04/07/2016 BBC News at Ten

Nigel Farage steps down as leader of Ukip.

He says his political ambition has been achieved.

Less than a fortnight after the referendum,

he said Ukip's "greatest potential" lay in converting Labour voters

Turing the referendum campaign, I said,

What I'm saying today is I want my life back.

And he insisted that EU nationals, currently living in the UK,

should be allowed to stay with their rights guaranteed.

That view was supported by Andrea Leadsom -

the latest MP to launch a campaign for the Conservative leadership.

I commit today to guaranteeing the rights of our EU

friends who already come here to live and work.

Andrea Leadsom's leadership campaign has been

Also on the programme: Jeremy Corbyn's latest message

only nine months ago I was honoured to be elected leader of our party.

He says he's staying on but there'll be emergency talks with union

leaders tomorrow to find a way ahead.

Chris Evans resigns from Top Gear after one series.

A straight-sets win takes Andy Murray

And in the sport, the Tour de France and Mark Cavendish crosses the line

first. Just. Ukip is looking for a new leader

after Nigel Farage announced his resignation, saying

he'd achieved his goal of getting Britain

out of the European Union. But he said the terms of Britain's

exit were crucially important and insisted that EU nationals

already living in the UK That view is supported

by Andrea Leadsom, who launched her campaign for

the Conservative leadership today. Ministers say it is too early to be

making that kind of promise. Our political editor,

Laura Kuenssberg, has the latest. Moments before he was to reveal

that his time was up. Our vote to leave the EU

gives him a place in history but his main work -

it is done. I now feel I have done my bit

and I couldn't possibly achieve more than we managed to get in that

referendum and so I feel it's right that I should now stand

aside as leader of Ukip. During the referendum campaign,

I said I want my country back. What I'm saying today

is I want my life back. Ironically, for the man who's pushed

to reduce immigration, a call for all five contenders to be

the next Prime Minister to promise EU nationals already here can

stay for good. Everybody, who has come

to this country legally, The fact that hereafter

we will have a different immigration system and not have an open door

is a separate issue. What happens to him,

or her, or them, the 3 million EU migrants who have

made their lives here, is becoming one of the first big

tests of the contest to be EU countries have consistently said

we can't trade freely with them if their people can't

move freely here. Andrea Leadsom, Tory minister,

Outer, and wannabe Prime Minister, says, whether from Portugal

or Poland, Ireland or Italy, I commit today to guaranteeing

the rights of our EU friends who have already come

here to live and work. There is no way they will

be bargaining chips One of her Eurosceptic rivals,

who also wants Number 10, Liam Fox, the former Defence Secretary,

said he'd like EU nationals to be able to stay but stopped

short of a guarantee. What should happen in

terms of nationals? I should like us to come to a mutual

decision that those who are already The reason I would like to see that

is I would want to see mutuality The Foreign Secretary,

who is backing the frontrunner, Theresa May, told me that firm

promises can't yet be made. Those who are saying today, "No,

we'll make a unilateral commitment that EU nationals can stay in the UK

without extracting a matching promise that Brits in Spain are able

to stay there, I think, are selling We have to make sure this

is a reciprocal arrangement. The Foreign Secretary has been

talking to his counterparts around the continent and says we can't

expect to control immigration There will be a trade-off

because the new political reality in Britain is that we cannot carry

on with full freedom of movement as of right,

as we have seen in the past. That will mean that we are not able

to get full and unfettered What all the contenders for Number

10 are grappling with is not just the question of why they believe

they are the right person for the job but, how

will they unpick and then reshape, our relationship with

the rest of the world? What happens to people from Spain,

Poland or Portugal who are already There is no way with complex

negotiations ahead that His political circus is now coming

to an end. The question he first posed now must

be answered by many others. Nigel Farage at last can sit

back and enjoy the ride. Nigel Farage, who's 52,

has led Ukip for most of the past decade,

transforming it from a fringe party into

a significant political force. He said today that Ukip's best

days were still to come and its greatest potential lay

in attracting voters The party's new leader should be

in place by the autumn. Here's our Political

Correspondent, Ben Wright. His report contains

some flash photography. The sun has risen on an

independent United Kingdom. For two decades, Nigel Farage has

had a mission, to lead While Ukip has just one MP

at Westminster, the party's impact on politics has been huge,

as the likely frontrunner to replace Probably one of the most influential

politicians in the post-war era. If it was not for Nigel Farage,

and the hard work he has put in, and the Ukip activists who he's

garnered, then we wouldn't have had a referendum on our membership

of the European Union. Ukip is a fractious political family

and the party's only MP, Douglas Carswell, who does

not want the top job, posted this symbol of

smiling glee in response A former City trader,

Farage was a founder of Ukip in 1993 and soon distilled its pitch

to a simple message. What people are saying

is get Britain out. In 1999, he was elected

to the European Parliament, a place he mocked and

derided from the start. You have the charisma of a damp

rag and the appearance Ridiculing the institution

he wanted Britain to leave. For years, Ukip could not break

through with voters. In 2006, David Cameron

memorably mocked them. I mean, Ukip, it's just sort

of a bunch of, Er... Fruitcakes and loonies

and closet racists, mostly. A decade later, Nigel Farage

would have the last laugh. With his fag rattle chuckle

and love of a drink, Farage is not like most politicians

but the jovial demeanour A seriousness that hardened

after he was badly injured in a plane crash in 2010,

an experience that spurred him on. Over the next five years,

Ukip made huge strides, coming first in the European

elections in 2014. And Nigel Farage celebrated

in a Westminster pub, of course! Ukip's campaign against EU

migration, the European Union, mainstream politicians,

was cutting through. Not only winning over disillusioned

Tories but many working-class David Cameron promised an EU

referendum, in part to head Today, in Benfleet, Essex,

where Ukip came second in the general election,

some disappointment He seems a nice guy,

not scared to say what he wants. Especially the way he treated people

in the EU when he went there. The way he spoke to

people is disgusting. Nigel Farage has resigned as Ukip

leader before - twice. Most recently, very

briefly, in 2015. This time he says

he's quit for good. A divisive rabble-rouser to some,

a hero to others. Ukip without Nigel Farage

will lose some of its colour. Where the party heads next,

without its public face, and with the referendum done,

is a question for his successor. Our Political Editor,

Laura Kuenssberg, is in Westminster. We have the Ukip leadership campaign

under way and the Conservative campaign. Andrea Leadsom tonight

securing some high-profile support. Tory MPs will choose their next

leader and our next Prime Minister went boating begins tomorrow. That

will take place over the next few weeks and months. Tonight, as you

say, Boris Johnson, who is out of the race, has made public his

support for Andrea Leadsom. She was one of the main faces of the alt

campaign during the referendum foot of giving his support to her, he

said she is able, kind and trustworthy. Surely he was not

having a geek at his former friends are our deep bow, Michael Gove? Tory

candidates are watching each other, trying to work out whether balance

of power may be. What will happen in the race because people drop out as

they proceed. In terms of Andrea Leadsom were no question she has

generated a lot of excitement on the Eurosceptic wing of the particles

that she packed the room this morning full of the Tory old guard.

When she was addressing MPs in Parliament tonight, there were real

doubts about her level of experience. One minister even said

that in fact she crashed and burned. Another cabinet minister said to me

today, it does look at this stage that it will be Theresa May and

Andrea Leadsom who are the two names on the ballot paper which will then

go to Tory members to make their decision. Politics, as ever in 2016

is upside down and inside out. Last week it was the altos who were the

victors. They were in ascendance. -- Outers. There were doubts about Mrs

Letts. Now the remainder is, Theresa May is out in front. This is an

unpredictable business. Tory MPs will have a few weeks to make up

their minds for that we will all be watching. Thank you very much.

Labour's Deputy Leader, Tom Watson, is to hold urgent talks with trade

union leaders tomorrow morning about Jeremy Corbyn's

Mr Watson is said to have told Mr Corbyn this evening

that he could not carry on as leader without the backing of Labour MPs,

who voted overwhelmingly last week in favour

Mr Corbyn apparently said he had no intention of leaving.

Our political correspondent, Vicki Young, reports.

Resignations are popular at Westminster right now

but the Labour leader has never been a follower of fashion.

Jeremy Corbyn is under enormous pressure to go but today

Using social media to speak directly to his party,

I want to reach out to all our members.

But many of his MPs are in no mood for compromise.

Angela Eagle says she's ready to launch a leadership challenge.

I have the support to run and resolve this impasse

and I will do so if Jeremy does not take action soon.

Last week, more than 60 of Mr Corbyn's front bench team

Then, in a vote of no-confidence, more than 170 Labour MPs refused

to back their leader his team says he was elected by a quarter

of a million party members and he is determined to carry on.

Which meant a grilling by a committee of MPs

about allegations about his Semitism in the Labour Party.

Do you accept that Jewish groups and organisations are fearful

with you as of the leader of the Labour Party?

You are fostering a period in the party where

I think that is deeply unfair and deeply wrong.

It is absolutely the last thing I would want to do.

What about calling members of Hezbollah and Hamas his friends?

It was inclusive language I used, which, with hindsight,

You regret using those words and they are not your friends?

Throughout his leadership, Mr Corbyn has been buoyed

by the enthusiastic support of thousands of party members.

But, inside parliament, it has been a different story.

Tonight, in a packed meeting room just upstairs, Labour MPs

heard from their Deputy Leader, Tom Watson.

He told them he'd been to see Mr Corbyn today to tell him he had

to have the support of Labour MPs, as well as Labour Party members.

Tomorrow, Mr Watson will meet with union leaders to try to broker

He told MPs it was the last throw of the dice.

Some MPs have already warned Jeremy Corbyn

that the Labour Party could split if he insists on staying.

for distributing drugs in fake ambulances.

The judge at Birmingham Crown Court said the quantities of cocaine,

heroin and ecstasy involved were truly colossal.

The drugs, valued at more than ?1 billion,

which entered the UK through ferry ports.

Chris Evans has announced he is stepping down

from presenting Top Gear after just one series.

In a statement, he said he had given it his best shot

to below two million viewers for the final episode,

much lower than the audience for the old format,

as our correspondent David Sillito reports.

Welcome to Top Gear with our all-new, improved audience!

When Chris Evans replaced Jeremy Clarkson

as the face of Top Gear, it was never going to be easy.

Jeremy Clarkson had turned the show into a global success story,

and then he hit one of the show's producers.

Chris Evans stepped in, alongside former Friends star Matt LeBlanc.

But Chris Evans has lasted just one series.

He's faced a stream of negative stories in the press

and also allegations about his behaviour going back to the '90s.

This morning, he said nothing as he left Radio 2.

A few hours later, he sent this tweet.

He said he'd given it his best but sometimes that's not enough.

One Top Gear fan, also a former Stig, agrees.

I think it was an obvious consequences

of the first show of the new series being bad.

Now, the shows have got an awful lot better,

that the new show and Chris had to capture everybody,

and they just did not get the first one right.

When you add in catch-up and repeats,

that first show did draw nine million viewers.

Since then, figures have rather dipped.

However, this is about more than just BBC Two on a Sunday.

and for BBC Worldwide, this is one of their most important programmes.

They want it to perform well all across the world,

it's a big moneymaker for them, so they'll be waiting

to see what the impact is globally, as well as in the UK.

So I was sort of expecting Chris to stick around a little bit longer

to see how it would go across the world.

130 foreign buyers have already taken the new show,

Filming for the new series will begin in September.

And Chris Evans will be back on air on Radio 2 tomorrow.

But the world's biggest factual programme

has once again lost its main presenter.

This week will see the publication of the long-awaited report

The Chilcot Inquiry, headed by Sir John Chilcot,

will look at why Britain took part, the decision-making process

before the invasion and during the conflict,

and what lessons can be learned from the aftermath.

Since the British and Americans withdrew,

Iraq has been gripped by sectarian violence

which has allowed so-called Islamic State to grow.

Yesterday, IS detonated suicide car bombs

in driving IS out of the city of Fallujah.

From Fallujah, our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen,

sent this assessment of the state of Iraq today.

Losing this town so hurt the jihadists of Islamic State

that they lashed out by massacring civilians in Baghdad.

Iraq's perpetual war was caused by a chain of consequences

that leads back to the invasion of 2003.

removed a hated dictator and dissolved his army and state,

but then made no real plan to rebuild the country they'd broken -

they improvised and made matters worse.

IS fighters still lie where they died in Fallujah's streets.

Jihadists weren't in Iraq before the invasion,

and Shia and Sunni Muslims, whose sectarian civil war

started during the occupation, could coexist.

Big bomb because there is a lot of Isis members here...

In this 13th year of war, elite units of the Iraqi army

took the lead in Fallujah, helped by American air strikes.

The bodies of more than a dozen jihadists lie rotting in the rubble.

A vest here. Suicide vest? Suicide vest, exactly.

So-called Islamic State grew out of Al-Qaeda,

which took root in Iraq in the chaos that followed the invasion.

Before they were killed, IS, also known as Daesh,

had rigged a car for a suicide attack.

When you pull it, it blows up. So this is from a grenade?

Yeah, he just pull it and blow up all the vehicles

So this was intended for a suicide mission.

After defeat in village, IS put a much bigger one into Baghdad.

In a suburban house, IS set up a prison.

This isn't the only private jail in Iraq.

arbitrary imprisonment is a display of power.

IS chain prisoners in cages the size of dog kennels.

politicians and warlords in Iraq have exploited sectarian fears.

would not have been able to take such a grip on Iraq

without the sectarian conflict between Shia and Sunni Muslims.

Now, the argument between Shia and Sunnis goes back 1400 years.

But the invasion in 2003 had the effect of redefining

and supercharging it for the 21st century.

Around 45,000 Sunnis are in a camp outside Fallujah,

seen as potential IS sympathisers by Shia-led security forces.

but most aren't allowed into Baghdad.

Unicef says one in five Iraqi children, 3.6 million,

are at serious risk because of the war.

A bullet hit this girl as they escaped Fallujah.

Witnesses at the camp said hundreds of men were taken away as they left

the town and beaten by Shia militias looking for IS fighters.

Four-year-old Huda is hoping her father will arrive

The men who were beaten are all too frightened to be identified.

One of them said he saw Shia militiamen beat her father to death.

TRANSLATION: One said, "The Shias have come for you,

we will take four Sunnis for every man we have lost."

Police try to control food queues by firing into the air.

Iraqis have often made matters worse for themselves,

but mistakes made by the United States and Britain

pushed Iraq down the road to catastrophe.

The financial giant Standard Life Investments

has suspended trading in one of its biggest funds,

which has ?2.9 billion invested in UK property.

It follows a sharp increase in requests by investors

to sell their holdings in the fund following the referendum outcome.

Let's talk to our business editor, Simon Jack. Simon, what explains the

reasoning in this decision? Well, Huw, all funds keep a bit of ready

cash on the side in case an investor wants their money back. When lots of

them want their money back at the same time, they can exhaust cash so

they need to start selling stuff. That is a problem if what you own is

office blocks and commercial real estate, they are very hard to sell

quickly. Now, on its own, this is not a deafening alarm bell, but it

comes on the back of the weakest construction data we have seen in

seven years released this morning. We have seen house-builders shares

slump. So there is a bit of a fog around the property market, and that

includes sucking in the banks as well, we have seen their shares

fall, some of them down and up to a third, because they are in the

firing line if we have weakness in the property market. In fact, the

boss of RBS said today he thought it would be an extra two years before

people got their money back. That is why people are nervous. The Bank of

England has been on the front foot with this, the Chancellor is meeting

bank bosses, they say they have a few more tricks up their sleeves,

and that is the good news, the banks in particular are in better shape

than they were in 2008. They have said an interest rate cut may be

around the corner, they made poor more money into the system. We are

hoping these inoculations will stop these levels turning nasty, but

these are the first concrete signs of stress in the markets. Thank you

very much, Simon, Simon Jack there. is also being closely examined

by senior figures in the NHS, who warn that recruitment

could suffer. There are worries that filling

doctors and nurses posts, could be more difficult,

because of uncertainty over the outcome of

negotiations with the EU, as our health editor,

Hugh Pym, reports. Staff from around the European Union

are welcome in the NHS that was the message

of these images on social media. But some are feeling uneasy

about their position. OK, so you brought the sun

from Italy with you! Gosia from Poland has been

in the UK for 12 years. here a group from Italy who will

go on the wards next week. She's said the referendum result

has made her think twice The thought did cross my mind,

you know, if things change and I may have to,

I may have to leave. It will all depend

how things develop and what's going

to happen in the country. Medical leaders say confusion

over what Brexit will mean will make recruitment

more difficult. There certainly is increased

uncertainty, which causes people to worry about whether the jobs

that they are coming to And we are already under

a lot of pressure, so it just makes

the situation worse. to fill vacancies

for doctors and nurses. Recruitment is a major challenge,

agency bills have been mounting. In recent decades,

the NHS has relied on being able to attract

staff from outside the UK. Of doctors registered

to practise here, and three other members

of the European single market, Nurses registered here

include 5% trained in the European single market

and 10% in other countries. After Brexit, the Government

could still recruit abroad We could negotiate an agreement

with the EU which allowed the flow of health-care workers

into the UK on a sustained basis. But one of the real weaknesses

in the NHS over decades has been the failure

to invest enough in training our own

doctors and nurses. For now, Gosia and others

from around the EU feel there are many

unanswered questions. Andy Murray is through

to the quarterfinals after beating the Australian

Nick Kyrgios in straight sets. Seven-time Wimbledon champion

Roger Federer is also through

to the quarterfinals, as is the women's title holder,

Serena Williams. Rounding up all the day's

action is Joe Wilson. There's always a twist

on tradition - even at Wimbledon, the unpredictable

is usually welcome. Nick Kyrgios is a tennis player

who can sometimes beat himself. He's found plenty of trouble

in his career, but in Andy Murray

he's always had a supporter. The first set was tight,

the second wasn't, but some of the exchanges

were a pleasure. For the first time this year,

Murray was playing a man talented enough, theoretically,

to beat him at Wimbledon. The problem was, Kyrgios wouldn't

or couldn't get near him. Time is running out,

reads one of these tattoos - but he can seem infected

by introspection. Kyrgios was going through

the motions at times, Well, for Murray - straightforward,

straight sets, straight thumbs. So Andy Murray made it seem simple

once again here on Centre Court, and reaching a Wimbledon

quarterfinal is an achievement. So imagine doing that

14 times in your career. Nobody's reached the last eight

more times. Today he played American

Steve Johnson, a fly to chase the ball

whilst Federer waited to swat. Straight sets, energy conserved.

Does he really look any older? Born 49 days after Federer, Serena -

she's at a thoughtful stage. At 34, she still has great power,

but progress is not always easy, specially when the court

is a bit slippy. Drizzle closed the roof,

and Serena Williams was liberated against Svetlana Kuznetsova -

6-0 in the second set. Joe Wilson, BBC News,

Wimbledon. Georgia O'Keeffe was one

of the most significant artists and the most popular female

American artist of her time. but more than 100 paintings

are going on display in a major new exhibition

at London's Tate Modern. Our arts editor, Will Gompertz,

has been to take a look. is typical of the work

for which she became famous - a voluptuous, colourful image

of a flower in bloom. There are plenty of other,

similar examples in this show, but that's not really

what it's about. This exhibition seeks

to reposition O'Keeffe as a pioneer who was not only the equal of her

mid-century male contemporaries, but who was perhaps one

of the greatest painters She was really against a gendered

framing of her work, of herself. She really thought

she wasn't a woman painter or a woman artist,

she was an artist. There was lots of chat,

mainly from the blokes, about the great American novel,

the great American poem, the great American painting -

very macho, very male. And yet here we have O'Keeffe,

you could argue, doing while they're still

all talking about it. They were the progressives,

and they wanted to make an American culture, so they

were always talking about it. O'Keeffe felt, "They haven't

seen the real America, and the real America

is west of the Hudson." She moves out to New Mexico

and starts creating a new body of work

inspired by the landscape. Is this the moment,

do you think, that she makes the great

American painting? The moment that she really nails

it is with those skull paintings, that this is a language

uniquely her own. but really they're not

really about Surrealism. They're about what she calls

the far-away, that was the focus of her work, to represent America,

to represent the American landscape, and to make what she calls

the great American thing. She's an exemplar of how a woman

was a pioneer and a foundational figure within modernism,

so her legacy is enormous. in which we see all sides

of Georgia O'Keeffe. Newsnight's coming up

on BBC Two, here's Evan. So many resignations in this

country, so many vacancies. We'll focus on the Tory leadership

race tonight, and on Ukip -

what future for the party with a Farage-sized hole

left in the middle? Join me now on BBC Two,

11pm in Scotland. That's all from us,

now the news where you are.