as emily thornberry said, it is a long contest thornberry said, it is a long co ntest a nd thornberrythis for another three months. 0nce they get over that line tomorrow there is the hurdle of getting the support of local parties, so it is all to play for. it is interesting the reference she made, which could bea dig the reference she made, which could be a dig at other potential leadership candidates, i only started after the general election, on the understanding that some of her candidates were on the manoeuvre for thejob even before her candidates were on the manoeuvre for the job even before the election and before they lost the campaign. before the election we knew that emily thornberry fancied it. in terms of that practical question, it raises the question of loyalty to jeremy corbyn and whether that is a good or a bad thing. is that a potential problem for rebecca long—bailey? she was so close to jeremy corbyn. i do not remember a critical word out of her during the leadership contest and when she was on the french bench. she was very loyal to him. on the french bench. she was

and we thornberry is a good bit better but not much. —— emily thornberry.rmer 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 if all the new labour leader is doing is trained to reconcile warring factions within the party and unity within the party is the most important thing rather than reaching out to the country and offering something different, then i think labour stays in the doldrums. i saw his lunch on saturday and actually he had some radical things to say, it will be interesting to see if that's the message that continues over the next few weeks

emily thornberry is on ten. 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

that was emily thornberry. went all the hustings kick—off? thornberry.ustings kick-off? tomorrow. not long to wait. we will get the first hustings tomorrow. they will run for a few weeks. there is a long way in this process still to go. although we know the candidates who got enough support in parliament from mps and meps, support in parliament from mps and meps, to stay on the ballot. they do have another hurdle to cross by february, they need the backing of either two of labour's but union supporters or of around 30 local parties. if they get that, they are on the final ballot. but then, it's not until the end of april that we actually, the beginning of april, that we find out who the leader will be. the process of voting begins on the 2ist of february. 0ne be. the process of voting begins on the 2ist of february. one member, one vote, runs till the 2nd of april and then on the 4th of april, we will find out who the new labour leader is. so there is a long way to go. as i say, keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey who we are about to hear from rebecca l

why are clive lewis and emily thornberry having difficulties securing enough support?are asking themselves and their teams that right now. clive lewis is the outsider. four nominations, including himself. he has been talking this morning and is not hopeful about getting enough. there are still more than 50 mps and meps who have not declared, but it will bea who have not declared, but it will be a tall orderfor who have not declared, but it will be a tall order for him. who have not declared, but it will be a tall orderfor him. emily thornberry is on ten at the moment, she needs 22. she is still relatively confident. she was talking to the bbc this morning and this was her assessment of her chances of getting through. we are having technical problems. summarise what she said. she says she was a late starter in this and there are still more than 50 mps to go. she thinks that a lot of them have been talking to their constituents, these mps and meps, trying to weigh it up, and they will only make up their mind today and into tomorrow morning. she thinks she might yet get o

emily thornberry, thank you very much for talking to us.led by the bushfires burning in australia has risen to 24. efforts are under way to help those who have had to leave their homes. australia's prime minister scott morrison is deploying military resources to help tackle the flames. ben shephard is from the new south wales rural fire servcie and joins me now. hello to you and thank you for breaking off to speak to us. i know you have got a lot on your plate. as you have got a lot on your plate. as you have got a lot on your plate. as you have had for months now. let me ask you, what little respite is being offered by the weather at the moment? is it making any difference? there is no doubt over the past 2a hours we've seen there is no doubt over the past 2a houi’s we've seen a there is no doubt over the past 2a hours we've seen a bit of respite from the extraordinary temperatures we have had in the western parts of syd ney we have had in the western parts of sydney alone, temperatures of 48.9 degrees, and we saw the wind speed gusting up

theyjoins shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry and shadow treasury minister clive lewes in confirmingespondent nick eardley is in westminster and we can speak to him now. lisa nandy, the latest to throw her hat into the ring. yes, that wiccan mp was another one of those people who had said over —— wigan, that she was considering whether or not to stand, and tonight she has confirmed ina stand, and tonight she has confirmed in a letter to her local paper, the wigan post, that she is indeed throwing her hat in the ring to be the next labour leader. her argument is that labour needs to focus on winning back its heart lands, areas that had voted labour for decades, and stopped doing so back in december. let me just read you one paragraph from what she says. she says, i'm standing because i know too many people in places like wigan no longer feel they have a voice in our national story. basically, she is saying that there are many parts of the country that feel disaffected with westminster politics and the best solution to that is to get someone best solution to that is to get someone like

after the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry, secured enough nominations in the last ten minutes of voting to go thorugh to the next round of the contest. shejoinsjess phillips, sir keir starmer, lisa nandy and rebecca long bailey — who'd already got the backing of 22 mps and meps. earlier, clive lewis pulled out — after he failed to get the necessary support. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports. she has been hearing the opinions of labour party members. who will they choose? after being battered at the election, labour members have another big vote, this time, a vote of their own. we've got to get this right. we've got to get this leadership election right. we need to get back in there, and show people... we need to win. otherwise we are going to have 15 years of a conservative government. but, who could build a labour government? way ahead among mps is sir keir starmer, the shadow brexit secretary. wigan mp lisa nandy is in the race.

nevertheless, emily thornberry wants the job because...toe with borisjohnson for two years at the dispatch box, i got under his skin and i got to what he was, which is a reckless lying charlatan. a claim that downing street would dispute. they all underlined the importance of stamping out anti—semitism in the party and another recurring theme was to stop falling out with each other in public. the whole of the party wa nts other in public. the whole of the party wants to be united, they want to come together so we had to enter factionalism, stop asking the question which bit of the party are you from, and start saying, what are you from, and start saying, what are you saying? keir starmer and is seen as one of the favourites to win over labour members but plenty of those who signed up to labour in the last few years did because they loved jeremy corbyn. it looks like keir starmer‘s big rival in this race is the candidate whose politics is closest to jeremy corbyn‘s. the candidate whose politics is closest to jeremy corbyn's. how do we show

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

emily thornberry on ten and five lewis on four.ning support across the uk and winning support across the uk and those that get the required level of support will face the open postal ballot of all labour party voters and registered supporters. the result of which will be known on aprilfour. borisjohnson and his irish counterpart, leo va radkar, are to visit stormont today to meet ministers in the newly—restored devolved government. power—sharing in northern ireland was re—established on saturday, with a landmark deal, after three years of deadlock. keith doyle is at stormont — keith, how symbolic is mrjohnson's visit? yes, absolutely. another busy day here at stormont. for the past three yea rs, here at stormont. for the past three years, in terms of the assembly, nothing has been going on here. the last five days have been a frenzy of activity and as you said, on saturday, the former re—establishment of the assembly and the executive happened, arlene foster and michelle o'neill. it is back up and running. we will see later today 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

the five other candidates standing are rebecca long bailey, emily thornberry, clive lewis, lisa nandyhave 48 hours from 14—16 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. our political correspondent tony bonsignorejoins me now. a lot happening this afternoon and we can start with the front runner keir starmer. he is in manchester today, the mechanics institute, the birthplace of the trade union congress, 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 spok

two struggling at the moment, emily thornberry, she has ten, clive lewis, he has four nominations. 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? yeah, i think 50. what has happened is we think so. what has happened is we have only had a week to get the nominations, a large number of mps have not nominated yet and many wanted to speak to party members, go to the hustings and think about this because it is a really important decision. from the conversations i have had this weekend, i am confident that as long as there is i'io confident that as long as there is no slippage, i will be fine, get across the line, we will move onto the next stage. it is a long contest and it will have its ups and downs and it will have its ups and downs andl and it will have its ups and downs and i have been a slow starter but i started from a standing start after the general election. she has been a slow starter. when you look at the numbers. but she is confident she

this morning, the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, made her views clear on the issue of securityfor the security of harry and meghan and theirfamily, as they do with former ministers. and if they decide they want to go to canada, of course they must always be protected. and underpinning it all is the human side. family divisions and, poignantly, a rift between two brothers. in the sunday times, according to friends, william is quoted as saying, "i've put my arm around my brother all our lives. "i can't do it anymore." a bond which he feels is now being broken. 0ur correspondent leigh milner spent the morning in sandringham — and gave us this update. she arrived just a few minutes before ”am local time. she was wearing a light brown jacket, with a matching hat, of course. and she came down here, she was driven through the driveway, through the gates, towards the mary magdalene church, where the service, as i say, began about roughly an hour ago exactly. and it has been quite a tough day for the queen herself. with all that has been going on throughout the past week or so, but she

jonathan, is there an expectation they will all go through or does it look like emily thornberry and? it is touch and go for those too. there are four through to the next round, sir keir starmer, on 68. behind him, rebecca long—bailey seen as the 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 w

rebecca long—bailey and emily thornberry set out their visions for the labour party, as they launch theirival bids to succeed jeremy corbyn as leader. in sport, england's cricketers aim to build a sizeable first innings total on day two of the third test against south africa at port elizabeth. also coming up: coining it in — a sovereign struck when edward viii was king has become the first british coin to sell for £1 million.. good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. social media companies — such as facebook, twitter and instagram — should be forced to share details about how young people use their sites and the way they tailor content. proposals by the royal college of psychiatrists could see companies face a new tax which would fund research into a how a child's online activity affects their mental health. angus crawford reports. she had so much to offer. molly russell's death... and that's gone. ..sparked a national outcry. these are companies that count their profits in the billions, and they turn round and say to us that they can't protect our children? questions about young pe

emily thornberry and clive lewis from the shadow cabinet have also declared.d much more on the stories we're covering plus much more on the bbc news website. there's detailed coverage of the american killing of iranian general qasem soleimani and on the australian bushfires. some incredible pictures of those bushfires. first the weather with matt taylor. good morning. once again there will be some sunny breaks across parts of the country through today. but, for many, it will be a day like yesterday with the odd, fleeting light shower in the west with a breeze starting to pick up, signs of something much windier into next week but with light winds into the morning, clearer skies across eastern areas could see a touch of frost. to the west, a fairly mild start, but we will see some fleeting light showers in the west during the day with more persistent rain in the hebrides, spreading into the highlands, 0rkney and shetland introducing milder weather compared to yesterday with a breeze picking up elsewhere. for the best of the breaks, east of wales, the midlands,

the headlines: two of the candidates for the labour party leadership emily thornberry and rebecca long bailey launch their campaigns today. and i know that i can do the women who stand up and loosely fight back against a boris johnson. who stand up and loosely fight back against a borisjohnson. we are going to need to have somebody tough, somebody resilient and battle hardened to win that fight. my kind of socialism is the kind in which we all rise together. my kind of socialism as a kind of a britain in which everyone is free to dream, free to climb and free to succeed. glasgow reaffirms its pledge to become a carbon neutral city by 2030 amid fresh warnings about global warming. psychiatrists call for social media companies to hand over their data so they can research what the online world does to children's mental health. iran's supreme leader, ayatollah ali khamenei, appeals for national unity following the anti—government protests last week over the accidental shooting down of a passenger plane. and coming up: calls into a public inquiry into cuts to the probation service. and comi

along with the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry, who just made it onto the ballot with the sameackbencherjess phillips. i think i have a chance to cut through with people and to get the country to feel that they can trust politicians again. closest to jeremy corbyn, though, is the frontbencher, rebecca long—bailey. so what is needed? the next leader isn't going to be the messiah. and there shouldn't be an agenda which says anybody that says anything against this person should be thrown out the party. we have got to move into a position where we can win elections. because otherwise, we willjust become an irrelevant pressure group. we do need to get somebody in the leadership who can unite the party because it has been terribly divided, even down at local level. i'm not a big jeremy corbyn fan, but there are a lot of people out there that supported him, and want his policies to continue. the wrong direction is, if we keep the status quo as we are, the electorate have said, you need to listen to what we are saying. so you are moving out? they all know the pain of defeat. we have a

lisa nandi, clive lewis, emily thornberry, jess phillips.aving his species from extinction, is being released back into the wild. diego is believed to have fathered around 800 baby tortoise after he was recruited onto a captive breeding programme in the galapagos islands. the park service believes he was taken from the galapagos 80 years ago by a scientific expedition. diego is currently in quarantine before his return to espanola in march. now it's time for a look at the weather with phil avery. hello. the day hasn't been all doom and gloom by any means at all but if you are anywhere near a weather front chugging its way to scotland and northern ireland and then down into the north of england through wales and into the south—west, well, you will have known it has been very wet and very windy. further to the south and east, you have got the cloud and wind and rain to come during the rest of the evening and indeed overnight. the front really not moving very far, very fast. clearing skies getting into the north of england, to scotland and to n

the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry says the us needs to exercise caution.long memory, i remember back 17 years to the iraq war, and the pivotal role that the united nations played at that point. i don't understand why britain is not calling for an emergency meeting at the security council. i think we are in very grave circumstances, i think there is a tremendous risk that we could end up in another war, and i think we have to do everything we can to pull donald trump back from this. i think that what he has done is a deliberate and reckless escalation of the conflict with iran, and we are moving from tit—for—tat, we are moving into a completely different scenario now, and i'm very concerned that we could get dragged into this. the chief spokesman for iran's armed forces has said his country has every right to retaliate for the killing of general soleimani but insisted that its response would "not be emotional". let's speak to an academic specialising in iran's foreign relations. hejoins me from tehran. what do you make of the statement saying that their res

, and shadow junior minister, , foreign secretary, emily thornberry, and shadowjunior minister,, theylot more names in the next few days, watch over people like kier starmer and lisa nandy, rebecca long bailey all declaring as well. nick, thanks very much indeed, we will cut him off slightly there, because we want to join president trump, who is speaking live, following the death of qassim suleimani after that a us strike on his convoy. let's listen in the. any american, we will find you, we will eliminate you, we will a lwa ys you, we will eliminate you, we will always protect our diplomats. service members. all americans, and our allies. for years, service members. all americans, and ourallies. foryears, the service members. all americans, and our allies. for years, the islamic revolutionary guard corps and its ruthless codes for us under suleimani's leadership has murdered hundreds of american civilians and servicemen, the recent attacks on us targets in iraq including rocket strikes that killed an american and injured four american servicemen very badly, as well as a violent assau

but the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry says she has been worried about a hardline approachnumber of years. i raised it with the current foreign secretary, the previous foreign secretary, the previous foreign secretary and the one before that, borisjohnson, secretary and the one before that, boris johnson, and when secretary and the one before that, borisjohnson, and when i raised it with boris johnson and borisjohnson, and when i raised it with borisjohnson and said, the president is going to trade at the ukrainian tarmac iranian —— tear up the iranian nuclear deal, he said i should be less worried. that kind of complacency in the iranian context also resulted in miss radcliffe's sentence being increased. we have a flippancy from this government and they have not been taking it seriously and it has been something which has been coming forfar too long and now they respond by saying iranians must de—escalate against a backdrop of the head of the defence force being killed and donald trump saying, "i'm not starting a war, i'm trying to stop it," but saying he's about to attack

lisa nandi, clive lewis, emily thornberry, jess phillips as well.next few weeks. tens of thousands of independence supporters in scotland marched through the centre of glasgow earlier today. the organisers, all under one banner, say around 80,000 people took part in this, the first of a series of marches, the group plans to hold across scotland over the coming year. the uk government has said it does not support a further vote on independence. gillian sharpe reports. ac of saltires on the streets of glasgow. it took more than rain... their route going from the west end to glasgow green. we have come here today because we feel that really there's no choice now for scotland but to be independent. we are completely on a different track from england, totally. the march is well under way now. the organisers say they just weren't going to let the weather put them off. this is scotland, after all. but a rally due to be held at the end of the event has had to be cancelled. to day's event was billed as an emergency march organised in the wa ke emergency marc

lisa nandi, clive lewis, emily thornberry, jess phillips.hrough to the next round and the 22 mps backing them which they need. clive lewis and emily thornberry are struggling to get that mamba but the other four —— to get that at the moment but the other four are doing much better. nick, thanks forjoining us. one of the biggest sellers of train tickets in britain is the latest to offer its customers what‘s called split ticketing. the trainline says using this method, rail travellers could between them save more than £300 million this year. split ticketing is when travellers buy multiple tickets for a journey instead of a single end—to—end ticket. it can be used to lower the overall cost, sometimes by more than half the originaljourney cost. with split ticketing, your tickets must cover the whole journey and the train must stop at ever station where your tickets are split — but you don‘t have to get off. the rail industry is calling for tickets to be simplified and a government review is underway. earlier i spoke to robert nisbet — regional d

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

this morning, the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry made her views clear on the issue of securityxpayer should pay for the security of harry and meghan and theirfamily, as they do with former ministers. listen, you know, harry's spent 20 years on the front line in afghanistan, through many tours of duty. he's done great service just on the basis of that, and if they decide they want to go to canada, of course they must always be protected. and underpinning it all is the human side. family divisions and, poignantly, a rift between two brothers. in the sunday times, according to friends, william is quoted as saying, "i've put my arm around my brother all our lives. "i can't do it any more." a bond which he feels is now being broken. jon donnison, bbc news. a dramatic release of steam and ash from a volcano in the philippines has led the authorities there to order 8,000 people to leave the area. this speeded—up footage of the taal volcano, south of the philippine capital manila, shows the plume of white smoke that's one kilometre high. manila's international airport has put all fligh

theyjoin the shadow treasury minister, clive lewis, and the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberrypoke 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 return to what they see as the bad old days, 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 a message that both marries the need to 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 abo

as it currently stands, emily thornberry has ten, clive lewis has four and one of those is himself.a day to go now. you feel like it is going to be very difficult to make the cut. they are doing the broadcast rounds today, they feel they can get a last—minute surge to try and get over the line, but as it currently stands, probably four getting over the line, sir keir starmer, rebecca long—bailey, jess phillips, lisa nandy. just looking at mps and meps nominations, at the moment, it looks like sir keir starmer is the frontrunner. but of course, it is not only mps and meps who choose, it is the members in the contest starting at the end of the month. what are the various candidates and hopeful saying to set themselves apart from each other? sir keir starmer launched formally yesterday, his message is about the party coming together, the end of factionalism, and also about keeping some of the radical 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

emily thornberry only has ten as well. she spoke to andrew marr earlier and said she was confident.a week to get nominations in. there are a large number of mps who have not nominated yet. they wanted to speak to party members and go to hustings and think about this because it is a really important decision, but from the conversations i have had this weekend, i am fairly confident that as long as i do not have any slippage i will be fine, i will get across the line and then we will get across the line and then we will move onto the next stage. it's a long contest and it'll have its ups and downs and i have been a slow starter but i did start from a standing start after the general election. one of the issues discussed is this point about proximity tojeremy discussed is this point about proximity to jeremy corbyn discussed is this point about proximity tojeremy corbyn and that being an issue. it is a tight rope all the candidates to walk to appeal to the membership which has undoubtedly gone more to the left onto mr corbyn. without being seen to be too close tojeremy corbyn because h

emily thornberry, a prominent person in the shadow cabinet, only has ten as well.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 discussed is this point about proximity to jeremy corbyn and that being an issue? absolutely. it is a bit of a tightrope for all the candidates to walk, to appeal to the membership, which has undoubtedly gone more to the left u

the other two and the wrist, emily thornberry and clive lewis, perhaps a bit more aligned with jeremybit more aligned withjeremy corbyn and more familiarfaces from aligned withjeremy corbyn and more familiar faces from the shadow cabinet. but the sir keir starmer know the first to enter the race, the timetable for points will be set ata the timetable for points will be set at a meeting of the national executive committee on monday. thank you very much. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30pm and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. our guests joining me tonight arejohn rentoul, chief political commentator at the independent, and benedicte paviot, uk correspondent for france 24. two mortar rounds have landed near the us embassy in baghdad and rockets have hit a base housing american troops, following the assassination of an iranian military commander. general qasem soleimani was hit by a us drone attack outside baghdad airport on thursday. thousands of people have taken part in his funeral procession in the iraqi capital. te

along with the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry, who just made it onto the ballot, with thend i think i have a chance to cut through with people and to get the country to feel that they can trust politicians again. closest to jeremy corbyn, though, is the front bencher rebecca long—bailey. so, what's needed ? we've got to move into a position where we can win elections, because otherwise, we'lljust become an irrelevance, a pressure group. we do need to get somebody in the leadership who can unite the party, because it has been terribly divided. even down at local level. i'm not a big jeremy corbyn fan, but there are a lot of people out there who supported him and want his policies to continue. one direction is if we keep the status quo as we are, the electorate have stamped their foot and said, "listen, you need to listen to what we're saying." so, you're moving out? they all know the pain of defeat. we've got about a month left tojust wind everything up. labour lost by just 105 votes here in bury north. the former mp is adamant the next leader has to pass muster in marginal

and there are five candidates left, including emily thornberry, who secured the support of 22 labourto spare before the deadline. the others in contention arejess phillips, sir keir starmer, lisa nandy, and rebecca long—bailey. our political editor laura kuenssberg has been talking to labour party members in the seat of bury north, which labour lost at the general election. who will they choose? after being battered at the election, labour members have another big vote, but this time a vote of their own. we've got to get this right. we've got to get this leadership election right. we need to get back in there and show people some heart. we need to win. we need to — we've had... we're going to have had nearly 15 years of a conservative government. but who could build a labour government? way ahead among mps is sir keir starmer, the shadow brexit secretary. wigan mp lisa nandy is in the race. because, if we do not change course as a labour movement, we will die, and we will deserve to. along with the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, who just made it onto the ballot, with the

theyjoin the shadow treasury minister clive lewis and the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry —nnounced their intention to stand. earlier, our political correspondent jonathan blake had this update on how the leadership contest is shaping up. there are already some clear differences with sir keir starmer the latest to set out his pitch to labour party members arguing in a piece in the sunday mirror tomorrow that labour cannot hide its head in the sand and needs to rebuild fast but in an apparent pitch tojeremy corbyn's support base he says the party must not lose sight of his values or retreat from the radicalism of the last few years. there is no mention of brexit at all in his pitch, and as a leading remain campaigner and someone who argued hard for a second referendum, might be seen as out of step with labour's leave voting constituencies and voters who turned their back on the party at the election, and others in the running, prominent backbenchersjess phillips and lisa nandy argue that the party must change direction and choose someone as leader more in touch with their wor

emily thornberry and rebecca long—bailey are yet to reach the threshold.first preference vote would go to lisa nandy. our chief political correspondent vicki young is in westminster. rebecca long—bailey not there yet but many think that she will get the backing of the unite union so should not have much trouble. emily thornberry we'll have to go to the labour party to get 40% of support to progress. we are getting to position to know who will be on the ballot paper. rebecca long—bailey if he met many of someone who will follow in the same direction as jeremy corbyn. she has been relu cta nt to jeremy corbyn. she has been reluctant to criticise him as have all the candidates apart from jess phillips and rebecca long—bailey raised eyebrows when she asked what marks she would give corbyn possible to ship and she would say ten out of ten and today he spoke to our political editor. she said actually she felt the party did have at the election a great of policies. all of us within the labour party need to sell that message of aspiration, and we have to convince

lisa nandi, clive lewis, emily thornberry, jess phillips.ad to be treated in hospital after an attack at bristol prison. an inmate was being segregated yesterday after threatening staff when he attacked them with a home—made weapon, knocking one unconscious. the ministry ofjustice said the incident had been referred to the police. tracey miller reports. staff at bristol prison have praised the bravery of their colleagues after an attack by a prisoner that left five officers needing hospital treatment. one was left unconscious, another with a damaged eye. it happened yesterday when they tried to move a prisoner who was allegedly making threats towards them. i have been told by the prison officers association that as staff opened the cell door, the prisoner attacked them with a home—made weapon. prison officers here have put on social media that a request to use protective equipment before approaching the prisoner had not been granted. the prison officers association went to say... but the ministry of justice have said that they are investing

rebecca long—bailey and emily thornberry launching the campaign survey.s, rebecca long—bailey is on the left, critics say she is continuityjeremy corbyn, she would say she is resenting a radical programme, deliver a seismic shift in the british state away from here at westminster, more power to local areas and to the regions. she also says she wants to get out of the gentleman scarp in britain's politics, perhaps a jibe at one of her challenges, —— emily thornberry perhaps not quite as popular amongst the left—wing membership as rebecca long—bailey. she struggled to get on a stage in the contest with the backing of fellow mps but she says she has the resilience and indeed the experience to take on boris johnson. she is battle hardened she says. but what is interesting is that tonight when emily thornberry launches, she will also point out she was as she puts it on the front line of opposing anti—abortion laws in northern ireland. we know that rebecca long—bailey for example in response to questions by the catholic church at the time of the election raise

that emily thornberry or rebecca long—bailey, iforget.plp haven when they nominated and elected corbyn as their leader. a lot of people like sadiq khan, then an mp, who was nominating mr corbyn all the while saying we don't think he will win and he's not necessarily my favourite candidate but we need diversity and therefore i'm going to put this person on the nomination paper. i wouldn't say so much worried, that's not for me to worry, that's for the blairite part of the party to worry about this, but again the party might be going down a way where they might putting forward someone and getting somebody elected who they don't think should really be their leader. ok, let's bring you in lance, who sees himself as the outsider... perhaps you are a bit more of an insider. what's your take? i think there is a wildcard in that pack, actually, which isjess phillips. yes. she doesn't look like an identikit politician, doesn't speak like one, and she's going about hercampaign in speak like one, and she's going about her campaign in a different sor

with emily thornberry and clive lewis having already declared, there are now five confirmed contenders is also expected to join the contest. labour's ruling body meets tomorrow to decide the rules for the election, an election which may decide the future direction of the party for a generation to come. and earlier i spoke to tony who explained what all the leadership candidates will now be hoping to achieve. it's a delicate balancing act. they've all got to promise a fresh start of some kind because the election defeat was so devastating for the labour party but on the other hand they have another issue which is that the next leader will be picked by the members and a lot of them are corbyn supporters so there has to be continuity in a sense and what they are trying to do is undertake this balancing act in a different way. today, sir kier starmer was reaching out to labour members more than we thought. we have the likes ofjess phillips and lisa nandy moving away from voters. a slightly different message from emily thornberry and clive lewis, all trying to deal with this balancing act i

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plus, rebecca long—bailey and emily thornberry will set out their visions for the labour party.from bbc news. the latest headlines: the 100 lawmakers of the us senate have been sworn in as jurors for the impending impeachment trial of president trump. police in panama have arrested ten people on suspicion of murdering a woman and six children as part of a strange religious ritual. now it's time to look at the stories that are making the headlines in the media across the world. we begin with the seattle times, who report tech giant microsoft has promised to be carbon negative within a decade and to use its technology, money and influence to drive down carbon emissions across the economy. in the times, according to scientists, sepsis is the most deadly condition in the world and kills more people than cancer after finding that it is responsible for twice as many deaths as thought. the mirror leads with prince harry who say he and meghan's bid to breakfree from the royal family could take up to six months to finalise. the papers says frantic talks on their future have stalled on th

two ofjeremy corbyn's front—bench team — rebecca long—bailey and emily thornberry — launch their campaignsro. glasgow has committed to beat edinburgh and become the first net zero emissions city in the uk — five years ahead of the scottish target. is it possible? i'm here to find out.

the headlines: two of the candidates for the labour party leadership emily thornberry and rebecca long campaigns today. and i know that i can do the women who stand up and loosely fight back against a boris johnson. who stand up and loosely fight back against a borisjohnson. we are going to need to have somebody tough, somebody resilient and battle hardened to win that fight. my kind of socialism is the kind in which we all rise together. my kind of socialism as a kind of a britain in which everyone is free to dream, free to climb and free to succeed.

in the last few minutes emily thornberry told us that the attack ta kes thornberry told us that the attackin. in the last hour the british foreign office has advised all uk nationals against travelling to parts of iraq and iran. the foreign secretaries cited heightened tensions following the death of qasem soleimani, and people are advised not to travel to iraq, with the exception of the kurdistan, and to consider carefully if it is essential to travel. australia's prime minister scott morrison says he'll deploy 3,000 army reserve troops to help tackle raging bush fires across the country, as the death toll continues to rise. there are fears high winds and soaring temperatures could push fires into populated areas this weekend. the psychic derek acorah has passed away, according to a statement by his wife. the climate change campaigner greta thunberg has changed her name to "sharon" on twitter, in honour of a celebrity game show contestant who appeared to have no idea who she was. the casualty actress amanda henderson was appearing on celebrity mastermind, when she was asked to name the fa

leadership, the first stage of nominations has closed and there are five candidates left including emily thornberryd meps with a just a few minutes to spare before the deadline. the others in contention arejess phillips, sir kier starmer, lisa nandy and rebecca long—bailey. people who manage their cholesterol levels with a daily statin, could replace them with a new injection. the health secretary matt hancock says the injection, which is being offered to nhs patients in england, could save up to 30,000 lives over the next decade. lots more on the website on all of our stories and you can get in touch with me on social media. that's it for me but now it is time for all the sponsors. hello, and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: suspended then sacked, the houston astros coach and general manager punished for cheating on their way to winning the 2017 and sackings all around as barcelona part ways with their manager ernesto valverde. and we speak to south africa's rugby world cup winning captain on his initiatives to help the communities that made him. so