Hello. This is bbc news with martine croxall. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment, first the headlines. Labours leaders apologise for the partys crushing defeat in last weeks general election Jeremy Corbyn and the shadow chancellor take the blame. Its on me, lets take it on the chin, i own this disaster so i apologise, i apologise to all those wonderful labour mps who have lost their seats who have worked so hard. Nicola sturgeon renews her call for a second referendum on scottish independence, saying the people of scotland mustnt be kept in the union against their will. The Climate Change talks in madrid end with a compromise agreement to toughen up carbon cutting pledges before the next conference. A british man has been killed and his step son wounded, after being shot during a suspected robbery in buenos aires. England cricketeer ben stokes wins bbcs Sports Personality of the year. Jack black is back injumanji and the next level. See what mark kermode make
Now got to leave the stage. Im shaun ley with todays other headlines. Faster journeys, news routes and more trains its all change on the railways from tomorrow. Protesters against italys far right party the league gather in rome, for whats expected to be the biggest demonstration yet by grassroots activists, that call themselves the sardines. And at 3 30pm therell be an electioncast special, when adam fleming and the team look back at yesterdays result. Thats coming up here on the bbc news channel. Good afternoon. The Prime Minister is visiting the north east of england, where a surge of support for the conservatives in traditional labour seats helped his party to its biggest election win in 30 years. Boris johnson met supporters in newly conservative sedgefield, tony blairs old constituency. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn is coming under increasing pressure to resign immediately after his party suffered its worst Election Results since the 1930s. Our report from matt cole contains som
Very bullish and effervescent Boris Johnson with a big majority to play with. This is our election special. Good afternoon. You join us live in westminster where borisjohnson is beginning a new term as Prime Minister after the conservatives won their biggest majority since 1987. The tory leader returned to downing street earlier after visiting Buckingham Palace to ask the queen for permission to form a government. Overnight his gamble to hold a december election paid off. He now has a majority of 78 and a mandate, he says, to leave the eu. With this mandate and this majority we will at last be able to do what . Get brexit done labour perfomed poorly, losing 59 seats many of them in places theyve held for decades. Jeremy corbyn says hell stand down as leader early next year. I think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing and i wont do that. I will stay here until there has been somebody elected to succeed me and then i will step down at that point. A strong
Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The 39 people found dead, in a refrigerated lorry, in essex are believed to be chinese nationals. Police are yet to confirm that, and are still in the process of trying to identify them. Paramedics made the discovery shortly before 2am on wednesday, sparking one of the uk biggest murder inquiries. Police say the lorrys cabin came via holyhead. Officers, in Northern Ireland, have raided two houses and the National Crime agency said it was working to identify organised crime groups who may have played a part. The lorry driver, mo robinson, from county armagh, has been arrested on suspicion of murder by essex police. Prosecutors in belgium have, this morning, announced that the trailer arrived in zeebrugge, on wednesday afternoon. In zeebrugge, on tuesday afternoon. It then left, the same day, en route to the uk and arrived in purfleet, on the river thames, where it then left the port, shortly after 1am, on yesterday morning. A0 minutes later, p