way. we need to get that confirmed. but sunak s yet to announce publicly whether he will bid for the top job after losing to liz truss last month. meanwhile, borisjohnson has flown home from a caribbean holiday, as his supporters claim he now also has 100 mps backing him, although others have said this is hogwash. so far, penny mordaunt is the only contender to have officially launched a campaign. earlier, our political correspondent, damian grammaticas, gave us an update on the number of tory mps backing potential candidates. the bbc have been running our own tally, and this is of publicly declared support, so people who have either very publicly on social media or confirmed to us. and those are numbers of people who are out there declaring, and those numbers are very interesting because they do give rishi sunak well over 100 public backers, borisjohnson, around 50 or so and penny mourdant, 20 something. now, the borisjohnson campaign came out earlier and were now, the bor
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be awful, absolutely impossible situation what is happening with our citizens in our city. we clearly understand that to take control over mariupol is one of the biggest names of putin and russia, and we understand that they sent more tanks, more aircraft, more missiles, more bombs to my city. and the destruction will continue on my city. destruction will continue on my ci . . ., destruction will continue on my ci . ., ~ , ., destruction will continue on my ci. ., destruction will continue on my city. thank you so much for spending some time with city. thank you so much for spending some time with us city. thank you so much for spending some time with us this city. thank you so much for spending some time with us this morning. i city. thank you so much for spending some time with us this morning. the| some time with us this morning. the deputy mayor of mariupol talking about the latest situation there. and of course, reflecting on those horrendous images we just saw in jeremy s