to bring the party together. we ll be looking at the week ahead as the conservative party chooses its third leader in three months. also on the programme. the social care system in england is gridlocked, says the watchdog, with staffing shortages a majorfactor. covid infections rise above 2 million for the first time since the summer. and the first baby bison born in britain for thousands of years. on bbc london. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we ll have the latest on cristiano ronaldo s fall out with manchester united as their star player gets benched. and booted out of first team training after he walked out on them on wedneday. good evening. in a day s 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. mrjohnson left offic
to bring the party together. we ll be looking at the week ahead as the conservative party chooses its third leader in three months. also on the programme. the social care system in england is gridlocked says the watchdog with staffing shortages a major factor. as president putin inspects his troops we report on the growing anger inside russia that men with no military experience are being called up and sent to the front line. and the japanese cartoon characters being recreated for the stage by the royal shakespeare company breaking box office records in the process. and coming up on the bbc news channel. scotland are on the brink of elimination at the rugby leaue world cup after losing heavily to favourites australia in their second match. good evening. in a week s time or less, the uk will have a new prime minister and penny mordaunt, 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
in the next three to five hours. mourners have paid their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who was buried in moscow, this afternoon. a £2 cap on bus fares across england for three months from january is announced by ministers in the hope it will help people cope with the rising cost of living. a to me, it is a no brainer. there is no point taking the car and then paying for parking fees and everything. it is costing me £15, normally, for a trip, for a day ride for myself and then a day ride for my children. it is extortionate. this will help with millions ofjourneys through the toughest months of the winter, when we know things are going to be tough. and i think it will help attract people to the bus, particularly at a time when fuel costs are so high. russia s main pipeline transporting gas to europe through germany will now not reopen as planned. russian state energy firm gazprom said it had found an oil leak in a turbine on nord stream 1, meaning it
when you start counting pennies on your bank account or in your pocket. we do the same and count our casualties. mourners have paid their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who was buried in moscow, this afternoon. nasa s second attempt to launch the artemis moon rocket has failed. launch control announced a second scrub on the mission after a liquid hydrogen leak which has started during the fuelling process couldn t be stopped. a brief hydrogen leak was spotted on the original launch date last monday but it was thought the sensors may have been wrong. that first launch attempt was halted after problems with pressure levels in one of the rockets four engines. our science correspondent, jonathan amos is there. thank you. a disappointing day to day. the second postponement in a number of days. this time for a slightly different reason. we had a hydrogen leak on this vehicle, there is huge rocket that you see behind me here. they have to fill it with 2.7 mil