts of forests are being wiped out this is happening all over the amazon, to create new farmland. The result is that the great forest has never been under such pressure. We start in hong kong, where protesters yesterday broke into the Legislative Council building. The chief executive of hong kong, carrie lam, used a News Conference in the early hours of the morning to condemn the protesters. My colleague Karishma Vaswani has been following developments in hong kong. In the early hours of this morning we heard from the chief executive, carrie lam, who held a News Conference to condemn the violence. She said the protesters disregarded the rule of law which is so cherished here in hong kong. Those protests coincided with the 22nd anniversary of the handover of power from the uk of hong kong to men than china and against a backdrop of continued unrest over mainland china. An unpopular draft bill, the extradition bill, which if it had passed, would have made it possible for pe
Hello and welcome. President trump and chinas xi jinping are in a highly anticipated meeting at the 620 summit injapan to discuss the bitter trade war between the two countries. The chinese president has appealed to the us president for dialogue rather than confrontation. All eyes are on whether this meeting can break the deadlock or make some progress towards a truce. Ourjapan correspondent, Rupert Wingfield hayes is at the summit in osaka. What can we expect to come out of this meeting . Here in osaka the meeting between xi jinping and china and donald trump, president of the United States is still going on, it is the meeting eve ryo ne still going on, it is the meeting everyone is watching to see whether the trade or between these two economic giants can at least be put on hold and some sort of truth be called so they can get back to negotiations. Going into that meeting just before lunchtime, both leaders well, i would say, upbeat, the mood was positive. Resident trump saying it wo
To headline 6lastonbury. England will face the United States i would in the semi finals of the world cup thats after the us knocked out the hosts france in paris last night. 6ood good morning. We are likely to see the hottest day of the year so far with temperatures across southern and Eastern England up to about 3k degrees. Cool in the north west with some showers that i will bring you a forecast shortly. Cooler in the north west with some showers but i will bring you the forecast shortly. Its saturday 29th june. Our top story the heatwave continues. Today, parts of the uk could experience the hottest june weather in over 60 years. Temperatures could reach 3a celsius, edging close to the hottest ever june day which recorded at 35. 6 degrees celsius in 1976. It follows extreme heat across europe, with Health Warnings still in place in france after record breaking temperatures yesterday. Our reporter leigh milner is in camden park for us this morning. Backin back in the 50s, wasnt at th