The Conservative Partys annual conference starts today in birmingham. The event is a chance for The Partys four leadership candidates to make an impression, with each of them due to give a speech on wednesday. Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg this morning, leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick explained why he is the man to turn around the fortunes of the Conservative Party after losing out to labour in the general election. In the article that i wrote in the hours after the election, then i came on your show that weekend, i said that we failed to deliver on the economy, on the nhs and our borders. So there are multiple failures that we need to acknowledge as a party, whilst obviously defending the things we got right in government, and then weve got to listen to the public and set out serious answers to those challenges. Ive spent the last few months thinking very deeply about how we do that, and i dont want to waste the next five years debating those things. Thats a recipe for more infightin
In beirut right now. Again, we have had strikes here through the day, and smoke once again rising on the skyline of the lebanese capital. The prime minister of this country, the Acting Prime Minister has called again for a diplomatic solution to the conflict and he warns that up to A Million people here in lebanon could be displaced by the ongoing violence. The streets of dahieh, this is the Beating Heart of hezbollah in beirut, now looking like a ghost town. Thousands have left, many more are still trying to leave. Driving through dahieh this morning, we saw cars packed with mattresses and bags. Some people seemed to be leaving on foot. Israeli Air Strikes destroyed this building yesterday. The smell of the explosives was still hanging in the air and we could hear the sound of drones flying overhead. Israel says it will continue to target hezbollah, even after killing the groups leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Dahieh is no longer safe. There is a tense and anxious wait in lebanon following
Hopeful robertjenrick explained why he is the man to turn around the fortunes of the Conservative Party after losing out to labour in the general election. In the article that i wrote in the hours after the election, then i came on your show that weekend. I said that we failed to deliver on the economy, on the nhs and our borders. So there are multiple failures that we need to acknowledge as a party. Whilst obviously defending the things we got right in government, and then weve got to listen to the public and set out serious answers to those challenges. Ive spent the last few months thinking very deeply about how we do that, and i dont want to waste the next five years debating those things. Thats a recipe for more infighting and for further loss of public trust. I want to use this Leadership Contest for us to settle those things and have a clear plan as to how we take our party and our country forward, and i have that in particular on immigration. Competing with robertjenrick for the
a military operation. palestinian officials say it s an invasion. at least 8 people have died. we ll have the latest. joining me on the panel tonight joel rubin who served in the obama administration as assistant to the secretary of state, and paul waugh chief political commentator for the i paper. also on the programme tonight, people in france have been gathering outside town halls to call for calm after days of riots. police are bracing for more clashes tonight following the shooting of a teenage boy by police last week. just weeks after the secretary of state antony blinken met with xi jinping us treasury secretary janet yellen will head to beijing this week as the world s two biggest economies look to find ways to work together on trade. and, in the uk, last month was the hottestjune on record. but wildlife experts have warned the heat has caused the death of an unprecedented number of fish. hundreds of israeli soldiers backed by drones and armoured bulldozers are
by the un and turkiye allowing the export of grain from the black sea has been renewed after it was due to expire. says it will continue for four months but moscow says just 60 days. kyiv says. now on bbc news: click. this week we re going flat out with a formula 1 team that s hoping to stay ahead of the pack. spencer s on a building site to put up a house, although it looks like he has got away without doing any actual work. there has to be some banging at some point? is there some banging at some point? there s got to be some banging doesn t there? didn t even get my hands dirty. we also look into a crypto investment scam that seems to be evading the authorities. and paul visits a factory, but where are all the drivers? completely happy with the fact that there is a very large, very heavy piece of equipment driving around autonomously. the cars can go from 0 to 100 in four seconds. they are made of 80,000 parts. the brakes can hit 1000 degrees. this is formula 1. this ye