30/06/2016 Outside Source

Hello, this is. It has been a wild day for Westminster politics. Boris

Johnson goes from front runner to no-show as he pulls out of the race

to become the next British Prime Minister. Having consulted

colleagues and in view of the circumstances in Parliament, I have

concluded that person cannot be me. Five contenders have put their names

forward for the Conservative leadership. One of them as Michael

Gove and has been talking to the BBC are saying that Boris Johnson

couldn't run a team. While Boris has great attributes, he was not capable

of uniting that he meant leaving the party in the country in the way that

I would have hoped. We are going to take the ceremony that is marking

100 years since the Battle of the Somme in France. To get in touch

with us, UK News in the hashtag BBC OS.

Welcome to the programme. An astonishing day of politics in

London. The heart of it, the big question, who will be the next

leader of the Conservative Party and by Minister? Many expected the race

to be between Boris Johnson as Theresa May. But Johnson bowed out,

saying he was not the person for the job. Michael Gove, a senior member

of the campaign to leave, had ruled himself out many times in the

leadership race but now says he has changed his mind. The Tories have

five choices for leader. Let's take a look at them. My belief was that

Boris could not build and unite the team required in order to take this

country forward. Both to implement the result of the referendum last

week, but also to provide the strong, collective leadership, the

team captaincy, that this country requires. I know I'm not a showy

politician. I does to the television studios. I don't gossip about people

over lunch. I don't go drinking in Parliament's Boris. I don't often

wear my heart on my sleeve. I just get on with the job in front of me.

I was brought up to understand that nothing gets handed to you on a

plate. On the rainy rugby fields of West Wales, I like that it's not a

question of waiting for the ball to pop out of the back of the scrum. If

you want it, you do what's required and you get your hands dirty. I

believe that the events of last week have ushered in a new dawn for our

country. We must approach it in a series of confidence, optimism and

hope. We are not leaving the EU, we are joining the rest of the world.

This I think the single market is something of a red herring. If a

1950s construct for a time when there were high trade barriers,

tariffs on each other's trade. Now times changed massively and I think

there is a massive opportunity for the UK trading freely with the rest

of the worlds, 80% of the world's economy. As the Conservatives. On

the other side of parliaments, the Labour Party is still in crisis

following the Brexit vote. Let's take a look. This is Jeremy Corbyn.

He is still in charge for now, despite growing pressure from his

MPs to resign. This is Angela Eagle. She is expected to challenge him for

his job. She was responsible for Mr Corbyn's business policy. Something

I watched on the web today, one of dozens of Labour MPs saying they

lack confidence in their leader. Resignations haven't stopped. The

BBC website live page has every twist and turn, of which there are

many. Two more MPs have said today that they cannot back Mr Corbyn.

Where is everybody gone? Jeremy Corbyn's home is normally mobbed by

the media -- media. No one is even asking what Labour things any more.

The piece didn't last. It never does. First launching a plan to

stamp out racism in the party, he had said critics by mentioning

Israel and the so-called Islamic State in the same breath. Are Jewish

friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the

Netanyahu government ban are Muslim friends are for those various

self-styled Islamic states organisations. Was this had led to

prejudice? A pro Corbyn activist who said... If you can see he was

working hand-in-hand. Are you serious? How dare you! DMV Ruth

Smeeth what sells and discussed. It wasn't going well. Under enormous

pressure to stand down facing an imminent leadership challenge, he

tried to finance. I am the leader of the party and by doing that. What

would you say to those many members who will never follow your

readership no matter what you say on this or any other subjects, and of

the break-up of the Labour Party a price worth paying for your

continued leadership? I am going to cutting. There will be plenty of

time in the months ahead to debate the Labour leadership. No more

questions like that. We headed back to Westminster, where his MPs are

competing to see who might challenge him for leader. Is the break-up of

your party a price worth paying? Or once loyal MPs are telling me they

think he should stand down to prevent a right-wing takeover. Any

MPs are becoming convinced that Jeremy Corbyn's determination to

fight on may be weakening under pressure. This morning more than 500

Labour councillors joined the chorus calling for him to go. There's talk

of trade union support softening. Formerly loyal MPs are peeling off.

They say his base of support is strong enough to see off all

colours. It's become a trial of will. The leader is under siege.

Let's continue with this and get a sense of what is happening in

Westminster. Rob Watson on his view of exactly what it is that going on.

It is quite an extraordinary day. If you think about it, one week ago

Boris Johnson that successfully a campaign that essentially completely

remade or took away a plank of British foreign policy and economic

policy of the last 40 years. Namely our membership of the EU. He was

odds-on favourites to succeed David Cameron as leader of the

Conservative Party as to become Prime Minister. It hasn't worked out

that way. In a quite dramatic developments, he has been unseated

for two reasons. Number one, some of those inside the Conservative Party

really doubted his commitments, did he really want to leave the European

Union? There are also doubts about his rather colourful personality. We

have had this absolutely extraordinary earthquake in terms of

British economic and policy. Now we have this extraordinary developments

in British politics. There is one thing which may surprise you and may

surprise lots of other people watching. In a funny way, this bit

is a return to politics as usual. What I mean by that is, clashing

egos, large personalities and a sense that you really have to get

your coalitions together inside governing parties. It is about raw

numbers, raw power and raw support. A week ago, I spoke to Naomi Long me

about whether Boris could be the next Prime Minister. She had a

mantra that she said, he who wields the sort rarely wears the crown.

Boris Johnson is out. Some have accused Michael Gove also wielding a

sword. What are we looking at when we get back to politics as usual?

She is a very wise woman. Boris Johnson studied classics at

university and I think I only studied history. I will give you a

bit of colour about Michael Gove. There was one tweet and I'm not sure

how much this will tell us, but it's kind of indicative of some of the

role feeling. One tweet said that one Conservative MPs would rather

vote for it all part and he would further Michael Gove after what's

Michael Gove had done to Boris Johnson. Feelings running very high,

indeed. On the other hand, given everything that has happened is, I

would say to Naomi Long provided something isn't against the laws of

physics, nature, astrophysics, just about anything can happen based on

what has already happened. That's just one side of the aisle. Let's

flip over to the other, which is Jeremy Corbyn. We were showing our

viewers some of the latest leadership contest. Some of the

players that are better. What is expected to happen in the coming

days? Goodness only knows. You could almost forget when you think about

the drama in the Conservative Party that the main opposition party is in

complete turmoil, too. Nothing short of the Civil war. Even its own

members talking about the existential struggle. But those that

don't follow British politics that closely, it essentially pits Jeremy

Corbyn, the hard left Socialist leader, and the activists to support

the party out in the country, against its more moderate faction,

which is by a large represented by its MPs in Parliament here in

Westminster. They think Jeremy Corbyn is a hopeless leader and that

is, in the current condition of the country is in, people had screaming

out for hard left Socialist alternative. That battle is

absolutely going to have to be fought whether it's in the next

week, the next day, who knows. Thank you. Commemorations marking the

hundredth anniversary of the Battle of the song. And episode which has

come to symbolise the horrors of warfare in World War I. Friday will

mark 100 years since this massive Allied assault on the German

positions in northern France. Over five months, there were 1 million

people killed or wounded on both sides. We can go over and see some

of the live pictures coming from the event right now. The Duke and

Duchess of Cambridge along with Prince Harry are at the ceremony

taking place right now. Let's take a moment to see some of the pictures.

The memorial mirror. They have also a memorial for the 72,000 soldiers

that were missing from that time in history. We will have more on that

throughout the programme here on Outside Source. Prince Harry just

beginning to speak there. We know there were letters of soldiers that

are sent home that have also been read out as part of that vigil.

Let's return to Brexit, our top story here. The one thing that we do

know about it, so many questions, is that it has caused a huge amount of

uncertainty. US President Barack Obama is concerned. A quote from

today. He says, I think there are some genuine long-term concerns

about global growth, if in fact Brexit goes through. He also

the Bank of England have a key role to play in shaping Britain's

economy. Its governor, Mark Carney, has been speaking today. There were

a number of tweets about it. It was a long press conference that he took

a number of questions. This is an economist from the Financial Times.

Time firmly in cheek as he says that. That's a lesson to a little of

what Mr Carney said. In my view, and I'm not prejudging

the views of other independent members of the NBC, the economic

outlook has deteriorated. Some monetary policy easing will likely

be required. Mark Carney bearer. Just a week since Britain went to

the polls and vote to leave the EU. The decision, as we have spoken

about, has created turmoil in the UK. It's also raise questions about

what the UK's relationship will be with the EU. I went to the German

city closest to Britain to find out how the results of the referendum

are being viewed from Aachen. This westernmost German city prides

itself on European unity. It is rightly that I right beside Belgium

and the Netherlands. We are in a very specific geographical point. We

want to find out how the people from here felt about Britain leaving the

EU. Absolutely shocked, because we did

not expect this. People asked what is going to happen? What does that

mean for everybody? Is travelling getting more expensive? What does it

mean, travelling to the UK? Front now, the disappointment fades away

and we are a little bit angry. We can't understand what the Brits did.

We always thought this is one common unity, Europe, and what will it mean

to other countries? I was in London that morning. I had

the chance to be there the night before I headed home. Nobody talked

about it. Everyone was sure that the voting would be for a name. When I

read it in the morning, I couldn't believe it. I'm very worried because

we are sending more than 200,000 tonnes of the product to England.

More than 750 million euros every year from Germany to England.

England is a country, number two in Europe, regarding exports. We are

very worried that the pound is going down and the prices are going up in

the supermarkets. Our sales may go down and disrupt our figures. I was

very sad. I watched TV with my daughter. I cried. I have friends in

Ireland and southern England. I saw all the young people crying and I

was crying, too. England was a friend. I felt like a friend to

England. Are going to be returning to the ceremony marking 100 years

since the Battle of the Somme. That's going to be coming up on

Outside Source. The Conservative Party elder

statesman, Lord Heseltine, has been highly critical of Boris Johnson's

decision not to stand. He has given a veneer of respectability to Nigel

Farage's campaign. He has then created the most significant

constitutional crisis that I have ever seen in his time. He has

seriously depleted the value of the nation's savings. He has toured the

party apart. And he has left the administration of this country with

no answers about the direction of economic troubles. He is rather like

a general who reads his troops to the sound of the guns, and then

within sight of the battlefield abandons them.

This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom. Our top story: the

race to decide who will be Britain into its future outside the EU has

been thrown into further turmoil, with the -- former London Mayor

Boris Johnson rolling himself out. Let's take a look at some of the

stories that are making news with BBC's language services. A deadly

attack on a police convoy on the outskirts of Taliban. Most of the

dead were police cadets returning from training. BBC Arabic reports at

least ten people drowned and more than 100 others were rescued when an

inflatable boats carrying migrants capsized off Libya. One story

gaining a lot of attention online: a British woman has won the right to

use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild.

The daughter who died five years ago was said to have approved of the

plan. That's a day ahead of the potential

default. The US territory has been suffering following a decade-long

recession. It has seen businesses close, schools struggle with

electricity shortages and hospitals would of medication. Let's get more

from our correspondent in New York. Very much a last-minute reprieve,

perhaps. What is this really mean for Porter -- Puerto Rican 's? Is is

actually only a partial reprieve. Tomorrow, Friday, is a big day. I

had to make payments of $1.9 billion on some of Baghdad. As you rightly

pointed out, Congress has just passed a bill and it's being signs

momentarily by President Obama. It's going to help them solve 70 million

Baghdad. There is still the remaining doubt that Puerto Rican

still has to deal with. That is still a mounting problem for this

island. It has rarely been crumbling under this mass amount of doubt. How

is it in such bad financial dire straits when it is so connected to

the United States, and the economy is so-so versions? It's a bit

tricky. It is still part of the US but of the territory, so it's not

afforded some of the same rights as you would see for some states here

in the US. It can't file for bankruptcy as many US cities have

done that have been in similar kinds of financial difficulties. In terms

of how they even got here, this is a country that has been suffering.

They haven't been able to make as much money, so what they have done

is beans telling municipal bonds. I got a lot of wires for those

municipal bonds because it still is connected to the United States. As

we see now, they just didn't have the means to pay on any of those

deaths. A partial sigh of relief, perhaps. Thank you very much.

Speaking to us from New York today. It should have been the sale of the

century, this next story. The largest rough diamond found in 100

years has failed to reach its reserve price. Take a look at it. It

is rather large. Discovered over 100 years.

I will open the bidding is at $50 million. $61 million. Last chance,

the hammer is going down. $61 million. 61 million. Sadly this was

not sold but it is a magnificent stone. It will go down in history as

being one of the greatest Stones ever discovered. Let's return now to

commemorations that are marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of

the Somme. An episode which has come to symbolise the horrors of warfare

in World War I. We brought you some of the picture is earlier, the vigil

does continue right now. This vigil taking place earlier at

Westminster Cathedral. Queen Elizabeth attended. Just as night

begins to fall now in northern France, the Duke and Duchess of

Cambridge in attendance as is Prince Harry.

We will continue covering the Memorial, the commemorations of the

Battle of the Somme, on Outside Source. But from the sand, goodbye.

Thanks for joining me for this look at some interesting weather events

currently happening around the world. First off to North America

where we have had very high temperatures and ongoing wild fires.

They are contained towards the West but we still have a plume of