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labour's first conference in 15 years as the party of government has begun —— with ministers attempting to wrest back control of the political agenda. it follows days of questions over leaks about the downing street operation, and senior ministers' judgement in accepting free clothes. the deputy prime minister, angela rayner, rejected the suggestion that she broke rules when she stayed in the new york flat of a labour donor — and she told the bbc that the government was "open and transparent" about donations. our political editor chris mason has more from liverpool. in the wilderness of opposition for a decade and a half. now, labour is in power, but the political weather is a bit nippy, blustery and grey. make no mistake, though, there is a pride here in a big victory, and the chance to actually d0 stuff, not just talk about it.

i will say britain is back. britain is back, my friends, britain is back. the very first clause of our constitution, written by the founders of the labour party, commits us to winning. it's a big responsibility, so let's get on with it. i thank you, conference. the new government inherits a tricky backdrop, which has become trickier still, courtesy of what are privately acknowledged by some as duffjudgments. publicly today, the deputy prime minister, who has been given free clothes, and alongside her colleagues now won't accept any more, said... i get that people are angry and i get that people are upset. but you're not going to change the rules? i think the transparency is there so people can see that. but how transparent was she over a stay in new york in the flat of a labour donor? she did declare it, but didn't declare that a fellow labour mp at the time joined her there too.

it was a personal holiday, and i think i followed the rules. in fact, i went above that, and i wanted to do that to be transparent about the connection that i had of the use of that apartment. but they stayed in that apartment. sam tarry, who used to be a labour mp, stayed in that apartment and you didn't declare it. did you break the rules? i don't believe i broke any rules. there's been no comment from mr tarry. then there's the row about the prime minister's chief of staff, sue gray. last week, we told you how some figures in government are so upset with her, they were willing to leak us how much she gets paid. and some in government wonder if she can survive in her role. will sue gray still be in herjob at christmas? i think so, absolutely. and sue gray has been doing an incrediblejob. she has got a huge amount of respect amongst the cabinet. later, angela rayner addressed the conference, keen to crank our attention back to what the government is trying to do. when i took on this job, i promised the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation — nothing

less then a new deal for working people. but after years of opposition, we are on the verge of historic legislation to make work more secure. orchestra plays: "all you need is love" for the third year in a row, liverpool is hosting labour's conference — and providing a soundtrack, too. everywhere here, for the first time in a long time, the trinkets of victory, the potential of government. but so, too, a desire to change the record after a bumpy few days. chris mason reporting there. the labour party is making some of tomorrow morning's front pages. the guardian leads with the labour party who are to investigate £600 million covid contracts given under the tories.

staying with labour — the i reports that rachel reeves, the chancellor of the exchequer is being urged by some colleagues not to allow public spending to return to austerity. and the express says that sir keir starmer faces a showdown with union backers. also featured is the princess of wales — seen in public for the first time since her cancer treatment ended — she joined the king and queen at church on sunday in balmoral. the daily telegraph shows the deputy prime minister angela raynor pictured at the conference in liverpool yesterday — and a story about the ongoing donations row. and finally the daily mirror leads with tax dodgers — they will be hunted down and forced to pay up in a new drive to claw back billions for public services.

one of the lines released from rachel reeves's speech that she will give to the labour party conference. she's going to say that she will not tolerate the minority who avoid paying what they oh. she is going to say at the labour party conference at a time of hard choices come i will not tolerate the minority who continue to avoid paying what they owe. if you make your home and do your business in britain, then you should pay your taxes here too. those are some of the words that rachel reeves is going to use in her speech to the labour party conference here tomorrow. we will, of course, have full coverage of that speech here on bbc news tomorrow. nex to the tensions in the middle east following the escalating fighting between israel and lebanon's iranian backed hezbollah group. egypt has warned it risks igniting a regional war and damaging the chance of ceasefire deal in gaza. arriving back

at the white house president biden addressed the tensions — let's take a listen to what he told reporters. are you worried about rising pensions? i are you worried about rising pensions?— are you worried about rising ensions? ., , ., ., ., pensions? i am, but we are going to do everything _ pensions? i am, but we are going to do everything we — pensions? i am, but we are going to do everything we can _ pensions? i am, but we are going to do everything we can from _ pensions? i am, but we are going to do everything we can from wider- pensions? i am, but we are going to| do everything we can from wider war breaking _ do everything we can from wider war breaking out. -- do everything we can from wider war breaking out-— the united nations chief has said he fears the escalating cross—border conflict between israel and hezbollah could risk lebanon becoming another gaza. antonio guterres also voiced his pessimism about the chances of a ceasefire deal in the gaza strip. his comments came as the funeral took place for a senior hezbollah commander killed in friday's israeli air strike on beirut. the deputy leader of the armed group said its confrontation with israel had entered a new phase , describing it as an "open—ended battle of reckoning". friday's attack has been followed by a further escalation of cross—border strikes... with three people killed in an israeli attack on southern lebanon. and israel says hezbollah has fired more than 150 rockets into its territory. (mix this dashcam video from a parked car — verified by bbc verify — shows the exact moment of an impact in kiryat bialik in israel. you can also see in

another video that cars and buildings were set alight. some people were injured. in haifa, 30 kilometres from the lebanese border, hospital patients have been moved to underground facilities — and residents have been told to restrict gatherings and stay near shelters. our senior international correspondent 0rla guerin has this report from beirut. hezbollah today, in mourning, but unbowed. this was the funeral of a top military commander, ibrahim aqil, killed on friday in an israeli air strike. the armed group's deputy leader said it was entering a new phase of open—ended battle against israel.

and resounding support for that in its stronghold in southern beirut, where hezbollah fighters, living and dead, are heroes. many have lined the streets here to say goodbye to ibrahim aqil. his killing is a major loss for hezbollah at a time when the organisation is suffering blow after blow. there is anger here, and grief, but also defiance. the message is, hezbollah is not broken and will fight on. and it's been doing that today, firing missiles deeper into israel. hezbollah says its targets are military. but this residential area

in northern israel was hit. this too was a residential area in beirut, until friday's israeli strike, which killed the hezbollah commander and 15 of his men, as they met below ground. a lebanese government minister linked to hezbollah says israel is dragging the region to war. at the end, lebanon is not seeking the war. even the lebanese people. but israel is calling us, come to war, come to war. and do you think it will happen? i don't know. we will see. around 30 civilians were killed here too, including entire families. some of their relatives are still waiting at the scene today, hoping for remains to be found. 0rla guerin, bbc news, beirut.

israeli president isaac herzog says his government wants to get out of what he called a vicious cycle with hezbollah. he's been speaking to our partners cbs on the programme face the nation. take a listen do you have evidence that there was an imminent attack? 50 i do you have evidence that there was an imminent attack?— an imminent attack? so i can't go into all the _ an imminent attack? so i can't go into all the information _ an imminent attack? so i can't go into all the information itself, - an imminent attack? so i can't go into all the information itself, but it is assumed that they were planning an attack. you see today, this morning, they took out a barrage of attacks on israeli citizens, towns and villages all over the northern part of israel, pounding with huge bombs and missiles on the northern part of israel. why would any nation except at? why in any decent nation except it? we are almost a year in such a situation of the kind of vicious

cycle. our international editor jeremy bowen is injerusalem and i asked him whether israel is listening to calls to prevent a wider war. i think he listens when he wants to listen. i think he hears everything. it's a question of whether he agrees and whether he acts on that. and i think his record over the last year, when it comes to advice from joe biden is that he's he's ignored it probably more often than he's accepted it in terms of the way that israel wages its war. the americans have had a peace envoy who's been operational in the area for some time, who's tried to build a diplomatic solution. the problem with that is that essentially, hezbollah have said they're not prepared to countenance anything until there is a ceasefire in gaza. they say that their military activity is all about supporting the palestinians and supporting hamas in what they're doing against israel. so faced with that, i think the israelis having inflicted really some grievous blows in less than a week on hezbollah,

if you think, you know, the the air strikes, the assassinations, the weaponisation of pages is and radios. pagers and radios. personal walkabout radios. i mean, that's caused a great deal of damage to the organisation. but the the thing to remember is it hasn't broken it. and the desire to fight israel is deep in its dna. its arsenal, which is supplied by iran, is mostly intact. and its leader, though, while he's clearly been shaken by what's happened, has said that retaliation will come. so if both sides don't want to budge on this and israel is pushing forward harder, that's where the slide to war happens. and that's why there are so many who are now preparing for the worst, notjust friends of israel, but enemies of israel as well. and whilejoe biden says, yes, diplomacy is vital, have a cease fire. that's the american position,

british as well, and others among israel's allies. but you know the point is, at the moment, i'm not sure who's listening to what they're saying. the met office is warning of more flooding and travel disruption tomorrow — because of flooding in parts of england and wales. in dunstable in bedfordshire today, flash floods have washed away cars — and police have closed off some roads. thousands of lightning strikes have been recorded this weekend across the uk. with more on this, our correspondentjoe inwood is in the newsroom. at the moment, it seems bedfordshire seems to be badly hit by these flash floods. that's where the rain has been focused, though here in london it's been pretty wet outside as well and all across the south of the uk, as you say come around bedford from

around luton, bedfordshire seems to be where the worst of this has hit. bedfordshire police there is widespread travel disruption especially times link, this is their trains hadn't been running anyway, they'd been on rail replacement bus services and those have not been cancelled as well because of the rain. the general messages if you are around the bedfordshire area, probably best not to be going anywhere, but it's actually wider than that as well stop wage i can say the rain overnight was really bad, so it doesn't surprise me that there has been flooding. i want to show you some pictures we have had from �*s temperature, you mentioned there are wider warnings for the morning and parts of england. 50 there is a widespread yellow warning, a large part of the south of england but there is a— of england but there is a specific amber warning _ of england but there is a specific amber warning between - of england but there is a specific amber warning between five - of england but there is a specific amber warning between five andj amber warning between five and eight, they expect really a lot of

rain is going to be falling in that. come up to ten cm just across the morning, so that could really cause severe travel disruption. and now as ever, when you forecast, they can change. it's best to check in the morning, but it is going to be a very, very difficult morning for many people travelling across the south of england because of the heavy levels of rain that is being expected. heavy levels of rain that is being exected. , ., ., ~' ,, , heavy levels of rain that is being exected. ., ~' , . expected. joe, thank you very much indeed and — expected. joe, thank you very much indeed and as _ expected. joe, thank you very much indeed and as joe _ expected. joe, thank you very much indeed and as joe said, _ expected. joe, thank you very much indeed and as joe said, it's - expected. joe, thank you very much indeed and as joe said, it's good - expected. joe, thank you very much indeed and as joe said, it's good to | indeed and asjoe said, it's good to check with the weather forecast which of course we have here on bbc news and, of course, you can get the very latest on your bbc local radio station when you wake up in the morning. the crown prosecution service says it twice considered bringing charges against the former harrods owner mohamed al fayed, but on both occasions, it concluded there was no realistic prospect of a conviction. all of this has come to light since a bbc documentary this week led to dozens of women coming forward with allegations of being sexually assaulted or raped by the billionaire, who died last year. here's the latest from our business reporter ben king

we've learned today that in 2008 the metropolitan police investigated the case of a 15—year—old girl who said she had been sexually assaulted by mohamed al fayed in the boardroom of harrods. a file was passed to the cps who took no further action because they felt there was no realistic prospect of a conviction based on the evidence that they had. another case fell at the same hurdle in 2015 and three subsequent cases didn't even get to the stage of a file being passed to the cps. the lawyers for some of the victims have called mr al fayed's conduct an abject failure of corporate governance and as more women are coming forward, that will inevitably raise questions for those who were in management at harrods at the time,

she said she found the allegations are fine and was concerned about powerful people who seem to get away with it time and time again. now, harrods is no longer owned by mr al fayed, it was sold to the government of qatar, the gulf states, they have said they have admitted that victims were let down and they have said that no legal claims, legal claims will be settled. ben king reporting. and you can listen to the podcast world of secrets — predator at harrods. you can find it on the bbc sounds app or search for it online. there is also a documentary you can watch on the bbc iplayer. two recent security breaches involving the former us president donald trump — including one in pennsylvania in which he was shot — have sparked a whole new wave of disinformation and hate online ahead of november's election. the bbc�*s social media correspondent marianna spring has been to colorado —

a state which has become a hot bed for conspiracy theories — to investigate how two people, one republican and the other democrat, have been drawn into them. this moment, when donald trump was shot at injuly, triggered a whole wave of speculation, conspiracy theories and false claims online, drawing in people across the political spectrum. this is actually where i walked to from our cabin. that includes desiree. under the pseudonym wild mother she regularly posts about natural medicine. now she also shares unproven theories about major news events. i had been extremely passionate about trying to figure out the real truth about september 11. everything about this town... she thinks donald trump is the best option for president and when the first assassination attempt happened, she was led to the unevidenced theory that trump's own team staged the attack in order to frame his hidden enemies.

do i hope that that's the case? yes. why? because i think our country needs rescuing from our government right now. it's a horrible mess. it's like going to a magic show as a kid and then you find out for the first time that the magician is pulling one over on you. now, every time you go to a magic show, you know what they're doing. 70 miles away in colorado's capital, denver, camille has voted democrat for the last 15 years. she says she's never believed in conspiracy theories like this before. what started as questions about security failings after donald trump was shot at led to camille being recommended baseless theories on x. some of these racked up more than 25 million views in total. well, that's staged. that was my first reaction. because the secret service,

if they weren't involved in some sort of staged event, they wouldn't have let him pose for a picture and expose his body to the open air with an active shooter nearby. these conspiracy theories feed into the wider belief that anything and everything can be staged or rigged, including elections. election centres, like this one in nearbyjefferson county, are upping security ahead of the vote as their workers are subject to abuse and threats online. let's make sure that we are all voting in ways that - align with our values. but what's not ok is when you're sending horrifying e—mails- or when you are making threats on the internet or— coming to an office. camille and wild mother say they wouldn't threaten anyone. but social media's algorithms are drawing new people deeper into an online world detached from reality, where hate can feel justified. marianna spring, bbc news, colorado. anthonyjoshua, says he wants to continue fighting — after he was knocked out as he tried to take the international boxing federation heavyweight title from daniel du—bwar. the fifth round defeat — in front of a record 96,000 fans at wembley stadium —

dashed joshua's hopes of becoming a three—time world heavyweight boxing champion. he said the loss would not stop him from rebuilding but he accepted he and his team had came up short. gareth a davies — is a sports journalist and broadcaster — who's covered boxing for over 30 years. he told me the fight was as good as he's ever seen, and the atmopshere was fantastic. i think they counted 98,000 in there at the end. by the way, it's a record. anyway, it was an amazing atmosphere. um, wembley stadium is an extraordinary place to fight and to have fights. and anthonyjoshua obviously was headlining there for the third time and as you rightly say, and he's put his hands up to say that he didn't produce on the night. and it's one of his worst performances, i think.

why do you think he didn't perform? there's a lot of pressure on him. we always knew it was going to be a shoot out. daniel dubois was a big underdog. i thought it was very unfair, by the way, that dubois, as champion, had to walk in first because it's normally the other way round. but he really showed his mettle and his youth and his vim and his vigour, and he hurtjoshua in that first round. joshua was slow and listless and dubois was very sharp, very quick, quicker to the punch in the first round and it was a tactical error from joshua. he was caught by a coruscating right hand in that first round, saved by the bell, and spent three rounds really surviving and trying to recover. um, he did, uh, pull out some punches in the fifth round and told his cornerman that he was going to roll the dice and these were the moments that he was born for. but unfortunately he did hurt dubois. but wasn't the full packet himself at the time was probably 30% of himself and was caught by a huge right hand counter and was left like clothes crumpling

into a suitcase, unfortunately. and it was all over. so let's look at what's next for each of them. let's start off with dubois as he won. where is the world at his feet now? 0h, absolutely. at his hands and his feet. he's had some ups and downs as well. took a knee with a broken orbital socket against fellow britjoejoyce in lockdown. lost to 0leksandr usyk in front of 40,000 in poland. but over the last 13 months he's really learnt his man strength, if you like, emotionally and physically. he's 27 now, he's in the prime of his life and that scalp ofjoshua is enormous. notjust defending the ibf title. the scalp is enormous and he belongs really for me, anywhere against the top five in the world. fury, tyson fury, 0leksandr usyk rematch. um, joseph parker, um zhilei zhang, the giant chinese fighter. he really does now sit at boxing's top table. you can read more about what anthony joshua might do next on the bbc sport website and app.

the bbc�*s former economics editor — peterjay — has died. he was 87. hejoined the bbc in the 19805 to head up its economics coverage. he'd started as a printjournalist on fleet street before presenting the current affairs programme weekend world. he was made britain's ambassador to the united states before coming back to work with media baron robert maxwell. a spell heading up the breakfast show tv—am followed, before he moved to the bbc. peterjay, who has died. we mentioned earlier that there has been flash flooding in bedfordshire and there are warnings out, so we better get a check on the weather, thatis better get a check on the weather, that is with chris. hello there. big thunderstorms are on the way for monday and that brings the threat of some significant flash flooding. the storms that we had on sunday were heavy enough but didn't affect everyone.

western scotland, the skies have been like this for days in the highlands. another still day, you'll be wondering what all the fuss is about, i'm sure. but further southwards, the radar picture showed some intense storms, particularly going through the south midlands. and in woburn in bedfordshire, we recorded over the space of two hours 59mm of rain. that's more than the average for the entirety of september. and over the 2a hour period, the same site had 102mm of rain, so nearly double the monthly average rainfall. and nearby in dunstable, well, there was some severe flooding with the high street underwater at one point. now looking at the picture at the moment, lots of showers across england and wales again with some thunderstorms — quieter weather further northwards. but the met office have got an amber weather warning out in force for monday. some communities could see around 80mm—120mm of rain, and it could well be that this risk of extreme rainfall extends into central, southern england as well.

so through the day, some torrential thundery downpours focussed across parts of england, some communities having a high risk of flash flooding, probably some river flooding, some disruption. it's one of those days where you want to check on travel conditions before heading out. northern ireland, west scotland, bright with some sunny spells. east scotland continues to be rather cloudy with mist. north scotland, we're seeing a weather front move in, bringing outbreaks of rain and ultimately cooler weather conditions. on into tuesday, well, the thundery rain is clearing out of the way across england and wales, so in that respect, it's a drier kind of day. in scotland, we get this cold front continuing to push its way southwards, really dumping the temperatures here — just ten degrees in aberdeen and 12 for glasgow. still relatively mild, i suppose for northern ireland, england and wales. middle part of the week sees active areas of low pressure bringing further heavy rain, particularly focussed again on england and wales. and once those systems have pushed through, well, then we get chilly northwesterly winds diving southwards, and so through the week it is going to stay unsettled, and through the week it is going to turn a lot cooler as well, with temperatures across the board well below average. but for monday, it's that risk

of flash flooding we really need to pay attention to. stay in touch with the latest forecast, please.

good evening, if you'vejoined us on bbc news, we would have a full bulleting at midnight, now it's time for hard talk.

welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. vladimir putin talks of restoring greatness to what he calls the russian world — an expansive territory which, as ukrainians know to their cost, stretches far beyond russia's current borders. putin's expansionist nationalism requires military power, but it's harnessed the cultural spiritual authority of the russian orthodox church, too. my guest, andrey kordochkin, was a russian orthodox priest who spoke out against the ukraine war and the "putinisation" of his church. but is he swimming against an unstoppable tide?