good afternoon. the newjustice secretary has pledged to tackle the problems of drugs and violence in prison after new figures revealed 200 kilos of drugs and 13,000 mobile phones were found injails in england and wales last year. david lidington said the government was increasing the number of prison officers following cuts under the last coalition government. here's our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani. london's pentonville prison late last year. 0rders london's pentonville prison late last year. orders from inmates for drugs and mobile phones being delivered by gangs on the outside. packages thrown or catapulted over walls and security net income of prisoners use makeshift hooks to recover them. it is big business. new figures from the ministry ofjustice show the industrial scale of what happening. 225 kilograms of drugs seized last year, 13,000 mobile phones, 7000 extra sim cards. prison inspectors

have repeatedly criticised jailed for failing have repeatedly criticised jailed forfailing to stop have repeatedly criticised jailed for failing to stop the smuggling, which. what i am determined to do is bring about improvements, to build on what my predecessor liz truss did in getting extra prison officers and putting in place effective measures to detect more accurately the problem with drugs, the new challenge we have with drones and mobile phones in prison so they are more secure places. each jail in england and wales now has hand—held mobile phone detectors, and there are 300 most of the dogs looking for drugs. ministers have also pledged 2500 extra prison officers by the end of next year. critics say that is fewer staff tha n next year. critics say that is fewer staff than in 2010 and the smuggling will continue to have a huge impact. the numbers are pretty eye watering, a huge number of fines for both drugs and mobile phones, that is a good

thing because the trade in prisons is very dangerous, it causes bullying, violence and self harm inside the prison, and outside the prison families have money extorted from them to pay for drugs and phones. this is one of the biggest challenges, stopping gangs from using drones under the cover of night. walls cannot stop the air bound contra band is night. walls cannot stop the air bound contraband is the police and prison governors are trying to identify the gangs behind them. so 511 men have beenjailed for a total of a0 years but most experts say many more i read their determined to do the same because there is big money still to be made. the iraqi army has been mopping up the last pockets of resistance from militants from the so—called islamic state in mosul. an official declaration of victory from the government is expected soon. iraqi forces have been trying to retake the city since october last year. 0ur correspondentjonathan beale is in mosul waiting for the victory declaration and told us what the situation on the ground is like. well, just in front of us is what the iraqi security forces say is the last bit of is territory that they predict will soon fall. meanwhile, rescue teams, search and rescue teams,

have been going through rubble. this looks like it was an air strike, considering that kind of devastation. and they are going through the grim job of trying to find bodies. but, of course, most of what they are finding is being put into bags. the chances of people being alive here are very, very slim. not just the devastation but the extreme heat as well. we are seeing people who have been trapped under is control coming out looking gaunt, looking haunted, wanting food and water desperately, being taken down this road just past where the search and rescue teams are. it is still a grim job. there is still a lot of misery in mosul. jonathan beale reporting. tens of thousands of people are expected to attend a rally in the turkish city of istanbul this afternoon to protest

against the government of president erdogan. the event is being held to mark the end of a 280 mile march from ankara organised by the opposition to highlight the mass arrests and sackings since last year's failed coup. we can speak to our correspondent mark lowen, who's in istanbul for us this lunchtime. mark, how significant is this protest likely to be? it has become extremely significant. it has become extremely significant. it began a month ago as a protest when an opposition mp was imprisoned but has become an unprecedented act of defiance against the erdogan government. tens of thousands of people walking 280 miles from ankara to istanbul. i joined people walking 280 miles from ankara to istanbul. ijoined them last monday about 70 miles from istanbul as they marched in the boiling heat along a motorway. they had trudged through rain, up two hills and villages. they are led by the sprightly 68 sage opposition leader

but it is not under a political banner, it is under the word justice. they are fighting what they see as the erosion of turkish democracy. 50,000 people arrested since the failed coup last year, more than 1a0,000 dismissed or suspended. a feeling that the government has seized the opportunity to crush all dissent. it has rattled president erdogan —— president erdogan, who has long busted the march for, in his words, siding with terrorist groups. jeremy corbyn has written a letter of support to the march as it reaches its end point near istanbul where the opposition mp has been imprisoned for the last 25 years. the question now is whether this can grow beyond today to bridge the divisions in turkey's notoriously fractured opposition and become a credible political

challenge to the erdogan government in the next election. thank you. fresh clashes erupted early this morning in the streets of hamburg following the end of the g20 summit. german police attempted to disperse dozens of protesters with water cannon and pepper spray. it was the third day of violence in the city in which more than 200 police officers have been injured and a hundred and a3 people have been arrested. -- ia3 —— 1a3 people. sir vince cable, who is likely to become the next leader of the liberal democrats, says he is beginning to think brexit may never happen. he told the bbc‘s andrew marr show that the problems were too enormous and the divisions between the two major parties too great. i'm beginning to think that brexit may never happen. i think the problems are so enormous. . . really? the problems are so enormous, the divisions within the two major parties are so enormous, i can see a scenario in which this doesn't happen. sir vince cable. the parents of charlie gard are delivering a petition to great 0rmond street hospital in london, calling on doctors to allow their terminally ill baby to travel to the us for experimental treatment. the petition has been signed by more than 350,000 people. the 11—month old boy's

case is due to return to the high court tomorrow. kathryn stanczyszyn has the story. still desperately fighting to keep their son alive for as long as possible. charlie gard's parents started a legal battle with great 0rmond street hospital in march. they'd raised £1.3 million to take charlie, who has a rare genetic condition, to the us for experimental treatment. but doctors here say they believe there is no chance of improvement, and as the 11—month—old can't hear, see, move, cry orswallow, instead his life support should be switched off. so far the courts have agreed with them. but support has grown for the family, with charlie's story crossing borders and reaching the american president and the pope. and then a development. seven specialist researchers led by the vatican children's hospital signed a letter saying the use of nucleoside therapies should be reconsidered following success in conditions similar to charlie's. we're quite happy with today's

outcome, and we're hopeful that charlie may get a chance now. a hearing at the high court in london tomorrow will determine whether or not this evidence changes the legal decision. great 0rmond street has made clear its view remains the same, that the treatment would be futile. but his parents are keeping the pressure up, hoping against hope that at some point soon, charlie's future will look very different. kathryn stanczyszyn, bbc news. well, our correspondent wyre davies is at great 0rmond street for us this lunchtime. the charlie gard case is being heard again in court tomorrow, so why do you think the parents are handing in this petition today, wyre? that is a very good point, the petition itself will have no impact in the courts even though it might

have been sent by 350,000 people. but the parents clearly feel they have been given a ray of hope given the new information from italy and the new information from italy and the united states. i think it is important to say that the hospital's position has not changed, they are in concurrence with the original high court decision that charlie's quality of life cannot be improved and doctors should be allowed to turn off his life—support systems, allowing him only palliative care. the parents are clearly emboldened, they have new support and new information from the united states and italy. a lot of that will be heard tomorrow in the high court. thank you. that's it. the next news on bbc one is at 6:35pm. until then, enjoy your afternoon hello. you're watching the bbc news channel let's get more now on those figures

from the ministry ofjustice which revealed that more than two hundred kilograms of drugs and thirteen thousand mobile phones were found injails in england and wales last year. dave todd — from the prison 0fficers' association — explained how it was possible to smuggle contraband into prison. it's possible in a lot of different ways. you can have trafficked goods thrown over the wall, through visits, through drones. drones are a problem because they are not detectable. the first time you know they are there is when you hear them. this is often at night time when you have a skeleton staff on. what do you think can be done about it? government talking about more prisoners staff. that is one route. but you say this is a very big problem. it's massive in all jails across the country. what can be done

at the minute? i don't understand why government is not willing to block the signal which would bring things like a drone down. block mobile telephones, rather than detect. if you don't have the stuff to go and retrieve, what is the point of detection? you are talking about blocking things electronically. but that isn't that easy because the prison itself, staff and people who run it need to be in contact with the outside world. this is a big thing you are talking about. it's not. mobile phones aren't allowed in prison. to block mobile phone signals you can bring it inside so that it does not affect the community outside. mobile phones are illegal in prison. phones are tradable. i understand people rent them to each other. and large sums of money are involved. how does

that work? absolutely. it is further criminality. some people are making more money inside the walls than outside. where do people get the money from inside to pay these sums of money and how does that work? that is when it goes outside and the families then get involved with making payments for the phones. you are talking about various things that should be done. the blocking of signals. recruitment of more staff, do you think the numbers we have heard about are adequate? not at all. if you backtrack to 2012, 201a, there was a failed concept called benchmarking, which took around 8000 prison officers out of the prison of varying experience. redundancy packages were offered to those with valuable experience. the government's figures our welcomed by

my union. but in real terms, and this has already been admitted, they need to recruit a000 this year and a000 next year to catch up to what they got rid of. a ceasefire backed by the united states and russia is being observed in south—western syria. early reports from the area say the truce appears to have taken hold, with local monitors saying there had been no air strikes or clashes. the americans, the russians and thejordanians were all involved in brokering the agreement between the syrian government and its rebel opponents. electrical storms in canada have been blamed for starting scores of wildfires that are burning across british columbia. a state of emergency has been declared and thousands of homes are being evacuated. georgina smythe reports. columns of smoke black out the sky as wildfires rage across western canada. about 2000 firefighters are on the ground attending over 180 fires believed to have been started by lightning strikes. local media says 7000 people have been forced to abandon their homes

and animals for evacuation centres. it was very emotional driving away, and seeing the flames and the smoke, and the whole village just surrounded by fires. there are lots of people who have no connection to it at all, but they're here and we are trying to support everybody. we ask everyone to be patient, it takes a long time to register people and we are trying to help as best we can. it is the worst wildfire emergency the country has seen in 1a years, and there are fears the raging fires could join together. pretty close. they were hitting the town, i could see that from the house, which was definitely a sign we had stayed too long. about 300, a00 metres away. the fire we were able to watch from where we were. i think i still smell like smoke. it was getting close. air tankers are dropping water in an attempt to contain

the blaze but hot, dry, and windy conditions are expected to continue for several days, hampering the efforts of firefighters. the headlines: hundreds of kilograms of drugs and thousands of mobile phones were found in prisons in england and wales last year. the government has described the situation as "unacceptable". the parents of charlie gard are delivering a petition to great 0rmond street hospital in london, calling on doctors to allow the terminally ill baby to travel to america for experimental treatment. sir vince cable, who's favourite to be the next leader of the liberal democrats, says he's "beginning to think brexit may never happen". sport now — and for a full

round up, from the bbc sport centre, here'sjessica. good afternoon. for england's men it has been a disastrous last hour on day four of the test against south africa at lord's. they've lost seven wickets forjust a3 lord's. they've lost seven wickets for just a3 runs. lord's. they've lost seven wickets forjust a3 runs. they resumed play this morning with alastair cook adding ten more before he was out. then the wickets began to fall. captainjoe then the wickets began to fall. captain joe root went for five, gary balla nce captain joe root went for five, gary ballance not long after, followed by ben stokes out forjust one. liam dawson and stuart broad out for zero. england are 182—8 at lunch. that is a lead of 279 runs. it is delicately poised in the england's women world cup match against the holders australia in bristol. the hosts won the toss and chose to bat, and they'll be disappointed with the early loss of lauren winfield — who madejust one run.

sarah taylor and tammy beaumont steadied things somewhat. taylor then fell for 35. the captain made just two. nottinghamshire bowler luke fletcher is expected to be released from hospital today after suffering a head injury in yesterday t20 match against birmingham. fletcher was hit by a straight drive, and was bleeding, but managed to walk off the pitch with the help of a physio. it was confirmed that he had a concussion, and he was kept in hospital overnight as a precautionary measure. notts said they would "continue to monitor him very closely." the austrian grand prix is underway in spielberg. sadie ‘s made the perfect getaway from pole position to lead the race ahead of championship leader sebastian vettel. —— mercedes made the perfect getaway. lewis hamilton started in

eighth position because he had a gearbox change penalty. he is a p pa re ntly gearbox change penalty. he is apparently running at fifth—place at the moment. striker romelu lukaku says he didn't need to think twice about agreeing to move to manchester united, describing them as the biggest club in the world. lukaku, who's set to have a medical with united after an initial £75 million fee was agreed with everton, is currently on holiday in the us. he's been spending time with united's paul pogba and even been meeting some of his new fans. lukaku said a move to old trafford is the perfect opportunity. the british and irish lions head coach warren gatland says people will look back on the new zealand tour as a success. the lions drew the final test match 15 points all, meaning the series against the world champions was shared. it was a thrilling finish to the game in auckland — 0wen farrell's late penalty kick drew the lions level in the game. a disputed offside decision denied the all blacks a further penalty so the series ended 1—1. it means the lions still haven't beaten the all blacks in a test series since 1971, but one man who played in that tour

says this result will play a big part in the future of the team. i think this really, in many ways, has saved the lions. the concept is really unique. it's gone for well over 100 years. it would be dreadful in this professional era if it was ever messed around with. the one thing that i feel sorry about is that the tour is too short. rugby is about the biggest team effort. they've done remarkably well to pick the team together that they did. this is an amazing story. 1a—year—old amateur atthaya thitikul has become the youngest known winner of a professional golf tour event after winning the ladies european thailand championship. the thai player finished five under after a level par final round, two shots ahead of mexican ana menendez. thitikul turned 1a in february. in the last few moments everton have

confirmed that wayne rooney has rejoined the club from manchester united. it is a two—year deal. ronald koeman says he is really happy that wayne rooney has decided to come home. the fee has not been disclosed. more on that, of course, throughout the day on bbc news. that's all the sport for now. a wealthy businessman has submitted alternative plans for a third runway at heathrow, which he says would save more than £5 billions. the hotel tycoon, surinder arora, suggests changing the design of terminal buildings and reducing the amount of land needed. earlier i spoke to mr arora, and i asked him why he was submitting the plans. i've spent all my life around the airport, ever since i've been here, for a5 years, and i think being the 21st—century it's good to have competition rather than just assuming it is there for the airport, and we live

in a world where heathrow is the busiest, notjust the busiest but the most expensive airport in the world from the airlines' and passengers' point of view. what are your proposals? how do your proposals differ from the existing ones? well, our proposals differ big time in a sense that we've taken more input and feedback and working with the airlines, because we see the airlines as part of the team, as the customers of the airport, and asking them what works for them. so we actually made the terminal buildings and the taxiways a lot more efficient, we're taking 23% less land than previously recommended. and not having the transit system, there is a remote terminal north of the aa which was not really that efficient from an airline perspective, from a passenger perspective.

and not putting the transit in, and all that will obviously come to huge savings. making the buildings more efficient, not doing the transit system, using 23% less land, that can't be bad news. i think there was also, one of the big issues has always been the motorway, the m25 motorway, the busiest in the country, would have to be closed or severely disrupted. your plan, i think, avoids that. how can you do that? heathrow have been working on these plans for years. we've got the world—leading expert in infrastructure projects, who worked around the world on different infrastructure projects, and working with them we have come up with a scheme that was put forward to the commission with the 3500 metre runway over the m25. one of the things we started asking and questioning saying,

why do we need firstly 3500 metre runway? to my surprise, none of the airlines were ever consulted on the length of the runway or the location of the runway, so if you look at airports such as manchester and birmingham, which do take the wide—bodied aircraft, do take a380s, manchester works on a 3000 metre runway, so why can't we do that? our plans, although we have worked with advisers and the airlines, are obviously at an early stage but we do feel that we can have further efficiencies and savings on these plans by working with our partners. and do you think that you are the man or you have the organisation to do the job? is that why you're so interested? well, i've always been one of the folks living in the real world.

i'm not an expert at everything. going back to the 90s, late 90s, i had never built a hotel or run a a—star, 5—star hotel and i said, i won't be doing it all myself, i'll make sure i have the best team around me to deliver the projects. and the dream i always had in any business, when we were building our first hotel, was, "can we build a a—star hotel with 5—star service at 3.5—star prices?" and we can't continue at being the most expensive in the world, otherwise no—one will benefit from that, including heathrow airport. within the past hour the department for transport released a statement regarding the expansion of the airport. it said that it believes a "new northwest runway is the best scheme to deliver the economic and connectivity benefits this country needs; new capacity will increase competition between airlines resulting in lower fares". and it said that, "this will not be expansion at any cost but the right

scheme at the right price, and we expect industry to work together to drive down construction costs for the benefit of passengers". a ceremony will be held today to remember the 8a3 men who lost their lives when hms vanguard sank off 0rkney injuly 1917. it was one of the worst naval tragedies of the first world war. to mark the centenary, a team of divers has been given special permission to document the wreck. 0ur scotland correspondent, lorna gordon has more. in the cold northern waters of scapa flow, the final resting place of hms vanguard, a dreadnought battleship from world war i. the bow and stern almost entirely intact after 100 years under the water. this the first group of civilian divers to be given permission

to document the wreck since it was designated a war grave. i think the loss of life was never very far away from my mind as we're diving on the ship. that said, we had a job to do, and an obligation to do thatjob to the best of our ability. so you got on with the work but, yes, parts of the wreck are very emotional. very emotional indeed. newsreel: ships were steaming into their war base at scapa flow... along with many other ships of the royal navy, vanguard had been anchored in the seas off 0rkney. she'd seen action at the battle ofjutland, but on a summer evening injuly 1917, the entire ship was destroyed after a magazine exploded. she sank almost instantly, with the loss of almost all her crew. 8a3 men died. only two of those on board at the time survived. the team of volunteer divers spent hundreds of hours surveying the wreck,

piecing together its story. lying at a depth of around 100 feet, and among the many artefacts they discovered, the telegraph, a main anchor, cutlery lying half buried in the sand around the wreckage. as part of the commemorations, vanguard's white ensign was recently replaced by divers. a century on, honouring the many lives lost in what was a catastrophic accident. the lake district should find out today whether it will be given unesco world heritage status. if successful, it would become the uk's 31st such site, as caroline rigby reports. from the great barrier reef to the taj mahal and grand canyon, they're some of the most recognisable sights in the world. soon, the lake district could be a member of their prestigious club.

later today, delegates from unesco will announce whether they deem the region irreplaceable and inspiring enough to be protected under world heritage status. it would be lovely if it did. it would be great if it was voted as one of the top places in the world to see. i've been coming here for over 40 years. it's changed a lot. it's really popular, but there are so many beautiful things here that need to be recognised and protected. with its towering peaks and glistening waters, the national park currently attracts around 18 million tourists a year, who contribute over £1 billion to the local economy. but critics worry obtaining world heritage status could see even more visitors descend on the region, putting extra pressure on the landscape. 0thers argue it would mean greater funding and investment. a world heritage site, it would really demonstrate the changing landscape, because it's not natural, that's shaped by people, farming practices, poets. they've all talked about this landscape, and people will come and see it. it will draw new customers,

new visitors who've never heard of the lake district. it's quite a tick—box to visit a world heritage site. poet william wordsworth once described the lakes as "the loveliest spot that man hath ever found". but will unesco agree? if successful, it would become the uk's 31st world heritage site, joining the likes of stonehenge, hadrian's wall, and the houses of parliament. time for a look at the weather. warm sunshine around across england and wales at the moment. 2a celsius in hull, 27 degrees in london. low to mid 20s for another gorgeous afternoon. some cloud building, but not quite like that everywhere. that is one view of the warm sunshine from the channel islands, patchy

cloud. but we have this weather front close to scotland and northern ireland. a cloudier picture for many of us, compared with yesterday. we are seeing a bit of rain. that is how we are expecting the rest of the afternoon to shape up across the central belt, into southern scotland, northern ireland. far north of scotland dry. england and wales, warm, sunny spells. into the wash and east anglia, the odd heavy or thundery shower around.