with covid in the uk in the last week a total of 2.3 million had the virus. rousing music. china celebrates the 25th anniversary of taking hong kong back from britain and claims the territory now has true democracy. half a century after the first pride march in london a million people are expected to take to the streets of the capital. coming up, i am at wimbledon where heather watson and cam norrie are trying to reach the next round of a grand slam for the first time. coming up on the bbc news channel, a roaring return forjames anderson who is taking wickets for england in their delayed fifth test against good afternoon. borisjohnson is facing calls to suspend from the conservative party one of his mps who s alleged to have groped two men. chris pincher resigned as deputy chief whip after admitting he had drunk far too much , and embarrassed himself at the carlton club, the conservative party members club in london. labour have questioned why he s being allowed to si
Are we now . Its been a busy few hours. Where are we now . Yes, The Big Story so far this afternoon are we now . Yes, The Big Story so far this afternoon is are we now . Yes, The Big Story so far this afternoon is from are we now . Yes, The Big Story so far this afternoon is from the far this afternoon is from the capital, london, where sadiq khan is in a really good place. Let me show you the latest up to date numbers, which show that the incumbent is on 560,000 votes, just about. Susan hall, the conservative, is on 386,000, thats about half the constituencies having counted. That is a big lead. I should say that the areas weve had in, some of them are very proud labour. But the thing that really matters here, that makes us think it is a slam dunk for sadiq khan is this. The swing that we are seeing across london from the conservatives to labour. Its been slightly different in different parts of the city, but overall, the average at the moment, 3. 7 swing from conservative to labour.
beijing promised then to keep the one country, two systems principle for at least 50 years, after the i997 for at least 50 years, after the 1997 handover, meaning hong kong would remain part of china but be free to govern itself. lord patten was the last governor of hong kong and was at the handover ceremony in 1997. he told the bbc that china has broken its promise. the words i spoke then saying it was now hong kong s dester need to be run by the people of hong kong, have turned to ashes, because hong kong was once one of the freest, arguably the freest and most open society in asia. it has now been turned into a police state. in the past two years beijing has cracked down on dissent in hong kong, introducing a national security law in 2020 that critics say has stifled free speech. pro democracy news outlets have also been shut down and a zero covid