hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after 2 months of campaigning, and 8 initial candidates whittled down to 2, we ll find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader and so prime minister. here s our political correspondent ben wright: after a long, rancorous campaign, it s now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he is backing liz truss, presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we havejust come through a pandemic. but this economy is resilient. how will they handle soaring inflation? i borisjohnson s ejection from office injuly triggered a stampede of wannabe successors. tory mps had the job of picking two final candidates. sunak,
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As a mediator between israel and hamas, more than six months into the war. Qatar has had a key role, along with egypt and america, in trying to secure a ceasefire between israel and hamas and the release of israeli hostages. But doha says its efforts were being undermined by politicians seeking to score points. Take a listen to qatars Prime Minister. Translation unfortunately we have i seen that there has been an abuse | of this mediation in favour of narrow political interests. This means that the state of qatar has called for a comprehensive evaluation of its role. We are now at the stage to evaluate mediation and also evaluate how the parties engage in this mediation. European Union Leaders have agreed to tighten sanctions on iranian producers of drones and missiles in the wake of tehran s unprecedented attack on israel on saturday night. The president of the European Council says its important to do everything to isolate iran. Tensions in the region remain high with israels Prime M
We have seen that there has been an abuse of this mediation in favour of narrow political interests. This means that the state of qatar has called for a comprehensive evaluation of its role. We are now at the stage to evaluate mediation and also evaluate how the parties engage in this mediation. European Union Leaders have agreed to tighten sanctions on iranian producers of drones and missiles in the wake of tehran s unprecedented attack on israel on saturday night. The president of the European Council says its important to do everything to isolate iran. Tensions in the region remain high with israels Prime Minister insisting his country will make its own decisions about how to respond to irans drone and missile attack. Israels western allies fear striking back against iran could trigger a broader war. For more on qatars role in brokering a truce between israel and hamas, i spoke to our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. Qatar has played a key role along with egypt, with us inv
This was one of a series of coordinated raids, targeting cybercrime in 17 countries, masterminded from the uk. One man was arrested here and 23 others around the uk. And this all began about two years ago when Security Experts for the Banking Industry spotted on the dark web criminals offering other criminals a service a way to make money using phishing with a ph. Labhost provided the technology and training for other criminals to carry out Phishing Attacks sending fraudulent Text Messages to get people to hand over their personal data. The police say there were an estimated 70,000 victims in the uk, bombarded with messages linking to 47 fake websites usually seeming to be online payment or shopping services. 480,000 Payment Card Numbers have been stolen and 64,000 pin numbers. And if you thought only older or less technically savvy people get scammed, well, youd be wrong. The victims in this case have been aged between about 25 and a5, predominantly. Pretty young, then. Digital native