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good morning. the conservative leadership contender, michael gove, has said he will look at replacing vat with a lower, simpler sales tax if he becomes prime minister. the environment secretary also says he wants to review business rates. mr gove‘s attempt to focus on policy issues follows his admission that he took cocaine more than two decades ago. he ll be answering questions later this morning on the andrew marr programme. meanwhile, his rival, borisjohnson, has given his first major interview since the leadership contest began. our political correspondent, susana mendonca, is here. the headlines in today s papers painful reading from michael gove. very much so. he wants to talk about policy, he knows he is one of the frontrunners in this race and he wa nts to frontrunners in this race and he wants to stay up there, but it is becoming quite difficult to talk about anything else, really, because he has faced these questions over drug taking, we understand that he t ....
charted that right course by making sure that we have a deal which honours the referendum mandate. a 54 year old shop worker has been stabbed to death in north west london following a robbery earlier this morning. police say the till was stolen from the newsagents in pinner. a cruise liner that ran into trouble off the coast of norway has reached port, after hundreds of passengers were winched to safety. and at 11:30pm, we will be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, martin bentham, home affairs editor for the evening standard, and bonnie greer, playwright and writer at the new european. stay with us for that. good evening. a two year investigation into russian interference in the 2016 us presidential election has concluded that there is no evidence of conspiracy with moscow by members of donald trump s campaign team. a summary of special counsel robert mueller‘s report was released this afternoon by the us attorney general, william barr. here are ....
now on bbc news it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. a record breaking crowd at the emirates as arsenal hammer north london rivals tottenham in the womens super league. northern ireland come from behind to beat kosovo. it s cruel but it counts. india beat england s women with a controversial mankad to clean sweep the one day series. tears ofjoy for british cyclist zoe backstedt who s on top of the world after retaining a title down under. hello there and welcome along to sportsday. and an historic day for women s football. with a record attendance at the emirates, for the north london derby between arsenal and tottenham in the women s super league. the home side in total control as they continue their emphatic start to the season. jane dougall reports. always an electric atmosphere at a north london derby and this one magnified by the 10,000 strong crowd. a new record in the women s super league. not long before they were ....
violent anti government protests continue in iran. police have arrested more than 700 people at least 35 people have been killed. world powers condemn the self styled referendums being held in parts of ukraine on whether to join russia. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has arrived in liverpool ahead of the start of the party s annual conference. he s condemned the package of tax cuts unveiled yesterday, economics , which he says are gambling with the finances of every family in the country. the government insists its package of measures, including scrapping the top rate of income tax, will help kickstart economic growth. here s our political correspondent, iain watson. labour has been out of power for more than a decade but they now believe their political fortunes could be turning around. just as their party conference gets under way, liz truss has made the political dividing lines with the opposition far more stark. applause arriving in liverpool, the labour ....
brexit for all our people, one that offers security to workers in the car industry worried about their future, hope to families struggling to pay the bills and opportunities to pay the bills and opportunities to young people wanting a decentjob and the home of their own. these are the people we are thinking of and working for. it is a very different story around the mahogany table in chequers. the government seems much more concerned about cutting deals with each other for their friends and funders from the city of london. labour is looking for a brexit that puts the working people first leaving the eu, whatever that exit the ends, risks delivering a shock to the economy and less the right plans and protections are in place. to allow the kind of investment and economic transformation programme the country needs and that labour is committed to. for 45 years of economy has become increasingly linked to the european union and many of our laws and regulations set and monito ....