His wimbledon title. The uk, france and germany have made a joint appeal to President Trump and irans leaders to ease their standoff over Irans Nuclear programme. They say the deal reached with iran could unravel further and everyone involved should consider the consequences of their actions. It comes as leaked diplomatic cables reveal that the former British Ambassador to washington believed the us president pulled out of the deal to vandalise president obamas legacy. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins reports. Most of the Current Crisis in the gulf can be traced back to irans controversial nuclear research. Britain, france and germany still hope to keep alive the 2015 nuclear deal which limits this work, but President Trump abandoned it last year in favour of increased sanctions, and iran says it is now breaching the deal because its not delivering the promised economic benefits. This evening, theresa may, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel released a joint appeal, saying they
Charged with sex offences. Its rafa v roger at wimbledon for the First Time Since their epic battle over a decade ago. And coming up on bbc news. Former england striker peter crouch has retired from football at the age of 38 after more than 21 years as a professional. Hes described his career as a dream come true. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Britain is sending a second warship to the gulf, as tensions with iran rise. Hms duncan a type 45 destroyer will bejoining hms montrose which earlier this week had to warn off three iranian gunboats that were trying to intercept a british oil tanker. The deployment comes as the United States tries to assemble a coalition of nations to give more military protection to shipping in the gulf. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports. There has been a constant american and British Naval presence in the gulf for decades. This recent exercise involving both countries, though the presence of warships ebbs and flows. But now t
Good morning. There should be lots of dry weather around today with some warm spells of sunshine for most of us as well. We just have a few showers around this money to clear away but i will have all of the details for you and around quarter of an hour. Its sunday 14th july. Our top story. One match away from making history. England take on new zealand in the mens cricket World Cup Final at lords later today. Its their first final since 1992, and neither team has ever won the trophy. Mike bushell reports. Come on over its the biggest game so far for england, come on a cricket home world cup comes along once in a generation and the england squad certainly have not let this opportunity slip through theirfingers. After crashing out of the group stages four years ago, 27 years have passed since england were last in a World Cup Final. And they now stand on the brink of winning one of sports top honours for the very first time. It means a huge amount to me and to everybody in the changing ro
The uks next prime minister. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. The mail on sunday has published more leaked messages sent by britains former ambassador to the United States. In one of them, Sir Kim Darroch suggests that President Trump pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal last year to spite barack obama, describing it as an act of diplomatic vandalism. The documents were published, despite a warning from police to the media not to print the leaked material. Both conservative leadership contenders have defended the rights of the press to publish the document. Jeremy hunt described it as a vital part of british democracy. We have to remember that the official secrets act is there for a reason, and it is the polices job to decide if a criminal act has been committed, but at the same time not forget what is precious about our country, which is that we have one of the most vibrant and free media in the world, and this is a country that has always been known for standing up for democratic
Earlier, Selina Guthrie and experienced player who knows the expectation on this team and what people are wanting to see from them and she knows she just want to get going. That is some nerves but that is because it is such an amazing and big event and we are very excited to crack on, so ready for this competition to start, it has been an amazing build up but Pressure Cooker off and lets get going. The tournament format is fairly complicated and england have an interest in janet to get to the final matches. There are 16 teams split across four groups with the top three from each proceeding to the second phase of Group Matches purchase when it starts getting interesting and competitive. It is very complicated and we will not worry about that for now. And scotla nd worry about that for now. And scotland and Northern Ireland will hope to make it through to the next stage. Scotland have been a much improving team recently, now seventh in the world best ranking to date but unfortunately the