Against simona halep. Roger federer gets the better of his old rival rafa nadal, to set up a final with Novak Djokovic tomorrow. Good morning, it is a fairly settled weather weekend here in the uk. It will not be completely dry there will be a few sharp showers developing as we go through the day but equally, therell be fair amounts of strong july sunshine as well. I will have all the details for you in around 15 minutes. Its saturday, july 13th. Our top story a criminal investigation has been launched into the alleged leak of diplomatic emails from the uk ambassador in the us, which were critical of President Trumps administration. The fallout from the data breach prompted Sir Kim Darroch to resign and has been a talking point in the conservative leadership race, as our Political Correspondent, nick eardley reports. Kim darroch, the uks man in washington. Hell leave soon, though, after leaked e mails criticising President Trump caused a huge diplomatic row. Last night, the met said it
the president son was all smile last night he got to attend the white house state dinner. his appearance coming just days after he agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor trespass charges. slimming down as a sweethear deal the irs whistleblowers apparently greasing investigators recommended nearl a dozen tarts at some of those felonies it but doj officials poured cold water on all of that . one of those whistleblowers telling congress i am alleging with evidence the doj provided preferential treatment, did nothing to avoid obvious conflicts of interest and this investigation. cell, the republicans have brought a blatant example of th two-tiered justice system. obviously there s been nothing from mark garland because running the most politicized department of justice in modern times. we have demand anders from the director of the fbi and the secretary of the treasury who oversees the irs. they don t tax treat all taxpayers the same. unfortunately, americans aren t ju
smith. this is america reports. a house panel voted yesterday to release testimony given by the two irs agents last month and both of these claim the president s son received preferential treatment during the department s investigation. but it s a whatsapp message in the hands of house lawmakers now that s raising some eyebrows and new questions today. john: members of the ways and committee say the 2017 text hunter biden appears to invoke his father s name while pressuring a chinese business associate for payment. it seems to contradict president biden s claims he s never been involved in his son s business dealings. aishah: jonathan turley will join us in a few minutes. john: jacqui heinrich is live on the white house lawn. all we know about it comes from house ways and means republicans who saw this presented to them by the whistleblower. we have not heard from anyone else about the authenticity of the text. the president, though, has long maintained as you said,
To mark the symbolic handover of the project to the scottish government. Good morning. Its tuesday, 29th august. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Japan and the United States have requested an urgent meeting of the Un Security Council later today after north korea fired a missile that flew overjapan before crashing into the sea. The missile flew over northern japan before it crashed into the sea off the countrys east coast. The launch prompted an alert and people were told to take cover in basements or concrete buildings. The japanese Prime Minister, shinzo abe, said the launch was an unprecedented, serious, and grave threat to his nation. North korea has fired rockets over japan twice in the past, once in 1998 and again in 2009, but on those occasions pyongyang claimed those they were satellite launches, not weapons. Just before midnight, foreign secretary borisjohnson tweeted that he was outraged by what he called north koreas reckless provocation. The Chinese Governme
Winds and heavy rain. Many areas in the Central Region have lost power and flooding is expected as far west as the capital, havana. One Million People, nearly a tenth of the population, have been evacuated. These pictures show the eye of the hurricane as seen from a plane flying over the storm. 0ur correspondent will grant is in havana with the latest on the situation. Cu ba ns cubans had hoped they would avoid the worst of Hurricane Irma, but they had no such luck. With the full force of a category five storm, the hurricane tore through the irelands northern shore. The storm surge almost completely engulfing several small fishing villages. Electricity and communication links are right gcioss and communication links are right across swathes of the country. But some communities are wrong the coast are wondering how they would ever rebuild, others are bracing themselves for irmas impact. Even in the big cities people are getting nervous. Translation i am really worried. My home is in a g