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match last night, rafa nadal knocked out after five hours and five sets. how coffee could be more than just a pick me up. now two major studies say it may help us live longer. cla p clap your hands together. one, two, three. closing the age gap. we ll find out about the new nursery opening on the same site as a care home. there s a call for british businesses to do more to boost the productivity of their workers. i ll be finding out why it s so important, and why the uk lags so far behind. and carol has the weather. carol has the weather, good morning. good morning from wimbledon, much cooler today than of late, the risk of interruption today. early afternoon, a dry slot, heavy and persistent rain. we re likely to see significant rain for the first time ina significant rain for the first time in a while in southern parts of england and wales. for the rest of the country, sunshine and showers. we will be back with more details later in the programme. thank you so much, s ....
#bbcos is the place to go. welcome to outside source. donald trumpjunior has released emails confirming that he was eager to accept what he was told was damaging information about hillary clinton provided by the russian state, during the presidential campaign. this is all relating to a meeting he had with a russian lawyer who he thought had compromising material about his father s opponent in the presidential race. here are the emails, you can find them on his twitter account, and here are some key parts. and to this donald trumpjnr replied: donald trumpjnr says he released them in the name of transparency but it might also have had something to do with the fact that @nytimes the new york times was just about to publish it. and we ve just had this reaction from the white house. trump says his son, donald trump junior, is a high quality person and applauds his transparency. these emails were sent between donald trump jnr and a publicist, rob goldstone, who set up a meeti ....
employees who work flexibly but don t receive any benefits should qualify for sick and holiday pay according to a government commissioned report. british tennis mystery is made. it s been 39 years. history is made. and johanna konta becomes the first british woman to reach the wimbledon semifinals since virginia wade in 1978. a moment of history that she celebrated on centre court. coming up on sportsday on bbc news: standing in betweenjohanna konta and the wimbledon final, venus williams a five time champion, who becomes the oldest semifinalist at the tournament in 23 years. good evening. an appalling tragedy that should never have happened. that s what the prime minister called the contaminated blood scandal of the 1970s and ‘80s, as the government announced an inquiry into the nhs scandal. it s been called one of the biggest disasters in the history of the nhs. at least 2,400 people died and 7,500 patients were infected with viruses, such as hepatitis c and ....
tough for buyers. and in the next hour we ll get the latest from the us, where pressure is mounting on the president and the attorney general. the white house says it will reach a decision soon on us attorney generaljeff sessions, who has been publicly humiliated by president donald trump. relatives of some of the soldiers who died during the battle of paschendale have attended the unveiling of an art installation in honour of the victims, which is made of mud. the german car manufacturer bmw says it has decided to build an electric version of the mini at its cowley plant in oxford. the new model is due to go into production by the end of 2019. the electric motor, gearbox and battery pack will be produced at bmw s plant in leipzig in germany, before being brought to the uk and installed in the body of the mini at the factory of the mini at the factory at the cowley plant in oxford. the company says it has not received any assurances or commitments from the british gov ....
as he bows out of public life, aged 96. hello. there s new hope for thousands of families who live with the prospect of passing on inherited diseases to future generations. for the first time, scientists have successfully repaired a faulty gene in human embryos. they used a process known as gene editing to correct dna that causes a deadly heart condition. but there is concern that the technique could, ultimately, be used to create so called designer babies. our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. the goal could not be more ambitious: to eradicate inherited diseases. these scientists have taken an impressive first step on a long road, editing dna in human embryos. so how is it done? inside the nucleus of each of ourselves is our genome, billions of pieces of dna. it s the instruction manual for life. the scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes a serious heart condition. they fertilised a healthy egg with sperm from a man carrying the faulty gene. ....