Lewis hamilton says it feels surreal to have a six formula 1 world title. It moves the driver to just one behind Michael Schumachers all time record of seven. Thanks, jane. And louise has the weather outlook. Plenty of rainbow pictures coming in they can shower this afternoon. All they can shower this afternoon. All the details, coming up shortly. Thanks louise. Also coming up. Once one of the two most powerful people in the world, well hear from the former soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who, in a bbc interview, warns that current tension between russia and the west is putting the world in colossal danger due to the threat from Nuclear Weapons. Translation automation should declare. All nations. Nuclear weapons must be destroyed. To save ourselves, and our planet. Hello, everyone, this is afternoon live. Health Service Leaders in england are warning politicians not to use the nhs as a weapon in the general Election Campaign. Nhs providers, which represents hospitals and other health
Debate indicating she is not the front runner to take on donald trump. And anger in south korea after its football world cup qualifier in pyongyang is played to empty stands without live coverage. Thank you very much for joining as hong kongs chief executive carrier has been forced to delay her annual policy speech in the legislature. Pay the. Politicians shouted her down twice as she left the chamber some even threw objects at her lamb is struggling to restore public order after months of on Thai Government protests in a post poll monks. Hong kong people have had a very difficult time very very tough time how rather our chief executive mrs kerry. To respond to resole of the problem. Our 5 months of very clear not one less and i really urge if she wants hong kong and she has no determination to govern hong kong and she has no ability and even incapable in a ministry to Hong Kong Police that down and carrying them eventually delivered her speech through video link she said the Internati
And coming up two arsenal stars are targetted in a carjacking attempt, by an armed gang in a london street. Good morning welcome to bbc newsroom live. More disruption is expected on parts of the rail network today, after yesterdays high temperatures caused extensive damage. Network rail feared rail lines would buckle in yesterdays extreme heat. But with speed restrictions in place that didnt happen. What did cause pandemonium yesterday, however, was damage caused by trains to overhead cables when they sagged in the heat, sparking some line side fires. This left some commuters stuck in london late into the night. Repair work has been ongoing but only half of the tracks north out of london st pancras have been fixed meaning a significantly reduced service is in place. And theres still disruption there today as well as other stations as seen here in leicester. East Midlands Trains has urged passengers not to travel to london st pancras from nottingham and sheffield. Its put an emergency t
Temperatures on record, but also the second highest temperature ever recorded in the uk, and those temperature records were tumbling in europe with new National Records set in belgium, netherlands, germany and luxembourg. At the moment we have a weather front bringing wet weather, stretching into kent, sussex, into the Greater London area and on to the Greater London area and on to the east midlands. This front isnt going to move very far, very fast. There could be a few areas that see a bit of rain from that, otherwise bright or sunny spells. Temperatures for most of us a more comfortable. Low to mid o 20s but there are some areas that see higher temperatures, we could see temperatures peaking between 28 and 30 given sunshine, an outside chance of a thunderstorm perhaps. Northern scotland stays dry and sunny. Temperatures in the high 20s so a few of us where the heat wave is just about holding on. Tonight outbreaks of rain, heavier as well before spreading on to scotland. Scotland. No
Two holiday firms, with bookings from more than 50,000 people, have ceased trading. Last month was probably the warmestjuly on record according to new research. And, england Bowlerjames Anderson awaits the results of a calf scan and could be out for the rest of the first ashes test at edgbaston. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The liberal democrats have won the brecon and radnorshire by election taking the seat from the conservatives, and leaving borisjohnsons government with a working majority of one. Here is the result the liberal democrat candidate jane dodds overturned the conservatives majority of over 8,000 to beat the incumbent mp chris davies byjust over 1,400 votes. The brexit party pushed labour into fourth place. And here is the share of the vote which saw a 12 swing from the conservatives to the liberal democrats, and the labour vote collapsed. 0ther pro remain parties had stood aside to allow the lib dems a better chance to reclaim the seat they lost in the 201