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Rebecca jones. Im here at the British Library to guide you through five moments in chinese history that helped shape the country. Well meet an archaeologist whos worked on the Terracotta Army site for decades. A man who took part in the student protests at Tiananmen Square, and a former red guard. But our first witness is sidney rittenberg. He visited china as a gi during world war ii and stayed on. He joined the communist party. And during chinas civil war, he got to know the revolutionary leader, chairman mao. He was so idolised. And it was so impossible to criticise him. He finally convince...

He says grass roots supporters will dominate the conference, meaning some shadow cabinet members and labour mayors wont get the chance to speak from the main stage. 0ur deputy Political Editor john pienaar reports from brighton. You would never know he had lost the election, but to the labour army of corbyn supporters, he is a winner the leader who ran the tories close when few believed he was a winner at all. Their leader, who is now setting about shifting power from the mps who often doubted him to the grass roots members, many of whom trusted him and bought into his socialist vision from th...

From Late Wednesday onwards. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, resists calls from within his own party to commit to keeping britain in the european Single Market and Customs Union indefinitely after brexit. The important priority is to ensure that we have a tariff free trade access to the european market. Half of all our trade is with europe. I would also say that we need to look very carefully at the terms of any trade relationship. Shadow home secretary diane abbott says labour would recruit thousands of new police officers, accusing the government of t...

With their annual conference beginning in brighton today, 30 labour mps were among those who signed a letter, urging the party to pledge to stay in. But mr corbyn told the bbc, that a future labour governments ability to protectjobs could be hampered by Single Market membership. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. More a Victory Party than a conference. The song, and thousands upon thousands of members, dedicated to him. Hes the winner here, even though labour did not win the election. Its third conference lucky forjeremy corbyn. At last, safe and secure in his seat. The steam is ri...

Of the front pages on the early editions of the papers. No single story as dominating. The times leads on the plight of the british woman being held in iran. The paper says she is in torment after being separated from her child. That is Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe. The guardian leads on comments from one of britains top Counter Terror police officers. Neil basu says the governments austerity measures are endangering national security. Turning to the Daily Telegraph and claims that charities are getting round a ban on sending begging letters to elderly people. The fundraising regulator says they ...