17/07/2016 BBC Weekend News

The Labour leadership contender, Owen Smith, has suggested that

a second referendum on the UK's membership

Formally launching his leadership campaign this afternoon,

he joins Angela Eagle in the race to unseat Jeremy Corbyn.

But critics warn his intervention could split the anti-Corbyn

Our political correspondent Alan Soady has more.

A party embroiled in a battle for its future, a leader

fighting for survival, and now two candidates

Launching his leadership bid, Owen Smith says Labour

needs bolder messages, and one of his first on leaving

I don't think we should accept that we are on a definite path out,

I think we need to make sure that people are satisfied with that.

We trusted people, rightly, to take the decision and we can

trust them again in 18 months' time to check if it's

His rival for the top job, Angela Eagle, is more worried

about Brexit causing the break-up of the UK after Scotland voted

Look, London voted to remain, and we are in a situation

Liverpool and Merseyside voted to remain, so I think it's important

We need to get the terms of leaving right, and we have got to have

I heard Angela Eagle at the start of your programme saying,

"well, Scotland has just got to accept the UK-wide vote

in the same way London or Liverpool accept it."

Can I point out gently to Angela Eagle that there

is a difference between Scotland and Liverpool and London.

Scotland is not a region of the UK, Scotland is a nation.

And she thinks Scotland could find a compromise,

staying in a Brexit UK and in the EU.

We're in uncharted territory, and when you are in unchartered

territory there is effectively a blank sheet of paper in front

of you, then you have an opportunity.

It was Jeremy Corbyn's handling of the referendum which

triggered the leadership challenge against him.

Many of his enemies within Labour think he can only be

defeated if there's a single anti-Corbyn candidate.

My view is whoever is the person who commands the largest degree

of support in the PLP is the unity candidate and that's

the person who should go forward and take Jeremy on.

I think we should have the person who is most likely

to beat Jeremy Corbyn, and I think that's me.

They will battle it out for the support of Labour MPs

tomorrow, but can either of them topple Jeremy Corbyn?

Nicola Sturgeon has also said she would consider holding a second

referendum on independence as early as next year.

Scotland's First Minister told the BBC that could happen if the UK

Government started the formal process of leaving the EU

without Scotland's position being safeguarded.

Turkey's Justice Minister says some 6,000 people have been detained

in a Government crackdown on those it says are responsible

The authorities said more arrests could follow in a crisis that's

Live now to Istanbul and our correspondent

Bring us up to date with the latest on the security and political

situation. Well, the past 36 hours have been chaotic. There is some

calm now, but what we are seeing is the effect really of the coup.

Government clamping down on anybody who might have been connected to the

attempted take-over. So in addition to those more than 6,000 detentions,

2,700 judges have been dismissed, and President Erdogan said today he

is going to continue to clean up the virus in state institutions. What we

are also seeing is a clearer picture of the nature of the clashes, not

just soldiers firing on civilians but also quite aggressive crowds.

You can probably see the pictures now of a young soldier being pulled

out of a tank by riot police. He had been previously hit by rocks that

had been thrown by a baying crowd. There was a lot of aggression and

anger from the crowd. He was rescued by the riot police. Although that

was yesterday's pictures, today it is relatively calm, the square

behind me saw huge amounts of pro Government supporters come out on to

the streets waving flags. The President has said people need to

keep going, they can't go back home. They need to stay on the streets for

the next week. Really we'll be expecting more protests coming to

this square, to other parts of the city, Ankara too. On the coast it is

much quieter, so for British tourists caught up in this, the

Foreign Office advice is stay away from any protests. The disruption is

slowly going down, certainly for tourists. Katie, thank you.

Here, the remainder of the disused Didcot power station in Oxfordshire

has been demolished, five months after half

of the building collapsed, killing four workers.

Remotely operated robots were used to attach

explosives to the structure because it was unsafe

Our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, is there for us now.

As you can see on this long shot the power station has now been

completely demolished. It is lying in a bunch of rubble across the

field away from us. We are told that already this morning the work to

recover the bodies of those three men has begun. The relatives of

those men watched the demolition from a private location. I managed

to speak to one of those relatives afterwards. She said to me simply

this is going to be an extremely difficult day.

It took just a few seconds to bring a five-month tragedy to an end.

A quarter of a tonne of explosives at the heart of this spectacular

The half-demolished shell of this structure which had

emtombed the three workers was finally fully levelled.

For local people this was a moment not just of awe but of reflection.

It's just sad all around really, but it's a relief that it's over

and done with and people can start to move on and the recovery can

Ever since February, the bodies of Christopher Huxtable,

Ken Creswell and John Shaw have lain in the rubble of the laugh

Ken Creswell and John Shaw have lain in the rubble of the half-

The body of a fourth man, Michael Collings, was recovered

They died when the building came down on them as it was being

Ken Creswell and John Shaw have lain in the rubble of the half-

The missing men's families staged protests to try to get their loved

ones back sooner but were told it was too dangerous

The families hadn't wanted explosives used to bring

the reminder of the building down but these who've come to know them

well say today's operation will be a turning point in getting

The first step is to get them home with their families,

for families to be able to take them home.

The second step is to work out what happened.

I think the third step is to see why it's taken so long

The site is now safe for a number of investigations to begin to see

The next few weeks will be a delicate, technical

French police have arrested two more people over the lorry attack in Nice

which killed 84 people and left 18 in a critical condition.

So far 35 of those who died have been formally identified.

Press this morning at Nice's Russian Orthodox Cathedral.

On their minds, events that define evil.

Some of the victims were from Russia.

It is so sad, says this woman, who like so many

others ran for her life on Thursday night.

What is it like in Nice at the moment?

It's really frozen, the atmosphere here. This morning the latest grim

figures. 84 dead, 85 still in hospital. 18, including a child, are

in a critical condition. One man deliberately ran them down with a

lorry. Swerving for more than a mile, killing as many as he could.

Those who knew Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel said he had

psychological problems. There was news this morning of two more

arrests, following a police raid yesterday. France is calling up

12,000 police reservists. They'll help protect France's borders and

police public places during big events. There's a real sense of

bewilderment here in Nice about the motivation and tactics of the

killer. The French Government is under pressure to protect that

sacred value of freedom but also make French people feel safe again.

There is fear and bewilderment in this city. But also defiance as life

moves on. Tum Burridge, BBC News, Nice.

The next news on BBC One is at 6.35 this

Good afternoon. If you're enjoying at the end's weather, temperatures

are around perfect, you're probably not going to enjoy the next couple

of days, because we are ramping the heat and humidity up. Something of a

mini heat wave on the way. Then as is often the case in