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Earlier in the province of baluchistan where we understand at least 52 people have died by a bomb attack. More than 50 others were injured. A Senior Police officer is also believed to be among the dead. That is Breaking News coming in, a second blast in pakistan at a mosque near to pershore city. Concentrating on the uk now. Leading economists say the government on track to being the biggest tax raising Parliament Since records began. The Institute For Fiscal Studies says that, by the next general election, income from taxes will be at a level similar to post world war ii levels. Opposition parties say the public is paying for conservative failure while the treasury says cutting inflation is the best tax cut it can currently provide. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, vicki young. Talk us through for these economists are saying. I talk us through for these economists are sa inc. ~ , are saying. I think the interesting thin if are saying. I think the interesting thing if you are saying. I think the interesting thing if you are are saying. I think the interesting thing if you are a are saying. I think the interesting thing if you are a uk are saying. I think the interesting thing if you are a uk taxpayer are saying. I think the interesting thing if you are a uk taxpayer or| are saying. I think the interesting | thing if you are a uk taxpayer or a uk corporation you might not be surprised that tax bills have gone up surprised that tax bills have gone up a lot but i guess it is the reasons behind it. You might assume the pandemic might have had an impact but what is interesting is economists say that is part of the reason but not the whole picture. They point to some of the tax rises that have happened happening so a rise in corporation tax, the freezing of thresholds, less is known as fiscal drag and it means is a lot of people think its quite a sneaky way of getting tax from all of us because it is not putting up the Headline Rate of tax, it is changing the thresholds which means you could end up paying more and maybe do not realise straightaway and windfall taxes on Energy Companies so quite a lot falling on businesses. More money spent on the nhs. We hear this a lot in british politics, Prime Ministers like spending our money, they come under pressure for the get into Downing Street and that is what has happened in recent years, more spending on the nhs, police and of course looking ahead, The Big Question politically is is there any chance these taxes are going to fall in the next few years because what the government would say as this does not mean the uk is an outlier particularly, it brings us pretty much into line with other developed countries. We much into line with other developed countries. ~. ,. , much into line with other developed countries. ,. , countries. We have already had opposition countries. We have already had Opposition Parties countries. We have already had Opposition Parties weighing countries. We have already had Opposition Parties weighing in i Opposition Parties weighing in saying the public is basically paying for conservative failure but have they managed to back that up in any sense . Have they managed to back that up in an sense . ,. , have they managed to back that up in an sense . ,. Any sense . There is a huge debate particularly any sense . There is a huge debate particularly in any sense . There is a huge debate particularly in the any sense . There is a huge debate particularly in the conservative particularly in the Conservative Party ahead of the Party Conference which will start this weekend. About what the conservatives do. There are conservative members of parliament who think the tory party should be cutting taxes, at something the former Prime Minister liz truss thought should happen, she tried to do it and of course that went spectacularly wrong. The problem they have got in the current Chancellorjeremy Hunt has made it very clear, he said a few days ago it is virtually impossible to cut taxes at the moment and he simply does not have the funds to do it, concentrating on bringing down inflation and if you look at what is coming ahead, an ageing population and huge pressures on the nhs and pensions, it looks a pretty difficult task and this will be a question for the labour party but it seems whoever is in power after the general election, this will be something they will need to look at and i think the suspicion is once the taxes are in place it is very hard to get rid of them. Get the taxes are in place it is very hard to get rid of them. Hard to get rid of them. Got to seak hard to get rid of them. Got to s eak to hard to get rid of them. Got to speak to you Union Leaders are pushing the government to hold an Emergency Summit to resolve the future of the hs2 rail line. They say urgent action is needed after the Prime Minister refused to commit to the completion of the birmingham to manchester leg. Our transport correspondent katy austin reports. Hs2, a railway costing tens of billions of pounds meant to make travel between major cities quicker and create more space on the rail network. Work continues on building the london to birmingham stretch, but questions have been swirling about whether other parts will be delayed or cut, particularly the stretch to manchester. While hs2 opponents argue its not worth the cost or disruption, there have been calls from businesses and politicians for ministers to reaffirm their commitment to the project. Today, unions have signed a Statement Calling for the potential benefits to the economy not to be squandered, arguing that constant chopping and changing showed disregard for levelling up. We need investment in our infrastructure. The West Coast Main Line is falling apart at the seams. Its crumbling, its a victorian system. We need to invest in our infrastructure and if we dont, then not only will we not see those potentialjobs coming into the economy, but theres a real risk that well endure economic decline in that part of the world. Speaking to the bbc yesterday, the Prime Minister did nothing to dispel growing speculation that hs2 plans could be scaled back further, re routing his answers to talk about more local transport improvements. Very large projects that take a long time are sometimes not the thing that people want us to prioritise, and i agree with them. We do need to prioritise the things that can make a difference quicker. Thats why potholes money is important. Its why local bus services are important. Removing congestion and pinch points are important. The conservative Party Conference begins this weekend in manchester. The Hs2 Construction Journey continues, but the destination is still unclear. Katy austin, bbc news. More than 140 organisations and mps want the government to start consultating over a possible Cheaper Energy tariff for the most vulnerable. The call coincides with this weekends drop in the unit cost of energy for all households. Our cost of living correspondent Colletta Smith reports. Energy bills will fall slightly this weekend. The new lower cap kicks in from the 1st of october, but this winter wont feel easier for most people. We have decided that the £200 of support for Household Energy bills will be doubled to £400 for everyone. Thats because the government isnt giving that extra £400 in monthly installments made to each household last winter. What they had committed to was consulting on the introduction of a social tariff. That more targeted support would allow certain groups to access cheaper prices to help them afford their bills. Social tariffs are already available for water, mobile and broadband contracts. Today, were seeing charities and Campaign Groupsjoin together to push the Prime Minister to act. The government say up to Three Million households will benefit from the £150 warm Home Discount and millions of vulnerable households will receive up to £900 in further cost of living payments. But theyve also said they will continue to keep all options under review for those most in need. At this point, its unlikely a consultation could be turned around in time to provide the tariff this winter. So the letter also calls for more immediate support for those struggling the most. Coletta smith, bbc news. The chief executive of gb news, angelos frangopoluss, says he was appalled by comments made on the channel by the actor and campaigner, laurence fox. Mr fox and the presenter, dan wootton, were both suspended following the derogatory remarks about thejournalist, ava evans. They have since apologised. Speaking to amol rajan, mr frangopoulous had this message to ms evans. I have no hesitation whatsoever to offer that apology. And i reiterate the words in my letter which i sent to her earlier this week. It was very unfortunate and does not reflect our values. And of course we are very sorry. Unfortunate is a weird choice of words itself, isnt it . This isnt really got much to do with fortune or luck. I mean, do you just want to tell us what you said to her about why youre sorry . Well, they dont meet our values, and they were. They did not reflect what we believe is appropriate conversation as a media company, appropriate conversation as a part of the national conversation. 0k. And i, you know, its. It really is an apology that it was just really inappropriate. Isnt the truth that you wanted laurence fox to speak his mind . You wanted him to be controversial, to sail close to the wind. Its not as if his opinions were a state secret. Isnt the truth that youve encouraged, youve paid him to be himself. And far from being an aberration, his words this week were clearly in keeping with his character . No, idisagree. You think it was a big surprise. Its a really surprising thing that he had those opinions . I think laurence fox does sail close to the wind, but he didnt sail close to the wind earlier this week. That was. That was way past the limits of acceptance. And that is the difference. We are about free speech, but its about being done in a respectful and proper way. And that was not the way that that conversation played out. Nhs workers are a tough and resilient bunch the past few years have shown that but even they need extra help before being deployed to a war zone. Every year, hundreds fly into some of the worlds most dangerous places to help the injured, but only after theyve been given hostile environment training. Alastair fee followed two medics as they prepared to travel to ukraine to offer vital frontline care. Screaming. Gunshot. Out having a gun waved in your face while trying to attend to casualties, it can be a real life scenario in the field. Its ok. Were going to get you help. We send emergency medical teams into conflict. Gunshot. Chaos. Absolute chaos. Were coming to you. This is frontline medical care, except its taking place deep in the west sussex countryside. So today is a simulated environment. So what were trying to prepare them for is a variety of risks that they may be facing. In humanitarian contexts. It might look real, but its all being staged. These medics are training for the real thing. Im a pharmacist who works in the gp surgery, so you dont get many people putting guns in yourface. They would normally be caring for patients in hospitals and clinics, but the doctors, nurses and Healthcare Workers here have volunteered to go where the world needs them most. Im gemma berwick. Im a paediatric nurse from oxford. Im gemma, im a medic. How can i help . Each exercise is designed to test them, to push them to make the best decisions under pressure. I have to tell my boss. That there is a problem. Well, its quite stressful. You just have to remember why youre here and what youre doing and you know, is what youre going to do the best that you can do . So, yeah, teamwork. In the last year, Hundreds Of Nhs trained staff have gone to disasters all over the world. Among them, ukraine, caring for both the war wounded and the Wider Population thats struggling to access essential healthcare. Theres a mixture of need that were responding to in ukraine. So theres your normal gp duties, youre seeing to the community, i and then there is the war wounded as well. I mean, everyones human and we all have our fears and our anxieties, but i always just think about the need thats on the ground. So yeah, i might be scared, but as long as i talk about that and voice that. A range of Transferable Skills are needed. Im michael norris. I manage a team of pharmacists who work in gp surgeries in gosport. If the pharmaceutical supply has been compromised, i will go out, set up a pharmacy and then supply the medics, nurses, their needs to do theirjob. The training is tough and unpredictable. The team learn how to deal with carjacking. Just comply. A hostile crowd. Dont tell me what to do, mister. And theyre even ambushed. Gunshots. All by a team of Global Security experts. Something bigs going to happen. The final test is a Terrorist Attack on a hospital. Gunshots. Screaming. Theyre doing really well. The team ive been with all day have been doing making very wise decisions. We need to prepare them. For the worst case scenario. With the training over, its back to the dayjob. But each must be ready to go with as little as 12 hours notice. Yes, my family think im mad, but im not going out to be held up at gunpoint. I want to help people. So i could get called up at any moment to attend a disaster or conflict. Yeah. Bags are packed. Deep breaths. Alastair fee, for bbc news. People conceived using donated spurn, eggs or embryos will soon have the right to know the identity of their donors. Sperm. The new rule applies only to those who turn 18 from this sunday october 1st onwards. The Fertility Regulator warns that access to the information wont be quick. This report is from tink llewellyn, who has a very personal connection to the issue. Hello, are you 0k . Good, thank you, you . Yeah, good thanks. Twins matthew and phoebe have always known they were conceived using a sperm donor. We know hes like a Second Generation born colombian. His height, his build, eye colour, hair colour, age. Some of his hobbies, i think photography, swimming and guitar. And his degree, i think was a masters in business. And thats pretty much everything they told us, really. But next year, when they turn 18, that will all change because theyll be able to apply for the name and the last known address of their donor. Ijust think its really cool that part of us is from a different country. So when we have a conversation at home, hes usually referred to as the colombian guy orjust. Or the dad or the sperm guy. Theres been many names. I suppose, when they are growing up as well. For their parents, sean and sarah, its a date theyve always known would come. We decided because the change in law was coming up in 2005 that we would wait to start ivf because for the sake of a few months l we just felt it wasnt fair on any l children we might have had to deny them that opportunity to find out who our donor was. But not everybody will benefit. Donor conceived people born before the law change wont have this right. I know because im one of them. I love this picture. This is one of my favourites. Me when i was little with him. I lost my dad last year and that encouraged me to start thinking about my donor family. For me, i always wanted to find siblings. I cant explain it, like, because nobody else knows how we feel because they are not donor conceived. For those of us born before 2005, we can get some basic non identifying details on our donors from the uks Fertility Regulator. And theyve also told me something thats really exciting. Its actually got the list of siblings that ive got. So ive got 16 altogether, which is totally bonkers. So its really weird. Ive always said i felt like ive got a sister and it actually says theres two females in 1995, which is the year im born so thats just mind blowing. And it gets better. I think ive actually tracked her down. She actually lives 20 minutes away from me. We text back a little bit back and forth, and weve actually decided a date to meet up, which is really, really nerve racking but really exciting at the same time. Im not the only one who has used other methods to try and find my donor family. Gary and his three daughters live in essex. About 1975. He donated sperm in the � 80s and was recently contacted by a Donor Daughter who used investigators to find him. Were just kind of looking at each other. Its just. I can see it now. And she embraced me, i embraced her. It was very emotional, something that happened so long ago that i did. I could never dream that it would be like this. Ijust did not, i could not foresee it. Garys Donor Daughter didnt want to be identified on camera, but she did write us a letter that his third daughter, michelle, will read out to us. So it begins, i never thought my biological father would want to meet me, let alone be part of my life. I also wanted to know where did i come from . What was my father like . Does he look like me . Do i have siblings . Getting to know them has been amazing and i feel like they and gary were the missing part of m i love gary to bits and im so grateful for how hes treated me and the same goes to my sisters. Oh, that makes me feel so emotional. Im gon e its just really nice, its so lovely. Not everybody wants a relationship with a sperm or egg donor, but for those who do, things are about to change for the better. So when youre both 18 now, next year, are you going to apply for more information . Definitely. Yeah . And what are you hoping for to come out of that . Just to meet him, really. Oh, you want to meet him . Yeah. He gave us a wonderful gift. You know, weve gotl two amazing children. You know, our lives are different as a result of that persons kindness. So it will be nice to shake him i by the hand and say thank you. Lets bring you an update on that Breaking News we have been delivering you over the last 90 minutes on the coach that has overturned on the m 53 in the world. We have had an update from North West Ambulance service, and it has declared a Major Incident following a Road Traffic Collision between a coach and a car on the m 53 northbound. The Ambulance Service says this happened at around 8 30am, so far it says one female patient has been taken to hospital suffering major trauma related injuries. There are also nearly 50 other patients being assessed at the scene. The Ambulance Service continues to say they are working closely with the incident partners to convey people away from the scene as quickly as possible. So thatjust on the overturned coach on the m 53 in the world and of course stay with us here on bbc news and we will keep you updated as soon as we get any more information. Moving on. Rail passengers may face disruption today with members of the aslef train drivers� Union Starting an overtime ban. Full Strike Action over pay and conditions is taking place tomorrow and wednesday. It will affect more than a dozen train companies. The leader of the train drivers� union has also not yet ruled out Strike Action continuing over christmas. Most children have been back at school for a few weeks now, and many of them have probably already lost one or two items of uniform. But hopefully it wont take 20 years to get them back thats how long onejumper was sitting on the roof of Huxley Primary, near chester, before it was found during repairs. Thanks to social media and a good Old Fashioned name tag its owner was tracked down straightaway. Ian haslam has the story. This is huxley cofe primary school, based in the quaint Rural Cheshire Village of the same name. It was here about 20 years ago that a young boy called Tommy Crank Saw his schooljumper for the last time. Thats because it was here gathering moss on the school roof. Its been hilarious, to be honest. I have had so many people contacting me today about it alljust interested to find out who tommy crank is. Rachel put a post on social media to find the now not so little tommy, shown here in his school days, quite possibly wearing the very same jumper. 0ur posts usually get about 13 likes. This one has had an awful lot of likes today and lots of comments as well from the local community saying, you know, the importance of labelling your clothes, which is very important. Yeah, this label has lasted, hasnt it . It has lasted 20 years. Ive spoken to tommy crank on the phone this morning and he is now 27 and he contacted me and said he thinks its hilarious that his jumper has been found on the roof. And he did tell me the story behind the jumper as well. And what they did is they used to throw it from one side of the building to the next side of the building and try and catch it on the other side. So the building was a little bit slimmer then, but there was a flat roof they used to throw it over and obviously he never got his over caretaker andy is the man who discovered the jumper. Normally find pop bottles, tennis balls, footballs, come across this beauty today. Its horrible, innit . Yeah, it was in a ball, tied up, covered in moss. I was just about to put it in the bin then i got the head teacher and she come to have a look at it and thats it. It just exploded from there. Wheres mejumper, wheres mejumper . So what did the Huxley Primary pupils of today make of the current most famous jumper in cheshire . Right, kids. Here is tommy crank� s jumper. Does anybody want to try it on . Not me. Definitely not. It must be filled with spiders, who would wear it . It must be filled with mould. Apparently they were playing a game where they scrunched jumpers up and tried to throw them over the roof. Its weird. Tommy crank must have been really bad at throwing. Do you want to try it on, seriously . Little tommy crank� s jumper� s not going anywhere just yet, though. But he does say he will come here to the school to collect it in the next couple of weeks or so. Im going to go and wash my hands at this point. Wheres mejumper, wheres mejumper . Ian haslam, bbc news. An unsual day at work for a us police dog. Usually tasked with finding hidden drugs and locating missing People Police officers in the us state of new york had to use their k9 dog pietro to shepherd 30 goats back to safety. The animals had escaped through a fence and were wandering around a residential neighbourhood. Were told they had been rented by a local resident to clear his property by eating all the foliage but they clearly bit off more than they could chew. now its time for a look at the weather with simon king. Hello, there. The weather for today is looking largely fine and dry over the weekend. Its a story of two halves, really. Therell be some wet and windy weather moving its way in on saturday. But as i said, for the rest of the day, were looking at some sunny spells, just one or two showers across england and wales. Most frequent showers will be in the far north and west, just around this area of low pressure where well also have some fairly strong winds. But further south, this area of High Pressure keeping things relatively settled. So for the rest of today, one or two showers could just crop up across parts of northern england, west wales, northern ireland, most frequent showers being blown on those strong winds across the north and the west of scotland. The mountains there keeping a good job of keeping eastern areas of scotland dry. Maximum temperatures getting up to about 16 to 20 or 21 celsius. Now through this evening and tonight, therell be some clear skies for many. The winds will start to ease off across northern and western scotland. So we lose the gales here. Still the possibility of the odd shower into tomorrow morning but otherwise clear skies and it could get quite chilly across the north and the east of the uk. Six or seven degrees here, further the south and west in plymouth, temperatures staying up in double figures and thats because well just see the cloud increasing as we go through saturday. And weve got this next Weather System moving its way in from the southwest that will bring some rain to northern and Western Areas throughout the day. But it will be a fairly bright start to your weekend. Therell be some sunshine across many northern and eastern parts. You notice, though, this rain as it moves its way through northern ireland, into north wales, eventually into northern england, into the north midlands as well. The far north east of scotland staying dry, dry too, across the far south and southeast and temperatures here, 21 degrees celsius. Now that area of rain will start to move its way eastward as we go through sunday. This trailing Weather Front here will bring a legacy of cloud. A few spots of rain into Sunday Morning from south wales through the midlands towards eastern areas. It will gradually break up. Therell be some sunshine developing into northern areas, one or two showers here. Eventually some sunshine in the far southeast where it could be really quite warm. Of course, first day of october, temperatures 2a degrees celsius there, way above the average, further north, 17 to 19 degrees. As we go into next week, those temperatures will start to come down a little bit from tuesday onward. Plenty of fine and dry weather through next week with one or two showers around as well. Bye bye. Live from london. This is bbc news. Two blasts rock pakistan. Dozens are dead or injured following explosions at a mosque and a religious procession. A teenager is charged with murder over the fatal stabbing of a 15 Year Old Girl in south london. He london. Has appeared in court and remanded he has appeared in court and remanded in custody. Police in the netherlands arrest a man after two shootings in rotterdam in which three people died. Will it be second time lucky for Alberto Nunez feijoo . Spains parliament votes again on whether he should be Prime Minister. And leaders from nine mediterranean countries gather in malta for the med9 summit, with migration high on the agenda. Hello, and a very warm welcome to the programme. Two deadly explosions have rocked pakistan. More than 50 people are dead. The first happened near a mosque in the southwestern province

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