this is bbc news, i'm ben brown. the headlines at 9am. further promises to deliver brexit are expected this morning, as the conservative party conference gets under way in manchester. borisjohnson is planning billions of pounds of spending for hospitals, what he describes as ‘the biggest hospital building programme in a generation'. parents are urged to have conversations with their children about organ donation, in the hope that more young people willjoin the donor register. hong kong police fire tear gas and pepper spray at anti—government protesters, who have taken to the streets in the lead up to the 70th anniversary of communist rule in china. it's crunch time for wales, as they take on australia, in the rugby world cup. and our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9.35am. this morning's reviewers are rosamund urwin

from the sunday times and the evening standard's robert fox. good morning. the conservative party conference opens today in manchester, with promises from the prime minister to invest in a0 hospital projects, across england, in the next decade. borisjohnson says £13 billion would be invested, either in entirely new buildings, or refurbishment of existing ones. mrjohnson is also promising to ‘get brexit done', but the party conference comes amid growing speculation that opposition parties could table a vote of a no confidence against the government, within days, as they try to stop a no—deal brexit. our political correspondent, chris mason, reports. you are not fit!

boris johnson arrived here last night, with his girlfriend, carrie symonds, after a somewhat bumpy week. are you losing control, prime minister? so what is the plan? well, the first rule of party conferences — take a look at the banners, to work out what the party hopes to be talking about. the conservative plan, for the next few days, is to try to talk directly to the electorate. yes, about brexit, but also about other policy areas, like schools and hospitals. and to portray parliament — still meeting 200 miles south, at westminster — as a pointless talking shop. but borisjohnson knows that, yes, he is in office, but he's not in control of events. nonetheless, there will be an attempt to talk big about the future. mrjohnson telling the sunday telegraph, this morning, that he plans the biggest hospital building programme in a generation. the government wants to get a brexit deal, but is running out of time. we can expect the prime minister to talk to european leaders this week,

to try to shuffle things along. and everyone here will be keeping at least one eye on parliament, where the opposition parties may, just may, be tempted to try to make life awkward for the tories, by hauling their mps back for votes. our assistant political editor, norman smith, is in manchester. the slogan is get brexit done that lots of talk of no confidence votes, ca reta ker lots of talk of no confidence votes, caretaker prime minister is, what is the mood there in manchester this morning? it is going to be one huge love in, here because this is the sort of home territory for boris johnson. he has always been the conference darling. i remember last year he totally overshadowed theresa may and when david cameron was prime minister i think david cameron used to dread boris johnson's

minister i think david cameron used to dread borisjohnson‘s arrival because the conference at the party members love boris johnson. because the conference at the party members love borisjohnson. these are his people so it will be a warm bath of political approval for boris johnson. which is in contrast everything else going on in the world because he has been beaten up by the supreme court, he has suffered numerous reverses in parliament, seven defeats out of seven. we had the former chancellor writing in the paper yesterday that the only people who will benefit from johnson's brexit or big business speculators. and then of course we have thejennifer arcuri saga rambling on so all is not going well. but here, he will get going reception. also for his message that brexit must be delivered by october the 31st. that is exactly what party members want. and usually at these conferences, you can expect noises of, a little bit of rebellion here there and everywhere. i doubt you

will have that the issue because most of the rebels having booted out of the party so they would be turning up the. so descent, i doubt we will see much dissent at all and it is interesting that even those senior tories who previously where particular bow to boris johnson's strategy and had spoken out about no deal have come down to support the idea that we will have to leave without an agreement if you can't get the eu to agree a new package in the middle of october. one of them, of course, matt hancock, health secretary, campaigning for the leadership, said no deal is not an option. now, different tune from him. we've got to get brexit done. i think absolutely no deal may well happen. so you've changed your mind? yes i have and i said that a few weeks ago. i absolutely think we have got to get brexit done. the calculation from boris johnson's tea m the calculation from boris johnson's team is not just the calculation from boris johnson's team is notjust the people are fed up team is notjust the people are fed up with brexit going on and on, they wa nt

up with brexit going on and on, they want it over and done, but of course he knows that if he doesn't get it done by 31st of october, waiting in the wings is the brexit party who will probably devour tory votes messagejohnson will probably devour tory votes message johnson cannot deliver on his october 31 do or die deadline. this morning, a warning from the man at the front of the party, nigel farage saying that he is thinking of standing as a candidate in the next general election. i don't feel the pull of westminster particularly but of course i will stand and i will lead the charge on behalf of the brexit party. we are ina behalf of the brexit party. we are in a position here where, if we get to the 1st of november, and we have not left the european union, you will see support for the brexit party rise considerably. i do think in the circumstances, we have got a very important role to play. so, when will they be a general election? soon, novemberi when will they be a general election? soon, november i would think. we have the speaker saying the other day that the earliest it

could now be a general election was november fifth comments opposing the opposition parties slapped down a motion of no confidence on monday. don't think that will happen. more likely it will stretch into middle 01’ likely it will stretch into middle or late november. a winter election. with that in mind, promises from the conservatives today about health spending, billions for40 conservatives today about health spending, billions for a0 new hospital projects in england. are we clear whether that was new money? because i have been quite a few announcements from boris johnson because i have been quite a few announcements from borisjohnson and theresa may about lots of spending promises on the nhs. you really have to pick through the big glowing announcements and look at the detail because when we look at the detail, actually, what is being announced todayis actually, what is being announced today is £2.7 billion for six, six not a0, six new hospital projects

over the next five years. these will be upgrades to buildings, new facilities, new clinics, that sort of thing. and then there is a wish list that, if the tories were to winning selection, and the one after that, then they would look at building an additional 30 for hospitals. and they are setting aside today £109, which hospitals can bid for, to pay for architects, surveyors and engineers as to how plans could be improved. —— £100 billion. i wouldn't get carried away with this a0 figure. what is on the table now in terms of hard cash and what is happening, is six hospitals, 2.7 billion within a 100 billion survey fees for other hospitals to be built if the tories when the next election and can find out how they are going to fund it. one interesting thing, the projects will

not be funded by the pfi, which has been the favoured model for building hospitals, using private sector to build a lot of the funding, particularly during the tony blair yea rs. particularly during the tony blair years. one last thing to strip through all the spin today, this is not the biggest hospital building programme ina not the biggest hospital building programme in a generation, nowhere near it actually. tony blair built many, near it actually. tony blair built any near it actually. tony blair built many, many more than that. so we have to dial down the big announcements. what we are getting is six new projects, £2.7 billion. thank you very much indeed norman for that clarification. the veteran labour mp, dame margaret hodge, is facing a re—selection battle, after a sufficient number of activists in her constituency voted for the chance to pick a new candidate. dame margaret — who'sjewish, and has been critical of jeremy corbyn's handling of anti—semitism in the party — said she was "disappointed", but would fight to keep her seat, in east london. labour said the decision had nothing to do with anti—semitism. parents should include

children in conversations about organ donation, according to the organisation that oversees transplants in the uk. nhs blood and transplant says young patients waiting on average more than two and a half times longer than adults for similar transplants. our reporter, geraint thomas, has been following the story of lilly who had a double transplant, at the age of 11. my name is lilly kendall. i am 11 years old, and i am waiting for a heart and lung double transplant. at one stage, it looked likely lilly wouldn't even reach the age of 11. she spent herfirst three months in hospital with heart complications. medics advised her family to switch off her life—support machine. they managed to control her condition for nine years, but then, she needed a lung and heart transplant. fewer than five children, across the uk, were on the double transplant waiting list at the time. hearts and lungs, in particular, need to be matched by size, so lilly was relying

on a child organ donor. we've had a lot of difficult conversations, talking about her funerals, what she would like. this is my daughter's life. this will change her life, and give me my daughter back. a week after we filmed with lilly, she got the call. she was taken to great ormond street hospital, where the double translate operation took over seven hours to complete. these were lilly's first breaths, with her new lungs. i feel very amazing, very happy. i didn't think i would survive without these new heart and lungs. getting more donors to help patients, like lilly, is the challenge. children can sign the organ donor register, and if they are competent to make that decision, then that should be given the same weight as if an adult had signed it. but obviously the final decision, as with adults, is with families, and,

therefore, we need families to talk together about what those wishes are. police in hong kong have, again, used tear gas and pepper spray, to disperse pro—democracy protesters, in a busy shopping district. the clashes took place after officers made a series of arrests of protesters, who had gathered to mark the fifth anniversary of a pro—democracy campaign, known as the umbrella movement. stephen mcdonnell is in hong kong. this is an act of mass civil disobedience here in hong kong today. we have many thousands of people in the streets, despite being told by the police that they should clear out because this is technically an illegal assembly. we have had tear gas fired, we have had rubber bullets fired, this is right along the tram track route on hong kong island, stretched out over many

kilometres. as a site, you can see how many people have turned out here and every now and then, you will hear these cheaters speaking, because this is a kind of corridor next to me where people are running stuff u p next to me where people are running stuff up to the front line. so they will send signals down, like they need some tires or water or something like that, and then you will get a group running through the middle of the more hardcore protesters with their gas masks and eve ryo ne protesters with their gas masks and everyone is cheering them on as they head to the front line. so the potential for more of this kind of street conflict today is considerable. of course, this is all leading up to the 70th anniversary of the founding of modern china. of the communist party taking the reins in mainland china. beijing wanted to bea in mainland china. beijing wanted to be a big celebration of everything thatis be a big celebration of everything that is great about this country. however, the protesters feel that they want to crash the party as it

were, and uses anniversary to push their claims for democratic reforms here in hong kong. and so, as i say, despite the threats they could be arrested, despite tear gas and rubber bullets, you have many thousands of people out on the street of hong kong today. and i think this will go on for hours to come. we will have to see what develops. because there is quite a determination here, despite the authorities telling people to clear out of the streets, to remain here, to keep gathering, to keep shouting, as you can hear them, like this. because for them, it is something of a last fight how they feel and the 70th anniversary on tuesday is a very big moment in china and the hong kong activists are determined to use it to their own ends. thank you very much, stephen

mcdonnell in hong kong covering the protests. the american retailer, cvs pharmacy, has suspended the sale of a heartburn drug, over concerns that it could be linked to cancer. the store says it will stop sales of zantac, until further notice. zantac is a brand name for the generic medication, ranitidine. the pills are used by millions of people, to reduce acid in the stomach. two people have died, and five others injured, at a theme park in mexico city. all the victims were passengers on a rollercoaster, when one of the carriages fell off the track, at the la feria amusement park. two of those injured are thought to have serious head injuries. voters in austria will head to the polls today, with the former chancellor, sebastian kurz, looking to return to power, just four months since he was ousted from office. a no confidence vote brought down his government, after a video surfaced, showing his coalition partner offering government contracts, in exchange for campaign support.

our correspondent in vienna, bethany bell, explained how the country came to hold early elections. well, this is an early election, because, as you said, the last coalition government fell apart, in may. as a result of a video sting scandal, that involved the head of the junior coalition partner, heinz—christian strache, of the far right freedom party. he was caught on video, in a villa in ibiza, promising government contracts to a woman who was pretending to be the niece of a russian oligarch. he had to resign amidst that scandal, and then the whole coalition fell apart, and his coalition partner, chancellor sebastian kurz, of the conservatives, lost a vote of no confidence in parliament. and so, new elections were scheduled. and, in the meantime, austria has been ruled by a caretaker government of technocrats. and has got, in fact, at the moment, its first female chancellor, brigitte bierlein, who was the former president of austria's highest court.

the headlines on bbc news. further promises to deliver brexit are expected this morning as the conservative party conference gets under way in manchester. boris johnson plans billions of pounds of spending for hospitals, what he describes as ‘the biggest hospital building programme in a generation'. parents are urged to have conversations with their children about organ donation, in the hope that more young people willjoin the donor register. the government, campaign groups and the police have been warning about the rise of far—right extremism across the uk. tomorrow night, the bbc‘s countryfile programme reports on how a new belief called "eco—fascism" is taking extremism into the countryside. here's charlotte smith.

new fascism is on the rise in cities and countries. there is a strand of nazism which goes back to heinrich himmler... this professor says extremists are now interested in environmental issues. what modern fascists are happily doing is making a link between what they consider to be the pollution of the race through such things as mass migration and cosmopolitan and pollution of the countryside, what this leads to is this term, ego fascism. new breed of fascists are using

social media to reach a younger audience. this group portrays itself asa audience. this group portrays itself as a patriotic alternative to extinction rebellion. but we did a little more digging and found it was set up by a man come here with a group called generation identity, group called generation identity, group the government says promotes damaging and extreme views. he ran their rural division in the south—west. so, is british revival simplya south—west. so, is british revival simply a front for the same extreme views on immigration that generation identity has? british people are coming a minority in their own country. are the markedly different? we are in the same general ballpark but that could be said about a lot of groups. the governments advisers, the government for counteraction is says british extremism is a fake frightening example of extremism.

when countryfile approached facebook with its finding, they close british revival and the litre's pages. and you can see charlotte's full report on countryfile on bbc1 tonight at 6.15pm. prince harry is in malawi today, continuing his tour across southern african countries. he will visit a network of young women, who attend secondary school thanks to aid from the uk. the duchess of sussex and four month old baby archie will stay behind in south africa. our correspondent pumza fihlani is in cape town now. tell us a bit more about what both of them will be doing today? prince harry starts off today with that is it with a0 students who are now considered part of an elite group in malawi, who have been able to graduate secondary school through this funding that has come partly through the uk government but also

local authorities. this is one of the key issues for the people of malawi, to get young girls educated. we know there's a problem with child marriage in malawi and we are trying to find initiatives and projects that will help keep young girls from getting married off at a young age. the stats as they stand suggest that only for out of ten children make it through secondary school. —— four out of ten. that is something both the duchess and harry are passionate about. it is initiative they both support. and she, on skype, will be joining the conversation to find out how they can help to try highlight the importance of education in a country such as malawi, much of the same ways of using that legacy that princess diana left for them, of using advocacy, to remain the world of some of the problem is that these countries are still facing. you have been following this tour for the last few days. how do you think, what you think of the response the

royalfamily, prince what you think of the response the royal family, prince harry what you think of the response the royalfamily, prince harry and meghan markle and the daily have had from people there, especially in south africa? they have been really well received everywhere they went. on the first three days where they arrived here in south africa, people we re arrived here in south africa, people were lining up the streets at every event they were going to attend. people just wanted to catch a glimpse of them, try to chat to them, but also very interested in why they chose south africa and these charities that they are supporting. we know the duchess of course has specifically spoken about education and women empowerment projects. she also recently visited a site where i19—year—olds, university student was killed inside a post office. this is touch the hearts of women in south africa who feel they are unsafe but also how serious gender—based violence is on the fact you can get killed in a place as mundane as a police

station. the duchess tried to respect that by paying respect to the site where this 19—year—old was killed to start that advocacy and show the world that life isn't normalfor show the world that life isn't normal for south african women here. thank you very much. as a youth climate movement led by the activist greta thunberg sweeps the globe, the issue of america's use of fossil fuels looks set to be a battleground topic in next year's us presidential election. but, in some of the president's stronghold states the interests of the coal industry, and concerns about climate change, have already come head to head, as our correspondent james cook reports. it was the day the uk voted to leave the european union. but nobody cared about that, in white sulphur springs. they were fighting to survive the worst flood anyone here could remember. 23 people did not. three years on, the creek is silent, but the horror remains. that's the tree that my wife was in... belinda scott was found clinging

to this tree, badly burned. her husband, ronnie, had been scrambling to rescue herfrom their home, when the house exploded. i got stuck, right on the edge of the water, in mud. i was praying to god. my wife ended up at the burns centre... it was really nasty. i ended up on the floor, crying. so, we're headed up to a couple of our research plots, where we have induced an artificial drought experiment... this scientist says the trees have a tale to tell. longer droughts, and more intense

storms, driven by climate change. they seem to be occurring more frequently, and the magnitude or the size of those storms appear to be greater. but the critical thing to understand is that the entire system as a whole is becoming more variable. we saw that most notably, i think, in 2016 with those catastrophic floods. yes, the 2016 flood in the greenbrier valley was absolutely catastrophic. and incidentally, we have had very large storms, floods, almost every year since 2016, as well. and so, students are taking action. protesting outside university, even in coal—rich west virginia. just like we had acid in here, we're increasing the acid level in this vial right here. nasa funds olivia young, to demonstrate climate science, in schools. most of the time, i talk to little kids, and so sometimes i will get questions like, "oh, but my mommy and daddy said this."

i don't try to step on parents' toes. i try really hard not to do that. with the older students, we do try to engage more in active conversation. but some coal miners are scornful. you have to have consistent, reliable electric power. that doesn't come from windmills, doesn't come from solar panels, doesn't come from pixie dust, doesn't come from unicorns and doesn't come from well—wishes. that comes from fossil fuel. so, president trump has been a relief to us. he has been a breath of fresh air. we think he shares our values. there is not much evidence of a coal boom undeertrump, but the fuel still holds a strong pull. coal runs through this state, in more ways than one. for many west virginians, for many years, it's put bread on the table. but it's also been part and parcel of their family identity. even here, though, deep in coal country, that may now be changing. and, for ronnie, the issue is as personal as his grief.

all right. i want to thank y'all. thank you. man, i want to know what we're to do about this global warming. it's terrible. like i said, people need to change. it is a powerful plea. for nearly 90 years children — and sometimes grown—ups — have been playing with lego. it is one of the most popular toys in the world. in finland, they've been hosting the country's largest ever lego convention. and it seems the possibilities are endless — as the bbc‘s tim allman reports. it's amazing what you can do with thousands and thousands of little plastic bricks. say you fancy a replica of a classic portrait, by vermeer? no problem. you've always had a hankering for a life—sized bust of a certain occupant of the white house?

voila. the 15,000 or so people at this convention are, to put it mildly, lego crazy. this is a fever that can run in the family. translation: i got my own lego bricks when i was just one—year—old and have been building ever since. my own boys got interested, they are now in their 20s and their girlfriends join in with us! my wife builds too! the plan, this year, was particularly ambitious. the building of a lego mega city. everyone making their little bit, then putting it all together. the results were pretty spectacular. that's actually the largest lego city ever built in finland, around 1500 base plates and 1500 builders, of course. then there is lego in monochrome. pyramids and temples

all made out of plastic. seems appropriate. for some people, this toy is a bit like a religion. and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers, with our reviewers rosamund urwin from the sunday times, and robert fox from the evening standard, that's coming up after the latest headlines and a full sport update. now, it's time for a look at the weather with phil avery. after a wet and windy night, it will continue for a good part of the morning, and it is not done yet with this combination of weather. thanks to the area of low pressure. not such an area issue across scotland and northern ireland, although it was wet in northern ireland, it is drier and will continue to be for the rest of the afternoon. a bit of sunshine here and into the south of england and parts of wales but the rain ever there in parts of the

midlands and north—east of england. which will suppress the temperatures down to 12. eventually that moves away. watch out for strong wins flicking into the north—west along the norfolk coast, could be some issues with coastal flooding and what will be clear skies, cool night and therefore a crisp start to the new day on monday. looks as though we are going to see a new area of cloud wind and rain eventually spilling into the south—western quarter of the british isles on two wheels in the midlands and the south—east. the further north and east you are, the drier your day will be. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: further promises to deliver brexit are expected this morning as the conservative party conference gets under way in manchester. borisjohnson is planning billions of pounds of spending for hospitals, what he describes as "the biggest hospital building programme in a generation". parents are urged to have conversations with their children