more children could die. i ll be joined by correspondence to discuss the conservative leadership contest in the crisis in ukraine and the departure from iraqi politics. stay with us on bbc news. hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after two months of campaigning, and eight initial candidates whittled down to two, we ll find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader and so prime minister. here s our political correspondent ben wright: after a long, rancorous campaign, it s now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he is backing liz truss, presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we havejust come through a pandemic. but this economy i
we start with news that will have implications for europe s energy supply this winter. the russian energy giant gazprom says it has found a new problem in its key gas pipeline to europe, which had been due to reopen on saturday. gazprom says it s detected an oil leak in a turbine on the nord stream one pipeline, meaning it will remain closed for an indefinite period. the pipeline has already been completely shut for three days for what gazprom described as maintenance work. moscow denies weaponising energy supplies in retaliation for western sanctions. russia s move to keep the nordstream pipeline closed may or may not be linked to a decision by the g7 group of the world s leading democracies to put a cap on how much they pay for russian oil, in a bid to hit moscow s ability to finance the war in ukraine. the price of oil has risen sharply since the invasion, meaning its revenues have gone up even as some countries cut back on the amount of russian oil they import. the ca
hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after 2 months of campaigning, and 8 initial candidates whittled down to 2, we ll find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader and so prime minister. here s our political correspondent ben wright: after a long, rancorous campaign, it s now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he is backing liz truss, presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we havejust come through a pandemic. but this economy is resilient. how will they handle soaring inflation? i borisjohnson s ejection from office injuly triggered a stampede of wannabe successors. tory mps had the job of picking two final candidates. sunak,
the government says up to half of the country s crops have been destroyed by the floods. many more children could die, warns the un, because of the high risk that water borne diseases will spread rapidly. the scale of these floods is difficult to imagine. 80% of dadu district is already submerged. the families that you see around me came here hoping they would be safe but they now fear that things are about to get a lot worse. we ll have the latest from one of the worst hit areas of sindh province. also on the programme: russia scraps plans to reopen the nord stream 1 gas pipeline that serves germany tomorrow, sparking fears for european supplies and prices. voting has closed in the conservative leadership election will it be rishi sunak or liz truss moving into number 10 next week? it s been revealed that more than 11,000 government documents were seized by the fbi during their serach of donald trump s florida home last month. and andy murray is out of the us open, beate
to the island after fleeing abroad in the face of massive anti government protests. and spectators gather in rwanda for its annual gorilla naming ceremony. hello, and welcome. it s good to have your company. the russian energy giant gazprom says it has scrapped plans to reopen a key gas pipeline to europe. the company claims it can t restart nordstream one because of an oil leak in a turbine, and that it will remain closed for an indefinite period. that will have implications for europe s energy supply this winter. the pipeline has already been completely shut for three days. moscow denies weaponising energy supplies in retaliation for western sanctions. but that s not how the move has been seen in european capitals, the president of the european council took to twitter to express his disapointment. charles michel said. before going on to say. the bbc s economics editor faisal islam explained more about what russian gas giant gasprom has been saying. let me show you a map of