Good evening welcome to newsnight for insights and interviews. The Prime Minister told us all today things will get worse before he said they would get better we already know that means tax rises, but well ask a labour Treasury Minister if it also means austerity is back in some form. Well ask what advice he has for a newsnight viewer whos nearly 80 and is having his winter fuel payment taken away, and we ask about accusations of cronyism. Is cronyism bad under a conservative government but ok under a Labour Government . Government but 0k under a Labour Government . Government but 0k under a Labour Government . Cronyism is something keir starmer government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made very government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made very clear government . Cronyism is something keir starmer has made very clear he | keir starmer has made very clear h
i stand by the package we announced on the fact we announced on the fact we announced it quickly because we had to act but i do except we should have laid the ground better. and the skin tight fit of the spray on dress that s the talk of the catwalk, at this year s paris fashion shows. they go again the two main candidates in brazil s presidential election will have a second round run off after neither man achieved the 50 % needed to win. the left wing challenger former president luis inacio lula de silva won the most support, while the right wing incumbent, jair bolsonaro we can go now to laura trevelyan in rio dejaneiro. david, trevelyan in rio dejaneiro. lula the former president david, lula the former president of brazil who is leading with over 45% of the vote, with 98% of votes counted that he hasn t quite cleared 50%, he is about to speak in sao paulo, president macro has 43%, he is in second place so it will be a run off between these two titans of different ide
memorials have been held across indonesia for the deceased. the british prime minister has admitted her government s mini budget that sparked turmoil on the financial markets could have been handled better. liz truss has remained defiant as senior conservatives criticised the fiscal event. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our thinking about what has shaped theirs. well, you know what they say about a week in politics. what a long time this week has felt since that budget that was officially not a budget. we ve seen the pound go down. interest rates go up, mortgages being cancelled, and billions and billions and billions of pounds being spent by the bank of england in order to try and defend the pension system. my guest on political thinking this week is a new member of liz truss s new cabinet. he s the education secretary, kit malthouse. four years befo
have been told there is a russian sniper operating from that direction. for the troops here, this is a grind, diane knight. a hard battle to hold this position. day and night. and the skin tight fit of the spray on dress that s the talk of the catwalk at this year s paris fashion shows. hello. thanks very much for being with us. they go again: the two main candidates in brazil s presidential election will have a second round run off after neither man achieved the 50% threshold needed to win outright. the left wing challenger, former president luiz inacio lula da silva, has won the most support, pushing 48%, while the right wing incumbent, jair bolsonaro, looks to be about four to five percentage points behind him. i put it to laura treveleyn, our correspondent in rio, that there won t be any partying through the night for either side. given that result. no, that s right. the candidates are already preparing for another gruelling 28 days of campaigning before the second rou
ukraine and near the southern city of kherson. the city of lyman has been recaptured 2a hours after the russian president announced the annexation of four partially occupied regions. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. britain mourned the death of queen elizabeth in ways that combined the intimate and the personal with the grand and ceremonial. for most of us, of course, death and grief remain a very private affair. an irreversible, life altering shock when we lose someone close for which there is no guide or preparation. my guest today is the one time pop star turned church of england vicar, the reverend richard coles, whose frank account of his own grief has struck a chord with many. why did grief nearly break him? richard coles, welcome to hardtalk. britain has just lived through a rather extraordinary, the mourning that came with it. and many people have said that the death of the queen revived very sharp memories for them of their own loss