Good afternoon. The five mps who want to replace Jeremy Corbyn as labour leader have been taking questions from Party Members in liverpool. Its the first of a series of events around the country which will culminate in a new leader being selected at
the start of april. Heres our Political Correspondent Susana Mendonca with the latest. Cheering heading in to face Party Members for this, the first hustings in labours leadership contest. The opening question how to bring a divided Party Together after its general election defeat. The whole point of the labour party was that it was established to bring together all views across the centre left of politics to become a credible force to keep the tories out of power. And yes, we will disagree, but we have those disagreements in private. Rebecca long bailey is seen as the closest candidate to outgoing leaderJeremy Corbyn. The other front is sir keir starmer, who also called for unity. We have had far too much division. I think the whole of the
Hello, youre watching afternoon live im martine croxall. Today at 2. 00 iran strongly denies it shot down a ukrainian passenger plane in tehran killing all 176 people on board. Including access to the crash site, so we can get the truth the Iranian Regime must open up to the international community, including access to the crash site, so we can get the truth as quickly as possible, to give the families of the victims an understanding of what happened to their loved ones. Bbc presenters samir ahmed wins an employment tribunal. The duchess of sussex goes back to canada amid talks to try and find new roles for her and prince harry. An assault on prison staff by two inmates wearing fake suicide belts is being treated as a terrorist attack. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with jane latest on harry kanes injury. Thank you very much, and helen has all the weather. Climate statistics available for australia. Yes, and we will talk about that in the next hour. And what is heading into
Hello, you are watching afternoon live. The city of glasgow wants to become Carbon Neutral in the next ten years leading the fight against Climate Change. Carbon neutral by 2030 is a big challenge, its certainly one that were taking very seriously, and its not enough for a few people in the council to be working on it. Its a challenge that everybody has to take part in, that we need to get everybody across the city engaged with, and that we need to be working on now. How h ow exa ctly how exactly will glasgow deliver on that goal . What sort of change is needed and how quickly . Im at the Glasgow Science Centre where i will be putting those questions to our guests throughout the afternoon. Psychiatrists call for social Media Companies to hand over their data so they can research what the online
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To publish the full report into the affair, many fear there could be more damaging revelations still to come. The lack of transparency doesnt end there. Saracens apparently choosing to accept automatic relegation rather than grant full access to their financial accounts. I think if saracens are serious about becoming open and trying to sort of claw back some of the goodwill or whatever you want to call it, then they need to make this public, they need to get all the dirty laundry out there and i think that will go some way to letting people start to forgive them. The dominant force in the english game, saracens dramatic downfall has sent shock waves through the sport. Their players must somehow now shift their focus from club to country but moving on from the sports greatest cheating scandal will not be easy. Dan roan, bbc news, twickenham. Both england coach chris silverwood
and captainjoe root have heaped praise on their youngsters following their innings victory over south africa in
Message to the comment. 50 no message to the saracens comment. So no message to the saracens fan, many im sure will be word this evening about what happens next season and of course the players who face an uncertain future going forward. Dan roan there. Well former England International alex goode feels the punishment would fit the crime. Asi as i was the clubs that are in the premiership at the minute that are clearly looking over their shoulder and thinking from everybody is presuming saracens will continue to play in the form they are in, but the quality stars that they have come up they surely must file it must be breaking the salary cap so there must be something done. They havent taken those measures. The rules at rugby premiership are looking at a meeting relegation at the end of the season if that is a case. We dont know that for sure yet but if that is the case, then it can only be a just punishment. What a day its been for england and ollie pope. The 22 year old finished on 1