Coming up at 2 30, talking books heads to the edinburgh festival, where kirsty wark interviews author jing jing lee. Good afternoon. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has sought to play down divisions in his top team, after one of his key aides announced hes resigning. It comes after a turbulent start to the labour Party Conference, where theres been a failed attempt to oust mr corbyns deputy, tom watson, and further splits over brexit. Heres our political correspondent, nick eardley. Not everything here is going according to plan. Jeremy corbyn wants to persuade you he is ready for power, but one of his key aides has raised concerns. Andrew fisher, still by mr corbyns side this morning, is quitting, privately accusing the leaders team of a blizzard of lies and saying he no longer has faith in them. I have obviously seen the words that andrew wrote, and i discussed them with him at some length. Why do you think he said that . I think he said that because he was extremely distressed at
And the fact is that immigration is a net benefit to this country, our businesses, our universities, our public services, would be worse off without the contribution of migrants and our nhs in particular would be worse off without the contribution of migrants and the childrens migrants. And removal of freedom of Movement Rights already granted would be against the law. So labour thanks all the migrants who have come here, helped to build and run oui come here, helped to build and run our nhs, they have helped. They have helped to sustain. Work in industry and enrich our society. And i will let the tories into a secret, the British Public increasingly agrees with the labour party and our positive view of migration. Back in 2011, most people when polled said that immigration generally have a negative impact. But earlier this year, pollsters found that increasing numbers of people were saying the opposite and that immigration has generally had an increasingly positive impact. The tories a
Good afternoon. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has sought to play down divisions in his top team after one of his key aides announced hes resigning. It comes as the party prepares to debate brexit. Heres our Political Correspondent nick eardley. Not everything here is going according to plan. Jeremy corbyn wants to persuade you he is ready for power, but one of his key aides has raised concerns. Andrew fisher, still by mr corbyns side this morning, is quitting, privately accusing the leaders team of a blizzard of lies and saying he no longer has faith in them. I have obviously seen the words that andrew wrote, and i discussed them with him at some length. Why do you think he said that . I think he said that because he was extremely distressed at that point about whatever was going on in discussions in the office at that moment. Jeremy corbyn would much rather focus on his policies, but the start of the conference has been dominated by controversy. Yesterday, there was a foiled plot
Their searing pace at the top of the premier league. They beat chelsea at Stamford Bridge 2 1 in their sixth consecutive premiere league win. Just after ten oclock, Mishal Husain will be here with a full round up of the days news, first our world. Safa and marwa are identical twins joined at the head. Their family, from pakistan, want doctors to separate them. Great 0rmond street in london is one of the few hospitals in the world with the expertise to do it. This is safas brain, thats marwas brain. What we need to achieve is effectively untwist the brains, and that is difficult, pretty difficult to do just in your head. But it is perilous. The bbc was given unique access to chart the complex medical and ethical choices made. This is the day, the moment of truth, and everything hasjust got to be perfect. In the hope of giving the girls independent lives. Safa and marwa are 21 months old and were born in pakistan. They have come to londons great 0rmond street hospital with their mother z
Annelise hello, and welcome to question time wrap where we look at the first sitting fortnight of the new morrison government. In february of this year, the government introduced a bill that would allow the minister to exclude anyone from entering australia for up to two years if they were suspected of being involved in any terrorist activity. With a strong mandate off the back of their win, they moved to pass the bill. They did ignore a number of recommendations on the drafting of that bill from the powerful Parliamentary Committee. The labor of the opposition, much less lofty i suspect. [laughter] we will say the answer. My question is to the Prime Minister and it goes to National Security. Does the Prime Minister doubt which side people are on when they support the unanimous position of a Parliamentary Joint Committee on intelligence and security . Thank you, mr. Speaker. I think he raised the role of the joint Standing Committee the joint Standing Committee on these matters does im