Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Sunday 30 Jun 2019

Donald Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the
zone dividing the two Koreas for a brief greeting. The
unprecedented meeting at the demilitarised zone comes after the US
President tweeted what he presented as a spontaneous invitation to
Mr Kim. The BBC says nuclear weapons will not be discussed during
the short meeting.

Boris Johnson might never enter 10 Downing Street, say two
constitutional experts. According to professors Robert Hazell and
Meg Russell from the University of London, Johnson’s legitimacy
would be challenged if just a handful of Tory MPs declared that
they could not support his administration. “This would pose a
serious dilemma for the Queen and those advising her,” they
say.

A pregnant woman has been stabbed to death in south London, and
her baby was delivered at the scene, say police. An ambulance was
called to a home in Thornton Heath at 3.30am on Saturday morning
following reports of a woman suffering cardiac arrest. Police
attended alongside the ambulance service to find a woman, aged 26,
with stab injuries.

Harry and Meghan are planning a private baptism for their son
Archie at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, where the couple were
married last year and where Harry was christened in 1984. The
private approach is in contrast to that of the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, who let cameras record their children at their
christenings, together with the arrivals of family members and
other invitees.

MI5 is investigating a Russian lobbying campaign to
infiltrate British politics that received advice and support from a
senior Conservative MP. The Sunday Times reports that Ben Wallace,
the security minister, has handed evidence to the intelligence
services of an “influence operation” involving Sir Henry
Bellingham, one of the prime minister’s official trade envoys.

Angela Merkel has said she is “fine” following two episodes of
shaking in public that have sparked speculation about her health.
Speaking at the G20 summit in Osaka, the German Chancellor said she
was convinced that “this reaction will disappear just as it has
arisen”. She added that she had “nothing in particular to
report”.

Britain recorded its hottest day of the year so far on Saturday,
as temperatures reached as high as 34C (93F) in London and southern
England. The Met Office said a temperature of 34.0C had been
recorded in Northolt, west London, and Heathrow airport on Saturday
afternoon. This was near the all-time record for June of 35.6C,
reached in 1976. London was hotter than Hawaii on Saturday
afternoon.

Jeremy Hunt has said he would consider withholding some of the
UK’s £39bn EU “divorce bill” in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The
Tory leadership hopeful said he would not hand over “a penny more
than is legally required of us” after rival leadership contender
Boris Johnson announced he would hold back money from Brussels.
Tory party members will begin voting next week and the winner is
expected to be announced on 23 July.

Fifteen people have died after a wall collapsed in Pune, India.
India’s National Disaster Response Force recovered the bodies of
nine men, four women and two children. Pune Police are
investigating the reason for the collapse. Pune has a population of
around three million people, making it the second-largest city in
the western state of Maharashtra.

Britain has sent the largest royal navy presence to Baltic Sea
in over 100 years in what is being seen as a show of power to
Russia. Over 4,000 service personnel and 44 ships from seven
different countries are taking part in the mission in Lithuania,
close to Moscow’s exclave in Kaliningrad. There have been repeated
accusations from the Kremlin of provocation.