you're watching bbc news at nine with me carrie gracie. the headlines: the tory leadership race begins in earnest today, as the frontrunner to be the next prime minister — borisjohnson — sets out plans to cut income tax for high earners. south korea and the uk have made an agreement in principle to continue trading in the event of a no—deal brexit. a coalition of women's organisations says it is prepared to take the crown prosecution service to court, accusing it of secretly deciding to bring fewer rape prosecutions in england and wales. dozens of grenfell survivors and relatives are taking legal action in the us against three firms they blame for the fire. slight changes in sleeping habits can shift the body clocks and increase the wellbeing of those who identify as night

owls, say scientists. and coming up in our sports bulletin: england start their world cup campaign with a 2—1 win over scotland in nice. good morning — and welcome to the bbc news at 9am. the deadline for nominations to become the leader of the conservative party and the next prime minister closes at 5pm today. the front runner borisjohnson has pledged tax cuts for people earning more than £50,000 a year, if he wins the race. the former foreign secretary told the telegraph he would use money currently set aside for a no—deal brexit to raise the 40% tax rate threshold to £80,000. meanwhile, michael gove is facing calls to drop

out, after he admitted using cocaine several times more than 20 years ago. mr gove has apologised, and said he was lucky to avoid prison. this all comes as work and pensions secretary amber rudd says she believesjeremy hunt should be the next prime minister. a lot going on. let's speak to our political correspondent jonathan blake. jonathan, we moved today from cold water hot phone need to reel. the race really does start in earnest as the clock ticks down to 5pm this evening when the deadline approaches for candidates to enter the race officially. there are 11 conservative mps who have so far declared their intention to run for leader and to become prime minister to officially enter the race and they need eight mps each supporting them to do that, and around six of them to do that, and around six of the candidates so far have that level of support. it is up for debate and we are yet to see if the

remainder will be able to muster the required number of signatures to formally enter the race. but as i say, we will find out at 5pm this evening when nominations close. it is going to be a busy day. several candidates formally officially launching their campaigns today, michael gove, dominic raab, matt hancock, and we have had announcements coming thick and fast as well. you mentioned borisjohnson saying as prime minister he would raise the threshold at which people pay 40% income tax from £50,000 — £80,000, effectively a tax cut for 3 million of the uk's higher earners, he says, paid for by national insurance contributions being increased and using money set aside for a no—deal brexit. matt hancock expected to announce that he would raise the national living wage as well mad michael gove setting out his stall is what he declares as a serious leader in serious times but still facing questions and accusations about his drug use 20

yea rs accusations about his drug use 20 years ago. we have been hearing from some of the candidates this morning, and some of those backing those in the race. amber rudd, the work and pensions secretary not running herself but a heavyweight in cabinet, this morning coming out in support of the foreign secretary jeremy hunt to be the next prime minister. he is one of those who has not said that the uk will come out of the european union come that 0ctober of the european union come that october 31 deadline regardless. and amber rudd set out her reasons why that should be the case this morning. ijust am clear that in my conversations with members of parliament and what happened earlier this year, that members of parliament will find a way to stop no deal, and i think that any leader, or any aspiring leader, needs to factor that in. so, there would be an election? i think there could be an election but i think that the house of parliament is a very creative place and with the assistance of an activist speaker there will be a way that mps will find in order

to have their voice heard. 0ne one of those candidates who is an enthusiastic brexiteer and has said the uk should leave the eu on the deadline of october 31, regardless of whether there was a new deal with the eu in place or not is the leader of the house of commons andrea leadsom, another contender in the running for the conservative leadership and to be the next prime minister, and she was asked this morning how exactly her plan of a managed no deal exit would work. it is to take the elements of the withdrawal agreement that parliamentarians would agree to and that the eu would like to see in place and to put it to parliament and to the eu commission that these elements are things that would work for all of us and can be delivered by the 315t october. so, it's not having the withdrawal agreement, which parliament won't accept, and it's not running counter to the eu's view that they won't reopen the withdrawal agreement. it simply saying, let's take the elements that

we can all agree on and implement them in all of our interests and that can be done by the end of october. so, as you say, jonathan, busy day of candidates setting out their stall, and it's time for the mps to pick sides, really. talk us through the next stages of the process. today's the deadline for candidates to enter the race officially, and then on thursday there will be the first of several secret ballots among conservative mps, and the aim of those is too narrow this relatively wide field at the moment, eventually down to two, so there will be candidates dropping out according to the level of support they get from mps at each stage, there will be a vote on thursday as i say, more votes next week, and then the final two will go into a head—to—head run—off later this month between the conservative party membership. so tory party members across the uk will vote as a whole through postal ballot on those final

two contenders and we should know the winner of the conservative leadership race who will be our next prime minister towards the end of july. so if it feels like this contest has been going on for some time yet, i'm afraid it is onlyjust getting started. thanks, jonathan. brexit is of course the heart of discussions between the candidates, and let's turn to a direct brexit story now. south korea and the uk have reached an agreement in principle which would allow the two sides to keep trading in the event of a no—deal brexit. the preliminary agreement marks the first post—brexit trade deal the uk has secured in asia. south korea exports around £5 billion worth of goods to britain. 0ur seoul correspondent, laura bicker has been speaking to the the international trade secretary liam fox. what it means is is that if britain leaves the european union without a deal, we get continuity in the trading arrangements that we currently have. and so, businesses can plan for both trade and investment with confidence. if we do get a deal

with the european union, what this means is we have now a springboard to a future trade agreement that could be more ambitious than the one that korea ambitious and confident. but that's the key, if we get a withdrawal agreement. we havejust heard we could have a more ambitious trade agreement. and yet, therejust is no agreement in place right now which is causing jitters in the likes of south korea and elsewhere. what we have here is the mechanism to avoid that, so even if we don't getan to avoid that, so even if we don't get an agreement with the eu, our trade continues and the market access continues. we will be working all the time for that agreement with the eu. but more than that, what it does set is an ambition for a new relationship between britain and korea, which looks not only at trade but also the investment relationship that we have. we have seen increased investment from britain to korea and

from korea to britain and we need to see trade and investment as two sides of the same coin where we are deepening our relationship. the best example i can give you of that is the uk and the united states where we have $1 trillion invested in one another‘s economies, which compliments the trading relationship and increases that sense of economic security. liam fox. campaigners say they are prepared to take the crown prosecution service to court over claims sexual offence cases are being dropped without good reason. a group of women's organisations have accused it of secretly making a decision to bring fewer rape prosecutions in england and wales. the cps have denied the claims. our home affairs correspondent, june kelly, reports. phone messages and social media are now playing an increasingly important part in rape investigations. rebecca says she had some non—hostile exchanges with the man she accused of raping her because she was terrified and he'd threatened her with a knife.

but she was told her messages could be misinterpreted by a jury and on the eve of the trial, a prosecutor announced they were dropping the case. she said that the whatsapp messages were of a concern. and that they didn't think that a jury would believe that he had raped me. i was absolutely devastated, i was retraumatised all over again. i actually felt suicidal. women's organisations say there has been a 173% increase in rape complaints over the past four years but there's also been a 44% drop in cases actually getting to court. this means that only around one in 25 rape complaints result in a prosecution. prosecutors are being encouraged to anticipate what quite a prejudiced jury might think, and therefore, to drop cases that are thought to be

weak at an early stage. this is not acceptable, we say it's not lawful and we want it changed and we'll see them in court to get that change if we have to. rebecca says she would now deter other women from making a complaint. the cps insists prosecutions are decided solely on evidence and denies there has been any change in approach. june kelly, bbc news. dozens of grenfell survivors and relatives are taking legal action in the us against three firms they blame for the fire. the lawsuit will target the cladding maker arconic, insulation maker celotex and fridge supplier whirlpool. the case is expected to be filed under product liability law which is meant to hold firms responsible for injuries caused by the goods they sell. the grenfell fire injune 2017 claimed the lives of 72 people and another 70 were injured. we'll have more on this story in the victoria derbyshire programme at 10am.

six people have been found guilty of the rape and murder of an eight—year—old muslim girl in northern india. the attack, which occurred in a hindu temple near kathua city in indian—administered kashmir, led to widespread anger across the country. sentencing is expected later this morning. 0ur correspondent rajini vaidyanathan is in delhi. six convictions but tell us what happened. this happened injanuary last year and was a horrific case, an eight—year—old girl was held captive in a hindu temple, kidnapped, held in this hindu temple and she was tortured, she was drugged and she was raped repeatedly bya group

drugged and she was raped repeatedly by a group of men in this temple, she was a muslim girl. today in a court, not actually where the case happened, they moved the trial to another court, to another city, the judge found six men, as you say, we re judge found six men, as you say, were guilty in connection with this case. that includes a number of police officers, one of them accused, found guilty of rape and murder. but a accused, found guilty of rape and murder. buta number of accused, found guilty of rape and murder. but a number of other officers also found guilty of concealing evidence and taking bribes. this was a case that really sent shock waves across india. understandable when you hear the details of such an horrific case. 0ne details of such an horrific case. one of the men who was on trial was acquitted. at the moment we are not sure why. he was the son of sanji ram, seen as the mastermind in this case. another man who was also charged, juvenile, is awaiting trial

because they are debating whether or not he should be heard in an adult 01’ not he should be heard in an adult ora not he should be heard in an adult or a juvenile court. but as you said just then, six men found guilty in this case. studio: just give us the context, because we are aware that rape cases in india have been hugely controversial in the past, but we are also aware that there are a lot of political sensitivities between the hindu community and the muslim community. so, how is this playing out across politics and the public? well, there were so many reasons why this case really did shock. 0n well, there were so many reasons why this case really did shock. on one level, it was just as i this case really did shock. on one level, it wasjust as i described, the utter brutality of what happened. i met the little girl's pa rents a happened. i met the little girl's parents a couple of months ago and when her mother described what had happened to her, she had been electrocuted, she had been beaten with rocks, it is difficult to understand how anyone could do this toa understand how anyone could do this to a little girl. in india there are

regular reports on an almost daily basis of child sex abuse in this country, and in recent years the government has promised to step up in terms of making sure that people are held to account. in fact, in the last couple of years, last year should i say, a new law was brought in here in india which meant that anyone who is found guilty of raping anyone who is found guilty of raping a child, so anyone under the age of 12, will get the death penalty. we are waiting to see what the sentence is in this case but that is the maximum sentence that these men could get. the other thing you touched on as well was how this case actually exposed some of the deep religious divides here in india. investigators say that the motive behind this barbaric crime was because this group of hindu men wa nted because this group of hindu men wanted to drive away the local nomadic muslim tribal community in the area. so, the police investigation report at the time said this was a strategic targeted

crime. and in the aftermath, what was also so shocking about this case is how a local right—wing hindu group organised protests, which were attended by dozens of people in support of those accused. now, tending those protests included two members of the bjp state—level government. the bjp, of course, the ruling party in india. those men we re ruling party in india. those men were eventually forced to resign but that did send a lot of shock waves as well about how quickly, or not, people work to condemn this crime and the motives behind it. rajini vaidyanathan, and the motives behind it. rajini vaidya nathan, thank you and the motives behind it. rajini vaidyanathan, thank you for explaining the context for all of this. the headlines on bbc news. the tory leadership race begins in earnest today, as the frontrunner to be the next prime minister — borisjohnson — sets out plans to cut income tax for higher earners. south korea and the uk have made an agreement in principle to continue trading in the event of a no—deal brexit.

a coalition of women's organisations says it is prepared to take the crown prosecution service to court, accusing it of secretly deciding to bring fewer rape prosecutions in england and wales. and in sport, england women's manager phil neville says his side have a long way to go before they can have a long way to go before they ca n start have a long way to go before they can start to talk about winning the women's world cup. they opened their campaign witha women's world cup. they opened their campaign with a tense 2—1win over scotland. ferrari are appealing the decision to penalised sebastian vettel at the canadian grand prix. the german's punishment handed lewis hamilton his fifth win of the season. you can hamilton his fifth win of the season. you can see hamilton his fifth win of the season. you can see what vettel made of that decision. rory mcilroy has found his groove atjust the right time winning his final tournament before this week's us open, taking the canadian 0pen before this week's us open, taking the canadian open in ontario by seven shots. i'll have more a little later in the hour. a ten—minute mri scan could soon be offered as part of the uk's first prostate cancer screening programme.

the test, which is being trialled in london, would detect the cancer before any symptoms appear, making them quicker, cheaper and more reliable than the blood tests and internal examinations currently being used. 11—thousand men in the uk die from prostate cancer each year. earlier, my colleague dan walker spoke to professor caroline moore who's working on the trials. so, the traditional screening programmes using just a blood test and then a standard biopsy don't detect enough of the cancers that could kill you, and unfortunately detect quite a few of the low risk cancers where treatment can cause more harm than good. you did a little bit for us there but in terms of comparing it to the tests many men will undergo, that blood test, how much more accurate is it? we don't know and that's the point of the trial. we know that when you have a raised blood test, an mri is much more efficient at finding

important cancers, so it finds nearly twice as many cancers as a standard biopsy but we don't know what will happen if we move the mri test into the screening population rather than men who have already got a high psa. reading a bit more about it, one of your colleagues talked about it being a simple, if it worked and was effective, as having a test in a supermarket car park. is that the dream really? to get it done on a scale like that. yes, that's right, so with other screening programmes offering high quality screening tests in large volumes, what is needed is to make it effective. mri is more complicated than a simple blood test, but it can still be done at a large scale and with a shorter scan. when you are trying to fund and get support for a programme like this, do you have to work out how many lives potentially you may be able to save? have you done that, and what are the figures if you could share

those with us? we do do that and we know that at the moment around 6000 men a year are diagnosed with late stage cancer where it is not curable. we know that if we could detect those men at an earlier stage when it would be curable we would be ina much when it would be curable we would be in a much better position. the finer details of why we need this first study to work things out. and potentially, i know, if somebody is watching this this morning thinking, this could be really interesting for my future and others that i know, if it is successful, what are we looking at in terms of a potential roll—out time? the trial is due to finish in about three years' time. to get things into a national programme it would usually be a couple of years after that, so some men in london will be invited in the next three years and when we have worked things out it will be some time after that before there was any national roll—out. time after that before there was any national roll-out. caroline more.

"we carry on" — that is the clear message from hong kong's pro—beijing leader despite huge demonstrations against a plan to allow extraditions to the chinese mainland. carrie lam said the law would in no way erode any of the special freedoms the territory enjoys. she said it was not initiated by beijing and there would be legally binding human rights safeguards. the protest turned ugly in the early hours of monday as police moved to disperse activists who had camped outside the legislative council complex. ramzan karmali reports. the morning after the night before. the clear up operation not quite in full swing yet. this is hong kong's legislative council building, the focus of demonstrations that took place just hours earlier. it had begun in peace, one of the biggest marches hong kong had ever seen. the people on this protest were demonstrating against a controversial extradition bill which would allow suspected criminals to be sent

to mainland china for trial. but as night fell, and a new day began, it descended into violence. metal barriers were thrown by protesters, while police in riot used battons, pepper spray and high pressure hoses to try to keep control. there were injuries on both sides. the contentious bill will be debated in the coming days at the legislative council building, and critics say people in the former british colony would be exposed to china's deeply flawed justice system and it would lead to a further erosion of the city's judicial independence. i think it is the most serious challenge to the autonomy of hong kong, and to the rule of law in hong kong, since we left in 1997, and it flatly goes against all the promises that were made about guaranteeing hong kong's local autonomy. say no to the bill! china argues that anyone facing religious or political persecution would be exempt from being extradited to the mainland and that hong kong

courts will have the final say over whether to grant extradition requests, but demonstrators are not convinced. people are afraid. people are also angry about this extradition treaty. mainland china use all sorts of ways to exercise so—called dictatorship in hong kong, to kidnap the people they treat as enemy. but hong kong's top official has tried to reassure people from all sides of the debate. the concern of every citizen about the work that the government is doing and this scrutiny of our work is an important factor to enhancing good governance in hong kong. china looks determined to see their proposals become law and the planned second reading of the bill at the legislative council will still go ahead on wednesday. ramzan karmali, bbc news. 0ur china correspondent stephen mcdonnell is in beijing.

tell us what beijing is saying this morning about the protest yesterday. we are hearing from the foreign ministry here, full support for the government in hong kong as it remains defiant in the face of what's being described as the largest protest ever seen since the former british colony was handed back to the chinese mainland. chief executive carrie lam says that people just don't understand this bill and that's why they are opposing it. however, we've had the legal fraternity turning out in big numbers complaining about it, joining protesters or academics, even western governments. and that's partly because people are saying it doesn't matter that you have elevated this to serious crimes only, everybody deserves to face a fair trial, and they are saying that's just not possible if somebody is sent back to the chinese mainland where courts are controlled by the

communist party, and we are likely to see even more tension in hong kongin to see even more tension in hong kong in the coming days. that's because we have heard from carrie lam saying that she's going to push ahead with this bill. she says the only problem really has been a lack of communication, and so for that reason it won't be delayed. and due to the nature of the system there, that legislation is guaranteed to be supported in what's frankly a rigged legislature in hong kong. and so those who oppose the bill so they have no choice really but to turn out in the streets, and to protest in that fashion. and for that reason we are expecting there to be even more tension, especially given that this enormous peaceful protest didn't work, if you like. if hundreds of thousands, many hundreds of thousands of people, peacefully turn out and the governmentjust basically says you don't know what

you're talking about, it's kind of fuelling, i guess, that wing of the protest movement that would say, now we have two up the ante, we've got to increase the stakes and try and put even more pressure to increase the stakes and try and put even more pressure on to increase the stakes and try and put even more pressure on carrie lam and the government of hong kong to try and get them to change their minds, and this will all be coming toa minds, and this will all be coming to a showdown in the coming days in hong kong. especially around the area where the legislature is. you say around that area, you and i were both in that area day after day after day during the umbrella movement in 2014, five years ago, and as that occupation went on and on and on, but it didn't achieve its objective, so i suppose my next question to you is, do the protesters on this occasion have a meaningful hope that if they get the numbers out again on wednesday, or even later, that they can change the minds of hong kong or beijing? well, you know, you're right, it is

reminiscent of the famous umbrella movement which tried to force a democratic choice for the leader of hong kong, a failed movement, and many people involved in these movements will be veterans of that failed movement, and yet they have still turned out. it seems incredible in a way to have lost on that occasion and to then be hoping that occasion and to then be hoping that this time round they can change the government's mind. we have heard from carrie lam and she seems absolutely defiant. she is not budging one little bit. all she has said is there might be a few more sort of tweaks to the legislation. but other than that it won't be delayed and she has the full support of beijing, and i guess she will be hoping that she can just ride out this wave of opposition to the government. but she will also be remembering that in the past, the hong kong leader has been toppled in this way. so, sure, they lost the

umbrella movement push for democracy in hong kong, but the chief executive of hong kong aware that they do need public support and this isa they do need public support and this is a massively unpopular move from her and her government. and so if they do push this through in the coming days, there is going to be an awful lot of ill will in hong kong towards the administration of carrie lam. thank you so much, stephen, from beijing. here, regional and local newspapers across the north of england have issued a joint call to government to close north—south divide. a total of 33 titles — including the yorkshire post, manchester evening news, liverpool echo and newcastle's the chronicle — have issued an open letter to demand improved investment in transport, industry, schools and housing for the north of england. the letter warns the next prime minister must take action to "power up the north", as they say, and address inequality. an investigation's been launched into the cause of a fire which badly

damaged a block of flats in east london. officials say it was brought under control, after around 100 firefighters were sent to the scene in barking yesterday afternoon. two people were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation — no other injuries were reported. alcohol products sold in the uk, are not being clearly labelled with the latest advice on safe—drinking, according to research by the bbc‘s panorama. 100 labels were checked in stores, but only 14 were found to contain the most up—to—date information introduced three years ago. now, health professionals are calling for tougher regulation. the bbc‘s adrian chiles reports. we understand about eating five a day and the need to stop smoking but how many of us know the guidelines on safe drinking? injanuary 2016, the uk's chief medical officers introduced new low—risk drinking guidelines. what had previously been 28 units a week for men and 21 for women, was now set at 14 units a week for both. the alcohol industry was given until september this year to clearly

update the labels on their products, but we checked 100 labels in stores across the uk and only 14 had the new lower safe drinking limits on them. it is not acceptable to be displaying the old guidelines on products because they could be inadvertently putting consumers at greater risk. so what this information might indicate is that, as a man, you can drink 100% more than the current weekly guideline, so this information really does need to be removed. the uk alcohol industry decides for itself what information to put on its products. the industry body, the portman group, says its aim is to promote responsible drinking. i think the industry'sjob is to communicate the 14 units in the context of wider risk and the industry does that. we are three years on, two or three years on now — this has been produced since then, i mean, why haven't they changed it? when the updated guidance came out, the industry was given a period of grace to change labels. that period of grace ends in september this year.

there's ongoing discussions amongst my members about how they communicate that risk and how they communicate the cmo guidance. the department of health told us it is working with industry to implement the chief medical officers' guidance and getting it shown on labels. adrian chiles, bbc news. you can watch adrian's bbc panorama film britain's drink problem tonight on bbc one at 8:30pm. in a moment the weather but first let's here's victoria derbyshire with what she's got coming up in her programme at ten. good morning. we can exclusively reveal over 100 groenefeld survivors and relatives are launching legal action in the usa this week in order to seek compensation. the lawsuit is against the maker of the tower‘s cladding on insulation and also the firm that made the faulty fridge which has been blamed for starting the fire. 0n the programme today, the fire. 0n the programme today, the launch live of one of the contenders to be a next minister, health secretary matt hancock. join us health secretary matt hancock. join us at10am, health secretary matt hancock. join us at 10am, bbc two, the bbc news

channel and online. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith—lucas. it isa it is a very unsettled start to this week and actually this week is looking pretty unsettled all week. we have some rain around today, this is the fairly soggy scene in chichester this morning, grey skies, outbreaks rain and for much of south—east england and east anglia, we are set to see some heavy rain but through this morning, sunny spells and showers elsewhere across the uk but we've already seen those outbreaks of rain across the south—east which will be creeping their way further northwards and westwards, too bad this rain is going to be quite slow moving over the next few days, drifting north—west was across the uk. sunshine and some showers for scotland, northern ireland, wales and the south—east of england. northern england should stay dry u nfa i rly northern england should stay dry unfairly sunny but rather cool with temperatures in the mid teens. this and tonight, that rain drifts across northern england, wales and south—east and south—west of england combined with the wind and it

remains showery tuesday into wednesday, sunny spells, scattered heavy downpours and quite a chilly north wind. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. just before the headlines, actually, we are getting a braking line from the office of national statistics on gdp, gross domestic product of course. written's economy contracted by 0.4% in april after a 0.1% decline in march, that is according to the office for national statistics. it is a bigger drop than any of the mainstream economies had forecast. we will get some analysis on that in a couple of minutes as soon as one of our economic heads has had time to think about it. the other news headlines this morning. the tory leadership race begins in earnest today,

as the front—runner to be the next prime minister — borisjohnson — sets out plans to cut income tax for higher earners. south korea and the uk have made an agreement in principle to continue trading in the event of a no—deal brexit. a coalition of women's organisations says it is prepared to take the crown prosecution service to court, accusing it of secretly deciding to bring fewer rape prosecutions in england and wales. dozens of grenfell survivors and relatives are taking legal action in the us against three firms they blame for the fire. time now for the morning briefing, where we bring you up to speed on the stories people are watching, reading and sharing. the race to lead the governing conservative party is now officially under way. there are a number of individual campaign launches today and over the next few weeks the candidates will first face a series of mp votes before the party membership as a whole chooses between the final two candidates. the winner — set to be

announced next month — will succeed theresa may as prime minister, and will need to resolve the long—running brexit saga. well, one of the 11 candidates is sam gyimah, he told the bbc this morning why he should be leader. well, i threw my hat into the ring because whilst there is a broad range of candidates there is a very narrow set of views that are being discussed. 0n the big issue of the day, brexit, all the other candidates are either offering a bit of what theresa may offered or no deal. but we know that, out there in the country, there are many other views, in terms of how we break the brexit deadlock in parliament, so i threw my hat into the ring to offer a broader perspective on the race because there are many millions of people who do not want to vote forjeremy corbyn, who'd like to vote for the conservative party but don't want to see the conservative party become a hard brexit party. so, my position in this race in offering a second referendum as a way to break the brexit deadlock speaks to them and shows

the conservative party wants to be a broad church and that is the only way in which it can deliver for the country but also win elections. one of the candidates hitting the headlines has been michael gove, who at the weekend admitted to taking cocaine in the past. despite the controversy caused by his admission, his colleague, the mp nicky morgan, says she is supporting mr gove's leadership bid. fundamentally, the issue hasn't changed, we need somebody who is going to be ready to lead, to deliver brexit from day one and i believe that person is michael gove. is he not a hypocrite? no, because he has been very candid about having made a mistake and i think it's right to say people shouldn't be defined by the worst mistakes they have made in their lives. we all believe as conservatives in a second chance aside, that is what we talk about. to have somebody defined by their worst mistake is something i think he looks back on and regrets and he's been very clear that was a

mistake and he hasn't hidden away from scrutiny, he is given a newspaper interview, he went on a very high—profile programme yesterday and he will be launching his campaign today. campaigners say they are prepared to take the crown prosecution service to court over claims sexual offence cases are being dropped without good reason. a group of women's organisations have accused it of secretly making a decision to bring fewer rape prosecutions in england and wales. the cps denies the claims. solicitor harriet wistrich is bringing this case forward for the end violence against women coalition. this morning she told bbc breakfast why this action is being taken. the cps are failing in their duty to prosecute rape and they are not taking forward as enough cases. we've amassed evidence that they have surreptitiously changed the way in which they make decisions around prosecuting, and we believe that is because they want to prosecute fewer cases and take weak cases out of the system, and that is a message

that was delivered in some training a couple of years ago, and the consequence of that and the consequence of removing the... ..previous test, the merits based test from their policy is that there is a falling rate of prosecution at a time when more women are actually coming forward to report rape. if these changes were to be secured, what would that actually mean for victims? well, they are already having an impact because, as we've heard from rebecca and many other women, we collected a dossier of 21 cases and we know there are many, many more, cases which have a chance of success, and which, you know, involve serious and dangerous men, quite often, dangerous offences and potentially men who may go on to offend again and again, and know what sort of women to target, are not being prosecuted.

and that puts women, as a whole, in danger and, of course, it lets down those women who have been victims of rape getjustice. a new three—part series about tackling plastic waste is launched on bbc one tonight. it's called war on plastic. part of the show investigates whether businesses, like shops and petrol stations, are prepared to re—fill customer's water bottles for free. in tonight's episode, presenter anita rani looked into supermarkets and single use plastics. bigger stores have a wider selection of loose fruit and veg and now often let you fill your own reusable containers at the counters. along with herfriend sara, carlene's buying the ingredients for a spaghetti bolognese without single use plastic. remember, it's no bags. it's the natural reaction, isn't it? while i am buying the packaged versions of the same ingredients.

i can't wait to compare our spag bol hauls back at carlene's. why don't you tell me what yours is and i'll tell you what my shopping came to. 0k. £13.03. oh, my god. mine was £8.77. it's a big difference, isn't it? this isjust one meal. imagine that for a weekly shop, if you've got two or three kids. that's a big difference. the supermarket tesco says it's working to reduce plastic packaging but is also trying to reduce food waste. bbc breakfast'sjohn maguire has been in bristol this morning, to show us a shop which is trying to embrace a plastic—free future. good morning from zero green, a zero waste shop in bristol. it's been open for about a year now. stacey fordham, you're the boss. take us around, show us what you're selling and explain the concept. ok, so the concept of the shop is we are trying to encourage our customers to stop using single use plastic so we sell most of those things which you find in your cupboards at home, so, things like dried fruit,

pastas and grains, we've got cereals up here, nuts. we also sell things for cleaning your clothes and yourself. then we also have lots of things that are a little bit more long term, so things like sanitary products, coffee cups, reusable straws and things like that. plastic has been so successful over recent years because it helps with convenience and it helps keep costs down. how do you counter those two advantages of plastic? ok, so, shopping and zero waste to begin with. it requires a little bit of effort, you have to put a bit of effort into planning and bringing your containers and things but i think once you're into the groove of it, it is as convenient as shopping in one of the large supermarkets. you can obviously also byjust what you need so would helps combat food waste as well. 0k, stacey, thank you very much. we've got a couple of customers, friends and suppliers, in your case, toby, who we've dragged along early this morning. you're bringing in mango from east africa. how do you keep that green, considering the food miles?

well, it is about progress to perfection for us. we are a small start—up company, hanging out with zero green has made us a lot more conscious about food waste from, you know, all the way down to the smallholder farms that we deal with in africa. so it is motivating us to do a lot better and improve and, yeah, stacey has been instrumental in advising us in how to do that. things are changing rapidly, aren't they? when you're feeding families and doing weekly shops, stuff like that, how do you do to make is it not easy... let me ask you that, is it easy, is it feasible to try and reduce plastic or get rid of it even? i think it is. it is a challenge. obviously, you have to think about a bit. now i've got into the rhythm of it so as soon as my container of porridge oats becomes empty, that's it, we are down the shop next day filling that up with porridge oats. and we have tried, as a family, really hard to try to think about that, think about what we are buying. maybe change a little bit our habit so we are buying things that are easier to buy loose. my kids have definitely

got into it now. you've got to get the kids on board as well. the kids are getting into it. at schools at the moment, there is a kind of real raising of awareness. the fact kids are stimulating us in our family to improve things as well. the kids are the future and they are pushing the older generations as well. absolutely. and costs, how do we make sure we keep the costs down? is it an expensive way to shop, do you think? actually no and the quality is very good. very high. it's very interesting because you buy exactly what you want, what you need. so you don't need to go with a big packet in the supermarket, and it's just fantastic. great. folks, thank you very much indeed. thank you, stacey, good to talk to everybody here. very interesting, isn't it? you need to i suppose try and change your shopping habits to try to evolve the way you shop, to try to make something like this work. let's see how things figure out.

you can watch war on plastic this evening at 7pm, on bbc one. we are getting a line of breaking news about a nurse being rearrested, police investigating a number of deaths in a neo—natal unit. police investigating a number of deaths in a neo-natal unit. that is according to cheshire police. they say they have rearrested a nurse. police investigating the deaths of a number of babies at the countess of chester hospital's neo—natal unit have rea rrested a chester hospital's neo—natal unit have rearrested a nurse, more details as we get it. right now, we will take a look at the sport. phil neville says their team have a long way to go until they start talking about winning the world cup.

they opened their campaign with a tense 2—1win over scotland. theirs is a rivalry like no other. england are one of the best in the world but scotland have never been better and have plenty to build on. after a high tempo is not the only thing holding the game was the video assistant referee. handball and penalty was the decision and fittingly in france it was nikki to paris with income's first goal. this was colin's first ever world cup match. despite attempts by fifa to talk up ticket sales attendance in these was a modest 13,000. soon the england fans among them were back on their feet. no england fans among them were back on theirfeet. no keeping out ellen white for long. room to improve on in the second half they had england scrambling. this was colin's first world cup goal. 6—0 a couple of yea rs world cup goal. 6—0 a couple of years ago, this year, 2—1. scotland have vastly improved. england weren't just seen as favourites for this game, they are seen as contenders for the whole tournament

and they knew they had to deliver a niece and they've done that. it was a sign of scott and's continuing development and they ran phil neville's side close. world cups are about building momentum. england leave for the result they wanted and scotla nd leave for the result they wanted and scotland have a performance to give them hope. england and scotland next fixtures are on friday. scotland play japan in the lunchtime fixtures are on friday. scotland playjapan in the lunchtime game with coverage from 1:30pm on bbc one and bbc alba in scotland. england face argentina later with live coverage also on bbc one from 7:30pm. income's men seem to be getting the hang of penalties, they finished third in the nation's league beating switzerland in a shoot out with jordan pickford league beating switzerland in a shoot out withjordan pickford the star of the show. 0—0 after extra time. it went to spit them to make spot kicks. jordan pickford scored the fifth one, he dusted himself back down, but his gloves back on and made the decisive save in the shoot out. as for the final,

portugal took the inaugural nations league title beating the netherlands 1-0. the league title beating the netherlands 1—0. the strike on the hour mark enough to give the european champions their second piece of silverware in three years. let's have a look at some of the back pages. we will mix things up by starting with the front page of the telegraph in particular. an indication of how the country seems to be getting behind the women's world cup, a great picture of nikita paris after her penalty although phil neville wasn't impressed with the performance. the back page of the performance. the back page of the mirror combines the two games. jordan pickford always seems to score penalties in practice. and phil neville says his team dropped standards against scotland. more from pickford in the expressing he was a bit nervous about taking his spot kick but not about saving them. rory macro has claimed his 16th pga tour title with victory at the

canadian open in ontario, he shot nine under par 61 to finish the tournament on an impressive 22 run just four days before the start of the season's that major. graeme mcd owell the season's that major. graeme mcdowell has also qualified for the open with a superb 30 foot putt which saw him finish ten under. ferrari have appealed the result of the canadian grand prix after sebastian vettel finished first but was penalised for an infringement early in the race. sebastian vettel and lewis hamilton were in close company for much of the race in montreal before this mistake from sebastian vettel nearly put the britain into the wall. the ferrari driver was handed a five second penalty gifting hamilton a fifth win of the season. the mercedes man was jeered in montreal, and sebastian vettel made his feelings known by swapping the boards in the pit lane. hamilton has extended his lead to 29

points in the standings. it has caused some stirrings on social media with fairly one—sided opinions. former f1 drivers don't agree with it. johnny herbert. nigel mansell himself acts as a steward on some of the races. let's have a look at what is happening later today. the cricket world cup continues with south africa taking on the west indies. keep across the action with our test match special coverage on 5 live. and you can get more reaction to that match on sportsday here on the bbc news channel at 6:30pm with the latest on the women's world cup which is two more matches taking

place today. that is what the sport for now. more from the bbc sports centre. in the last few minutes, official growth figures from the office for national statistics have been released. 0.4% decrease in gdp. this is a worse contraction than people expected. no one expected it would be this bad, it is a sharp contraction. it is just one be this bad, it is a sharp contraction. it isjust one month but almost entirely due to brexit because if we look at the figures the services sector continuing to grow, constructions sector grew, manufacturing declined by huge amount, 4%. car production was down 2596 amount, 4%. car production was down 25% and we know what happened, or those car factories were worried about brexit happening so they shut down for their annual closure to put in new equipment, to update the plant, bring in new models but they ordered it at exactly the same time. the knock—on effects of that are huge because there is a massive

supply chain across the country which supplies engines, components and parts and they would have stopped as well. that was the one off it. is it mostly in the car industry, then? within manufacturing, there are other sector parts of the manufacturing that are badly hit because you know there will be others especially those that were dependent on components that cross the border a large number of times and very quickly. they would probably like the car industry have said if were going to close down we will do it now so that we can find out what is happening on the borders. in the event the prime minister cancelled brexit... 0r event the prime minister cancelled brexit. .. 0r postponed event the prime minister cancelled brexit... 0r postponed it until 0ctober brexit... 0r postponed it until october but it was too late for anyone to change their minds. the worry about that is even if you are a positive person about bouncing back, you might think, well, the problem is we have got that fear of the brexit moment at the end of 0ctober, will we get people closing pla nts 0ctober, will we get people closing plants again for a while? that is a real worry and it is especially difficult for the car industry

because they close for a couple of weeks every year anyway but they've already done that this year, they don't have another holiday coming up which they can move to october the 3ist which they can move to october the 31st and close down encase brexit happens then and is as bad as they fearing. and then some of the candidates for the leadership of the tory party are seeing 0ctober candidates for the leadership of the tory party are seeing october 31 is impossible and others say it'll happen on october 31 come what may so they are no clear on what is going to happen, whether they will face the cliff edge again in 0ctober. face the cliff edge again in october. so, i suppose, if you are the bank of england and you have to predict the macroeconomic future of the country, what would you think at this point for the rest of the year? you'd probably be thinking this was a one—off hit, the economy if you look at the three—month rolling average, it is still growing but not quickly. manufacturing is likely to bounce back, they need to make cars to sell cars, they closed in april so they might increase production of the car industry has its own to do with diesel and model changes and

all the environmental standard so it isn't doing particular well. you'd expect some of this to bounce back. the bank of england is expecting growth of 1.4% and expects to put interest rates up at some point because it's worried about low unemployment and someone but these figures suggest that might be an optimistic take on the year. thank you for that and we will of course get more reaction to those gdp figures later in the morning. now, though, if you are a night owl who struggles to get out of bed early, is hope. scientists say making slight changes in sleeping habits can shift people's body clocks and improve their wellbeing. 0ur health correspondent, james gallagher, reports. each of us has a clock ticking inside us. 0ur body clock keeps us in time with the rising and the setting of the sun, and it's why we sleep at night. but some people's clocks run later than others. it means life can be hard for night owls. their bodies are hard—wired to stay up late into the night, and a morning alarm clock can force them to get up for work hours

before their body is ready. the study looked at 21 people who were regularly going to bed after 2:00am. they were instructed to get up and go to bed at the same times every day, do so hours earlier than usual, get loads of sunlight in the morning, and have fixed mealtimes. on average, people who shifted their body clocks two hours earlier were getting the same total shut—eye, but were reporting lower levels of sleepiness, stress and depression. firstly, it's really important to raise the awareness of the differences we see between people, so our night owls and our morning larks, and help understand that. and, secondly, what we're doing is providing some really simple tools, lifestyle interventions, that night owls could use to help shift them earlier, and which had a positive impact on self—reported measures of depression and stress and increased performance at nonoptimal times. the researchers said their methods may seem like obvious advice for good sleep hygiene,

but they were surprised how effective such relatively simple strategies were. james gallagher, bbc news. a construction crane has collapsed onto an apartment in dallas, killing one person and injuring six others. five storeys of the building were badly damaged as the crane crashed through a roof—top car park. rescue workers are still searching for anyone who may be trapped inside. the crane is thought to have been toppled over by high winds as severe weather affected the city. just going to return to a story we mentioned a a few minutes ago, in as has been rearrested by police investigating the deaths of a number of babies at a hospital in chester. lastjuly a woman was arrested for the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder of six more at the countess of chester hospital's neo—natal unit. she was since bailed. but, today, the healthcare professional has been re—arrested over these allegations, and the attempted murder of three additional babies.

just before we go to the weather, worth pointing out it is a busy morning and political developments with many of the key contenders for the tory leadership setting out their stall in briefings and interviews and obviously there will face many questions about some of their habits in the past. we've seen their habits in the past. we've seen the problems of michael gove at the weekend relating to his cocaine issues. but also we've seen this morning in the newspapers and the daily telegraph the frontrunner borisjohnson daily telegraph the frontrunner boris johnson setting daily telegraph the frontrunner borisjohnson setting out his plans for income tax. so, what's more politics to come. right now, the weather. thank you! we have a lot of u nsettled thank you! we have a lot of unsettled weather this week, a lot of rainfall in the forecast, some of it quite heavy and it will feel quite cool as well with some fairly strong winds, especially during

tuesday. the windy coming in from the north—east. grey start to the day with rain in london, that is one of weather watchers. we can see on the satellite that cloud spreading its way in from the south—west, further north and west some sunshine. but also some showers which has given us this fantastic double rainbow, probably one of the best i've seen in northern ireland through this morning. you can see that rainfall, continuing to spread north and westwards into southern areas of northern england, he swears, the south—west with a fuchsia was ahead of that. that rainfall will start to total up in parts of the east. further north, some sunny spells and sharp showers with temperatures here up to 19 potentially. further south and east with the cloud and rain, temperatures 12—14. tonight that area of rain continues to spread north and westward with clear skies towards the far north and west with clea ra nce to towards the far north and west with clearance to the south—east into tuesday morning, overnight

temperatures down to 8—12. the rain will be heavy and persistent across northern england, wales parts of the midlands and the south—west of england during tuesday. a strong north—easterly wind making it feel quite chilly. showers which could be heavy and thundery will develop towards the south—east with sunny spells, but try with brighter skies in scotland and northern ireland with temperatures the highest tomorrow in the south—east of england. throughout tuesday and over the next few days they could be a lot of rainfall, as much as 60—100 millimetres of rainfall in parts of south yorkshire and lincolnshire which could lead to some localised flooding because as you can see that rain continues through northern parts of england even on two wednesday. drive in scotland and northern ireland, that rain pushing its way in here eventually, showers developing across southern parts during wednesday and temperatures very similar to the next few days, about 13—18. low pressure is never too far away through this week and you can see here as we go through to thursday, the end of the week, that

low pressure is there and with it some weather fronts around its hosting unsettled both on thursday and into friday, either the mixture of rain or heavy showers. that is it from me. bye—bye.

hello, it's monday, it's10am, i'm victoria derbyshire. good morning. this programme can reveal more than a hundred grenfell tower survivors and relatives are launching legal action in the us this week. the claim for damages will be made against the firms that made the cladding and insulation on the block — and against the maker of the fridge which was blamed for triggering the blaze. we have been told any successful claim against those firms could cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. we will bring you that exclusive story in the next hour. the 11 candidates who want to be prime minister have until 5pm tonight, to get at least eight mps backing them. michael gove's campaign seems to be faltering after he admitted