following the mass shooting at a school in texas, local police are now being blamed for a slow response. we meet the mother of two boys, both of whom were apparently forced to serve in the russian army, despite president putin s assurances. and from the palace archives the rare images of the queen s life being shared with the public for the first time. and coming up on the bbc news channel, we have the latest from the french open, with another win for world number one iga swiatek, but britain s number two, dan evans, is out. good evening. faced with clear evidence of a worsening cost of living crisis for millions of households, the chancellor, rishi sunak, has unveiled a new support package worth £15 billion. it will be funded in part by what he called a temporary, targeted energy profits levy in other words, a windfall tax on the energy companies, a policy the government has resisted until now. these are the main elements of the package. all households regardless of
in the uk says the allegations relate to incidents in london and gloucestershire between 2005 and 2013. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are miatta fahnbulleh, who s the chief executive from the new economics foundation, and the political reporter for the times, geri scott. tomorrow s front pages starting with the chancellor s plan to ease the cost of living dominates the front pages. the metro describes it as rishi to the rescue , with the chancellor giving every household at least four hundred pounds to help with bills. the mirror says it s about time for the measures pointing out the conservatives voted against a similar plan by labour last week. the guardian says the plan will be funded by a windfall tax on energy companies which the paper describes as a remarkable u turn by the chancellor. the i has the same story, and quotes the institu
Continue to bring more action live here on this programme. Welcome if you have just welcome if you havejustjoined us. Let us stay without Breaking News from slovakia. Let me take you through what has happened. An Assassination Attempt has been made on the Prime Minister of slovakia, robert fico. He has been shot and badly injured in this afternoon. These are the pictures of the immediate aftermath, with the Prime Minister being carried into the car. His official Facebook Page says he was shot several times. From a different angle, we can see a man being arrested by people who appear to be officers. We still dont know very much about the man. Its been reported hes a 71, but other than that, no real detail about that man. A government say the Prime Minister is in a life threatening condition. These are the pictures of him being rushed to a helicopter for treatment. Those of the crucial pictures in terms of the timeline and the key details of what has happened through the course of this a
Time for a look at the weather. Heres ben rich. Good afternoon, yet another day work for most of us it does not feel anything like a typical october, it is already very close to 25 celsius in parts of south east england. Some reminders of autumn, felt across southern and Western Areas earlier and some rain in the north of scotland. You can see that on the satellite radio, low cloud, mist and smoke across South West England into wales, various bands of rain pushing south and eastwards across scotland, Northern Ireland into Northern England and we will see outbreaks of rain through the rest of the afternoon with quite a brisk wind, particularly in the far north. Further south and east, holding onto spells of sunshine and temperatures up spells of sunshine and temperatures up to around 2a or 25. This evening and tonight this band of rain pushing south and east across scotland, Northern Ireland, turning very windy in the far north. Head of the rain band, some areas of mist and murk, simply
Time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday im hugh ferris. The headlines this evening. Arsenal and Manchester City succeed in the Premier League title race. Celtic and rangers match each other goal for goal. Both win 2 1, but celtic keep their lead in the scottish preimership. And a late header proves a sting in the tailfor arsenal, who drop more points in the Wsl Title Race. Also coming up on sportsday. Ronnie osullivan makes a solid start to his second round match at the World Snooker championship as he continues his quest for a record eighth world title. And ukraine pip Great Britain to the final gold of the mens European Gymnstics Chamnpionships in italy after liverpool dropped points yesterday, both arsenal and Manchester City spent today trying to make sure they didnt do the same on what promised to be another pivotal day in the Premier League title race. Still a point separates the two after city won at notts. While arsenal held on to win a North London Derby at spurs th