Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 28 Jun 2019

Theresa May has said the two Russian intelligence officers
suspected of carrying out the nerve agent attack in the Wiltshire
town of Salisbury last year must face justice. The acting prime
minister is to raise the issue with Russian President Vladimir
Putin today at the G20 summit in Osaka, during
their first formal bilateral meeting since the poisonings. In
an interview with the BBC, May added that Russia must stop its
“destabilising activities”.

US Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden came under attack
over his race record yesterday during the second TV debate between
ten wannabe candidates. Rival Kamala Harris, the only black woman
in the running, criticised the contest front-runner for
touting his past work with bigoted senators and for having
previously opposed a policy to foster diversity in
schools.

Tory leadership contender Jeremy Hunt has urged rival Boris
Johnson to “be straight with people” about what a no-deal Brexit
would mean. The Times reports that Johnson is preparing an
emergency budget for a no-deal exit that includes aggressive
tax cuts, an overhaul of stamp duty and an assault on
regulation.

The Glastonbury Festival begins in earnest today, with grime MC
Stormzy headlining and temperatures of 28C expected. Organisers are
on standby to deal with heat exhaustion among the increasingly aged
festivalgoers. Some 175,000 people are expected at the event, at
Worthy Farm in Somerset, temporarily creating one of the largest
cities in the south of England.

The Home Office failed in its legal duty to counter racial
discrimination when it implemented its anti-immigration hostile
environment programme, a leaked draft investigation into the causes
of the Windrush scandal concludes. The report,
commissioned by the department and seen by Channel 4
News, accuses officials of being reckless and of
refusing to listen to warnings about the wrongful
detentions and deportations of people who came to the
UK as immigrants from the 1950s onwards.

A system of sand dunes near Aberdeen that were turned into a
golf course by Donald Trump in 2012 has lost its status as a Site
of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), after government
watchdog Scottish Natural Heritage ruled that the
location’s natural environment has been “destroyed”. Local planners
refused Trump’s request to build on the Menie estate, amid
widespread opposition to his plans, but their decision was
overturned by the Scottish government.

England are through to the Women’s World Cup semi-final for the
second year running, after a thrilling 3-0 defeat of Norway in the
French city of Le Havre. Jill Scott and Ellen White each scored in
the first half, with the final goal coming from Lucy Bronze.
White’s tap-in, her fifth goal in the tournament so far, put her in
the running for the Golden Boot.

Nasa is sending a nuclear-powered drone to Saturn’s
largest moon to explore multiple locations in search of
habitability and life. The US space agency says
the dual quadcopter, called Dragonfly, will fly from
location to location over Titan, a moon with surface
conditions similar to those on Earth about four billion years ago.
Experts says that if the mission is successful, it could
help reveal how life arose on our planet. 

Sir Jony Ive, the British designer who helped turn Apple into
the world’s biggest tech company, is leaving the company after
almost 30 years in order to set up his own venture. Ive,
who designed the iMac, iPod and iPhone, will leave later
this year to start a creative firm, LoveFrom, with Apple as its
first client.

Elizabeth Warren’s campaign is gaining momentum, with many
believing she has a real chance of being the Democrats’ pick to
challenge Donald Trump as he tries to win a second term as
Republican president.

So how did she get here?