keir starmer — the shadow brexit secretary — officially launches his bid to become the next labour leaderhe country needs radical policies to fight inequality. the moralfight the moral fight against injustice and poverty and homelessness isjust as big a moralfight as it was in the general election. coming up, the best exclusive stories from vicotoria derbyshire — a review of the week, that's at a50. —— victoria derbyshire. borisjohnson has said that iran's admission that it shot down by mistake a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an ‘important first step‘. four britons were among the 176 people killed in wednesday‘s crash. a senior iranian military official said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. iran‘s president rouhani has called the downing of the jet an "unforgiveable mista ke". our diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley has more. this is the moment iran made a catastrophic error, firing a missile into a passenger plane, killing everyone on board. for three days in the face of mounting evidence, iran adamantly denied it was responsible. but this morning broug

keir starmer, lisa nandy, andjust phillips. would make a strong leader of the party. —— and jess phillips. is rebecca long—bailey to associated with jeremy corbyn? totally, she is the continuity candidate. and if she becomes a leader of the labour party i fear it would be fatal for the party. i think it would be an absolute disaster. and we thornberry isa absolute disaster. and we thornberry is a good bit better but not much. —— emily thornberry. my worries about keir starmer is that he has spent the last four years on the front bench and all credit to him trying to bring the party into a present bull position on brek said but he spent so much of its time trying tojuggle the different but he spent so much of its time trying to juggle the different winds of the party and ijust wonder whether he is bold enough to go out there and strike a new direction for there and strike a new direction for the party which i think is absolutely what has to happen. because the labour party has to start talking to the country and not itself and i

way ahead among mps is sir keir starmer, the shadow brexit secretary.an mp lisa nandy is in the race.

it is very obviously keir starmer at the moment.nd, but he is fighting a very adept campaign, doing everything he needs to do to woo doing everything he needs to do to woo labour members, the most socially concerned, socially liberal, deeply liberal about the consequences of another five years of the conservative government and a return to what they see as bad all day, and at the moment keir starmer is saying to people, i can win, but i will not throw the baby out with the bath water. and thus far no one else has got close to coming up with the message that marries the need to win the labour leadership election but ina win the labour leadership election but in a way that leaves them with plenty of room for manoeuvre in terms of winning a general election afterwards. what is interesting about the range of potential leadership candidates that have declared so far is it is impossible at this stage to know which direction the labour party will go m, direction the labour party will go in, depending on the outcome of this race, because we

a lot happening this afternoon and we can start with the front runner keir starmer.ngress, and that gives you a clue of the message he is telling his supporters and is trying to push out to voters which is, forget what you might have heard, that i‘m a centrist candidate, nonsense, he says, i want to continue with many of the radical policies we have seen over the last three years, under jeremy corbyn, and that has been the message of his campaign so far. it is important because ultimately it will be the members who choose the next labour leader and it is thought many of those are to the left of where mps are. he has been doing the media rounds as well and he spoke to the bbc earlier and this is what he had to say about the jeremy corbyn yea rs. we, actually, underjeremy corbyn, made some very important moves. firstly, we became the party of anti—austerity, the party against cuts to public services. i think after ten years of cuts it is blindingly obvious that we were right about that and we should not chuck that away. we became the party that wanted to invest in publ

the shadow brexit secretary, sir keir starmer, hasjoined the race to become the next labour leader. ip bid in stevenage tomorrow, calling on the party to listen to voters in order to regain their trust. he's the fifth mp to enter the contest with prominent backbenchers lisa nandy and jess phillips also announcing their leadership bids in the past 24 hours. theyjoin the shadow treasury minister, clive lewis, and the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, who have previously announced their intention to stand. earlier, i spoke to stephen bush, the political editor at the new statesman. he had this take on the contenders. it's a crowded field at the moment, and not all the candidates will make it to the ballot because the hurdle to get on the ballot is large. it is very obviously keir starmer at the moment. notjust because of his background, but he is fighting a very adept campaign, doing everything he needs to do to woo labour members, the most socially concerned, socially liberal, deeply liberal about the consequences of another five years of the conservative government and a ret

the suggestion as the race is now down to keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey. to keir starmer and rebeccad the unions and the contest then goes to the membership in the end. format already have enough to go to the next stage, which is keir starmer, lisa nandy, jess phillips and rebecca long—bailey. clive lewis and a couple of others presumably... barry gardiner only lasted nine hours, didn't he?! and the deputy leadership, we have yet to see if richard burgon has got enough. but keir starmer is significantly ahead at the moment. what is interesting is his patch. the video that he put out at the launch, pre—the launch. it really patched him as being quite radical. i think the argument he was trying to say was, look, i have done an awful lot of things. i have not shouted about them. because he is a relatively... i mean, he is not one of these politicians that makes a huge amount of noise about every single thing that they do. but he was saying tojudge single thing that they do. but he was saying to judge him single thing that they do. but he was saying tojudge him on his record. the libel c

that is the problem for keir starmer because he was way ahead among mps and he is sort of the labour but not the party's hq in london's victoria establishment nor the members' favourite and he looks like the front runner sort of but rebecca long—bailey will get the endorsement of the unite union and she has the momentum endorsement, that campaign group but they only put your name on the ballot paper when they were asking members who to pick. there is also unevenness and i think the race is more open than people think. when you have had for the last four years, five years, the entire time jeremy corbyn has been leader, this long—running theme that it was, and it is a crude description but not far from reality, a battle between the parliamentary party at westminster being of one view, or broadly a lot of scepticism towards him, and the membership, twice endorsing him with mega majorities. for sir keir starmer's perspective, being on what could be the wrong side of that dynamic, loved by westminster but do the membership like? it is tricky. and very well plugged in in brussels because h

sir keir starmer, the shadow brexit secretary, officially launches his bid to become the next labourder, saying the country needs radical policies to fight inequality. and in half an hour here on bbc news, brexitcast — this week's inside information from westminster and brussels. borisjohnson has said that iran's admission that it shot down by mistake a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an important first step. four britons were among the 176 people killed in wednesday's crash. a senior iranian military official said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. iran's president rouhani has called the downing of the jet an unforgiveable mistake. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, has more. almost from the moment the ukrainian airliner crashed early on wednesday morning, officials in tehran furiously rejected the growing video and intelligence evidence suggesting that it had been hit by an iranian missile. then today, an abrupt about—turn. in a flurry of social media postings, iran's president spoke of a disastrous mistake. the foreign minister talked of human e

is there a sense that keir starmer.ld go this alone and they may let him have a clear field?” don't think that will happen. first, i think those on the left of the party don't quite trust keir starmer to carry the torch of corbynism any further, although he has been stressing his left—wing credentials. they want a left—wing candidate and thatis they want a left—wing candidate and that is rebecca long bailey. another trade union mads a decision on friday. the unite leader said he is not making a recommendation, but it is expected rebecca long bailey would get their backing. lisa nandy has the backing of the num. if she gets support today, she will be on the ballot. so you're looking at a three—horse race, rather than one person galloping over the finishing line. he has had the early moment and the fact keir starmer had that early momentum, people field he has squeezed the potential for support and he wasn'tjust picking up some support on the left, but hoovering up support on the left, but hoovering up the support of thos

i, keir starmer, do declare...e somebody has shoved 50 years' worth of change into those five years. you say you area into those five years. you say you are a moral socialist. what does that mean in practice?” are a moral socialist. what does that mean in practice? i see inequality everywhere. you see it in every community. you will see it in these communities here, and i don't just mean wealth and income, i mean influence and help. i have never walked past those sorts of wrongs and injustices. if i were to ask if your politics are closer to the politics of tony blair or the politics of tony blair or the politics of tony blair or the politics ofjeremy corbyn, where would you put yourself that spectrum? look, tony blair was addressing problems a quarter of a century ago. and jeremy corbyn took us century ago. and jeremy corbyn took us through more really difficult yea rs. us through more really difficult years. but it's notjust about the period of time, it's about the spectrum within the labour party. period of time

sir keir starmer, the shadow brexit secretary, officially launches his bid to become the next laboureader, saying the country needs radical policies to fight inequality. the moral fight against injustice and poverty and homelessness isjust as big a moralfight now as it was in that general election. and second—placed leicester city lose ground at the top of the premier league with a surprising defeat at home to southampton. we'll bring you a full round—up of all the sport in sportsday in half an hour. good evening and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson has said that iran's admission that it shot down, by mistake, a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an "important first step". four britons were among the 176 people killed, in wednesday's crash. a senior iranian military official, said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. iran's president rouhani has called the downing of the jet, an "unforgiveable mista ke". our diplomatic correspondent, james landale has more. almost from the moment the ukrainian airliner crashed early on wednesday morning, officials in tehran furi

today, keir starmer was reaching out to labour members more than we thought.talking about moving away from london and reconnecting with voters, a different message from emily thornbury and clive lewis. they are all trying to deal with this balancing act in that way because they know before they can change the labour party they have got to win the leadership contest but it is the members that decide that. here starmer has been too close to that model up brexit policy of labour kiss macro? it was the first question on the andrew marr show. do you regret it? he said, yes, we should have had more clarity, it was difficult to explain what our brexit policy was, but what keir starmer was trying to do was move the debate on. he said, that is done, lepers might not have that debate again, we will leave the eu in the matter of a few weeks, but now it is about that future relationship, he wants a close economic and political relationship with the eu, and that's where that debate is going, but inevitably, emily thornbury, keir starmer, their relationship with brexit and

keir starmer starts as the favourite and the frontrunner.as at the position you want to be in as a candidate? yes, very often it's an unexpected candidate who winds these sorts of contests. keir starmer today, coming out all guns blazing, he was on andrew marr, but also his article in the sunday mirror, a campaign video, two bits to the message, one about labour can't bury its head in the sand that needs to reconnect with voters but also interestingly keir starmer saying that also labour mustn't get rid of all those radical policies, social security reforms, those sorts of stuff, the green deal on climate change, more powerful trade unions, andi change, more powerful trade unions, and i think he would have two questions to answer. 0ne and i think he would have two questions to answer. one is effie is a bit to london and the labour party needs an outsider of the capital. anti—brexit, because he was very, very closely linked to labours active policy. here he is on andrew marr a short while ago on that labour brexit policy. people wanted clarit

keir starmer today, coming out all guns blazing, he was on andrew marr a short while ago, we will come. two bits to the message. one is about how labour cannot bury its head in the sand, it needs to reconnect with voters. but also, interestingly, keir starmer saying that labour mustn't get rid of all of those radical policies likes social security reform, that sort of stuff. you know, a green deal on climate change, more powers for trade unions. i think he will have two questions to answer, though. one of them is whether he is a bit too london and whether labour need somebody from outside of the capital. and also brexit. he was very, very closely linked to labour's brexit policy. here he is on andrew marr a short while ago on that labour brexit policy. people wanted clarity and leadership, but i actually... what was coming up on the doorsteps and what the teams were telling me, in my own experience, was not so much people saying to me, "i don't much like labour's position," but they had bought the idea that if you voted tory, you would get brexit done. we didn't knock it down hard enou

do we know enough about keir starmer now? clearly, what sir keir starmer now?rs ago. the assembly will elect a speaker, a first ministerfrom the dup, and a deputy first minister from sinn fein. keith doyle is outside stormont for us. keith what more can we expect to happen today? what can we expect from developments today? yes, good morning. pretty soon we expect the doors to be open here and later today, as you have said, the devolved government will return and be up and running. on thursday the northern ireland secretary, gillian smith, and the irish deputy prime minister, simon coveney, made that deal to the parties outside of this building here. there was enough and that deal to get the dup to say it was a fair and balanced deal and then for sinn fein to sign up to it as well. —— julian smith. in that deal there was the legal status for the irish language, something that they had said was absolutely essential to get them back in government. what we expect today is at one o‘clock the speaker and deputy speakers will be signed in and then the first minister,

the shadow brexit secretary, keir starmer, enters the race to become labour leader.h his campaign in stevenage tomorrow. councils urge the courts to impose tougher fines to curb the surge in fly—tipping. and we ll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers benedict paviot and john rentoul — stay with us for that. good evening. thousands of people have taken to the streets in iraq in a funeral procession for iran's most powerful military commander. general qasem suleimani was killed in an american drone strike in baghdad on thursday. iran has promised revenge for his death. tonight rockets have been fired in the iraqi capital, including near the american embassy. no casualties have been reported. here's our middle east correspondent quentin sommerville. they came in their thousands to honour qasem soleimani and they called him a hero. to many more in iraq and beyond, he was the region's principal villain. familiar chants rang out, "death to america, death to israel". he served his iranian masters well. its regime has cast him as a proud shia martyr. i

keir starmer less so. so, third person that is...the other three candidates and you never know what could happen in an election race and we are having all of these hustings where where labour members will be able to get to see them in action and decide who was the best person, but it will determine the future direction of the labour party. british business groups have warned the chancellor there'll be higher prices if britain diverges from eu regulations, post—brexit. it comes after sajid javid's comments in today's financial times newspaper, where he also insists firms must adjust to new regulations, and that not all businesses will benefit from brexit. he says: he added: the food and drink federation warned it sounded like the "death knell" for frictionless trade, and the confederation of british industry said the government shouldn't feel ‘obliged' to depart from eu rules. the cbi's director general said: our business correspondent, katy austin, is at at the treasury and has more on the fallout from the government's comments. as e

so keir starmer, rebecca long—bailey, lisa nandy, and jess phillips will get onto the next stage. only got the backing of four mps. you need 22 to get through. emily thornberry, a prominent person in the shadow cabinet, only has ten as well. when she spoke to andrew marr earlier, she did say she was confident. let's have a listen. can you do it? yeah, i think so. i mean, what has happened has been that we have only had a week to get the nominations in. there is a large number of mps who haven't nominated yet, and many of them have wanted to speak to their party members, they wanted to go to the hustings, and think about this, because obviously it is a really important decision. but from the conversations i have had this weekend, i am fairly confident that as long as i don't get any slippage, i will be fine. i will get across the line, and you know, then we will move onto the next stage. it is a long contest and it will have its ups and downs. and i have been a slow starter, but i did start from a standing start after the general election. now one of the issues that has been discus

keir starmer is the man to beat.ve seen suggests he is doing well with the labour membership as well. but don't count on anything being guaranteed because, on the far side, we also have rebecca long—bailey, 26 nominations at the moment but she is the preferred candidate on the left of the party, and i would suspect that, once this campaign gets going proper, you will see a lot of work from the left of the party, the membership is more left—wing than it was, a lot of them will get by. clive lewis perhaps will struggle because he has the lowest profile with the exception of lisa nandy who was in the shadow cabinet but resigned. but she has kept her profile up. and is a prominent critic ofjeremy corbyn who has been on the front bench. jess phillips has been very prominent in the media. emily thornberry is a very prominent figure, shadow foreign secretary, up against boris johnson, knocking seven bells out of him when he was foreign secretary. one might be a bit surprised that she has not been able to sway more of her la

keir starmer — the shadow brexit secretary — today launches his leadership campaign in the race to leadabour party. today he defended anti—austerity policies. sometimes when you lose an election there is a tendency to say that everything must go. that is wrong in my view. in the sport, more var controversy after west ham's injury—time equaliser is denied due to an accidental handball picked up on the cameras. coming up, cutting your train fares — we look at how split—ticketing can save you money, as it's rolled out by a major ticketing firm. and at 10.30: transporting you to outer space, in northern spain. an other—worldly experience, in the travel show. good morning. iran has admitted that it unintentionally shot down a ukrainian passenger jet because of human error. 176 people died in the accident, just hours after iran had fired missiles at american military bases in iraq. flight data was lost with the aircraft shortly after it took off from tehran‘s international airport on wednesday. let's take a closer look at the timeline of events that morning. we know iran fired missiles at two

today, i sat down with sir keir starmer, who is in a funny position, because he is the mps' favourite for the labour party membership, and he doesn't want to be continuity corbyn. he wants to show he is different tojeremy corbyn, but he is resolute that he doesn't want to junk the record or upset all the people who feel passionately that jeremy corbyn was on the right track, and brexitcasters know very well, and sir keir is one himself, so if he isn't too busy we're delighting he's still watching — let's not mention the quiz — he was one of the architects of the brexit policy which kind of fell flat in the election, because they didn't please either side. let's listen to what he said earlier. you were in the room and, on two big issues for the labour party, there were lots of them, but on two big issues, the brexit plan, you were in charge of that, and anti—semitism, racism against jewish people, which the party didn't take seriously enough. you say that now, but you were in the room, at the top table. if you really have what it takes to be the leader, ought you not to have spoken out

no surprise that sir keir starmer has confirmed as candidate.esting to hear what he has had to say for this piece that he has written for the sunday mirror. he says that labour can unite, retain our values, mirror. he says that labour can unite, retain ourvalues, and mirror. he says that labour can unite, retain our values, and to win at what he says is the dawn of a new decade. but he is clear to see that labour voters and supporters will be hotting up to what he described as a devastating election defeat. we can't bury our heads in the sun, labour must rebuild, and fast. you have to restore trust in a party as a force for change and a force for good. that language is interesting, because you're talking about rebuilding and restoring labour. no talk of a big change in direction. he has been very careful, i think, here, to appeal to jeremy he has been very careful, i think, here, to appeal tojeremy corbyn‘s significant support base within the liberal party, and indicate that he is not going to take it off in an entirely direction. talking about

sir keir starmer launched formally yesterday, his message is about the party coming together, the end policies. today rebecca long—bailey began talking, at the moment, she has had a difficult start to her campaign. the problems she has, the challenge, she has been described as a continuity candidate and given what happened in the election, that isn't particularly help. she has been speaking in the last hour to sky news and she was asked about that, this key question, what went wrong in the election? this is what she had to say. the platform upon which many of those policies were developed was positive and, as i said, it did deal with the reinvestment and reinvigoration of our economy and the shift of wealth and power away from those few minorities that have it to everybody in every single community, but we didn't get that message through, unfortunately. we need to recognise that. very interesting from rebecca long—bailey, not particularly apologetic about much in the run—up to the election and it is a challenge for her because she is the favoured candidate of momentum, this grouping o

there are four through to the next round, sir keir starmer, on 68.other leading contender, in the ‘20s, as are the prominent backbenchers lisa nandy and jess phillips. still struggling to make up phillips. still struggling to make up numbers, the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry saying yesterday she was confident she would get over the line, no doubt having last—minute conversations with her parliamentary colleagues to make sure she gets the required numbers by that deadline of 2:30pm. and clive lewis, if there is anyone who looks like he is in danger at this stage, it is him, the shadow treasury minister, just four nominations, one of whom is himself, for leadership of the labour party. he was asked this morning whether he was still confident he could make up numbers and he said he had faith in his colleagues. we will see how much faith they have in him when that deadline comes at 2:30pm and we will find out which candidates are going through to the next stage in this contest. at this stage, it is mps who get to decide. that changes in the

keir starmer. 0n the one hand, he wa nts to keir starmer. 0n the one hand, he wants to offer a freshspaper article is brexit. very vocal supporter of a second eu referendum. he will have to answer that question. he is in stevenage today, they voted 59% to leave, he cannot dodge the question for long. tony, thank you very much indeed. al—sha baab jihadists have attacked a military base in kenya which houses us soldiers along with local troops. the fighting is "still ongoing," reports say. the attack was on camp simba naval base in manda bay in lamu county on kenya 5 northern coast. lamu county commissioner told local a local newspaper that heavily armed militants stormed the compound. witnesses heard gunfire coming from the site. the hs2 high—speed rail project could end up costing £108 billion — almost double the original estimate, that's according to the deputy chair of its review panel. lord berkeley, a vocal critic of the project, says there is "overwhelming evidence" that the costs of hs2 are "out of control" and its benefits overstated. the government says lord berkeley 5 report

the argument about leave or remain is over, says keir starmer, as hejoins the race to be the next labourder. the first big event of the awards season — the golden globes takes place tonight in hollywood. and we ll be taking another look at the papers with our reviewers journalist and broadcaster caroline frost and the parliamentary journalist tony grew. good evening. the prime minister borisjohnson has said he will not lament the death of the top iranian general, killed by a us missile strike in baghdad. but he called for a de—escalation of the situation on all sides. but president trump has threatened to "strike back" and "perhaps in a disproportionate manner" if iran attacks an american citizen or target. meanwhile, nato says it will hold an urgent meeting tomorrow after iraqi mps passed a resolution calling for foreign troops to leave the country. and in iran, huge crowds have turned out to mourn general solaimani's death. the country has declared that it will no longer abide by any of the restrictions imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal. our diplomatic correspondent james robbins report

so front runners are keir starmer and rebecca long bailey.e other three candidates, we are having all of these hustings where labour will get to decide who we re where labour will get to decide who were the best people. but it will determine the future direction of the labour party. thank you very much. british business groups have warned the chancellor, there'll be consequences if britain diverges from eu regulations, post—brexit. it comes after sajid javid's comments in today's financial times times where he's also said that not all businesses will benefit from brexit. in the newspaper piece he says there will not be alignment, we will not bea will not be alignment, we will not be a real taker we will not be in the single market and we will not be in the customs union, and we will do this by the end of the year. he added that we are talking about companies that have known since 2016 that we are leaving the eu. there we re that we are leaving the eu. there were warnings that it sounded like the death knell for frictionless trade. business st

the argument about leave or remain is over, says keir starmer, as hejoins the race to be the next labourr. and the first big moment of the film season, the golden globes award ceremony takes place tonight in hollywood. good evening. iraqi mps have passed a resolution calling for foreign troops to leave the country, in the wake of the us air strike that killed a top iranian general while he was in baghdad. there are 5,000 american troops in iraq at the moment, and the us is sending thousands more to the region. in iran, vast crowds have turned out to mourn general soleimani, and here, the foreign secretary, dominic raab, has urged iran to "take a diplomatic route" out of the crisis. here's our diplomatic correspondent, james robbins. tens of thousands of iranians are mourning general soleimani and a p pa re ntly mourning general soleimani and apparently getting behind their leaders promising revenge. the chance are familiar, including death to america, but the context has radically changed. the war of words from both sides is intensifying. president trump has treated this threat of massiv

sir keir starmer, not the only labour mp putting themselves forward over the past few days.e also had clive lewis and emily thornbury and we are also expecting rebecca long bailey, who is thought to be a favourite ofjeremy corbyn and the existing labour leadership. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello once again. a fairly quiet weekend of weather continues apace for many parts of the british isles for the rest of today. we still have a weather front close by to the north of scotland so thicker cloud there, some bits and pieces of rain and the other more noticeable wind then will be the case elsewhere. the cloud just thick enough across the high ground crossing in wales for a spot of rain but not amounting tomuch. a relatively mild afternoon. not much change to the cause of the evening, perhaps the rain quits the scene from parts of scotland overnight. and with a fairly complete cloud cover, temperature is holding up at about four to 10 degrees or so. the rain brightens up nicely behind it. you don't see the rain in the southeast until later in the day. hello, this

keir starmer has, for want of a better word, momentum at the moment in this race, he is the man to beat to mps and the polls of labour members suggest he is out in front. he's not the obvious corbyn candidate, because that is rebecca long—bailey, at the moment, her campaign is struggling to get off the ground. momentum, who are the pro—corbyn grassroots campaign who helped jeremy corbyn win the two leadership elections he won, they have said they will ballot their members on who to back, but, quite clearly, they want it to be rebecca long—bailey. they're recommending that that's who their members get behind and that will give her a big boost and, although keir starmer appears to be out in front at the moment, i would suggest, over the next three months before we get the next labour leader, there is a lot of room for movement in that race. when it gets going, when some of the more radical pro—corbyn groups start throwing their weight about, i suspect that will work well for rebecca long—bailey. there's other candidates as well. lisa nandi, clive lewis, emily thornberry, jess phillips as

the argument about leave or remain is over, says keir starmer, as hejoins the race to be the next labourr. and the first big event of the awards season — the golden globes takes place tonight in hollywood. directory di rectory returns directory returns to gangster movies inafilm directory returns to gangster movies in a film starring hugh grant. see what james kings makes of that and the rest of the week's releases in the rest of the week's releases in the film review. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the parliamentary journalist tony grew and journalist and broadcaster caroline frost. the metro goes with the demand from the iraqi parliament that all us and uk troops leave the country amid a growing crisis over america s assassination of iran stop general. the guardian says pressure is growing on the trump administration to justify its claim that the killing of qasem soleimani was about stopping a war, rather then starting one — as tension continues to rise. the telegraph goes with a warning from borisjohnson to iran not

what keir starmer was trying to do was move the debate on.. we are going to leave the eu in a few weeks. now it's about that future relationship. he wants a close relationship, economic and political, with the eu and that's where that debate is going but inevitably, emily thornberry and keir starmer, their relationship with brexit and the role they played is going to cast a shadow over their campaigns. talking about relationships and messaging, that first hurdle for these contenders is to convince the members that they are the person to lead the party but as we have learned the public were not happy with jeremy corbyn learned the public were not happy withjeremy corbyn and you said a lot of the members are corbyn supporters so they are also going to have to make sure that they win the public on board, those labour voters that they lost. it's going to be a long slog, years and years. we are expecting this contest to be done by may be the end of march. certainly before local elections in may but it's the start of a long process because there is

i'm going to go with the consensus choice of keir starmer.ent with yvette cooper. so don't listen to helen if you're having a bet. matt? all the evidence suggests steer...keir starmer. steer karma! sounds like an american film star, steer karma. he's not the most interesting man. he's not overly interesting. lisa nandy has been more interesting and is trying to liven up what is otherwise quite a dull campaign. whether or not there's enough time for her, i don't know. we almost don't have enough time, but i can't help but ask you, you go for your lunches with chris mason. this is a practice in westminster. in the awful, cosy club we're always accused of being, people have lunch partners, which means you can nobble a politician two at a time, so to speak. what is chris like having lunch? that and willies, i tell you...! it's a new era. matt, you go for lunch with chris mason. what's he like? the one thing which is guaranteed is that chris will always have a pudding. and i can always tell which pudding it's going to be. it was poached pears toda

five mps — sir keir starmer — pictured here — clive lewis, lisa nandy, jess philipps and emily thornberryar entered the running to succeed jeremy corbyn. more on our website, bbc.c0.uk/news and the news app. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. oil prices sizzled. how high will they go as tensions reach fever pitch tween the us and iran. australian bushfires rage on. we find out how to months of deadly blazes are exhausting sources and its economy. hello and welcome to this monday addition of asia business report. we start with a growing conflict between the us and iran. oil prices have been rising even here in asian trade, and that is after tehran announced it would pull out of a nuclear deal with world powers. this is where they are trading at the moment as you can see, like crude at $64 moment as you can see, like crude at $61; a barrel. the move comes after the death of a top iranian military leader and several officials from iraqi militias act by tehran were killed in us drone strikes in baghdad last friday. an agility —— and energy alice has said it has inves

sir keir starmer, rebecca long—bailey and lisa nandy have the required number of nominations — leavingast 22 of their fellow labourmps and meps. registered supporters — who are not full party members — will have 48 hours from 14th to the 16th of january to secure a vote by paying £25. the ballot will be open from 21st february to the 2nd of april, with the results announced two days later on the 4th april. our political correspondent tony bonsignore gave us this update. rebecca long—bailey, lisa nandy, jess phillips and sir keir starmer, who is way out ahead with 68 nominations at the moment. there are two struggling at the moment which is emily thornbury — she‘s got 10 — and clive lewis who‘s only got four nominations. emily has been speaking to bbc in the last hour or so. she‘s got 12 to go so not even halfway there, but she says she is still pretty confident that she can get over the line. can you do it? i think so. what's happened is we've only had a week to get those nominations in. there is a large number of mps who haven't nominated yet and many of them have wanted to speak to t

sir keir starmer, rebecca long—bailey and lisa nandy have the required number of nominations, leavingobbying to get the backing of at least 22 of their fellow labourmps and meps. registered supporters — who are not full party members — will have 48 hours from 14th to 16th january to secure a vote by paying £25. the ballot will be open from 21st february to 2nd april, with the results announced two days later on 11th april. 0ur political correspondent, tony bonsignore, joins me now. jess phillips as well, she is part of that group. four at the moment, full of the 16 have got enough at the moment, enough meps or mps nominations to get through to the next stage. rebecca long—bailey, lisa nandy, jess phillips, sir keir starmer, who was way out ahead, 68 nominations. two struggling at the moment, emily thornberry, she has ten, clive lewis, he has four nominations. emily thornberry has been speaking to bbc in the last hour, clearly has 12 to go, not even halfway, but she says she is still pretty confident she can get over the line. can you do it? yeah, i think so. the line. can you do it? y

the argument about leave or remain is over, says keir starmer, as hejoins the race to be the next laboureader. and the first big event of the awards season, the golden globes, takes place tonight in hollywood. and in sport, liverpool beat everton at anfield. we've that and the rest of the day's third round fa cup action. good evening. welcome to bbc news. the prime minister, borisjohnson, has said he will not lament the death of the top iranian general killed by a us missile strike. but he called for a de—escalation of the situaion on all sides. it comes after iraqi mps passed a resolution calling for foreign troops to leave the country in the wake of the us airstrike in baghdad. there are 5,000 american troops in iraq at the moment and the us is sending 3,000 more to the region. nato says it will hold an urgent meeting tomorrow. in iran, huge crowds have turned out to mourn general soleimani's death. the country has declared that it will no longer abide by any of the restrictions imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james robbins reports. tens of thousands of i

she was not, like keir starmer or emily thornberry, part of the people's vote campaign.nstituency and she understood that and she wanted to find a way to make and she wanted to find a way to make a deal work with labour's workers rights that she could enshrine in it. and she didn't, but she did try. i think that will serve her quite well. she doesn't seem, at the moment, to have that much support among the parliamentary labour party, as far as i am aware. but i think the fact that she gets brexit a bit might give her support from people who are now saying labour should have ta ken people who are now saying labour should have taken a different tack. let me stay with you, 0livia, should have taken a different tack. let me stay with you, olivia, and you can introduce us to the other candidate who has thrown in her heart today. this is in the birmingham mail, we are going local because of course these papers are covering the local mps who are stepping up. this isjust phillips, another who has thrown in her heart. ——jess. another who has thrown in her heart. -- jess. she is v

people are angry at keir starmer and another candidate, emily thornberry, saying they are too attachednt down really, really badly on the doorstep. another candidate who has been talking is lisa nandy. wigan mp. she does not have that taint of the brexit policy. she was very much in favour of getting brexit done, even though she was a remain supporter. she's been very critical about the way the labour party is run for them here's what she had to say on sky news a few minutes ago. run for them here's what she had to say on sky news a few minutes agolj think there is definitely a disconnect between the labour party and the country and people in towns like mine. when brexit happened, we immediately went straight to a discussion about free movement, single market, customs unions, all of which are very, very important to people right across the country including wigan, but what we haven't understood is to take back control resonated like no other slogan in my lifetime. why did it resonate? because people lack the means to effect change in their own lives. we get details of a contest and how

keir starmer at the moment is the man to be, out in front with 68. also doing well with the labour membership as well. but do not count on anything being guaranteed. because on the far side we also have rebecca long—bailey, 26 nominations at the moment, but she is the preferred candidate of many on the left of the party. i would suspect that once this campaign gets going proper we will see a lot of work from the left of the party, the membership is more left—wing than it was in the past, and a lot of them will get behind rebecca long—bailey. clive lewis is the one with the lowest profile, with perhaps the exception of lisa nandi who was in the cabinet then resign, but then she kept following things up with helping towns around the country and was a prominent critic ofjeremy corbyn. jess phillips has been very prominent in the media. emily thornberry is a very prominent figure and a shadow foreign secretary and was up against boris johnson, knocking seven bells out of him when he was foreign secretary when he was having a less happy time than he is no

instead they have opted for keir starmer. he had only recently for keir starmer.on were backing him, and i asked him whether there were some risks if he we re whether there were some risks if he were the man to be. this is very early in the race. there is a long way to go and there were excellent candidates. we all laid out our case in front of the parliamentary labour party la st in front of the parliamentary labour party last night. i am proud to set aside my colleagues. there is a long way to go. there are excellent candidates and in the end it will be for our membership to decide who they think will be best placed to ta ke they think will be best placed to take us forward. we are in the very early stages of this race. there is quite a lot of time for campaigners to get behind him. rebecca long—bailey on the left of the party seems to be putting her own leadership team together. she is more likely to get the backing of unite when they make a decision on the 24th of january. nonetheless, the 24th of january. nonetheless, the endorsement of kia stand by unison no

keir starmer at the moment is the man to beat.s doing well with the labour membership as well. but do not count on anything being guaranteed because on anything being guaranteed because on the far side we also have rebecca long—bailey. 26 nominations at the moment, but she is the preferred candidate for many on the left of the party and we suspect that once this campaign gets going proper we will see a lot of work from the last of the party, remember the membership is more left—wing than it was in the past, and a lot of them will get behind rebecca long—bailey. clive lewis will struggle because he is one with the lowest profile, with perhaps the exception i lisa nandy

there are five but keir starmer still probably everyone's favourite? possibly.got to the number of where british politics is in the early weeks of january 2020, we have been obsessed with the existence or otherwise by a hyphen in one of the candidates surnames rather than the tummy out of 2019. where you stand? —or tummy out of 2019. where you stand? — or not? tummy out of 2019. where you stand? - or not? i am very bbc so varies. a bit of this and a bit of that. you have no opinion? none whatsoever, i would observe as was pointed out in the newspapers yesterday, which would point out that pages need filling, it is that apparently rebecca long—bailey has told some people that it does involve a hyphen, the thing between long and bailey but a photo appeared on social media of her constituency office in salford in the north west office in salford in the north west of england in which it did not feature. so i am not entirely sure her policy on hyphens is entirely clear, let alone the scrutiny that will come under... let's get to her message, is her message right? reb