on heatwave alert, outdoor public events have been banned in an area of france, spain, italy and the uk have experienced high temperatures. those are the headlines. at ten o clock, huw edwards will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, it s newscast. hello, i m the studio. i should accet hello, i m the studio. i should accept i m hello, i m the studio. i should accept i m growing hello, i m the studio. i should accept i m growing a - hello, i m the studio. i should i accept i m growing a moustache because i accept i m growing a moustache because i didn t mention it last week because i didn t mention it last week. , because i didn t mention it last week- no. - because i didn t mention it last week- no. it - because i didn t mention it last - week. no, it unfolded. week. didn t you? no, it unfolded. yet another week. didn t you? no, it unfolded. yet another benefit week. didn t you? no, it unfolded. yet another benefit of week. didn t you? no, i
by the union leadership. half of britain s rail lines will be closed when workers walk out on tuesday, thursday and saturday. these strikes are not only a bid to derail reforms that are critical to the network s future and designed to inflict damage at the worst possible time. iam in i am in the devon constituency which has been conservative for 100 years. we will hear for the labour candidate where it may not be so certain that it will stay that way. hot and getting even hotter britain s heatwave expected to peak tomorrow with temperatures of 3a degrees celsius. good afternoon. borisjohnson s ethics adviser, who resigned last night, has accused the prime minister of putting him in an impossible and odious position. in his resignation letter, lord geidt said the prime minister had asked him to consider measures, understood to be on a trade issue, which risked a deliberate and purposeful breach of the ministerial code. lord geidt s letter also says he came close to quitting
which is part of what led to lord geidt resigning, you have this. to quote abba, it is what i call the winner takes it all attitude to british pop politics. if you are prime minister you can do anything. we don t have enough checks and balances on the prime minister, we need more, it should be on a statutory basis and be fully independent and work closely with the standards committee in the house of commons. we agreed a new code of conduct for members last week. if you are about to set me off, can i say one thing? i thought you were reporting from kyiv earlier this year was absolutely outstanding and i am enormously grateful to you and manyjournalists i am enormously grateful to you and many journalists around i am enormously grateful to you and manyjournalists around the world who have taken great steps to make sure we get to hear the truth. that is very kind sure we get to hear the truth. that is very kind of sure we get to hear the truth. that is very kind of you, sure we g
tensions not least. because in the essence of the exchanges that we ve seen between the outgoingl standards ethics adviser and the prime minister, i needless to say, he was rather the adviser i rather keen- on the importance of the ministerial code| and it s his view was that the prime minister was much less so, - and we saw that at the end | of may when, when we saw lord geidt really didn t - like the idea that the prime minister hadn t outwardly, until that point, said - that the ministerial code mattered, in his view i borisjohnson s view he hadn t breached it when he was fined over. the whole partygate thing. and we ve seen it in these i letters of in these exchanges of letters following - lord geidt s resignation. yeah. and that s the thing that s happened today, because vicki, when we were doing the last episode of newscast which is available on bbc sounds, the news broke in the middle of us having a chat about something else and we both were just like, whoa! and st