good afternoon. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has sought to play down divisions in his top team after one of his key aides announced he's resigning. it comes after a turbulent start to the labour party conference, where there's been a failed attempt to oust mr corbyn‘s deputy, tom watson, and further splits over brexit. here's our political correspondent, nick eardley. not everything here is going according to plan. jeremy corbyn wa nts to according to plan. jeremy corbyn wants to persuade you he is ready for power, but one of his key aides has raised concerns. andrew fisher, still by mr corbyn‘s site this morning, is quitting, privately accusing the leader's team of a blizzard of lies and saying he no longer has faith in them.” blizzard of lies and saying he no longer has faith in them. i have

obviously seen the words that andrew wrote, and i discussed them with him at some length. why do you think he said that? i think he said that because he was extremely distressed at that point about whatever was going on in discussions in the office at that moment. mr corbyn would much rather focus office at that moment. mr corbyn would much ratherfocus on his policies but the start of the conference has been dominated by controversy conference has been dominated by c0 ntrove fs)’ was conference has been dominated by controversy was yesterday, there was a foiled plot mr corbyn‘s left—wing allies to get rid of his deputy, tom watson. it wasn't a move against him specifically but concerns about the role of deputy leader, and i was not aware that the particular motion was going to be moved at that time. i don't think we should make rule changes on a whim. at the heart of some tensions is brexit, with tom watson again calling this afternoon for the party to say it backs staying in the eu, to be unequivocally pro—remain. many members agree and they are

frustrated that the leadership hasn't picked a side. they are walking a tightrope, trying to appeal to both remain and leave voters, but mr corbyn just will not commit. we will put both views and say, this is the best deal we can get, this is the remain and hopefully reform option, these are the choices before you. if you negotiate what you regard as a good deal with brussels, do you campaign for it or not? lets see what we get and will put that final decision to the people. is he a prime minister in waiting? it is a question voters might be asked soon. if it wins power, jeremy corbyn says he will serve a full term, but what that means with brexit is still unclear. despite all the tensions, labour is now keen to get its message out about new policies. it wants to abolish nhs prescription charges in england, bringing it in line with the rest of the uk. labour also wants to scrap england's education watchdog, ofsted.

it would be down to local authorities to provide regular checks, and full—time inspectors would only be called in only when there were concerns. our assistant political editor, norman smith, joins us now from brighton. these other policy areas labour want us these other policy areas labour want us to be talking about, but it being somewhat overshadowed by the turmoil at the top of the party? that is the risk, and you do sense that mr corbyn has had to spend an awful lot of time at this conference already turning on the fire hydrant full blast, the hose down some of these bitter disputes at the top of the party. saying of the move to hobble tom watson, i knew nothing about that, i get on well with him. on andrew fisher, the top eight who wa nts to andrew fisher, the top eight who wants to quit, saying, he was under a lot of pressure and wants to spend more time with his family. but such spats are nothing compared to the

storm blowing in here over brexit, as mr corbyn tomorrow seeks to sell his new halfway house on brexit to this sceptical conference. mr corbyn‘s position is back, it seems, by the national executive, which is to say they will not take up a formal position until after a general election, and then there would be a special conference to back remain or brexit with a labour deal. that has incensed many party members, who want labour to unequivocally back remain, and i think, even if mr corbyn had a fleet of fire engines, he couldn't hose this one down! norman smith, assistant political editor. plans are in place to fly holiday—makers back to the uk if tour operator thomas cook collapses, according to the foreign secretary. dominic raab said the government would make sure no—one would be stranded, but he dampened hopes of a government rescue bid for the firm. the travel company is currently in emergency talks and insists a deal to save it is still possible.

our transport correspondent, tom burridge, reports. the beginning of a holiday in majorca, on the day when britain's old est majorca, on the day when britain's oldest travel agent is fighting to stay afloat. a deal to save thomas cook is, we are told, still possible, but it has to come in a matter of hours. i couldn't care less. if i get stuck, i get stuck. we are concerned as to what will happen, whether we can fly home or not. last night, confusion holiday— makers at this hotel not. last night, confusion holiday—makers at this hotel in tunisia, as they were effectively held hostage. the hotel was, we are told, worried that money owed to it by thomas cook might not be paid. and then there are people like andrew and sharon, uncertain if theirdream las andrew and sharon, uncertain if their dream las vegas wedding, but with thomas cook, will happen. your heart sinks, you've planned

everything to the minute detail, and suddenly everything could come apart at the last moment. it's just a feeling where we are not sure. the company's feeling where we are not sure. the compa ny‘s fate will feeling where we are not sure. the company's fate will be sited at a meeting here, where investors need to stump up an additional £200 million by tonight so thomas cook can keep operating in the coming months. in the uk, 9000 jobs are at sta ke. months. in the uk, 9000 jobs are at stake. 150,000 brits are currently on thomas cook holidays abroad. the government says, if the company colla pses, government says, if the company collapses, people will be brought home. people on or booked on a thomas cook package holiday are protected under the atol scheme if you've booked just a flight, it will be trapped travel insurance or a claim to your credit company, but the company is, for now at least, still operating normally. a boy aged 15 has been stabbed to death at a skatepark in berkshire. the teenager was pronounced dead at the scene at salt hill park in slough. police believe last night's attack happened after an argument,

and they are appealing for witnesses. at the rugby world cup injapan, ireland have beaten scotland 27—3 in their opening match. the irish scored four tries, putting them at the top of their group. from yokohama, katie gornall reports. a sleepy sunday morning in yokohama — peaceful, tranquil and with no hint of what's to come. come on, scotland! in swept a celtic fusion of noise and colour. ireland and scotland had arrived — one not to miss. i'm supposed to be at work. according to the rankings, this ireland side are the world's best, but their form had been shaky and scotland had reason to hope. any doubts about ireland's strengths were put to rest within minutes as james ryan burrowed his way to the line with their first attack. before scotland could regroup, ireland hit them again. somewhere in the mass of bodies, ireland's captain rory best grabbed the ball. the slightest gap was being

exploited with ruthless efficiency. scotland had a mount fuji—sized challenge in front of them. worse was to come when their best forward hamish watson left injured, and there was more than brute force on display from ireland as andrew conway skipped through to put them out of reach after an hour. ireland, it turned out, had nothing to worry about. a sobering night for scotland. despite their ranking, ireland's form coming into this world cup had been a bit like the japanese weather, unpredictable, but they absolutely dominated a very disappointing scotland side here tonight. scotland now have eight days to regroup until they play their next game against samoa in kobe, and on this evidence they will have plenty of work to do. well, andy swiss is at england's opening game against tonga in sapporo. andy. yes, just a few minutes left here in sapporo, and the latest score is

england 35, tonga 3. england are one of the favourites for this world cup, and they were expected to have far too much for tonga, but it certainly wasn't easy for them at first. two tries from manu tuilagi put them in control at half—time, when they led 18—3. after the break, england have extended their lead, thanks to two more tries from jamie george and luke cowan—dickie, but there have been a lot of errors. england will get the win wanted but not, perhaps, the performance. plenty for them to work on before their next match against the usa on thursday. the next news on bbc one is at 6:35pm. bye for now.

hello. you're watching the bbc news channel. it's 13:00pm. let's get more now on the labour party conference where jeremy corbyn has said he will serve a full term as prime minister if his party wins the next general election. he also defended the party's brexit policy amid calls for him to come out unambiguously to remain in the eu rather than sit on the fence. our assistant political editor norman smith has been gauging the mood over brexit in brighton. well, that clash is likely to come toa well, that clash is likely to come to a head tomorrow on the conference we will have the brexit vote and crucial will be the attitude of some of the big unions. well, joining me is the leader of the pcs union. do you back mr corbyn's stance? the tuc met a week or so ago and we had

a united position which as we are all against a tory, no—deal brexit. we are in favour of an urgent general election and after an election we would want a labour government to have a second referendum and that referendum should have a credible remain option and it should have a credible leave option, unlike the tories who, under theresa may, have not negotiated anything credible. that was the united view of the trade unions and thatis united view of the trade unions and that is what i will be agreed at the party conference this week. you will know their difficulty with that as clarity and the problem is, on the doorstep, when people say to you and other labour members, are you and other labour members, are you for or against brexit, you can't provide a clear answer at the election. we have to be clear, the election is not just about brexit and i we have to be clear, the election is notjust about brexit and i have just addressed this conference and made it clear it is also about austerity, schools, hospitals. i work in the civil service where there is a crisis going on. we can't administer a decent senses security system of the tragedy of on brexit is it plays and perpetuates a divide. it about net nation, divided

trade union movement which is shown not just by 52—48 trade union movement which is shown notjust by 52—48 in the referendum but by all the opinion polls and if a political party that labour says we are only for one side of that divide the danger is they abandon communities like the south wales valleys to nigel fry's who offers them no hope out of the austerity and public services and that is the message. it puts you at a huge disadvantage at any general election where we have boris johnson at any general election where we have borisjohnson with a pretty clear position, the liberal democrats with a particular position, the brexit party with a particular position and alan johnson, the former labour home secretary saying the other day, look, we're going to started if that is our position in the general election. think about that for one second. what is that with the same. you pick a side and it is a winner takes all. if our approach to politics is to gamble anything on a 59—41 vote to abandon all those people who need proper schools, proper hospitals, abandon all those people who need properschools, proper hospitals, it would be a betrayal of the

communities. many voted the as well as many voted to stay. —— many voted to leave. —— many voted to leave. travel company, thomas cook, is meeting shareholders and creditors, in a final bid to piece together a rescue deal. the firm could fall into administration within days unless it finds an extra 200 million pounds. in a statement, the company says ‘all our package holidays continue to be fully atol—protected and our flight operations continue to operate as normal.‘ earlier i spoke to gary seale, who was in a group of thomas cook customers staying at les orangers beach resort & bungalows in hammamet, tunisia. the hotel refused to let some customers leave until they had been paid by thomas cook or the guests. he told us more about his experience. basically, a roundabout three or four o'clock yesterday afternoon the management started to put requests for payment under certain peoples

doors. we went to have a shower, get our room and they were not let us have a room unless we were willing to pay our bill. obviously we refused and said we had already paid it. and then, a collection of people started to mill around reception desk and we found out an old lady who had been in hospital, she fell on herfirst day who had been in hospital, she fell on her first day and came who had been in hospital, she fell on herfirst day and came back who had been in hospital, she fell on her first day and came back and shejust paid to on her first day and came back and she just paid to and have thousand pounds under some duress to the reception so that she could continue her stay and leave that night. as the night progressed the security guards locked the gate at the bottom of the entrance drive. and prevented us of the entrance drive. and prevented us from leaving, basically. and that happened? you are actually, more or less, being held hostage? we welcome absolutely. i contacted the foreign & commonwealth office and

they told us... i said, we are being prevented from leaving against our will and they told us it was an issue with thomas cook and to try and get hold of thomas cook which obviously was pointless. the local rep, to be fair to obviously was pointless. the local rep, to be fairto him, he obviously was pointless. the local rep, to be fair to him, he doesn't know if you will get paid on monday, he was trying to try and arrange payment so that the management would allow us to leave. apparently it was the owner, who was in italy, hejust made a commitment that no one was to leave a mess he this payment from thomas cook. a second coach then turned up and was turned away. by then of course it was getting a bit fraught. tempers were fraying. i've seen some reports fraught. tempers were fraying. i've seen some reports that the guards we re seen some reports that the guards were armed. they were not. a lot of them were the guys who were on the beach patrol, they were doing what they were told to do and prevent us from leaving. as i say, there was a lot of talking but there was no actual, any physical restraint. it

started to rain. everyone went back inside and for the next two hours we all stayed in there. then they wouldn't let our luggage be released and then one of the lads managed to get inside the luggage store and open the door and then obviously eve ryo ne open the door and then obviously everyone released their own luggage then and they weren't going to stop us then and they weren't going to stop us doing that. and towards the end of the night, roundabout 10pm news came that payment had been made and that a bus would turn up very quickly to take us to the airport. it's turned up roundabout 10pm and i think about 19 of us including the old lady got on the coach and we we re old lady got on the coach and we were taken to the airport where the plane, the incoming plane had been delayed and that worried a lot of people anyway, because we thought that the incoming plane was not coming in. and afteran that the incoming plane was not coming in. and after an hour we boarded normally. thomas cook never mentioned it, not even an apology, nothing. not a squeak. we got off at manchester and i think everyone was really, really relieved to be back

on uk soil without having to pay anything apart from the old lady. and we believe she is trying to get that payment returned by the bank or credit card but she was in a lot of pain, she was very distressed, she was over 80. it was quite an experience. we tried to get out and there was glass in the world that we try to take the gloss off the walls but this morning we understand, from the same hotel, because we have got friends there, they tried to prevent a flight bound for glasgow and that did turn into a bit of a fisticuffs and there were some physical restraint. the local police were called. they told the holiday—makers that they needed to come down and get back inside and we don't know the current status of whether that glasgow flight has gone home. that was gary, who it was in a group of thomas cook customers there in

tunisia. hundreds of riot police have clashed with protestors at a shopping centre and railway station complex in hong kong, after hard line activists smashed ticketing machines and glass billboards. it's the 16th weekend of protests by pro—democracy campaigners. our correspondent stephen mcdonnell is in hong kong and watched the demonstrations as police fired tear gas at the protesters. right now it is a peaceful sunday evening. people arejogging right now it is a peaceful sunday evening. people are jogging along next to the river behind me or going for walks, something like that. hard to believe that about an hour ago there a violent conflict in the streets here. this all started when people gathered in a shopping centre here. it was peaceful, there was singing and chanting. and then at one point the more hard—line wing of the pro—democracy movement moved on the pro—democracy movement moved on the mtr station and started smashing

it up. the ticketing machine smashed and spraying graffiti on the walls and spraying graffiti on the walls and then even in the general shopping centre there were neon signs and ads, you know, glass adds being smashed up, lots of glass strewn along the floor. people had built a barricade at one point inside the shopping centre and space stuff all over the ground to make the police slip over an order to slow the approach of the riot police. well, the right police did though come and then eventually it all spilled out into the streets. you know, the shopping centres of hong kong have become one of the battle grounds here and especially the mtr stations because these hardline the mtr stations because these ha rdli ne protesters the mtr stations because these ha rdline protesters blame the mtr stations because these hardline protesters blame the train operatorfor hardline protesters blame the train operator for colluding with the police and with the government. they say that following pressure from mainland chinese media controlled by

the communist party that whenever they have a protest that line will be shut down or stations will be closed and so for that reason they think it is fair game to go and smash out the mtr stations. even many people who support the more general goals of the protest movement don't all necessarily support that and so they are kinda playing with fire in terms of public support. nevertheless, though, with all this destruction here of course the riot police moved in and clear people out. we had running street battles with rubber bullets being fired, with the so—called beanbag rounds. they had a shot gun pellets wrapped in bags. they were being tear gas, bricks being thrown in the other direction at the police and then eventually, when they moved in fast enough, the voucher units, as they are called, moved in to try and grab as many protesters as they could and at that stage the

activists fled from the scene and now it is kind of, as i say, returns a here. except that you can see still much of the debris of a political crisis now in its fourth month strewn all over the area. a cheshire woman who has two sons with a rare form of epilepsy is calling on the government to intervene after doctors at manchester children's hospital refused to prescribe them with full plant medicinal cannabis. angela norton says she is being forced to import the drugs from the netherlands because she's being refused by trust. jacey normand reports. daily life for the norton family is full of challenges. and getting sons reims and cayman ready for school is just one of them for single mum angela. cayman hasn't slept for two days. last night was eventful — shouting, screaming, banging.

reims, he slept, but he had two seizures this morning — quite significant seizures, so that's why he's a little bit worse for wear at the minute. yeah. good boy. 12—year—old cayman and his older brother reims, who is 19, have a rare form of epilepsy which causes multiple seizures every day. reims, look. both boys have been treated with conventional drugs from an early age, but angela says these have not stopped their seizures. we go to bed at night not knowing, are they going to be there in the morning? that is the reality of it. yeah. every seizure is dangerous, every seizure causes damage. there is just no quality of life for the boys at all. last year, angela's and thousands of other parents‘ hopes were raised when the government amended the misuse of drugs act to allow the use of medicinal cannabis for specific health conditions, including intractable epilepsy.

it's breaking my heart seeing him like this. manchester child ren's hospital has been treating youngest son came in with a medicinal cannabis drug called epidiolex, but this has not stopped the seizures and angela believes it is not strong enough. she would like him to be prescribed with full plant medicinal cannabis, something the trust has so far refused. with a change in the law, many assumed that these medicines would become readily available on the nhs. in fact, since last year, there have beenjust 12 nhs prescriptions for unlicensed medicinal cannabis drugs in england. so how much of your work revolves around cannabis? well, i do a lot of research. so, why the reluctance by doctors to prescribe medicinal cannabis? so, before a drug can be prescribed on the nhs, before doctors and consultants will feel confident about prescribing drugs for quite a serious conditions, they need to be assured around the evidence for this. in order to do this, you need to undertake randomised controlled trials or other types of clinical research.

angela has now been forced to seek a private prescription to import the drugs from the netherlands. what needs to happen? i know, obviously, they do need to do the trials, but these children are really, really sick. they have no other options and, you know, they cannot spend their lives in hospital not knowing what to do. they cannot wait for the trials, they will not be here. every seizure could be fatal. we have not got the time. jacey normand, bbc news. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's

ireland were always the favourites going into their opening world cup game against scotland — but in the end, joe schmidt's side dismantled the scots — running in four tries to beat them 27—3 in yokohama.. our correspondent katie gornall is there. (tx sor) (wipe gfx)in the last few minutes, england have got off to the best the form coming into the tournament has been much like the japanese weather. unpredictable. they were under some pressure to perform here against scotland but they absolutely dominated scotland from start to finish, scoring theirfirst dominated scotland from start to finish, scoring their first try after five minutes. finish, scoring their first try afterfive minutes. three in total in the first—half including one from their captain who retires for ireland at the end of this tournament and there more to come in the second half as well with andrew conway showing some quick feet to show that try and claim that bonus point. a dream start violent and a nightmare for scotland who lost their best firewood to injury in the first—half. half. they now have eight days to regroup before they play samoa and on this evidence, there is an awful lot of work to do. in the last few minutes, england have got off to the best

possible start with a comfortable victory over tonga. two tries from manu tuilagi in the first half was followed up by another from jamie george after the break while luke cowan dickie got the bonus point for eddiejones side to make it 35—3. earlier this morning, italy ran in 7 tries as they comfrotably beat namibia 47—22. some other news from japan, and australia's winger reece hodge has been cited for a tackle during yesterday's victory over fiji. hodge's tackle on peceli yato saw the fijian fail a head injury assessment meaning he didn't return to the field of play after the tackle. hodge will appear before an independent panel in tokyo at a date to be confirmed. world rugby said befopre the tournament they would be clamping down on high tackles. liverpool will be looking to extend their lead over manchester city as jurgen klopp's side travel to stamford bridge to face chelsea in the premier league this afternoon. jurgen klopp's men will be looking to bounce back after their midweek defeat to napoli in the champions league. chelsea have won just one of their last nine meetings but klopp thinks frank lampard's

youthful side could pose problems. really exciting football team. young. but good, really good. and for me it is not a surprise. i said it before, and people think i say that because i'm polite. if i was polite, i don't speak about another manager. but it is not polite, it is the truth. he did the same job at derby, so i'm not surprised that frank is doing a really good job at chelsea as well. that clash is one of four premier league ties today — all of them taking place in london. manchester united travel to west ham in a 2pm kick off, a win for the hammers would extend their unbeaten run to five matches. both rangers and celtic are in action in the scottish premiership this afternoon. rangers taking on st johnstone at the moment. before kick—off at mcdiarmid park,

a minute's silence was held in honour of fernando ricksen, the former rangers player who died earlier this week from motor neurone disease. currently 1—0 to rangers, alfredo morelos with the goal early in the second half. celtic kicked off at 1pm againast kilmarnock, it's currently 0—0. that's all the sport for now. 26 degrees just recorded in the north norfolk coast but i think many of you will have seen something of a change in that chart is a change in its own right from the big area of high pressure and the fine, settled warm weather of the past few days we re warm weather of the past few days were many more of you have seen a thunderstorm from this gaggle of rain and showers and then we have got a more persistent band of weather gradually working its way from the greater london area towards merseyside. that moves further north

for a time merseyside. that moves further north fora time and merseyside. that moves further north for a time and then to finish off proceedings we have already got few showers in the far west. they will gradually ease their way further north and east tonight. a lot of —— not a cold night. the rain coming to rest across the northern parts of scotla nd rest across the northern parts of scotland and that is where it starts the day on monday. a day which is decent enough but there is no disguising the fact that many western areas, particularly the south—west, wales, the midlands and northern ireland will see somebody quite heavy rain at times so generally speaking, from monday, the further north and east you are the drier, fine and probably warmer your day will be.