cereal has suddenly got a lot more expensive. we re just half an hour away from the start of the 150th open championship. to mark this historic milestone, they re back at st andrews regarded as the home of golf with it s world famous with its world famous fairways and greens nestling between the town and sea. and while there might be the odd shower at st andrews and the north of the country, mostly sunny spells, feeling fresher. that still extreme heat coming our way next week. it s thursday, july 14th. our main story. a second round of voting will take place in the conservative leadership contest later, with six candidates remaining in the race to become the next prime minister. former chancellor rishi sunak topped the first vote of conservative mps yesterday he s now facing a strong challenge from the trade minister, penny mordaunt. our political correspondent, helen catt, has the latest. now there are six candidates to be the next prime minister. by the end the day, th
eye is not blinking. and justin bieber reveals the reason he cancelled his performances this week he s experiencing facial paralysis. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. it is good to have your company. prince charles is reported by the times newspaper on saturday morning to have privately described the british government s policy of sending some asylum seekers to rwanda as appalling . clarence house insists the prince is politically neutral . he s due to preside in the rwandan capital, kigali, at the commonwealth heads of government meeting in ten days time. yesterday, an attempt to block a flight taking asylum seekers to rwanda next tuesday was rejected by the courts. our home editor, mark easton, reports. is it lawful to give people seeking asylum in the uk a one way ticket to rwanda? telling them to pursue refugee status thousands of miles south in east africa? the first migrants are due to make that journey next tuesday, with campaign
hello, and welcome to bbc news. it s 100 days since russia began its invasion of ukraine. president zelensky marked the occasion by praising the country s resistance. but he s admitted russia now controls one fifth of his country, that nearly 1a million people have been forced to flee and that thousands of civilians have been killed. 0n the ground, vladimir putin s focus is now on the donbas region in the east, where his forces continue to make gains. but the governor of the luhansk region says ukrainian troops have recaptured parts of severodonetsk. if confirmed, it would mean russian forces control only half the city. 0ur international correspondent, 0rla guerin, has been with ukrainian troops near bakhmut one of the next town s in russia s path. a dirt track that leads to a grinding war. we re in donbas, the key battleground. the russians are two miles down the road. this area, around bakhmut, is still in ukrainian hands, for now. but the enemy is approaching from two si