in arlington, virginia. an armed robbery suspect taking five hostages, including a child. we have more on the standoff and how it played out. and also, the massive fire at a recycling plant. authorities urging more than 2,000 people to evacuate tonight. we have late reporting. the defense secretary tonight answering tough questions about the damaging leak of highly classified pentagon documents. what those papers reveal about russia, what the papers reportedly indicate about ukraine. terry moran reporting tonight. the new turn one week after former president trump pled not guilty to 34 felony counts in new york. why the manhattan d.a. is now suing one of trump s biggest allies in congress. and abc news learning the d.a. has received multiple death threats. the debate on the abortion pill. a federal appeals court, the decision expected in days whether to block or uphold a texas judge s ruling that would take effect by end of the week suspending fda approval of the drug. presid
the opportunity of rishi sunak and brentjonnson the opportunity of rishi sunak and brentjonnson meeting the opportunity of rishi sunak and brentjonnson meeting today the opportunity of rishi sunak and brentjonnson meeting today is the opportunity of rishi sunak and brentjonnson meeting today is being talked this evening as the race for the new conservative party leader gathers pace. the bbc understands they were due to meet face to face at 3:30pm this afternoon but that was delayed. my colleague says the meeting may still go ahead later. rishi sunak has become the first leadership contender to secure the public support of 100 tory mps that s the number needed to enter the race to be the next conservative leader and prime minister. but he 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 ot
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
since the second world war. hello and welcome to bbc news. the possibility of rishi sunak and borisjohnson meeting each other today is being talked about this evening as the race to become the new conservative leader and prime minister gathers pace. the bbc understands they were due to meet face to face at 3:30 this afternoon but that was delayed although my colleague laura kuenssberg says the meeting may still go ahead later. mr sunak is the first leadership contender to secure the public support of 100 tory mps that s the number needed to enter the race. but he 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. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticas has mo
this whole small one, too. so the first thing we did was, one, we took off our masks and then we exchanged names. well, we made sure everyone was comfortable with that, right. so maybe sure everyone was comfortable about taking about their mask and made sure everyone was comfortable sharing names. i think some of us felt eager because we d been holding this in for 3 1/2 weeks. so it was something we would be finally able to get our thoughts out. so how did you approach it? did you vote right away? yes. tell me about that. we voted right away to get a stance where we were all that, and of course we weren t all together, so we knew we had to take each step little by little. and we voted many times throughout the whole process. so the first vote you took was it or any of them, were they anonymous? did you do it by note. it was all anonymous.