we ll also look at the crisis in sri lanka. the president has confirmed he will step down after protesters stormed his palace. and we ll look at twitter s share price, which has fallen welcome to college green in front of parliament, where the process of selecting a new leader of the conservative party and new prime minister is under way. if i m occasionally glancing this way and that, sir graham brady, the committee chair, will be speaking in the next few minutes. he will outline the rules of the tory party leadership contest. bear in mind since thursday, effectively that contest began. we still don t know precisely how that will work. what we do know is what the stages of the contest will be. first, each candidate will need to find a number of conservative mps to back them. in previous contests, it was eight. this time, it could be as high as 20. then the 358 conservative mps will vote for their favourite candidates in a series of elimination rounds. let s speak to our poli
accusing labour of moving the goalposts in terms of what it s prepared to do to support them. labour has not backed inflation matching pay rises, but has said if they were in power the party would join negotiations between employers and unions. our business correspondent marc ashdown has more. what do we want, 10%! could the summer of strikes turn into a winter of discontent? at felixstowe port, 900 dock workers are finishing an eight day walk out. impacting uk supply chains for food, clothing and essential goods. there are now calls ahead of next month s gathering of trades stack there are now calls ahead of next month s gathering of trades unions, stack at the tuc conference for future strikes to be synchronised, or staggered, to maximise the impact. and sharon graham, the general secretary of the uk s largest union, unite, has called on the labour party i think that if they came out now strongly and said, these profits that are going on, what is happening with the cost o
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
i never had a chance to apologise, to. ..to say sorry. ..to anybody. it was quite a nice sunny day, july 15th. nothing out of the ordinary really was going on that day. just another day at work, as far as i was concerned. just been finishing work. it was my dog s birthday the next day, so i was going home but via pets4home to get him some birthday presents. it was quite warm, especially when you re pregnant. aircon was on in the car. the weather was really nice. i d been sitting out in the garden before i d come to work, - so i was in a really good mood. just moseying up the motorway, heading to work, nothing special. the shift was due to start at 7.00 on the evening. 12 hour night shift finishing at 7.00 the next morning. i remember slowing down in stationary traffic. i saw the traffic from a good distance. put my hazard lights on, slowed down, we were pretty much round here, somewhere. because there was cars and other traffic on the inside of me, - i couldn t get over to ge
identify. good morning from an empty london euston station as more than 16,000 rail workers go on strike again. when will it be over and what should you do if you are travelling today? i will have the details. is it ratcliffe to the rescue for manchester united? british billionairejim ratcliffe says he would be interested in buying the club if the glazer family wants to sell. from trash to treasure. we find out how items destined for the tip are raising thousands for charity thanks to upcycling. good morning. after yesterday s torrential date range which led to localised flooding in parts of the south east, today it will be drier with some sunshine and the odd shower, we have got a new weather front coming in across the introducing thick cloud and some rain. all of the details throughout the programme this morning. it s thursday 18th august. our main story. thousands of students across england, wales and northern ireland will be getting their a level, t level and btec results