temperatures since records began. the heat‘s also on in glastonbury, as one of the world s biggest music festivals gets underway a story of enduring love we speak to the filmmaker nick broomfield about his new documentary about songwriter leonard cohen and his partner, marianne. why did you write that? i didn t, paul mccartney wrote it. you know, the beatles. and imagine a world without the beatles. find out what mark kermode thought of danny boyle s new film ‘yesterday‘ and the rest of this week s releases in the film review at 5:45. it s five o clock. our main story. the inquest into the deaths of victims of the london bridge attacks has concluded. eight people were killed and forty eight were wounded in the van and knife attack in june 2017. the chief coroner for england and wales, mark lucraft, returned verdicts of unlawful killing. he also criticised the family of one of the attackers for not reporting his extremist behaviour. (read on) and we can go live to our
as england s opener is ruled out of their next two matches with a hamstring injury. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. chaos, confusion and communications problems hampered the efforts of emergency services to help victims of the london bridge attacks. a senior london ambulance service manager told the inquest that it took too long to reach some of the victims, more than three hours after the attackers had been killed. but he also praised ambulance crews who volunteered to go into a potentially dangerous area despite the possible risk to themselves. eight people died and nearly 50 were injured in the attacks injune 2017. our correspondent richard lister is at the old bailey. what more was said today? one of the big questions of this inquest is why it took so long for medical teams to get into borough market. we got some of the answers today. one was that police kept them out because they we re police kept them out because they were concerned there were still att
in the region last week. and huawai says sales of its handsets have plumeted 40% since the us sanctions and is slashing production by $30 billion. bbc chinese will look at how huawei can possibly respond to that. egypt s former president mohammed morsi has died afterfainting in a courtroom. here s the announcement from state tv. translation: mohammed morsi passed away today during the espionage court hearing, the decease asked the judge to speak and he was permitted and after the session was adjourned he fainted and passed away. his body has been moved to the hospital and the necessary procedures are to be taken. mr morsi was egypt s first democratically elected president. he led the muslim brotherhood organisation to victory in the 2012 presidential election. the brotherhood had been banned under long time leader hosni mubarak and was banned again after the military seized power and ended his presidency in 2013. he d been in custody ever since. the muslim brotherhood have re
long delays meant long delays treating some of the injured during the london bridge attacks. iran says it is reaching a limit on its stockpiling of uranium. residents of lincolnshire are warned of more rain and flooding this week. terrific thunderstorms are forecast and if that river gets any more water, it will burst its banks again. so andy murray tells the bbc he is pain free ahead of a return to competitive tennis at the doubles at queen s club. candidates for the tory leadership except for the candidate boris johnson have been taking questions from journalists ahead of the next round of voting which takes place tomorrow. david levenson says he is backing rory stewart to be the next leader of the tory party david liddington. the labour party s deputy leader says the hearts of the labour members are remain. here s our political editor laura kuenssberg. come on boris! come on! the only glimpse you ll get today. minders driving the favourite into parliament. borisjohns
by poor communication and confusion on the ground. egypt s former president, mohamed morsi, has died after collapsing in court in cairo. and just five months after the hip operation he thought may end his career, andy murray is macking his competitive tennis comeback this week at queens. i m doing all the things that i used to enjoy doing and getting to play some tennis as well and having fun with it, it s great. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, bangladesh beat west indies to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for the semifinals of the cricket world cup. good evening. hundreds of thousands of muslims in china possibly millions are being held in vast secure facilities even though they ve committed no crime nor faced any trial. the bbc has been given rare access to some of the sprawling complexes in the western region of xinjiang, people have apparently been detained for months, even years, simply for wearing a veil, praying frequently, or just communicating with relat