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And his step son wounded after being shot during a suspected robbery outside a five star hotel in buenos aires. Around 2,000 properties are still without water in and around Leighton Linslade in bedfordshire after supplies failed on friday night. Sport stars from around the world gather in aberdeen for this years Sports Personality of the year. Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. Labours leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, have apologised for the partys defeat in the general election, which saw them lose 59 seats. Mr corbyn said he was sorry they came up short. Speaking to the bbcs andrew marr, mr mcdonnell said it was unfortunate the party hadnt been able to articulate its message more effectively. He also blamed the medias portrayal ofJeremy Corbyn, insisting that hed been demonised for four years solid. 0ur Political Correspondent nick eardley reports. TheJeremy Corbyn era is coming to an end. But what will that mean for labour . How much does the party need to change after its disastrous election . This morning, mr corbyn said he took his share of responsibility. His right hand man went further. Its on me, its on me, lets take it on the chin. I own this disaster, so i apologise. I apologise to all those wonderful labour mps who have lost their seats who worked so hard. I apologise to all our campaigners. But that apology only goes so far. The outgoing leadership say they made mistakes but they blame brexit, believe they were demonised by the media, and insist their radical policy agenda was popular. If there was one criticism, this is a self criticism, it is not having a narrative that convinced people about how this all fitted together. The battle for the labour leadership is likely to be bruising, because there are vastly different interpretations of what went wrong. Some want a leader who will continue with mr corbyns message, butjust find a better way of selling it. Others want a leader who will drag the party back to the political centre. Others still want a leader who can appeal to the north, who can say to those labour voters who abandoned the party for the conservatives over brexit, we understand you. The wigan mp, lisa nandy, says shes thinking about running. Weve just had the most shattering defeat where you really felt in towns like mine that the earth was quaking and weve watched the entire labour base just crumble beneath our feet. We have to think seriously about how we rebuild that coalition that has propelled us into power three times in the last 100 years. The lewishams and the leighs and how you how you speak for both. Cheering there are other big ramifications from thursdays vote too. Independence has shot up the agenda after the snps victory in scotland. The uk government says the last independence vote should be respected. Nicola sturgeon says she has a mandate for a new one. You cannot hold scotland in the union against its will. You cannotjust lock us in a cupboard and turn the key and hope that everything goes away. If the union, if the United Kingdom is to continue, then it can only be by consent. Borisjohnsons government, meanwhile, prepares to get down to business. On thursday, there will be a queens speech with a focus on the nhs and, yes, delivering brexit next month. Our intention is to bring the withdrawal bill, the legislation, back to parliament before christmas. This week . Ideally before christmas. As soon as possible would be perfect. New mps will start to arrive here tomorrow to a very different political landscape. Some questions like, will brexit happen have been answered. Others, like the future of labour, and perhaps the uk, are being asked as loudly as ever. Well, labours general secretary says Party Officials will likely meet in early january to agree the timetable for replacing Jeremy Corbyn as leader. Heres nick eardley with more on that. Jennie formby, the labour general secretary has written to the executive tonight saying thatJeremy Corbyn wants a swift process to allow a new leader to be in place by the end of march. How would that work . On the 6th ofjanuary, the end of march. How would that work . On the 6th of january, the idea, the provisional date has been set for the full National Executive to meet and discuss the process, thatis to meet and discuss the process, that is things like the rules and the exact timetable for mr corbyns replacement. The process would begin the following day on the 7th of january. It does give, potentially, mr corbyn and his allies a few more weeks to try to figure out who they wa nt to weeks to try to figure out who they want to replace mr corbyn. Some in the party are adamant he has to go right away but the truth is, even if he went right away, there is no deputy leader, there would be a big hole in the party and it is not clear who, if anyone, would want to fill it. Plenty of time to reflect that he said he was going to do. What is happening this week was mike mps will start to arrive in westminster tomorrow, some of them new to the building, getting their inductions, being shown around. The labour postmortem will begin in earnest on tuesday. The Parliamentary Labour Party is meeting on tuesday night. Jeremy corbyn has been invited to attend andi corbyn has been invited to attend and i assume if he does so it will bea and i assume if he does so it will be a bruising encounter because there are very different interpretations of what went wrong, different factions vying for control of the party. Parliament will feel like a different place when we all start tuning in again on wednesday, thursday, and potentially friday as well. The queens speech will be the big political event of the week and we noted borisjohnson now has a lot more power to do the things he wants to do. We do not know exactly what they are because the manifesto he set out was far from being a programme for government for the next few years. In some places it was quite thin, but i would expect thursday to be along similar lines that we have heard mrjohnson talking about since he became Prime Minister. Brexit will be the priority, as will be the multi billion annual settlement for the nhs, things like crime and education, too. Joining me now from wimbledon, is iain anderson, executive chairman of the Public Relations and lobbying firm cicero group. He has also worked for a range of politicians, including the right honourable Kenneth Clarke mp on leadership bids. Thanks very much forjoining us. How much pomp and ceremony are we likely to see this week, do you think . Not a lot. Having waited three years for a lot. Having waited three years for a queens speech, we got one just before parliament was prorogued. We will get another onejust before parliament was prorogued. We will get another one just before christmas, and what we are expecting isa christmas, and what we are expecting is a very slim down ceremonial affair. The queen, prince charles, they will absolutely be there, the queen will deliver the queens speech, but i think we will not expect the full fanfare and pomp that we saw just a few weeks ago. Expect the full fanfare and pomp that we sawjust a few weeks ago. We obviously saw the conservative ma nifesto obviously saw the conservative manifesto which a few people thought was rather thin on detail but what are you expecting or perhaps even hoping for in the queens speech . Firstly, the whole mantra of the ad done, the withdrawal bill that was introduced before parliament was prorogued for the election, that will be reintroduced. Get brexit done. Literally within 2a hours i expected to start its legislative passage in the house of commons before friday this week. There is some talk of potential mps sitting over the weekend, but borisjohnson has a massive majority now, he has got the time injanuary to be able to pass the legislation, and because it was in his manifesto, the convention is that the house of lords cannot block this one, unlike what happened for theresa may who did not get a clear majority. Firstly it is the withdrawal bill, secondly, a massive commitment to the National Health service. Written in legislation, and over £30 billion commitment by the end of this parliament. He wants to outfox labour on that issue and then a massive amount of other spending on infrastructure, particularly infrastructure, particularly infrastructure in those redwall seats, the seats that turn for the conservatives for first time. You mention pushing back against some of labours intentions. Where else might we see some of that because although labour did badly and they are looking for a new leader, some of the ideas in their manifesto were popular . Yes, that is right, if you particularly look at some of labours policy is right, if you particularly look at some of labours policies around me rationalising around renationalising the railways and energy. Youre not going to see a conservative government taking industries into public ownership, but you will see commitments for passengers and consumers, so that they get a fairer deal. If you like, intervention and a market economy, andi intervention and a market economy, and i think that will be a real clue as to how borisjohnson wants to operate this government, having won this brand new coalition of voters that he talked about on friday. He is not going to forget them, and he is not going to forget them, and he is going to understand that some of the things labour talked about were really popular, theyjust had the wrong leader to talk about them. Where and how might we see the hand of dominic cummings, the special adviser who has been working very closely with Boris Johnson, adviser who has been working very closely with borisjohnson, in this queens speech . It may not, in the queens speech . It may not, in the queens speech, but we are all a fairly radical reform of how whitehall operates. Dominic cummings believes that part of the problem is the way in which government is set up. It is not set up to be able to work for ordinary people, it is certainly not set up to be able to work for some of those red wall seats in the north, in other parts of the country, way beyond london and the south east in the pub. We are going to see a significant reframing, there is talk of the ministry for immigration, talk of a crunching together of several other departments to make government leaner, more efficient, and able to deliver for leaner, more efficient, and able to deliverfor some of the leaner, more efficient, and able to deliver for some of the priorities that the conservatives have pointed to. Policies in the queens speech, bills and the queens speech, but when we get to the new year, a radical reform of the way whitehall actually operates. Which will obviously alarm a few people, no doubt. How long can the Prime Minister resisted pressure for a second referendum Scottish Independence . I see this as being very, very similar to what happened in the 1980s and the 1990s. There was lots of pressure at the time to create a scottish parliament. I think borisjohnson create a scottish parliament. I think Boris Johnson is create a scottish parliament. I think borisjohnson is going to say, really, really simply, scotland voted in 2014 to resist independence, to stay as part of the uk. That was a once in a lifetime opportunity. He has got to hold the line on that idea. Britain voted as one in 2016 for brexit, britain voted as one in the selection. The snp, nicola sturgeon, will this week, just as borisjohnson is doing his queens speech, she will unleash the call for a second independence referendum but i think that will be resisted, certainly up until the Scottish Government elections, the Holyrood Elections in 2021. What borisjohnson has to hope is that the Scottish National is content of the Scottish National is content of the foot continue to have difficulties in terms of Public Service delivery and the economy continues to improve. Nicola sturgeon has to hope that Boris Johnson remains an unpopularfigure in scotland. It is all to play for over the next 18 months, two years. Good to talk to you tonight. Thank you very much. Thanks. And well find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrows front pages at 10. 30 and 11. 30 this and well find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrows front pages at 10. 30 and 11. 30 this evening in the papers. Our guests joining me tonight are the political commentator and former head of press under david cameron, Giles Kenningham and the Political Writer and academic, maya goodfellow. The un climate talks in madrid have ended with delegates agreeing that all countries will put new, tougher carbon cutting plans on the table in time for another major conference in glasgow next year. The deal is being seen as a compromise. Negotiators spent an extra two days and nights in talks, trying to resolve differences. 0ur science editor David Shukman has the details. We are starting to get a little lost. We are kind of lost. 0k. Confusion and fatigue after the longest session of climate negotiations on record. We are a little confused about what documents are being discussed. The hope had been to speed up the fight against rising temperatures. Instead, the talks limped to a compromise that left many unhappy. Especially the island nations that fear for their futures. Im exhausted. Ifeel like much, much more could have been done. And im thinking about how im going to go home and explain that this was a really, really challenging process, especially for the island states and other developing nations. The gasses driving up temperatures are being blasted out in ever greater quantities. And the most Vulnerable Countries were banking on getting new promises to cut these emissions. Their worry is that a hotter world will see more melting of the ice caps and a higher sea level threatening coastlines around the world. The whole point of these talks over the last quarter of a century has been to try to stop Global Temperatures from rising to dangerous levels. The world has already warmed byjust over one celsius over the last 150 yea rs. And a rise of up to 1. 5 degrees is regarded as the maximum safe limit. But even with all the pledges that countries have made on climate change, we are still heading for an increase of at least three degrees despite all these conferences. So, what happens now . The worlds biggest polluter china is still using coal, the dirtiest kind of fuel, and has plans to burn a lot more of it. But there are hints that next year we will see a greener chinese policy emerge. Applause. That would help the uk. The former minister clare 0neil is now in the chair of the un process. Shell need plenty of support ahead of the next summit due in glasgow next november. One of the things at this moment which made it more difficult for the uk is the fact they have a much tighter set of negotiating items they will have to deal with next year but the actual lift in terms of delivering more action was always going to be a big lift and they cant do it on their own. And all the time, reminders of the threat. Australia is enduring unprecedented bushfires and the coming days there could also see record heat. David shukman, bbc news. A british man shot and killed during a robbery in argentina is understood to be 50 year old Matthew Gibbard from northamptonshire. His stepson stefan zone is also thought to have been wounded. It happened outside a five star hotel in the capital buenos aires. Angus crawford reports. Moments before a brutal attack in broad daylight. See the white minibus. Matthew gibbard, stefan zone and theirfamily are inside. The driver moves to get their luggage. No one notices the man on the motorbike. At the top of the screen, his accomplice attacks the tourists who fight back. What happens next is too distressing to show. It took place yesterday morning in one of buenos aires most affluent neighbourhoods outside the 5 star faena art hotel. Mr gibbard died in hospital. Mr zone, shot in the thigh, is in a serious condition. The Foreign Office says its supporting their family and helping the authorities. The attackers fled on a motorbike. Police have made no arrests. A life cut short in a senseless act of violence. Angus crawford, bbc news. The headlines on bbc news Jeremy Corbyn apologises for the partys heavy defeat in the general election and says he wants the process of deciding how to elect a new labour leader to begin swiftly. Nicola sturgeon renews her call for a second referendum on Scottish Independence, saying the people of scotland mustnt be kept in the union against their will. A marathon un Climate Summit in madrid ends in a compromise, leaving many delegates unhappy. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres ben. Kevin de bruyne was the star for Manchester City as they closed to within three points of Leicester City in second in the premier league by beating arsenal 3 0. The game was just 89 seconds old when de bruyne made this finish look ridiculously easy to fire city ahead. He then turned provider as city hit arsenal on the counter attack to make it 2 0. Raheem sterling with the simple finish. De bruyne againjoined in his own personal goal of the game competition, proving his left foot isnt too shabby either. 3 0 it finished. City stay 3rd. Arsenal remain 9th. He is a player with huge talent up front. He can run. With him, with the people in the front, extraordinary. Today, in the final third, he scored two magnificent goals and got an assist. So, kevin is a top player. Manchester united have extended their unbeaten run to six League Matches after drawing 1 1 with everton. They had to come from behind though Victor Lindelofs own goal putting everton ahead. The goal was checked by var but it was deemed Dominic Calvert lewin hadnt fouled goalkeeper david de gea in the build up. But united made sure of a point, Mason Greenwood with his eighth goal of the season, 13 minutes from time for a 1 1 draw. Theyve made me look good, the players have been tremendous to me, they have supported me, as have all the staff, and ive put my shift in. How difficult was today, youve been short of key players from last week, and others injured . Yes, weve had a lot of injuries and sickness, you just have to get on with it. I think the players who came in were mindful. Spurs snatched the three points at molineux with a late header from Jan Vertonghen to give them a 2 1win over wolves. The victory means tottenham are up to fifth, three points behind chelsea, who they play next weekend. Celtic remain two points clear at the top of the scottish premiership after beating hibs 2 0. Trying to keep pace with them are rangers who moved on from last weeks league cup defeat to celtic by easing past motherwell 2 0 at fir park. Nikola katic opened the scoring before alfredo morelos sealed the points. He was then sent off in the aftermath for an offensive gesture towards motherwell fans in his celebration. Arsenal women will be top of the wsl for christmas and with a bigger lead too after their 3 1 win at everton moved them three points clear. Dutch striker vivianne miedema scored twice, taking her tally for the calendar year to 53 goals for club and country but the victory was tainted by an serious looking leg injury to englands beth mead. Exeter chiefs made it four wins from four to put themselves on the verge of reaching the knockout stages of the european champions cup for the First Time Since 2016. They beat sale 35 10. The chiefs had to battle against the sharks and the weather, with play briefly suspended in the second half due to heavy hailstone. But five tries in the match sealed a bonus point win its the first time theyve won their first four matches in european competition. By contrast bath have lost four from four. Their latest defeat a 52 26 thrashing at clermont auvergne, shipping eight tries in the process. Right now over on bbc one, you can watch the 2019 bbc Sports Personality of the year awards. Its taking place in aberdeen, with the great and good of british sport all in attendance. A couple of awards already presented including the helen rolleson award to doddie weir, Eliud Kipchoge received his world sports star trophy and was then on hand to present the Unsung Hero Award to Keiren Thompson for helping kids achieve in nottingham. The six nominees for the main gong are lewis hamilton, dina asher smith, ben stoke, alun wynjones, Raheem Sterling and Katarina Johnson thompson. All the details on how to vote as well as our live text page can be found on the bbc sport website. Thats all the sport for now. One of the people injured in last weeks volcanic eruption on white island in new zealand has now died in hospital. It brings the confirmed death toll to 16. Rescue teams returned to white island earlier today but could not find the bodies of two people who are still missing. Police in the indian capital delhi have clashed with protesters angry about a new citizenship law. The law gives migrants from three countries citizenship if they are facing religious persecution but it excludes muslims and has sparked protests across the country. The demonstrations have been largely peaceful today but Police Used Tear Gas and batons near a university in delhi. Students there have denied any part in the violence. Salman ravi has more. We are right here at the Jamia Millia Islamia university but the campus right behind us has quite disturbing scenes because of massive violence being reported for the last couple of hours here. Two buses have been set on fire and many other vehicles have also been torched by protesting students who have been protesting against the citizenship Amendment Bill and the nrc and as you can see, there is a heavy police alert because what is happening inside the campus, we do not know. Senior officials are here and the vehicles are coming and going, exits, chaos. You can see the tension is already mounting and ambulances are coming from behind. I think there are injured students because there are reports of police opening fire but Police Officials have not confirmed it but there have been injuries. Local students have been admitted to hospitals. Police officials have come here. More of them are on standby and we are not allowed to proceed further because there are reports of a stone pelting from there and even of firing so let us wait and see what comes out because this is going to escalate further because the last three or four days there have been quite a lot of protests all along delhi and right from the North Eastern states of india to the state capital delhi and still the protests are continuing. A series of earthquakes have struck the philippines killing a six year old girl, and injuring several other people. The Us Geological survey has recorded 15 tremors near the Southern City of davao in a 24 hour period the largest of which had a magnitude of 6. 8. Buildings have collapsed and there are fears some people may have been trapped. A large scale search and rescue operation is under way. 0ur correspondent in the philippines, howard johnson, gave this update. It is quite widespread on the southern island, it struck around 2pm local time here. Close to davao city, the political for base of rodrigo roa duterte, the president of the country. He was in davao city at the time with his daughter in his home. His spokesperson says he was safe. It is also very close to where Manny Pacquiao hails from. The epicentre was about two or three miles away from there and we have seen a number of collapsed buildings, there being a number of search and rescue teams trying to get people out from underneath the rubble. What we have heard is the National Disaster council has ordered all the authorities to get to work to help those affected by this natural disaster. The israeli authorities have told christians living in the gaza strip that they will not be able to travel to bethlehem in the west bank to celebrate christmas. There are about a thousand, mostly greek orthodox, christians living in the strip, which is controlled by the Palestinian Group hamas. Israel has cited security concerns for its decision. Hamas, israeli Rights Groups and Church Leaders have all condemned the move. Around 2,000 properties are still without water in and around Leighton Linslade in bedfordshire after supplies failed on friday night. An initial problem, caused by a broken valve, has been fixed. But Anglian Water says air trapped in pipes means supplies havent been restored in some areas. Jenny kirk reports. Queues at tesco in Leighton Buzzard today, but these arent christmas shoppers. I wasnt even aware that this water station was around, so this is my first trip. Im guessing one of many if its not back up and running. Around 20,000 homes were left without water when the problem started on friday evening. A faulty valve was found and repaired, but this morning, 5000 people in Leighton Linslade were still not reconnected. Businesses have been hit hard, forced to close at what should be a busy time of the year. The owners of the white horse pub and b b say it has cost them thousands in lost trade. Also closed, the nearby rustico italian bistro, which had to cancel a Christmas Party of 20 planned for tonight. We have a business to run first, but im looking at all the families around the area, maybe with kids as well or old people, water is a primary need and we really need it. An air lock is unusual and is very difficult to resolve. First you need to find and then you need to remove it from the network. That is why we have had teams today literally walking the network to try and find that airlock and remove it. To help the most vulnerable people, tankers were brought in pumping Drinking Water directly into the mains. After two days without water, the Elm Lodge Care home home was given its own supply from a 9000 litre tank. Anglian water has apologised. Taylor swift has announced shell be headlining Glastonbury Festival next year. The american superstar has tweeted to say shell be performing on the sunday night for the events 50th anniversary. Once again show is a gusty winds and wintry over the higher grounds. Showers continue overnight and increasing ice risk and towards dawn as well. Heres the big picture this evening as they showers develop more wildly and it is through the central area which is going to see a coating of snow. Risks of ice in the north but. There are still gales across the west, slightly lighter winds further east and temperatures wildly down into single figures if not below freezing as we start the new week. The new week to start on a chilly note, a lot of dry weather to begin with a temperature is right through the week it is going to turn wet and windy more wildly once again. Back to the here and now, monday morning, we will see ice risk just about anywhere. If you showers dotted around, most frequent during the day in westerns got into northern ireland, some hail and thunder. Gusty winds towards the west, some morning showers across northern migrant england and wales. It will still be a pretty chilly day by and large. Sunshine turns hazy across the south and you will notice rain getting coast was the Channel Islands as we finish the afternoon, into the evening and overnight rain will start to advance to france. The question is how quickly it does so, from this weather front. That will be the big . Into tuesday. If the rain arrives in monday evening then it should hopefully create a little bit early as we head into tuesday but either way it will be fairly cloudy and damp starts. Further north and west they could be some dense fog patches to start with, some breaks developing with sunny spells through the day but still fairly chilly day, temperatures in single figures for many. Frosty