one foot in number ten is the headline from the daily mail that says borisjohnson‘s rivals are now scrambling together to sabotage his coronation. the times claims borisjohnson is under ‘intense pressure‘ to debate with his rivals for the tory leadership on television after all the other candidates agreed to take part. the guardian pictures the tanker front altair on fire in the gulf of oman today — the united states has blamed iran for the suspected assault on two oil tankers. and the mirror leads with the tv licence backlash after a string of bbc stars demand that plans to scrap free tv licences for over—75s are ditched. so not a surprise that boris johnson is dominating the headlines tomorrow morning. surprised in a way considering he's been the least vocal so far. yes, everybody else for the past two weeks prior to the official onto the campaign has been all over the all

over the radio or in rory stewart's case, all bracken —— britain, boris has been very carefully hidden away from media and even the official launch yesterday he only the media six questions only answered one or two of them, so his handlers have kept them away from the media spotlight. clearly rattling some of them because here on the independent we have stopped boris wright will step up the race, for second place. it wasn't. .. it wasn't fully expected necessarily a few months ago that so many mps would want to vote for him, i suppose it there was a stop for a sort of campaign within the party. yes, it did not a name, anyone but boris campaign, i think people have been surprised to see the breath of support for him in the party, 114 tory mps have written behind them, and the criticism of him was that while he had a price of the country, he didn't really have appealed to his colleagues in

parliament, he has proven this critics wrong today. i'm interested to see that both boris supporters and those who want to stop him all kind of agree that perhaps the field should be narrowed down now, so that boris's campaign are you seeking to coronation and the rivals argued that perhaps they need to kind of ganged up or get behind one candidate who can give them a run for his money rather than allowing other support to be dissipated between such a large field. and trying as well because the candidates as well, trying to get borisjohnson to candidates as well, trying to get boris johnson to commit candidates as well, trying to get borisjohnson to commit to a series of televised debates on channel 4 on sunday night, that's ahead of the one we are expecting to stay on bbc one. at the moment, it seems as though he won't lose but that relies on np votes, sufferfor though he won't lose but that relies on np votes, suffer for instance though he won't lose but that relies on np votes, sufferfor instance if he is in front of the camera and away from the hind legs, a can find out presenter who can ask them

questions, if he has to actually face a proper debate, then his rivals think he will probably come undone. there's a reason he's heading away from the media so much and so tightly controlled. that's because he had the habit of being very outspoken, putting his foot and it the wrong thing and losing his temper in many respects, so for his backers, if they can get them over the finish line from the media, dusted them but his rivals want to put them in the spotlight as much as possible. the daily telegraph hat -- line, tory candidates are urged to quit, and maybe one or two that can be linked upon, but not all of them. you're probably right but i have to say, i think night—time cut and sajid javid would be very disappointed today to get such low figures. i think both are expected to do better and it may be that they realised momentum has gone out of theircampaign, soi realised momentum has gone out of their campaign, so i wouldn't be surprised if there was one or two would drop out before the next

round, not least because it steps up from meeting 17 votes to get through this around 233 and for some of them, that's quite a big leap. the how problematic that there are no women left his neck andrea leadsom an estimate that two out of three like to leave in the first round could get a tory struggle a lot with women, most political party so dia sadly, and you know, we wondered whether penny moore did with herself forward. previously amber rudd for forward. previously amber rudd for for us to carry the can for the wind rush scandal, and i think a lot of the women realised that currently in this race, they didn't stand a huge chance that it might be better to let the man take on brexit and step up let the man take on brexit and step up after that, so i think someone then wanted to hold back until they had a better chance, but again, boris and a lot of the other male mps boris and a lot of the other male mstust boris and a lot of the other male mps just sucked all the support that

is not really a female clarity for the women who are not that. how problematic if we talk about putting borisjohnson in problematic if we talk about putting boris johnson in front problematic if we talk about putting borisjohnson in front of presenters oi’ borisjohnson in front of presenters oran borisjohnson in front of presenters or an interviewer, facing questions from the audience potentially, how problematic would that be because it's not the tv audience that need to be convinced, it's the hundred 60,000 conservative numbers who get to have the final say over the remaining two candidates. yes, i think the problem that that could cause is essentially outrage among the rest of the public that they don't get a say. in many ways, i think the scandals that could potentially bubble under his campaign are preston for that conservative party membership. i think trying attention to suggestions for his private life, his record in office, even less re ce ntly his record in office, even less recently when us foreign secretary, could be just the rally for the campaign in the eyes of the public, but i'm not sure with the membership

that it necessarily would be, all the polling done so far by different firms suggest he's far in the way a leader with both mps and numbers because they think it can stop jeremy corbyn. yes, obviously this is the main concern so, i think i think people assume that the kind of torres on the it are exclusively concerned about who will vote for brexit, but i think for most of them, that bigger question is who can actually be jeremy them, that bigger question is who can actually bejeremy corbyn and i think it may be borisjohnson, you know, itjeremy hunt is seen as kind of slightly and at that figure because he's too close to theresa may. but, again, ithink if because he's too close to theresa may. but, again, i think if it comes to big tv debate if borisjohnson says something that's really outrageous and causes and the stays of media coverage from pages the same way michael gove did over the drug is, then certain tory members who are wavering may then take it in some ways. but he has to still

deliver brexit a he sits down next by minister and the map in parliament has not changed. and that's a big argument every street is making demanding that boris comes clean about how he's going to get those numbers through parliament when the arithmetic, it's interesting that boris johnson when the arithmetic, it's interesting that borisjohnson has not taking provoking element of the table, he said it's probably not his preferred option. it's interesting that rory stewart said well if he locks the doors to parliament and makes like trouser press, he will be the first to leave the rest of the mps —— lead them and setting up a rival parliament outside the doors across road to myself it could mean for some very interesting times ahead. i think the speaker may have something to say about that because he's not exactly backwards and coming forward so let's move on, looking at the guardian. the us blames iran for attacks in a key

golf shipping route, and while we had been on air the foreign office has actually said they agree with the secretary of state in the united states mike pompeo on his assessment, we strongly agree that iran was responsible for the attacks on those two tankers. this is when it does kind of apocalyptic stories, kind of very confusing at first and very worrying, and obviously you know, the us had been talking extensively about clamping down sanctions when they looking at renegotiating the 2050 nuclear deal. and he seems very clear now that you run are lashing out. and if they are attacking lot —— oil tankers trying to attack one of the busiest kind of shipping streams, but also knowing full well that they will affect the cost of crude oil and we seen today, the financial times habit as well, that the cost of oil spiked massively, so i think the big issue

now as i'm sure lucy will be able to say coming soon, is that what the us response will be at this point. when you look at the ft, it's mentioning that a change in oil price, from five o'clock yesterday afternoon to five o'clock yesterday afternoon to five o'clock yesterday afternoon to five o'clock this afternoon. and there were those where there was a big spike, and then it dropped again and went back up again and finally just stabilised a little bit lower again. a big geopolitical story about an important strategic shipping route, america weighing and even though the vessels were from japan and norway, that's why they we re japan and norway, that's why they were registered —— where they were registered. i'm interested to see the evidence the us has with all pa rta ke rs and the evidence the us has with all partakers and in may, again, the us and saudi officials were quick to suggest iran was behind us attacks and interesting to hear as he said

that the fcl has come out and back ke pt that the fcl has come out and back kept the us assessment. we saw a bit ofa kept the us assessment. we saw a bit of a diversion or at least a prize la st of a diversion or at least a prize last month with the us talking about the iranian threat in the middle east and some kind of dissension initially from british military assessments of that threat, so clearly the uk is forswear with the us at the moment on iran. but essentially, while the picture remains unclear on what that seem certain though is that this makes the likelihood of military confrontation a lot more likely. there is a question of background, the tensions between tehran and washington over the trumpet ministration view of the nuclear deal that the obama administration was happy to back. yeah, and i think that the concern is as obviously this is a very big reaction to the sanctions and as the tensions, but obviously we have donald trump in the white house who is very, very

unpredictable and often takes a very unorthodox shall be say approach to geopolitics. but also we are now coming up to silly meandering towards election period in the us, and obviously a lot of people about the parallels with vietnam and previous wars where obviously adding a warand all previous wars where obviously adding a war and all sorts of things a lot can help you if you are seeking office again, so i think trump will see a lot of scrutiny of people who suspect he's doing this so she'll have to be careful about how he responds. i had i had at night -- i hear what you say i think is trying to read back from this, he's made clear and publicly he's not picking regime change, maybe iran passed the supreme leader doesn't believe him because he came out today and reject what seems to be a us backed offer of their resumption of talks at the iran deal, he seen the japanese

prime minister in tehran today floated that idea, seemingly trump's blessing, and it's iran that rejected that, so i'm not sure that it's all the us kind of making moves and antigonus and there. let's look at the telegraph, again, —— antagonism. this is a small news brief here, hunt kong —— hong kong protesters copper for british backing, this is in response to the legislation which would mean criminal suspects could be extradited to the chinese mainland and there is a sense in hong kong for many people that this is an erosion of the semi autonomy that hong kong has enjoyed since he had ever back to beijing and 97. yes absolutely, one country to systems may be going into one system is the fear, and quite disturbing scenes from the streets of hong kong with

tear gas and rubber bullets, and a disturbing claim by amnesty today that some of that cs gas may be british made. it's interesting to see the protests calling on you to to get involved, i'm not sure that's going to happen. obviously, the chaosis going to happen. obviously, the chaos is raining there with the legislative council being closed for the third day in a roll and you see weeks at protests far, looks like it or keep rambling on. it's an obvious move i suppose on the part of the protesters, they would appeal to london for some sort of backing but it's very difficult line to tread before the government here. it's very, very top of the british government to say we are handed by power, we try to step away from our colonial past and then just to step in and is actually we shouldn't have given you the freedom, but there's a lot going on here and the protesters will try any angle they can both to draw attention to what they are protesting about but also to draw

attention to a lot of conditions that are happening there, so that cs gas at least mentioned, but also the fa ct gas at least mentioned, but also the fact that there are a lot of concerns about the fact that the protesters had been using that telegram. yeah let's look at that, on the ft. said they're using that telegram to co—ordinate protest and now they're saying china may have been behind a cyber attack on that to try and suppress them. it doesn't seem as the protest will be stopped anytime soon despite multiple attem pts anytime soon despite multiple atte m pts to anytime soon despite multiple attempts to kind quell them, but the protesters seemed very set on continuing press test and also trying to make sure that the eyes of the world are upon them. this is a founder of it that ip addresses —— addresses of the sliding his service to disrupt it came mostly from china. unsurprisingly perhaps china is involved having her it's denying

having involvement but it does seem suspicious and he did say it's not the top and it's not an exception, but interestingly the hong kong authorities themselves are trying to limit digital communications and a bit to quell the protest, and i guess the big question is how technology how technology how allows people to co—ordinate getting out on the streets, we'll see more and more of this particularly autocratic regimes seem to crack down on people using to organise. finally, daily telegraph, defra revokes farmers ban on shooting birds, this is regarded asa on shooting birds, this is regarded as a test by farmers. crows, pigeons, magpie, it was a bbc presenter who campaigned to stop them from getting shot which led to them from getting shot which led to the revocation of licenses, but i think the problem is if you stop controlling these past birds, what you see is that destroying spring crops and slightly picking out the

eyes of lance, so looks like it's a reversal to the decision. difficult balance to strike because at a time where we are constantly being told by populations in the country are really suffering compared with what we enjoyed 50 years ago, some birds are welcome and some not so much. obviously there is ideally, we let nature to look out for itself, but u nfortu nately nature to look out for itself, but unfortunately while we are still trying to continue with farming and all sorts of things, some farmers do actually want to be able to continue to do some pest control, and went to the big problems mentioned in the telegraph piece is that they had their lives, i disabled the lands are born they had their eyes pecked out, which is a horrible image. what neck that's it for the papers. we will be back at half past eleven for another look at the papers. headlines are coming up at eleven.

hello and good evening from many parts of the uk it's been yet another wet day, the rain has been relentless for some of us, some parts had seen 150 mm of rain, since that weekend it'll normally take a couple of months to get that my train, this is a radar picture from early on today, we had particularly heavy rain in the far northeast of england and used parts of scotland, cool underneath this rain band, spots that no higher than nine celsius, during this evening and tonight we see another area of rain pushing across southwest england into wales and midlands in northwest england, showery rain living across northern scotland, for the northern half of the data relatively cool night and for the southern half, relatively mild night. but blood pressure still in charge of the scene through tomato, bands of wet weather spiralling around it, we start the day with showers across

western side of scotland, where it's been dry in many places in the last two days conversely, just as colin having a dry start today with some spousal sunshine, northern ireland getting away with 90 spouse and a few showers, but this rain in parts of the west midlands and sake rush hourfor of the west midlands and sake rush hour for some, of the west midlands and sake rush hourfor some, east of the west midlands and sake rush hourforsome, east anglia of the west midlands and sake rush hour for some, east anglia to the southeast here. mr sunshine and showers to start off the day, as you start the day, this lump of the rain moves further north, across northern england and clipping into eastern side of scotland away from the design of persistent rain, it's a mix of sunshine and showers that across east anglia in the southeast, showers and few and far between, but the dry weather here and just about across the board, tomorrow will be a warmer day. going into saturday we see a band of showery rain pushing from the west, also spouse of sunshine but with the wind coming from the southwest, we keep this slyly —— slightly higher temperatures generally about 90 degrees in a few places in the south

up degrees in a few places in the south up to 20 degrees. find a graphic sunshine and showers, blue skies one minute, in bed next a shower card comes around and drench you, some of those heavy with rumbles of thunder, temperatures 14—19 maybe 20 degrees, and the best of the sunshine. into the start of the newly, like a dry by the a time, some of us could get into the middle of us could get

this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 11:00: borisjohnson is the clear front runner in the battle to become the next prime minister winning the support of more than a third of tory mps in the first round of voting. seven candidates are still in the running but there's talk of some of them pulling out, perhaps as early as tomorrow. the usa blames iran for two suspected attacks on oil tankers in the gulf of oman, one of the world's busiest oil shipping lanes. the former labour and change uk mp chuka umunna joins the liberal democrats president trump reveals that his press secretary sarah sanders is to leave herjob at the end of the month. she has been a fierce defender of the president. the bbc says it regrets any offence caused by a joke made