the opportunity of rishi sunak and brentjonnson the opportunity of rishi sunak and brentjonnson meeting the opportunity of rishi sunak and brentjonnson meeting today the opportunity of rishi sunak and brentjonnson meeting today is the opportunity of rishi sunak and brentjonnson meeting today is being talked this evening as the race for the new conservative party leader gathers pace. the bbc understands they were due to meet face to face at 3:30pm this afternoon but that was delayed. my colleague says the meeting may still go ahead later. rishi sunak has become the first leadership contender to secure the public support of 100 tory mps that s the number needed to enter the race to be the next conservative leader and prime minister. but he s yet to announce publicly whether he will bid for the top job after losing to liz truss last month. meanwhile, borisjohnson has flown home from a caribbean holiday, as his supporters claim he now also has 100 mps backing him, although ot
since the second world war. hello and welcome to bbc news. the possibility of rishi sunak and borisjohnson meeting each other today is being talked about this evening as the race to become the new conservative leader and prime minister gathers pace. the bbc understands they were due to meet face to face at 3:30 this afternoon but that was delayed although my colleague laura kuenssberg says the meeting may still go ahead later. mr sunak is the first leadership contender to secure the public support of 100 tory mps that s the number needed to enter the race. but he s yet to announce publicly whether he will bid for the top job after losing to liz truss last month. meanwhile, borisjohnson has flown home from a caribbean holiday, as his supporters claim he now also has 100 mps backing him, although others have said this is hogwash. so far, penny mordaunt is the only contender to have officially launched a campaign. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticas has mo
he has managed to track down the smuggler across europe to luxembourg. here s his story. excuse me, sir. andrew harding from bbc news. we ve come to luxembourg to confront a man we ve been chasing across europe. we know who you are, you re a smuggler. no. he s responsible for putting hundreds of people in small boats heading from france to england. and responsible for one boat in particular. this one. we came across it back in april on a beach in northern france. police, battling with a group of smugglers. chaos as people clambered onto the boat. we saw a girl here in a pink coat. she was one of five to die at the scene. her name was sara, seven years old, born in belgium, raised in sweden. a few days later, we found her father, ahmed, an iraqi man consumed by grief and also by guilt. but what of the smugglers? multiple sources tell us the man paid to arrange sara s journey is still active and working from a distant city. so we ve come now to antwerp, a city in northern bel
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Who was so close to George Michael they described themselves as cousins at 9 15am. And well meet one of britains most prolific organ donors whos already donated a kidney, 16 eggs and 80 pints of blood to people shes never met and plans to do much, much more. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11am. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. We will bring you the latest news and stories throughout the day. What do you want to hear theresa may say in her Big Brexit Speech which is due at around 1145, you will see that on bbc news. If you have donated an organ, tell us if you have donated an organ, tell us what motivated you. If you have received a strangers organ, tell us about that as well. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story. The Prime Minister will this morning set out her vision for the terms of the uks departure from the European Union. Theresa may has a list of 12 demands fo