Troubled travel operator thomas cook begins rescue talks with banks and its largest shareholder. And englands netballers start their World Cup Campaign tonight with a match against uganda in liverpool. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. The American Military says its trying to put together a coalition to protect commercial shipping in the gulf after the royal navy had to intervene to help a british tanker which was being confronted by iranian vessels. The foreign secretaryjeremy hunt has promised to reverse cuts to the size of the royal navy if he becomes Prime Minister. Rising tensions with iran have led to uk merchant vessels being placed on the highest security alert near the strait of hormuz. On one side are the arab states, including a number of key allies. On the other, iran. Between them, the strait of hormuz at its narrowest point, its only 21 miles across. But in total, a fifth of the worlds oil exports are squeezed through this tiny corridor. So any disruption
Of him kicking a puppy and they probably still vote for him. With jeremy hunt we could actually become more of the centre right party, the compassionate one nation conservatives. And bobby norris from the only way is essex tells how the homophobic abuse he received on social media prompted his campaign to make such abuse a criminal offence. Ive been sent death threats, people have wished cancer on me, theyve told me that i should have acid thrown in my face and this is literally because of my sexuality. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. The long running Junior Doctors dispute is set to end after doctors voted in favour of an 8. 2 pay rise well be talking to doctors who backed the plan and who opposed it a bit later. Have you just come off a night shift in a hospital . Let us know what you think about the plans. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about use the hashtag victoria live. If youre emailing and are happy for us to contact you and ma
More than a decade after ba naz mahmods death in a so called honour killing, her sister speaks out for the first time. The moment you choose to ignore actually what happened and not talk about it, you will never get past it. And 13 years on, we still havent had that conversation. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Riot police have used pepper spray and batons during clashes with protesters in hong kong overnight, on the 22nd anniversary of its handover from british to chinese rule. The protests are the latest against a law that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to Mainland China to facejustice. Lets have a look at the live pictures from the streets of hong kong. You can see the numbers are building, there is always a dispute on at that between the protesters and the police. This is the third enormous demonstration weve seen in hong kong in the past month. The organisers typically say the figures are aroundi organisers typically say the figures are around 1 million. Th
And it does look like snow. It is good afternoon. Coming up on afternoon not quite what it seems because i play is under way at the all england club, was not actually a metre of hail before we go to sport, i want to should be a terrific fortnight, accumulating in any one location, plenty to cheer for the british live, all the sport. Ta ke before we go to sport, i want to take you back to hong kong because the thinking is that because it is a tennis fans already, this is the scene live there right lets get the very latest warm climate, a lot of that hale from wimbledon. Melted when it reached the ground now. We understand that protesters afternoon, wimbledon is under way and then youve got a lot of flash have smashed their way into the and Novak Djokovic has just started john watson is there. The defence of his title. You will flooding, and then the additional Legislative Council. You can see the be back there later in the hour. I hail that was falling was almost pictures there. Protest
The other main stories on bbc news at 5 Sir Cliff Richard and Paul Gambaccini launch a campaign demanding anonymity for suspects accused of Sexual Offences until theyre charged. Despite no charges being brought against me and despite winning my privacy case, against me and despite winning my rivac case im against me and despite winning my privacy case, im sure there are still people who believe that stupid adage of no smoke without fire. Both the tory leadership contenders set out Spending Plans but the chancellor warns them the cash may not be there. Freak weather in mexico as hail on a sunny day leaves a thick layer of ice up to one a half metres thick. And on the opening day of wimbledon, top seed Novak Djokovic starts his defence of his title, with a straight sets win on centre court. Its five oclock. Our main story in hong kong, thousands of protesters have smashed their way into the Legislative Council building and are occupying the chamber. It followed violent clashes when riot