we start with a huge political sotry here in the uk, where the deputy prime minister, dominic raab, has been forced to resign. wherever you re watching, this is a story which touches on issues that everyone can understand from workplace bullying to difficult or domineering bosses. the investigation into the bullying allegations has been going on for months a report was given to the prime minister, rishi sunak yesterday. in his resignation letter today dominic raab claimed the inquiry hadn t been fair, calling it kafka esque, and saying the threshold for bullying was now so low, it would encourage spurious complaints, against ministers. let s hear from our political correspondent iain watson for an overview of this morning s developments. let s make him our next prime minister. please welcome rishi sunak. he was a close ally of the prime minister, a key figure in the conservative leadership campaign. but dominic raab has resigned as deputy prime minister and justice se
Across the uk bringing colder air all the way from iceland, a mixture of sunshine and showers, pushed in on those very brisk winds, particularly frequent showers, Northern Scotland down those north sea coasts, but some further west as well. The winds are going to be very strong and gusty, perhaps touching gale force in Northern Scotland, temperatures struggling to make double figures, 16 in the far south, but everywhere feeling colder in the strong wind. Hello, this is bbc news with ben boulos. The headlines. Labour opens its annual conference as its leader, sir keir starmer, prepares to set out the Dividing Lines between his party and the new conservative government. He tells the bbc he would reverse the governments cut to the top income tax rate. The head of the rmt union describes talks with the new Transport Secretary as a good start. The next strike is planned for the 1st of october. Voting is under way in italys general election, which polls suggest may result in the countrys mos
Also talking about Energy Policy with a promise to eliminate carbon from Energy Production and illiteracy production in the uk, focusing solely on Renewable Energy and nuclear by 2030, which would involve increasing vastly the capacity of offshore wind, onshore wind, solar power, hydrogen and tidal power as well. That was described this morning as an ambition by sir keir starmer. They have not set out in huge detail exactly how they would do it, but it goes further and faster than the governments own It Commitment to eliminate carbon from Energy Production in the uk by five years after that date, 2035, is what liz truss has set out. But the focus this morning here in at liverpool on the Deputy Leader of the labour party angela rayner, who will speak to delicates in the hall shortly, that marks at the conference getting properly under way. Last night to sir keir starmer was addressing a rally, choosing his words very carefully about the governments economic policy, and then singing the
A powerful typhoon has hit the philippines and is projected to sweep across the island of luzon, where the Capital Manila is located. Super typhoon noru made landfall within the last couple of hours and could bring winds of up to 200 km h. Our weather forecaster Helen Willetts has more. Hello. This large mass of cloud is a strong, powerful typhoon called noru, which has been throwing rain across the philippines for at least the last 2a hours, but has been developing intensively into that powerful storm, so a life threatening storm because it has got destructive winds, and it will give extreme amounts of rainfall, potentially catastrophic flooding and a large storm surge. Once it moves out into the south china seas open waters, expected to still be a typhoon, it could well intensify again and head into parts of vietnam, threaten china with some heavy rain and also give rains to thailand, cambodia and laos where it has been very wet already because of low pressure. So some destructive wi