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 than 100 mps publicly backing him to be the prime minister. the big question in westminster is now if
good morning from birmingham wholesale market. i ll be getting reactions from traders. we ll speak to the parents of teenager harry dunn after their three year battle for justice which yesterday saw an american woman plead guilty to causing his death by careless driving. steven gerard is sacked by aston villa. he lost his job, after villa s defeat at fulham last night, with the club 17th in the premier league. and it s the final day for the children in need rickshaw challenge team. we ll be with them as they set off on the last leg of the journey. hopefully much drierfor hopefully much drier for them as well and certainly a dry day for eastern areas compared with yesterday. heavy showers in the west. details on that and your weekend forecast coming up here on your friday morning edition of breakfast. good morning. it s friday 21st october and i m outside number 10 downing street. liz truss moved into this famous building when she became prime ministerjust six weeks ago. by th
So far this october, but the rain has clearly led to numerous Flood Warnings. Two severe Flood Warnings in scotland. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency has more information, as does our website. Some respite today, this weak Weather Front. You website. Some respite today, this weak weatherfront. You can website. Some respite today, this weak Weather Front. You can see how it has been petering out north of northern ireland, through Southern Scotland and northern england. It is a dryer window of weather, brighter but still that rain coming down from the mountains and the ground is saturated. Patchy rain edging its way north, further south plenty of sunshine to come. Misty and murky conditions around southern and western coast, but warm again, temperatures of 5 10 celsius above average. Overnight, the rain heads to the northern isles, then we do have more rain coming back in on the next weatherfront, have more rain coming back in on the next Weather Front, the winds are strength
Since ive been gone . What has been going on. And. Hes back. Barack 0bama has returned to The Public Eye with a speech in his hometown of chicago. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in paris. If you ever wanted an election about change, try france this weekend. French voters have just upended decades of political tradition, ousting the main parties and promoting two outliers. In almost equal numbers they voted for a young, centrist man who doesnt even have a party and an older, far right woman who captured a desire for nationalist revival. The two candidates will debate on wednesday and face each other in a second round vote on may the 7th. The meteoric rise of Emmanuel Macron has been remarkable he resigned from the Socialist Party a year ago and no one thought hed do this well. Equally showstopping is Marine Le Pen, whos transformed the Front National and made it a force in this race. The bbcs Lucy Willamson has this report. Two years ago, he was a new face in politics.