welcome to bbc news — i'm david eades. our top stories: japan prepares for the funeral of shinzo abe, assassinated last week. he had been the longest serving prime minister in the country's history. sri lanka's president confirms he will step down on wednesday but who will take over? there'll be a new british prime minister by september — it points to many weeks of fierce campaigning for the main candidates. 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.

and the deepest dive into outer space — a kaleidoscope of colour emerges from the first images received from the james webb telescope. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the funeral of japan's former prime minister shinzo abe will start in the coming hours following his assasination on friday. the 67—year—old was shot at a campaign event in naru. 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. i'm nowjoined by mariko oi, who is outside the temple in tokyo where the funeral will be taking place. i suppose for many japanese, this is a man who has been part of their daily life for so long. there is a strong impression this is a nation still very much in shock? absolutely, david. thousands of people have been coming to zozoji temple where the vigil was taking place and the funeral will be starting shortly, bringing flowers and a lot of young people as well. —— zojoji. the many of these young people, shinzo abe was the only prime minister they can remember because of the many long years he spent at the top

of japanese politics. long years he spent at the top ofjapanese politics. yesterday of japanese politics. yesterday the ofjapanese politics. yesterday the visual there were about 2500 visitors including the british and american ambassadors, one ambassador calling him a great politician. many japanese business leaders including the ceo of toyota. we do not know who will be attending his funeral today. all the details of been quite difficult to find out given the tight security as you can imagine. tight security as you can imagine-— tight security as you can imaine. . ,, ., . imagine. regardless of what ha--ens imagine. regardless of what happens today. _ imagine. regardless of what happens today, of _ imagine. regardless of what happens today, of course, . imagine. regardless of what l happens today, of course, his name is indelibly in in modern japanese economy, the nationalising of the country, to an extent. —— inked abenomics is a way of life. yes, and we were asking people a couple of days ago, if there was one thing you would remember shinzo abe for, what would that be? many of the

answers were quite different. you talked about abenomics, where he worked closely with the central bank governor to pump basically billions of dollars into the economy to jump dollars into the economy to jump started, investors loved it, the stock market did very well under those policies. —— jumpstart it. many critics also argued it widened the wealth gap between rich and poor but other people we've been speaking to also talked about abenomasuka, because he was the prime minister at the start of the pandemic and he distributed free facemasks and many criticised it, but many people still vividly remember how he made those very bold decisions to close schools, for example at the beginning of the pandemic and of course many people talked about foreign relations because he was very close to mr 0bama, the former us president. mr 0bama came to visit hiroshima, the first sitting us president to do so. shinzo abe then visited pearl harbour with mr 0bama but when

mr trump was elected, shinzo abe was the first global leader to visit him in his home. thank ou ve to visit him in his home. thank you very much _ to visit him in his home. thank you very much for _ to visit him in his home. thank you very much for that, - to visit him in his home. thank you very much for that, mariko —— mariko, as we await the start of the funeral, we will bring you the latest as it happens. the main opposition leader in sri lanka, sajith premadasa, says he intends to run for president as soon as the current president steps down. gotabaya rajapaksa, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, is expected to resign this week following widespread protests. crowds of protesters stormed the presidential palace last weekend, and are refusing to leave until mr rajapaksa has definitely left office. the speaker of parliament says mps will meet on friday to attempt to begin the process of electintg a new leader. while the country waits for president rajpaksa to step down, the economic crisis worsens. in an interview with the bbc�*s newsnight programme, the leader of the opposition, sajith premadasa, spelt out the difficulties of

forming a new government. we are trying to establish a multi—party government with the very same people who have taken this country into an abyss. so it's a very complicated situation. people are asking for a clean government, a non— corrupt government, a transparent, democratic government that protects human rights, political rights, civic, economic and social rights and, for that matter, religious and cultural rights. but in order to fulfil the people �*s agenda, it's very difficult to get the best and the brightest and the cleanest from this present legislature. sajith premadasa there.

let's get some of the day's other news. russia has stopped supplying gas directly to germany through the baltic sea pipeline, nord stream 1. the pipeline's russian—backed operators say it's because of standard summer maintenance that will take ten days. although some gas will still get to germany via ukraine, usually most russian gas comes through this pipeline. the former formula one boss, bernie ecclestone, is to be charged with fraud by false representation following an investigation into overseas assets believed to be worth more than 400 million pounds. mr ecclestone, who's 91, said he had yet to see the details and couldn't comment. 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. reports from iran say the award winning filmmaker

jafar panahi has been arrested. he's among more than 300 iranian filmmakers and activists who issued a statement condemning the arrests of two other filmmakers, amid a crackdown on protesters. with me is our news reporter azadeh moshiri. you enter expand on what these processes are about.— processes are about. according to media and — processes are about. according to media and his— processes are about. according to media and his family, - processes are about. according to media and his family, he - to media and his family, he turned up to the infamous prison were so many dissidents are arrested and held to enquire about one of the other directors. those protests and what these directors have been arrested for are related to a building collapse, a 10— story building collapse, a 10— story building which killed 14 people in abadan, and it sparked protests notjust in abadan, because so many saw this as

encapsulating the corruption and negligence taking place amongst iranian authorities and the government. it's also worth mentioning thatjafar panahi mentioning that jafar panahi has mentioning thatjafar panahi has been arrested before, this is not his first time, he was arrested in 2010 following some elections and is a constant critic of the lack of read of speech in iran and has had a travel ban because of that issue, but these are high—profile directors, unlike some of the other protesters so within the film industry there have been calls for his release, including from the cannes and berlin film festivals, to organisations which have awarded these directors with some of the highest prizes.— directors with some of the highest prizes. and there was an added element _ highest prizes. and there was an added element to - highest prizes. and there was| an added element to tuesday, international hijab day, message put out by the authorities as to following the islamic code or not, and it would seem to be another element of this, of the reason for arrests or potentially more? . , , ., more? there has been a crackdown _ more? there has been a crackdown intend --in l

more? there has been a - crackdown intend --in general crackdown intend ——in general because of the economic situation, the soaring prices but when it comes to the hijab day, it's coming just at this point we are protesters are taking the streets and hardliners have been taking the hijab is an issue of vital importance, the hijab is the physical representation and part of the 1979 islamic revolution, when the country physically started to look different survey been calling on strict rules, they've even got more plainclothes officers on the streets to patrol women and their address and they've said that on tuesday, be a state sponsored gathering of hijab supporters. many campaign groups are urging women to defy that and so senior figures in iran, people like the head of thejudiciary, are calling on authorities to take a very strict stance on anyone defying that hijab day and that modesty day that's meant to be observed so it's going to fit into that wider crackdown taking place over the last few months. more to watch out — over the last few months. more to watch out for. _

over the last few months. more to watch out for. you _ over the last few months. more to watch out for. you very - to watch out for. you very much. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the real story of sir mo farah, who's revealed he was illegally trafficked to the uk with another child's identity. 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 problems that the energy crisis has brought to them. leaders meet in paris- fora summit on pollution, inflation and third world debt. this morning, theyjoinedl 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 bbc news, the latest headlines: japan prepares to bury shinzo abe, assassinated last week. he had been the longest serving prime minister in the country's history. sri lanka's president confirms he will step down on wednesday after protesters stormed his palace over food and fuel shortages. britain will have a new prime minister by the 5th september. that's a full eight weeks away. anyone who wants the job, and there are currently 11 possible candidates,

will have to first secure the backing of 20 of their fellow members of parliament, and then make their way through a series of votes which start on wednesday. 0ur political editor chris mason reports. 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 19p in 2023, 18p in 2024, and that will give households back £900 a year on average. 0ne 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. 0ur 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. i have been looking forward to this because we have got an amazing picture to show you. what does the end of darkness look like? well, nasa has released the first color images of space taken by the newjames webb telescope, which can look further into the recesses of our universe than ever before. 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.) we can now speak to klaus pontoppidan, who is a webb project scientist at the space telescope science institute and one of the lead scientists involved with the project. delighted to have you with us. let's just start first of all from the beauty of the picture, it is amazing.— it is amazing. yeah, it is amazing _ it is amazing. yeah, it is amazing and _ it is amazing. yeah, it is amazing and we - it is amazing. yeah, it is amazing and we are - it is amazing. yeah, it is amazing and we are so l it is amazing. yeah, it is - amazing and we are so excited to finally be able to share this with the world. we have gone through six months of commissioning of the telescope, getting it ready for science and doing lots of technical things to make sure it is ready and now we are ready and so we can celebrate the beginning of salience and this is one image we will do that with and tomorrow there will be much more. ., ., ., more. to the uninitiated and i am one of— more. to the uninitiated and i am one of them, _ more. to the uninitiated and i am one of them, it _ more. to the uninitiated and i am one of them, it does - more. to the uninitiated and i am one of them, it does look| am one of them, it does look like a very vivid picture of a night sky, what is special

about that, what are we're getting to see?— about that, what are we're getting to see? what we see here is thousands _ getting to see? what we see here is thousands of - getting to see? what we see | here is thousands of galaxies all the way, almost, to the edge of the universe. so telescopes are time machines in the light that you see here were emitted billions of years ago. you see a massive cluster and you see many, many galaxies behind. some of the most distant galaxies we have here admitted that late more than 13 billion years ago, and what we can do is go to the very end and look for the first galaxies with images like this. it takes a lot to with images like this. it takes a lotto get — with images like this. it takes a lot to get your _ with images like this. it takes a lot to get your head - with images like this. it takes a lot to get your head around | a lot to get your head around that, doesn't it? what does that, doesn't it? what does that do for you? what is the benefit of being able to get that? 50 benefit of being able to get that? 4' benefit of being able to get that? ~ , , that? so i think these big, scientific _ that? so i think these big, scientific telescopes, - that? so i think these big, scientific telescopes, i - that? so i think these big, i scientific telescopes, i think they are going for something thatis they are going for something that is very fundamental to humans, that we have this sense of wonder and wanting to know where we come from, so that does many things. look at where

does many things. look at where does the universe come from in the first place? where do the elements that make us up, the carbon and our bodies, the water, and are we alone in the universe? that will make dramatic and new strides in understanding and trying to answer all of those questions. and that point you made about are we alone in the universe, is that one of the remits, if you like, of the james webb telescope? 50 you like, of the james webb telesc0pe?_ you like, of the james webb telescoe? , ~ ,, telescope? so the james webb telesco -e telescope? so the james webb telescope will _ telescope? so the james webb telescope will not _ telescope? so the james webb telescope will not be _ telescope? so the james webb telescope will not be finding i telescope will not be finding life, we need a bigger telescope for that but it will be able to see how common and uncommon they are in the universe so we are looking forward to getting more clarity on the questions. i forward to getting more clarity on the questions.— on the questions. i am only laughing — on the questions. i am only laughing because _ on the questions. i am only laughing because i- on the questions. i am only laughing because i in - on the questions. i am only laughing because i in the i on the questions. i am only i laughing because i in the next funding campaign coming already. thank you very much. sir mo farah is the most successful british olympic runner of all time. he's won both the 5,000 and 10,000 metre titles,

in 2012 and 2016. his story, and his celebratory pose, is well known. he came to the uk as a child, with his parents, refugees from somalia. except that was not in fact the real story. he has now acknowledged in a bbc documentary, called the real mo farah, that traffickers illegally forced him to work as a domestic servant, giving him the name of another child, mohamed. and now he has decided to put the record straight. most people know me as mo farah but that is not my name and thatis but that is not my name and that is not the reality stopping the real story is i was born in somaliland, north of somalia, as hussain abdi kahin. despite what i have said in the past my parents never lived in the uk. when i was

four my dad was killed in a civil war. four my dad was killed in a civilwar. is four my dad was killed in a civil war. is a family, we were torn apart. i was separated from my mother and i was brought into the uk illegally under the name of another child called mohammed farah. this is the visa document. _ called mohammed farah. this is the visa document. yeah, - called mohammed farah. this is the visa document. yeah, this l the visa document. yeah, this is the visa _ the visa document. yeah, this is the visa to _ the visa document. yeah, this is the visa to come _ the visa document. yeah, this is the visa to come to - the visa document. yeah, this is the visa to come to the - the visa document. yeah, this is the visa to come to the uk. is the visa to come to the uk and this is the document. you would have — and this is the document. you would have been _ and this is the document. you would have been known, you hadn't turned and yet. that is my photo _ hadn't turned and yet. that is my photo but _ hadn't turned and yet. that is my photo but it _ hadn't turned and yet. that is my photo but it is _ hadn't turned and yet. that is my photo but it is not - hadn't turned and yet. that is my photo but it is not my - hadn't turned and yet. that is i my photo but it is not my name, from that moment, coming in with a different name and a different identity. and now i have taken someone else's place i do wonder what is mohammed doing now? that is a big question, a very emotional story on no surprise of course, quite a shock. we

got the papers in here and let's start with the sun newspaper. no hint of talk about, well a tiny bit about who was going to be the next prime minister but this is all about, i'm not mo farah, who is really hussain abdi kahin, smuggled to the uk and even a fake name stopping the mirror as well, i was trafficked as a child, an illegal immigrant brought into the uk by a fake mum and the eye, i'm not who you think i am and just at the end the home office is credited as dismissing claims that the father of four could be stripped of his british nationalities, that was a concern that was expressed in a bbc documentary that will be broadcast a little bit later in the week but later his wife who helped to uncover the secrets after noticing, as it was put, missing pieces to his story. the important thing for me now,

he says, isjust the important thing for me now, he says, is just being honest. quite some revelations there in the papers and in the documentary from sir mo farah. and that is bbc news, thanks for watching. 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, the headlines: injapan, mourners have attended a vigils for assassinated former prime minister shinzo abe. it's ahead of a private funeral due to take place in tokyo the coming hours. mr abe was shot while campaigning on friday. here in the uk, there'll be a new leader of the conservative party and therefore a new prime minister on 5 september. the process to choose boris johnson's successor has been decided. there are 11 candidates so far. voting starts on wednesday. the first full—colour picture from the james webb space telescope has been released. it's said to be the deepest, most detailed view of

the universe to date, containing light from galaxies