data on saturn after diving through the gap between the planet and its rings. and coming up in the sport on bbc news: maria sharapova is labelled a cheat by fellow player eugenie bouchard, as she returns from her 15 month doping ban with a win in stuttgart. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the foreign secretary has suggested britain could take military action in syria without a vote in the house of commons. borisjohnson said it would be very difficult to say no if president trump asked for british help in punishing the syrian regime for another chemical weapons attack. meanwhile mrjohnson has also waded into the election campaign for the first time, with a highly personal attack on the labour leaderjeremy corbyn. he s called him a mutton headed old mugwump . here s our political correspondent, alex forsyth. smith will strike on a syrian airfield earlier this month, the first direct us action against syrian government forces, he responds to a chemical at
and they ask us to help, as i say, i think it will be very difficult to say no. we don t need unilateral action, we need to work through the un but, above all, we need to bend ourselves totally to getting a political settlement in syria. the government loses a court bid to delay publication of its air pollution strategy until after the general election. new figures show a big rise in violent crime in england and wales with knife crime at its highest level for six years. and how readers are turning off their e books and switching back to paper, as publishers enjoy a record year. good evening, there s been a major security operation in whitehall as armed police arrested a man suspected of planning acts of terrorism. a rucksack and several knives have been recovered from the scene, but no one has been injured. it s understood officers from scotland yard s counter terrorism command moved in on the suspect as part of an intelligence led operation. the prime minister was not in dow
restore power sharing in northern ireland sinn fein has said it is unlikely there will be a deal in the talks at stormont in the short term. the northern ireland secretary is due to give a statement shortly. and andy murray is through to the second round of the men s singles at wimbledon. the number one seed beat alexander bublik, of russia, in straight sets. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a long awaited report into seven decades of child abuse in the care system injersey has warned that children may still be at risk. the independentjersey care inquiry describes a government seemingly ignorant, uncaring and unwilling to deal with issues facing vulnerable people, and services which are still not fully fit for purpose. the inquiry has heard from more than 600 witnesses over three years. here s what we know so far: the inquiry found that there have been failings at ‘all levels ofjersey‘s children s sevices. there was no political interest in defining and promoti
change in public sector pay policy, despite several cabinet ministers including the foreign secretary borisjohnson, calling for the 1% pay cap to be scrapped. james bird kuchar, the northern ireland secretary, says a deal can be reached despite the deadline being missed. in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. we ll have the latest developments on president trump s war with the media on 100 day plus at 7pm. a report into seven decades of child abuse injersey claims that children in the island s care system may still be at risk. we ll speak to a former chief minister at 8pm. and we ll have the first look at tomorrow s front pages at 10.1i0pm with christopher hope, chief political correspondent for the daily telegraph and financial times correspondent miranda green. that s all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to wimbledon sportsday, i m katherine downes. opening t