we ll also look at the crisis in sri lanka. the president has confirmed he will step down after protesters stormed his palace. and we ll look at twitter s share price, which has fallen welcome to college green in front of parliament, where the process of selecting a new leader of the conservative party and new prime minister is under way. if i m occasionally glancing this way and that, sir graham brady, the committee chair, will be speaking in the next few minutes. he will outline the rules of the tory party leadership contest. bear in mind since thursday, effectively that contest began. we still don t know precisely how that will work. what we do know is what the stages of the contest will be. first, each candidate will need to find a number of conservative mps to back them. in previous contests, it was eight. this time, it could be as high as 20. then the 358 conservative mps will vote for their favourite candidates in a series of elimination rounds. let s speak to our poli
in sport, england s matt fitzpatrick wins the us open after clinching his first major trophy, sealing a sensational victory in boston. why gorilla populations in parts of africa are on the rise. we have a special report form the front line of a conservation success story. it s monday 20th june. train services across england, scotland and wales will run on a severely reduced timetable from this evening, ahead good of the biggest walk out on the railways in 30 years. strikes will take place on almost all major lines from tomorrow, with disruption expected all week. the rmt rail union has warned it will intensify industrial action if a deal over pay isn t reached and says it will run its campaign for as long as it takes. morning. here s our business reporter esyllt carr. a chilly for this it ll be a week of huge disruption. and it starts tonight as services begin winding up ahead of the first of three days of industrial action. thousands of workers represented by the rmt union t
£60 million to build, and has been criticised for being too expensive and not attracting enough passengers. i ve mentioned the tube strike planned for tomorrow let s take a look at how things are looking this morning. onto the weather now with kate. good morning. with the sun coming up so early at the moment, we ve already had a glorious sunrise this is over in harrow on the hill from weather watcher sian, and also down in red hill from weather watcher me on the hill. just a little bit of cloud just accentuating those colours. now the cloud today is going to disappear, there is a lot of fine dry weather in the forecast not only for today, but for the next few days. and temperatures starting to feel a little warmer again 22 celsius today. warm evening in the sunshine, and then overnight conditions don t really change. it s dry and it s clear the minimum temperature somewhere between seven and 11 celsius. but another bright start
onto the weather now with kate. good morning. with the sun coming up so early at the moment, we ve already had a glorious sunrise this is over in harrow on the hill from weather watcher sian, and also down in red hill from weather watcher me on the hill. just a little bit of cloud just accentuating those colours. now the cloud today is going to disappear, there is a lot of fine dry weather in the forecast not only for today, but for the next few days. and temperatures starting to feel a little warmer again 22 celsius today. warm evening in the sunshine, and then overnight conditions don t really change. it s dry and it s clear the minimum temperature somewhere between seven and 11 celsius. but another bright start as we head into tuesday. again, high pressure in charge its building in from the west, blocking these fronts down in the south, so it is going to be another day of sunshine lots of it. the wind reasonably light and temperatures just start to sneak up a little. it