welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines: a vigil forjapan's former prime minister shinzo abe, ahead of his funeral later on tuesday. there'll be a new british prime minister by september 5, the first round of voting will be on wednesday. we expect a 20 supporters for each candidate. on the first ballot, any candidate to proceed must have won at least 30 votes. sri lanka's president confirms he will step down on wednesday, but who will take over? secrets of the stars revealed by the james webb telescope — images of

the earliest galaxies. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news — it's newsday. it's 8am in singapore, and 9am injapan where a private funeral will be held in tokyo later, for the former prime minister shinzo abe, who died after being shot while at a political campaign event. mourners have streamed into a temple in tokyo to pay their respects. these are scenes from a vigil at the zojoji temple. world leaders have also paid tribute. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, said mr abe did more than anyone to elevate the relationship between their two countries. rupert wingfield—hayes reports from tokyo.

shinzo abe was a fresh—faced 52—year—old when he shocked everyone by becoming japan's youngest postwar prime minister. it did not go well. and in less than a year, he was gone. five years later, he plotted his return with a new hairstyle and a new slogan. and this time, he stayed, for eight years, longer than any other postwar japanese leader. today, japan is laying mr abe to rest. his life snuffed out in a way few here thought possible. the outpouring of grief that we're seeing here again today is in part because of the truly awful way in which mr abe died, but there's something more. it feels like japan has lost a truly significant historicalfigure. so, what is it that mr abe did that has left such an indelible mark onjapanese politics?

those who admired mr abe say he dramatically changed the way this country deals with the world. he made new alliances with fellow democracies, from india to australia to great britain. he greatly deepened the alliance with united states. most significantly of all, he broke japan free of its pacifist constitution, which since the war had made it impossible for japanese troops to defend its allies. i think that abe was determined to get out from the postwar pacifist constitution. because the idea of this constitution, it was that japan should rely its security to the goodwill of the world people. it's a nonsense. so abe wanted to get out from this philosophy.

but critics say mr abe's views on history put relations with china into a deep freeze. in south korea, he became a hate figure. this anger driven by his refusal to accept japan's responsibility for the wartime comfort women system which forced thousands of korean women into sexual servitude. i think in terms of face—to—face with the fact of the history issues. i guess mr abe is a revisionist, particularly on the issue of the comfort women issue. i think it's become now a taboo to talk about injapan. but for most people, shinzo abe was simply the longest—serving prime minister any of them had known. after two decades of economic decline, he brought a sense of stability and security back to japan, and for that, his country is grateful. rupert wingfield—hayes,

bbc news, in tokyo. earlier i spoke to akihisa shiozaki, a former senior policy adviser to shinzo abe. i asked him about the legacy japan's longest serving prime minister left behind. the prime minister was the first boss that i served for in politics. he was a very warm, open leader. he would often joke around, make everyone around him comfortable to speak up and i think that really led to his long prime ministership leaving the country injapan. a lot of people are still suffering, mourning the loss of one of japan's most influential leaders, and simply put, he brought back self—confidence injapan. through the success of economic

policies, he tripled the nikkei index in eight years. he boosted international forjapan�*s role, and internationally for the deepening of the formation of the us—japan alliance, and these are legacies that no other prime ministers were able to achieve and i think you be long remembered for those. indeed, there are those who criticise mr shinzo abe, and bringing japan closer to confrontation with china, what are your thoughts on that? i think shinzo abe really tried to reintroduce japan to take a more active role internationally and i think the definition of pacifist

constitution, needs to change over time, i think he didn't really intend to changejapan�*s overall pacifist philosophy but the definition of self—defense needed to change over time in accordance with the changing reality of the international world, and i think that he was a visionary and also very realistic in his approach to changing these policies. what sort of legacy do you think he leaves behind injapan as the country emerges out of the pandemic and tries to navigate itself in this rather complicated back drop as you've just described.

prime minister kishida served as the foreign minister for prime minister shinzo abe for more than four years. he carries on a lot of the policy initiatives abe started, including a free and open pacific which is now blossomed to the quad content and further international cooperation of like—minded democracy. in terms of economics, we will continue to follow on the growth and reform initiatives that the shinzo abe administration has started and hoping to help people overcome and bring back growth to the japanese economy. i think a lot of the initiatives that had been

started by the abe administration will continue to be followed through by kishida. akihisa shiozaki bear, a former policy advisor two route to speaking to us earlier. it's been announced the uk will get a new leader of the conservative party, and therefore a new prime minister, on september 5. it will take that long to choose borisjohnson�*s successor due to a complex internal process. candidates — ii at the moment — have to navigate their way through a series of votes. here's our political editor chris mason. thank you all very much, thank you. from borisjohnson�*s resignation, to the emerging cacophony of voices trying to replace him. visions and videos, talks of their past and our future, promises and persuasion, and lots of it. is raising taxes during a cost of living crisis... mind you, this is all we saw of the former chancellor today.

rishi sunak published his launch video on friday and currently has more publicly declared support from tory mps than anyone else. one of his biggest rivals is likely to be liz truss, the foreign secretary... morning. ..who posted her launch video this morning. to win the next election, we need to deliver, deliver and deliver for the british people. meanwhile, underground in the bunker of churchill's war rooms in westminster, two other wannabes seeking the spotlight. the current chancellor made a big promise on tax. as prime minister, i will cut the base rate of income tax to i9p in 2023, 18p in 2024, and that will give households back £900 a year on average. one after another, candidates have been focusing on saying they would cut taxes and criticising the former chancellor rishi sunak for putting them up.

he says he wants to cut them too, but only when it is responsible. suella braverman said tax cuts were needed immediately. don't vote for me because i'm a woman. don't vote for me because i'm brown. vote for me because i love this country and because i will do anything for it. this is what trying to become prime minister looks like at this stage of the race. events here, there and everywhere, and those not seen as favourites at this stage making the loudest noises now, while they can. the former equalities minister kemi badenoch has picked up the endorsement of michael gove, and while some have gone for a snazzy launch video, others have opted for the home—made approach. i have decided to seek the nomination to be the leader of our party. the former health secretary sajid javid is also standing and he is worried about his party's future. sleaze, scandal internal warfare.

we have seen this movie before and we know how it ends. our leadership has to change. and the others to already declare so far, penny mordaunt and tom tugendhat. .. the experience i offer is not from whitehall — it's from the real world. it's from afghanistan and iraq. ..the transport secretary, grant shapps... i can help you win your seat. ..and the runner—up last time is running again this time — jeremy hunt. they all want to replace this man, who will soon be looking for anotherjob. you need six months training. boris johnson's successor will be announced by monday the fifth of september. the business of whittling down the wannabes begins tomorrow. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. let's turn to sri lanka, where the crisis appears to be deepening. after those extraordinary scenes we saw over the weekend with protestors storming the presidential palace, sri lanka's parliamentary speaker has said lawmakers will reconvene on friday, before electing a new president the following wednesday.

our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan is in colombo and sent this report. "open to the public" reads the graffiti scrawled outside the prime minister's official residence. in colombo, the occupation continues. police powerless, as the people's movement picks up pace. well, things feel very different here to what they were a week ago when i was in the city, when you had armed police guarding the entrance to the prime minister's official residence. and now, as you look around, it feels like i'm in a public park, families here for a day out. as this nation tries to find a way out of an economic crisis, a moment to savour — the president they blame for their troubles expected to quit this week.

i'll feel better only after wednesday, after the president walks out. you know, still there is this question mark, right? so i still have goosebumps, but i can't celebrate because he has to walk out. he has to go. and what about the prime minister? all of them have to go. we just need 15 good, honest politicians who will run this house — the parliament, and the country. president gotabaya rajapaksa has already fled his palace after it was stormed by protesters at the weekend — his whereabouts still unknown. also in hiding, prime minister ranil wickremesinghe, appearing in a televised address for the first time after his ancestral home was torched by protesters at the weekend. this was your brother the prime minister's house? yes. and it's just a shell of a home now, isn't it? yeah. we were shown around

what's left of the family home by the youngest of the wickremesinghe siblings. ifeel very sad. he's a man who did a lot for this country, and now, if this kind of thing could happen, ifeel very, very sad. but back at the pm's official residence, they're happy. crowds here hopeful that both the prime minister and president will soon step aside to make way for new leadership. until that happens, they're staying put, continuing to make sure their voices are heard. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, colombo. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: tributes are paid to monty norman, the composer of the james bond theme, who's died at the age of 94.

after months of talks and missed deadlines, a deal has been struck to keep greece within the eurozone. the immediate prospect of greece going bust in the worst crisis to hit the eurozone has been averted. emergency services across central europe are stepping up their efforts to contain the worst floods this century. nearly 100 people have been killed. broadway is traditionally- called the 'great white way' by americans, but tonight, it's completely blacked out. - it's a timely reminder to all americans of the problemsj that the energy crisisj has brought to them. leaders meet in paris for a summit on pollution, inflation and third world debt. this morning, theyjoined the revolution celebrations for a show of military might on the champs—elysees. wildlife officials in australia have been coping with a penguin problem — fairy penguins have been staggering ashore and collapsing after gorging themselves on a huge shoal of their favourite food, pilchards. some had eaten so much,

they could barely stand. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. our headlines: a vigil forjapan�*s former prime minister shinzo abe, ahead of his funeral later on tuesday. there'll be a new prime minister in the uk by the 5th of september, the first round of voting will be on wednesday. nasa has released the first color images of space taken by the newjames webb space telescope. the first image shows an area depicting a massive group of galaxy clusters. the picture was announced during a nasa preview event attended by us presidentjoe biden and vice president kamala harris. nasa says its first images have targeted distant galaxies, bright nebulae and a faraway giant gas planet.

really giant gas planet. quite itching indeed. giant gas planet. astonishing. well earlier i spoke to the astronomer and astrophysicistjonathan mcdowell and asked how significant this latest release of images has been. it has been a long time coming, my first went to a planning conference for the telescope in 1989 so to finally get the science now we are all really excited and we have learned a lot about the universe from hubble, j wst is going to see further, it is going to see in more detail, this first image we saw lets us see the early universe, baby galaxies at great distances from us in the same level of detail that hubble saw nearby galaxies so we get to compare how the universe evolves over time. but these first images that are coming out tomorrow are very, very different kinds of

objects, the big planet much nearer to us, nebulae, and it is really going to display how jwst, this telescope is going to be a swiss army knife like hubble has been to attack all sorts of different science problems that we have been waiting to get our teeth into for a very long time.- for a very long time. that's fascinating _ for a very long time. that's fascinating and _ for a very long time. that's fascinating and i _ for a very long time. that's fascinating and i really - for a very long time. that'sj fascinating and i really love the description, the analogy of that swiss army knife. just took us through what nasa is hoping to be able do with these images and this sort of information. i images and this sort of information.— images and this sort of information. ., ., ., ~ information. i want to make clear also — information. i want to make clear also it _ information. i want to make clear also it is _ information. i want to make clear also it is not _ information. i want to make clear also it is not just - information. i want to make| clear also it is notjust nasa, it is the european space agency thatis it is the european space agency that is part of this and the canadians, it's an international project stopping astronomers all over the world are going to use this so we want to see how was the universe different way back in its history, how did we get to be where we are now and then with studying the atmospheres of planets in the past 20 years we have discovered thousands of planets around other stars,

that has been a huge discovery but we don't know what the atmospheres were made of. this telescope is going to let us probe what elements are in the atmospheres of these planets and we are going to be able to study the motions of nebula, the evolution of stars and so reallyjust the evolution of stars and so really just get a the evolution of stars and so reallyjust get a much deeper understanding of how stars are born, live and die. find born, live and die. and jonathan. _ born, live and die. and jonathan, just - born, live and die. and jonathan, just briefly l born, live and die. andl jonathan, just briefly as born, live and die. and - jonathan, just briefly as we are running out of time sadly but what are you hoping one of those discoveries might be? what are something you have been thinking about for a while? i been thinking about for a while? . . , , while? i am really interested in the role — while? i am really interested in the role that _ while? i am really interested| in the role that supermassive black holes, early of times the mass of the sun play in the lives of galaxies and with the sharp imaging of the jwst telescope we are going to be able to measure the motions of stars around those black holes and measure their masses so thatis and measure their masses so that is one of the things that i am looking forward to.

let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. president putin has signed a decree allowing all ukrainians to receive russian passports. up until now, the fast—track procedure applied only to the residents of occupied territories in the donbas and the south. european governments, markets and companies are worried that gas supplies to the continent may not resume following the annual shutdown of the nord stream one pipeline under the baltic sea. the pipeline's russian—backed operators say its standard maintenance work, but germany's concerned russia was using gas supplies as a weapon. the social media organisation twitter says elon musk�*s reasons for not going through with his deal to buy the company are 'invalid and wrongful�*. he pulled out of the agreement saying he had not been given enough information about fake accounts. shares fell 11% on monday. a wildfire threatening a group

of giant sequoia trees in california's yosemite national park has doubled in size in a day and now covers more than six square kilometres. giant sequoias are the largest trees in the world and can live up to 3,000 years the composer monty norman, who wrote the theme for the james bond films, has died at the age of 94. norman began his career singing in big bands before forging a career writing for musicals and films, our correspondent lizo mzimba looks back at his life and career. over the years, 007 might have changed, but one thing has remained constant. bond theme plays. monty norman's james bond theme, decade after decade, exciting audiences at some of the secret agent's most thrilling...

..and most action—packed moments. long before bond, he began in the music business in a rather different way. archive: here's monty norman to sing shifting the spring sands. as a singer... # lying dead upon the sand... ..of gentle ballads. he eventually moved into composing... # if he died by human hand.# what's your name? ..and in the early 1960s, was asked to work on the first bond film. the producers wanted a piece of music for the opening credits. i suddenly remembered something i'd written for a musical called a house for mr biswas. # i was born with this unlucky sneeze... became... (bond theme)

the music was arranged by fellow composerjohn barry. nearly 40 years later, monty norman sued a sunday newspaper who said that barry had actually written the theme and that monty norman had taken credit for barry's work. monty norman won, settling forever the dispute over who'd really written one of cinema's most famous pieces of music, used in every official bond film — underlining some of the movies' most nostalgic moments... i suppose that's completely inconspicuous. ..and some of its most iconic ones. the films may never have had quite the same impact without monty norman's music. theme plays. monty norman, who's

died at the age of 94. i wanted tell you now about how the aboriginal flag will permanently replace the new south wales lag on top of the harbour bridge in australia. the aboriginalflag had been flying over the sydney harbour bridge this past week for an australian observance event. the government described it as a practical and pragmatic solution. one more story to bring you, definetely one for neighbours fans. more than twenty years after ramsay street's, scott and charlene tied the knot, they're finally back together. kylie minogue and jason donovan have shared behind the scenes shots of them on set, filming for their appearance in the long—running show�*s finale, which will air at the end of the month. jason tweeted "so good to be back with this absolute legend", whilst kylie said "now we're back together". their iconic wedding episode pulled an audience of almost 20

million when it was shown in the uk in 1988. that's all for now, stay with bbc world news. hello there. it's still very warm out there. the heat is still in place, and it follows the warmest day of the year so far in wales, with the temperature 29 degrees. for much of england, though, it was even hotter than that, with 32 in northolt west of london. that was monday�*s temperatures. tuesday's temperatures, well, they look a little bit different. cooling off by a few degrees across many parts of the country. changes coming down from the north—west, where we've got thicker cloud in scotland and northern ireland, bringing with it some patchy rain. that patchy rain will peter out for the most part as it runs southwards, bringing a few showers into england and wales, most places dry. a lot more cloud, some of it quite thin, so some hazy sunshine and we'll see sunshine

returning to scotland and northern ireland after the damp start. together with cooler and fresher air that's moving southwards, so the really hot weather again, over 30 degrees, is this time confined more to the south—east of england and east anglia. still warm across some other parts of england, mind you, but those temperatures are dropping away a little. and it will be a cooler night ahead for many tuesday night, but still very warm as we head into wednesday in the south—east of england. and we could see one or two showers coming from this cloud here in southernmost parts of england. the odd shower maybe for northern ireland, more especially into scotland, but for large parts of the country, it's still going to be dry, still going to be lots of sunshine. but it's just tending to cool down just a little. those temperatures continuing to drop, though still very warm in the south—east, temperatures 28 degrees here. now, we've got this weak weather front that's moving southwards bringing that cooler air behind it and bringing one or two showers into southern england on wednesday. that's gone by thursday. this area of high pressure building back in from the atlantic, and around it we've got these west to north—westerly breezes bringing in cooler and fresher air, bringing in more cloud to scotland and northern ireland and the odd shower.

some of the cloud spilling down into england and wales, probably going to be dry here with some spells of sunshine, and those temperatures probably not changing too much really on thursday. again, still quite warm towards the south—east at 28 degrees, but in general, it is cooling down through the rest of this week after that heat for the start of the week. and we're keeping that cooler air for scotland and northern ireland into the weekend, but not so for england and wales. the heat is going to build again, and we've got this extreme heat warning from the met office for sunday, could be extended into monday. difficult to put a number on it, but we could be challenging the all—time uk temperature record.

this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let's go and take a look at what is on the show. taking a stand or taking a profit? from climate change to racism, gay rights and the war in ukraine, just why do companies feel they need to get involved in the big social issues of the day? a number of big american companies have spoken out on abortion and offered to help staff with travel costs, but is it worth their while or should theyjust be sticking to making money for their shareholders?

from wall street banks to health care giants,