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The england cricketer ben stokes wins Sports Personality of the year. And well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, the political commentator and former head of communications for the conservative party giles kenningham, and the Political Writer and academic maya goodfellow. 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. Our 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. 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. Professor sir david king is the former Climate Change ambassador and chief scientist for the uk during the Paris Climate Accord in 2015. He told us he was massively disappointed by the outcome of the conference. This is the very last time when we should be seeing delays on reducing emissions. What the ipcc report said was, we will have used up our carbon budget to stay below 1. 5 degrees, even with a 67 chance, within eight to ten years. Actually, emissions are still going up very much more quickly than anticipated, rather than even slowing down or flattening out. We should be seeing a deep and rapid emissions reduction and it should be led, of course, by the developed nations. What we have is some good examples. I would not say there are any excellent examples, but the European Union on thursday announced an agreement to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050, which is the british governments position. However, even reducing. For the developed world to reduce net emissions to zero by 2050 is not going to be nearly enough. What we have to recognise in the developed world is that we can afford to make the transition much more quickly than other countries can. But to be realistic, knowing what the United States position is, donald trump has made his position very clear, we could not have reached a good agreement at this meeting in madrid, we could not do it, because when the worlds biggest and most powerful nation, by biggest i mean economically, does not lean on the agreement, let alone support it, then what we get is other naysayers, as you have heard, brazil, led by bolsonaro, and australia, unfortunately following suit. In a few minutes time viewers on bbc one willjoin us for a round up of the days news with reeta chakrabarti. First, 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. Phil mercer has more from sydney. 18 people now confirmed dead in the disaster that struck on monday at white island in the bay of plenty just off new zealands north island. Those recovery teams returned to the volcanic island today, sunday, to once again look for two bodies. There are two more victims who have been unaccounted for. The authorities have been working on the theory that one of those bodies may well be near the crater, and another was apparently seen in the water 2a hours after the eruption. On friday, recovery teams brought out six bodies, but the search goes on for those two others. That search includes people being flown to the island to carry out this painstaking search. This is a very risky environment, still. There is a risk of further eruptions and police and navy divers have been in the contaminated water off white island, searching unsuccessfully for one of those two remaining victims. At 2 11pm in the afternoon tomorrow in new zealand, the Prime Minister, jacinda ardern, is hoping new zealand will pause for one minute, to remember those victims. At the moment, 18 people have been confirmed to have died. About 20 people remain in intensive care here in australia and new zealand. Some of those survivors have the most appalling injuries, suffering burns of up to 90 of their bodies. Also internal burns, too. So, it is a great challenge for skilled professionals in new zealand and australia to keep those people alive and help them recover. On monday, just after 2 oclock in the afternoon, new zealand and people elsewhere will pause to remember a tragedy that took place exactly one week ago when that minutes silence is observed. Labours leaders apologise for the party pass my crushing defeat in the general election. He and the shadow chancellor took the blame. John mcdonnell also blamed brexit and the media portrayal ofjeremy corbyn for their defeat. Also tonight. Climate change talks in madrid and with a compromise agreement to toughen up carbon cutting pledges before the next conference. The changing face of russia, for 20 yea rs of changing face of russia, for 20 years of Vladimir Putin means for the country. We have a special report. On your marks, get set, go. And christmas with the cambridges as william and kate get baking with mary berry. Good evening. Labours leaders have today apologised for the partys defeat in thursdays election, which saw them lose 59 seats. Jeremy corbyn said he was sorry they came up short and john mcdonnell, speaking to the bbcs andrew marr, said he owns this disaster, and that he regretted the party wasnt able to articulate its message more effectively. But he also blamed brexit and the medias portrayal ofjeremy corbyn, insisting that hed been demonised. Tonight, labour suggested that the process to elect a new leader could begin onjanuary 7th, as nick eardley reports. Thejeremy corbyn era is coming to an end, but what will that mean for the labour party . How much does it need to change after its disastrous election result . This morning, mr corbyn said he took his responsibility. His right hand man went further. Its on me. Lets take it on the chin. I own this disaster. So i apologise. I apologise to all those wonderful labour mps whove 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 on their radical policy agenda was popular. If there was one criticism, and this is a self criticism, its not having a narrative that convinced people about how this all fitted together. Mr corbyn wants his successor in place by the end of march, and the process of electing his replacement could begin in early january. Before that, though, on tuesday, labour mps will meet for their election postmortem, and some want the leader to go sooner. 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 hundred years. The lewishams and the leighs, and how you speak for both. 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 cannot just lock us in a cupboard and turn the key and hope that everything goes away. If the union of the United Kingdom is to continue, then that can only be by consent. Boris johnsons 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. Nick eardley, bbc news. 0ur deputy Political Editor john pienaarjoins me now. John, just echoing that, change landscape for mps at westminster . Very much so. Borisjohnson won this contest by a knockout, but it has left both of the uk main parties with the huge task of redefining what they are therefore, and for who. Borisjohnson what they are therefore, and for who. Boris johnson cant what they are therefore, and for who. Borisjohnson cant rely on the next labour leader gifting him millions of votes on a plate, and he wont. So this first, the queens speech, billions more will be promised for the nhs and public services, and money for those neglected regions. But also, tough on law and order and tough on immigration, which is what so many of those leave voters want to see. Even though holding down migration, holding down immigration, will continue to be tough given the economy in these coming months and yea rs. Economy in these coming months and years. Meanwhile labour has its own internal battles to fight . Very much so. Internal battles to fight . Very much so. Labour is still reeling after that election result, still stunned, and the next labour leader may come and the next labour leader may come and go before labour wins back those voters, those places that it lost last week. Thats assuming that it can. But how . The leadership contest is going to be all about that. The brexit butlers yesterdays war. The next one is about the ideological soul of the labour party. It starts with an ideological fight inside the labour party, expect a tough row, and then begins the bigger struggle, to win back millions of hearts and minds. And reeta, that can take yea rs. Minds. And reeta, that can take years. John, many thanks. The longest session of un climate talks ever held has come to an end in madrid. After an extra two days and nights of talks, all countries agreed to develop tougher carbon cutting plans in time for another major conference next year hosted by the uk, in glasgow. Todays deal, seen as a compromise, has been criticised by the un secretary general as a lost opportunity. 0ur science editor David Shukman has the details. Were 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 gases 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 degree celsius over the last 150 years. 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, were 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 that this moment made more difficult for the uk is the fact they now have a much tighter set of negotiation items theyre going to 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. In india, at least six people have been killed in delhi after police and demonstrators clashed over a controversial new law on migrants. The law allows people from three mainly muslim countries to become indian citizens if they claim religious persecution but not if theyre muslim. Its sharply divided opinion, with some demonstrators saying the law discriminates against muslims and others angry at allowing any refugees in at all. Pratiksha ghildial reports. Extraordinary scenes in indias capital. This is the fifth straight day of violent protests across many parts of the country. Here, the Security Forces clash with students from a top university. The students claim the police violently entered the Jamia Millia Islamia university and assaulted them. The police say they were attacked with stones. The students were protesting against indias new citizenship law that allows migrants from neighbouring countries to get indian citizenship, except if they are muslims. Its notjust delhi thats erupted with anger. In the North Eastern state of assam, theyre on the streets for different reasons. These people feel the new will lead to them being overrun by migrants from neighbouring bangladesh, both hindus and muslims. At least two people were killed here, reportedly in firing by Security Forces. 17 year old sam stafford was one of them. A passionate musician, he wanted to show solidarity with his friends who were protesting against the new citizenship law. Translation we got a call that sam was hit by bullets. And he died on the spot. I wantjustice i want to know why he was shot. He committed no crime. Meanwhile, people are determined to show resistance. Even as the authorities continue the clamp down. Pratiksha ghildial, bbc news, assam. Its 20 years since Vladimir Putin came to power, first as Prime Minister and then as president of russia. In that time, hes built a system of power which revolves around him, resulting in all major decisions being taken by the kremlin. Thats why Many Russians feel they have to go directly to him to solve their problems, sometimes with remarkable success, as Steve Rosenberg reports from eastern siberia. Russian rulers are like siberian winters. They go on and on. Josef stalins icy grip spanned a quarter of a century. Brezhnev ruled 18 years. For Vladimir Putin, its already 20. And counting. Nadiezhda is a putin fan. When eight houses in her village burned down, she went on tv and begged the president to help. The very next day, mr putin sent in the builders, and, abracadabra, new homes, courtesy of the kremlin. Nadiezhda even got to meet russias leader, and shake his hand. Translation people in the village told me, dont wash your hand for a year. Some of them asked me to shake their hand with the hand the president shook. Under putin, russia has risen from her knees. Let him stay in power. Give him another 20 years. This is exactly how Vladimir Putin wants his people to see him, as the solution to their problems, not as the cause of them. And because the kremlin controls the media here, and the whole political system, for the last 20 years its been able to push this message quite successfully. Over the last two decades, Vladimir Putin has honed the image of modern day tsar. All powerful, irreplaceable. But not everyone in russia believes thats a good thing. Someone whos been in powerfor that long cannot avoid beginning to think that he is very special, that he is more intelligent than anyone else, that he knows it all. Gradually you succumb to this aura of being the only and the one great, and so on, and thats very dangerous for a country. Boris yeltsin didnt succumb. 20 years ago, he stepped down early to hand over to putin. Valentin yumashev played a key role in that decision. As Boris Yeltsins chief of staff, hed hired putin to be his deputy, and later recommended him to yeltsin as a possible future president. So what does he think . Will putin leave office when constitutionally obliged to in four years time . Translation if we asked putin now about 2024, hed say 100 that he will step down. But thats four years away. The situation will be different. We dont know what Vladimir Putin will do then. What we do know is that, although russian winters are long, they do end eventually. And so, eventually, will the putin era. But what comes next . What kind of leader . Its too soon to predict. Steve rosenberg, bbc news, siberia. With all the sport now, heres karthi at the bbc sport centre. Good evening. A world cup winner after one of the most incredible games of cricket ever witnessed and an ashes innings not seen for a generation made ben stokes the publics choice to be bbc Sports Personality of the year. The england cricketer finished ahead of six time formula one world champion, lewis hamilton, who was second, and the world 200 metre champion, Dina Asher Smith in third. Joe wilson reports from aberdeen. 10,000 waited warm indoors in aberdeen. Not gareth thomas. He had been cycling from cardiff, sometimes with friends, but always with the same intention, to spread the message of tackling stigma. Gareth played 100 rugby internationals for wales. He is hiv positive. And he was delivering the trophy for this yea rs was delivering the trophy for this years Sports Personality of the year. Aberdeen born denis law read out the name. Ben stokes. Ben stokes had been a strong favourite, and a slip of the tongue from gary lineker had suggested he was the winner before voting even opened. In his speech, ben stokes referenced what he called a tough time in his life two years ago, from the court case to this, he was trying to keep it in context. My wife, claire, you are a rock. You always have been. You deserve this moment as much as i do. He finished ahead of lewis hamilton, and third was Dina Asher Smith. Standing ona and third was Dina Asher Smith. Standing on a red carpet signifies success and glamour, but theyre all sorts of reasons why sport demand attention. Doddie weir strode forwards. The crowd rising with him, to receive the Helen Rollason award. He is living with motor neurone disease, trying to find a cure by raising money. His muscles are no longer Strong Enough to hold the prius, so princess and held it for him. He has never lost his sense of humour. It was ironic being a Scottish Rugby player in the 90s, this was the closest i ever got to a trophy, so its very nice. Applause and here are a true game changer for british sport. Tanni grey thompsons cou ntless british sport. Tanni grey thompsons countless achievements did so much to establish her sport. She took centre stage. A Lifetime Achievement award, and shes still only 50. The victory for ben stokes reflects crickets resurgence in 2019. World cup, ashes, he didnt do it all on his own, but he did do a lot of it. Joe wilson, bbc news, aberdeen. Its time to pop out of the room if you dont want to know todays football results as match of the day two and sportscene follow soon on bbc one. Two outstanding goals from Kevin De Bruyne plus a simple finish from Raheem Sterling gave Manchester City a comfortable 3 0 win over arsenal at emirates stadium. Tottenham beat wolves, while Manchester United and everton drew 1 1. Celtic are two points clear at the top of the table after their 2 0 win over hibernian. Rangers are in second place. They beat motherwell 2 0. Steven gerrard said he had no complaints after alfredo morelos was sent off for gesturing to fans after scoring their second goal. To rugby union, and exeter chiefs didntjust have to battle their opponents, sale sharks, to win their european champions cup game. The weather caused a few problems too, with play suspended in the second half due to heavy hail. That didnt stop exeter scoring five tries as they sealed a bonus point 35 10 win over sale. Also today, bath were beaten by clermont auvergne. Theres more on the bbc sport website, including the womens super league. Reeta. Many thanks, karthi. Tomorrow night, the duke and duchess of cambridge will be showing off their culinary skills for a festive bbc one show with mary berry. The special programme will see william and kate combine cooking with a tour of good causes they are supporting this christmas. 0ur royal correspondent Daniela Relph has had a sneak preview. Baking royalty meets real loyalty. But it was the duchess of cambridge who was a super fan here. She even confessed one of prince louiss first words was mary, due to the number of mary berry cookbooks around the royal kitchen. So do you do a bit of cooking with your children . Yes. I really enjoy it. Again, for them to be creative, for them to try and be as independent as possible with it