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Might be a Welcome Change of scene for the Prime Minister, after a week in westminster he may want to forget. Why did you lie to parliament, boris . Why did you lie to the queen . When are you going to resign, boris . And accusations have followed him here that his use of language about brexit is dangerous, that downing street is exploiting divisions, even inciting violence. Labour say Boris Johnson should be ashamed. His response . Its an overreaction. Well, i certainly think everybody should calm down and i certainly think. Including you . I think ive been a model of restraint. My use of the word humbug was in the context of people trying to prevent me, us from using the word surrender. My intention. So you can say sorry for the misunderstanding at least . I can certainly say sorry for the misunderstanding, because my. 0k. From the moment he arrived last night, and at every turn throughout this conference, borisjohnsons message will be clear, despite warnings about the consequences coming out of the eu by the end of october, with or without a deal is what people want and need. I think that the best thing for the country and the best thing for peoples overall Psychological Health would be to get brexit done. The Prime Minister, we are told will speak to other eu leaders over the next few days and he says there is a good chance of doing a deal. But if he cannot get an agreement over the line, will he step aside . I have undertaken to lead the party and my country at a difficult time and i am going to continue to do that. I believe it is my responsibility. Questions too for the Prime Minister about his friendship with the with the businesswomanjennifer arcuri and whether she received special treatment on trade visit while mrjohnson was mayor of london. An emphatic denial he did anything wrong. Everything was done in accordance with all. I asked you a very specific question. You have to declare an interest, did you declare it . There was no interest to declare. She was a friend of yours, she got public money. Lets be absolutely clear, im very, very proud of everything we did and certainly everything i did as the mayor of london. And with that, the Prime Minister was off to North Manchester General Hospital to highlight the governments pledge to fund new nhs facilities and rebuild existing ones. This is the best ever investment. Six hospital trusts will get a share of £2. 7 billion, with more promised in the future if the tories can hold onto power. Jonathan blake, bbc news, manchester. Our assistant political editor, norman smith, is in manchester. Are pretty turbulent week for the Prime Minister, but he is sounding pretty defiant. Prime minister is borisjohnson is a Prime Minister under pressure, but not here. This conference is like a warm bath for borisjohnson. They conference is like a warm bath for Boris Johnson. They love him conference is like a warm bath for borisjohnson. They love him here. Heres the conference darling, ever more so heres the conference darling, ever more so since he became the do or die brexit Prime Minister. But whatever happens here doesnt really in brexitland, in the brexit drama. They are key players are the courts, the eu and parliament, and that is why significantly Boris Johnson addressed some of his most important remarks today to rebel mps back at westminster, saying, dont think i cant get round your pesky bit of legislation designed to stop me from leaving without an agreement on the sist leaving without an agreement on the 31st of october. Of course i can. Why is he saying that . I think he is trying to leave a little wrinkle of doubt in their minds, to try to splinter their ranks in the hope that one or more other party might just be panicked into triggering a vote of no confidence and thereby giving borisjohnson the brexit election that he wants. So, i wouldnt get too hung up on all the adulation and applause we are going to see here. It is a bit like mancunian drizzle of a proverbial ducks back. I wouldnt pay too much attention to it. All right, norman, thank you very much indeed. Norman smith in manchester. Thereve been more violent clashes in hong kongs main shopping district after the latest pro democracy protests. Thousands of people have been taking part in the unauthorised rallies, and riot Police Used Tear Gas to try to break up the crowds. It comes as china prepares to mark the 70th anniversary of communist rule. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonell is in hong kong. Ina sign in a sign of mass descent, thousands of residents of hong kong took to the streets today, despite the fact that they were told that if they do so that they were told that if they do so they are breaking the law. Despite the fact that there was a tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets used again, they still marched through the streets. We had everything from peaceful protesters, marching, singing and chanting, and at the other end of the spectrum, barricades set on fire, molotov cocktails, bricks being thrown at police headquarters. The police have come in with a very tough response, and for both sides, this is a dress rehearsal for tuesday. The activists and the authorities are getting ready for this 70th anniversary of communist rule in china. Beijing wa nts communist rule in china. Beijing wants that to be a celebration of everything that is great about the country, all the achievements over seven decades of rule. But the protesters are determined to crash the party, and instead, they want to draw attention to their claims that there should be democratic reforms in hong kong. For that reason, we are looking at a very big showdown in the coming days. And both activists and the police have shown what they are prepared to do when that day comes around. Stephen, thank you very much indeed. Stephen mcdonald with the latest from hong kong. The american retailer cvs pharmacy is the latest to suspend the sale of a heartburn drug which is being investigated for links to cancer. It follows concern in several countries over za ntac and other ranit idine products. Canada and france have already announced recalls. The us and the European Union are investigating. Two people have died and several others have been injured at a theme park in mexico city. All the victims were passengers on a rollercoaster when one of the carriages fell off the track at the la feria amusement park. An investigation is under way to establish the cause of the accident. There are more than 45 flood warnings in place across england and 12 for wales, after heavy rain caused travel disruption for parts of the uk. Persistent downpours led to localised flooding and difficult driving conditions in parts of north east scotland. Elsewhere a mudslide forced Rail Services in lancashire to be cancelled. At the Rugby World Cup injapan, wales have beaten australia 29 25 one of the best and closest matches of the tournament so far. Our Sports Correspondent Katie Gornall was there, and sent this report. Welcome to tokyo stadium. Japan is proving to be a popular host. Their team has lit up the world cup. Now, here in tokyo, theyve thrown their support behind two of rugbys headliners. Gone are the days when wales can fly under the radar at a world cup. They arrived here as favourites to beat the two times champions australia in a game that could define their tournament. This feels very, very special. No side has ever won mag a world cup and lost a match along the way. Momentum in rugby is everything, and early on it was with wales. Hadleigh parkes is there. Oh, got it in, hes scored. Hadleigh parkes watched the last world cup in a pub. Now he has the best view in the house. Australia found something to lift their spirits when Adam Ashley Cooper scampered over. Gets back out, scores. But the second their concentration wavered, wales pounced. Heres Gareth Davies, heading for the line. Gareth davies helping wales to a 15 point lead at the break. On a hotand humid night, the pace was frantic, and australias dane hallet petty added to the excitement. Wales under mounting pressure struggled to hold back the tide, as Michael Hooper punched his way through. Now the try. Before their lead was cut to a point. This was tense. It is Wales Australia gave it everything, but wales somehow held firm to win a match that marks them out as world cup contenders. Even for the most experienced of welsh warriors, this is one theyll never forget. Katie gornall, bbc news, tokyo. Quite a quitea game you can see more on all of todays stories on the bbc news channel. Youre watching the bbc news channel with ben brown. You are more now on the latest Health Spending pledge from the government with a promise to spend billions on what the Prime Minister is calling the biggest Hospital Building project for a generation. The plans spending two point seven billion pounds of investment the plans spending £2. 7 billion of investment for six nhs hospitals over the next five years. Boris johnson has been giving more details on his latest spending promise. Are you happy with that . What micro Prime Minister. Are you happy with that . What microPrime Minister. We would try and bring you an edited version of that. Earlier i got the view of anita charlesworth, director of research and economics at the health foundation. It is a big investment in one sense, on top of theresa mays investment last year which was for day to day running costs of the nhs. But, although it sounds like a lot of money, we have had so many years of underinvestment in our hospital infrastructure, that actually, rather than spending £2. 7 billion across the next five years, you would almost certainly need to spend £2. 7 billion a year for the next five years, to really modernise the physical infrastructure of the health service. Because that physical infrastructure has been pretty rundown . It might not seem like the most important thing, but actually if you think about what that means, hospitals havent been maintaining lifts, and porters cant get the patient from the ward to the operating theatre on time to have the operation. A lot of this maintenance is absolutely critical. To getting the nhs to work and that doesnt need buildings, it needs computers, people may well remember the virus last year and lots of doctors reported it takes 30 minutes to log on. You are queueing up with other doctors to get access to the computer. And it needs things like mri and ct scanners which are really important for cancer, diagnosing cancer. And we are way behind our European Partners and access to some of this critical infrastructure. I was going to ask how our hospitals compare physically, in terms of the buildings and equipment, the levels of modernisation, to European Partners or other relatively industrialised developed countries around the world . We spend about half the amount that other countries spend on the physical infrastructure of running their health services. We have fewer beds than most of our partners, but what is really important and one of the big gaps in todays announcement, is that beds and capacity are useful, but actually you need doctors and nurses to staff those beds. And we have a shortage of 40,000 nurses and todays announcements does nothing about what the government is going to do to address chronic shortages in the workforce. So you can build shiny new hospitals but if you do not have doctors to staff them, you wont get extra capacity and people wont see improvements on the front line. Generally, you have all the parties, political parties, talking more about large levels of investment in the National Health service. And i suppose, looking into the future, yes it still has huge problems, but there is a general commitment, isnt there . To spend a lot more money on the nhs . After nine years of austerity, it is clear that there is general agreement that if we want a World Class Health service we will have to pay for it. And that will require substantial investment in buildings, in staff, as well. Lets go back to the remarks from the Prime Minister of government plans for increased spending on the National Health service. The mic what we are committing to is a programme of 14 new hospitals, starting with six. This one in North Manchester General Hospital is a fantastic institution. Talking to the doctors and nurses and staff, they are doing an amazing job but they are doing an amazing job but they are doing it in buildings that we re they are doing it in buildings that were built in 1870. So that is a plan that will cost about 500 million. We are embarking on that planner and giving the go ahead to them to embark on it. They will have to ta ke them to embark on it. They will have to take down those old victorian buildings to build a fantastic new site. It will cost a lot of money but we will make a start. This is the time for our country to invest in the nhs for the long term. We have the funds to do it and will make the Funds Available because i think it is the number one priority of the british people. It is one of the reasons we need to honour the mandate of the people and get brexit donein mandate of the people and get brexit done in october the 31st and respect the democratic will of the people and then move on. We cant wait. That is why we are announcing this programme no. Is that an aspiration of this conference . You might know, we are putting money into all of them and we are putting money into every single one of them. We want to get them going. The important pointers the nhs are very bureaucratic system. They dont give the go ahead likely to Hospital Building programme. We are starting that programme and in manchester they have the green light to start doing. And high time to. What about the monies for the other 40 . The money for the other 40 will be forthcoming and we are giving eve ryo ne forthcoming and we are giving everyone the seed money we will need to develop the programme. They have a very Ambitious Programme to integrate health care and tackle deprivation, even to work with the police in order to bring down crime in the neighbourhood. It is a fantastic agenda for North Manchester General Hospital and we are supporting it. On the sets that are supporting it. On the sets that are going to be built, that is taxpayer money . Of the six hospitals that are going to be built. It is new shiny money coming out of the treasury and a great geezer. In a great geyser. This will not be in the never never, we are committing to funding this and this is the time to do it. Meanwhile, thousands of demonstrations are marching outside the conservative Party Conference in protest against Boris Johnsons brexit agenda. Lets get more from our correspondent, linsey smith. Describe the scene for us. Dozens of people thousands of people are gathered for to protest, the first of which set off a few minutes ago. Manchester police said they are prepared for 100,000 people to take pa rt prepared for 100,000 people to take part in two rallies and coaches have been arriving all morning from across the country. Borisjohnson is not unfamiliar with portents of late but these have been timed to coincide perfectly with the start of the conservative Party Conference which started today in manchester and certainly at this point now in the protest route the protesters are slowing down because this is the closest point which they will get to the conservative Party Conference venue. The conservative Party Conference venue. This first march is organised by the Peoples Assembly against austerity. The second roller this afternoon which is due to start later on is organised by to reject brexit defend our democracy. The atmosphere so far has been of peaceful protest a lot of protesters with theirfamilies peaceful protest a lot of protesters with their families and pets and there is no sign of the frustration and anger that has been felt of late. Greater Manchester Police are appealing for all protesters for it to say that way. Stay that way. Britains most senior catholic clergyman has warned that some of the language being used in parliament could encourage violent extremists. Speaking on radio 4s sunday programme Cardinal Vincent nichols, said that the events in the commons last week had provoked an unambiguous response. As our correspondent john mcmanus explained to me earlier, its the second time senior british christians have intervened about the tone and language of the brexit debate. On friday a group of church of england bishops wrote a public letter saying that the tone had become unacceptable and saying that people inside and outside parliament should not denigrate or patronise each other or the honest views of fellow citizens but Cardinal Nichols has gone even further on this interview radio 4. He is also the archbishop of westminster and does not usually get involved in social and political debate of this nature but hes been pretty blunt about what he sees as a dangerous threat linked to some of the parliamentary language we have heard. Referring to that very noisy, ill tempered debate on wednesday parliament between mps and the Prime Minister where even some mps themselves called for moderation of language, click that had been unambiguous and this wasnt the kind of leadership we need and that kind of language can give encouragement to streams views to extremist views and actions. The debating chamber of parliament is at the centre of attention and therefore is bound to have a ripple effect. And of course there are people who actually want to instigate pockets of really violent opposition to people who are in this country and they dont need much encouragement so they will use the parliamentary language we have heard this week as an excuse. Theirs is the responsibility not to resort to violence but nobody should give any encouragement to that at all. The cardinal said he wasnt asking politicians to change what they were saying or even trying to tone down free speech but the manner in which they were talking to each other and he said in his view that had been a denigration over the last ten years in the terms of Public Discourse were people resorting to slogans and insults more readily. On friday we heard from the church of england bishops, why do think Cardinal Nichols is making on friday we heard from the church of england bishops, why do think Cardinal Nichols is making this intervention now . We are so used to hearing from pope francis practically every week where he makes remarks of an off the cuff but normally this does not happen in the Catholic Church in britain and they are normally more circumspect about social and political issues. They tend to keep their heads below the parapet but we have seen a rise and they are normally more circumspect about social and political issues. They tend to keep their heads below the parapet but we have seen a rise in churchgoers, particularly in london and that has partly been boosted by immigration. A lot of catholic immigrants still go to church regularly for reasons of faith and often for reasons to meet other people from their own home countries as well as social reasons. They are strangers in a strange land and i think some of them are perhaps concerned. We have heard concerns about so called hate speech being aimed at immigrants and i think some of those concerns are probably working their way up from parish churches through priests to the highest levels of the Catholic Church and i think they have now reached the cardinal and i think that is why today he has got involved with this debate and made this intervention. Labour mps have rallied to support Dame Margaret hodge, who is facing a re selection battle after her constituency voted for the chance to pick a new candidate. The former labour chairwoman Harriet Harman said she was dismayed by the move, saying surely this cannot stand. The former foreign secretary David Miliband said it was mad, truly crazy. and that any constituency would be lucky to have margaret as their mp. and the deputy leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson said he had no doubt margaret parents should include children in conversations about Organ Donation, thats according to the organisation will win a full selection but that the process was an unnecessary distraction on the cusp of a general election. Dame margaret whosjewish, and has been critical election. Dame margaret whosjewish, and has been critical of Jeremy Corbyns handling of anti semitism in the party said she was disappointed but would fight to keep her seat in east london. Parents should include children in conversations about Organ Donation, thats according to the organisation that oversees transplants in the uk. Nhs blood and transplant says more than 40 children died over the past five years while waiting for a heart to become available with young patients waiting on average more than two and a half times longer than adults for similar transplants. Flood warnings are in place across england and events have been cancelled due to heavy rain. In yorkshire, where the cycling road World Championships is taking place, organisers said the route had been changed due to concerns for safety. Cancelled events include the inaugural regatta london race on the river thames and racing at haydock in merseyside. Bbc meteorologist and weather presenter philip avery says theres still more rain to come. I was just talking to a friend who is very heavily involved in the eventing world and he says virtually every event he said of the day across england and wales has gone including one in scotland. Talking of the flood warnings we are up to 51, that is the latest one before i came in. If you forgive the pun bubbling underneath we have 202 flood alerts. That is the very latest information i have from the Environment Agency website. That is just from england and wales. Scotla nd just from england and wales. Scotland has not had as much rain overnight or indeed northern ireland. They had a wet night. The good news is the rain is moving away from the borders of scotland but the problem of those organisers have had in the north of england as the rain is likely to persist there and they could see another 20 or 30 millimetres quite easily in the rivers are responding as you would expect given the amount of rain we have had of late. So there is more to come . Sadly yes. Before this particular system is done with us we will be looking at very strong winds coming down the north sea coast, particularly into the east anglia coast. High tide at kings lynn tonight is that 8pm. The water stacking up at the bottom end of the north sea. The could be some Flooding Issues along that coast. Keep up with all the relevant websites, the Environment Agency and bbc weather website. We could be looking at gusts of 40 to 50 mph there so that could be an issue. Then that goes then to for the most pa rt then that goes then to for the most part bright and bright and sunny and chilly, the others face of autumn and then right from the word go into the southwest another area of cloud and wind and rain. Once you get at that will be across england and wales again with another few tens of millimetres of rain on through tuesday as well. It is not religion to get to midweek till things begin to get to midweek till things begin to change a little bit. We keep hearing about lorenzo. Thankfully at the moment as a category five hurricane ike to the middle of the atla ntic hurricane ike to the middle of the atlantic it is not causing anybody any great issues. It is nowhere near land but what may happen, and i do stress the make, because if you were to go on toa stress the make, because if you were to go on to a website at the moment, for example the americans are trying to hike into the middle of the atlantic, they have accord of uncertainty that is over 1000 miles wide. If you ask me what is the forecast for thursday and friday . At this range it is a tough ask. If you can find anybody to answer he is a genius. Hold your horses. If it ends up genius. Hold your horses. If it ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time the latter end of this week many of my colleagues will be talking about lorenzo because it will bring a combination of very wet and very stormy conditions. But there is the most enormous amount to play for at this range. Now its time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. It is unsettled and we still have four warnings around. It is unsettled and we still have fourwarnings around. It is unsettled and we still have four warnings around. Fog warnings. Through the rest of the day we have a number of shows around with the more persistent in of rain stretching down it was not his thing north east england. For north a few showers. Is that those are where we will get strong winds for a time running into east anglia and south east england. During the second half of the night the winds fall light and it will turn quite chilly. A few mist and fog patches among the temperatures even in towns and cities in single figures. Tomorrow a bright start from many of us tomorrow a bright start from many of us although showers in northern scotland. Later the next batch of rain comes in. This could bring Something Like 70 millimetres of rain over the hills and with all those flood warnings already clearly things will get worse before they get better with this next batch of heavy rain. As the conservative Party Conference gets underway in manchester, the Prime Minister defends the language he uses in the brexit debate. I certainly think everybody should calm down. And i certainly think. Including you . I think i have been a model of restraint but i think everybody should calm down. Meanwhile, britains most senior catholic clergyman, Cardinal Vincent nichols, has warned that some of the language being used in parliament could encourage violent extremists. Parents are urged to have conversations with their children about Organ Donation in the hope that more young people willjoin the donor register. Hong kong sees further clashes between police and pro democracy protesters ahead of the 70th anniversary of communist rule in china. Sport and for a full round up from the bbc sport centre, heres richard askem. Good afternoon. Wales have taken a big step towards the quarter finals of the Rugby World Cup by beating australia 29 25 in a thrilling game in tokyo. The narrow victory means they consolidate their place at the top of pool d. Our correspondent Katie Gornall was there. This Katie Gornall was there. Was a game that these far remember this was a game that these fans will rememberfor a very, this was a game that these fans will remember for a very, very long this was a game that these fans will rememberfor a very, very long time. One that more than lived up to its box office in billing. It was exciting and exhilarating and despite the hot and humid conditions here in tokyo it was played at a relentless pace. Wales burst out of the blocks early on with that try. And although australia did hit back in the first half when Gareth Davies intercepted the ball and broke through to score you just sensed all the momentum at that point was with wales. They were 15 points up at the break and looked in control. And you have to give full credit to australia for the way they surged back into the match, scoring two tries in a penalty in the second half to get within one point of wales. The tension at that point was written all over the face of the wales coach warren gatland. What they needed at that point was cool heads