this is bbc news. our top stories: japan prepares for the funeral of shinzo abe, assassinated last week. the 67—year—old 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 the 5th of september — it points to many weeks of fierce campaigning forthe main candidates — the first round of voting will be on wednesday. 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 ofjapan�*s former prime minister, shinzo abe, will start in the coming hours following his assasination on friday. mr abe 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. mariko oi is outside the temple in tokyo where the funeralfor shino abe will be held.

thousands of people have been coming to zojoji templejust behind me where the vigil was taking place last night and also the funeral will start shortly, bringing flowers and a lot of young people as well. they are in 20s, 30s, and to them, mr abe was the only prime minister they can kind of remember because of the long years he spent at the top of the japanese politics. yesterday at the vigil we had about 2,500 visitors including the british ambassador and american ambassador, we also spotted the russian ambassador who called mr abe a great politician. also a lot of japanese business leaders, including the ceo of toyota motors and so on. we do not know who will be attending his funeral today. all the details have been quite difficult to find out given the tight security, as you can imagine. and regardless of what happens

today, of course, his name is indelibly inked, isn't it, in modern japanese economy, the nationalising of the country, to a certain extent. but abenomics is a way of life. absolutely, and it was interesting a couple of days ago, if there was one thing you would remember shinzo abe for, what would that be? and all the answers were quite different. you talked about abenomics, his economic policies, where he worked closely with the central bank governor to pump basically billions of dollars into the economy to jumpstart it, investors loved it, the stock market did very well under those policies. 0thers, though, critics would argue it widened the wealth gap between rich and poor but other people we've been speaking to also talked about abenomask, because he was the prime minister at the beginning of the pandemic and he distributed

free facemasks and it was criticised at the time because it was too small, and so on, 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, former us president. mr 0bama came to japan to visit hiroshima, the first sitting us president. mr abe then visited pearl harbor with mr 0bama but when mr trump was elected, mr abe was the first global leader to visit him in his home. mariko 0i reporting there in tokyo. 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. 0ur south asia corespondent 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. 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. britain will have a new prime minister by 5 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... ..who posted her launch video this morning. to win the next election, we need to deliver, deliver and deliver for the british people. 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, 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. 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've decided to seek the nomination to be 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've seen this movie before and we know how it ends. 0ur leadership has to change. and 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 5 september. the business of whittling down the wannabes begins tomorrow. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster.

stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: it's arguably the most famous movie theme tune of them all we look back at the life of the man who wrote it, monty norman, who has died at 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 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 world 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.

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. well earlier i spoke to james webb space telescope project scientist klaus pontoppidanand asked his reaction to this first image released. 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 science and this is one image we will do that with and tomorrow there will be much more. to the uninitiated and i 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? what you see here is thousands of galaxies all the way, almost, to the edge of the universe. so telescopes are time machines and 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 emitted their light more than 13 billion years ago, and what we can do is to go to the very end and look for the first galaxies with images like this. it takes a lot to get your head around that, doesn't it? what does that do for you? what is the benefit of being able to get that?

so i think these big, scientific telescopes, i think they are going for something that i feel is very fundamental to humans, that we have this sense of wonder and wanting to know where we come from, so webb does many things. it'll look at where does the universe come from in the first place? where do the elements that make us up come from, the carbon and our bodies, the water, and are we alone in the universe? webb 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? so the webb telescope will not be finding life, we need a bigger telescope for that, but it will be able to say

if conditions for life are common in the universe. and if not, how common and uncommon they are in the universe so we are looking forward to getting more clarity on the questions. 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 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 it is not the reality. the real story is i was born in somaliland, north of somalia,

as hussein 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. as 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. yeah, this is the visa to come to the uk and this was the document we came with. you would have been nine, you hadn't turned ten yet. that is 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? it is an extraordinary revelation, got all the papers here, and want to run through one or two of them. the son leads on it, 0lympic hero is really hussain abdi kahin, i am not mo farah, it says there and the mirror borrows suit, i was trafficked as a child. the i focuses partly on i'm not who you think i am but also with a little line at the bottom, the home office dismisses claims that the father of four would be stripped of his british nationality and if we have a quick look at the times as well, they actually come on that theme, citizenship likely to be safe despite confession but they do run through the thought of terms by which you could lose your citizenship in one of those is having false information about your identity, so probably a brave thing for mo farah to have done

and he will be hoping of course there are no further ramifications there. the composer monty norman, who wrote the theme for the james bond films, has died at the age of 94. he began his career singing in big bands before forging a career writing for musicals and films. 0ur correspondent lizo mzimba looks back at his life and career. bond theme music plays. over the years, 007 might have changed, but one thing has remained constant... bond theme music 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. 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... 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. bond theme music plays. lizo mzimba looking back at the life of monty norman, who's died at the age of 94. just got another bit of news to bring to you, it is one for neighbours fans and is not gonna be much more neighbours but more than 20 years after ramsay street's scott and charlene tied the knot, they

are back together again. kylie minogue and jason donovan shared some behind—the—scenes shots of their mindset as they filmed their appearance in the show�*s grand finale which will air at the end of the month. that is bbc news for now. 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 a temperature of 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. change is 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, but 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 that 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.

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