Online have their sentences increased. Russia bans flights to georgia after clashes in the capital, thousands of protesters have gathered outside parliament for a second night. Eltonjohn receives frances highest civilian honour, the legion dhonneure from president macron. Welcome to bbc news. President trump has confirmed that he called off a military strike against iran with minutes to spare after deciding to many human lives would be lost. Mr trump tweeted that the us had been cocked and loaded, but he is now facing criticism from democrats or revealing details of the plan. The attack had been planned in response to the shooting down of an unmanned us drone by iran earlier this week. That happened in the volatile region which is a major supply route for one third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace the us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the straight of hormuz. Here is our north america editorjohn sopel. In iran they are celebrat
Five men jailed for attacking a woman and sharing video of it online have their sentences increased. Russia bans flights to georgia after clashes in tbilisi thousands of protesters have gathered outside parliament for a second night. And eltonjohn receives frances highest civilian honour, the legion dhonneure, from president macron. President trump has confirmed that he called off a military strike against iran with minutes to spare after deciding that too many human lives would be lost. Mr trump tweeted that the us had been cocked and loaded but hes now facing criticism from democrats for revealing details of the plan. The attack was to be a response to the shooting down of an unmanned us drone by iran earlier this week. It happened in a volatile region which is a major supply route for a third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace, but the us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the strait of hormuz. Heres our north america editorjon s
From president macron. The Foreign Office minister, mark field, has been suspended hello, and welcome. President trump has confirmed that he called off a military strike against iran with minutes to spare, after deciding that too many human lives would be lost. Mr trump tweeted that the us had been cocked and loaded but hes now facing criticism from democrats for revealing details of the plan. The attack was to be a response to the shooting down of an unmanned us drone by iran earlier this week. It happened in a volatile region which is a major supply route for a third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace, but the us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the strait of hormuz. Heres our north america editorjon sopel. In iran they are celebrating taking out of the sky a 130 million us drone the latest escalation in tensions between washington and tehran. Today, on iranian tv, the results of their handiwork were being shown off. America has
World cup suffer a blow as they slump to a shock defeat against sri lanka at headingley. Life now gets much harderfor the hosts. Good morning. All quiet on the weather front, at least for today. Stormy days ahead and for some of us, hotter days. The full weekend forecast is on its way. Its saturday the june 22nd. Our top story. Borisjohnson is in the headlines once again this morning, this time over reports that police were called to his home in the early hours of friday morning because of a domestic disturbance. Mrjohnson and jeremy hunt are due to address Party Members in birmingham later today as part of their leadership bids. Our Political Correspondent Helena Wilkinson is in our london newsroom. Helena, what more do we know . We know police were called to his address. Just take us through what is known. We know this happened in the early hours of yesterday morning. This is a flat that mr johnson shows with his partner, carrie symons, and it follows reports from a neighbour who sai
World cup suffers a blow. Life gets much harderfor the hosts now. Good morning. All quiet on the weather front at least for today. Its a lovely start to the weekend but there are stormy days ahead and for some of us, to ones as well. The full weekend forecast is on its way. Its saturday 22nd june. Our top story. Boris johnson is likely to face questions today over reports that police were called to his home in the early hours of friday morning because of a loud argument. Our political correspondent, helena wilkinson, is in our london newsroom. Helena, theres only one story in town this morning will this have any effect on Boris Johnsons campaign . We know officers from the metropolitan police went to the flat that mrjohnson chairs with his partner as you said in the early hours of friday morning. It follows reports from a neighbour who said they heard a loud argument. The Guardian Newspaper has said they spoke to a neighbour who recorded the row from inside the flat. Its important to s