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good evening and welcome to bbc news. the contest to become the uk s next prime minister is reaching its climax tonight with the last leadership hustings in london. for the last six weeks conservative party members who will have the final choice have been listening to the contenders, foreign secretary liz truss and former chancellor rishi sunak. the voting closes on friday and by next tuesday the queen will appoint one of them as herfifteenth prime minister though in a break with tradition this will take place at balmoral and not at buckingham palace. in the past hour the two candidates have been setting out their stall to party members at tonight s event hosted by lbc. we all know that we face difficult times. we have the appalling war in ukraine perpetrated by putin, we have an energy crisis, we have the aftermath of covid. and we have had two decades of relatively low growth in this country. so what we can t have is business as usual. we need to be bold and we need ....
of its coverage. now, emily is not able to join us on this edition, but we will hear from jon sopel. we re also going to hear from deano sophos, the man behind this new podcast, someone the times has called the new prince of podcasts. deano, good to have you on the programme. that s quite a title to live up to. thanks, ros. yeah, well, it s nice to, nice to talk to you. yeah, it s look, it was a lovely piece and a shock to have a profile in the times. but, you know, ithink what i did at the bbc in terms of launching brexitcast, which was our first hit podcast, and then americast withjon and emily and then the daily newscast. i mean, overthe time i was there at the bbc, they accrued 85 million downloads. so i think what i created at the bbc was successful and has enabled us to launch what we re doing here on the news agents. and just quickly, you re sitting here, you werejust explaining before we came on air, you are just signing off your second episode. give us a 30 sec ....
good morning. high pressure is firmly in charge of our weather so things are fairly settled. sunny spells, just a few showers, warm it tomorrow and an increased chance of rain for friday. all the details later in the programme. it s tuesday the 30th of august. the united nations will lead a global appeal today to help pakistan cope with the devastating floods which have left a third of the country under water and killed more than 1,100 people. provinces like sindh and balochistan in the south are the worst affected but mountainous regions in the north west have also been badly hit. the crisis is not over yet as heavy rain continues and water surges down the indus river. our reporter sean dilley has the latest details. in some parts of pakistan, it s been relentless. more than 33 million people have been affected by flooding in the country s heaviest rain for more than a decade. this year s monsoon season has claimed well over 1,100 lives since june. more than 3,50 ....
time in a week. the lift off of the giant rocket was postponed after the discovery of a much larger fuel leak, than the one that prevented the first launch. now on bbc news, the media show. hello and welcome to this week s the media show. now, we re going to talk about news podcasts this week. there s been a very high profile launch. it s called the news agents. it s from global, and it s presented byjon sopel and emily maitlis, both big figures at the bbc before they left to set this up. emily maitlis has also been in the news because she gave a mactaggart lecture in which she raised concerns about how the bbc is approaching some parts of its coverage. now, emily is not able to join us on this edition, but we will hear from jon sopel we re also going to hear from deano sophos, the man behind this new podcast, someone the times has called the new prince of podcasts. deano, good to have you on the programme. that s quite a title to live up to. thanks, ros. yeah, well, it ....
showers breaking out, a bit hit and miss. downpours and towards south west england and wales as the afternoon goes on. all of that fading northwards overnight and into tuesday morning, or you can see a pushing into northern ireland during monday evening. it won t be a wash out, but rain and showers in places. when the other times, too. slowly turning a little truer and less humid. windy at other times, too. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. police investigating the murder of nine year old olivia pratt korbel in liverpool last month have arrested two men, one of them on suspicion of murder. the conservative leadership favourite, liz truss, pledges immediate action on energy bills during her first week in office, if she becomes prime minister. ukrainian families close to europe s largest nuclear power plant say they re living in fear despite the arrival of un monitors. donald trump calls president biden an enemy of the state at his first rally since the fbi ....