try to rescue it from collapse. thames water is £14 billion in debt and in crisis mode after the surprise resignation of its ceo on tuesday. no clear reason has been given for sarah bentley s departure. misses are considering a plan to bring the utility giant temporarily under public ownership if it can t sort out its debts. we public ownership if it can t sort out its debts. we need to make sure sort out its debts. we need to make sure that sort out its debts. we need to make sure that thames - sort out its debts. we need to make sure that thames water sort out its debts. we need to i make sure that thames water is an entity survives. there is a lot of work that the government is trying to do on resolving sewerage. up until now the regulator has been focused on keeping consumer bills down, there is a lot of infrastructure work that needs to take place. privatised in 1989, analysts say thames water should be a simple moneymaker. after all, should be a simple moneymaker.
court season. the dane took a step backin court season. the dane took a step back in 20 20 after a 15 year career that saw her win the australian open and be well another one on two separate occasions was up she retired after a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. she annoys her return on socio media commit saying she still had goals she wanted to accomplish. in football, one of the biggest transfer deals of the summer is closing in after arsenal agreed a fee to sign declan rice. it is arsenal s third bid for rice and the initialfee would equal arsenal s third bid for rice and the initial fee would equal the arsenal s third bid for rice and the initialfee would equal the british record. city had a dealfor rice rejected and have withdrawn from the running. yet to act on the market are manchester united, but talks are respected to take place to resolve the situation with chelsea over their proposed move of mason mount to old trafford. chelsea rejected the latest bit of 55 millio
decision be the last word. we cannot let this decision be the last word. earlier, i had the chance to speak to former governor of massachusetts and former us assistant attorney general for civil rights, deval patrick. it s great to have you on bbc news. the court said in its majority opinion that both of these programmes at harvard and north carolina unavoidably employed race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping and lack of meaningful endpoints. what do you think of that argument? well, i think that it s disappointing but not surprising. there is a right way and a wrong way to do affirmative action, or at least that s what the inaudible has had for a long time. the wrong way involves quotas and set asides and that kind of numeric and wooden programme. the right way, at least until today, we thought, was to take race or ethnicity into account, alongside preparation and achievement and grit and potential and the very kinds of things that contribute to composing rea
fights to prevent its collapse. ministers are drawing up contingency plans while the supplier looks to secure extra funding amid debts running into billions of pounds. celia hatton has more. the future of the uk s biggest water company is far from watertight. but the government is reassuring thames water s 15 million customers they won t lose access to water as work continues behind the scenes to try to rescue it from collapse. thames water is £14 billion in debt and in crisis mode after the surprise resignation of its ceo on tuesday. no clear reason has been given for sarah bentley s departure. ministers are considering a plan to bring the utility giant temporarily under public ownership if it can t sort out its debts. we need to make sure that thames water as an entity survives. there s a lot of work that the government is trying to do on resolving sewage. certainly, up until now, the regulator has been focused on keeping consumer bills down, but there s a lot of infrastru
in its asylum processes are corrected, removal of asylum seekers to rwanda will be unlawful. and scientists pick up shock waves from colliding galaxies. and damning report says that a police unit to infiltrated protest groups for four decade should have been disbanded. and scientists pick up shock waves from colliding galaxies. could it be the first evidence of giant black holes distorting space and time? sport now, and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre. england are doing well in their reply after bowling australia out for a16 on the second day of the second ashes test at lords. stuart broad took the first of today s five wickets, trapping alex carey lbw shortly after play resumed. steve smith dug in for australia though, and reached his 32nd test century offjust 169 balls. it was left tojosh tongue to remove smith picking up his third wicket of the innings in the process. 0llie robinson then made sure they carried through their mome