the current president, jair bolsonaro of the far right, faces left wing former president luiz inacio lula da silva in the deciding round. an immigration centre in southern england has been firebombed. in the last few minutes the suspect is confirmed to have died. in about ten minutes it s click, but now on bbc news it s time for sportsday. good evening and welcome along to sportsday. coming up, the united centurion. marcus rashford s 100th goalfor centurion. marcus rashford s 100th goal for the centurion. marcus rashford s100th goal for the club makes the difference at old trafford. another england australia showdown. this time at the women s rugby world cup as the red roses make it through to the last four. and wales have the last laugh to claim bronze at the physical disability rugby league world cup, but there was a familiar face in the aussie squad. good evening and welcome to tonight s sportsday. it is the penultimate weekend of premier league fixtures before the world c
in the rugby league world cup quarter finals. they see off france in bolton and have now played two, won two. we hear how 10 year old quinn became one of the youngest people to conquer scotland s 282 highest mountains. good 282 highest mountains. morning. if you are travell the good morning. if you are travelling the sunday morning, bear in mind there are heavy, thundery downpours out there moving northwards through the day. some sunshine as well. all the day. some sunshine as well. all the details coming up. it s sunday 23rd october. our main story: as the deadline to enter the contest to replace liz truss draws closer, two of the likely contenders borisjohnson and rishi sunak have held private talks. neither have publicly declared they are entering the race, but the bbc s tally indicates that mr sunak has already received the backing of at least 128 mp5. that s significantly more than the 100 needed to enter the ballot, which closes tomorrow afternoon. our political cor
the showers that we have had this afternoon across the south of the uk will push their way north and eastwards overnight. some clear skies ahead of these and behind, but also some mist and fog. before more heavy thundery rain arrives from the south west later in the night. the far north of scotland likely to keep more cloud, some patchy rain here. temperatures generally in a range of 10 14 celsius. for tomorrow, it s another day of sunshine and showers, but this time the showers are much more likely to be heavy and thundery. especially through the morning, through parts of wales, central southern england. this band then pushes its way north and eastwards through the day, some sunshine following on behind. some sunshine, too, across north of scotland. it should stay mainly dry here for much of the day. where we have got the sunshine, further showers developing again, heavy and thundery, and more starting to push on from the south west later in the day. hello, this is bbc news.
the new italian government has been sworn in, giorgia meloni has been sworn in as the head of italy s latest coalition government. she s the nation s first female prime minister and its first far right leader since the second world war. they won last month s collection with just over a quarter of the vote. she will had a right wing car didn t coalition. she sought to be sure western allies that italy s foreign policy won t change. bloomberg s political correspondent talk to us about the challenges they will be facing. there are plenty measures that require urgent attention. like the government position on the russian invasion of ukraine, but also tackling inflation, and giving italians a clear view and understanding of what her government will be like. as of now, everyone has been left guessing, whether she will be a far right politician, or a more compromising leader. european partners, starting from emmanuel mccrone, have been questioning the change of leadership in the m
Welcome to bbc news. Five people, including three children, have been killed after a stolen car crashed into a tree in leeds. Officers were called to the meanwood area of the city last night, to stonegate road just before 10pm. Two boys aged 15 are in custody. Our correspondent Alison Freeman has more. Officers said they were faced with a scene of complete carnage when they arrived here last night. The West Yorkshire force said a stolen renault clio had crashed into this tree just before ten oclock. Five people lost their lives. The youngest of those who died was a 12 year old boy. Two other boys aged 15, and two men aged 2a and 28 were also killed. Its not yet known if all of those who died had been travelling in the car when it crashed or if some had been walking along the road at the time. Two other 15 year old boys have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. The Major Collision Inquiry Team is at the scene, trying to work out exactly what happened here la