24/09/2016 BBC Weekend News

Jeremy Corbyn sweeps to victory in the labour leadership election,

winning by an even bigger margin than last time round.

The Labour leader urged his party to end its divisions,

unite and focus on defeating the Conservatives.

I will do everything I can to repay the trust and the support, to bring

our party together, to make it an engine of progress for our country.

We'll look at the challenges he faces to bring his party together.

Junior doctors in England suspend all planned strike action

And in Syria, the onslaught on Aleppo intensifies,

as the UN warns of "a chilling military escalation".

Jeremy Corbyn has swept to victory in the Labour leadership election

with an even bigger margin than when he was first

Mr Corbyn's victory over his challenger, Owen Smith was announced

at the start of the party's annual conference in Liverpool.

Mr Corbyn secured almost 62% of the vote with 38% backing Mr Smith.

Mr Corbyn's urged what he called "the Labour family" to unite

and focus on defeating the Conservatives.

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is in Liverpool.

Her report contains flash photography.

I'm delighted to declare Jeremy Corbyn elected as leader

But under him Labour has been redesigned.

I will do everything I can to repay the

trust and the support, to bring our party together.

We have much more in common than that which divides us.

As far as I'm concerned let's wipe the slate clean from today and get

on with the work we have to do as a party together.

Labour is a party brimming full of ideas,

talent and creativity. And so is this country.

Unleashing that potential is the job of all of us.

Let us work together for real change in Britain.

But despair from those who believe he

can win this hall, but not the world outside.

He has done it again, not just winning hands

down, but with a bigger majority than last time.

And his opponents who hoped it would weaken him?

Rewriting convention, the leader of a party divided in a way

it's not been for decades, wins another chance.

You're one of his closest colleagues.

I wish we hadn't had it, but now we are

through it, it was done relatively amicably.

The debate around policy demonstrates how united we were

The criticisms about performance, well, where there's

elements of validity about that, we can work out

The majority of MPs backed Owen Smith, but Jeremy Corbyn has

an overwhelming victory. How do the party move on?

That means a lot of people didn't vote for Jeremy.

So we've got to unite and focus on next year 's election.

So how does the re-anointed leader pull altogether?

The party is united on the economic strategy,

united around education ideas, united around the National Health

Service, united around the inequality and injustice

And now that this election is over - and it is over - the whole party has

an opportunity to come together, to put that message out.

But the party is also bruised, battered, divided.

I think you'll see a sense of unity around the party.

I've already had messages on my phone already, text

messages coming in from lots of people who want to get on

board and get out there and do the campaigning.

That's just what we're going to be doing.

MPs pledging their support who have opposed you in the past?

There are two things you could offer today that would make many of them

feel that you really are serious about bringing them on board.

That would be a return to Shadow Cabinet

elections, and ruling out the selections for sitting MPs.

I think you'll see a lot of changes over the next few weeks.

Many MPs might hear you say that and worry about what

Well, there's no need to worry because

We're all democratically accountable to our

They have no need to worry at all. I'm reaching out.

Owen Smith, who challenged Mr Corbyn, avoided the crowds.

Jeremy is to be congratulated for having changed the

There is a significantly changed electorate in this party right now,

and Jeremy has consistently won 60% of that support and he is to be

congratulated on what is a decisive victory in this contest.

That fight is over, but tonight another meeting.

The two sides grappling over control of the party.

Thankfully it was a refreshingly short

meeting, because everybody wanted to see Ed Balls on Strictly Come

Jeremy Corbyn transformed a small band of supporters into the

His job now is to show the whole party he's on the way.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Liverpool.

Jeremy Corbyn's re-election was greeted with huge celebration

The leader of the powerful Unite union, Len McClusky said MPs

must now fall in behind the Labour leader.

Our Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar reports on the challenges

There's loyal, very loyal and then Momentum. A group dedicated, devoted

to Jeremy Corbyn. How are you feeling? Fantastic. He's wonderful.

Let's hope the party gets together, unites and starts to fight all these

austerity measures. They expected Jeremy Corbyn to win,

just not this big. Very excited. Today, it's not just a great day for

the Labour Party, it's for the British politics. Here, they are

buzzing about a result that leaves Jeremy Corbyn's leadership

unassailable, that's something that was barely imaginable, something

Labour's left could barely dream of seeing just about 18 months ago. Do

they believe that makes him any more likely to take over the country. Do

you believe Jeremy Corbyn can change the mind of Tory voters and work for

him? I think if he works for it he absolutely can. We have seen a huge

mandate. They need to respect that mandate and come in line. Desleek

the Blairites. If you come from Liverpool, the

chances are you are football mad and Labour, that doesn't mean you are

necessarily a Corbyn fan. Hi. Jeremy Corbyn, just been elected, big, big

win, what do you think of him, is he a winner? Jeremy Corbyn's a nice

bloke. He's a good man. But I just think he won't be able to cut it on

the world stage. Any match day at Anfield you will see political

players too, one of the biggest warns Labour MPs to show loyalty to

the leader. I'll be talking to people here who say Jeremy Corbyn's

good guy but don't think he has what it takes to win. I accept that and

therein lies the challenge for Jeremy. He's been fighting a battle

since he was elected last year. I'm hoping now the PLP will recognise

they have now got to unite, he and John McDonnell to take out the

alternative strategy that ordinary decent hard working people are

desperate for. An MP who is a Corbyn critics message, try harder. He's

got to not just have moralies of those already who agree with him,

but listen to those who don't agree too and work out what the policies

are that would persuade people to come on board. In football and

politics, this is deep red territory and no-one's denying Jeremy Corbyn

has a lot of convincing to do. But today, he's won the right to prove

the polls and the pundits conVictional wiz Tom is wrong and

Labour to defining historic distance. So little to do, so little

time. Our political editor

Laura Kuenssberg joins Laura, on that last point,

how difficult is it going to be to unite the party and move

forward? The gap between them is wider than

the mercy. From -- Mersey. Despite the insults, the campaign to get rid

of him, party members overwhelmingly decided that he is their man. On the

other side, his internal opponents think this is a disaster that could

see Labour compelled to be out of power for many, many years to come.

In terms of Jeremy Corbyn's suing for peace, he says he's determined

to try to bring the party together, it's also abundantly clear that he

believes with the new bigger mandate, that he's perfectly

entitled to flex his muscles, to try harder to assert his authority over

the party. Indeed, tonight at the first meeting of the party's ruling

body since his victory, there were bad tempers over the table about

Jeremy Corbyn's next plans. A couple of things are clear; this is a

different political party to when Jeremy Corbyn won the first time

round and I think also for most Labour MPs, they are now pretty much

agreed that they have lost what they see as their best chance of moving

Jeremy Corbyn out of the leadership before the next general election.

Why does this all matter when Jeremy Corbyn won so clearly today? Because

the general voting public outside of any political party tends to punish

political parties who fight amongst themselves and the Labour Party

hasn't done very much else for the last 12 months.

Thank you. Junior doctors in England have

suspended plans for further strikes in their dispute with the Government

over new contracts Their union, the British Medical

Association, said strikes planned for the coming

months had been abandoned, The Government has

welcomed the announcement. It's been a bitter dispute with

unprecedented walkouts by junior doctors in England. Now their union,

the BMA, has called a halt to the strikes, escalated action with

five-day walkouts had been planned for the next three months, but

they've now been suspended after concerns expressed by BMA members.

Considering the feedback we have had from junior doctors, the public and

our patients, we didn't feel that continuing with the plan of

industrial action was something that the NHS could cope with. There are

other options available to junior doctors and we'll be looking into

those. However, patient safety is our primary concern, that's why we

have chosen to suspend the industrial action. Strike action

began in January this year. Then in April the first all-out strike by a

group of doctors in NHS history took place. Agreement was reached with

the Government, but in July, BMA members rejected the new contract

deal. At the end of August, a series of longer escalated strikes was

announced. Amidst reports of a split amongst

BMA leaders, the first planned strike earlier this month was called

off, but five-day walkouts over the next three months seemed set to

continue. Now all the future planned strikes have been cancelled, the BMA

says it will continue its campaign against the new employment contract

due to be introduced next month. Thousands of operations were

postponed during the action earlier this year. The Department of Health

welcomed the suspension of strikes but urged the BMA to call off

industrial action permanently in the interests of patients.

The strikes are suspended but where does this leave the dispute?

Has the Government won? They have commended the junior doctor

leadership for taking this decision. The reality is they had to bow to

pressure from members who said they didn't want to carry on striking,

worrying about patient safety and the impact on the NHS. The BMA is

talking about continued action, using other means. The court remains

deeply unpopular -- the contract. There's talk on social media about

people being unhappy with what the BMA have done. The reality is Jeremy

Hunt will continue with imposing the contract from next month and the

BM's rA's main card in continuing this dispute, the threat of strikes,

is now off the table -- the BMA. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

has said he is appalled by the "chilling" upsurge

in fighting in Aleppo and warned that the use of advance weaponry

in Syria's battleground city Syrian government forces have spent

the day attacking the town of Handarat, to the east

of Aleppo, and carrying out This is the latest stronghold to

come under attack. Control of Handarat is important because it

sits on a main road in Aleppo. If the government wins, the road would

be opened for the ground offensive Assad forces said would come. Air

raids did not relent today, leaving many dead and buildings flattened.

TRANSLATION: Early in the morning, they hit us with a powerful missile

and there is still people there. They are destroying the country and

there's no medical aid. They've killed many people.

The government has warned civilians to avoid what it calls terrorist

positions. Hospitals are overwhelmed with their victims. And now there's

no water. UNICEF says the main supply to the east was damaged. A

quarter of a million people now faced with drinking highly

contaminated water. TRANSLATION: We are dying. The

blockade, construction, killing. May God hold them to account.

UN diplomacy's stalled. The blame game over who is responsible for

this continues. And so do the bombs. Police say they're looking

into claims that hackers have stolen thousands of private photographs

belonging to Pippa Middleton, The Met Police made the announcement

after it was reported the Sun newspaper reported that they had

been offered ?50,000 for the photographs.

The paper said the material included shots of the Duchess's

children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.

Jeremy Corbyn is on the Andrew Marr Show tomorrow. Good night. Hi,

there. The weather will chop and change over the next few days, some

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