mississippi are told to close their mouths and they have a shower after floods contaminate the water supply. coming up later in the hour, they start in the forgiven, find out what mark thinks of that and the rest of the week s big releases in the film review at 545. hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, the conservative party leadership contest has come to an end. on monday, the country will know who will takeover as prime minister rishi sunak or liz truss. it s been an often bitter contest, lasting almost two months. whoever wins, faces an agenda that includes a cost of living crisis and soaring energy bills. our political correspondent helen catt reports. good evening, thank you. it s fantastic to be here. for weeks, liz truss and rishi sunak have toured the country. good evening, it s fantastic to be here. here in darlington. it s fantastic to be here. here, in eastbourne. gosh, it s fantastic to be here. in birmingham. racking up miles, and, they hope, v
we ll have the latest. good morning. the heat continues to build over the next few days. today it is looking dry, with strong sunshine, and it will feel very warm, especially in the south. i will have all the details throughout this morning s programme. it s sunday, iothjuly. our main story: eight candidates are now officially running in the conservative leadership contest, following a series of announcements from senior figures within the party. the former health secretaries, sajid javid and jeremy hunt, are the latest to come forward and the foreign secretary, liz truss, is expected to declare in the coming days. our political correspondent, jonathan blake reports. the two newest entrance into the race are the first to set out detailed plans, and both focus on economic policy. entrants. jeremy hunt, who lost a borisjohnson in the final two last time around, promises to council rise in corporation tax, and reduce it further. to cancel. he would also cut business rates
would be painful. the film review will be here on bbc news in around ten minutes time but first, it s click. bbc s grandstand theme plays on your marks.get set.go! can you believe that it s exactly ten years since this site was just getting ready to host the 2012 olympic games? it feels like it was yesterday, but this olympic stadium was alive with the roars of the crowd, cheering on the athletes. time flies. and when you plan a site like this indeed, when you spend all of that money it s important to plan a legacy how the place can be put to good use once the games have finished. and the park is still thriving with football, swimming, cycling and generallyjust being a nice place to come. and in a weird way, the same is true for olympic athletes, who only usually get to compete at that level for the first part of their careers. takejessica ennis hill, who gave us so many great moments even winning gold in the 2012 heptathlon. yeah, and, infact, she ran the entire dis
of a lose lose situation. whoever wins in this scenario because you feel very sorry for the lion whose pride has been killed. so it s quite a sad story in a way. so it s not a popcorn thriller in the old fashioned sense, but idris elba s very good and he plays a kind of everyman hero. this isn t the kind of heroic kind of story about a man who s going to save his family by turning into a total action hero. he s he looks visibly scared, which seems a bit more realistic in a way. and, yes, it does. it looks very beautiful as well as these films do when they re shot somewhere like that. next, the french film her way. now, it s a cert 18. so that might give us a bit of a clue. yeah, i ll tell you why in a second. it starts off, it s more like a traditional drama. it s about a woman who s trying to help her young son. he s a teenager. he wants to go to a very expensive chef school. she can t really afford to send him there. one of the reasons for that is that she s a prostitute. s
some coastal areas with some sea breezes and temperatures might not be quite so high in scotland and northern ireland. but still a very warm day. some changes into tuesday, high pressure and heat gets pushed away and we will start to see this weather front move down, nothing in terms of rain or cloud, bringing cooler and fresher air, keeping the heatin cooler and fresher air, keeping the heat in east anglia and the south east. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: nine tory mps are now in the contest to become the next party leader and prime minister. a russian attack in ukraine is reported to have killed 15 people at a block of flats, many others are feared trapped. sri lanka s deepening economic crisis: the president says he ll step down after huge demonstrations, the us appeals to politicians to act swiftly a massive data leak reveals how top politicians around the world secretly helped uber. scotland records its hottest day of the year so far, as much of the uk swelters