extreme heat across large parts of the uk is expected to last into early next week. the met office issues an amber weather warning. drivers at eight rail companies vote to strike in a dispute over pay, but scotrail drivers accept an improved pay offer of 5%. the president of sri lanka says he will resign after thousands of demonstrators stormed his official residence in protest at the state of the economy. the composer monty norman, whose works include the james bond theme tune, has died at the age of 94. and still to come in sportsday, england and northern ireland are an action at euro 2022 and we will have all the latest. hello and welcome to bbc news. so far, all 11 mps are in the running to replace borisjohnson. the tories aim to reduce that number to two over the next ten days. boris johnson has refused to endorse any candidate. you he said he didn t want to damage anybody s chances. ros atkins is at westminster. let s head there now. you thank you forjoining us on coueg
after thousands of demonstrators stormed his official residence in protest at the state of the economy. the former formula 1 boss bernie ecclestone has been charged with fraud by false representation. the big birth control plan to control the the number of grey squirrels and save the native red squirrel. a warm welcome to bbc news. good to have your company on a busy afternoon, not least in the conservative leadership contest which is where we begin this hour. borisjohnson says in his final few weeks as prime minister, he s determined to deliver what he promised when elected in 2019. in his first public appearance since resigning as conservative leader, he also said he wouldn t want to damage any of his colleagues s chances of getting his job by offering them his support. conservative mps will meet later to draw up the timetable and rules to replace him as the next party leader and prime minister. we can hear from we can hearfrom ben brown. we can hear from ben brown. the w
sergey lavrov, and the chinese foreign minister, wang yi. now on bbc news from russia with blood are legal loopholes allowing russian criminals to launder dirty money? jim fitzpatrick follows the cash. money is just like clothes. the dirtier it gets, the more it needs washing. and there s a lot of dirty money in the world. an estimated two trillion in us dollars gets washed each year. but money laundering is no domestic chore. it s the economic engine of terrorism. ..the drugs trade. ..dictatorship. .. ..and war. and where do international criminals go when they need their money cleaned 7 in recent years, it s often been northern ireland. it s thanks to secret little northern ireland companies that allow criminals across the world to make a clean killing. they re called northern ireland limited partnerships nilps. they can be set up in secret and in seconds from anywhere in the world. peter geoghegan runs investigative journalism project open democracy. it s quite remar
hello and welcome to bbc news. ukraine says it s enduring heavy russian shelling in the city of lysychansk, as the battle for the east of the country intensifies. lysychansk is the last ukrainian held city in luhansk, part of the industrial donbas region that russia is focussing its military power on. these pictures from russia s state owned domestic news agency, ria, show drone images of battles near the city. but kyiv denies russian claims that the city has been encircled. meanwhile, two more britons captured by russian forces in ukraine have been charged with being mercenaries, according to russian state media. it comes after two other british men were sentenced to death last month. joe inwood reports. andrew hill travelled to ukraine to help fight the russian invasion. dylan healy went there to help evacuate civilians. both men now face being tried as mercenaries in an unrecognised separatist court. they would not be the first to appear there. last month, aiden aslin, sha
when you were last on this programme, you talked to me about how pleased you were to be on the backbenches. i m very satisfied, you said. i feel free, i feel liberated. i mean, at the time, you were making those passionate speeches that you did on grenfell, on windrush and all the rest of it, does that now mean you feel sort of caged? not quite. i loved being on the backbenches, you know, i really did. i loved being in government, to the extent that you actually did something. i suppose i am now in the third act. i don t know how many acts there are going to be. but what would i say this time? i have been in parliament 22 years, i m 50 in a couple of weeks time. so i suppose i ve got to come to terms with the sort of seniority in parliament, and, you know, parliament is generous if you have been there a long time, this is notjust your own party, it is the opposition as well. parliament quite likes specialisms and i ve, you know, there are some issues that i feel i have retur