good evening and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson claims he's been "a model of restraint" when it comes to his use of language, in the brexit debate. he was speaking on the opening day of the conservative party conference in manchester. the prime minister refused to apologise for using words such as "surrender" when describing the legislation, designed to stop the uk leaving the european union without a deal. this report from our political correspondent jonathan blake, contains some flash photography. you can't miss the message the conservatives want to hammer home here. "get brexit done" might be a simple slogan, but the reality has been far from easy for the prime minister so far. and he has arrived here facing questions about how he has tried to argue his case, accusations that his language has got out of hand. "he should be ashamed," say labour, but borisjohnson says all sides need to pause for breath. well, i certainly think everybody should calm down. including you? i think i've been a model of restraint. my use of the word "humbug" was in the context of people trying to prevent me, us, from using the word "surrender". so you can say sorry for the misunderstanding, at least? i can certainly say sorry for the misunderstanding. whatever words he uses, from the moment he set foot in manchester, borisjohnson‘s message won't change — that brexit should happen by the end of october, come what may, and it's in the country's interests to make sure of it. i think the best thing for the country, and the best thing for people's overall psychological health, would be to get brexit done. no detail on how, given that parliament has passed a law forcing him to ask for an extension if a deal can't be done. but would he step aside, allowing someone else to do that? i've undertaken to lead the party and my country at a difficult time and i'm going to continue to do that. i believe it's my responsibility. and inside the conference hall, you wouldn't know there was any attempt to delay brexit. key figures doubled down on the promise to leave by the end of october. if the eu spurn the opportunity for a win—win deal, we will leave at the end of october. no ifs, no buts. and if we don't get a deal by october sist, then we will have to leave without a deal. away from brexit, questions remain for the prime minister about his friendship with the businesswomanjennifer arcuri and whether she received special treatment on trade visits while mrjohnson was mayor of london — an emphatic denial that he did anything wrong. everything was done in accordance with full... you have to declare interest. did you declare interest? there was no interest to declare. for all the questions facing the prime minister, it's brexit which will drown out everything else. jonathan blake, bbc news, manchester. our chief political correspondent vicki young has been at the conference in manchester. it is very clear what the message here is that the conservative party conference started with borisjohnson this morning and then reiterated in the conference call time and time again on the banners and posters all around here "get brexit done", that has been the message from the prime minister who says he wants to get a deal with brussels but would be willing to leave without a deal and of course thatis leave without a deal and of course that is the controversy within the party. we have seen several conservative mps booted out of the port of entry party. some of them are turning up here to put their message across that they are simple trying to stop no deal but the party knows that it has to really get that issue sorted in some way before they can talk about other things such as health spending and spending on education, spending on extra police officers. they want to talk about that as well this week but there is another thing going on here because lots of tory mps will be glancing back at westminster because unusually parliament is still going to be sitting for the next few days. they are slightly worried about some kind of ambush from the opposition parties, a vote of no—confidence in the government. they will be sitting here wondering if they have to hotfoot it back to the house of commons. but the focus here no doubt about it will be borisjohnson really trying to say that parliament is blocking brexit. he says he is on the side of the people as he tries to deliver it by october the 31st. vicki young purporting. —— reporting. hannah al—othman is political correspondent at buzzfeed, and jack blanchard edits the london playbook for politico. they bothjoin me now from the conference in manchester. welcome to you both. there has been a lot of talk about division and unity. which word applies to the conservatives at the moment?” unity. which word applies to the conservatives at the moment? i don't think you can call a party unified that hasjust sacked think you can call a party unified that has just sacked 21 think you can call a party unified that hasjust sacked 21 of think you can call a party unified that has just sacked 21 of its mps. there is obviously huge divisions in the tory party over europe as there have been for years. having said that there is a sense of people trying to get behind the prime minister, i don't feel like they feel they have a lot of choice. they know election is coming soon though not quite sure when. given the scale of the chaotic background in politics i don't think it has gone too badly here for the prime minister today. the backdrop in parliament at home where he has no majority with his brexit deadline looming, the lurid allegations in the press today, none of it is ideal. a starting point for your party conference, isn't it? hannah, parliament is still sitting as we know, the prorogation should not of happened. they are carrying on. how much are you picking up on a sense that people at the conference feel they are missing out? it feels very much business as usual here at party conference. it is as the recess had happened. the government has been clever in the legislation they have put down next week. it is not controversial. so if there mps aren't there they are hoping it won't be the end of the world but of course they run the risk of the opposition putting something down that will be tricky for the government. there has been talk of no confidence whether or not that will happen we do not know how likely that is. the irony and the risk of the sort of carrying on as normal —— they are really carrying on. what is the likelihood and timing ofa on. what is the likelihood and timing of a no—confidence? on. what is the likelihood and timing of a no-confidence? the truth is to coin a famous tory phrase, nothing has changed on that front. it is not really in the interest of the opposition parties to trigger an election now mainly because it's the main thing borisjohnson election now mainly because it's the main thing boris johnson wants. election now mainly because it's the main thing borisjohnson wants. he does a good show of puffin cluster of "bring it on" and all the respite but the truth is he is in a terrible position, he has no majority and get anything done and... there is a strong feeling amongst the labour party certainly and the liberal democrats that we should just sit here and watch and struggle because here and watch and struggle because he is ina here and watch and struggle because he is in a powerless position and there is nothing worse for a prime minister than working powerless in front of the country. the brexit deadline is only 30, 32 days away, something like that. a lot has been passing he has to extend while he says he thinks he can get around it but we have 90 how he can do that. if they are forced to extend the deadline it will be looking back to the permits are given the promises he has made. i expect them to sit tight and watch them squirm. hannah, the bill that will stop britain leaving the eu is the benn bill. what you think is happening from the government pot some perspective to look at ways around that? the government keeps saying that britain will leave the eu on the 31st of october but also they will obey the law. it doesn't really look at those two things can happen in unison so the suggestion is they have found a way to get around it. there has been suggestion so far but none of them has stand up to scrutiny. government lawyers are working as hard as they can to find a way around it and people like hilary benn who are trying to prevent no deal are also trained to predict what the government might do and think of ways to circumvent that. basically eve ryo ne ways to circumvent that. basically everyone is working overtime at the minute thinking about this particular piece of legislation. jack we know now that the courts are prepared to get involved in this stuff. i think that's a really important point. this astonishing court ruling we saw wesley where the prime minister was found to have broken the law and wrongly advise the queen that it was ok to suspend parliament has repercussions beyond just that particular case. we now know the courts are ready to step in if you want to try to break the law again, we have a supreme court that will holds into account and we can expect them to come down like a tonne of bricks on him but we also know we have a parliament that is ready and able to pass laws very quickly to get its way. boris johnson thought by suspend in parliament he could stop this hillary benewah going through. that failed dismally. it passing just a few days. that hilary benn was. even if he found some loopholes or sneaky way around it, i would expect parliament to step in again and try to act with a new law again and i would expect the supreme court with what we have seen so far to upload that well. i think for all the puffin big talk boris johnson that well. i think for all the puffin big talk borisjohnson has a big problem. one finalthing, i don't know whether hannah can hear me because i think hurt your piece was causing her problems, do you haveit was causing her problems, do you have it back in? yeah, it is back and. well done forjenny with that. how and. well done forjenny with that. h ow ofte n and. well done forjenny with that. how often do you account for these despite all these problems the conservatives are still ahead in the polls resting at the moment? from my point of view, i was at the labour party conference last week and you wa nt party conference last week and you want to talk about divided parties, i have never seen anything like it. they tried to pick off the deputy leader and abolish his role literally the evening before the conference. we saw huge arguments going on all the way through between the membership and trade unions and the membership and trade unions and the mps and membership. we've got mps well known mps having de—selection attempts made against them. only this week and, this is a party preparing for government in the next few weeks. if you want to know why the tory party is so far ahead, i don't think you have to look very much further than the way the labour party is currently operating to see that.|j the labour party is currently operating to see that. i would just add to that that labour's position on bessette has been quite ambiguous that they have been losing votes and remain supportive to the live dens, to the greens... it all hangs on the fa ct to the greens... it all hangs on the fact that the opposition are not doing particularly well either. —— the lib dems and greens. hannah al—othman from buzz feed and jack blanchard from portico thank you very much forjoining this evening. —— from politico. and we'll find out how this story, and many others, are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10.30 and 11.30 this evening in the papers. our guestsjoining me tonight are joel taylor, the deputy news editor at the metro, and benedicte paviot, the uk correspondent for france 2a, and the president of the foreign press association. the government's key announcement at the start of the conservative party conference was on funding for hospital projects in england. our health editor, hugh pym, takes a look at the details. new money for old hospitals, that's what today's announcement adds up to. here at the epsom and st helier trust in south—west london, they admit some of the buildings aren't fit for modern healthcare. now they have the green light for a new acute hospital, covering a&e and urgent care. it's likely to be built here, partly on this car park, one of the projects highlighted by ministers. what we're putting in place today is a ten year programme of hospital building and rebuilding. six of the projects will start immediately. the rest of them will develop the plans, but they are getting the go—ahead. so what are the details of the plan? £2.7 billion will be invested over five years at six trusts for new hospitals or upgrades. there's £100 million for another 3a to start planning for further projects over the next decade. following the announcement today, the prime minister visited north manchester general hospital. health leaders welcomed the news, but say it's just a start and there is still a backlog of repairs. i think it's good news for the six hospitals concerned, but they're just the tip of the iceberg. we know we have a £6 billion maintenance backlog. we know we have to invest in digital and how we transform care to provide a 21st century health service. so a good start, but we need a lot more. it's significant that the investment at this trust and others will come direct from the treasury and not from the controversial private finance initiative which imposed long—term cost burdens. but it remains to be seen precisely how the government intends to raise the money. the conservatives hope that in the long term, dozens more hospital facilities will be built, but that'll be subject to who's in power and what's affordable at the time. hugh pym, bbc news. labour mps have rallied to support dame margaret hodge, who is facing a re—selection battle after her constituency voted for the chance to pick a new candidate. the former labour deputy leader harriet harman said she was dismayed by the move, saying... the former foreign secretary david miliband said it was... and that... and the deputy leader of the labour party tom watson said he had "no doubt margaret will win a full selection" but that the process was an unnecessary distraction on the cusp of a general election. dame margaret, who'sjewish and has been critical ofjeremy corbyn‘s handling of anti—semitism in the party, said she was "disappointed" but would fight to keep her seat in east london. there have been running street—battles in hong kong, in some of the worst violence in more than three months of anti—government unrest. protesters threw molotov cocktails, and the police fired round after round of tear gas and rubber bullets. there were multiple arrests, as the authorities try to assert control, in the run up to the 70th anniversary of communist party rule in china, on tuesday. from hong kong, here'sjohn sudworth. they are determined to spoil the party. with just two days to go before china's big anniversary, hong kong is decidedly off message. while in beijing, rehearsals are in full swing for a celebration of 70 years of communist rule and a message of unity and strength. in hong kong, there is division. uncertainty, and fear. it's a fault line that cuts across class and generation. this 73—year—old is showing me the protective gear he wears when supporting the protesters. translation: for 70 years, the ruling party has subdued its people. do you think we are in the mood to celebrate? she is in favour of chinese rule and says the protests a re in favour of chinese rule and says the protests are scaring off mainland chinese tourists. translation: two i still have business but not as much as before. i have lost at least half of my revenue. with more protests planned on to say, the authorities are not taking chances. you can still taste the tear gas in the air. hong kong finds itself at the air. hong kong finds itself at the centre of a global clash around authoritarianism against freedom. on the streets of the city, china's vision of its future has run into a crisis of legitimacy. the chaos continued into the night. for some, it's a principled fight. for others, a doomed strategy that risks provoking an ever more powerful china to sweep this cities freedoms away for good. john sudworth, bbc news, hong kong. the headlines on bbc news. the prime minister insists he's been a "model of restraint" in his use of language about brexit. at the start of the conservative party conference a key announcement is made on new funding for hospitals in england. running street—battles in hong kong mark some of the worst violence, in more than three months, of anti—government protests. exit polls suggest austria's former chancellor, sebastian kurz, will win the general election — just four months since he was ousted from power. he told supporters the results had left him almost speeches. he won 37% of the vote well clear of the centreleft social democrats. the process of building a coalition is likely to begin soon. bethany bell has the latest from the capital of vienna. this is a strong showing for 33—year—old sebastien kurz of the conservative people's party. he has emerged stronger than he was in his last government, which fell apart in may because of a scandal involving his coalition partner, the far—right freedom party. the freedom party has paid the price for that scandal in this election, it has dropped by about 10%. it's been a very good day for the green party, the resurgent green party. they are now back in parliament with around 14%. the big question now is who mr kurz will be able to form a coalition with. will he try and reform an alliance with the freedom party or will he decide to try and make a pact with the green party, possibly also a three—way pact with the greens and the liberal neos? that all could take a lot of negotiation, a lot of bargaining and those coalition talks are likely to go on for weeks if not months. bethany bell reporting from vienna. more than 70 flood warnings are in place across england and wales, with more heavy rain forecast. here's a flavour of how different parts of the country have been affected. lifeguards at crantock near newquay have reported the cliffs there have become dangerous as a result of spring tides and the big surf. steps leading to the surf life—saving club have also been washed away. people are being urged to avoid the area. this was the scene near cardiff. buses have been replacing trains between machynlleth and newtown. people are being warned to be "vigilant", with further heavy rain and high tides due over the next two days. and sea defences in lincolnshire could be overwhelmed in hornsea tonight, and there is also a warning in place for hessle haven. further south on the lincolnshire coast, people are advised to avoid using low lying footpaths near beaches. parents should include children in conversations about organ donation, according to the organisation that oversees transplants in the uk. nhs blood and transplant says young patients are waiting on average more than two and a half times longer than adults for similar transplants. our reporter geraint thomas has been following the story of lilly who had a double transplant at the age of 11. my name is lilly kendall. i am 11 years old, and i am waiting for a heart and lung double transplant. at one stage, it looked likely lilly wouldn't even reach the age of 11. she spent herfirst three months in hospital with heart complications. medics advised her family to switch off her life—support machine. they managed to control her condition for nine years, but then, she needed a lung and heart transplant. fewer than five children, across the uk, were on the double transplant waiting list at the time. hearts and lungs, in particular, need to be matched by size, so lilly was relying on a child organ donor. we've had a lot of difficult conversations, talking about her funerals, what she would like. this is my daughter's life. this will change her life, and give me my daughter back. a week after we filmed with lilly, she got the call. she was taken to great ormond street hospital, where the double transplant operation took over seven hours to complete. these were lilly's first breaths, with her new lungs. i feel very amazing, very happy. i didn't think i would survive without these new heart and lungs. getting more donors to help patients, like lilly, is the challenge. children can sign the organ donor register, and if they are competent to make that decision, then that should be given the same weight as if an adult had signed it. but obviously the final decision, as with adults, is with families, and, therefore, we need families to talk together about what those wishes are. geraint thomas, bbc news. hundreds of people have been protesting outside a church in antrim in northern ireland, which received millions of pounds in donations from the parent company of wrightbus. the bus—making firm went into administration, earlier this week, following financial problems leaving 1,200 people redundant. arejohn are john campbell. it was one of the most successful manufacturing employers, its most famous product was the new london route master that red double—decker but in recent years had been under increasing financial pressure and into administration at the end of last week costing more than 1,000 people at theirjobs. the reason that some of those workers were protesting outside that church today was to do with donations which that church received from wrightbus. this church is called green pastures, the this church is called green pastures, the leader is called jeff wright. he was also the controlling shareholder of wrightbus and in the years between 2012 and 2017, wrightbus donated more than £15 million to the green pastures church. what they were asking did these donations weaken the company and hasten the job losses? they want answers about how the company was run in recent years. the wright family who controlled it and said that they were not responsible for the fall of the business because the majority of the £15 million was donated at a time that wrightbus was returning good profits. what sank the company was a deep downturn in the uk bus market, demand for buses in the uk has been falling for the past two years. many of the workers were angry and that they do not fully have an expedition how this business was run in the last two years. john campbell. police in russia say 20,000 demonstrators have gathered at a protest in the centre of moscow in support of what they call political prisoners. it follows the imprisonment of a number of people linked to anti—government protests that took place ahead of moscow's recent local elections. our correspondent sarah rainsford has more. it's more than two months since these protests first began here in moscow. in the beginning they were about free elections for the moscow city parliament but since then the focus has shifted to the people, the protesters who were imprisoned. they call it the moscow case. there were 19 people who were charged with various offences taking part in the protest and many of them are still in custody, so people have come out with posters calling for theirfreedom, carrying posters with their faces on it, pictures of them and their names. basically the message of this protest is that those people must be freed and they also want the rest of society here in russia is not to forget that there are people still in prison but the interesting thing is the mood at these protests has begun to change because people, i think, feel invigorated somewhat, they feel stronger. they feel that their anger on the streets here is beginning to be heard and several of those people who were charged, protesters who were charged for taking part in these rallies have been freed from custody, had the charges dropped, and in russia that is almost unprecedented. some of them are being set free and i think that if more people come, maybe most of them will be out and will be given freedom. at least i hope. and i think it's also important to support them while they are imprisoned, to send them letters and come to hearings in the court. i think this summer protest represents a real challenge for the kremlin because there is very real anger here on the streets in russia, first of all about the elections themselves, about election rigging, and then about the police brutality resort those summer protests, and finally about the courts here in russia, which have begun sentencing people and convicting them for what these people believe is nothing at all. sarah rainsford. a bbc investigation into licenced puppy farming in west wales, has found widespread suffering and abuse of dogs, despite regular checks by vets and council inspectors. the year—long investigation found dogs in filthy and unfit conditions, in premises that were meant to be inspected at least once a year. wyre davies has this special report. west wales has been called the capital of puppy farming, worth more than £12 million each year in wales alone, and which produces around 211,000 puppies annually. but in a year—long investigation, we found appalling conditions in farm afterfarm, all council—approved businesses. dog lover danielle foley bought her new puppy, a beagle she called winston, from a licensed puppy farm in carmarthenshire after seeing him advertised online. she paid the breeder directly £650. but within days, winston had fallen seriously ill with parvovirus, a highly contagious disease that is often fatal. two o'clock in the morning, the vet rang my mum and said his organs are shutting down and it's going to be a slow and painful death, so can they make it quick and easy for him? the breeder who sold danielle the puppy told us he maintained excellent standards, even though inspection reports found problems with waste, poor record—keeping and the presence of parvo at his farm, yet it was still given a licence by the council. vets are part of the welfare system too, yet according to senior vets we showed our evidence to, some of their colleagues have been found wanting. the system is definitely broken and vets are an integral part of it. as a profession, we absolutely have a part to play. our responsibility is to the health and welfare of the animals under our care. across the uk, there are safeguards in place to regulate puppy farming. but when that system fails, it's dogs that suffer, and owners who can lose thousands of pounds. wyre davies, bbc news. and you can see more on this in bbc wales investigates — inside the uk's puppy—farm capital. that's tomorrow night at 8.30, on bbc one wales. it'll also be available, on the iplayer. now it's time for a look at the weather. there's been a good share of flooding this we can. flooding in rivers but also potentially around the coast because of high tides. and brisk winds for eastern counties of england. this area of pressure goes both ways. but things quiet down. the winds ease and there will be clear spells and miss patches. it will bea be a chilly night and showers across scotland. monday getting off to a decent start. some mist patches early on and then quite a lot of sunshine and showers bowing down from the north across scotland and we see this persistent rain attorney to wales. these areas could see further funding and travelling conditions. —— rain returning to wales. —— rain returning to wales. highs on wednesday between 12 and 1a degrees. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the prime minister insists he's been a "model of restraint" in his use of language about brexit. i certainly think everybody should calm down. including you? i think i've been a model of restraint, but i think everybody should calm down. at the start of the conservative party conference a key announcement is made on new funding for hospitals in england.

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