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three will become two — conservative mps in the uk get set to vote on the final candidates who will go on to fight it out to become the party's leader and the country's next prime minister. italy's prime minister, mario draghi, faces a confidence vote — in a political crisis that could bring down his government and trigger early elections. and the moment when the parents of britain's newest world athletics champion saw him win gold at the world championships in oregon. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. the uk is coping with the aftermath of dozen...

hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we start on wall street where stock markets have suffered their worst first half of the year in more than five decades. as of the close on thursday, the s&p 500 index of top us firms has lost more than 20% between january and june, a sell—off on a scale not seen since 1970 when president nixon was in the white house. for the tech—dominated nasdaq, it's been even worse — a near 30% fall for the first half is the worst in its history. from new york, samira hussain has more. the sell—off of the stock market over the ...

a faster downturn than other countries and interest rates could rise again. there are growing concerns about a "growing shortage" of family doctors in england, as a new study predicts a quarter of posts could be vacant by 2030. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. the uk will provide an extra billion pounds of military aid to ukraine, almost doubling the amount of support provided to fight the russian invasion. it's after president zelensky urged nato leaders to give more help to the country, saying the war effort was costing more than £4 billion pound...

time for a look at the weather. here's louise lear. look at this weather watcher picture from glastonbury. thank you very much. bright skies but clouding over a little and there could be showery rain later. highland scotland, glorious here at the moment. doesn't that beach look very inviting chris make the best of the sunshine has been to eastern scotland, eastern england as well. thicker cloud, rain starting to push into cornwall and into south wales, eventually towards glastonbury as well. ahead of that, some heat and humidity. to the east of the pennines, we could see sharp, thund...

if we can negotiate a deal this week, it can be, but otherwise we'll have to look at what campaigns we are going to put on going forward, and we think that other unions are going tojoin us in this dispute on the railway, and more broadly in society. it wasn't the employers that called the strike action. we wanted rmt. .. we wanted to do reform earlier. they have been discussing it with us, but they have not came forward with meaningful reform. in other news — ukraine is on verge of losing control of the key city of severodonetsk, its troops have been pushed back to just one factory...