michael fabricant, thank you very much and there is not long to wait. 36 minutes until we find out thelements beforehand which might mean that the numbers are not published. 0ur chief political correspondent nick eardley has been monitoring events — hejoins me now. penny mordaunt's team insist it is going to the wire and it is still very close and the briefing that they have had, more than 90 mps backing them, but we cannot verify the numbers, so we may well find out at two o'clock whether penny mordaunt has got this over the line. the big picture really matters is that rishi sunak is by some margin the choice of conservative mps and has a comfortable majority of tory mps and if it was up to them he would be prime minister tomorrow. and it's notjust up to them and if more dance can get it over the line in the next few minutes —— penny mordaunt can get it over the line in the next few minutes, you will be the next few minutes, you will be the case goes to a run—off with conservative members. but we don't know for certain. there have been a lot of briefings in the last few days which hav

michael fabricant, thank you _ or whatever. michael fabricant, thank you for — or whatever.ive mps lining up. do i. we are doing well with l conservative mps lining up to do i. we are doing well with - conservative mps lining up to talk to us and i wonder who will be next, join us later but that's all from westminster and back to sean. some breaking news from the us and a federaljudge has sentenced to jail the form wiped out chief strategist, steve bannon who will receive a four month sentence for defying a congressional congressional requirement that he attend a committee and he ordered him to pay a fine of $6,500, the equivalent of £5,830. mr barron refused to co—operate with the congressional committee relating to next years capital riot and he was found to cases of contempt of congress after he refused to hand over documents. the judge he refused to hand over documents. thejudge said he refused to hand over documents. the judge said they would be possible for mr bannon to defer his prison term if he chooses to appeal against his conviction and his lawyers have said that

well michael fabricate, who is a leading supporter of boris johnson, has in the last half hour tweeted out that boris johnson has $100.00 supporters and so he will be going to the party membership. the difficulty of course, is he hasn't yet said that he's declared in the leadership race. when are there a to soon act has he has got more than a 130 supporters penny more debt has as well. she's not close to the $100.00 supporters. deadline a barrier that she needs. so a forest, johnson is saying he has these supporters. it looks as if we could have a 2 horse race between richie su, neck, and boris johnson. but the still a lot of ifs and buts between no and the dead light. so at the moment there's still only one m p who is a clear leader and is over the 100 voter, 100 m p limit and that is rich. you soon act, so it all boils down to what boris johnson decides in the coming hours. and if i understand it, that the deadline is at 13 g m t. what are on monday? talk us through what's gonna happen after that? anyone who has got more than 100 m. p 's backing them will go into a run off thought. n

michael fabricant already has. he said... the unifying candidate who is most likely to keep the wings of the conservative party together, and the most likely candidate to hold onto the seeds —— the seats the conservative party gained in 2019. really, penny mordaunt is the one who i believe is the best leader for the party, who can build a team across the party and actually steer the ship of state in a steady way, away from the rocks and on a very steady course. but it will take a huge turnaround if she's to halt the momentum rishi sunak has built, which has put him within reach of downing street. damian grammaticas, bbc news, westminster. i will tell you what, you have to feel sorry for the newspapers that were probablyjust going to press at nine o'clock last night when boris johnson released a statement saying he was withdrawing from the race and then had to go back to their laptops and start printing and writing again. here are the front pages. the monday morning paper is carefully amended and updated. the daily telegraph i

michael fabricant already has. he said...sappointment in borisjohnson deciding not to stand this time, i have returned to my natural home." her team said she was the unifying candidate who is most likely to keep the wings of the conservative party together, and the most likely candidate to hold onto the the seats the conservative party gained in 2019. really, penny mordaunt is the one who i believe is the best leader for the party, who can build a team across the party and actually steer the ship of state in a steady way, away from the rocks and on a very steady course. but it will take a huge turnaround if she's to halt the momentum rishi sunak has built, which has put him within reach of downing street. damian grammaticas, bbc news, westminster. rishi sunak come to be in the race to be the next leader of the tory party and prime minister but his team this morning say they are taking nothing for granted, granted the campaigning continues as does the campaigning continues as does the campaigning continues as does the campaign

requesting these financial documents after michael cohen, the former trump associate made these allegations publicly in around 2019, that the former president had fabricated the house oversight subpoenaed mazars for these documents. and ultimately this past month, they are finally getting their hands on some of these documents, the first trove of documents arrived just last month. but that was some very long winding legal processes, and the committee simply does not have time for. so they are studying the language that other committees and entities have issued previously, and trying to see if there is some way that they can most effectively compel the former president to testify or provide even documents. at the end of the day, of course, despite some of the tough talk from the former president to his advisers, that he wants to testify and is going to, we're told by people close to him that it's highly unlikely that they think he is just making sort of empty threat and at the end of the day, his legal team does not think that would be a good idea. >> let's talk more about that. and compel was the word i was looking for. i'm glad you used it. ali vitali, y

fabricating. a nuclear scary. and a new zulu came crowned in south africa. huge crowds gather for the coordination of king was soon loyal families, 1st new monarch in half a century. ah, a michael oak who it's nice to have you with us. we start in the philippines where a tropical storm killed at least, 45 people, dozens more are injured, storm. now guys, heavy rains have cause severe, landslides and flooding. emergency teams are racing to rescue survivors and deliver aid. they are counting their dead amidst the rubble of a village. now washed away the earth beneath their feet. a death trap. as flash, floods churned, rocks, trees, and dirt into a sea of gloomy mud. as rescue efforts continue, authorities take stock of the carnage. now guy unleashed on the southern mike in the now province amidst the gloom, a ray of light as authorities on saturday, revised down the number of dead after discovering that some had been counted twice . with gusts max and now at around 130 kilometers an hour. it's unrelenting rainfall rather than the lashing winds that's causing the most damage. not send rescue workers scrambling to evacuate thousands of residents in law. little if this he keeps risi