we ll also look at the crisis in sri lanka. the president has confirmed he will step down after protesters stormed his palace. and we ll look at twitter s share price, which has fallen welcome to college green in front of parliament, where the process of selecting a new leader of the conservative party and new prime minister is under way. if i m occasionally glancing this way and that, sir graham brady, the committee chair, will be speaking in the next few minutes. he will outline the rules of the tory party leadership contest. bear in mind since thursday, effectively that contest began. we still don t know precisely how that will work. what we do know is what the stages of the contest will be. first, each candidate will need to find a number of conservative mps to back them. in previous contests, it was eight. this time, it could be as high as 20. then the 358 conservative mps will vote for their favourite candidates in a series of elimination rounds. let s speak to our poli
Declared a major incident. It said its treating several people. About 50 others were assessed at the scene. Police were called to the m53 motorway in the wirral near liverpool just after eight oclock, when the incident happened. The road has been closed ever since. Chief superintendent Graeme Robson confirmed that a girl and the driver were killed. Emergency services were called to report of an overturned bus on the m53 atjust after 8 00 this morning. We can confirm that the bus was a school bus taking pupils to west kirby and calder Grammar Schools on the will. We understand there were 5a people, including the driver on the bus and sadly i can confirm that the driver and a 14 year old Schoolgirl Have died. Two children were taken from the scene to alder hey Childrens Hospital. 50 of the children were taken to an Emergency Training centre where they were medically assessed. And eight of those children have been taken to the Countess Of Chester and arrowe park hospitals. Our thoughts an
Control of the ryder cup after an Astonishing First Day in italy set p Astonishing First Day in italy set up by Astonishing First Day in italy set up by a perfect morning session. And their dominance was set up by a perfect morning session. Europe were already 1 0 up when debutant ludvig aberg, alongside viktor hovland, earned his first ryder cup point. That shot from hovland on the Opening Hole Setting the pair up for victory against max homa and brian harman. European pair shane lowry and sepp straka added a third before this tee shot from rory mcilroy helped him and partner Tommy Fleetwood make it 4 0 in the morning session something thats never been done before. Putting them on course for an incredible spark. And mcilroy was then part of an incredible pair in the afternoon. He and Matt Fitzpatrick beat Collin Morikowa and Xander Schauffele five and three thanks to an incredible performance from fitzpatrick, whos putting helped europe win six out of the first seven holes. But, team