The us open. He is hardly a household name but he has had and is interesting journey. And matt taylor . If you are fed up of rain, more downpours to come, particularly for Eastern England tomorrow night. Where is the summer . I will tell you more in the next half an hour. Also coming up can you have a naughty corner in the oval office . It isa it is a fantastic financial statement. Lets do that over, he is coughing in the middle of my answer, i dont like that. If you get a cough, please leave the room. His views on germs are well known. Well tell you how the president reacted to that cough, during a television interview. Hello, everyone, this is afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Boris johnsons campaign to become conservative leader and Prime Minister received a boost this morning with the endorsement of the Health Secretary, matt hancock, who said mrjohnson was best placed to re unite the fractured party. Matt hancock dropped out of the race last week. He made his announcement after the
Camaign for a confirmatory ballot. The London Bridge attacks. An inquest hears that chaos and confusion meant long delays in treating some of the injured. Iran warns it is about to breach a limit on its stockpile of enriched uranium, a year after the us withdrew from the nuclear deal. The Prime Minister launches plans to train every new teacher in england to spot the Early Warning signs of mental illness. And andy murray tells the bbc hes pain free ahead of his return to competitive tennis in the doubles event at queens. Good afternoon. The contenders to become conservative leader, and Prime Minister, have been making their case on brexit and other issues at a hustings with westminster journalists, ahead of a second ballot of mps tomorrow. Borisjohnsons campaign was given a boost by the endorsement of the Health Secretary matt hancock, who dropped out of the race last week. But his rivals have criticised him for his absence at todays hustings, and also from last nights televised debate
Louis 0osthuizen with him at six under par. Ian carter at pebble beach, thank you. England have eased past the west indies beating them by eight wickets in the cricket world cup at southampton. Englands bowlers were on top from the start. Despite being dropped early, dangerman chris gayle only managed 36 before he was caught in the deep off the bowling of liam plunkett. The windies steady themselves until part time bowlerjoe root struck twice to remove Shimron Hetmyer and jason holden, the windies all gone for 212 in the end. The only worry for england were the injuries to opener jason roy and captain eoin morgan. They both left the field and didnt bat. But no worries for the run chase, though. Joe root scored his second hundard of the tournement as he replaced jason roy at the top of the order. And ben stokes finished the job with a four to win the game. Next up for england, afghanistan on tuesday. He is not the highest run score in a tournament. He has scored 200s. He is such an impo
President trump says he is imposing more sanctions on iran to stop it developing nuclear weapons. But he says military action is still on the table. Iranian forces shot down an american surveillance drone on thursday. Mr trump then ordered three air strikes in response. But he says he called them off with minutes to spare because too many people would have died. He told reporters its now up to iran to stop the tensions escalating further. If the leadership of iran behaves badly, then it is going to be a very, very bad day for them, but hopefully they are smart and hopefully they really care for their people and not themselves and hopefully we can get iran back to an economic track that is fantastic, where they are a really wealthy nation which would be a wonderful thing. All those things i want to do but if they are going to be foolish, that is never going to happen. Our correspondent Chris Buckler is in washington. What was mr trump trying to achieve with his comments today . He has b
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. To what the papers and International Papers will be bringing us. With me are the Political Editor of the daily mirror, pippa crerar and the deputy Political Editor of the spectator, katy balls. Welcome back to you both. As before, lets have a look at some of the front pages we have already got for 50,000 the striking number on the front page of the metro, as the uk coronavirus death toll reaches a grim milestone. Leading scientists are warning that borisjohnsons two week quarantine plans make no sense according to the times and that the governments own chief scientific adviser has distanced himself from the policy. The Financial Times reports on the prospect of a no deal brexit coinciding with a second wave of covid 19, putting supplies of drugs already in short supply in further jeopardy. Alongside a photograph of Madeleine Mccann who disappeared in portugal 13 years ago the telegraph lead on what