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i hope one day we find a cure and live in a world free of mnd. by the time that you watch this, i will no longer be here. i am just a lad from yorkshire who got to live out of his dream of playing rugby league. as a father of three young children, i would never want any family to have to go through what my family and children have since my diagnosis. i hope i have left a mark on the disease. i hope it shows to live in the moment. i hope you find inspiration from the whole story. my final message to you is, whatever your personal battle, be brave and face it. every single day is precious.

don't waste a moment. in a world full of adversity, we must still dare to dream. rob burrow, over and out. live from london. this is bbc news the first televised leadership debate of the general election took lace earlier this evening. place earlier this evening.

it featured scottish party leaders from the snp, scottish conservatives, scottish labour and scottish liberal democrats. a u—turn from nigel farage. he will stand in the election — even though he said he wouldn'tjust days ago. and the foreign secretary says he's �*deeply saddened' by the death of nadav popplewell, a british—israeli held by hamas in gaza. the israeli army says he died with three other hostages. hmrc apologises for a technical issue that left half a million people without child benefit payments. people without child benefit payments-_ people without child benefit -a ments. ., , ., ., �* �* payments. coming up later on bbc news, ou payments. coming up later on bbc news, you would _ payments. coming up later on bbc news, you would be _ payments. coming up later on bbc news, you would be able - payments. coming up later on bbc news, you would be able to - payments. coming up later on bbc news, you would be able to see i payments. coming up later on bbc| news, you would be able to see the bbq daily news podcast newscast that we just recorded wrapping up all the campaign drama from the day today. hello, i'm kylie pentelow the first televised leadership debate of the general election has taken place in glasgow tonight. there've been robust exchanges between leaders from the snp,

scottish conservatives, scottish labour and scottish liberal democrats. our scotland editorjames cook has been watching. ready or not, here they come. the first of many election debates is under way. good evening, and welcome to the stv leaders debate. with scotland centre stage, the leaders began by pitching for votes. if the snp win, they will claim every seat as a mandate for independence. they will be distracted from the local issues you care about. so, in key seats up and down scotland, if everybody who wants to beat the snp votes together for the scottish conservatives, we can end their obsession with independence for good. scotland can't afford five more years of this rotten tory government. we can't miss this opportunity for change. so every vote for scottish labour is a vote to make sure we get rid of the tories, to maximise scotland's influence, and deliver the change scotland needs. we all know the westminster system is broken. _ it has delivered austerity, brexit

and the cost of living crisis. - scotland deserves better. scottish liberal democrats are all about hope. and we are part of the change that is coming. in the next parliament, we will be working for a better britain, to restore your faith in politics and fix our broken relationship with europe. the debate quickly turned to the economy and north sea oil. we would do a windfall tax on oil and gas giants to make sure we are putting more money into peoples pockets to lower their bills, as well as investing in a clean energy of the future to lower bills for good. the danger of your position, anas, is that it will lead to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the north—east of scotland. now that, i'm afraid, is a price not worth paying. these parties have been bereft of ideas, they have not driven down reliance on fossil fuels, and they have not taken the steps to bring about the transition. you will not hear me - at at all tonight or at any point in this campaign downplaying

the difficult circumstances i facing people in scotland, i across the whole of the uk, and in many parts of the world. already plenty of food for thought, and the election isjust getting going. clearly that was just a snapshot, but even in that snapshot we have learnt a few things about this campaign, and also there has been a reminder of how much has happened in the last few years, because the principal discussion — number one — was about the economy, the cost of living, and in that there was talk of covid, there was talk of brexit, there was talk of liz truss, there was talk of the climate crisis, so a lot that has happened over the past few years. the second theme that came up was there was discussion about policy areas that are not strictly the responsibility of westminster, they are the responsibility of the scottish government and the scottish parliament, but nonetheless, some of those are determined by how much funding is allocated at westminster. and then the third theme i would say emerged is, guess what, the constitution.

the bubbling debate about independence in scotland still is there under the surface. it is not going away, it won't go away for this campaign either. elsewhere today — he's insisted numerous times since the general election was called that he would not stand as a candidate — but today nigel farage changed his mind. he's going to take over leading the reform uk party and will run as a candidate in the seat of clacton in essex. he put down his sudden change of heart to the millions of people he says he doesn't want to let down. our correspondent lucy manning has all the details. mr farage, are you standing? well, we'll find in a moment, won't we? why did you change your mind? who knows? who says i have? well, you said a few weeks ago, well, you said ten days ago you weren't going to stand, so why the change? did you ever change your mind about anything ever? he said he wouldn't, but now he will. a major u—turn.

a change of heart thrust nigel farage into the heart of the general election campaign. i've changed my mind. it's allowed, you know. it's not always a sign of weakness. it could potentially be a sign of strength. so i am going to stand in this election. margaret thatcher famously said she wasn't for turning. you are obviously for turning. why the massive u—turn all of a sudden? this is the old thing about hearts and heads, isn't it? you know, i rationally thought this was too difficult. i've changed my mind because i can't let down millions of people who would feel let down by me, unless i was at the front and led this charge over the course of the next five and a half years. a reform uk source says mr farage loves the theatre of it all and he certainly put himself centre stage at this election. the worry for the conservatives is that he will divert votes away from them.

mr farage, who'd been called a chicken for not running, was also announced as the new reform uk leader. unlike other parties, without any sort of vote. when the election was called, mr farage had said it was too soon and he was also too busy with us politics. six weeks is such a short period of time to fight a parliamentary constituency and promote the cause around the country. and you know, i think rishi sunak has wrong—footed an awful lot of people, myself included. nigel paul farage. he's tried seven times before to be an mp, so will it be eighth time lucky in clacton, in essex? the seaside town big brexit voters and previously had a ukip mp. today's announcement making waves.

you know, i think if he run for the clacton, he will win, win it. i don't understand why people focus so much on him when he doesn't bring anything other than division and difficulties. the tories say reform uk won't win any seats, so voting for them only helps labour and they claim nigel farage is giving keir starmer a blank cheque. but the reform uk leader says he will surprise everyone again, and that will worry the conservatives. lucy manning, bbc news. let's speak to our political correspondent, iain watson. this correspondent, iain watson. was very much a chan heart. this was very much a change of heart. why do you think he has done this you turn, and also as lucy said in her report, this could potentially hit the conservatives? l potentially hit the conservatives? i think nigel farage is known as a political showman and likes the drama, likes people around him,

would admit she likes the drum of this campaign. there's been months of speculation over whether he would stand for election, he seemed to suggest you be too busy, having a finger in the trump pie across the atlantic, but now he says he would be, in a strained —— strange handing over of power, he would not be the leader of that reform uk party for the next five years without so much as a board by anybody who constants up as a board by anybody who constants up as a member or supporter. i don't think it is purely for the electoral house of reform because looking at the opinion polls, they have been roughly wrong about the same level of support all along since the start of support all along since the start of the campaign, it wasn't particularly waning or increasing. a big pull out today suggests reform wouldn't win any seats perhaps in nigel farage name recognition, he might well perhaps put a robust

campaign in his constituency of choice, but he has failed on many attempts before as was pointed out to win a parliamentary seat, but as you are saying, what they may do is peel away support from the conservatives, or people who perhaps would've voted the labour party pre—exit, pre—the brexit referendum, pre—the 2019 general election, they might be attracted to the reform uk party at this time around with a charismatic figure, always ready with the equipment and put down of his political opponents, so that is something that might make conservative mps even more jittery than they were before, and it is something which the labour party might not publicly say but privately will certainly be heaving a big collective sigh of relief that nigel farage himself and not the less charismatic richard tice will be the standard barry of the reform uk

party, and he has confirmed drug you know the aware that party stands aside for the conservatives, there will be fighting the conservatives pretty robustly across any seats in the country. here is the list of candidates we know about so far standing in the clacton constituency. the bbc news website will have a complete list, once they're all confirmed. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says if he becomes prime minister, he would be prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend the uk. at a campaign event in bury, he said his party would increase defence spending, and update the country's nuclear arsenal. both the tories and labour are keen to make national security a prominent issue in this election the conservatives say they want to update equality laws, to define sex as someone's biological sex. they say current confusion over definitions cannot be allowed to continue, and updating the law would make biological sex a protected characteristic. that means it would be easier to create protected spaces,

for women and girls. the liberal democrats have called for new protections for rivers and coastlines — to end what they call "environmental vandalism". the party has announced an expansion of marine protected areas and a new blue flag status for rivers, which will be included in its general election manifesto. so iain, those were the updates from today's campaigning — what can we expect tomorrow? you get that before most other people, can you fill us in on some of the big headlines for tomorrow? i suppose that is one perk of the of the big headlines for tomorrow? i suppose that is one perk of the job, some might say, others might say one of the burdens, but we get to see some of the things the parties are planning for the days ahead. the big team tomorrow is the debate, the

head—to—head clash between rishi sunak and keir starmer on itv, there will be three bbc debates coming up but the on itv, the first clash of the campaign between the two men party leaders. they'll be trying to get their key messages across. i think, again, ithink get their key messages across. i think, again, i think one of the things about thisjob think, again, i think one of the things about this job is occasionally, peoplejust things about this job is occasionally, people just tune things about this job is occasionally, peoplejust tune in from time to time to politics, they might hear a from time to time to politics, they might heara few from time to time to politics, they might hear a few words from politicians, we hear the same ones over and over again, so keir starmer said it is change with labour and chaos with the conservatives, rishi sunak was said labour has no plan and that country has turned a corner, back to square one with labour, expect those phrases jammed and no matter what they're asking to debate. rishi sunak will be announcing that there will be a cap on immigration if the conservatives are reelected, and otherwise, ask an expert advisers to look at what the migration levels should be and ask

mps to vote on an annual cap, but that cap would decrease in size over the length of time in the next parliament, that is something urged upon them for people inside the party, in part also to try to see off that challenge that we are talking about earlier from the reform uk party and nigel farage. the labour party will see that the conservative party presided over at record levels of net migration so their promises should not be believed. the labour party will concentrate on a plan for a publicly owned energy company which will reduce bills though the conservatives say it will not because the khachanov licence to existing oil and gas companies into existing oil and gas companies into existing artsy, and there be other issues that are the parties don't want to rest at all, not so much since there is a mate once into that territory in 2017, the issue of social care, they believe there should be three social care to have people who are perhaps having

difficulties later in life to stay on in their own homes so they are not a burden on the nhs. that is a big announcement from them. a challenge to the other two parties on an issue which is not front and centre for them, but i think tomorrow night the focus will be not just on the policies but the character and performance of rishi sunak and keir starmer, them and want to replace him in number 10 downing street. hate want to replace him in number10 downing street.— want to replace him in number10 downing street. we will be following that here on — downing street. we will be following that here on bbc _ downing street. we will be following that here on bbc news. _ downing street. we will be following that here on bbc news. thank- downing street. we will be following that here on bbc news. thank you. i research by leading pollsters yougov indicates that labour are on track for victory — with an even bigger landslide than their historic win in 1997. their polling suggests that the conservatives are set to have the lowest number of mps in over a century — naming jacob rees—mogg, penny mordaunt and grant shapps among those who could lose their seats. so what does this poll tell us? patrick english is the director of political analytics at yougov.

if the election was being held right now and people had the current vote intentions and what they were telling was a reflection of what would happen at the ballot box, then labour would be on course for a historic win, the kind of win they've never seen before. we are currently seeing that they would have 422 constituencies, 422 wins, while the conservatives would be reduced down to 1li0. and it's quite a remarkable turnaround. we cast our mind back only a few years ago and borisjohnson was coming down with a huge majority, a constituency for every single day of the year, and we are saying in the course of one parliament not only has the labour party managed to reduce that majority to nothing. and not only have the ability majority of their own of that size, and not only have they built a majority of their own of that size, but they have gone even further, doubled the size of the majority that borisjohnson was able to put together, and they will be in a commmanding position not just to be in government

for the next five years, but will be looking at the decade of renewal plan that keir starmer has been talking about on the campaign trail. this take a look at some of tuesday's front pages, unsurprisingly. the announcement from nigel farage. the times leads with parish's return, and the duke of paul but asked the biggest ever victory for labour. the guardian liens on conservative fears that the decision from the executed leader to stand is an x essential threat to the party. the daily mirror describes the return of nigel farage and the yougov pole as rishi's darkest hour. that i front cover says he has blown. the telegraph quotes mr fire saying he's back to lead the revolt and claiming he can win her votes than the tories. an

meltdown is how the member describes the situation for the conservatives to stop the daily express has an exclusive interview with rishi sunak who claims that every vote for it nigel farage means a country is more likely to end up with sir keir starmer number ten. the metro leads with the headlines, tories —— tories face a record route following that yougov pole. some of the first —— front pages for tomorrow. the israeli army has announced the death of four hostages in gaza. three were israeli nationals — and one was a joint british—israeli national, nadav popplewell. their bodies were recovered in southern gaza. all had been taken by hamas during the attack last october. the precise details of their deaths are not known — here's how the israeli military spokesman, daniel hagari, confirmed the news. today, we shared the devastating news with the families of 85—year—old amiram cooper, one of the founders

of kibbutz nir 0z 80—year—old chaim peri from kibbutz nir oz, 80—year—old chaim peri from kibbutz nir oz, 80—year—old 80—year—old yoram metzger from kibbutz nir oz, and 51—year—old israeli and british citizen nadav popplewell from kibbutz nirim — that their loved ones were killed a few months ago during hamas activity in gaza, and their bodies are still being held by hamas. we assess that the four of them were killed by together in the area were killed while together in the area of khan younis during our operation there against hamas. the information we confirmed by the relevant bodies after assessing new intelligence that we gathered over the last few weeks. the hostages families forum, which speaks on behalf of many of the relatives and friends of the people who were kidnapped by hamas last october, has released a statement. it says it feels great sorrow at the devastating news that

four people have been killed in captivity. the statement pays tribute to nadav popplewell, as a family man of distinction, a generous friend, and a lover of books and science fiction. and the foreign secretary david cameron tweeted that he was greatly saddened to hear about the death of nadav popplewell. he added that, with a new deal on the table, the uk reiterates its demand for hamas to send all hostages home. meanwhile — there are mixed signals tonight from the israeli government about whether they will agree to a us peace plan for gaza. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says israel could start adopting parts of the plan — but not unless it leads to the total destruction of hamas. last week president biden set out a three—part peace plan, starting with an initial six—week ceasefire leading to an end in the fighting, the freeing of all the hostages and the reconstruction of gaza without hamas in power. our middle east correspondent

lucy williamson hears from people inside gaza and in the town of sderot on the israel—gaza border to gauge reaction to the new plan. the price of gaza's war is rising as its cities crumble. the price of peace too high for leaders on both sides. israel said it had bombed more than 50 targets since yesterday. but hamas is still fighting here, and hopes for the new ceasefire deal were mixed. translation: hamas should | raise its demands and seriously adhere to the conditions they set, which are the people's demands. translation: hamas, accept the deal. it's enough. enough of what we lost. we urge hamas to stop the war. israel's prime minister is negotiating on two fronts. his far right allies say he must continue the war until hamas is destroyed, or they'll bring down the government.

he's insisted his conditions for a ceasefire haven't changed. translation: we have gone a long way i to return the hostages while keeping i the war�*s objectives in mind, primarily the elimination of hamas. we insist that we will achieve both. it's all part of the plan, not something i've just added. but hamas has said it won't free more hostages without a guarantee the war will end. tonight, israel learned that four more captives were confirmed to have died — chaim peri, yoram metzger, amiram cooper, and british israeli nadav popplewell. after almost eight months of war, much of northern gaza lies in ruins, but israel's prime minister is struggling to end the war because he hasn't achieved his war goals. he hasn't brought back all the hostages, he hasn't destroyed hamas. the us president says hamas is no

longer capable of carrying out the kind of attack it did on the 7th of october, but israelis living here by the gaza border say they still don't feel safe. this is the last time yarin saw her neighbourhood. trapped in her home in sderot by the gaza border, as hamas gunman ran through the streets. she and her three children fled tojerusalem the next day. a ceasefire now, she says, won't be enough to send them home. we will free the hostages, but a few years from now your life will be... you will be the next hostages, you will be the next people that get murdered, the women that get raped, all of this will happen again. the ceasefire will kill us. ending this conflict rests with the leaders of israel and hamas, locked in a war for their own survival. lucy williamson, bbc news, sderot.

there have been scenes ofjubilation in mexico city's zocalo square as thousands of people celebrate the election of mexico's first female president. claudia shanebaum won about 60% of the vote in sunday's election. she's an environmental scientist turned politician — and considered a protege of the previous president. she insists, though, her predecessor will wield no influence over her government. will grant reports. it's a new day in mexican politics. after two centuries of men in power, when voters eventually chose their first female president, it was with a landslide. the victory itself was a moment to savour for claudia sheinbaum, and she was quick to acknowledge the many women who blazed a trail before her. "i didn't get here on my own. we got here together," she said. "thanks to our ancestors, our mothers, our daughters and granddaughters." in a nation of such entrenched machismo, what claudia sheinbaum has achieved here is no small feat.

other women have tried and failed, but her offer of continuity with the governing party's social policies, which have pulled millions from poverty, have proved hugely popular with the electorate. this election has been historic for all the wrong reasons, too. it's been mexico's most violent campaign in living memory, with dozens of candidates murdered as they sought votes. in the city of zelaya, a mayoral candidate with ms sheinbaum's own party was gunned down in the street. her murder a sign of the task ahead for the president—elect, one which her critics say she isn't up to. rather, they say, she'll be a puppet of her authoritarian mentor, president andres manuel lopez obrador. speaking to the bbc during the campaign, she denied that accusation. of course, i am of the same movement with lopez obrador. we fought together for 20 years, or more than 20 years, to have the government that we have now and the opportunity for mexican people and the right

for mexican people the rights. and of course, i'm going to leave a different time in history. viva mexico! mexico may have turned a corner with claudia sheinbaum's win, but it is still a nation where women are treated as inferior, where 11 women and girls are murdered every single day. to curtail that violence, she must now succeed where so many men before her have failed. will grant, bbc news, mexico city. around half a million families haven't received their child benefit payments, which were due to be put into their accounts today. hm revenue and customs say a technical issue meant some of today's bank transfers weren't made. but the problem has now been fixed and those affected will be paid on wednesday morning. theo leggett reports like hundreds of thousands of other parents, susan macdonald was expecting her child benefit to be paid today.

the disabled mother of two says she needs the money to pay for essentials like food and electricity. it didn't arrive. we rely on that money every week. it's £a2 that you get for two kids, and that is a lot of money to people like myself. and i can't imagine what other people must be feeling, the exact same way. it's so frustrating. child benefit is worth £25.60 per week for the eldest child and £16.95 a week for younger children. many families on low incomes depend on it. hmrc says a processing error meant that three out of ten payments due today didn't go through. in a statement it said, "we are very sorry that some customers did not receive their scheduled child benefit payments as expected, and we understand the concern and difficulty this may have caused. we have now fixed the problem and are putting measures in place to prevent this from happening again." but those affected will still have to wait until wednesday before getting their money.

i don't even know what i'm going to do. that's really stressful. i'm going to have to maybe speak to a friend to borrow money for gas and electric. i have no idea. hmrc says if people have been left out of pocket — for example, if they've been fined for late payments — they may be able to obtain compensation by making a complaint online. and it's promised that people who are due to get child benefit tomorrow will be paid without a hitch. theo leggett, bbc news. colin gibb, from the duo black lace — whose song agadoo is one of the most enduring pop songs ever — has died at the age of 70. gibb along with partner alan barton reached number two in the charts in1981i. despite being kept off top spot by george michael's "careless whisper", the song became a staple at parties and weddings.