A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Get involved in the conversation. An investigation commissioned by facebook has shown the vast majority of Health Advice on the site is false. Would you follow medical tips from facebook . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing the british pound is coming under more pressure in trading on asian markets, afterfalling to a 28 month low on monday. Its being caused by increased fears over a no deal brexit at the end of october, which would see the uk leaving the European Union without an agreement in place over its new relationship with the bloc. The new Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has increased planning for a no deal scenario. With me is our Business News reporter ramzan karmali. Will it fell 13 and it had fallen another half a percent to 121. 6. M is trading higher now thatjust a little bit. Against the euro, it is trading lower. Not doing great at all. Since th
The semi finals between netherlands and sweden in the womens world cup has just kicked off were live outside the stadium. The netherlands are 0 0 with sweden. A serious diplomatic row is breaking out between china and the uk and hong kong is at the centre of it. In the last few hours chinas ambassador to Great Britain has issued a stern warning to the uk government about intervening in the territory. Hong kong had now returned to embrace the motherland, its a special administration of china. Its not part of uk. So i weighed called them to say hands off of hong kong, show respect of what has been achieved in hong kong and the one country to systems. The chinese are clearly furious about comments like this uk support for hong kong and its freedoms is unwavering. Jeremy hunt. Hk people must preserve right to peaceful protest exercised within the law. That tweet was posted as were watching pictures like this. Protestors stormed hong kongs parliament and then vandalised it. They even raised
The prince soon, then. Bloody hell the prince chats to younger fans alongside the exhibition, which documents British Racing over the years. exhibition, which documents British Racing over the years. I now officially open the silverstone experience. For lewis hamilton, there is no stepping back as he goes for a seventh world title. For harry and meghan this is their last engagement as senior royal family members is on monday. Time for a look at the weather. Heres stav da naos thank you, ben. Good afternoon. Before we move on to the weekend, lets enjoy todays sunshine. The weather watcher shows blue sky over Central London after yesterdays washout. You can see a lot of sunshine around over the next few hours. Some fair weather cloud in the far east. We have some cloud and
showers for scotland into Northern Ireland and western wales and the south west. Some wintriness over the high ground of scotland. After that cold frosty start, a chilly afternoon, but we will have sunshine. That first
Alongside the daughter of the ruler of dubai Sheikh Mohammed al maktoum tells this programme she hopes details revealed in court about the abduction will help in her campaign to free her friend. Im very, very pleased that the reporting restrictions were finally lifted. And now the whole world knows the news about latifah and shamsa having been kidnapped by their father, the ruler shamsa having been kidnapped by theirfather, the ruler of dubai, are no longer allegations but this is official now. And the nspcc says the number of calls to their helpline about children whove witnessed serious Domestic Abuse has risen by almost a quarter in the past year. We speak to the centre helping children affected. I worked once with a little boy who used to sleep in his shoes every night and that was because he was so used to him and his mum having to run in the middle of the night. So when he first came to the centre, his coat and his shoes would stay on and when we got to about week six he felt com
A bleak future. Does not sure what we are going to do now. I am shocked. But that we will be saved. But not this time. Are you shocked . I thought we would be saved. And the duke and duchess of sussex return to the uk for one of their last official engagements before they step back as senior royals at the end of the month. And at 11. 30 well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers giles kenningham, the political commentator and former head of press at number ten for david cameron, and the Political Writer and academic, Maya Goodfellow stay with us for that. A woman in her 70s has become the first person with coronavirus to die in the uk. The Royal Berkshire hospital in reading said she had Underlying Health issues but she had not been abroad. The number of people infected in the uk hasjumped again to 116 among them some children. Almost half of those who have the virus dont need hospital treatment. The uks chief medical adviser, professor chris whitty, says authorit