hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after 2 months of campaigning, and 8 initial candidates whittled down to 2, we ll find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader and so prime minister. here s our political correspondent ben wright: after a long, rancorous campaign, it s now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he is backing liz truss, presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we havejust come through a pandemic. but this economy is resilient. how will they handle soaring inflation? i borisjohnson s ejection from office injuly triggered a stampede of wannabe successors. tory mps had the job of picking two final candidates. sunak,
scientists are trying to identify why thousands of fish have died in a river between poland and germany. the remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in europe, have been found in a back garden in portugal. jimmy anderson strikes at old trafford as england look to level up the series against south africa. we ll have the latest from manchester in the sport. good afternoon. the chancellor nadim zahawi has said the country is in a national economic emergency which could last for 2 years, leaving even middle income earners in need of support. his comments come as another minister defended the deferral of an announcement on further government help with energy bills, untila new prime minister is in place. yesterday, the regulator, ofgem, announced an 80% rise in the energy price cap from october, taking the average annual household bill to more than £3,500. here s marc ashdown. help is coming. that s the message from the chancellor on rocketing energy bi
scientists are trying to identify why thousands of fish have died in a river between poland and germany. the remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in europe, have been found in a back garden in portugal. cheering jimmy anderson strikes at old trafford as england look to level up the series against south africa. we ll have the latest from manchester in the sport. good afternoon. the chancellor nadim zahawi has said the country is in a national economic emergency which could last for 2 years, leaving even middle income earners in need of support. his comments come as another minister defended the deferral of an announcement on further government help with energy bills, untila new prime minister is in place. yesterday, the regulator, ofgem, announced an 80% rise in the energy price cap from october, taking the average annual household bill to more than £3,500. here s marc ashdown. help is coming. that s the message from the chancellor on rocketing
the government says up to half of the country s crops have been destroyed by the floods. many more children could die, warns the un, because of the high risk that water borne diseases will spread rapidly. the scale of these floods is difficult to imagine. 80% of dadu district is already submerged. the families that you see around me came here hoping they would be safe but they now fear that things are about to get a lot worse. we ll have the latest from one of the worst hit areas of sindh province. also on the programme: russia scraps plans to reopen the nord stream 1 gas pipeline that serves germany tomorrow, sparking fears for european supplies and prices. voting has closed in the conservative leadership election will it be rishi sunak or liz truss moving into number 10 next week? it s been revealed that more than 11,000 government documents were seized by the fbi during their serach of donald trump s florida home last month. and andy murray is out of the us open, beate