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their trust in liz? voting has just closed in the campaign to be the next tory party leader and prime minister. as more cost of living payments start going out to households, we find out about another scheme to help struggling families. and andy murray is on court right now at the us open, one of four british men through to the third round. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel, in their first match since being crowned european champions, england are in austria as they look to...

more children could die. ill be joined by correspondence to discuss the conservative leadership contest in the crisis in ukraine and the departure from iraqi politics. stay with us on bbc news. hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after two months of campaigning, and eight initial candidates whittled down to two, well find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be t...

we start with news that will have implications for europes energy supply this winter. the russian energy giant gazprom says it has found a new problem in its key gas pipeline to europe, which had been due to reopen on saturday. gazprom says its detected an oil leak in a turbine on the nord stream one pipeline, meaning it will remain closed for an indefinite period. the pipeline has already been completely shut for three days for what gazprom described as maintenance work. moscow denies...

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, well 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. heres our political correspondent ben wright: after a long, rancorous campaign, its now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking t...

Impeachment is just going to be something that makes people feel good but doesnt accomplish anything and may have the opposite effect when it comes down to the ballot box. >> frank, speaking of democrats trying to get elected, joe biden is in the virgin islands and beto is headed to iowa. what do you make of these developments? >> maybe beto will announce before joe biden does. joe has all the time in the world. he wont use it all and democrats are getting impatient but shes a presumed frontrunn...