29/06/2016 BBC News at Ten

A challenge to the Labour leader, a former Shadow Cabinet Minister

will stand against Jeremy Corbyn tomorrow.

Attending a rally of supporters this evening, Mr Corbyn defies

the growing numbers calling on him to stand down.

The BBC understands Angela Eagle, formerly Shadow Business Secretary,

will now formally challenge him for the leadership.

In the Commons, the Prime Minister adds his voice to those calling

It might be in my party's interest for him to sit there, but it's not

The unions give their backing to Jeremy Corbyn, for now.

Also tonight: And then there were just 27.

EU leaders meet, without Britain, to discuss how to proceed after

The Istanbul airport attack. The moment one of the gunmen just before

he detonates a suicide belt. Remembering the Battle of the Somme.

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Find out if England successfully

chase down 308 in just 42 overs to win the rain-interrupted fourth

one-day international against Sri Lanka.

After days of pressure, including a vote of no confidence

and over 40 Shadow Cabinet resignations, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn

The BBC has been told that the former Shadow Business

Secretary, Angela Eagle, will announce she's standing

Mr Corbyn faced more calls to resign today from his own Deputy,

from the former Labour leader, Ed Miliband, and -

highly unusually - from the Prime Minister.

This evening, Mr Corbyn attended a rally of his supporters

Our deputy political editor, John Pienaar, has the latest.

And off to work he goes. This is as calm as it gets for Jeremy Corbyn

just now, pushed about, everyone asking when he will give up and go.

Good morning, everybody, nice to see you all. There is nothing good about

the Labour leader's day today or any day. It keeps getting worse. There's

a Polish centre to visit with Tom Watson. Everybody already knew his

deputy wanted him to quit but he was doing business as usual. Today,

condemning hate crime. We as a society will prosecute those people

that commit hate crimes. Thank you very much. Over this way, thank you

so much. Time for that brief sentiment before he is hauled off by

his staff before reporters can ask about his struggling leadership.

Later Tom Watson went public, he wouldn't challenge for the

leadership but MrCorbyn had to go. My party is in peril. We are facing

an existential crisis. I just don't want us to be in this position

because I think there are millions of people in the country who need a

left-leaning Government, who can give people opportunity and right

now we are not doing that. There is a challenger waiting,

Angela Eagle who joined the mass resignation of ministers will

declare her Danned Cassie tomorrow. Caps -- candidacy. They're going

down like nine pins... Angela Eagle is offering herself as an

experienced hand, she was elected in 1992 and one capable of reuniting

the party. She served as Minister under John Prescott and Gordon Brown

and then in the Shadow Cabinet until she joined the coup intended to

bring down Jeremy Corbyn. She's one of the first women MPs to come out

as gay. Her twin sister, also resigned. For Jeremy Corbyn it's

been a bad day at the office. He has never faced demands from so high up

or before such a laughing stock just for being in the Commons. Jeremy

Corbyn. Thank you, MrSpeaker. The Prime Minister has two months left.

Will he leave a one-nation legacy? He talks about job insecurity and my

two months to go. It might be in my party's interests for him to sit

there, it's not in the national interests and I would say for

heaven's sake man, go! That must have hurt but it got worse when his

own past leader, never an open critic until now, piled in too. I

have come to the conclusion, very reluctantly, that Jeremy Corbyn's

position is untenable. This is a time of acute national crisis.

People from all wings of the party in parliament have lost confidence

in Jeremy. Sadly, I believe he has to go. Some of your colleagues seem

genuinely afraid that this civil war, which is now under way, could

end in the Labour Party being broken irrepairably. Do you share that

fear? I think there is huge risks to the Labour Party, obviously, of the

divisions that we see. Such as what? I care more about the risks to the

country. There is a vacuum of leadership in the country at the

moment. People, the public, I think will look very badly on us if we

carry on with a leader that doesn't have the support of most other

parliamentary party and we just have division. Trade union support is

crucial to Mr Corbyn and tonight four big unions called a challenge

unnecessary but also said MPs should unite around whoever won. Tonight,

at a pro-Corbyn rally his chief lieu teenant was getting the --

lieutenant was getting the campaign started early. I am not going to

give thaup hope of a socialist society built in this country or be

bullied out of it by a group of Labour MPs who refuse to accept

democracy in our party. For MrCorbyn, evidence as if it was

needed, of the deep divisions in the party. What about... Last week...

What about Europe, where were you when we needed you? It's just the

start thchlt battle for the party's leadership and its future will be

truly painful for Labour in the weeks ahead. It's just the start.

The battle for the party's leadership and its future will be

truly painful for Labour in the weeks ahead and long afterwards.

Well the Conservative leadership battle is also under way.

The Work and Pensions Secretary, Stephen Crabbe, has become

the first to confirm that he will stand for party leader

He was followed by the former Defence Secretary, Liam Fox.

Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Theresa May are also

expected to confirm they'll join the race.

Nominations close at midday tomorrow.

Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has more.

Politics is being pulled apart before our eyes

This afternoon, the rules of the contest to be the next

Prime Minister have been decided but it's Tory MPs, then party

members who will choose who will be in charge.

The favourite - the biggest winner of last week -

Boris Johnson, who can always pull a crowd.

But in a moment of crisis is a politician who sometimes

is accused of cartoonish behaviour the right choice?

I think Boris Johnson has the ability to reach out to people.

He secured a massive mandate as part of the Leave campaign.

I think over the coming months we need to talk about all the other

Looking increasingly cheery, his main rival, the Home

MPs say her serious style is picking up support.

I want somebody who's got a clear track record of leadership,

of making decisions and delivering at the very top level.

And somebody who's got a record of delivering on that

and Theresa May's absolutely got that for me and she's got that focus

and determination and the sincerity that I want to see

Enter the first candidate to launch openly.

Stephen Crabb, now in charge at Work and Pensions.

I was brought up to understand that nothing gets handed

On the rainy rugby fields of West Wales I learned that it's

not a question of waiting for the ball to pop out

If you want it, you do what's required.

From a different generation and a different background

He says he'd get back control of immigration and have close

trading relationships with the rest of the EU but he'd put together

a cross-party group to work out the detail.

Do you really think that members of the Tory Party and then members

of the public will be looking to someone who,

with respect, has been in the Cabinet for two years

There isn't anyone around the Cabinet table at the moment

who's got the full range of experience to be able to deal

with the unique set of problems in front of it and nobody's got

a play book or a manual with all the clear instructions

We are in unchartered waters but that is why you need somebody

with the right values, the right sense of the need

Isn't the truth you're putting a marker down for

When Margaret Thatcher ran to lead the Conservative Party she had only

been in the Cabinet two years as Education Secretary.

David Cameron had never been in the Cabinet.

Yes, I am one of the younger ones around the Cabinet table but that's

no bad thing in an age when we are actually having to think

about issues of intergenerational fairness to reconnect with those

people up and down our country who look at all of us in Westminster

now and don't believe a single word any of us say.

Anyone else who wants the most important seat at this table has

to confirm their bid tomorrow but in the end it

will be Tory Party members, not the rest of us,

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

Our deputy political editor, John Pienaar,

I can't recall a time when there have been two leadership contests in

the two main parties at the same time. Let's talk about the

Conservative one first. An e-mail has surfaced which shed light on the

situation with Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. That's right. Boris

Johnson starts the race way ahead arguably on charisma and popular

appeal and his launch tomorrow will be an optimistic vision of Britain's

future. But his vulnerabilities and weaknesses are discussed behind the

scenes in the Tory Party. It's possible they could rather dog him

through the campaign. You will recall he teamed up about with

Michael Gove, they both joined the Leave campaign. An e-mail has

emerged written by Michael Gove's wife Sarah Vine in which she warns

her husband to get a clear promise of a job from Boris Johnson early

on, which suggests rather a lack of trust. She also suggests that the

media moguls Rupert Murdoch and Paul Dacre dislike Boris Johnson. The

Home Secretary, Theresa May, will start the race as well tomorrow.

She's likely to contrast her experience with Boris Johnson. She

will be the candidate of a safe pair of hands which could suggest that

Boris Johnson is more show than substance. This contest is easy to

imagine it could become personal and even nasty from the start. Then a

challenge to the Labour leader tomorrow, Jeremy Corbyn insists he

can stay on, can he? He says he will hang on in there. As we start this

contest, because we start it tomorrow, it's going to be a very,

very bloody affair. The thing you hear most from Labour MPs is that

it's an existential contest and they mean that it will tear the Labour

Party apart. That's a given. Also, that they may not be able to put the

parts back together afterwards, that we could see a split on the lines of

the physical tear that took place in 1980s, only worse and more

permanent. Angela Eagle will join the contest. There are others behind

her like Owen Smith, who was in the Shadow Cabinet and resigned, as

well, and even Yvette Cooper, who rather fancy their chances too. It

will be maybe more brutal than the Tory contest but I guess these are

ambitious figures too and they seem keen to join in the race. We shall

see, thank you. Let's take a brief look at some

of the day's other news stories. There have been signs of recovery

in the markets today as the FTSE. 100 regained all the ground it lost

in the wake of the vote The share index closed up 3.6%

after a flurry of The pound is also up

against the US dollar, but remains well below levels

reached before the referendum. One of the Home Office's top civil

servants, Oliver Robbins, has been appointed to run

the new unit which will oversee The unit - which will be part

of the Cabinet Office - will provide facts and options

to help the next Prime Minister The French Interior Minister has

said that the vote to leave the EU will not affect the border agreement

between France and Britain. The Le Touquet accord keeps

British border checks - and many migrants -

on the French side of Some French politicians had called

for it to be scrapped. There was an uncompromising message

from Brussels today, as 27 European Union leaders wrapped

up their summit, for the first time in over 40 years,

without the presence They warned the UK that it

will have to accept the free movement of people -

in other words, unlimited immigration from the EU -

if it still wants access The president of the European

Council, Donald Tusk, said Britain couldn't

have an "a la carte" approach. From Brussels, our Europe editor,

Katya Adler, reports. But no British Prime Minister

stepped out of a shiny black car The UK was locked out today

for the first time in 40 years. A glaring absence, matched

here by a definite I think it's not about him today,

today's about us. By "him", she meant David Cameron,

and by "us" she meant But the referendum HE

called was THEIR focus How to deal with the Brexit

process, how to heal the EU with an intentional show of unity

after the UK voted out and the fear When it came to talks of future

trade deals with the UK, One by one, they ruled out

the possibility that Britain could have good access to the single

market and stop EU migration. There will be no single

market a la carte. President Juncker, will the UK find

an accord with the EU Well, it depends

on the negotiations. There will be no negotiations

without notification. No negotiation without

notification, he said. The EU wants the UK to trigger

formal Brexit talks with them Of course, when the EU leaders

insist there'll be no flexibility on a UK deal now, that

doesn't mean there won't be After all, Brussels is known

as the capital of compromise. The truth is, no one knows,

not the leaders, not No country has ever

left the EU before. Plots, plans and rumours fly around,

but certain is only this - Nicola Sturgeon's hopes of winning

support for her attempt to keep Scotland in the EU have been

dealt a blow. The president of the European

Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, and the Prime Minister

of Spain, both said the EU could only negotiate

with the UK Government. But after a day of talks

with European officials, Ms Sturgeon said "doors were open"

and she'd been met with a "very Our Scotland editor,

Sarah Smith, reports from Brussels. Nicola Sturgeon looks

like a woman ready to stride Meeting the president

of the European Commission as part of her campaign to try to keep

Scotland inside the EU. That will take a lot more

than just smiles and kisses. The First Minister dashed

from meeting to meeting telling everyone Scotland wants to stay

and should not be forced out. I asked her if she really expects

some kind of special I've got a duty to try to deliver

that and I've got a duty at this stage to explore all

possible options to do so. Do you still think it's highly

likely there might be a second referendum

on independence? Yes, I do, because I think -

while all options are on the table - I do think that it is highly likely

that we will reach a point where the only option for Scotland,

if we want to retain our membership of the EU, is to do that

as an independent state. He doesn't want to talk

to Scotland until then. The Spanish Prime Minister,

worried about separatists movements in his own country, says the EU

should negotiate only with the UK and not be talking

to Scotland at all. TRANSLATION: I am extremely

against it, the treaties are extremely against it

and I believe everyone So if the United Kingdom leaves

the European Union, Nicola Sturgeon says she was not

surprised by that Spanish hostility, as she walked and talked her way

around the corridors of power. But even sympathetic politicians

can't see how Scotland can cut a separate deal if it's not

a separate country. Scotland is part of

the United Kingdom. What will happen in

the United Kingdom has to be decided in Scotland,

in Edinburgh and It's no secret that

what Nicola Sturgeon really wants is for Scotland

to join the European Union So her mission here

today can't really fail. If she can secure a special deal

for Scotland ultimately, If she can't, well, she can always

hold another referendum Either way, it looks good

and Ms Sturgeon is seen to be fighting for Scotland's interests,

even if she can't claim to have At least 41 people are now

known to have been killed in yesterday's gun and bomb attack

on Istanbul's International Airport. More than 200 others were wounded

when three suicide bombers opened fire with automatic weapons before

blowing themselves up at a security checkpoint at the entrance

to the terminal building. Turkish officials say they believe

so-called Islamic State was behind the attack,

though they've not From Istanbul, our Turkey

correspondent, Mark Lowen, reports. Europe's third busiest airport,

late evening - panic. Passengers rush through

Istanbul's International terminal, Here, an attacker is caught

by CCTV, floored by shots Wounded, he drops his rifle and it

slides across the floor. The policeman approaches him,

then spots his suicide belt and runs, just before the gunman

detonates the device. Dozens were killed, many more

wounded, taken to nearby hospitals. A co-ordinated attack on one

of the world's busiest hubs, As soon as we came out we really saw

the full extent of it... Lawrence Cameron landed

on a flight from Latvia As he walked through the Arrivals

area, the horror became clear. Walked around the corner,

into the main terminal, and just a sea of people -

screaming, running, tripping, I started taking a few pictures,

but then the police started pushing us back, you know,

into the back of the terminal and it quickly became clear that

something nasty had happened. This wasn't a hoax

or anything like that. They worked through the night

to repair the area, windows shattered, ceilings destroyed

by automatic gunfire A futile attempt to return

to normality. The airport reopened quickly,

an attempt to reassure passengers. But this is a profoundly shaken

country, Turkey's image, once again, hit by another deadly attack

and with the wave of bombings across Turkey showing

no signs of abating, there will be big questions

about how to increase security The three attackers were driven

in by taxi, the car not checked There were worries it was

a soft target. The government says all signs point

to the Islamic State group, the latest in a spate of attacks

by IS cells here. At the hospital, emotional

scenes as families fought between themselves, a desperate

search for who was to blame. Others waited for news of loved ones

caught up in a situation Among the casualties,

Turks and foreigners too, from Saudi Arabia, Jordan,

Iran and elsewhere. And the first are now

being laid to rest - passengers, police, airport staff -

lives ripped apart in a country Still no claim of responsibility

here, but actually IS has never actually claimed responsibility for

any of the attacks in Turkey that it is believed to have committed. A few

clues. Tonight the Director of the CIA says the attack bears all the

hallmarks by so-called Islamic State. A recent message by a pro

supposed spokesman of IS called for attacks during Ramadan, and it's two

years to the day since IS declared its caliphate. They have accused the

government of failing to secure the country. President Erdogan vowed to

eradicate terror. The problem is that fewer and fewer people in this

nervous country really believe him. Mark Lowen, in Istanbul, thank you.

The number of families in temporary housing is at its highest

for more than five years, with more than a million in England

and Wales on council housing waiting lists.

The latest figures will be announced tomorrow, but housing analysts

are warning of a "perfect storm" of rising rents, benefit cuts

and an acute shortage of affordable housing.

The Government says it has a ?5 million fund to help councils

Our UK affairs correspondent, Jeremy Cooke, has this special report.

Health care assistant, Natasha and Henry,

A small family, overwhelmed by a giant housing crisis.

We sleep, me and Henry, here, on this bed.

At the same time, this is our dining table.

This is their home, two of them now sharing four walls,

Among thousands now in temporary accommodation.

We first met Natasha when she was facing eviction

from her West London flat six months ago.

A working mum, who fell behind on her rent.

The council says it's tried to help, but the few places on offer are too

expensive or too far away from her job.

I can't sleep because of this situation.

How can a human being, who is working, earning money,

you know, you don't enjoy your life.

She went to the doctors and her pressure was up.

I got upset because I knew, first thing, it was this house

It may be centred on London, but this is a national housing

crisis with soaring rents, benefit cuts and now more than a million

people waiting for council houses which simply aren't there.

The response is often crisis management, firefighting a sticking

plaster on the symptoms of a wider housing crisis,

And the people who are paying the price are ordinary families.

Stuck in a temporary one-bedroomed flat for more than a year,

The council house waiting list makes grim reading.

Here, it's two rooms for five people.

After all this time, the temporary is feeling permanent.

It feels like it's never going to end.

Haley, originally from South Africa, was working, but divorce meant

eviction, unemployment and then this place.

The council says it is trying to help her.

I don't feel like anybody thinks I'm important.

It's a crisis that will have a profound impact on many

young lives, as they grow up with no place to call home.

Jeremy Cooke, BBC News, London.

It's probably a once-in-a-career moment if you are ranked 772nd

in the world tennis rankings and you end up playing 17-time Grand

Slam winner, Roger Federer, on Wimbledon's Centre Court.

But Britain's Marcus Willis was undaunted by his clash this

afternoon, saying afterwards he'd "earned himself a beer."

Our sports correspondent, Joe Wilson, watched the match.

Centre Court, on Wednesday afternoon, what on earth

He's supposed to be back in Warwick - there are people

Well, sorry, your coach is taking on Roger Federer,

along with his followers in their socks.

You don't get to World Number 772 without having some skills on court,

COMMENTATOR: This is unbelievable.

Ah, but Federer won the first set, 6-0.

Centre Court wanted Willis to do himself justice

and at the start of the second set he won his first game.

Greeted as if he'd won the Championship -

at Wimbledon and indeed back in Warwick.

If it was Hollywood, Marcus Willis would be played by Bruce.

Well, this is one of those sporting stories of the ordinary man,

a triumph of perseverance and possibility and that's why,

when it comes to Marcus Willis, even on the dreariest of days,

Having lost the second set, 6-3, Willis became

even more competitive in the third.

Federer eventually took that third set, 6-4,

and so the match, but the experience belonged to Willis.

If I'm playing well and competing with Roger Federer for a couple

of sets, then I'm doing the right thing.

So I've still got a lot to learn and a lot of improving

Marcus brought some unbelievable energy to the court with the fans

and then with his play as well and with his personality.

Well, that compliment may be worth even more to Marcus Willis

Tomorrow, commemorations will begin to mark the 100th anniversary

of a battle that has come to symbolise the horrors

On the first day alone, nearly 20,000 allied

soldiers were killed - the bloodiest battle

Over the next five months, a million were killed

Our special correspondent, Allan Little, reports

from Northern France on the enduring significance of the

Before 1st July 1916, the Somme was simply a river,

After that date, it became a metaphor that holds our collective

So great, so sudden, so unexpected was the catastrophe

British commanders believed the attack in these

Their men didn't want to be left out of the last big push for victory.

Look into their relaxed, even cheerful faces as they gathered

that morning and you see the last moments of a lost innocence

about the nature of modern war and what it would do from now on.

When they climbed onto exposed open ground, they thought the German

guns had been destroyed by a week-long bombardment.

They had no idea what was waiting for them.

The Germans had thousands of these, the Maxim machine gun.

Against this there was no chance, but they went

on and on, walking into it - all day.

The French would call this gun the 'Lawnmower',

the British the 'Devil's Paintbrush'.

The cemeteries of the Somme recall the worst single day

Days later, the wounded were still calling out from no

man's land and it went on for five months more.

One who died that first day was Lieutenant Evelyn

Lintott, footballer - Queens Park Rangers and England.

His old club has a capacity of 20,000, the number killed

on the 1st July alone - each seat a life unlived.

By November 1916, a million had been killed or wounded on all sides,

enough to fill this stadium 50 times over.

In the poetic and popular imagination, the Somme

symobolises futility, for nothing was gained.

For allied commanders learned from this to adapt to warfare

in the machine age and won the war in the end.

Today, the Somme is a place of secular pilgrimage.

These walkers plan to create a path long the old front-line

from the English Channel to the Swiss border to be called -

For in these fields those far off young men, who left their bones

in the mud of northern France, still speak to us powerfully

of what Europe has been capable of doing to itself.

Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments.

Tonight, we'll ask how determined is Europe to defend that principle

They say it's a non-negotiatable piece of the single market,

but is there a chink of flexibility there?

Join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland.

Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.