i am the right honourable emily thornberry, and that is my honour.erson and that is the kind of relationship we have. but the conservatives use it quite a lot and i think they are trying to say that i'm sort of aristocracy. but i am emily thornberry from a council estate.” will ask you about your upbringing later if i may. as the right honourable emily thornberry, you tweeted an image of a bloke's house in rochester with three england flags outside in 2014. you had the caption, image from rochester. the reason i want to ask about this now is because it speaks to your character potentially and our audience want to know about your character. the then leader of your party ed miliband was furious. he said it conveyed a deep sense of disrespect. the man himself said it confirms that labour is run by the upper classes, out of touch with eve ryo ne upper classes, out of touch with everyone apart from the croissant munching islington elite and one of your colleagues are said labour had been hijacked by the north london liberal elite. are you a snob? well, li

emily thornberry? devastated by the result andl completely devastated by the result and i was devastated by the fact that we will have another five years of conservative government, and who knows what they are going to do to us. knows what they are going to do to us. would you like to apologise to these people here? us. would you like to apologise to these people here ?|j us. would you like to apologise to these people here? i was part of the leadership team of the labour party andl leadership team of the labour party and i apologise for us for the failure andl and i apologise for us for the failure and i frankly wish we had not called a general election in those circumstances. rebecca long—bailey? those circumstances. rebecca long-bailey? we had a single issue election which is what it was on the conservatives had three words, get brexit done, and we had three and a half paragraphs and try to change the subject and we were going to win andl the subject and we were going to win and i apologise for us g

should be here from emily thornberry? we asked her what she wa nts to thornberry?ke a weekend off and go away and we go to english towns where we've never been to before we stay in the local hotel, go to the municipal museum, we look at quirky things, we go walking, we go visit our local country house. we just spend time with one another and remind each other how we fell in love. awww! i what's all in —— i want saul emily thornberry coming back from the super bowl and she was so weighed down, it was the slowest cycle. —— a supermarket. there's always the people who know the different range available. it's interesting because people want to know stuff about their politicians. are ever people said to me they read an interview with one of their colleagues which referred to their supermarket shop. they go to rather an upmarket one. laughter it's really interesting, she's the most experienced politician in the race, and she's the one who is really struggling to break through so really struggling to break through so she's still hard at it. she's nothing if not a survivor

but emily thornberry has rarely gone down without a fight. laura kuenssberg, bbc news.guildenstern are dead" and "arcadia", has a new work called leopoldstadt, which has premiered in london. it follows an austrian jewish family during the first half of the 20th century. he talked to our arts editor, will gompertz, about the play and his roots, bothjewish and british. in his 60—year—plus career, the playwright tom stoppard has explored many a topic. it was philosophy injumpers... to begin at the beginning is god. ..quantum physics in hapgood... an isotope solution, if i open the case, i give a geiger reading. i love you. ..and a troubled marriage in the real thing. so you'll forgive me anything, is that it, hen? i'm a selfish cow but you love me? austria is officially innocent. the estatic multitudes who welcomed hitler — innocent victims. now, at the age of 82, he's tackling, for the first time, his jewish background, in an epic new play that follows the life and losses of an aspirationaljewish family living in vienna. the play actually starts in 1899 and is in four tim

but emily thornberry has rarely gone down without a fight. laura kuenssberg, bbc news.eads up campaign he leads uses football as a way of getting people to talk though some of the challenges. every football tea m from premier league to the fa women's national league will get involved. sarah campbell reports. three and a half minutes left! the competition was intense. it's going to go in! with the duke's team taking an early lead. after six minutes of play, the final score... cheering. 4-2. despite the opposition‘s call for var, it was a royal victory. there was, of course, a serious message from today's event. across two weekends this month, the focus in football grounds across the country will be mental health. football is followed by roughly 60 million people in this country. and if we can use the power of sport, use the power of football bringing people together to have a really big conversation on mental health, then that could only help people who are still struggling. when i sobered up 24 years ago, we didn't talk about this stuff. it wasn't spoke about. and to ha

but emily thornberry has rarely gone down without a fight. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. go next week, it‘s worth staying with me until the end of the long—range forecast because there is some stormy weather on the horizon. in the shorter term, what we have is the calm before the storm. high pressure in charge of the scene throughout thursday. the airaround high the scene throughout thursday. the air around high pressure moving in this clockwise direction. so that will always allows to pull quite a lot of cloud in. where you are closest to the centre of the high, we have late winds. fog could linger for quite a time on thursday morning, some of that quite dense. that fog tends to lift in most places then we will see some spells of sunshine. always very amounts of cloud in northern ireland and western scotland, the odd spot of rain. temperatures 7—9d, may be lower if you are stuck with fog for any length of time. these frontal systems will squat in from the atla ntic systems will squat in from the atlantic and ahead of those fronts we will see the wind starting to pick up.

as right honourable emily thornberry, you tweeted an image of a bloke‘s house in rochester with threeland flags outside. this was in 2014. with the caption, "image from #rochester". the reason i want to ask about this now is because it speaks to your character potentially, and our audience want to know about your character. yes, that's fine. that then leader of your party, ed miliband, was furious. he said it conveyed a deep sense of disrespect. the man himself, dan ware, said that it confirmed labour was run by the upper classes, out of touch with everyone apart from the croissa nt—munching islington elite, and one of your colleagues said that labour was being run by the islington elite. are you a snob? i was taking a series of photographs during a by—election. the idea is that people who are following me on twitter we get an insight into what a by—election is like. so i had photos of dogs with rosettes and the monster raving loony party, and people who had made their own posters and so on, and this was one of the images, and it was very striking. it was over the windows and it was m

emily thornberry, shadow foreign secretary, one of the four who had made it through to the second stageake the final run—off. you had to get the nominations of either three affiliate organisations, unions or other associated groups, lisa nandy had such a backing, no one backed emily thornberry and the other way of getting onto the final ballot paper was i getting 33 different constituency labour parties to back you. she made it late yesterday to 31. did not cross the line. the contest goes forward to the final vote with lisa nandy, sir keir starmer, rebecca long—bailey. the ballot papers will go out from the 24th, monday, and then run till april the 2nd, two days after that, we will get the result of who will face jeremy corbyn's labour leadership. seven weeks ago of this. enjoy. we well, you will give us posted. about how the debates go. someone pointing out it looks if she is not going to be labour leader, perhaps she could sing. a bit of opera. or maybe she is eating an invisible apple. she has thanked those who supported her to the stage, said she wanted to stay on the ballot people

tell them why you are the person, emily thornberry, to do that.leaving the european union, our economy is going to be challenged and we need to make sure that we make decisions together and that we are as united as we can. for there were many reasons we lost the election, it wasn'tjust one, and one of the problems of the political parties is they try to find one reason and it was all down to that and it would have been plain sailing otherwise. we have to be honest with people, we want to make deep change in this country. we believe in public ownership. what we've got to do now to win back trust is to set out a positive vision of what britain looks like outside of the european union. what will be your number one priority where you to become leader of the labour party and the next british prime minister, rebecca long—bailey? i've got a few number one priorities. just one. tackling anti—semitism in the party as one. to have an active industrial strategy that bringsjobs back to the regions and that links in with a green industrial strategy. my number

sir keir starmer, lisa nandy, rebecca long—bailey and emily thornberry debated how they could reviveshire programme this morning. sir keir starmer has been criticised for pushing labour towards a remain position and costing it the votes of leave supporters. he argued that events have moved on to the next stage of the brexit process. remain v leave is over now, we've left, so to some extent, i think, for us in the labour party, we need to make sure we don't carry this divide, because it's split families, it's split our party. we have left now. we need to move on. but what we can't do now is say, brexit is over, because there's nothing johnson wants more than for us to not look at what he's doing, because he's made loads of promises about brexit that he's not going to actually deliver, so we need to focus on that. lisa nandy said the reason labour keeps losing elections is that it has stopped listening to its traditional voters. we didn't just not listen, but we're not learning. we got defeated and rejected in 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019, and i am standing in this leadership contest beca

as right honourable emily thornberry, you tweeted an image of a bloke‘s house in rochester with threethis was in 2014. with the caption, "image from #rochester". the reason i want to ask about this now is because it speaks to your character potentially, and our audience want to know about your character. yes, that's fine. the then—leader of your party, ed miliband, was furious. he said it conveyed a deep sense of disrespect. the man himself, dan ware, said that it confirmed labour was run by the upper classes, out of touch with everyone apart from the "croissa nt—munching islington elite", and one of your colleagues said that labour had been hijacked by the islington elite. are you a snob? i was taking a series of photographs during a by—election. the idea is that people who are following me on twitter would get an insight into what a by—election is like. so i had photos of dogs with rosettes and the monster raving loony party, and people who had made their own posters and so on, and this was one of the images, and it was very striking. it was over the windows and it was many months a

the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, has been knocked out of the labour leadership contestiling to secure enough support to take her into the final round. now lucy hedges is in sri lanka, where electric tuk—tuks are taking to the road as part of measures to tackle air pollution in the travel show. coming up on this week's programme: electric tuk—tu ks. .. it is almost silent, the suspension is still the same though. fatphobia and the woman that beat it. and, look away now if you don't like snakes. laughs. horns beeping. we are starting ourjourney in sri lanka's capital city colombo, where the true kings of the road are the tuk—tuks, also known as auto rickshaws or three—wheelers. horn honks. ahh! and where honking seems to be a national sport. nothing like the great honking horn of a giant bus to put fear in you. there is actually over a million tuk—tuks here in sri lanka and it definitely shows, because these things are everywhere. that's a pretty high number for a country ofjust over 20 million people. the prospect of good money has prompted many young people to become a

the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, has been knocked out of the labour leadership race too receive enough support from local constituency parties. rebecca long—bailey, sir keir starmer and lisa nandy have all made it onto the final ballot, with voting open to party members injust over a week. the duchess of cambridge has been speaking about one of the most personal moments of her life — dealing with the birth of herfirst child. appearing on the happy mum, happy ba by podcast, she talks about the pregnancy and the crippling morning sickness that forced her into hospital. here's our royal correspondent, daniela relph. the podcast was recorded during a visit to this south london nursery. improving the lives of families with young children is now the priority for the duchess of cambridge and dominates her royal work. with podcast host giovanna fletcher, the duchess spoke personally about everything from the value of her own stable upbringing to the guilt that can come with motherhood. here leaving hospital after being admitted with severe morning sickness while pregnant with p

now only 4 candidates are still in the labor leadership race emily thornberry lisa nandi the beck along billie and couldn't run away favorite secure starmer. alex looks at their prospects in turn with political commentator steve richards and former labor economic adviser richard murphy. so steve richard welcome to the show that looking at this this race for the labor leadership. lisa nandy rebecca long billy stark there we're going to start from the the outsider to the fever so we'll start with emily thought 100 to one her odds no we're not even sure she'll get to the starting gate in a boat 10 days time what if she added something to this contest in a way it's very surprising that she has struggled to to make a big impact if a year ago i think most political commentators if they were asked who had a real chance of winning the leadership she would have been very much up there. and it appears that what has happened really is that kiss star who will talk about later has basically stolen her constituency before she even had a chance to address it so even though she is well known she has be

the ford act so they could spend 10 years in jail for mine the welfare or claimant excesses emily thornberry wanted to think went away more 14 years. i mean kiersten how much we destroyed by the left of the body just for those things surely if he's later i mean and she does a communist by the mainstream media well that's right that's one of the problems one has in the labor party and but we've always had that problem it may be greater now i don't know i can't make a judgement even looking back after all those years we shouldn't forget the origins of the labor party and the beliefs of the labor party of using science and technology to make life better for the future of ordinary people in this country and nuts what i think we may have forgotten. in some of the recent years we've got to look to the for the future and that is what germany was getting at with broadband and it was loft at even though and of course there are food banks now in britain and one in 4 children are in poverty supply haps that's where the broadband was lost but wasn't corben appealing to that will sony an idea of technolo

labour‘s emily thornberry is out of the party‘s leadership race, after falling short of enough backers minute scramble ahead of the midnight deadline, the shadow foreign secretary failed to win enough support to make it through to the final ballot. frontbenchers sir keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey, along with backbench mp lisa nandy, had already made it to the next round. from today, companies which provide phone, broadband and pay—tv services will have to alert customers when their contracts are coming to an end. the media regulator, 0fcom, says about 20 million people are currently out of contract — with many likely to be paying higher prices than they need to. our business correspondent katy austin, gave us more details. you might not realize that you‘re out of contract and then you might have signed up to a really good, cheap or discounted offer initially, but that‘s no longer going to apply, you‘re automatically going to be jacked up to a higher standard rate. now, the change that‘s coming in means that the provider will have to contact you, whether that‘s email or text or an

seen in terms of the two frontrunners, we have four candidates in the race, lisa nandy and also emily thornberry rebecca long—bailey, in terms of announcing which candidate would be back, sir keir starmer seems to have been coming out on top and quitea seems to have been coming out on top and quite a few of those and yesterday we had the constituency labour party forjeremy corbyn's on seatin labour party forjeremy corbyn's on seat in islington north coming out in favour of seat in islington north coming out infavourof sir seat in islington north coming out in favour of sir keir starmer. so, i suppose, there is concern on the tea m suppose, there is concern on the team of rebecca long—bailey as to whether or not sir keir starmer might tip to the post. but in terms of this latest revelation, i suppose it just gives a of this latest revelation, i suppose itjust gives a negative feeling as to what is going on in that campaign. for the moment, susana mendonca, thank you very much. and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers, the features writer james rampton and lucy fisher,

emily thornberry has been eliminated from the labour leadership contest after failing to secure the necessaryfinal ballot. the shadow foreign secretary had 31 nominations from local constituency parties, just two short of the number required to go forward. the next labour leader will be sir kier starmer, lisa nandy or rebecca long—bailey. this is bbc news. the headlines: china defends its response to the spread of covid—19, as people returning to beijing are ordered to put themselves in quarantine for 1h days. parts of yorkshire, wales and the south—west are braced for floods as stormy weather sweeps in for the second weekend in a row. there were more than 5,000 cases of mumps last year in england, that's the highest level in a decade. it's been largely driven by young adults at universities and colleges who didn't as children have the mmrjab — that's measles, mumps and rubella. public health england says the rise looks set to continue this year, and it's urging people to have both parts of the mmr vaccine for maximum protection. catherine burns reports. this is david 0rwood now, and this is

the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, has been knocked out of the labour leadership race afterlocal constituency parties. rebecca long—bailey, sir keir starmer and lisa nandy have all made it onto the final ballot paper. labour members will begin voting a week on monday. the result will be announced on the 4th april. china's state railway company has offered to build the entire hs2 high speed rail line linking london to birmingham, manchester and leeds in just five years. in a letter, seen by building magazine, beijing says it could also deliver the project at a much lower cost. government officials said "preliminary discussions" had taken place, but no "concrete commitments" had been made. the duchess of cambridge has said her "amazing granny" is the inspiration for the way she parents her own children. in an interview for the podcast happy mum, happy baby, the duchess said she wants to replicate the experiences she shared with her grandmother, like being outdoors and cooking, with prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis. i had an amazing granny who devoted a lot of

the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, has been knocked out of the labour leadership race, toecca long—bailey, sir keir starmer and lisa nandy have all made it onto the final ballot, with voting open to party members injust over a week. from today, companies which provide phone, broadband and pay—tv services will have to alert customers when their contracts are coming to an end. the media regulator, 0fcom, says about 20 million people are currently out of contract — with many likely to be paying higher prices than they need to. our business correspondent katy austin, gave us more details. when i'm broadband contract comes to an end, that means we might automatically be put onto a higher rate. that means a cheaper deal we might have signed up to immediately when a took out our contract, a year or two years, won't apply any more. asi or two years, won't apply any more. as i say, we are automatically paying more thoughts to happen now is that these providers are going to have to get in contact with customers between ten and 40 days before that contract is due to come to an end an

labour's emily thornberry is out of the party's leadership race after falling short of enough backersthe final stage of the contest. despite a desperate last—minute scramble ahead of the midnight deadline, the shadow foreign secretary failed to win enough support to make it through to the final ballot. frontbenchers sir keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey, along with backbench mp lisa nandy, had already made it to the next round. the duchess of cambridge has said her parenting inspiration is her amazing granny, who involved her in arts and crafts, gardening and cooking as a child. in her first podcast interview, she said she wants to make sure she gives similar experiences to her children, prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis. catherine was speaking after lauching a major survey on childhood last month. let's return to our top story now, and thousands of air passengers have had their flights cancelled ahead of storm dennis arriving later today. so what are your rights if you are one of them? the independent‘s travel editor, simon calder, joins us now from our london new

labour's emily thornberry is out of the party's leadership race, after falling short of enough backers ahead of the midnight deadline, the shadow foreign secretary failed to win enough support to make it through to the final ballot. frontbenchers sir keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey, along with backbench mp lisa nandy, had already made it to the next round. a british asian singer arjun, who's had millions of views on youtube, is warning young people about heart attacks. arjun‘s wife died suddenly and unexpectedly six months into their marriage. he's now organising a concert this weekend to raise awareness of the risk of heart disease to young people. it's the first time he's spoken about his loss to the bbc asian network's shabnam mahmood. singer arjun has have millions of views on youtube, including for his song dedicated to his wife ofjust six months. that was a first time i have been able to put my feelings on paper. i think part of my therapy was to write it down in a song. the first time i had seen our footage from the wedding was in the video weirdly enough, so that was quite

rebecca long bailey, lisa nandy, sir keir starmer, and emily thornberry faced questions about the partyhe audience voicing their concerns about the direction of the party. i have been labour all my life and i protect people throughout the north—west and i am hearing the same thing, that you don‘t listen to them. you have to get out of your little boxes. your manifesto was an absolute joke, an absolute disgrace. the labour party was literally built of the back of unions, how could you say that it should be a centrist party? that's the make sense. there is a sort of dilemma. you have to bring those supporters, they are all labour at heart, but on different sides. you have to bring them together and tell them why you are the person, emily thornbury to do that. it is going to be hard after leaving the european union, our economy is going to be challenged and we need to make sure that we make decisions together and we are as united as we can. there are many reasons that we lost the election and it was notjust one. the problem with political parties as they try to find one reason and say it w