Within the next few minutes, the former conservative Home Secretary, James Cleverly, will try to win over his fellow conservative mps as he launches campaign to become leader of the party. Mr cleverly is one of the front runners to replace Rishi Sunak following the Conservatives Defeat atjuly s election. He is among six candidates vying for the job, and those candidates will be whittled down to four by the time of the conservative conference at The End of the month. After that, mps will carry out further rounds of voting to select two final candidates for the conservative members to choose between, with the result announced on 2nd november. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, vicki young, who joins us from westminster. Hello. Any hint as to what we are likely to hear from James Cleverly. I think he will talk about some specific policies. We can really say this Leadership Election has been rumbling along in the background over the summer. We have had a bit from all of the candida
Will go further. I will commit as Prime Minister to spend 3 of gdp on defence. Because you cannot penny pinch your way to peace. Security is delivered through strength, by planning for the worst, not hoping for the best. We will send a signal to our enemies and our allies alike that The Uk is prepared, that we will not leave the field. Just to put that commitment in perspective, we currently spend less than 2. 5 of our gdp on defence, but ten times that much on our health system, Welfare System and on pensions. Keir starmer says that we cannot afford to spend more on defence. I say we cannot afford not to. The second major challenge that faces us is global migration. We must restore our credibility on this issue, to win back the voters that switch to reform, the lib dems, Labour And those that stayed at home. As Home Secretary i delivered the reforms that are currently cutting net migration by half. I didnt talk tough, i took action. I negotiated with the chancellor, with the health se
right now on early start, the deal just brokered with hamas, israel and egypt to let foreign nationals get out of gaza. plus the idf defending its deadly strike on a crowded refugee camp. what israel says the intended target was. and just hours from now, in a new york courtroom, oldest son of donald trump could take the stand in a fraud trial against the family business. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, november 1. 5:00 a.m. on the east coast and we begin with breaking news, sources saying that deal has been reached to release all foreign nationals who have been stuck in gaza along with critically injured civilians. the sources say the deal is separate from any hostage negotiations. rafael romo is live for us in tel aviv. we ve just learned about this in the last hour or so. what more do we know about what happens next? reporter: good morning. first of all, we have to say that this agreement is as you mentioned befo
respondent that are critical to any legal evaluation of the situation, is the inherent right of any state to defend itself, embedded in customary international law and enshrined in the un charter, this right, afforded to states, reaffirms and underlines the responsibility of all states towards their citizens, and marks the acceptance by the international community and the political reality and legal confirmation that states when attacked, legitimately may respond in a forceful and proportionate manner. professor lowe yesterday to maintain that israel has no right to self defence in situation. how could anyone possibly argue that israel could not defend itself, faced with the 7th of october atrocities, and
the 7th of october atrocities, and the incessant attacks against civilians since. indeed, a very wide range of states have acknowledged the right of self defence here, ranging from the uk to the us, france, germany, italy and canada. israel, putting its case on the second day of this two day fearing at the international court of justice. israel responding to south africa s allegations that it is committing genocide in gaza. plenty more on bbc news throughout the day. stay with us. hello. we have got a window of slightly less cold weather for the next couple of days. we did not see such widespread ice and frost around this morning, certainly compared to earlier in the week. still quite chilly and cloudy for many of us. temperatures not as low as they have been. high pressure holding onto our weather. the winds rotating, coming in off the atlantic nd the