Welcome back. Here, Sir Keir Starmer has promised to show how his government will, in his words, fix the foundations and rebuild the uk, as the Labour Conference gets under way in liverpool. The partys first annual gathering while in powerfor 15 years comes amid criticism over donations and gifts accepted by some of the new cabinet and calls from Union Bosses for The Party to U Turn on its decision to cut winterfuel payments for pensioners. Let us go live now to liverpool and our political correspondent for the latest. For the latest. Here in liverpool, for the latest. Here in liverpool, really for the latest. Here in i liverpool, really starting for the latest. Here in liverpool, really starting to fill up, activists arriving, you can see them in the background, as we get towards the first formal bet of the conference, a speech later this morning by Angela Rayner, deputy Prime Minister. I have another Cabinet Minister with me to chat to, joe steven, Secretary Of State for wales. I sho
His hopes of becoming a three time world heavyweight Boxing ChampiOn have been dashed after he was knocked out by Daniel Dubois in the fifth round at lOndOns wembley stadium. The deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, says she doesnt believe she broke any rules when she stayed in the new York Flat of a labour dOnor. Ms rayner told the bbc dOnatiOns were part of politics and the government was open and transparent about the process. The Prime Minister and senior figures in the government have said they wOnt accept further dOnatiOns for clothes, after fierce criticism. The cOnservatives said there was no justificatiOn for Sir Keir Starmer for Sir Keir Starmer receiving gifts. Receiving gifts. Ms rayner was speaking Ms Rayner was speaking to laura kuenssberg. To laura kuenssberg. During the electiOn campaign, during the electiOn campaign, outfits . And then outside downing and then outside Downing Street, Keir Starmer said time street, Keir Starmer said time and again, we will return and a
We start in the middle east, where israel says hezbollah has fired over 150 missiles into the country, following extensive israeli Air Strikes in lebanon on saturday. The rockets targeted the city of haifa, nearly 30km from the border with lebanon, and the Ramat David Airbase further south. In the city, and in areas near the northern border, in anticipation of a fresh aerial assault. These pictures show part of an intercepted rocket that was launched from lebanon and fell near nazareth in the early hours of sunday. Israel has been carrying out more Air Raids in southern lebanon. Saturday saw constant strikes and counter strikes between the idf and hezbollah, which is designated a Terrorist Organisation by several western countries. In a statement, prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said israel had inflicted a series of heavy blows on hezbollah, saying if they havent understood the message yet, they will. Lebanons Health Ministry now says 45 people, including women and children, were kil
Across the bbc, as she wrote to us after watching the lunchtime news. Meanwhile, some wider issues have also been exercising newswatch viewers over the past weeks and months. Phehmie forder emailed us earlier in the summer to say. And Sandra Hume added. The bbc has asked Huw Edwards to return the 200,000 he earned after being arrested in november, but he has not yet done so. Should he, though, have been sacked at that time . Director general Tim Davie was asked about that at a house of lords Communications Committee Hearing last week. The police were, you know, giving us very clear instruction to keep confidential, as is, again, well documented and well reported. We knew the category, we had no knowledge at all of the specifics. And, you know, the decision which i stand by, by the way, was made in terms of to remain with the suspension. Tim davie added in an interview this week that there was shock and a lot of upset within the bbc over Huw Edwards, and that people across the organisat
Anniversary of the second World War Operation known as Market Garden an attempt by allied troops to capture key bridges in the netherlands. Now on bbc news, slavery at sea. The men youre about to meet are all recognised victims of modern slavery. They came to work as fishermen in the uk in search of a better life. Instead, they say they were mistreated, exploited, trafficked. For the first time, they tell their stories. One in three Uk Trawlermen are Migrant Workers from around the world. Often, these workers have families to support back home workers like joel. Joel was an experienced fisherman. In 2012, he secured a job through an agency in the philippines working aboard a Scallop Boat for a Fishing Company in scotland. Joel would bejoined at the company by other filipino workers with similar ambitions. But you had no Experience Fishing or at sea at all . 0nlyjoel had fished before, yet here they all were, recruited through agencies, ready to go to sea. The men travelled months apart