:00:14. > :00:21.Hello, this is. It has been a wild day for Westminster politics. Boris
:00:22. > :00:24.Johnson goes from front runner to no-show as he pulls out of the race
:00:25. > :00:31.to become the next British Prime Minister. Having consulted
:00:32. > :00:39.colleagues and in view of the circumstances in Parliament, I have
:00:40. > :00:43.concluded that person cannot be me. Five contenders have put their names
:00:44. > :00:45.forward for the Conservative leadership. One of them as Michael
:00:46. > :00:52.Gove and has been talking to the BBC are saying that Boris Johnson
:00:53. > :00:55.couldn't run a team. While Boris has great attributes, he was not capable
:00:56. > :01:00.of uniting that he meant leaving the party in the country in the way that
:01:01. > :01:04.I would have hoped. We are going to take the ceremony that is marking
:01:05. > :01:11.100 years since the Battle of the Somme in France. To get in touch
:01:12. > :01:31.with us, UK News in the hashtag BBC OS.
:01:32. > :01:37.Welcome to the programme. An astonishing day of politics in
:01:38. > :01:40.London. The heart of it, the big question, who will be the next
:01:41. > :01:45.leader of the Conservative Party and by Minister? Many expected the race
:01:46. > :01:51.to be between Boris Johnson as Theresa May. But Johnson bowed out,
:01:52. > :01:57.saying he was not the person for the job. Michael Gove, a senior member
:01:58. > :02:00.of the campaign to leave, had ruled himself out many times in the
:02:01. > :02:04.leadership race but now says he has changed his mind. The Tories have
:02:05. > :02:13.five choices for leader. Let's take a look at them. My belief was that
:02:14. > :02:17.Boris could not build and unite the team required in order to take this
:02:18. > :02:23.country forward. Both to implement the result of the referendum last
:02:24. > :02:27.week, but also to provide the strong, collective leadership, the
:02:28. > :02:32.team captaincy, that this country requires. I know I'm not a showy
:02:33. > :02:38.politician. I does to the television studios. I don't gossip about people
:02:39. > :02:41.over lunch. I don't go drinking in Parliament's Boris. I don't often
:02:42. > :02:47.wear my heart on my sleeve. I just get on with the job in front of me.
:02:48. > :02:52.I was brought up to understand that nothing gets handed to you on a
:02:53. > :02:55.plate. On the rainy rugby fields of West Wales, I like that it's not a
:02:56. > :03:00.question of waiting for the ball to pop out of the back of the scrum. If
:03:01. > :03:07.you want it, you do what's required and you get your hands dirty. I
:03:08. > :03:14.believe that the events of last week have ushered in a new dawn for our
:03:15. > :03:21.country. We must approach it in a series of confidence, optimism and
:03:22. > :03:27.hope. We are not leaving the EU, we are joining the rest of the world.
:03:28. > :03:31.This I think the single market is something of a red herring. If a
:03:32. > :03:36.1950s construct for a time when there were high trade barriers,
:03:37. > :03:41.tariffs on each other's trade. Now times changed massively and I think
:03:42. > :03:45.there is a massive opportunity for the UK trading freely with the rest
:03:46. > :03:52.of the worlds, 80% of the world's economy. As the Conservatives. On
:03:53. > :03:57.the other side of parliaments, the Labour Party is still in crisis
:03:58. > :04:03.following the Brexit vote. Let's take a look. This is Jeremy Corbyn.
:04:04. > :04:09.He is still in charge for now, despite growing pressure from his
:04:10. > :04:14.MPs to resign. This is Angela Eagle. She is expected to challenge him for
:04:15. > :04:20.his job. She was responsible for Mr Corbyn's business policy. Something
:04:21. > :04:25.I watched on the web today, one of dozens of Labour MPs saying they
:04:26. > :04:28.lack confidence in their leader. Resignations haven't stopped. The
:04:29. > :04:33.BBC website live page has every twist and turn, of which there are
:04:34. > :04:41.many. Two more MPs have said today that they cannot back Mr Corbyn.
:04:42. > :04:51.Where is everybody gone? Jeremy Corbyn's home is normally mobbed by
:04:52. > :04:54.the media -- media. No one is even asking what Labour things any more.
:04:55. > :04:59.The piece didn't last. It never does. First launching a plan to
:05:00. > :05:03.stamp out racism in the party, he had said critics by mentioning
:05:04. > :05:07.Israel and the so-called Islamic State in the same breath. Are Jewish
:05:08. > :05:11.friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the
:05:12. > :05:14.Netanyahu government ban are Muslim friends are for those various
:05:15. > :05:23.self-styled Islamic states organisations. Was this had led to
:05:24. > :05:31.prejudice? A pro Corbyn activist who said... If you can see he was
:05:32. > :05:40.working hand-in-hand. Are you serious? How dare you! DMV Ruth
:05:41. > :05:43.Smeeth what sells and discussed. It wasn't going well. Under enormous
:05:44. > :05:49.pressure to stand down facing an imminent leadership challenge, he
:05:50. > :05:53.tried to finance. I am the leader of the party and by doing that. What
:05:54. > :05:56.would you say to those many members who will never follow your
:05:57. > :06:00.readership no matter what you say on this or any other subjects, and of
:06:01. > :06:05.the break-up of the Labour Party a price worth paying for your
:06:06. > :06:12.continued leadership? I am going to cutting. There will be plenty of
:06:13. > :06:19.time in the months ahead to debate the Labour leadership. No more
:06:20. > :06:21.questions like that. We headed back to Westminster, where his MPs are
:06:22. > :06:26.competing to see who might challenge him for leader. Is the break-up of
:06:27. > :06:29.your party a price worth paying? Or once loyal MPs are telling me they
:06:30. > :06:34.think he should stand down to prevent a right-wing takeover. Any
:06:35. > :06:36.MPs are becoming convinced that Jeremy Corbyn's determination to
:06:37. > :06:41.fight on may be weakening under pressure. This morning more than 500
:06:42. > :06:45.Labour councillors joined the chorus calling for him to go. There's talk
:06:46. > :06:50.of trade union support softening. Formerly loyal MPs are peeling off.
:06:51. > :06:55.They say his base of support is strong enough to see off all
:06:56. > :06:59.colours. It's become a trial of will. The leader is under siege.
:07:00. > :07:06.Let's continue with this and get a sense of what is happening in
:07:07. > :07:13.Westminster. Rob Watson on his view of exactly what it is that going on.
:07:14. > :07:17.It is quite an extraordinary day. If you think about it, one week ago
:07:18. > :07:22.Boris Johnson that successfully a campaign that essentially completely
:07:23. > :07:27.remade or took away a plank of British foreign policy and economic
:07:28. > :07:32.policy of the last 40 years. Namely our membership of the EU. He was
:07:33. > :07:35.odds-on favourites to succeed David Cameron as leader of the
:07:36. > :07:43.Conservative Party as to become Prime Minister. It hasn't worked out
:07:44. > :07:48.that way. In a quite dramatic developments, he has been unseated
:07:49. > :07:51.for two reasons. Number one, some of those inside the Conservative Party
:07:52. > :07:56.really doubted his commitments, did he really want to leave the European
:07:57. > :08:02.Union? There are also doubts about his rather colourful personality. We
:08:03. > :08:08.have had this absolutely extraordinary earthquake in terms of
:08:09. > :08:11.British economic and policy. Now we have this extraordinary developments
:08:12. > :08:14.in British politics. There is one thing which may surprise you and may
:08:15. > :08:19.surprise lots of other people watching. In a funny way, this bit
:08:20. > :08:25.is a return to politics as usual. What I mean by that is, clashing
:08:26. > :08:28.egos, large personalities and a sense that you really have to get
:08:29. > :08:36.your coalitions together inside governing parties. It is about raw
:08:37. > :08:40.numbers, raw power and raw support. A week ago, I spoke to Naomi Long me
:08:41. > :08:45.about whether Boris could be the next Prime Minister. She had a
:08:46. > :08:50.mantra that she said, he who wields the sort rarely wears the crown.
:08:51. > :08:55.Boris Johnson is out. Some have accused Michael Gove also wielding a
:08:56. > :09:01.sword. What are we looking at when we get back to politics as usual?
:09:02. > :09:03.She is a very wise woman. Boris Johnson studied classics at
:09:04. > :09:08.university and I think I only studied history. I will give you a
:09:09. > :09:12.bit of colour about Michael Gove. There was one tweet and I'm not sure
:09:13. > :09:16.how much this will tell us, but it's kind of indicative of some of the
:09:17. > :09:20.role feeling. One tweet said that one Conservative MPs would rather
:09:21. > :09:24.vote for it all part and he would further Michael Gove after what's
:09:25. > :09:29.Michael Gove had done to Boris Johnson. Feelings running very high,
:09:30. > :09:37.indeed. On the other hand, given everything that has happened is, I
:09:38. > :09:42.would say to Naomi Long provided something isn't against the laws of
:09:43. > :09:47.physics, nature, astrophysics, just about anything can happen based on
:09:48. > :09:51.what has already happened. That's just one side of the aisle. Let's
:09:52. > :09:56.flip over to the other, which is Jeremy Corbyn. We were showing our
:09:57. > :09:59.viewers some of the latest leadership contest. Some of the
:10:00. > :10:05.players that are better. What is expected to happen in the coming
:10:06. > :10:08.days? Goodness only knows. You could almost forget when you think about
:10:09. > :10:15.the drama in the Conservative Party that the main opposition party is in
:10:16. > :10:17.complete turmoil, too. Nothing short of the Civil war. Even its own
:10:18. > :10:21.members talking about the existential struggle. But those that
:10:22. > :10:27.don't follow British politics that closely, it essentially pits Jeremy
:10:28. > :10:31.Corbyn, the hard left Socialist leader, and the activists to support
:10:32. > :10:35.the party out in the country, against its more moderate faction,
:10:36. > :10:39.which is by a large represented by its MPs in Parliament here in
:10:40. > :10:44.Westminster. They think Jeremy Corbyn is a hopeless leader and that
:10:45. > :10:46.is, in the current condition of the country is in, people had screaming
:10:47. > :10:51.out for hard left Socialist alternative. That battle is
:10:52. > :10:55.absolutely going to have to be fought whether it's in the next
:10:56. > :11:02.week, the next day, who knows. Thank you. Commemorations marking the
:11:03. > :11:05.hundredth anniversary of the Battle of the song. And episode which has
:11:06. > :11:11.come to symbolise the horrors of warfare in World War I. Friday will
:11:12. > :11:15.mark 100 years since this massive Allied assault on the German
:11:16. > :11:21.positions in northern France. Over five months, there were 1 million
:11:22. > :11:26.people killed or wounded on both sides. We can go over and see some
:11:27. > :11:33.of the live pictures coming from the event right now. The Duke and
:11:34. > :11:39.Duchess of Cambridge along with Prince Harry are at the ceremony
:11:40. > :12:42.taking place right now. Let's take a moment to see some of the pictures.
:12:43. > :12:49.The memorial mirror. They have also a memorial for the 72,000 soldiers
:12:50. > :12:53.that were missing from that time in history. We will have more on that
:12:54. > :13:04.throughout the programme here on Outside Source. Prince Harry just
:13:05. > :13:08.beginning to speak there. We know there were letters of soldiers that
:13:09. > :13:14.are sent home that have also been read out as part of that vigil.
:13:15. > :13:20.Let's return to Brexit, our top story here. The one thing that we do
:13:21. > :13:26.know about it, so many questions, is that it has caused a huge amount of
:13:27. > :13:30.uncertainty. US President Barack Obama is concerned. A quote from
:13:31. > :13:35.today. He says, I think there are some genuine long-term concerns
:13:36. > :13:44.about global growth, if in fact Brexit goes through. He also
:13:45. > :13:51.the Bank of England have a key role to play in shaping Britain's
:13:52. > :13:56.economy. Its governor, Mark Carney, has been speaking today. There were
:13:57. > :13:59.a number of tweets about it. It was a long press conference that he took
:14:00. > :14:11.a number of questions. This is an economist from the Financial Times.
:14:12. > :14:13.Time firmly in cheek as he says that. That's a lesson to a little of
:14:14. > :14:40.what Mr Carney said. In my view, and I'm not prejudging
:14:41. > :14:48.the views of other independent members of the NBC, the economic
:14:49. > :14:55.outlook has deteriorated. Some monetary policy easing will likely
:14:56. > :14:59.be required. Mark Carney bearer. Just a week since Britain went to
:15:00. > :15:02.the polls and vote to leave the EU. The decision, as we have spoken
:15:03. > :15:08.about, has created turmoil in the UK. It's also raise questions about
:15:09. > :15:13.what the UK's relationship will be with the EU. I went to the German
:15:14. > :15:14.city closest to Britain to find out how the results of the referendum
:15:15. > :15:32.are being viewed from Aachen. This westernmost German city prides
:15:33. > :15:37.itself on European unity. It is rightly that I right beside Belgium
:15:38. > :15:41.and the Netherlands. We are in a very specific geographical point. We
:15:42. > :15:42.want to find out how the people from here felt about Britain leaving the
:15:43. > :15:59.EU. Absolutely shocked, because we did
:16:00. > :16:04.not expect this. People asked what is going to happen? What does that
:16:05. > :16:09.mean for everybody? Is travelling getting more expensive? What does it
:16:10. > :16:14.mean, travelling to the UK? Front now, the disappointment fades away
:16:15. > :16:21.and we are a little bit angry. We can't understand what the Brits did.
:16:22. > :16:25.We always thought this is one common unity, Europe, and what will it mean
:16:26. > :16:45.to other countries? I was in London that morning. I had
:16:46. > :16:49.the chance to be there the night before I headed home. Nobody talked
:16:50. > :16:54.about it. Everyone was sure that the voting would be for a name. When I
:16:55. > :17:03.read it in the morning, I couldn't believe it. I'm very worried because
:17:04. > :17:08.we are sending more than 200,000 tonnes of the product to England.
:17:09. > :17:13.More than 750 million euros every year from Germany to England.
:17:14. > :17:19.England is a country, number two in Europe, regarding exports. We are
:17:20. > :17:23.very worried that the pound is going down and the prices are going up in
:17:24. > :17:36.the supermarkets. Our sales may go down and disrupt our figures. I was
:17:37. > :17:44.very sad. I watched TV with my daughter. I cried. I have friends in
:17:45. > :17:50.Ireland and southern England. I saw all the young people crying and I
:17:51. > :18:05.was crying, too. England was a friend. I felt like a friend to
:18:06. > :18:11.England. Are going to be returning to the ceremony marking 100 years
:18:12. > :18:14.since the Battle of the Somme. That's going to be coming up on
:18:15. > :18:40.Outside Source. The Conservative Party elder
:18:41. > :18:45.statesman, Lord Heseltine, has been highly critical of Boris Johnson's
:18:46. > :18:52.decision not to stand. He has given a veneer of respectability to Nigel
:18:53. > :18:55.Farage's campaign. He has then created the most significant
:18:56. > :19:02.constitutional crisis that I have ever seen in his time. He has
:19:03. > :19:08.seriously depleted the value of the nation's savings. He has toured the
:19:09. > :19:12.party apart. And he has left the administration of this country with
:19:13. > :19:19.no answers about the direction of economic troubles. He is rather like
:19:20. > :19:24.a general who reads his troops to the sound of the guns, and then
:19:25. > :19:36.within sight of the battlefield abandons them.
:19:37. > :19:43.This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom. Our top story: the
:19:44. > :19:47.race to decide who will be Britain into its future outside the EU has
:19:48. > :19:51.been thrown into further turmoil, with the -- former London Mayor
:19:52. > :19:56.Boris Johnson rolling himself out. Let's take a look at some of the
:19:57. > :20:00.stories that are making news with BBC's language services. A deadly
:20:01. > :20:08.attack on a police convoy on the outskirts of Taliban. Most of the
:20:09. > :20:11.dead were police cadets returning from training. BBC Arabic reports at
:20:12. > :20:16.least ten people drowned and more than 100 others were rescued when an
:20:17. > :20:21.inflatable boats carrying migrants capsized off Libya. One story
:20:22. > :20:24.gaining a lot of attention online: a British woman has won the right to
:20:25. > :20:28.use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild.
:20:29. > :20:30.The daughter who died five years ago was said to have approved of the
:20:31. > :20:51.plan. That's a day ahead of the potential
:20:52. > :20:56.default. The US territory has been suffering following a decade-long
:20:57. > :20:58.recession. It has seen businesses close, schools struggle with
:20:59. > :21:04.electricity shortages and hospitals would of medication. Let's get more
:21:05. > :21:08.from our correspondent in New York. Very much a last-minute reprieve,
:21:09. > :21:17.perhaps. What is this really mean for Porter -- Puerto Rican 's? Is is
:21:18. > :21:23.actually only a partial reprieve. Tomorrow, Friday, is a big day. I
:21:24. > :21:28.had to make payments of $1.9 billion on some of Baghdad. As you rightly
:21:29. > :21:32.pointed out, Congress has just passed a bill and it's being signs
:21:33. > :21:41.momentarily by President Obama. It's going to help them solve 70 million
:21:42. > :21:45.Baghdad. There is still the remaining doubt that Puerto Rican
:21:46. > :21:49.still has to deal with. That is still a mounting problem for this
:21:50. > :21:55.island. It has rarely been crumbling under this mass amount of doubt. How
:21:56. > :22:01.is it in such bad financial dire straits when it is so connected to
:22:02. > :22:04.the United States, and the economy is so-so versions? It's a bit
:22:05. > :22:08.tricky. It is still part of the US but of the territory, so it's not
:22:09. > :22:13.afforded some of the same rights as you would see for some states here
:22:14. > :22:17.in the US. It can't file for bankruptcy as many US cities have
:22:18. > :22:21.done that have been in similar kinds of financial difficulties. In terms
:22:22. > :22:26.of how they even got here, this is a country that has been suffering.
:22:27. > :22:29.They haven't been able to make as much money, so what they have done
:22:30. > :22:33.is beans telling municipal bonds. I got a lot of wires for those
:22:34. > :22:38.municipal bonds because it still is connected to the United States. As
:22:39. > :22:44.we see now, they just didn't have the means to pay on any of those
:22:45. > :22:49.deaths. A partial sigh of relief, perhaps. Thank you very much.
:22:50. > :22:53.Speaking to us from New York today. It should have been the sale of the
:22:54. > :22:57.century, this next story. The largest rough diamond found in 100
:22:58. > :23:04.years has failed to reach its reserve price. Take a look at it. It
:23:05. > :23:26.is rather large. Discovered over 100 years.
:23:27. > :23:37.I will open the bidding is at $50 million. $61 million. Last chance,
:23:38. > :23:50.the hammer is going down. $61 million. 61 million. Sadly this was
:23:51. > :23:53.not sold but it is a magnificent stone. It will go down in history as
:23:54. > :24:00.being one of the greatest Stones ever discovered. Let's return now to
:24:01. > :24:03.commemorations that are marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of
:24:04. > :24:08.the Somme. An episode which has come to symbolise the horrors of warfare
:24:09. > :24:10.in World War I. We brought you some of the picture is earlier, the vigil
:24:11. > :25:09.does continue right now. This vigil taking place earlier at
:25:10. > :25:16.Westminster Cathedral. Queen Elizabeth attended. Just as night
:25:17. > :25:18.begins to fall now in northern France, the Duke and Duchess of
:25:19. > :25:55.Cambridge in attendance as is Prince Harry.
:25:56. > :26:00.We will continue covering the Memorial, the commemorations of the
:26:01. > :26:10.Battle of the Somme, on Outside Source. But from the sand, goodbye.
:26:11. > :26:12.Thanks for joining me for this look at some interesting weather events
:26:13. > :26:17.currently happening around the world. First off to North America
:26:18. > :26:23.where we have had very high temperatures and ongoing wild fires.
:26:24. > :26:24.They are contained towards the West but we still have a plume of