hello and welcome. after two months of campaigning, eight candidates and thousands of votes, in just a few hours time either liz truss or rishi sunak will be named the new leader of the conservative party and britain s next prime minister. they ll officially take up that post tomorrow, bringing borisjohnson s three year premiership to an end. our political correspondent iain watson has this report. iam i am always going to respond to support people through it. i support people through it. i would reverse the increase in national would reverse the increase in national insurance. the would reverse the increase in national insurance. national insurance. the nhs will be safe national insurance. the nhs will be safe in national insurance. the nhs will be safe in my national insurance. the nhs will be safe in my hands! - national insurance. the nhs will be safe in my hands! i. will be safe in my hands! i want everybody across our great country want everybody across our g
i call upon the wales heralded arms extraordinary thomas lloyd and the lord lieutenant to will read the proclamation . [ reading proclamation ] you reign to bless his majesty for long and happy years to reign over us given at st. james palace on the 10th day of september in the year of 2022. god save the king! long live our liberty, god save our king three cheers for his majesty the king! hip hip hooray! hip hip hooray! hip hip hooray! as we watch these pictures play out, these are public proclamation announcing the ascension of the new monarch. the first one was one from cardiff wales and they were speaking welsh and this is a repeat of what we saw yesterday, the public proclamation of the new monarch and it is a traditional ceremony. and it also signals a return to the flags being at full staff, right, until they return to half mast to mourn the death of queen elizabeth ii. we re seeing all of it. there s another ceremony we di
spells, although more cloud the further north you are, all the details shortly. it s sunday, june 2nd. our main story. sir keir starmer has pledged to cut levels of legal migration to the uk, if labour wins the general election. in a newspaper interview he set out plans to prioritise british workers and crack down on businesses that break employment laws. the conservatives said no one believed the labour leader was serious about tackling immigration. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the latest. every year, people come to the uk to live, work or study. last year, net migration that s the difference between the number of people arriving and the number of people leaving was 685,000. sir keir starmer, who launched his election battle bus yesterday, has previously said that s too high. now he s promised to cut that number if labour wins the election, though he hasn t said by how much or by when. he told the sun on sunday newspaper read my lips, i will bring immig
in jerusalem. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is scheduled meet with several arab leaders today as the u.s. tries cool tensions in the middle east. blinken is in amman, jordan where he will meet with his counterparts from jordan, egypt, saudi arabia, the united arab emirates and qatar. a palestinian authority will also be in attendance. the trip comes after he met with israeli leaders in an attempt to get them to agree to humanitarian pauses in the war against hamas. we need to do more to protect palestinian civilians. we ve been clear that as israel conducts his campaign to defeat hamas, how it does so matters. it matters because it s the right and lawful thing to do. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is refusing the idea of a cease fire, saying the more than 240 hostages still held by hamas must be released first. the united states would not agree to a cease fire after, the bombing of pearl harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11. israel will not agree to