managed to fool hsbc‘s voice recognition security system, designed to prevent fraud. good morning, it s friday, 19th may. i m annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live. breaking news this morning. swedish prosecutors are ending their seven year long investigation into the wikileaks founder, julian assange, who has been accused of rape. mr assange, who s a5, has been living at the ecuadorian embassy in london since 2012, claiming asylum to avoid extradition to sweden. scotla nd scotland yard says it is obliged to arrest him for breaching bail conditions if he leaves the embassy. julian assange has just tweeted this picture. this is in reaction to that means from sweden. that is the first reaction from julian assange, though no statement from him as yet. let s cfoss no statement from him as yet. let s cross to the ecuadorian embassy in london. our correspondent, richard lister, is there. richard, so, any expectation we might seejulian assange leading that embassy any time
at his first ever music festival but he s confessed to not fully joining in the festival spirit. i m not the attempt. as much as i d love to be in a tent, i m not that bad. so i m not in a tent. and the legendary cricket commentator henry ‘blowers blofeld retires. my my dear old things, i m all things come to an end, i ve decided the time is right to hang up my microphone. breaking news to bring you the night. camden council in north london will tonight evacuate 161 households from a tower block, after discovering it was covered in similar cladding to that used on grenfell tower. we are hoping to bring you more on this shortly. more detailfrom them, more detail from them, they say residents of the charlton estate will be moved into temporary accommodation, because of this particular cladding which was involved in the very rapid spread the fire that we saw so tragically happen in grenfell tower a little distance away in north kensington. i believe that there are now no bu
business leaders are gathering just down the road from here to talk about how to create the business leaders of tomorrow. i m amongst teams who have been taking part in a competition to set up and run their own business from scratch. in sport, on a great day for the home crowds here at wimbledon. johanna konta reaches the third round for the first time, as watson, bedene and murray make it four british players through. we step back to 1967 to look at a slice of wimbledon history 50 years ago, the first colour tv transmission was broadcast. we speak exclusively to the man who made it happen. the skies were throbbing ultramarine. the green was very saturated, and rolled, it was awful. but that was what we wanted. we want colour! a lot of it! and carol has the weather. we do not expect too many disruptions at wimbledon here today. some early showers that should pull away. it can completely rule out the risk of a thunderstorm but there will be a lot of dry weather. for the uk a
the bbc‘s director general, lord hall, says he ll go further and faster to tackle the pay gap. he was responding to a letter by high profile female personalities who have called on the corporation to act now . a 20 year old man has died after being apprehended by a police officer in an east london shop. he s been been named by his family as rashanjermaine charles. prince william and prince harry, have spoken candidly about their relationship with their mother, princess diana, in a documentary marking the twentieth anniversary of her death. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the author and broadcaster, natalie haynes, and rob merrick, deputy political editor at the independent. tomorrow s front pages: the telegraph says nhs bosses have ordered a review, after warnings that plans to cut down on a&e numbers are risking lives. jeremy corbyn s interview today with the bbc is the top story for the metro, which focuses
on their side, of course. at one level, you might worry that the words will run out, and missiles will take their place. but you might ask why it s just words, and not weapons yet? could it be that both sides know their own limitations in any form of military conflict? our diplomatic editor mark urban has been working through the logic. american carriers exercising off korea. but these pictures were taken in may, and none of them are there now. the president seems out of sync with his military and his top diplomats. today, he emphasised the defensive nature of us precautions. i think what the president was reaffirming his that the united states has the capability to fully defend itself from any attack and defend our allies. and we will do so. the american people should sleep well at night. tillerson is in tune with generations of american statesman who stuck to teddy roosevelt s maxim, speak softly and carry a big stick. but one reason he can be sanguine is because america s