Brighter with a few showers and it is still going to be worn this weekend. Its wednesday the 4th of october. After weeks of speculation, the Prime Minister is expected to use his leaders speech at the conservative Party Conference to confirm that hes scrapping the second leg of h52 from birmingham to manchester. Labours andy burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, accused the government of treating people in the north as Second Class Citizens, while the West Midlands mayor andy street, a conservative, was said to be distraught. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports from the conference in manchester. Pushing his way through the late night conference crowds, rishi sunak, relaxed and smiling. He has, it seems, made his mind up. Its the end of h52 to manchester. This was what the pm was saying 2a hours ago. What i want to do is make the right decision for the country. This is an enormous amount of peoples money, taxpayers money, everybody watching, billions and billions
13,965. Cheering. In the london suburbs, a tory by election win this summer when many expected defeat. And the key issue, a costly clampdown on dirty vehicles imposed by the capitals labour mayor an idea the conservatives opposed. Cutting carbon matters, the Prime Minister has long argued but a balance has to be struck. Im committed to net zero. Of course i am. But were going to do that in a pragmatic and a proportionate way without unnecessarily adding costs and burdens to families, particularly at a time like now, when The Cost Of Living is a challenge for people with inflation where it is. In new york this week, as World Leaders gather at the United Nations, intense debate, too, about Climate Change and what to do about it. Among those there, this conservative mp who led a review into the governments approach to net zero. This is going to be an economic disaster. Actually, we are missing out already. We see the United States where i am here at new york climate week actually turbo ch
Hard to know at this stage is how many people have been involved in this. We have seen figures from the red crescent and the red cross, we have seen figures from the United Nations and from ocha what we know is that many thousands of people were affected by this. And we note that the slow speed of managing to recover many of those victims contributes to some of the difficulties in actually identifying a clear death toll. Because many of those victims were swept out to sea and we have seen, very sadly, those bodies day after day beginning to wash ashore. But also recovery teams working in derna are digging through the high piles of mud and silt people are buried in, going through buildings that have been destroyed. All of those things together make it very difficult to know for quite some time exactly how many people were involved in this and exactly who they were. Junior doctors are joining consultants on strikes across england. Its part of the first Everjoint Strike of nhs staff. Gove