Here on bbc news, its the 1,000th episode of click, and this week, its an interactive special. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Thejustice secretary, david gauke, has strongly criticised the leak of emails in which the uk ambassador in washington describes president Trumps Administration as inept and incompetent. In the messages, seen by the mail on sunday, Sir Kim Darroch says the white house has been uniquely dysfunctional undeertrump, but warns that he should not be written off. The Foreign Office says the leak of diplomatic cables was mischievous, but hasnt denied their authenticity. The justice secretary has beeen speaking to the bbcs andrew marr. I think its very important that ambassadors give honest, unvarnished advice to their country and it is disgraceful that its been leaked, but we should expect our ambassadors to tell the truth as they see it. And therefore the government should stick by him . As i say, i think ambassadors need to be able to make their honest assess
They are on the verge of a first world title. They know they are up against formidable opponents, they will be the underdogs. The usa have won the world cup three times, olympic gold four times, a team seemingly built to win. Their starforward on and off the pitch has been megan rapinoe. She scored five goals and is a social activist, an equal rights campaigner as well. She is expecting to be fit for the final and recover from a hamstring strain that kept her out of the england game. The netherlands star player is a former ballon dor winner, lieke martens, she is an injury doubt another reason why the odds seem to be stacked against the european champions. But they have belief. They won the European Championship two years ago, they are a great attacking side on their day. They know they need to raise their level to knock the usa off their perch. The final is on bbc one. Kick off in lyon is at lipm. Paul pogbas been included in Manchester Uniteds travelling squad for their pre season to
Bondmarkets rally as investors cheer Christine Lagardes nomination to the European Central bank writes the financial times. In an exclusive interview with the daily mirror the mother of sarah payne opens up about her emotional return to the place where her daughter was abducted. The guardian cites new Research Suggesting that1 in 10 people in hospital beds in the uk are alcohol dependent. The front page also has rufus the hawk, watching over wimbledon, and keeping pigeons away from the tennis. Lets look at the story on the right of the front page, to the right of the photo, caroline, uk because it, chinese envoy over hong kong. This isa chinese envoy over hong kong. This is a reference to what has happened. The ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office because they have attached the commentsjeremy hunt made which was basically that he was cautioning the beijing government against using the demonstrations in hong kong at a pretext for repression. Basically, that has been dismis
Ridge of High Pressure keeping things are settled for another day or weather fronts waiting to the west, but sundy looks like a fairly settled and dry day with some long spells of sunshine. Some showery rain across parts of southern and south Eastern England for a time, more cloud later works in from the west. The head of that, in the sunny spells, 13 21, dry and bright weather on the cards. If you can avoid those rogue showers. Into the next working week, we have weather fronts trying to move in from the west, this area of High Pressure, so on monday a lot of dry weather once again, the best of the sunshine towards Northern Ireland North Eastern parts of the uk, cloud working on across southern and Western Areas of the day with the odd shower around. Temperatures on monday somewhere between 15 21, so a little cooler than we have seen, certainly two end the week. As we move through monday night into tuesday, we have the weather fronts trying to move in, bumping into this area of High P
In the tournament. But comes back to win against the odds. Four stretch the ones world cup to 32 and to double its prize Jaguar Land Rover is investing hundreds of millions of pounds to build a range of electric vehicles at its plant in birmingham. It will begin with an electric version of the jaguar xj from 2020. The company says it will help secure the jobs of more than two and a half thousand workers at the plant although it announced almost double the number of job losses earlier this year. But with purely electric cars making up just 1 of the market, does todays decision reflect Consumer Choice . Our Business Editor simon jack is in castle bromwich. After 6000 lay offs in the last two. The boss announced the company was spending the £1 billion on electrifying one of its most famous models. Julia and Martin Davies got married after meeting at the plant. 0ur son in laws here, so this is the next generation, they are taking it on. Its secured their futures. Its just fantastic. Jlr h