new hope for the thousands like elliot who have the rarer form of haemophilia. british doctors say they have a transformational therapy. the telescope that can see dead stars collide. why do we care? because that s the process that produced heavy metals like gold and platinum. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel: it was a special night for the england lionesses. we ll look back at their win over spain and who they could face in the semifinals. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at six. now that the conservative leadership contest has been whittled down to two candidates rishi sunak and liz truss the focus is shifting to what each of them stands for. it s early days but the battleground appears to be economic policy. you might think that would suit mr sunak. after all, he was our chancellor for nearly two and a half years. but ms truss says he got it wrong. speaking to the bbc, the foreign secretary says successive chancellors have
calls to stop punishing addicts if it is to end its reputation as the drugs capital of europe. president biden has tested positive for covid. the white house says the symptoms are mild. the bbc has apologised to the former royal nanny tiggy legge burke over a number of serious and false allegations made against her by panorama reporter martin bashir in order to obtain an interview with princess diana. a coroner has said that the five people, including four teenage soldiers, who died in the guildford pub bombings in 1974, were unlawfully killed. and no ordinary telescope for the first time scientists will be able to detect the smashing together of neutron stars good evening. now that the conservative leadership contest has been whittled down to two candidates rishi sunak and liz truss, the focus is shifting to what each of them stands for. it s early days but the battleground appears to be economic policy. mr sunak was chancellor for nearly two and a half years but ms truss sa
chancellor by 2020, and it is his record in thatjob, his response to covid, his outlook on tax, that is serving up their first big skirmish of this contest. chris mason, bbc news, westminster. it s one thing for the prime ministerial hopefuls to be laying out their economic stalls but do their numbers stack up? today, the independent think tank, the institute for fiscal studies, has been looking at what rishi sunak and liz truss have said so far. here s our economics editor faisal islam. here are the steps in between the foreign office and the treasury. the two departments, in mr sunak s case, until very recently, where the mps vying to be our next prime minister ran great offices of state. it s been a very busy time with war in europe and a related inflation crisis. but the debate over who gets to number ten looks like being driven by economics. the backdrop is important here. inflation is at a 40 year high and heading higher.