a very warm welcome to the programme, we begin in sri lanka where the president got a buy read your has not honoured his promise to resign, he flew to the mall deves 2a hours earlier but in the public letter he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state while he was absent. and she drank a curfew is in force with suzuki forces clashing with protesters. prompting the un security secretary general in the last few minutes to tweet saying it s important the root causes of the conflict and the grievances of protesters are addressed, i urge all party leaders to embrace the spirit of compromise for a peaceful and democratic transition. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime minister ranil wickremesinghe had just been made acting president, crowds gathered in front of his office, one of the few government buildings not yet occupied by protesters. protesters are lined up along this avenue. on the other side you can
just days before ballot papers arrive with tory members rihsi sunak and liz truss set out new promises on health and education. the chair of the public inquiry investigating the post office scandal has called for the process of compensation for victims to be sped up. hello and welcome to wembley where we are just a couple of hours away from the kick off between england and germany in the women s european championships. of course germany have won against england many, many more times. but in this competition england have scored 20 goals and they have only conceded one. there is no doubt that they will have the home advantage here, we have seen the last few hours thousands and thousands of people walking down wembley way, heading towards the stadium. the atmosphere is like that of a carnival or a fair, everyone is hoping for a really good match and they do want england to win. joe lynskey looks ahead. five wins down. goes for goal! oh, my word! one more match to go. through t
positive for covid again. what we know about his symptoms and we re going to talk to an expert about how rebound cases work. plus, anger, outrage, and sheer frustration after senate republicans block a bill to help veterans impacted by burn pits. we ll talk to a woman who lost her husband to a burn pit exposure. you ll hear her message to lawmakers. and explosions rocked southern ukraine. some calling it the strongest shelling since the start of the war. our cnn team is live in kyiv with the very latest. we ll take you to ukraine. it is sunday, july 31st, thank you so much for waking up with us. good morning, sara. grateful you re starting your week with new day. we begin this morning with an update to the ongoing weather emergency in kentucky. the death toll there continues to rise as search and rescue crews are making their way through flooded areas and as we re expecting yet another round of heavy rain and flooding today. and the death toll rose from yesterday
the high pressure. once that clears, the story will turn more humid and there will be some rain in the far north west of scotland and some cloud around. but punch some holes in the cloud with the sunshine and a degree or so warmer and top temperatures of 25 degrees and will get warmer towards the weekend. thanks, louise. and that s bbc news at six on monday 4th july. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the six team, it s goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time tojoin our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. goodnight. good evening. welcome to wimbledon. day eight. it s not a mandate monday any more because we had planned sunday, but so much to come up as the quarterfinal line up gets clearer. coming up on tonight s programme, no circus from nick in the end, he s into the wimbledon quarterfinals for the first time in eight years. can the 2019 champion at halep it keep her impressive run go
the children s minister will quince and ministerfor schools robin walker among the latest to hand in their resignations. developments coming thick and fast in the last hour i m annita mcveigh in the last hour i m annita mcveigh in downing street to keep you up to date with all the latest developments. the july 4th shootings in illinois took weeks to plan and the suspect dressed as a woman to escape, say police. a 21 year old has been charged with seven counts of murder. the british number one cameron norrie is to face novak djokovic in semi finals at wimbledon. the women s european championships will kick off this evening with england taking on austria. hello and welcome back to downing street. as you join us again i m just looking at a letter that has been sent by robert halfon mp which reads, in my last statement, i said that if governance doesn t improve i will have reached the end of the road. i haven t had a chance even yet to read through all the details of this letter