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BBCNEWS Afternoon Live July 14, 2024

He says he has done absolutely nothing wrong. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport damienjohnson. We are looking at cricket . Yes, a world record for eoin morgan, he gives england a huge total against afghanistan. I will talk to you later. You need to wipe that lens, phil thunderstorms, i will have all the details with you in the studio in just a few minutes. I will see you then, phil. Also coming up ion industry is told to put an end to the era of throwaway clothes and poor working conditions. Iam simon i am simon mccoy, good afternoon. The race to become conservative leader and Prime Minister intensifies in the next few hours with a second round of voting by mps on the six remaining candidates. Theyll be knocked out if they come last, or if they fail to secure at least 10 of the vote, thats 33 supporters. Those who get through will take part in a live bbc debate this evening. It will be a chance to scrutinise the frontunner borisjohnson, whos almost certain to make it through. Hes refused to take part in a tv debate at the weekend, and at a westminster hustings yesterday. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley reports. Who will win the race to call this place home . No shortage of ministers with eyes on the top job. Jeremy hunt wants it, so do michael gove and sajid javid. And rory stewart thinks he has got momentum in the race to succeed theresa may. Reporter are you feeling confident . I am feeling good, he replies. This is the man to beat. Reporter is it your race to lose, mrjohnson . Silent again leaving home this morning. But he is hoovering up support in parliament. I think he is the best placed to get us out of the eu at the end of october. So his view and mine is very closely aligned, there. And secondly, i do believe he is an election winner. I think he is someone who can bring the country and the party back together. This afternoon, in here, tory mps will hold their second vote. At least one leadership hopeful will drop out, and it could be more. Candidates will need the backing of 33 mps. Borisjohnson is safe. He is miles ahead. Jeremy hunt and michael gove should have enough support. But it will be close for rory stewart, sajid javid and dominic raab. Mr stewart admits it will be tight but he wants the opportunity to take on borisjohnson. Half the people in his campaign have got the impression that he intends to leave on the 31st of october with no deal. And the other half of the people in his campaign seem to have got the impression he is going for the softest of soft brexits. The reason it alarms me is that the only way we are going to have stability in our government, country and party is if people trust us. Sajid javid says his party needs to show it reflects modern britain. If we end up in a situation where the final two, three, four are people of similar backgrounds. Public school, oxbridge, all that . Yes. Itll look like a debate at the oxford union. Ijust dont think that is healthy for the tory party. Michael gove is adamant his bid to be pm has not run out of steam. A shower and a change of clothes later. I am feeling confident. I am looking forward to a good debate with the other candidates later and looking forward to making a case for a positive conservative vision, to ensure that we get a good brexit deal and that we reform this country for the better. Have i been overtaken by rory stewart . He certainly hopes not. Everyone who makes it through this afternoons vote will be here tonight for the bbc debate. It will be the first debate that borisjohnson has taken part in in public, and inevitably the other candidates will want to put pressure on the front runner over his brexit plans, over his policies, over what he wants to do in number 10. Tonight, voters across the uk will be let in on the debate. Policies will be tested, minds could change, even in a race where the result sometimes feels like a foregone conclusion. Nick eardley, bbc news. Our chief Political Correspondent vicky young is in parliament now. The clock is ticking to the next stage. Yes, the second round as mps try to decide who are the two candidates that are put forward for that ballot of all conservative Party Members. As you might imagine, a lot of scrambling around for votes. Boris johnson a lot of scrambling around for votes. Borisjohnson is so far out in front that everybody is vying for second place. Who is going to be his challenger . This afternoon we were speaking to representatives and supporters of all the other candidates and we will start with Robert Halfon who is supporting sajid javid. He is close to the bottom of the panel here because of what happened in the last round, there does not seem to be much in there does not seem to be much in the team behind him, how confident are you that sajid javid can get through . He did very well in the la st through . He did very well in the last round, he got 23 votes. We have had mps come over to us. We are confident he is going to do well this afternoon. Ijust had an mp stopped me before i came to this interview saying he is now going to support sajid javid. And his message, which is sort of telling the conservative party some home truths, and interesting to stick it where he talked about if the conservative party had kept the support that it had to black and ethnic minority voters, then actually they would have done much better in 2017. Does it take somebody like him though, he can be the messenger, but does it need to be him at the need to make that happen . He has made the point, does the contest want to be a kind of semifinal of university challenge, or does it want to reflect modern britain . We should notjust tolerate modern britain, we should be the party that loves modern britain. That reaches out to different communities and interesting the polling shows high recognition of boroughs, he scores incredibly higher. He speaks for modern britain. It is vital that is a proper contest, it is notjust between two different Public School ties, but actually somebody who went to bristol technical college, as sajid javid did, came from a humble background but embodies the concept of dream. Do you think it is a slight problem that paris is seen to be so far ahead . If you get your colleagues, there is a few of them backing borisjohnson to a year ago did not have a good word to say about him. It is a problem for the rest of the candidates because eve ryo ne rest of the candidates because everyone fixes going to be the winner . He is a big beast, he has been mayor of london and he has a big following in the party. What we are saying it there needs to be a proper contest, it is notjust about eating versus house, the semifinals of open university. Actually a real contest that reflects the best of the conservative party, the best of paris and the best of somebody like sajid javid who embodies that dream, who embodies modern britain who has struggled and worked his way up from nothing. The best of boris. More funding for schools and his record and colleges and will deliver that vital brexit. This has been really a brexit leadership contest, hasnt it, of course exit has yet to be delivered . What would you like to see the next leader doing beyond brexit, if there can never be a beyond brexit . Sajid javid has made the important point that we may look back and think brexit was the easy part, the real problems are beyond brexit, social injustice in our country, education, skills, we need affordable housing, we have a Million People living in overcrowded accommodation. Sajid javid has talked about that and knows it well, having lived where he grew up in a flat with two, even though they were a family of seven above other small shop. Of course dealing with social care. We have great issues, great issues facing out great issues, great issues facing our nation and we need to select a candidate that is notjust a sugar rush exit, better that is going to solve the problem and face the problem is that we face as a country. Rory stewart has cut three not with conservative Party Members, he has done something very different, hasnt he . Do you think that he is potentially taking support from sajid javid . That seems to be the talk amongst mps. We have identified the kind of people that are voting for robbery as people he went vote for robbery as people he went vote for sajid javid, there is a small constituency in the conservative party who want to stay in the european union, want a second referendum and do not want us to leave without a deal come what may. Those are the kind of people, a small amount, those are the kind of people that are voting for rory. Sajid javid has said is going to get brexit over the line and deal with other issues facing our country. I am not surprised that rory is getting the votes and he has held an original campaign. Thank you very much. All eyes at six oclock will be on the Committee Room as they read out the results. Whoever comes last does drop out of the race, plus anybody who does not make it to 33 votes. Thank you very much. And a reminder, you can watch the announcement of whos through to the next round at six oclock live on the bbc news channel. Then two hours later, its the first debate with all the candidates left standing for conservative leader and our next Prime Minister at 8 oclock this evening on bbc one. There is an update out a man who threw a metric at nigel farage. He has been ordered to carry out ive hundred and 50 hours of community service. He has been ordered to pay him £350 in compensation. This was the momentjust after the milkshake attack, it has become a term after the european parliamentary elections. The court was told by the prosecution at North Tyneside Magistrates Court that this is from the prosecutor, he said for the split second mr fudge would not have known whether it was a harmless liquid or something in this day and age far more sinister like mr farage. Thejudge took age far more sinister like mr farage. The judge took that into account and he told the court he was an act of crass stupidity. Numerous members of parliament have been subject to Death Threats and harassment, since the brexit,. The milkshake thrower said it was an active process against people like mr farage. Heathrow airport has published details of what it calls its masterplan for expansion, which will take place over 30 years and include a third runway by 2026. The proposals require diverting rivers, moving roads, and re routing the m25 through a tunnel under the new runway. Heathrows expansion has been highly controversial, particularly with local communities. The plans are now open to Public Consultation for three months. Our transport tom burridge reports. Its crowded at europes biggest airport. This is the queue to get off the tarmac. 99 of landing and take off slots at britains main airport are full. Not only are the planes queueing up to take off, theyre queueing up in the sky to get in. A plane will arrive or leave heathrow every 45 seconds. Its why heathrow says it needs a third runway. And this is what the airport hopes it will look like. The new runway will run over a new section of the busy m25. 761 homes will be demolished, their owners compensated. Local roads will be moved, rivers diverted. A new low emission zone around heathrow could mean additional charges for many vehicles. And the airport hopes it will be linked up to Great Western and southern rail. A third runway would potentially mean an extra 260,000 flights per year. Environmental groups say we should be containing air travel, not expanding it. We are in a Climate Emergency and heathrow is already the biggest Single Source of Greenhouse Gases in the uk. Its time we stop investing further into climate wrecking airports and invest in our railways and better transport networks. Noise pollution is also a major concern for local residents. Heathrow says it will increase by an hour and a half the period overnight when flights are not scheduled. It says its terminals and ground operations will be Carbon Neutral by next year. One of the things well be producing as part of the consultation today is our preliminary Environmental Impact assessment, which sets out the implications from an air quality, noise, and carbon perspective. They are really important factors and we have worked hard to make sure that we mitigate those. And, clearly, we wont be able to expand unless we deliver on those environmental limits. Heathrow says a third runway will boost our economy post brexit, with freight capacity greatly increased. It also plans to develop terminals 2 and 5 to cope with additional traffic. Like terminal 3s automated baggage zone, every part of heathrow is under pressure. But there is now a blueprint for expansion on the table. The airport hopes work will begin in 2022. Tom burridge, bbc news, at heathrow. With me now is Paul Beckford from the stop heathrow expansion campaign. Ido i do not need to ask you where you are coming on on this, but the proposals on limiting night flights and to bring their son gradually mitigate in some way the argument against the whole expansion . mitigate in some way the argument against the whole expansion . I am not sure they mitigate it in that regard, heathrow are doing that in stages because it makes it more affordable for them. The key point here is the sheer scale of what they are proposing, it is not adding on a ru nway to are proposing, it is not adding on a runway to a new epoch, it is adding a new apple and all the additional infrastructure adding a new airport. You describe it as blight, others describe it as opportunity. The country needs it as an infrastructure, it was a project that will provide manyjobs, there are huge positives that there is. Potentially, but i think if you look at the work the government has done and the economic proposal, they showed that over a six year period, when you cut the cost and the benefits are not just when you cut the cost and the benefits are notjust the greater the gdp, because in terms of the environment, you are looking at 3 billion over 60 years. There is a risk, cost of two 2 million to the economy as a result of this proposal. Do we work on the proposal that things can only get better in terms of impact on the environment . The plains will get quieter, they will become economically better value and less damaging to the climate . That has been some great work done by travellers, we looked at the proposal for electric aircraft and those in in the manufacture, 15 reduction in Carbon Emissions from a natural electric flights. Much of the car borne producers from the car is travelling to the apple, this is something they are aiming to target. Better public transport, less need to drive to the airport. They should put their money where their mouth is. This is not a cheap project. It is not, but they have a target of 45 of travelling public accessing the airport but this year they only had 41 . I do not think anyone can have faith that they will hit the targets as they indicate. It must be awful for anyone who is directly affected by this, and isnt there an argument, whatever the decision is, lets make a decision so those that will be blighted can act now . They have got time to do so. I think having information is important but the way he there engages with the local committees is quite aggressive in some instances, i think knowing it is coming does not make it any better. The destruction of committees that have been there for a long time, because you know that something is going to happen does not make the pain any more bearable. Is there any good in the proposal . Perhaps there is a nugget in that that i have not been able to take out just yet, i that i have not been able to take outjust yet, i will have to wait and see about that. In terms of the argument for a third runway, have they won that argument . Ido runway, have they won that argument . I do not think so, no. I think there are strong arguments in the climbing emergency we are facing, that we should be making use of existing ru nway should be making use of existing runway capacity. There is runway capacity otherwise to lock it into the south east, and we could be spending that in viable projects elsewhere. One local mp said he would lie in front of the first bulldozer that tried to do this, he could be the next Prime Minister. Potentially, yes. He apparently has changed his mind. I am not sure that is true, what was reported he was asked about it and he said parliament had voted for the proposal, which is true. I think that the statement of fact. I understand he is still committed to opposing it. That is something you would have to put him at the appropriate time, perhaps later this evening. If it was me doing it, i will pass it on. Thank you very much. Youre watching afternoon live, these are our headlines the next stage in the tory leadership and downing street. The party starts voting in a second ballot later this afternoon. Heathrow reveals the next stages in its Expansion Plans. Two teenage neo nazis who encouraged a attack on prince harry for manning and mixed race women jailed for terrorism offences. Sport, eoin morgan hit 17 sixes on his way to the century and a huge total for the hose against afghanistan. Newcastle united boss is the subject ofa Newcastle United boss is the subject of a £12 million offerfrom Newcastle United boss is the subject of a £12 million offer from the Chinese Super league club. Waiting on the weather of day two at queens club where brittons dan evans prepares to face his opponent. I will be back with more of those stories that have passed. The former head of footballs european governing body, Michel Platini, is being questioned by French Police over the awarding of the 2022 world cup to qatar. The decision to name qatar as host in 2010 has been dogged by allegations of corruption. Our Sports Correspondent jane dougall is in paris. Just tell us what is happening at the moment. It has been reported that Michel Platini was brought her to this building behind me, the ministry of the interior, and within that building of the Anti

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