this is bbc news. lam i am rebecca jones. the headlines at 11pm: shock at westminster as sajid javid resigns as chancellor ordered him to sack his entire team of advisers. i don't believe any self—respecting minister would accept such conditions and so therefore i felt the best thing to do was to go. delighted to be appointed, lots to get on with. he was quickly replaced by 39—year—old rishi sunak, his deputy at the tresaury, who's had a meteroic rise. one of the 15 babies whose deaths could have been prevented — families welcome an independent review into maternity services at east kent nhs trust.

china at war with the coronavirus — there's been a record rise in the death toll and the number of people infected has soared dramatically. and rewriting the textbooks — nasa scientists on how the planets in our solar system were really formed. it's being hailed as a major discovery. and at 11:30pm we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers anna isaac from the wall streetjournal, and jack blanchard, from politico. good evening and welcome to bbc the chancellor sajid javid has resigned suddenly in the middle of the prime minister's reshuffle. borisjohnson said he wanted him

to stay on, but ordered him to fire his entire team of advisers. mrjavid refused to do that — saying "no self—respecting minister" could accept such a condition. he's walked out of his job just four weeks before he was due to deliver his first budget and was quickly replaced by his deputy at the treasury 39—year—old rishi sunak. here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. how tight is number ten's grip on power? a reshuffle billed as just another day... officials huddling to make sure it's all in order... hello, chancellor. good morning! sajid javid expected to keep his number 11 home. but, then... so, he turned it down because the pm said he wanted him to stay, but he had to replace his whole team of advisers. for a moment, it wasn't quite clear what was going on. taken an unexpected turn. there is dominic raab.

what do you make of the chancellor having to resign, dominic raab? number ten had demanded mrjavid sack his own team in return for keeping hisjob. a loss of influence he wouldn't wear. good afternoon. why have you resigned, mrjavid? so, the man who had been the second most important person in the government returned home to west london with a rucksack, not a red box. the conditions that were attached was a requirement that i replace all my political advisers. these are people that have worked incredibly hard on behalf of not just the government but the whole country, done a fantasticjob. i was unable to accept those conditions. i don't believe any self—respecting minister would accept such conditions. and, so, therefore, ifelt the best thing to do was to go. were those conditions imposed by mrcummings? those were the conditions requested by the prime minister. that was, of course, his prerogative, and, as i say, my successor has my full support. so, walking in in his place, a rising star in tory circles. were you expecting

a promotion today? you are widely tipped as on the way up. i've absolutely no idea... rishi sunak unaware first thing this morning just how high he was about to soar. a pleasure to be a part of the government. emerging as the brand—new chancellor. has number 11 become an annex of the prime minister? number 10a? will you have any power if number 10's in charge, chancellor? the start of the day had followed a more predictable script. while workmen were shuffling an actual cabinet around parliament, the prime minister was there to do the firings before the hirings. andrea leadsom tight—lipped after she lost a cabinet seat she had held for years. mr mcveigh slipped in early to be booted out from housing. julian smith, who got the government in northern ireland back up and running, was axed. i think my position is up to the prime minister. it is his... his call. we shall enjoy the nice weather we have today.

jacob rees—mogg and his chalk stripes hung on as leader of the house, along with plenty of other serving ministers. anne—marie trevelyan, the northumberland mp and former defence minister, becomes the boss of the department for international development. looking forward to your promotion? oliver dowden the new culture secretary, who had been at the cabinet office, the government machine. are you looking forward to your newjob? yes, of course, thank you. six entrants to the cabinet got newjobs today but the neighbourly trouble between numbers 10 and ii is the biggest headline of all. this was meant to be a moderate, move along, not much to see kind of reshuffle. not a bit of it. the departure of the chancellor is a huge event, a huge moment for any government but this time it represents something else. a sign of a number 10 that wants total dominance, to be in complete control. borisjohnson‘s team is adamant this is no power grab. they just want less friction at the top. this is a downing street operation, though, that will not hesitate

to clip almost anyone's wings. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, downing street. tonight in his resignation letter, mrjavid pointedly urged the prime minister to ensure the treasury retained "as much credibility as possible". and he said it was important that leaders had people around them who could give "clear and candid advice." our economics editor faisal islam looks now at the tensions between the prime minister and the former challencellor, and the challenges that await his successor. it's only two days since the prime minister and his then chancellorjoined forces to back high speed rail in birmingham. sajid javid's job had been guaranteed, but he didn't look too comfortable, as the relationship between no ten and ii was itself coming off the track. partly because number 10 wants other ha rd—hat, high—viz big spend moments exactly like this beginning at the budget in a months time. yeah i would, love to... famously the son of a bus driver,

this chancellor never got to use his budget red box. he spoke to the bbc, though, about how a stalling economy could be boosted by spending. we've now got this pro—business government that's investing in infrastructure, which is what businesses want to see. that is why i'm standing in a bus depot today. but exactly how much investment is the issue. mrjavid's new rules on borrowing have meant the treasury having to consider tax rises to fund some of the extra spending. there is nothing abnormal about the treasury having a tense relationship with other parts of government. it is the veryjob of this institution to say no, even to a prime minister and his aides, on issues of finance. so it's impossible not to see today's extraordinary developments in the context of number 10 asserting itself over number 11 at a time when it wants to spend and borrow more. and that raises key questions of credibility for the newly—promoted chancellor.

so, who is rishi sunak? he's just 39 years old and married to the daughter of an indian it billionaire. he made a fortune of his own before going into politics. he got his firstjob in governmentjust two years ago, as a junior minister, before moving to the treasury. now he's chancellor, in control of the nation's finances, he could now loosen the borrowing constraints he's inherited. the prime minister is such a fan that he chose him as a stand—in in last year's noisy tv election debates. nicola sturgeon? if i could just say on spending... nicola sturgeon? the then—chancellor shared a trip to see the new star wars film with his deputy and now replacement. mrjavd did win some epic battles against top aides of the pm — today, number 10 strikes back. although several ministers have kept theirjobs in the cabinet reshuffle, a number of their special advisers have been sacked as part

of what is rumoured to be a plan for number 10's chief of staff, dominic cummings, to regain control over the cabinet. peter cardwell was special advisor to thejustice secretary robert buckland and explained that he felt fortunate to have worked in the government for so long. the thing about government is that when you go into it, what pierce morgan called these vile little creatures, the bad carriers and advisers. you are sort of a friend as well as an employee for cabinet ministers and what the case is and what i have been doing for the last 3.5 years forfour what i have been doing for the last 3.5 years for four separate secretaries of state is thatjob and the contract essentially is that it can go at any time, just as if you area can go at any time, just as if you are a member of the cabinet you can lose yourjob, similarly has a special advisor you can, too. there is something like 105 special advisers and government, only ten of them until very recently had more

than two years' experience. it is a short shelf life and i am grateful for the opportunity to have served both the conservative party and the government and my country for the last 3.5 years. that was peter cardwell. and we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 11:30pm this evening in the papers. our guestsjoining me tonight are jack blanchard, editor of the politico london playbook and anna isaac, reporter at the wall streetjournal. other news now. there's to be an independent review into maternity care at east kent nhs trust following concerns and confusion about the number of preventable deaths of babies. in a bbc interview yesterday, the trust's chief executive said there had been "six or seven" avoidable deaths since 2011, but today a board meeting heard there were possibly 15 deaths. from kent, our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports.

we didn't get to hold harry until the day that he died. i'm so glad we got to spend those seven days with him and see him. it means he was a real, living human being for those seven days and that means everything to us. our son harry died, because of a number of serious and preventable failures in the medical care and treatment that he and my wife sarah received, and which amounted to neglect. since harry richford's wholly avoidable death in 2017, his family have fought to reveal the failings that caused his death and that of other babies in east kent. today, their campaign has taken a huge step forward, when the government announced maternity care at the trust will be scrutinised. nhs england and nhs improvements will be commissioning an independent inquiry. that has been decided this morning. the inquiry will look back at preventable deaths or injuries

at the trust over a number of years and will be chaired by bill kircup, who investigated the morecambe bay maternity scandal. the announcement of the inquiry was made as the trust board were meeting in there. for ten, maybe 15 minutes, they had no idea what the minister had said and it certainly wasn't what they were expecting. the trust say tonight they welcome the inquiry, but harry richford's father gave his qualified support. what they need to do is let all of the skeletons out of the closet, under the carpet, everything that's been buried, it all needs to come out and hopefully that is what this investigation will do. if that can happen and they can begin to rebuild the trust from the very bottom and make sure it is a safe and secure place, with a good quality reputation going forwards. the trust say they now believe there have been 15 preventable baby deaths since 2012, having yesterday told us there was six or seven. but they still deny they were at fault over the death of fletcher aitken. he died in 2017 from, a fungal infection.

his mother sees the inquiry as the family's chance to getjustice. he wasn't treated for a fungal infection, he was treated for every other infection other than what he actually had. and this is the opportunity for you to get to the truth? absolutely. yeah, for me, for my family and for fletcher. he was a living person. i held him, he looked at me, he was a living baby. michael buchanan, bbc news, kent. china has announced a sharp rise in the number of people killed by the coronavirus. beijing said that yesterday more than 240 deaths were recorded in hubei, that's the province at the centre of the outbreak, bringing the country's death toll to almost 1,400. the total number with the virus also soared to almost 60,000, that's partly because of changes in the way officials there are diagnosing people. here, a ninth case has been confirmed. more on that in a moment, but first,

from beijing our correspondent john sudworth reports. china's at war with this virus, flying in extra supplies and a reinforcement of 2,600 extra troops. but there is still deep confusion about the enemy they're fighting, how many it's infected and how many it's killing. until now, only those with a positive lab test were counted as confirmed cases, but lab tests take time. now patients confirmed by much quicker ct scans are being included. it's slightly less reliable, but it means the number of cases has rocketed. what's far more worrying is the big leap in deaths. the sudden increase is made up of those patients who only had ct scans, not counted before. but are those extra deaths added up from across the past three weeks,

or are they a new daily count, pointing to a hidden number of similar daily deaths? china hasn't told us. it has been focused on messages of loyalty. these patients are being sworn into a communist committee and it has been settling political scores, removing the boss of the province where the outbreak started. the media are showing hard—working hero stories, too. it is a driver's wedding anniversary. "come home soon" his sign says. his wife's a nurse, looking after virus patients and contact with the outside world is forbidden. from beijing, i ask if china can beat the virus. "of course we will win," he says. even in china's capital, the impact is felt. this shop is keeping a safe

distance from its customers. china is now portraying this as a patriotic fight involving the masses, the enforcement of strict quarantine measures, and the mandatory wearing of face masks. but of course, viruses don't listen to propaganda. they are best beaten with good data and an open and transparent public health policy. there's no shortage of fighting spirit but there's so much we still don't know about how this is going to end. john sudworth, bbc news, beijing. meanwhile in the uk, more than 80 people who were quarantined at a hospital on the wirral have been allowed to go home after tests confirmed they don't have the coronavirus. they'd been held at arrowe park hospital for two weeks, after being flown back from wuhan, the chinese the city at the centre of the outbreak. health officials are also attempting to trace anyone who might have been in contact with the ninth person who's been diagnosed with coronavirus here in the uk. our health correspondent,

dominic hughes reports. after 1a days in quarantine, it's time to go home. reunited with their families, the 83 evacuees from wuhan have been given the all—clear to get on with their lives. 83 people kept connected... after a fortnight in quarantine, lee ping yang now has a certificate to show she's free from the virus. you're in the clear? yeah. but it was a long two weeks, with constant monitoring. we had medical staff to each room every single day, twice a day. what do you think of the sort of the quality of care that you had there? i think — i don't know other people what they think — i think it's great. public health officials have a four—point plan to help fight the spread of virus. containing and isolating it is the immediate focus. delaying any potential outbreak in the uk is also crucial, as is science and research, exploring existing drugs and finding

potential vaccines, finally they're trying to mitt gate the impact any increase in cased might have on the nhs. all the things that are going to make it more difficult to transmit this virus are good, sensible things to do, for transmitting every other virus, remember in the uk roughly 8,000 remember, in the uk roughly 8,000 people a year people a year in an average die of flu. the things that stop flu also stop this virus. uk airports still receive almost a0 flights a week from china. passengers are told to self isolate if they start to feel ill, but this ill, but there is no mandatory health testing. no mandatory health testing. however, we now know that the ninth case in the uk involved a chinese traveller who arrived on just such a flight last week. she took an uber cab to lewisham hospital in london, after feeling unwell and is now being treated at a specialist centre. two nhs staff who dealt with her are themselves self—isolating for 1h days. i really want to see my family again. meanwhile, for the first time in two

weeks, lee ping has been able to go outside without wearing a face mask. for her, at least, normal life can resume. fly tipping is a blight on the countryside, and now, new research by the bbc shows the number of large scale incidents, where thousands of tonnes of rubbish are dumped at a time, has more than doubled. organised criminal gangs are being blamed for the continued rise, as our environment correspondent david gregory—kumar has been investigating. just north of birmingham, an example of large—scale fly—tipping. lorry loads of waste dumped on parkland by a housing estate. disgusted. we have to pay a management fee to live on this estate. and yet they've sent us another bill this morning, but they still haven't even cleared it. so why should we pay money to live here if nobody can look after the estate? experts say that this is the new narcotics trade for criminals, because the penalties are small, but the profits can quickly run into millions of pounds.

but, believe it or not, large—scale fly—tipping like this can also happen pretty much out of sight. a short trip up the m6 — fly—tipping on a scale you've never seen before. wow. that is a lot of rubbish. each black bale weighs about a ton and there are thousands of tons of rubbish here that's been illegally dumped by a criminal gang that the owners thought was a legitimate business. the landowners obviously rented this warehouse out to the people that dumped this waste here under false pretences, so the people that came in, told the landowners they would be doing something completely different, and what has ended up here is an operation where they have dumped 5,500 tons of waste. of this site is an active investigation so we cannot tell you

where this is. but it is in staffordshire. the bbc has looked at large—scale fly—tipping since 2012, and it's more than doubled in england. and while it accounts forjust over 3% of the number of incidents, it makes up more than 20% of clean—up costs, with councils spending almost £60 million. but our analysis also showed large—scale fly—tipping decreasing in wales. data for scotland and northern ireland are not held publicly. tipper trucks have been destroyed but the sheer scale is leading to an entirely new approach. it is involving career criminals and it is becoming very complex. we're working with our partners, like police, hmrc, the national crime agency, we're sharing our intelligence and have started a unit for waste crime

stop our research shows this is a growing problem — a problem that can blight the lives of communities and cost landowners hundreds of thousands of pounds. david gregory—kumar, bbc news, birmingham. fly tipping is a nationwide problem and to discuss this, isjulia mulligan who is north yorkshire's police and crime commissioner. she is also the chair of the national rural crime network. it makes it very well—placed to talk to us about this on a regional and national level. why do you think that has been such a big increase in fly tipping? criminals will use whatever market or method they can to make money and this is yet another commodity through which criminals can make vast amounts of money and can also clean their money. there are various loopholes in the waste industry and criminals are exploiting those two clean money they have generated through drugs as well as actually making money out of

the waste industry itself. what do these criminal gangs actually do in order to make the money you are talking about? different things. legal waste sites, a company will have posed as a legitimate business, it will have had other businesses paying it to take rubbish away and then they illegally dump the money and keep the money. illegal house clea ra nce and keep the money. illegal house clearance is so elderly and vulnerable people scanned into clearing the house. and then the content dumped. a range of things terminals are doing to exploit the industry. is it was in some parts of

the country full? it is across the country. 22,000 people in a survey in 2018 and it was the number one concern they had across the country. fly tipping. it is a big problem in rural and fly tipping. it is a big problem in ruraland urban fly tipping. it is a big problem in rural and urban areas. criminals are exploiting on and wherever they can dump it they will. it is clearly costing millions. in north yorkshire, can you give us a sense what is happening? only last week, thousand old tires were dumped on a wildlife reserve just outside york and that is a really good example. another example today, a landowner who had purchased ten acres doug an enormous hole and started dumping waste in that. places like essex

also utterly affected. other major towns. this is a growing problem thatis towns. this is a growing problem that is being exploited by criminals to make money from all sorts of illegal activities. i appreciate this is a big question, but what is needed to address the problem? what can it be done? you heard on the report how there is a newjoint unit for waste crime which is really tackling the higher and serious organised crime element that involves the national crime agency as well as well as police and environment agencies and the tax office as well to try and go after the money. and also it requires, on a local level, different agencies to work well together to try and identify and investigate these crimes as well. thank you for staying up late to talk to us. thank

you. for decades, scientists have believed that planets like our own were created by material crashing together in the solar sytem to form ever larger clumps, in the solar system to form ever larger clumps, eventually becoming worlds. but now nasa scientists say they no longer think that's what happened, instead they believe that material gently came together, as our science correspondent pallab ghosh explains. billions of years ago, the planets in our own solar system formed. it was a violent process of rocks crashing together and merging until they became worlds, which included our own earth. or so we thought. today, at a news conference in seattle, nasa scientists said that that theory, held for the best part of 60 years, was completely wrong and that the building blocks of planets slowly merged together. it is a wonderful scientific present and the results that have just been described to you are,

in my view, watershed. the sun is right in the middle of the solar system. closest to it are the four small rocky planets, including the earth. then further out are four much larger planets, the most famous of which is saturn. then at the edge is tiny pluto, three billion miles away. it is just one of thousands of rock and ice in an outer zone called the kuiper belt. these are unused building blocks, left over from the creation of the planets 11.5 billion years ago. nasa's new horizon spacecraft reached one of these objects, named arrokoth, last year. it is only now that scientists have been able to study it in detail. it consists of two boulders fused together. look closely at the join and there is no evidence of a violent impact, no cracks, rather a slow coming together, notjust of these two boulders, but a gradual accumulation

of all the ice and rocks that built the planets we know today. objects in the kuiper belt are of great significant to us. they sit a long way from planet earth, but they are significant because these were formed at the very birth of the solar system. they all sit a long way from the sun, so they aren't corrupted by radiation from the sun. there like a time capsule of the prevailing theories about how the solar system was formed. this gives us strong evidence that it wasn't a violent collision of various objects, but sort of gently coming together. textbooks about the origin of the solar system will now have to be rewritten. the scientists say, in thejournal science: "instead of the violent start we once imagined, its beginnings were more gentle and tranquil." pallab ghosh, bbc news, seattle. the weather here is anything but

tranquil. let's catch up with all the weather news. last weekend storm ciara broad severe disruption. this weekend coming, storm dennis likely to bring heavy rain with renewed risks of flooding and severe gales particularly in the north and west. before then, this area of low pressure will sweep ahead of storm dennis bringing storms and windy weather. went picking up from the south through the day and ploughed increasing. wet and windy weather in the west pushing s was. the rain not reaching the far south—east until after dark. behind it windy with gales and heavy and blustery showers. the reason we're seeing storm heading our way is because of the jetstream storm heading our way is because of thejetstream reinvigorating storm heading our way is because of the jetstream reinvigorating from a huge temperature contrasts across north america. it will be taking aim

from the atlantic at the uk. you will see how many isobars thereafter through saturday and sunday. those winds could be and we could also have heavy rain associated. a lot of impacts likely from storm dennis. with wind gusts 60—70 miles per hour and may be more than that. every rain likely to cause flooding across southern and western parts of the country. amber warnings in force for parts of southern and western england into southern wales for heavy rain through saturday and into sunday and the ground is saturated from storm ciara. this is a picture for saturday. not a pretty sight. outbreaks are pretty heavy. persistent rain, strong winds. 70 miles an hour in exposure and close to the irish sea. you will not