households are without power following a new wave of russian attacks. and england s lionesses will face china and denmark at next year s women s world cup in australia and new zealand good afternoon. rishi sunak has become the first leadership contender to secure the 100 nominations by tory mps needed to enter the race to be the next prime minister. the former chancellor has yet to announce whether he will launch a fresh bid for the top job after losing to liz truss over the summer. meanwhile, borisjohnson has flown home from holiday, as supporters rally behind a potential comeback by the former prime minister. but so far, penny mordaunt is the only contender to have officially launched a campaign. hopefuls have until monday afternoon to find 100 backers. 0ur political correspondent helen catt has more. are you running for leadership? he s got the numbers to get on the ballot paper. and rishi sunak is expected to declare his candidacy soon. the former chancellor now has more
also on the show, could technology help africa grasp its agricultural potential? i will be speaking to the big boss of a company helping to spread two spread farming across that vast continent. wherever you are joining across that vast continent. wherever you arejoining me from around the world, a big hello and warm to the showstopping russia s invasion of ukraine has devastated the population, leaving tens of thousands feared dead and millions displaced, destroying lives and uprooting the very fabric of that country. and at the heart of the ukrainian economy is agriculture, and in particular, growing crops, a nation known as the breadbasket of europe, disrupting that production that production is having a dramatic effect on the global food supply, having a dramatic effect on the globalfood supply, sending global food supply, sending prices globalfood supply, sending prices through the roof. the result is some of the world s poorest countries are now paying more money for les
The conflict special. Hello. Im jackie leonard, one of the hosts of the global news podcast. And, again, weve teamed up with the Conflict Podcast to answer some of your questions about whats going on in israel and gaza. Werejoined by the host of the Conflict Podcast, lyse doucet, from jerusalem. And here in the studio is the bbc security correspondent frank gardner. So lets get on with the questions. This is camille from australia and my questions about all the aid trucks, because i knowjust before this conflict started, there was a lot of discussion about us funding and aid to ukraine, and now theres a lot of trucks amassed at the egypt border. | was this aid that was already destined to go into gaza . Cos ive also heard reports that there was aid going in already, but not as much as now. So, just a note on how Thisl Manoeuvring had happened and if one affects the other. So, lyse, if you could start with that one. Thank you very much for the question. Its very important. The. The un a
China. Some actually call it a dragon bear partnership. The goal of these meetings, the partnership, is simply to change the global war router or did that was established by western democracies after the Second World War global world order. Working together to replace the Current System with the new system, air system. This is not only on the military front but the economic front. Think about the technology, energy. So, ithink it is really important to watch what will be set there. Because it is consequential. The aim is again to fight democracies in the system that was established in to replace it with their own system and we have seen the expressions of the use geopolitical aims not only in ukraine, but we have seen also and talk or see like iran in the middle east, we are watching also north korea, what that country is doing and we see those autocracies are working together, to a certain extent. But at the epicentre of that it really is the russian and chinese cooperation. Is very i