They say theyre protesting against racism in the us and he says theyre unpatriotic. Good morning. We bought more than £500 million worth ofjune last year, thats doubled in the last six yea rs, year, thats doubled in the last six years, so year, thats doubled in the last six years, so ive come to a distillery in london to find out why its booming jim. In sport, the rain stays away in bristol. Fifa have held talks with the home nations in time for matches in november to have poppies. And carol has the weather. Rain in central uk this morning, some of it heavy. In the west, although we have fog in Northern Ireland, that will lift and Western Areas today generally seeing sunshine. More details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Labour will set out to unite its members over brexit today as it looks to calm growing anger over the issues that will be voted on at the party conference. The shadow brexit secretary sir keir starmer will give a speech on the issue, but there will
Minister accuses President Trump of declaring war on his country. And, all eyes on the turner prize, as we look at the four nominees for one of the art worlds most prestigious awards. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Labours shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, has used his keynote Party Conference speech to announce a radical revision of the way labour would fund large scale building projects. Hes pledged that a future Labour Government would take control of so called private finance initiatives. It would mark a huge shift in policy. For 25 years, under both conservatives and labour, private companies have built hundreds of schools and hospitals and then been paid to maintain them. Mr mcdonnell described the amount of money going to these companies as a scandal. Heres our Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Any spare change. A couple of quid for the speech, but how much to take schools, hospitals, prisons, builtand run by private firms, back into public control . Jeremy corbyns best
Newsnight is coming up on bbc two. Heres mark urban. Tonight were in berlin, where having won the election at the weekend, Angela Merkel faces a tough challenge putting together a ruling coalition. And with the far right alternative for Germany Party doing so well, how will that impact the politics of germany and europe . Join me now on bbc two. Here on bbc one, its time for the news where you are. Hello and welcome to sportsday im hugh ferris. The headlines tonight. Gareth barrys record breaking night is ruined by arsenal, who beat west brom 2 0 at the emirates. Four defeats in a row forjohanna konta. Beaten at the wuhan open in china despite serving for the match. And 30 grand injust six days the british bobsleigh pilot who says shes powered by the people after reaching her funding target. Hello again, thanks forjoining us on sportsday. A record breaking night it may well have been for gareth barry but for the man whos now played more premier League Matches than anyone else there was
This was a Serious Business of management, and ashes series to plan for. Selectors showed their hand. In the case of ben stokes, a fractured hand. The legacy of a night out which turned into an arrest and bodily harm. England believe he will have recovered for the first ashes test match in november but that is still a criminal investigation into what went on in this area of bristol and englands own disciplinary inquiry. It is never a good thing to be able to deal with these situations in front of the tv camera and guys cant perform when things like this are hanging over their heads. Englands most successful former captain thinks ben stokes must change his behaviour. Hes on a different level and hes got a look in the mirror. No one else. What you needin in the mirror. No one else. What you need in australia is a clear run through exactly what is happening. Theyre not too sure what the best team is, there are issues with their best player, i think in terms of everything that could possib
Vin diesel returns for the eighth installment in the Fast And Furious series. Film criticjames king gives us his verdict on this and the rest of the weeks Cinema Releases. Our main story at 5 the Afghan Government says 36 militants from the so called Islamic State group were killed when the United States dropped one of its biggest non Nuclear Bombs in the Eastern Province of nanggarhar on thursday. The commander of us forces in Afghanistan Generaljohn Nicholson said the attack had been coordinated with the government in kabul, and that no civilians were harmed. But theres also been criticism former afghan President Hamid karzai condemned the bombing as inhuman. Our south asia editor Jill Mcgivering reports. This is american hard power in action. The moment the us dropped, for the first time, the biggest Non Nuclear Weapon it has. It was a moab, nicknamed the mother of all bombs, and it was targeting underground bases in eastern afghanistan, a stronghold of the so called Islamic State g