thousands of years. hello and welcome. in a few days time, the uk will have a new prime minister and penny mourdant, leader of the house of commons has become the first conservative mp to say she is running to replace liz truss. no other mp has declared yet but both borisjohnson and former chancellor rishi sunak have nominations from other mps. former health secretary sajid javid says he will back mr sunak. mrjohnson left office just over six weeks ago, forced out after a series of crises, including infringing the law. whoever wins becomes conservative leader and the next prime minister but opposition parties are calling for a general election. our deputy political editor vicki young has this report. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen. thank you. once again, there is a vacancy at the top of government. liz truss resignation means the conservatives have to choose their fifth prime minister injust over six years. but can anyone unify a par
in the uk , for the first time hello and welcome. in a few days time, the uk will have a new prime minister and penny mourdant, leader of the house of commons has become the first conservative mp to say she is running to replace liz truss. inset)no other mp has declared yet but both borisjohnson and former chancellor rishi sunak have nominations from other mps. rishi sunak has 100 people backing him already. mrjohnson left office just over six weeks ago, forced out after a series of crises, including infringing the law. whoever wins becomes conservative leader and the next prime minister but opposition parties are calling for a general election. 0ur deputy political editor vicki young has this report. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen. thank you. once again, there s a vacancy at the top of government. liz truss s resignation means conservatives now need to choose their fifth leader and prime minister in just over six years. but can anyon
when mobilisation was being discussed i agreed with my family that if such a situation arose i would refuse even if they sent me to prison. and the japanese cartoon characters being recreated for the stage by the royal shakespeare company breaking box office records in the process. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. in a few days time, the uk will have a new prime minister and penny mourdant, leader of the house of commons has become the first conservative mp to say she is running to replace liz truss. no other mp has declared yet but both borisjohnson and former chancellor rishi sunak have nominations from other mps. sources have told bbc news, rishi sunak has now received the public backing of 100 mps in the contest to become conservative leader. mrjohnson left office just over six weeks ago, forced out after a series of crises, including infringing the law. whoever wins becomes conservative leader and the next prime minister but opposit
somebody is going to assassinate him or take him out, i think somebody is going to assassinate him or take him out, i they are wishful thinking. they are and in golf rory mcilroy and viktor hovland share a lead at st andrews after the third round. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a summer heatwave which has triggered devastating forest fires across southwest europe shows no signs of easing. firefighters in france, portugal, spain and greece are battling forest blazes. and new temperature records look to be on the way. the heat is thought to have claimed many lives possibly hundreds. our correspondent, bethany bell reports from malaga. fire crackles. wildfires are raging in spain after days of intense heat. firefighters battled the flames in extremadura in the west of the country. in the south near malaga, a popular tourist area, at least 3000 people have been evacuated from their homes. when we arrived, a new fire had just broken out in
portrait in the louvre museum in paris. by the end of the year, the eu will be blocking 90% of its oil imports from russia. that is the message coming from the eu member states as they imposed further sanctions against vladimir putin s government over its invasion of ukraine. the bloc agreed to ban more than two thirds of russian oil imports straight away at a summit in brussels, where hungary heavily dependent on russian oil resisted a full oil embargo. european commission president, ursula von der leyen said the agreement was very significant for reasons of climate as well as dealing with moscow. it isa it is a big step forward what we did today because indeed we have now gotten rid of cole and this was already very difficult. now we have basically the political agreement, how to phase out oil in a clear timeframe, and we started tonight and we will report tomorrow to discuss the big energy package that the commission tabled which is the basis to be able, over time, t