~ 1m;. , south and east, generally mild, but they will still be wind and rain towards the north west. Hello. This is bbc news with rachel schofield. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment first the headlines. Tensions escalate between washington and tehran after us troops kill irans most powerful military commander. President trump says he is prepared to take whatever action is needed to protect americans. Soleimani has been perpetrating acts of terror to destabilise the middle east for the last 20 years. What the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago. Lisa nandy and Jess Phillips become the latest labour mps to enter the race to become the partys next leader. Relief for around a thousand people as Australian Naval ships rescue them from the countrys bushfires. A judge rules that ethical veganism is a philosophical belief and is therefore protected by law. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Jason Beattie, the head of politics for the daily mirror and deputy leader writer of the sun, olivia utley. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in and all are dominated by the us attack in iraq which killed the Iranian Military general Qasem Soleimani. tehran pledges revenge after us kills military chief reads the front of the financial times. the world waits for irans revenge is the headline in the i. A top a photo of a group of people
mourning the generals death in tehran. As the crisis in the middle east grows the times tells of the us rushing 3,000 extra troops to the region. britain braced for iran revenge is the daily mails choice of headline. As the mirror say britain could be dragged into any new conflict after us kills the iran terror leader. Protestors are pictured mourning the iranian general in the guardian who say iran is vowing severe revenge. And the daily express say that iran and the United States are now on the brink of war. So very much one theme through the main papers. It is todays events in iran. 0livia, was dealt with the daily express, a stark headline there. For people who have missed todays events, bring us up to speed on what has happened. Donald trump
ordered the attack on Qasem Soleimani last night. He was killed, along with one of his top advisers, and three other members of the group that he led. And what it seems like is donald trump decided that this attack would, well, he thought it was a defence, that is his line now, that Qasem Soleimani was pratt planning imminent attacks on americans and this was a defence. But it doesnt seem as though he knew what would happen next. No one quite knows what is strategy was. And now iran, it seems, is going to hit back in some way and obviously the americans completely outgunned the americans completely outgunned the iranians but we are not in an age of traditional warfare now so who knows in what way iran will retaliate in the middle east has never looked so unstable. The headline says it all. It has caused a great deal of concern about what happens next. And everything will depend on how tehran responds. You
could argue that what the regime ca res could argue that what the regime cares about most is cementing its control of its own country and it may not want to overreach itself, but then there is also the question of National Pride and of being, it is extra good for cementing domestic support. 0nly is extra good for cementing domestic support. Only problem we have, as 0livia rightly referred to a donald trump, as you have the madness but no method. And there is no Clear Strategy for American Foreign policy in the middle east. We see erratic decisions. Just before christmas he suddenly kind of, you know, while on the Kurdish Forces in northern iraq
and syria. And now you have this act of, which could be illegal under international law, by the way, this incendiary act which we have no idea how it is going to play out. And did he know before . Did he go through the consequences . Was he being advised by. You got the impression that after killing bagdad he got a taste for taking out these very unpopular, obviously, middle eastern leaders. And he thought that this was along the same lines, but it is not really along the same lines, because where bagdad he was ending the isis footnote to the war against isis, this is a setting in motion a whole new train of events and who knows where those events are going to lead. And the view from iran we get in the guardian, iran vows severe revenge on the us. The picture is telling as well. Thousands of people have taken to the streets. They are carrying a picture of general Qasem Soleimani,
giving a sense of what a powerful and very popular figure giving a sense of what a powerful and very popularfigure it giving a sense of what a powerful and very popular figure it appears he was in iran. Well, was he . He was popular in terms of being a key member of a regime and the fact that he was seen as an aggressive, successful kind of military operator, yes, but also for the moderniser is in iran, no, he was seen as moderniser is in iran, no, he was seen as upholding the nation back and was thwarting attempts to bring democracy to the country. So nobody should mourn him. His hands were dipped ina should mourn him. His hands were dipped in a loss of blood in a lot of parts in the middle east. He was kind of a key ally of Bashar Al Assad in syria and instrumental in the carnage that took place in aleppo. There are limitations to how much we should mourn him. What i think we should regret is the chance which was there to bring iran back
in from the cold, there was an International Agreement from all sides to come to the negotiating table, to stop its Nuclear Weapons programme, it involved britain, america, france, germany, and russia, crucially, and that was scuppered by donald trump. And i think it was scuppered by sheer peak by the fact that it was one of barack 0bamas more successful policies. And that is gone. They cant see any way back that now. So we have the chance. And it was not guaranteed. An iran was accused many times of breaching the terms of the agreement. There was a chance to bring some sort of stability. And i think we have now gone from that to the danger of an escalating war. Interestingly though, 0livia, this piece in the guardian, has been widely quoted, mike pompeo, the secretary of state, almost in
contrast to events as it is all about the fact that the us is committed to de escalation. M about the fact that the us is committed to deescalation. It seems like a bizarre thing to say. Thats how donald trump won an election in the us, by saying that part of his, a big part of his appeal was he wanted to pull out of pointless foreign wars or whatever he called them. And mike pompeo seems to be sticking to that line even though events are clearly showing the complete contrary, that donald trump isnt trying to pull out. If he was trying to pull out this isnt what he wanted. 3000 reinforcements being sent by the pentagon to the region. And there is the chance that iran might force the us out. Those are not the terms that donald trump wanted to withdraw from iran under. Pompeii was sticking to the line even though it doesnt make sense. You could argue the contrary mike pompeo. Barack 0bama taking out bin laden played very well. Use it in
the 2012 campaign and in almost every single speech. The 2012 campaign and in almost every single speechli the 2012 campaign and in almost every single speech. I think that is a name recognition thing though. You can see donald trump saying imb man who cancelled Qasem Soleimani. But Qasem Soleimani doesnt have the name recognition. Women to have a special relationship, part of nature, this is meant to be one of the great military pack we have with the great military pack we have with the United States and they did not tell us. And we have British Forces in the gulf. We have naval ship s patrolling. It puts us in an awkward position. Dominic raab hasnt gone as faras position. Dominic raab hasnt gone as far as the french and said he is not taking a side, he has said sort of yes, Qasem Soleimani was a bad man, but we didnt know about this, now lets de escalate. But he cant openly criticise america. Because apart from anything else america may now will be in the firing line from iran. It is a way to strategically loosen from your allies. On the
guardians coverage i thought the International Community angle is interesting as well. Antonio guterres, un secretary quoted as saying that this is a moment in which leaders must exercise maximum restraint, that has come from the eu and other leaders in stark contrast to the us. Does donald trump listen and does he care . It is an american first policy. If you cared about the International Community he will not have pulled out of the paris accord. He would have consulted with his key allies before taking this unilateral action. But the focus actually should be on the internal workings of the washington administration. Because one of the problems there is that most of the same voices in the Trump Administration have left and we are left with just the hawks. That is a concern. It was there to talk him down . And his republican colleagues are really strongly backing him now, so theres no
reason to suggest he will want to de escalate now he is getting a lot of praise for him where he cares about its. The usrussia 3000 trips to the middle east as crisis grows. We see there that americans are being advised by the state department to leave iraq, that these new troops going to the middle east, it is all about this threat of severe it is all about this threat of severe revenge and it is all about this threat of severe revenge and what that might mean. And it is so unclear from the iranian response what form that revenge may take, which is what is so revenge may take, which is what is so terrifying about it. Yes, donald trump is banking on the fact that he can outgun the iranians, but as we said there are 70 different ways they can attack now. There are attacks on Cyber Infrastructure, for example, iran is. Vladimir putin has criticised the attack, there is the chance they could be some sort of russian involvement. And we dont know what form this is going to take. So it is quite scary for americans in the middle east at the moment and for all of our allies,
really, in the middle east. Talking to people through the day we have been hearing about the reach of the iranians within the region. You mustnt forget that these countries, although they have borders, there are so many although they have borders, there are so many fingers and so many player and people saying that Qasem Soleimani, involved in lebanon, syria, and so on, that there is reach. There is reach and it is still the official policy of the regime to and the state of israel. This is why it is so frightening, because you have a tinderbox situation in a very unstable environment, where one kind of uncontrolled act of aggression, as opposed to a proportional response, which is unfortunate anyway, that could suddenly make everything escalate extremely quickly and become very dangerous. What you were talking earlier about the uk angle. The daily mailed going with the headline britain braced for iran
revenge. What are they talking about in this article . It has been sort of impossible to list all the ways that iran could take out revenge on the us and definitely britain could be in the firing line. I think attacks on Cyber Infrastructure is pretty alarming and it is difficult for the uk to prepare a response to that. And, as you can see, dominic raab is being pretty cautious about just not wanting to directly criticise donald trump, but also. Its its a real mess. It will be one that keeps at the top of the headlines. It is interesting that nearly all of the papers have gone on that. It is such a big story today. Nevertheless, we dont want to overlook domestic politics. Jason, we have had two new entries to the labour leadership campaign. We are going to look at the wigan post, lisa for leader is the wigan post, lisa for leader is the headline. Lisa nandy, one of those saying she will step in. Give us
those saying she will step in. Give us your political take on the labour leadership campaign. Us your political take on the labour leadership campaignlj us your political take on the labour leadership campaign. I need to say this at the top of this, the daily mirror, quite a key layer in most leadership contest, like the sun is for the conservative contests. We are withholding judgement. We want to listen to all the candidates. What im saying is a personal view. Actually, i am quite a strong admirer of lisa nandy. I think she speaks a lot of common sense. She is very rooted in her constituency of wigan. She understands it. Her majority went down in the december election. But she compared the neighbouring seats which all fell to the conservatives, she showed remarkable resilience and bucked the trend. So that one bit of a red while held up there. And, you know, she is for deeply about what labour needs to do to reconnect with communities like wigan red wall. And all the other ones you can think of. So the downside, the problem she may overcome our she of. So the downside, the problem she may overcome our she helped run 0wen smiths leadership bid against Jeremy Corbyn and that will kind of dam her in the eyes ofJeremy Corbyns more loyal supporters, shall we say. And she hasnt had a great deal of senior experience, experience of a senior position. She had a junior shadow cabinet minister. That is not necessarily a problem. Jeremy corbyn had no experience whatsoever of any position of authority. It is something which people may question. Im glad she has entered the race. I think she is quite a credible case. The more people about in my opinion. It is worth pointing out she is one of the few people in labour you came out of the brexit mess relatively well. She never actually voted for a brexit deal but at every point she was happy to work with the conservatives to try to find a way she could vote for a deal. She was not, like keirstarmeror she could vote for a deal. She was not, like keir starmer or Emily Thornberry, part of the peoples vote campaign. She knows that her constituency was a leave constituency was a leave constituency 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 labours workers rights that she could enshrine in it. And she didnt, but she did try. I think that will serve her quite well. She doesnt 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 very popular, i dont think she brands herself as a centrist, but lots of centrists like her, lots of blairites like her. She has done a lot of personal branding in the last year. She seems to have huge interviews every week in glossy magazines. She wants to be this big personality. And she is a big personality, she is funny and interesting and engaged very relatable. She has a big about being relatable. She has a big about being relatable. That is going to be her campaign message, i think, relatable. That is going to be her campaign message, ithink, it relatable. That is going to be her campaign message, i think, it will be, i will be labours boris, in the same way that David Cameron wanted to be the tony blair of the
tories. She wants to have a personality to match doris johnsons. I think the problem for Jess Phillips is that the mechanisms of the labour party have been taken over by the corbynites and the left wing of the party so it is not clear whether she will be able to get the sort of support that she needs to even get on the ballot paper. If she did,| even get on the ballot paper. If she did, i know that there are a lot of. If you talk to a lot of swing voters, they would say, if it was boris againstjess voters, they would say, if it was boris against Jess Phillips, voters, they would say, if it was boris againstJess Phillips, they would go forJess Phillips, and i think she might be a serious force in the country. It is whether she can get through all the labour hurdles first. We dont quite know the parameters of those hurdles yet, do we . Yeah, labours ruling executive, they are meeting on monday to set the timetable. That could be quite crucial. They are trying to bounce a corbynite, if
they are trying to bounce a corbynite push, a shorter timetable would work in their favour. What i think is interesting as with the introduction of just think is interesting as with the introduction ofjust phillips and lisa nandy, joining keir starmer and Emily Thornberry is the main contenders so far, is that you have got this kind of dialectic between the two mps, Jess Phillips and lisa nandy, rooted in their communities and very proud to come from outside london, playing very strongly that they are from the regions, they are not part of this kind of westminster elite, and you have got keir starmer in camden, north london, Emily Thornberry in islington, north london, and this has been a long running conversation within the Labour Movement more than 100 years. Is nothing new. But there have a lwa ys is nothing new. But there have always been complaints that labour is either run from a faction outside london, or by a north london elite. You have got it in quite stark terms at the moment and it will be interesting to see how it plays out. A battle for the soul of the labour party, i think we are about to see that unfold. Lets finish inside the daily mail. His royal highness, the focus here on Little Prince george. A nice picture. It is a lovely picture. He looks onto it, doesnt he . It is quite nice to see george in the limelight. We so that we see so in the limelight. We so that we see so much of Little Charlotte because she obviously loves the camera so much. George looks lovely, really. That whole family, when they present at sandringham on christmas day, they seem so charming and excellent with the public immediately. Yeah. They seem so charming and excellent with the public immediately. Yeahlj am completely bemused by his shirt. It is weird crosstalk. No kid should be made to wear Something Like that. It is called a peak hiked shirt. Is it . Yes, by a british
designer. You need one, obviously. I think he looks cute. It is nice. They have had a lot of trouble with andrew and now they can concentrate on this, it is a lovely pr exercise. Those who like the royal family will love it. I think we understand the su btext of love it. I think we understand the subtext of that from jason. Thats it for the papers tonight. Dont forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. Its all there for you seven days a week at bbc. Co. Uk papers and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. Thank you, Jason Beattie and olivia utley. Goodbye. Good evening. Here is your latest sports news. After another dismal batting display, englands that is linked to 262 9 at the close on day
one of the second testing in south africa in cape town. Yet again, england squandered a chance of building a formidable total. Cape towns newlands ground is appreciated fully from a distance. It might be the best view in world cricket. Zach crawley, 21 years old, was just trying to watch the ball and stay cool. He opened englands batting. Not easy. Crawley played because rory burns had heard himself playing football stop south africa do not need extra help. Englands Training SessionFootball Games are now bound. They are batting here with stop start, or start stop. Dom simply gone for 34. Captainjoe rich deflected the ball with his got to the wicket keeper. He made 35. These are frustrating numbers. Joe denley again did so much hard work and then. Commentator hold him 38 for him. A step forward for ben stokes. These
we re step forward for ben stokes. These were the moments when he realised so many of cape towns spectators were england fans. Well, it is a very dry january son. Watch what stokes did next, or perhaps dont. He saw it but still couldnt believe it, caught and gone for 47. Englands intermittent innings threatens to fully stop. That was curran gone. They got to 262 9 thanks mainly to 0llie pope, whojust turned they got to 262 9 thanks mainly to 0llie pope, who just turned 22. They got to 262 9 thanks mainly to 0llie pope, whojust turned 22. His innings was not quite table mountain, but it was high enough to give england some hope. 56 not out. In football news, tottenham are likely to be without harry kane for several weeks after it was confirmed he had suffered a torn hamstring. He limped off during the defeat of southampton on wednesday, the club had not given a timescale for his return but such injuries, depending on the grade of them, can take anything from four weeks to three months to heal. Great britain have lost their Opening Group much of the
atp cup against bulgaria. Cameron norrie put them had in sydney but dan norrie put them had in sydney but da n eva ns norrie put them had in sydney but dan evans lost his singles match and thenjamie dan evans lost his singles match and then jamie murray and joe dan evans lost his singles match and thenjamie murray and joe salisbury we re thenjamie murray and joe salisbury were beaten by the narrowest of margins in the doubles. It went to two tie break sets and they threw away too much points before losing ona away too much points before losing on a champions tie break. They need to beat both belgium and moldova to have any chance of making the quarter finals. Australias nick kyrgios is also playing in the atp cup and is donating around £100 for every a ce cup and is donating around £100 for every ace he hits this month to the relief fund for victims of the bushfires in his country. He sent down 20 aces in brisbane today as he beat jan lennard down 20 aces in brisbane today as he beat jan lenna rd struff, so down 20 aces in brisbane today as he beatjan lennard struff, so that down 20 aces in brisbane today as he beat jan lennard struff, so that is over 2000 pounds already and he was understandably very emotional afterwards. I dont really care about the praise too much, you know, ijust think we about the praise too much, you know, i just think we have got the ability under the platform to do Something Like that, and my hometown is canberra and we had the most toxic air in the world at the moment so it is pretty sad. Yeah, it isjust
stuff. Sorry. Lets bring you up to date with tonights rugby union. A feisty premiership match in england, sale sharks moving third after scoring a bonus. 40 8 10 win over harlequins. Six tries from six different players for the home side, as well as three sin bins. Sca rletts as well as three sin bins. Scarletts are the top of conference be in the pro 14 after they won 1614 in be in the pro 14 after they won 16 14 in cardiff, despite scoring only one try, it was enough to turn the match in theirfavour. Lee halfpennys three penalties proved the difference. Also continued their unbeaten run at home this season as they picked up a bonus point 38 17 win over munster in belfast. Ireland winnerjacob stockdale scoring his first club try for a winner. And thats all your sport for now. Hello there. Despite some strong winds in the far north of scotland, friday was a better day in terms of
sunshine across the country. And you can see this from this weather watch a picture in letchworth, surrey. Hardly a cloud in the sky. Those clear skies in the day had stayed with us through the night. That means actually start to our saturday morning, especially in the south east, something we have not had for a time, there could even be some light on patchy frost. A little bit milderfurther north some light on patchy frost. A little bit milder further north and west, there has been more of the breeze and more cloud around. Thats because these weather fronts are trying to push and across the top of the high, still running the risk of a few scattered showers. High pressure is really the dominant feature for most of us for the start of the weekend and that means the best of the sunshine will be in sheltered eastern areas. Figure cloud out to the west, thick enough for the odd spot or two of drizzle and more persistent rain likely into the far north west. Here we keep more of a breeze. In terms of the feel of the weather, may 8 10. That is down a touch on where we have been. Still not too bad for this
time of year. As we move out of saturday and into sunday the High Pressure is going to drift further east. These weather fronts continue to creep in across the top of the High Pressure system with the isobars squeezing together and then when strengthening. At least the winds are coming from a milder south westerly. That is going to continue to feed in a lot of cloud along west facing coasts, rather murky afternoon here and maybe the cloud thick enough for some drizzle. With more persistent rain pushing into the far north west and the winds are likely to strengthen further. In terms of the feel of things, 9 12, the best of the sunshine again looks likely to be across eastern and southeast england. But as we move into the new working week when things start to get back to business as usual, we have to look to the jet stream to see what is going to happen with the forecast. It looks as though the judge will strengthen. A strong and fast moving jet means low pressure will be driven across the uk. So not one, as we start up at the beginning of the week, but another one waiting in the winds. Plenty of isobars on
the charts. This means things will turn pretty unsettled. So if you have got plans outside, please bear in mind gales, may be severe gales in the north for a time on tuesday, and some of that rain could be quite heavy at times as well